Thursday, January 26, 2017
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
A Modern Trinity: Porn, Public Health and Politics.
For the second time in recent months, Tennessee State Sen. Mae Beavers has proposed a joint resolution to “recognize pornography as a public health hazard leading to a broad spectrum of individual and public health impacts and societal harms.”
Sex Positivity and Progress.
Over the last few years....progress. Its progress for those of us that live an alternative lifestyle within the sexual realm of things. And it lends hope that the trend will continue to areas of equal rights for everyone in every single aspect of our lives. By that I mean not only in a racial and gender/sex way, but also for those cross dressers, transvestites and transsexuals, bisexual, pan-sexual, gay and lesbian and of course within the S&M and B&D, and any variation of the kink fetish world.
Everyone should live a life of security and dignity. Well, maybe not in the bedroom and what dominant women do to submissive males. I mean the beatings and punishment and humiliation is to be expected and I fully endorse that. In the sexual sense cuckolds and sissies and fluffers and those that are made to engage in "forced gay" acts of degradation and humiliation is not the same as what happens out in the everyday real world where some want to deny rights, censor free speech and not allow people to purchase erotic material, dildos, leather fetish items and riding crops to be used on human males. :)
Sometimes I think that mostly anyone under maybe age.......35 or so are not aware of how life was under the various repressive governments here in the USA (which can never compare to governments around the world, even today for so many others in so many ways). Kudos to the Hugh Hefners and Ed Lees and Larry Flynt's of the world. While he is offensive to some and unpopular to many, Larry Flynt has possibly done more for the right to own and view erotic material in the USA than any other person. I mean this guy was incarcerated time and again, harassed, demonized, spent a fortune on legal fees and shot and left paralyzed and still never gave up.
Not so long ago.......and even now in a few counties you can be arrested for owning "porn" or dildos or for having interracial sex and of course gay sex and so on. Lives were/are ruined, people were ostracized in their communities, lost their jobs, estranged from family, had their kids taken away all because of a little erotic reading or movies. Mind boggling and we still have a long ways to go, because....some of the members of the new administration are misogynistic homophobes who (pretend) to hate sex and want gays back in the closet, only biological women to wear skirts, and us back in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant.
And you know at this point we can't just leave it up to the guys. If guys speak out in a sex positive way their are labeled (still) as being "perverts" and of course the same applies to gay males...though probably even more so. We have to be the ones that continue to take the lead in the modern day version off the "sexual revolution" and demand equal rights, ownership of our bodies and minds and if you're like me, all the cock and tongue a girl can stand. :)
Everyone should live a life of security and dignity. Well, maybe not in the bedroom and what dominant women do to submissive males. I mean the beatings and punishment and humiliation is to be expected and I fully endorse that. In the sexual sense cuckolds and sissies and fluffers and those that are made to engage in "forced gay" acts of degradation and humiliation is not the same as what happens out in the everyday real world where some want to deny rights, censor free speech and not allow people to purchase erotic material, dildos, leather fetish items and riding crops to be used on human males. :)
Sometimes I think that mostly anyone under maybe age.......35 or so are not aware of how life was under the various repressive governments here in the USA (which can never compare to governments around the world, even today for so many others in so many ways). Kudos to the Hugh Hefners and Ed Lees and Larry Flynt's of the world. While he is offensive to some and unpopular to many, Larry Flynt has possibly done more for the right to own and view erotic material in the USA than any other person. I mean this guy was incarcerated time and again, harassed, demonized, spent a fortune on legal fees and shot and left paralyzed and still never gave up.
Not so long ago.......and even now in a few counties you can be arrested for owning "porn" or dildos or for having interracial sex and of course gay sex and so on. Lives were/are ruined, people were ostracized in their communities, lost their jobs, estranged from family, had their kids taken away all because of a little erotic reading or movies. Mind boggling and we still have a long ways to go, because....some of the members of the new administration are misogynistic homophobes who (pretend) to hate sex and want gays back in the closet, only biological women to wear skirts, and us back in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant.
And you know at this point we can't just leave it up to the guys. If guys speak out in a sex positive way their are labeled (still) as being "perverts" and of course the same applies to gay males...though probably even more so. We have to be the ones that continue to take the lead in the modern day version off the "sexual revolution" and demand equal rights, ownership of our bodies and minds and if you're like me, all the cock and tongue a girl can stand. :)
Racists....People of Color.
Racists must really have severe inferiority complexes. I found this online and am stunned that some sad little person expended so much time and effort to put this together to "prove" their point. And the point they "proved" is......I'm not sure what?
At my gym there is a very diverse group of people. We all work out together. I slap one big booty black girl on the butt in the locker room and make her laugh. The Hispanic guys flirt with me and I flirt back and make them happy. There are several people that have disabilities. One guy missing his left arm, I am not sure why, and no one cares to ask. One guy about 24 that's in a wheel chair due to foot problems from Spina bifida.
There are old people, so old they can barely walk, and everyone makes sure they get first call on the recumbent bikes as they need to sit while trying to exercise.
There are gay guys, some reserved and some flaming. There are lesbian couples, young and old.
There are 3 Trans people that I can think of...but probably more.
There are Jewish people, a few people with a variety of turbans (Sikhs I assume) and a few Native Americans.
Everyone shows up at this "melting pot" where the only thing that ever happens is people helping each other, showing newer members how to use the equipment, spotting each other, smiling, laughing, encouraging, flirting, dating, joking, just living and being happy.
I simply do not understand homophobe's and/or racists. I just don't get it.
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Sissy Skirt - Cross Dressing Clothing - Fetish Clothes.
A client contacted me wanting a skirt that could achieve that "panty flashing twirl action". So, I made this and enjoyed doing it as custom order. Should anyone desire anything similar, or certain other sorts of fetish apparel....feel free to contact me here or through my Etsy Shop.
As my mannequins waist is only 23 inches....and this was for a person somewhat larger, I had to hang it like a tube top to display it. :)
How the World is Getting Better. (Repost)
We humans thrive on bad news; we're pre-programmed to respond to threats, and predictions of apocalypse. Good news bores us, so we don't hear much about the remarkable improvements in the human condition in recent years. Here's a quick review of significant developments.
- Life expectancy, perhaps the most objective indicator of human wellbeing, has been rising dramatically. When people live longer it means they have more of life's necessities, and are freer from disease and fatal violence. A few hundred years ago, the average human lived less than 30 years. When I was born, my life expectancy, right here in the U.S., was 63. Babies born today can expect to reach the age of 79, a 25 percent improvement, and more than three times the average life-span in Julius Caesar's time. Worldwide, including all the poorest countries, life expectancy at birth has gone from 46 years in the 1950s to 70 years today. Adding 24 years to the longevity of our species in a mere 60 years is remarkably good news.
- Despite food shortages in some places, there's more food for everyone today than ever before. For most of human history the daily struggle for food dominated life. People rarely had enough to eat. But even as the world population climbed to 7 billion, daily food supplies per person have gone from 2,250 calories a day in 1960 to 2,800 in 2002. The English, who survived on 2068 calories a day in the late 19th century, consume 3412 today. In India, calories per capita were below 1700 as recently as 1950. Today, the figure is 2459. For comparison, consider the U.S. Department of Agriculture recommendations: 2000-3000 calories per day for adult men; 1600-2400 for adult women. In many countries, including the U.S., poverty is now characterized by too much food rather than too little.
- The world's wealth has increased enormously. For tens of thousands of years humans existed at bare subsistence, on the equivalent of $400 or $500 per person per year (in 1990 dollars). But wealth skyrocketed worldwide, starting around 1800 with the Industrial Revolution, and growing with the widespread use of electricity; it was $1500 per capita in 1913 and $10,700 in 2010. Deprivation has not been eradicated, of course, but this kind of economic growth is new to human history.
In the U.S., where income per capita zoomed from $5300 in 1913 to $48,112 today, large numbers of Americans are still classified as poor, but everyone's living standards have improved markedly. Surveys show that 83 percent of the poor say that they have enough to eat; 63 percent have cable or satellite TV; 80 percent have air conditioning; 43 percent have Internet access. But instead of celebrating this progress, we're inclined to find things wrong with it.
- There is much less violence than there used to be. Harvard's Steven Pinker, who has researched this subject exhaustively, recently concluded that "today we are probably living in the most peaceful moment of our species' time on earth." Wars used to kill millions; now the numbers are way down. In World War II, U.S. forces wiped out hundreds of thousands of civilians as part of our military strategy. Now we pay reparations for accidentally killing civilians. Not long ago witches were burned at the stake, slavery and public hangings were commonplace. Cats were burned alive for entertainment. Those practices are gone for good.
What are we to make of the fact that good news is all around us, but we determinedly dwell on the not-so-cheerful? Some blame attaches to politicians, who want us to be afraid of unseen dangers so they can protect us, and some attaches to the media, which revel in violence because it draws eyeballs.
But we seem eager to embrace the dark side. Rather than being glad we lead more comfortable lives than our parents or our grandparents did, we tend to grouse that things are worse than they were last year, or last week.
It turns out that there's a built-in reason for that. Attention to trouble has been vital to our survival. In a recent essay Marian Tupy of the Cato Institute points out that the information entering the amygdala, the part of our brain responsible for emotions like rage, hate and fear, "gets our first attention because the amygdala 'is always looking for something to fear.' Our species has evolved to prioritize bad news." In the struggle for survival, those who constantly feared danger survived; optimists did not.
So the evening news will always lead with violence. There will always be enough bad news to go around. We even create our own bad news with deaths and injuries in many sports and other entertainment.
But have a look at the good news once in a while. I know it's boring, but even as we resist, things are likely to keep right on getting better and better.
Other Sources:
Indur M. Goklany, The Improving State of the World, Cato Institute, 2007
Philip D. Harvey heads the DKT Liberty Project in Washington D.C. He is author of Government Creep: What the Government is Doing That You Don't Know About.
Follow Philip D. Harvey on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DKTchangeslives
- Life expectancy, perhaps the most objective indicator of human wellbeing, has been rising dramatically. When people live longer it means they have more of life's necessities, and are freer from disease and fatal violence. A few hundred years ago, the average human lived less than 30 years. When I was born, my life expectancy, right here in the U.S., was 63. Babies born today can expect to reach the age of 79, a 25 percent improvement, and more than three times the average life-span in Julius Caesar's time. Worldwide, including all the poorest countries, life expectancy at birth has gone from 46 years in the 1950s to 70 years today. Adding 24 years to the longevity of our species in a mere 60 years is remarkably good news.
- Despite food shortages in some places, there's more food for everyone today than ever before. For most of human history the daily struggle for food dominated life. People rarely had enough to eat. But even as the world population climbed to 7 billion, daily food supplies per person have gone from 2,250 calories a day in 1960 to 2,800 in 2002. The English, who survived on 2068 calories a day in the late 19th century, consume 3412 today. In India, calories per capita were below 1700 as recently as 1950. Today, the figure is 2459. For comparison, consider the U.S. Department of Agriculture recommendations: 2000-3000 calories per day for adult men; 1600-2400 for adult women. In many countries, including the U.S., poverty is now characterized by too much food rather than too little.
- The world's wealth has increased enormously. For tens of thousands of years humans existed at bare subsistence, on the equivalent of $400 or $500 per person per year (in 1990 dollars). But wealth skyrocketed worldwide, starting around 1800 with the Industrial Revolution, and growing with the widespread use of electricity; it was $1500 per capita in 1913 and $10,700 in 2010. Deprivation has not been eradicated, of course, but this kind of economic growth is new to human history.
In the U.S., where income per capita zoomed from $5300 in 1913 to $48,112 today, large numbers of Americans are still classified as poor, but everyone's living standards have improved markedly. Surveys show that 83 percent of the poor say that they have enough to eat; 63 percent have cable or satellite TV; 80 percent have air conditioning; 43 percent have Internet access. But instead of celebrating this progress, we're inclined to find things wrong with it.
- There is much less violence than there used to be. Harvard's Steven Pinker, who has researched this subject exhaustively, recently concluded that "today we are probably living in the most peaceful moment of our species' time on earth." Wars used to kill millions; now the numbers are way down. In World War II, U.S. forces wiped out hundreds of thousands of civilians as part of our military strategy. Now we pay reparations for accidentally killing civilians. Not long ago witches were burned at the stake, slavery and public hangings were commonplace. Cats were burned alive for entertainment. Those practices are gone for good.
What are we to make of the fact that good news is all around us, but we determinedly dwell on the not-so-cheerful? Some blame attaches to politicians, who want us to be afraid of unseen dangers so they can protect us, and some attaches to the media, which revel in violence because it draws eyeballs.
But we seem eager to embrace the dark side. Rather than being glad we lead more comfortable lives than our parents or our grandparents did, we tend to grouse that things are worse than they were last year, or last week.
It turns out that there's a built-in reason for that. Attention to trouble has been vital to our survival. In a recent essay Marian Tupy of the Cato Institute points out that the information entering the amygdala, the part of our brain responsible for emotions like rage, hate and fear, "gets our first attention because the amygdala 'is always looking for something to fear.' Our species has evolved to prioritize bad news." In the struggle for survival, those who constantly feared danger survived; optimists did not.
So the evening news will always lead with violence. There will always be enough bad news to go around. We even create our own bad news with deaths and injuries in many sports and other entertainment.
But have a look at the good news once in a while. I know it's boring, but even as we resist, things are likely to keep right on getting better and better.
Other Sources:
Indur M. Goklany, The Improving State of the World, Cato Institute, 2007
Philip D. Harvey heads the DKT Liberty Project in Washington D.C. He is author of Government Creep: What the Government is Doing That You Don't Know About.
Follow Philip D. Harvey on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DKTchangeslives
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