PROVING HER POINT FOR HER

(note: no-robertson/falwell zone ahead...)

I'm on a bit of semi-hiatus right now (as in, I haven't felt the urge to write extensively in a little while, outside of music that is). I'll get out of this mini-funk soon, but I did have one little thing to talk about, for no reason other than to have fun with a couple Berkeley blogs I swing by from time to time.

Kevin of CalStuff writes on Andrea Demaray's first Sex On Tuesday column (on which I wrote last week):

The fact of the matter is that Berkeley is already as sexually liberated as it can be-- intellectually. What's holding us back is biological or emotional. I don't know that a sex column about intellectual and linguistic inhibition can do much about this.

Flash forward one week...

Moving on to the meat and potatoes (so to speak) of sex columnry, Andrea now tackles the issue of anal penetration and prostate stimulation. And surprise surprise! Two Berkeley bloggers prove her point (thus, casting doubt on Kevin's) for her.

Albatross Perch:

Special thanks to new Sex on Tuesday columnist Andrea Desmarais for her absolutely fucking filthy article on anal sex, which nearly made me retch while walking between classes...

With sodomy in the courts (ha!) and gay rights being actively debated, it's good to see that sexheads like Andrea and Dan Savage are keeping the healthy image of dick-in-ass right on the level of the conscious, instead of deep, deep down in the subconscious where it belongs.

Beetle Beat:

Sex on Tuesday's obsession with anal continues, this time to the point of encouraging anal rape. "Even if your partner isn't down with the idea of sending anything in the "out" door, if you lightly brush his anus with your fingertips during your next blow or hand job, he might surprise himself by craving more." That sounds suspiciously like "Even if she says no, she really does want it."

First of all, both of these bloggers exhibited precisely the "knee-jerk 'eww' response" that Andrea was talking about in her first column.

Secondly, if the passage BB cited had read "Even if your partner isn't down with the idea of a pair of lips on one's cock, if you lightly toungue the tip of his head, he might surprise himself by craving more", would Andrea be accused of "encouraging rape"? As George Carlin once noted, a sentence never uttered on earth is "stop sucking my dick or I'll call the police!"

If backed into discussing the issue, it would be pretty likely that both responders would try to find ways to intellectualize their inner "eww"'s (they blogged, so in essence they already have). Many other Berkeley students, hell, even some co-opers would do the same. Berkeley, and just about any other place, save for maybe Ibiza, has the capability to become more sexually liberated on an intellectual level. From my end (har dee har), it looks like Andrea is doing her job by flushing out (har dee har again) fear and stigma.

(Perhaps Berkeley's conservative community is upset about Andrea's column because their hero, Ronald Reagan, doesnt even HAVE a prostate anymore -ed. Heh!)