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Didnt you use too many W's and too many O's?
Good heavens - you're quite right. I don't know how that happened (well, it probably had something to do with alcohol
) Amend that to:
how fortuitous in a flatulent bog
dressing the legs of pianos to avoid inflaming the passions of onlookers...
..but think of the head rush, when someone actually saw a 'leg'..A person can become too jaded, these days.
http://www.logicmgmt.com/1876/intro.htm
Hah! Victorian piano fetishists beware - under "Victorian Etiquette / Breaches of Etiquette":
"For a caller who is waiting the entrance of the hostess to open the piano or touch it if it is open"
Presumably ostentatious ogling of the piano's legs would also count as a rather serious faux pas...
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Where was I for the years of healthy balance between prudery and porn everywhere? Any algorithm to predict when society will have a nice attutidue towards sex in it's proper time and place? Defined by me, of course. I know it's subjective, but then so is "prudery" and the rest. Oh, and I'm sure there were always some people with odd attractactions, but I'm still willing to bet many Romans did not like fecal matter in their beds.
I read a Wired article today by the sex chick who always argues for the joys of cyber sex (sorry I don't have the link handy) and she was overjoyed by a report that more Brittish women were veiwing porn (according to some survey). She skipped over the fact that 75% of the people in the survey said they did not use porn, and celebrated the claim that "1 in 4 people said they view porn on the Internet". She also added quotes around those who said they had found porn by mistake, as if it were unbelievable that some of us would be searching for "the white house" or "breast cancer" and not be looking for porn. She made no comment on the number of people who said porn was one of the problems in their relationships. You may think I'm a prude, but I vote for keeping porn and fecal fetishes and all the rest in it's place and having places where others can avoid it if they want to. Rant over.
I read a Wired article today by the sex chick who always argues for the joys of cyber sex (sorry I don't have the link handy) and she was overjoyed by a report that more Brittish women were veiwing porn (according to some survey). She skipped over the fact that 75% of the people in the survey said they did not use porn, and celebrated the claim that "1 in 4 people said they view porn on the Internet". She also added quotes around those who said they had found porn by mistake, as if it were unbelievable that some of us would be searching for "the white house" or "breast cancer" and not be looking for porn. She made no comment on the number of people who said porn was one of the problems in their relationships. You may think I'm a prude, but I vote for keeping porn and fecal fetishes and all the rest in it's place and having places where others can avoid it if they want to. Rant over.
I suspect there have always been people with weird fetishes. The internet just allows them to get together and form identies as (*)-fetishists, while I suspect in Victorian times they all thought there was no one else like them out there.
As Jason Alexander so aptly put it,
"The Web brings people together because no matter what kind of a twisted sexual mutant you happen to be, you've got millions of pals out there. Type in 'Find people that have sex with goats that are on fire' and the computer will ask, 'Specify type of goat.'"
It also gives them anonymity. Because who'd have the guts to admit that kind of thing in person? Really.
As Jason Alexander so aptly put it,
"The Web brings people together because no matter what kind of a twisted sexual mutant you happen to be, you've got millions of pals out there. Type in 'Find people that have sex with goats that are on fire' and the computer will ask, 'Specify type of goat.'"
It also gives them anonymity. Because who'd have the guts to admit that kind of thing in person? Really.
Bravo Bev,
Psimagus
Nothing foul or wasteful about it
Oh, fortuitous! Who now flatulent? I.
Didnt you use too many W's and too many O's? Im being picky i know. And it doesnt really matter. Im just having fun with it
On another subject, since there are so many intelligent people on the forge, I move that we have a Philosophy section in the seasons forums.
Psimagus
Nothing foul or wasteful about it
Oh, fortuitous! Who now flatulent? I.
Didnt you use too many W's and too many O's? Im being picky i know. And it doesnt really matter. Im just having fun with it
On another subject, since there are so many intelligent people on the forge, I move that we have a Philosophy section in the seasons forums.
Good heavens - you're quite right. I don't know how that happened (well, it probably had something to do with alcohol
) Amend that to:how fortuitous in a flatulent bog
This may give you some insight about what life was like in victorian england in the mid-late 1800's.
http://www.logicmgmt.com/1876/intro.htm
Hah! Victorian piano fetishists beware - under "Victorian Etiquette / Breaches of Etiquette":
"For a caller who is waiting the entrance of the hostess to open the piano or touch it if it is open"
Presumably ostentatious ogling of the piano's legs would also count as a rather serious faux pas...
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