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I used to sometimes envy my generational peers who had hippie parents where I had to be raised by highschool-Nam-marraige-kids repressed Catholics. Then I see stuff like this and I feel better.
I don't get an icky feeling from it at all. No titillation either. I do find myself wondering about the people's lives, however, in a way I rarely do with plain porn. Maybe it's because the people are pushing elderly now, maybe it's because the first guy looks like Kid Rock before Kid Rock was even born.
I knew people who behaved a lot like that in the nineties. Been to parties. Seen stuff. Never participated myself but it's still going on folks. Where you been?
...come to think of it, I bet there's some photo of me somewhere having a drink at some big party like the Europerv, with people doing all sorts just right behind me and me trying not to seem shocked. If that ends up in a book. ai ai ai...
You're Scandinavian, dabitch. I always assumed you guys were always rolling around naked in saunas and stuff. As for the rest of us, we came of age in the age of AIDS, date rape and harassment lawsuits. Any stuff like this that was attempted fell under 'bad joke' rather than 'adventures in consciousness.'
Besides, even back in the 60's and 70's this kind of stuff was the arena of a priviliged few anyway (and still is), contrary to myth.
yeah but jonmc, all this weird stuff I witnessed happened mainly in your hometown. Sin city! Then Amsterdam. Some in London. Never in Sweden. we're straight up meat and potatoes kinda people who sunbathe nude.
Oh, and I learned another thing in my travels. The girl who was least likely(seemed most uptight) to have ever done a threesome was the one who did one. Think of that next time you look at your librarian!
yeah but jonmc, all this weird stuff I witnessed happened mainly in your hometown. Sin city!
Well, I was never invited. And no matter what you see on Sex In The City, most of the five boroughs is home sitting on the couch drinking beer and watching Laverne & Shirley reruns just like evryone else.
(and I spent most of the nineties working nametag jobs in stripmalls. the people I knew were generally lucky if they got laid once a year, never mind stuff like this. As always, this kind of stuff is heard about more often than it actually happens)
It's weird. This reminded me of Eyes Wide Shut (stylized, anonymous orgy) crossed with this from LIFE or maybe LOOK magazine:
Doing some research for something else, in our college library's old bound volumes, I was rather surprised to see ca. 1954 a small featurette on "the newest college craze": parties where you had to find the person dressed as the opposite sex in the dark. They used an infrared camera to record a bunch of game dorm denizens, one fratboy sheepishly grinning in the girl's dress, with coconuts in the bra, and the girl in his checked flannel shirt and denim trousers, looking quite modern but for her hairstyle. Somehow in the six frames or so that they showed, in which both transvestites were discovered, there was nothing beyond a PG rating -- but a couple of issues later the magazine ran several irate letters, and an abject apology. Somewhere, I have xeroxes of the whole thing.
Personally, while I can see the appeal of a one-time experiment, I'd prefer my group sex to be a relaxed thing with friends.
Never in Sweden. we're straight up meat and potatoes kinda people who sunbathe nude.
I think it's all those Euromovies that ran on double-bills here with Big-Breasted Bank Robbers. You'll never shake that rep.
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