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Apparently it's going a bit more mainstream, though. A Stanford professor has bought a club in Vegas and intends to use the profits from it (and they can be very profitable) to finance his research into heart disease. Somehow or other he managed to wangle a license to permit him to serve liquor while having full-nude dancers. Every other club in Vegas which serves alcohol is topless; all the full-nude places are alcohol-free. I wonder how he did that? But more than that, an exercise club in Los Angeles is now offering Aerobic Stripping. The instructor is a man but apparently all the participants are women, and it includes everything up to and including lap-dancing. (Who do they do it to? You need someone to sit on!) One of his participants is a 70-year-old woman. It's another step along the way. Folks, sex isn't evil. Once I had to take a business trip to Dallas. (Terrible place; why does anyone live there?) I had some time off and went to a natural history museum where they were showing some ancient artifacts, among which were what they called "fertility goddesses"; these were small statues which caricatured the female form, with tiny heads and exaggerated hips and breasts. The current theory is that these were idols or perhaps some form of magic; apparently it never occurred to anyone that they might be the earliest known examples of porn. Anyway, I was standing there looking at a display of these and a woman walked up with her 9 year old son, and said "Back then people only had sex in order to reproduce." It was clear from how she said it that she approved of that concept. I was flabbergasted, and couldn't stop myself from saying "Actually, they only had sex for pleasure. The reason they had fertility goddesses is that they didn't know why women got pregnant." (I was wrong, by way; they did know. But she was even more wrong.) She kind of looked fussed and quickly hurried away. There was no hope for her, but perhaps her son remembered later that not everyone actually agreed with his mom that sex is icky. Folks, that was only 20 years ago; there are still people who think that sex is dirty. I wa raised that way, and to some extent I find myself thinking that way to this day; it runs deep, even though I know it's wrong. It's part of my Calvinist heritage. But when stripping and lap dancing is being taught to 70 year old women who are having a great time doing it, maybe there's hope. My grandmother lived with a man without marrying him for a few years after my grandfather died. Considering that her father was a minister, that was quite a feat. Things do change; the world is getting more liberal. This is good. (discuss) |
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