Ancient Roman coins with sex scenes – sprintia
Fact of the Day
July 18, 2012

 

This is a spintria (plural, spintriae). Some scholars have argued that spintriae were used to pay prostitutes, possibly for use in brothels. Since there were a lot of foreigners coming to the city that did not speak the language and most of the prostitutes were slaves captured from other places the coins made the transactions easy and efficient. One side of these coins showed what the buyer wanted and the other showed the amount of money to be paid for the act... 

 themarty wrote: 
Miss her...  she had quite a sense of humor...  always made me smile...

 

 

 kysmet wrote: 
That is hilarious!

 

 kysmet wrote:

This cracked me up

 

 hippiechick wrote: 
That is hilarious!

 

Sex Game of Thrones

 hippiechick wrote: 

I don't think my stepson would appreciate that, but other than that sure. I work hard to look better out of clothes than in them so it's all good.

 hippiechick wrote: 
so do we.  No modesty.

 hippiechick wrote: 
 You are an exception. 

 romeotuma wrote: 
Amen...

(I'll send my email...)

 hippiechick wrote: 
Prove it!  Pictures!  Pictures!

 

 Umberdog wrote: 

Not me, I walk around nekkid at home most of the time.

All women have beautiful bodies
By Utopia Bold 

"Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.       —"Mary Wollstonecraft, reformer and writer (1759-1797)

 

To the beautiful women who read this: I read a recent article about modern women having parts of their toes removed (causing crippling pain) so their feet can fit "fashionable" shoes. Women in China had their feet bound and were crippled for a thousand years (three inch long feet were "fashionable") before foot binding was outlawed.Why do many women actually pay doctors to "fashion" them to fit men's ideas of "fashion?" Why is it legal for doctors to mutilate women's healthy bodies?

The "beauty" industry reaps billions of dollars annually by inflicting physical and psychological abuse upon women. Profits are maximized by exploiting womens' negative, media-induced feelings about their bodies. 

In her essayWoman as Other, Simone de Beauvoir describes how women are regarded in male-supremacist societies, including ours. "She is defined and differentiated with reference to man and not he with reference to her. She is the incidental, the inessential, as opposed to the essential. He is the Subject, the Absolute. She is "The Other."

Unfortunately for women, patriarchy (male supremacist society) spans the globe. As a result, patriarchal men define themselves as the human race (mankind) the "perfect norm" against which women are measured–and found lacking. They project their artificial standards of beauty onto women's bodies like blank movie screens. Women are at risk if they internalize these standards. Surveys by the Kinsey Institute found that American women have more negative feelings about their bodies than women in any other culture studied. Like clothing and cars, womens' body shapes go in and out of style. Today, Marilyn Monroe's beautiful, voluptuous figure would be regarded as obese!

According to "Backlash" by Susan Faludi, the primary source of womens' discontent comes from their second-class status in sexist, male-supremacist society. However, the "beauty" industry use mass media (owned and controlled by men) to falsely attribute women's discontent to personal negative feelings about body image. Attempting to banish discontent, women try to conform to "the perfect norm" by changing themselves–not the male-supremacist society. 

Joules is a women living in Washington state who loves and accepts her body the way it is.The following verses are from her poem published in We'Moon '95 -Gaia Rhythms for womym.

 My belly's rounded room, holds the full and glowing moon

My hips so soft and wide hold the universe inside

Oh what a lucky chance to be blessed with such expanse

To take my womanly stance in this universal dance!

 

Now some would try to strip and starve me

Some would try to mold and carve me

But nothing is more belittling

Than that narrow-minded whittling!

 

It is not my bound duty to befit the little beauty

My thighs are thick and thunderous!

my waist is wide and wondrous!

This body that was sent to me,

Is the form that it is meant to be! 

                Aho!

 

mitt

Why are people ashamed of the human body? This is absurd. I'll admit that it's not much to look at, but it's what Nature came up with over years and years of little changes. Your gods may not like the human body, but I think it's an insult to the natural process to be ashamed of our bodies.

Just an opinion. No need to feel threatened, my dear neurotic little animals.

 romeotuma wrote: 
Our values are totally messed up.

What’s Sex Got to Do with It?
by Kavita N. Ramdas
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Summer 2012

So what is going on? Why is the discourse in the United States so determinedly focused on the issue of educating girls, and what are we refusing to talk about?

Women’s Sexuality Is Messy

The answer is the messy stuff: women’s sexuality. It is striking that the most influential media messages about the importance of investing in girls tend to depict them as “little girls.” They are 12 and pigtailed in Nike Foundation’s short and catchy animated film. There is nothing threatening or unsettling about a cute little girl. We don’t see a young woman in all her sexual complexity—her power, her attractiveness, her vulnerability, her mystery, her desire to attract and influence others, her need to be loved, recognized, valued. As a colleague from the Nike Foundation once said to me, “It is much easier to sell girls’ education programs to male CEOs than the politically charged agenda of women’s reproductive rights!”

Campaigns about girls’ education rarely focus on girls in the United States or other parts of the developed world. Implicit in the message is that this is about “those girls”—the ones who are brown and black and poor and live in different countries and aren’t like us. There is little, if any, talk about the similar challenges that face our own girls—the ones who live at or below the poverty line in Oakland, Calif., the South Bronx, and rural Mississippi.

So we want to educate girls, but we don’t want to talk about sex. We want girls to read, but we don’t want to provide them with information about their bodies. We want to save girls from female genital mutilation and rescue them from brothels, but we don’t want to know why they choose to sleep with their boyfriends or trade sex for commodities or affection or grades. We want girls to get married later, but we don’t want to talk openly about contraception or abortion. Even the Obama administration, the best friend American women’s reproductive rights advocates have had in a decade, refused to abide by the US Food and Drug Administration ruling to allow over-the-counter access to birth control pills that would allow early prevention of possible pregnancy. Last November, it was only thanks to the feverish efforts of women’s rights advocates that Mississippi did not pass a law outlawing the use of IUDs.

This is the inconvenient truth that is hiding behind the current excitement about educating girls. We are happy to educate them and hope that reading, writing, and ’rithmetic will somehow magically translate into positive outcomes. Yet everything I learned from funding women’s rights organizations for 14 years at the Global Fund for Women suggests that women and girls cannot rely on formal school education alone to prepare them for a world that continues to treat them as “less than.” Girls and young women need basic information about their bodies and programs to build confidence and self-esteem. The value of sex education in schools has been studied and recommended for decades, and sex ed has been incorporated into the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Yet this remains one of two important documents—the other is the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women—that the United States has refused to ratify because of internal political resistance from conservative forces, which believe the best way to deal with sexuality is to suppress it and encourage abstinence...