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19 April 2006
Ask MeCha: Why is "the Mile High" club such a big deal→[More:] but you never hear cavers bragging about their sexual exploits hundreds of metres below ground?
I ask because how rad would it be to get busy in an underground cavern next to ancient stalagmites and stuff? Totally rad, IMO.
Though I'm in favor of gettin' it on just about anywhere, I've never much understood this either. Usually on a plane I am just praying to whatever gos will listen to prevent the plane from falling out of the sky. Also, there is nothing about that cramped angular bathroom that whispers 'rowr' to me. So the mystique of this club escapes me.
However, there are other clubs that are sort of intriguing due to their stuntlike nature. A friend of mine went to college in Maine, near the LL Bean flagship store. The store is open 24 hours a day all year, and it's enormous. During the overnight hours, it's pretty lightly staffed. It has a large section of camping gear, with dozens of tents set up and fitted out with various cots and air mattresses. Apparently, the students at his school sometimes took the opportunity to join the LL Bean Club.
Because lots of people get horny on long, boring plane flights, and spend 3 to 5 hours thinking about how they could possibly have sex with that hottie three rows up.
I'm a partial member of the mile-high club. (Ask for me the story sometime. Totally TMI, but amusing.) It was more for the risk of getting caught than anything else. That and we were bored. :)
I made out in the men's room at Powell's . .did not go all the way bout coulda, probably. Also, to a lesser extent, a cranny in the Purple Room. . .*smile*
Tell me more about this Purple Room, dan. I've also heard the Rare Book Room may be an option.
Well, in illicit meeting, I guess it would be called. . .she was in portland on biz, I came up, we met in Powell's in the orange room, by the search terminal there, wandered around until we got to the purple room, in front of a window facing 10th (I think) and had to kiss her right there. . .I returned later and actually put a dot on the concrete floor to mark the spot. . .
Yes, the purple room is pretty good. Extra bonus: it has the history stacks. Nothing could be hotter than making out right after browsing through books on archaeology.
Very romantic, to kiss in Powell's, no?
I dunno a thing about "romance", but it's a pretty sexy place.
Other good makeout places. . .the elevator in the main library, and behind that berm at the archery range in Washington Park, as long as no one is shooting arrows.
I think it stems from the days when flying was much less common than now - when it was only something that rich people got to do. What could be better than getting to do something that only rich people got to do? Having sex while doing something that only rich people got to do, of course!
Yeah, it was sort of that whole What Kind of Man Reads Playboy? mystique, with sexy stewardesses instead of coed flight attendants, and the airlines kinda encouraged you to pinch asses or at least think about pinching asses. It wasn't until the 80s at least that most airlines stopped enforcing weight/measurements rules (ostensibly to meet standard uniforms ...) and began treating their women employees as safety professionals (and when not needed, you know, servers).
I do not find being on an airplane these days sexy at all, but then again I've never flown first class.
You people just don't understand how to make the most of public transportation.
Forget the bathrooms. What you want is a quiet late-night flight, uncrowded, at the very back row with no one in the third seat. You need a blanket, or your coats, and it sure helps if you're both relatively small, and the rationale is you're going to be on the plane all night anyway.
There is nothing uniquely aeronautical about this, by the way. People have been doing it on trains for generations. Trains are better, of course, because of the vibrations.
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