Thursday, August 31, 2006
Tidbits From The Daily Grind
An interesting array of small news items have been cropping up lately. This according to the NY Times June 23rd, 2006 edition.
For instance, in Japan nearly 31% of people between 16 and 49 have sex only once a month. So, does that one timer make up for all the other sexless nights? Well, we wish we could say so, but apparently when couples did have sex, they did so for "no particular reason."
Sounds fabulously sexy, no?
No. The Japanese are increasingly worried about this trend. Figures show that the population rate fell to an all-time low: 1.25. It should be 2.1 to keep the overall population from declining. So, start crackin' and eat your spinach.
In this regard they are right up there with the Italians, who are also de-populating themselves at an alarming rate. No one wants the responsibilities of marriage and child-rearing. The single guys can just as easily live with mom. As we all know, mom is still the ultimate goddess in the Italian home.
Up in Canada in the same Times' edition, it was reported that the country has raised the age of consent from 14 to 16. This was done primarily to curb older male predators. But the Canadians wisely decided to put in a key exemption to the law, which allows kids of say 14 or 15 to still have sex with someone up to five years older than they are.
Would we devise such a loophole down in the USA? Of course not, silly. We are still trying to get out from under the delusion that children that age should not be doing anything at all of a sexual nature.
Unless you want to just show off your new fetish wardrobe. Which brings us to the third Times' story of the day, the fact that the Style section is running a story on "Kinky Chic Extends Its Dominance." The paraphernalia of the BDSM crowd is now going mainstream.
Those little black collars? You see a fair number of chic women wearing them out at night. And I don't think they are dominatrices on their way to a rendezvous with a client.
Got a yearning to play an extra in "Braveheart" in the scene where they all moon the Brits? Well, just hang onto your Scottish garb. That's a fetish thing too and it is one of the hotter outfits around now. I remember fondly one of our early experiences at a sex party, where one of the participants was running around in a kilt. "Do you wont to have a wrestle," he would inquire of people, in a charming brogue. We declined, but we thought the outfit was snazzy.
Good to know you can hang on to your old chains, leather and whatnot and it will be back in fashion. Sooner than you think. Or may want it to be.
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For instance, in Japan nearly 31% of people between 16 and 49 have sex only once a month. So, does that one timer make up for all the other sexless nights? Well, we wish we could say so, but apparently when couples did have sex, they did so for "no particular reason."
Sounds fabulously sexy, no?
No. The Japanese are increasingly worried about this trend. Figures show that the population rate fell to an all-time low: 1.25. It should be 2.1 to keep the overall population from declining. So, start crackin' and eat your spinach.
In this regard they are right up there with the Italians, who are also de-populating themselves at an alarming rate. No one wants the responsibilities of marriage and child-rearing. The single guys can just as easily live with mom. As we all know, mom is still the ultimate goddess in the Italian home.
Up in Canada in the same Times' edition, it was reported that the country has raised the age of consent from 14 to 16. This was done primarily to curb older male predators. But the Canadians wisely decided to put in a key exemption to the law, which allows kids of say 14 or 15 to still have sex with someone up to five years older than they are.
Would we devise such a loophole down in the USA? Of course not, silly. We are still trying to get out from under the delusion that children that age should not be doing anything at all of a sexual nature.
Unless you want to just show off your new fetish wardrobe. Which brings us to the third Times' story of the day, the fact that the Style section is running a story on "Kinky Chic Extends Its Dominance." The paraphernalia of the BDSM crowd is now going mainstream.
Those little black collars? You see a fair number of chic women wearing them out at night. And I don't think they are dominatrices on their way to a rendezvous with a client.
Got a yearning to play an extra in "Braveheart" in the scene where they all moon the Brits? Well, just hang onto your Scottish garb. That's a fetish thing too and it is one of the hotter outfits around now. I remember fondly one of our early experiences at a sex party, where one of the participants was running around in a kilt. "Do you wont to have a wrestle," he would inquire of people, in a charming brogue. We declined, but we thought the outfit was snazzy.
Good to know you can hang on to your old chains, leather and whatnot and it will be back in fashion. Sooner than you think. Or may want it to be.
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