I thought this was brilliant! It's a column by Dan Savage, the sex columnist, in Seattle's Stranger - read it in its entirety at the link & excerpts follow below, with the intent of preserving some of the 'meat' of the article. I have added a "sexy Pokemon."
He starts by talking about whether a "sexy cadaver" costume for females is rather too "PC" in some minds - since the male is usually clothed and the female nearly nude in many costumes.
The girl gets a black, skintight, miniskirted body bag (!) complete with a zip-up-and-over-the-head hood, while the boy gets a baggy black lab coat with the word "coroner" printed on it, presumably worn over street clothes. There's nothing sexy about "a man whose job is to deal with dead people looking at a sexy dead stranger," Lilith wrote in an October 2008 post at Feministing.com, "an online community for feminists and their allies." No argument from me there, Lilith, and I agree that there's definitely a "power dynamic being displayed" when a woman dresses up as a sexy cadaver for a man on Halloween and lies down on an autopsy table, per the photograph from the catalogue. There's nothing sexy about that.
You know what else isn't sexy? The grousing you hear, even in the offices of The Stranger, when ads for "sexy" Halloween costumes start appearing in early September. People I know to be reliably pro-pleasure lefties—people who are all for recreational sex and legal drugs and strap-on dildos—sound like religious conservatives when Halloween rolls around. A children's holiday has been transformed into an opportunity for stupid straight people to dress up in revealing outfits and make sex-crazed spectacles of themselves in public. And isn't that just sad?
Nope. It's awesome—and long overdue. I'm often asked—confronted—about gay pride parades when I speak at colleges and universities. Usually it's a conservative student, typically someone who isn't happy about my being invited to campus in the first place. We gay people like to pretend that we're all about love and marriage, the conservative student will insist, but look at your pride parades! Look at those guys in assless chaps and all those bare-chested lesbians dancing! Just look! The exchange almost always ends with this: Conservative student: "Straight people don't flaunt our sexuality like that. We don't have straight 'pride' parades."
Me: "You should." And it seems clearer with every passing Halloween that straight people do.
NOW READ THE REST - It's great!!!! & Happy Heteroween, whether you are gay, straight or in-between! Happy Heteroween - Features - The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
that of dildos in many societies is considered almost a sin or something completely out of context
the funny thing is that other things are really bad like the mistreatment of the family simply nobody says anything that's outrageous
Masturbation is completely natural and if this is accompanied by a product that just helps make things much more pleasant for both women and men if the case.
Posted by: generic Niagra | March 18, 2010 at 04:12 PM