May 16, 2006

Always learning from the new kids at work.

Recent hire: "Hey, your laptop's got a clitoris mouse!"
Claudia:"What? Ah! Shhhh!......" (bursts into laughter)

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For the clueless: I've posted this extremely pedagogic one before and now this helpful diagram. And I can't resist posting this very entertaining one, just for fun ;-)

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February 21, 2006

I've been meaning to write a post about the relationship between extra dimensions and art&literature, kind of inspired by my reading of "Hiding in the Mirror". But this won't be it. Yet.

"The erotic act is the perfect four-dimensional situation. This idea is important to me: a fixed idea, stemming from a tactile apprehension of all the facets of an object, provides a tactile sensation of the fourth dimension. Because, naturally, none of our senses have any application in the fourth dimension, except, perhaps, for touch. As a result, the act of love as tactile sublimation can be envisaged or rather felt like a physycal apprehension of the fourth dimension."
-- Marcel Duchamp

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October 10, 2005

Short Anthology of Erotic Mirrors

The Chevalier stops, dazzled, at the door: the mirrors covering all the walls multiply their reflections in such a way that suddenly an endless procession of couples are embracing all around them. (Slowness, Kundera)

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Eugenie: (lies down) How comfortable I am in this haven! But why, my friends, have you put up all these mirrors?
Saint-Ange: There is a great sensual excitement in seeing lewdness multiplied around oneself in an infinite variety of positions. All parts of the body are exposed simultaneously, and perceiving the splendid combination of images adds enormously to one's pleasure. (Philosophy in the Bedroom, Marquis de Sade)

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He was in a bedroom with a canopied bed on a dais. There were furs on the floor and vaporous white curtains at the windows and mirrors, more mirrors. He was glad that he could bear these repetitions of himself, infinite reproductions of a handsome man, to whom the mystery of the situation had given a glow of expectation and alertness he had never known.
There were mirrors all around them, repeating the image of the woman lying there, her dress fallen off her breasts, her beautiful naked feet hanging over the bed, her legs slightly parted under her dress. (Delta of Venus, Anaïs Nin)

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Each home elicited a specific way of looking at it. In Éric's apartment the bed was the nerve center in a kaleidoscopic arrangement of camera lenses, screens and mirrors. (The sexual life of Catherine M., Catherine Millet)

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...she was seated on this chair, naked, and they kept her either from crossing her legs or bringing them together.
And since the wall in front of her was covered from floor to ceiling with a large mirror which was unbroken by any shelving, she could see herself, thus open, each time her gaze strayed to the mirror. (The story of O, Pauline Réage)

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I had such a good image to go with these excerpts...but this is a respectable blog after all ;-)

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September 05, 2005

Good Vibes

There's a fantastic shop in San Francisco called Good Vibrations:

"Good Vibrations is the San Francisco-based retailer women have trusted for nearly three decades to provide a comfortable, safe environment for buying sex-positive products and educational materials to enhance their sex lives."

Or else: it's like a sex shop but rather clean looking, ran by women and one of the nicest places to sit down, read a book on oral sex or S&M (surrounded by all kinds of sex toys and other props) and feel strangely at ease with the whole thing :-)))

"We look forward to the day when talking about sex, shopping for sex toys and teaching our kids about sex is so easy, so comfortable and so common that we take it for granted. We like to think our work is bringing us one step closer to that day and we cheer on those with the same mission."

There should be more interesting, educational places like this one in the world.

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