This just in: the Brits are perverts.

[NoJo]

pop, that "fuck tax" ploy is just brilliant. Can't wait to use it on the Keeper of The Purse Strings.

 

[pop_54]

On a Sunday afternoon? How frightful. They should doing the gardening.

They used to do it in the garden Joe, but the one straight laced spinster round here complained, bitch, it was fun.

 

[pop_54]

I've said it before and I'll say it again - Pops is my hero

I hope this never has legal implications Raphy, please don't quote it in court

How are you mate?? All well over there.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

LOL,

Thanks so much pops for the early morning giggles

*HUGS*

-Colly

 

[shereads]

Duh. They're British. Haven't you been with one in private? Highly recommended. (They don't sweat either.)

Perdita

There are times when a man should sweat.

 

[shereads]

Ann Summers sells 1 million vibrators a year...

{sr notes: if there are 24.5 million households in the UK, then by my math, each household will have no fewer than 5,463.08 vibrators in its possession by tomorrow afternoon; the batteries alone will bankrupt your country. Is there anything we in the U.S. can do to help? }

I have to be puzzled about the math here. Someone is saying there would be almost 134 million vibrators in the UK. I don't see how he can arrive at that conclusion because the one vendor sells one million per year.

I wonder, also, why the US would have such a prudish reputation. I can probably buy sex toys from at least a dozen places in this county. There are probably twice that many in SF and even more in New York. Some places are governed by prudish city or state legislatures and Christian fanatics wield more power than they should, but in most places, I would say sex toys are sold openly. And, of course, porno shops operate openly in most of the country.

We have porn shops in Miami, too. But we sell "massagers" at the drug store, not vibrators! I think the distinction is clear, Box. They aren't saying that Americans don't buy sex toys, but that we haven't brought them out from under the bedcovers until the Christmas display windows at Bloomingdale's in Manhattan have a vibrator theme.

As for my math, I'll get out a slide rule and protractor and try again to calculate the number of vibrators per household. I may be off by a decimal point.

Pop/Raphy/Other English Persons: How many vibrators would you estimate are in each household in the UK (not counting the home of Camilla Parker-Bowles?)

 

[shereads]

Lucky, my point exactly. Vibrators in Good Housekeeping Magazine? America's moral fiber would crumble like stale cereal.

Instead of having local artists each design a Christmas tree or a holiday table setting for fundraisers this year, we should contact local movers and shakers and suggest an auction of artist-designed vibrators.

Being able to buy toys on the internet or in the back of a store with curtains and discretionary signs on them is one thing. Walking down Fifth Ave. or Rodeo Dr. and stopping to admire artistic dildoes and vibes, is entirely another. And from what I can tell, absolutely not done here.

 

[raphy]

Pop/Raphy/Other English Persons: How many vibrators would you estimate are in each household in the UK (not counting the home of Camilla Parker-Bowles?)

I have no idea. I do know that almost every single one of the women I've slept with have owned at least one vibrator or other sex toy, and I think they're a fair representation of English women, from latex-wearing goth submissives to less-than-forward housewives.

 

[raphy]

I hope this never has legal implications Raphy, please don't quote it in court

How are you mate?? All well over there.

Thing is good here, mate No complaints at all. Life is good right and will be even better soon.

 

[shereads]

I don't even know if there is *is* a nationwide chain of stores here in the US that open flaunts vibrators and sex aids. Selfridges is second only to Harrods in prestige.

Victoria's secret showed a "crop" in one of their holiday catalogs, but it was designed so that it could also have been mistaken for a feather duster. And I doubt if they displayed it in stores.

The closet thing to mainstream sex-toys in the U.S. (excepting San Francisco, and Good Vibrations - which hosts the infamous online Antique Vibrator Museum) is the recent fashion trend toward a BDSM look in shoes and clothing. Shoes with wide ankle straps that look like leather cuffs were big last fall. It's a product that parents can walk past in a department store, pretending for the sake of the children that they don't get the reference.

 

[Guest]

less-than-forward housewives.

Would you define that, please? British ones, at least. P.

 

[KarenAM]

Hooray for England!

While researching publishers for my bondage novel, I couldn't help but notice that a disproportionate number of fetish publishers are based in England. Jolly good!

 

[raphy]

Would you define that, please? British ones, at least. P.

LOL..

Define less than forward? As in not the sort of female sexual predator who goes out to singles bars to get laid, who has an assortment of sex aids at home and carries the portable ones with her in her handbag in case she doesn't make it home that night.

 

[Guest]

 

[Guest]

I'm not a less than forward housewife, at least I don't think I am.

Sher, for your research: I own two vibrators, one d/e dildo, a butt plug and some anal beads. (As well as handcuffs, a leather belt/cum/whip and various other assorted "sex-aids").

Us Brits perverts? Never!

Lou

 

[SlickTony]

Most sex shops in the UK are back street sellers in shops that are uninviting and sleezy looking. Most women wouldn't dare walk into one let alone browse the shelves. Believe it or not most of the population is prudish about sex and wont openly talk about such matters.

I think we're making progress in this country. In the north Florida town in which I live, we have around four Fantasy Lanes, one of which is fairly close to me. I wouldn't say it's in the best part of town, but it's not in the worst either--it's on a fairly major street alongside small used car dealerships, insurance offices, restaurants, etc. It's an attractive stand-alone building. It's nice on the inside. I've been in it several times. However, discussing the operation of any of the toys with the staff has not come up, and so far I haven't run into anyone I know there.

I'd like to think that this country will do some more growing up before I shuffle off, but sometimes I wonder.

This week has been Bike Week in Daytona, and supposedly today a bunch of women are scheduled to perform a topless protest demonstration, to protest the fact that if any woman spontaneously bares her breasts, she'll get arrested, whereas men can go about shirtless in the street all the time. Interestingly enough, no one is going to get arrested for participating in this protest march--evidently they got a permit for what is classified as political activity.

A coworker of mine is going with her boyfriend and some other people who work in the same building we do were planning to ride down to Daytona and she has her bowels in an uproar because she knows her man is going to want to go and view the scenery on display at this protest march.

"If he wants to look at boobs," she said, "He can look at mine." And I will say she probably has a very nice pair, considering what I have seen of her at work--she is slender with enviably large breasts, probably C's, which have never been used for what they are for.

I pointed out to her that I was going to be down there in spirit, because there was probably going to be a certain feminist contingent with older and more used-looking ones, down there to make a statement.

I myself think it's rather weird that it's OK for an overweight man with man boobs which would be bigger than mine if he wore a bra, may lawfully appear shirtless in public, but a woman may not.

Someone's bound to point out that the female breast has a dual function--both as a milk-bar for offspring and as erotic objects.

OK then--so? A few miles down the road from my town is Jax Beach, a beach town, where during the summer there's any number of delicious looking taut young lads cycling and skateboarding up and down the main drag wearing cutoffs or surfer jams, nipple rings/studs, tats, tans and little else. I'm positive that I'm not the only one that finds them see-worthy; and I'm even more positive the lads under discussion are acutely aware of it. Anyone hassling them? No? Didn't think so!

 

[Guest]

Someone told me Yorkshire was most likely the 'irony capitol' of the world (yes, irony—not ironic or iron), and quite adept at entendre (though I do not understand why they chose to use a French word ). So, it seems logical that the nation should be sexually perverted, even if rhetorically.

Perdita

 

[Guest]

I pointed out to her that I was going to be down there in spirit, because there was probably going to be a certain feminist contingent with older and more used-looking ones, down there to make a statement.

Hey, don't knock used-looking breasts, they've not been used for nothing. Plus, without some of that use the population would be much smaller.

Xarrufotl! Perdita

 

[pop_54]

LOL,

Thanks so much pops for the early morning giggles

*HUGS*

-Colly

 

[A7inchPhildo]

Being originally from boston I have to say, "The british are cumming! The british are cumming!"


Ok with that out of the way I am off to the neighboring town of Daytona. I hear they are having some kind of topless demonstration today. I am sure men will support the cause for equal rights of course!

Check list:
Camera, Check
Video recorder, Check
extra memory cards, Check
extra bateries, Check
back up camera, Check
Binoculars, Check
.................................................

 

[SlickTony]

Have fun, Phildo. Be sure and bring back a full report.

Hey, don't knock used-looking breasts, they've not been used for nothing.

Oh, I wouldn't dream of it. I have a pair like that myself. They saw, between my 2 kids, 4 1/2 years of service. They could look worse. However, I'm sure they're not the kind that Phildo is no doubt looking forward to seeing, although if I see a pair like them in any of his pictorial posts I'll be sure to point them out.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Instead of having local artists each design a Christmas tree or a holiday table setting for fundraisers this year, we should contact local movers and shakers and suggest an auction of artist-designed vibrators.

I think this Easter instead of hand painting eggs, I'll do a few designer vibes for the kids to find. Should be great fun watching ma-in-law grab what she think is one of my famous hand-painted eggs only to find a pocket rocket with sweet little squiggles and designs on it.

Or for the high dollar and high class...replace the faberge egg with the designer vibe/dildo in the leaded-glass curio cabinet.

~lucky

 

[Colleen Thomas]

I think this Easter instead of hand painting eggs, I'll do a few designer vibes for the kids to find. Should be great fun watching ma-in-law grab what she think is one of my famous hand-painted eggs only to find a pocket rocket with sweet little squiggles and designs on it.

Or for the high dollar and high class...replace the faberge egg with the designer vibe/dildo in the leaded-glass curio cabinet.

~lucky

Fabrege pleasure eggs! For the discriminating pussy

-Colly

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Fabrege pleasure eggs! For the discriminating pussy

-Colly

Works for me! (I thought all were discriminating, but then had a flash of Courtney Love and Pamela Anderson and realized my error.)

~lucky

 

[Guest]

My pussy is so discriminating she has a password and will not tell me it, even for emergency situations. I trust her though, she's only fucked up a couple times.

Perdita