Good Times
…in Sweden :p
Warm Wind
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Stockholm Pride 2009
How do you celebrate Gay Pride in a country where everything seems to be achieved? The Stockholm Pride was held under the unusual motto “Hetero” (Straight) this year and was attracting 500.000 people. Queer anarchists were marching peacefully with Swedish Gay and Lesbian soldiers.
Same sex couples can marry in Sweden, they can adopt kids and are protected against discrimination by law. But that doesn’t mean the Pride Parade lost its political character in Stockholm. Unlike other parades it’s not just a big party but also a protest march for Gay rights all over the work. The hanging of Gay teenagers in Iran, the death of a transsexual activist in Venezuela and the killing of members of a Gay youth group in Israel are just a few examples pride participants are brining up to remind us that there is still a long way to go.
But they not only problems in the rest of the world are pointed out. The big topic that was discussed at different events over the Pride Week was heteronormativity and how it influences the Western culture an society and how it segregates Gays, Lesbians and Transsexuals even if they are equal by law.
The Parade itself was colourful and diverse as ever. More and more young people are participating every year and from pink vegetarians over queer goths to football stars like Victoria Svensson, every part of the community was represented. More than 700 volunteers were organising the Stockholm Pride, hosting events about heteronormativity but also about topics like clitoral sex or hate crimes against queer people. Bruce LaBruce’s Gay Vampire film Otto was shown and Gay singers like Marc Almond were performing.
Sometimes…
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“Sometimes i wish I could be a girl just for a while. I’d wear really short skirts. I’d go commando of course. I’d go to the mall to pick up some 14 year old blond boys high on testosterone. I’d tease them all the way home. I’d enjoy the people shaking their heads about the naughty girl with the poor, innocent boys following her into her trap.”
“After luring them into my mansion I’d give them Absinthe. I’d read de Sade to them. I’d tell them to get naked. I’d let them undress myself. I’d love how they watch me in amazement. I’d play with them in the garden. I’d paint on them. I’d make music with them. I’d eat with them. Strawberries. With pre-cum. I’d take a bath with them. I’d let them explore my body. I’d kiss them. Every spot of their skin. Bathed in Milk & Honey. I’d feel their golden hair amongst my fingers, their soft skin. And eventually I’d let them slide into myself. I’d ride them slowly. I’d suck off their holy youth. Up to the last drop. Becoming one with me.”
UPDATE: Alex made a neat. little story out of this :) Don’t miss the other three chapters of this story about a guy who gets turned into a teen girl ;)
Jock Sturges
Jock Sturges has long been a lightning rod for controversy for his distinctive brand of nude photography. Sturges shoots much of his work around nudist beaches in France and northern California, and his most frequent subjects have been adolescent girls. The photos have an undeniably erotic quality, unlike some types of nude photography that treat the human body more as abstract form. However, Sturges aims to draw out the models’ own sense of burgeoning sexuality in a straightforward, personal, non-voyeuristic way. Sturges uses a large-format camera to create extremely detailed, finegrained images, while his strong feel for sunlight bathes his models and settings with a shimmering quality. In his writings, Sturges prides himself on the bonds of trust, friendship and collaboration between the photographer, the models and their families. Many of his photographs depict several generations naked together.
Don’t Talk About…
I have no clue about what’s going on lately but Joe added me on Skype and Patrick followed me on Twitter. I wonder why. I mean if they plan to do some crazy coop they want me to blog about… they could just tell me. Aw, well I guess I should just stop being suspicious per se about everything social xD I mean it’s not liked I never talked to Joe or Patrick before it’s just that this was mostly small talk so far while the chat with Joe today was actually somehow personal and interesting. I won’t elaborate on that ‘tho. No, I didn’t see his wee kiwi ass but believe it or not, I do appreciate his creative mind too ;)
Doesn’t she just look like a female version of Joe? However, I’d hit it.
Gamer Girls
Are girls the better gamers?
I play online games (mostly tactic shooters) for nearly ten years now and something that hits me every so often: I happen to have the most fun playing with girls – eh, yeah that sounds wrong but ya know what I mean ;p Let alone the fact that many game girls I know are one of the best players I met.
I dunno exactly what it is but they just seem to be more relaxed about gaming. Guys tend to get annoyed and aggressive while girls never take anything too serious (and still pown their enemies) and are good company to make all kind of stupid things in game. At least the ones I know are also a blast to voice chat with while we game, sometimes it can get hard to keep focused on the game ‘cause we laugh so much ^.^ I made some great male friends too (ranging from an utterly kind 13 year old to a 53 year old tool maker who can sing German folk songs) but in general it seems to me that girls are always a good choice if you look for people to game with.
Not only good at self play ;p
By the way: Let me know if you ever wanna play Battlefield, Left 4 Dead or Truth or Dare with me, I have Xfire, Steam and Skype ;)
Pff, Stalkers
A face and a book. And a mouse.
I never really understood why people need social networks and I never used one besides GayRomeo (and even there I log in once every few months) but since this kitten I play Battlefield 1942 with nearly every day (yes, it’s actually her on that photo lol) asked me to sign up at Facebook so she can stalk me I eventually did it xD
I’ve added a few people I love but only one of them accepted my friend request so far. Dunno if they hate me or (more likely) don’t know who the person with this name is. However, if you think I like you really bad and should add you – let me know, k?
Beck
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I always loved that image. It brings back so many memories of the time when I was in 5th grade and me and some friends (both male and female) from school had our Wicca / back to nature phase. Yeah, the Waldorf School made hippies out of us :p I guess we were pretty annoying brats for thinking we’re better than other kids who were ashamed of their bodies but we felt like we know everything of course, just your typical teenager, at least in that way. That’s where the name for the blog comes from by the way. Skyclad (or clad with the sky) is a Wiccan term for being free and naked.
And as the sign that ye are truly free
Ye shall be naked, both boys & girls
This shall last until the last of
your oppressors shall be dead.
Alice &…
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Sunshine Freak :)
(via CherrySoda)
Show Me
Show Me! is a controversial sex education book by photographer Will McBride. It appeared in 1974 in German under the title Zeig Mal!, written with psychiatrist Helga Fleischhauer-Hardt for children and their parents. It was translated into English a year later and was widely available in bookstores on both sides of the Atlantic for many years.
A recent review by Dr. Russell A. Rohde claims that the book, “appropriately delves into the issues of breast feeding, adolescence, pubertal changes, menses, sexual anatomies, pregnancy, masturbation, contraception, sexual behavioral disturbances and venereal disease. […] I am not aware of any book comparable to this illustrated primer that fills the needs of sexual education so well.”
D. F. Janssen places it at the one extreme of a late twentieth century visual and textual revolution that enabled parents to illustrate information that up to that time had been transmitted orally. He sees the work as subversive not for its “too frank” portrayal of childhood sexuality, but instead for the primacy that the image takes over the text. In his eyes, the work “comes out of a culture with a long history of pathologising so-addressed ‘primal scenes,’” a history that became manifest in particular with regard to the works of Will McBride.
