An X-Rated Gallery by Slugbug
(Disclaimer: If you are a neocon / social conserative, please do not admit to looking at this.)
The Folsom Street Fair was kind of like male impersonator porn - men impersonating sailors, Marines, cops, bikers, cowboys, slaveowners and other obvious macho men. It would have been nice to see some men impersonating corrupt CEOs. Leathermen, fetishists - there is a minimalist uniform and I was looking for creative departures. It wasn't so much shocking for the prevalence of skin - it's easy to satiate on that fast. It was thinking of all the cows who died for the leather and thinking of who would have to dump all the Portasans. Although I did see some gratuitous visuals for the first time off-cinema and cringe-inducing pierced bits. One sweet man was dressed as a devil, but with tiny horns, glitter on his face and rainbowy robes. He was standing outside a leatherist beer garden. He said, "This is what hell is like. It's crowded and I will never ever find a boyfriend."
The Rainbow man is from the LoveFest, which was very different visually from the Folsom Street Fair in conception and execution. The exhibitionists who are muscled and tan would be understandable, but there were large contingents of geriatric nature boys. I suppose with the aging of the Baby Boomer generation, we can expect more. An exhibitionist said, "When I expose myself and masturbate publicly, no one looks at me or photographs me, but when I put a fig leaf made of marijuana leaves on my penis, I'm suddenly surrounded by crowds of tourists with cameras." Was I embarrassed? No - I'm much more embarrassed by Abu Graib and Guantanamo, because the pornographic acts are nonconsensual. Leather and fetish people live by the law of consent. Ah Santorum - not sure what you were doing yesterday with repressive legislation but you should have been out here doing your fieldwork first hand. You would have loved it.
The final image is from neither the Folsom Street Festival nor the LoveFest. It's from Chinatown and done much in the spirit of the fundamentalist street preachers, only this guy is a radical antiZionist. He was smack dab in front of a huge American flag and the streets were crowded because of the Moon Festival, which is celebrated all over Asia but relatively newly in San Francisco.
Bonita Applebaum - Tribe Called Quest
Do I love you?
Do I lust for you?
Am I a sinner cuz I do the two?
Could you let me know
Right now, please
Bonita Applebum
Bonita Applebum, you gotta put me on
Hey Bonita, glad to meet ya
For the kind of stunning newness, I must have foreseen ya
Hey, being with you is a top priority
Ain't no need to question the authority
Chairman of the board, the chief of affections
You got mine's to swing in your direction
Hey, you're like a hip hop song, you know?
Bonita Applebum, you gotta put me on
38-24-37 (uh, uh, uh!)
You and me, hun, we're a match made in heaven
I like to kiss ya where some brothas won't
I like to tell ya things some brothas don't
If only you could see through your elaborate eyes
Only you and me, hun, the love never dies
Satisfaction, I have the right tactics
And if you need 'em, I got crazy prophylactics
Walk On The Wild Side - Lou Reed
Holly came from Miami, F.L.A.
Hitch-hiked her way across the USA
Plucked her eyebrows on the way
Shaved her legs and then he was a she
She says, Hey babe
Take a walk on the wild side
Hey honey Take a walk on the wild side
Candy came from out on the Island
In the backroom she was everybody's darlin'
But she never lost her head
Even when she was giving head
She says, Hey babe
Take a walk on the wild side
I Said, Hey baby Take a walk on the wild side
And the coloured girls go
doo do doo do doo do do doo..
Little Joe never once gave it away
Everybody had to pay and pay
A hustle here and a hustle there
New York City's the place where they say,
Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
I said, Hey Joe Take a walk on the wild side
Sugar Plum Fairy came and hit the streets
Lookin' for soul food and a place to eat
Went to the Apollo
You should've seen em go go go
They said, Hey shuga Take a walk on the wild side
I Said, Hey babe Take a walk on the wild side
All right, huh
Jackie is just speeding away
Thought she was James Dean for a day
Then I guess she had to crash
Valium would have helped that bash
Said, Hey babe, Take a walk on the wild side
I said, Hey honey, Take a walk on the wild side
and the coloured girls say,
doo do doo do doo do do doo
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