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Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
it's all fun and games until the sex-bots get religion and nukes.
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Slayage with a smile: -
Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
it’s a genre overwhelmingly created for and consumed by WOMEN WITH SEX DRIVES so who cares.
A lot of people would say, but romance is what women want, they like relationships. It’s men who like sex.
Yes, this attitude makes me cross, too.
And in other news, look forward to the sex-bot utopia!!!!1
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Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to Emma Hart,
sparkle-pony feminism
I for one am all for sparkle-pony-ness! In my utopia people have plenty of fun and silliness along with the equality and being kind to each other.
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Nice one, Joe. :-)
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But wait, does it have to be a choice between people dying from smog or from cold and damp?? Can’t we do better than that?!
Be nice to see some figures on the air-pollution effects of wider use of eco-logburners (currently allowed only if replacing an older solid-fuel burner).
Although it's possible what Dyson is asking for would have little or no effect on pollution levels if it only applies to rebuilds.
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Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I know how much “one-two-three- shitshitshit – one-two-three-and-four aaargh! that’s not supposed to click like that – don’t stand on her toes and hit your mark, rinse and repeat” goes into a few minutes of seeming effortlessness. :)
You are wonderful, Craig. :-)
And to take a slight tangent, when I tell people I do tai chi, they almost always say, "How wonderfully relaxing!", or, "How meditative!"
Especially when I was first learning, I wanted to reply, "You must be bloody joking!!"
The more you practice, the more relaxing and meditative it can be, but even my teacher with her decades of experience tells me, "The moment you stop concentrating, or something distracts you, is the moment you blank and lose your place."
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Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to Max Rose,
at its best it’s as good an example of non-verbal communication as you could get outside of the bedroom.
But that’s kind of what I was reacting against. The idea that dancing is an analogy or substitute for sex. Sure, it can be sexy, but I danced with a lot of great dancers who I had absolutely zero sexual interest in.
I think seeing all physical pleasure and delight as misdirected sexual energy is fundamentally flawed. Life’s full of awesome experiences.
And no-one at Ceroc ever took it from there to sexing it up with strangers. No, never.
What I meant was that a lot of people (mostly non-dancers) assumed the close physical interaction on the dancefloor was sex-without-taking-your-clothes-off.
Actually, non-artists react in a similar way to life-drawing. They assume it’s pervy and prurient. They’ve got no idea what demanding work it is drawing from a nude model, how bored the model usually is, how un-sexy a time it is! It can be thrilling if it goes well, but there again, it’s not that sort of thrill. It’s utterly different to admiring someone you’re attracted to.
I think seeing sexiness everywhere is actually a sign of a sexually-repressive culture rather than the reverse.
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Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to Islander,
Mass/crowd singing is *still* one of the most potent things humans can do together…if you add drums (& the plethora of rhythmic instruments) & especial musical instruments (bagpipes/whistles/electric guitars et al) – AND – let there be dancing!!!
Often equals human ecstatic moments-+1
I did a lot of Latin Dance for a couple of years and while a lot of people thought it was an ideal way to sex it up with strangers, I actually just really enjoyed the dancing. Sometimes it could feel quite sexy, mostly it didn't, for me anyway. With a good partner on a good night, I did feel ecstatic, but that didn't mean I wanted to have sex with that person, or that I didn't want to. It wasn't some kind of sublimation, it was just a really fun shared activity.
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Hard News: The war over a mystery, in reply to Russell Brown,
The outstanding modern example has to be Peter Elliot and the Christchurch creche case
Peter Ellis. But other than that, I quite agree. Horrifying that such a case could be cooked up when it wasn’t ever clear that a crime had been committed.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
polyunsaturated
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