Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Vulva Portrait Pendant

Celebrate your own beauty.

Each piece is an original, one of a kind hand sculpted image of its owner to remind her that regardless of what the world and the people in it may tell her: she is beautiful.

Despite being someone who writes a sex-positive blog, I won’t go so far as to label everything that relates to sex as “erotic,” and while “erotica” has its own definition, how that definition is applied and considered is up to a person, that is to say, it is their opinion.

It is not my opinion that this necklace is erotic, neither is it something that I could ever conceive of wearing. Trust me, I’m pretty weird by all normal standards, sexually speaking, but a pussy pendant is weird, even for me.

That being said, when writing this, I meant no offense, and in no way implied or meant to say that a man “needs” to buy it for a woman, that a woman can’t buy it for herself and that a woman can’t enjoy sex without a man.

Simply put, I can’t conceive of many women, including myself, buying this necklace for themselves, and that right there, in my mind, cuts her market in half. Whose left? Men. Gay men certainly aren’t buying this for themselves, leaving straight men. Let’s face it, many women do and wear things that isn’t in their taste for their partner (in this case, a man), but I don’t see this being one of the situations where a man would buy this for his girlfriend or wife, and therefore if she’s not buying this for herself, nor as an item of compromise to please her man, who is buying it?

I can see conventional people thinking a woman with a pussy pendant is totally crass and absurd. And really, it is. But who cares? I mean, we all have our weird things, and by that same token, for every weird thing we like, there’s someone out there that likes it to and won’t think it weird, but natural to them.

I realize now I discussed the male-female r/s, and the male-male r/s, but not a female-female one, which could possibly be who is buying this, if we’re going to go with the stereotype of a feminist or lesbian who wants to love her body and pussy and what a woman represents. But honestly, I have lesbian friends, and even they cringed when I showed them these pendants.

In the end, to each his own, but i just really don’t think this should be worn as a necklace. Unless it’s worn for kitschy reasons, this should not be worn in public, much like you don’t walk around with a Playboy under your arm at Starbucks. I have nothing wrong with obscenity — after all, I watch some questionable adult videos — but I think obscenity has its place, and should not be paraded or pushed in the public. And that applies for more than just pussy pendants. That applies to girls whose g-string always shows, men whose pants drag and shows their ass crack, vulgar words on shirts, etc.

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