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+ On Tuesday, San Francisco’s board of supervisors voted to ban public nudity. People who go naked or partly naked in public will now be fined $100 for a first violation, $200 for a second violation in the same year, and $500 or up to a year in jail for a third:
“The law will not go into effect until after Feb. 1, which will allow enough time for a federal judge to consider a lawsuit brought against the city by a group of nudists who claim that the ordinance infringes on their constitutional right to free speech. […]
This is a city that prides itself on its inclusivity and diversity and, in that vein, the ordinance does allow for some exceptions.
Preschoolers can still go bare, women can still go topless and public nudity will continue to be allowed at events permitted by the city, including the annual gay pride parade and the Folsom Street Fair, a street party billed as the largest leather and fetish event in the world.”
+ The debate over prehistoric nudity continues. In an interview with Slate, Paleolithic archaeologist April Nowell explains that while all interpretations are speculation, some are less speculative than others:
“When we interpret Paleolithic art more broadly, we talk about ‘hunting magic’ or ‘religion’ or ‘fertility magic.’ I don’t think these interpretations have the same social ramifications as pornography. When respected journals — Nature for example — use terms such as ‘Prehistoric pin-up’ and ‘35,000-year-old sex object,’ and a German museum proclaims that a figurine is either an ‘earth mother or pin-up girl’ (as if no other roles for women could have existed in prehistory), they carry weight and authority.”
+ At the Lingerie Addict, the Lingerie Lesbian writes about what it’s like to be gay and working in underwear:
“The funny thing about being a lesbian in the lingerie industry is that it feels like a paradox: I see versions of myself everywhere and nowhere at the same time. It’s undeniable that female homoeroticism plays a part in so many lingerie editorials, both implicitly and explicitly, that it’s not difficult for me to find photographs featuring both luxury lingerie and women in sexually charged situations with other women. What are missing are voices to match these images or the acknowledgement that these images are not merely fantasies, but could reflect a reality, my reality.
This is an issue that exists everywhere, not only in lingerie and not only in fashion. But in fashion, this complete lack of a queer female perspective can seem even odder than it might in other areas considering the way so much of fashion is tinged with sexuality.”
+ If you order over $100 at Babeland, you’ll receive Babeland’s Satin Bondage Kit (including a mask that can double as wrist restraints and two satin ties) and free two-day shipping. Use the code TIEDUP at checkout.
+ People rate sex and alcohol or “partying” as the activities that make them the most happy. According to a new study at the University of Canterbury, sex rates highest in the categories of pleasure, meaning and engagement. Drinking rates second for pleasure but tenth for meaning. Meanwhile, checking Facebook ranked last in meaning and near the bottom of all other categories. Researcher Carsten Grimm explains:
“From my research I can see what activities are routinely rated as highest and lowest in people’s daily lives. Having sex is (no surprise) highest on all measures of happiness. Being sick is again, no surprise, relatively low on all measures. Going to lectures, or studying, is low on pleasure and happiness, but ranks relatively high on meaning (7th out of 30 behaviour categories).
The results have implications for what psychologists have called ‘the full life.’ Those who tend to be high on all three orientations to happiness not only score high on life satisfaction, they also tend to have higher experiences of pleasure, meaning, engagement and happiness in their daily lives.”
+ Between My Sheets has released its list of the top 100 sex bloggers of 2012.
+ Sexis suggests places to have sex in public where you (probably) won’t get caught.
+ i09 asks, why do geeks like kinky sex?:
“There is also something to be said for the idea that as geeks we tend to be inside our heads a lot. We like fantasies, whether they’re about spaceships or demonically hot creatures of the netherworld. So when we have sex, we want to bring our imaginations along. Hence, the fun of roleplaying. Whether you pretend to be a fictional character, a coolly controlled domme, or a very bouncy werewolf, you’re having sex that’s half in the physical world and half in the world created by you and your partner(s)’ minds.”
+ Getting naked: it is good for you:
“The Florida Young Naturists, who have thrown a Spring Break Bash yearly since 2009, have seen the profound impact an excursion into nudism can have. ‘People have come for the first time and left the weekend crying,’ says Robbe White, the group’s founder. ‘People [who] have self-image issues, weight issues, stuff like that… naturism really does kind of break down walls, and people feel loved and accepted and free in their own skin.’
I attended the FYN’s 2011 party, at the Sunsport Gardens Nudist Resort in Loxahatchee, Florida, and found plenty of young people who’d found, in nudism, a community that felt authentic and accepting. […]
‘Naturism has helped me to accept my body,’ said one women. ‘As a bigger woman, I’ve [been made to feel] like there’s something wrong with me. But here, you learn that body types vary — and that they’re all normal.’”
+ At Narratively, Mike Albo writes about spending a decade in the world of gay online hookups. Obviously dude-focused but also good:
“After spending time in the Internet hookup world, you begin to become even more sensitive to the unseeable, etheric quality that emanates from people in cyberspace. After all the initial chatting, you are confronted with someone’s vibrations in person, and then have to compare them with the flat profile version you’ve already constructed in your head. It’s great if the two match up, but sometimes the person has a vaguely unpleasant yogurt smell. Or flaky eyebrows. Or just an all-around demonic aura. Then, you learn to respect and trust the potent yet subtle body and sexo-chemical cues you have within you. Even more than you did before we created a sexual Amazon.”
+ The shortlist for the Literary Review‘s Bad Sex Award, which aims “to draw attention to the crude and often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel – and to discourage it,” is out. The list of nominees includes: Back to Blood by Tom Wolfe, The Yips by Nicola Barker, The Adventuress by Nicholas Coleridge, Infrared by Nancy Huston, Rare Earth by Paul Mason, Noughties by Ben Masters, The Quiddity of Will Self by Sam Mills and The Divine Comedy by Craig Raine.
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