3/18/2004 05:03:42 PM|||Chris||| Okay, now I have to admit that this is weird and screwed-up even to my sensibilities:
According to Yahoo, the men's room in the Virgin Airways clubhouse at JFK Airport now boasts urinals in the shape displayed above: a woman's open lips, decorated with bright-red, fuck-me lipstick. The urinals were designed by the Netherlands company Bathroom Mania, which has a talent for making unique accessories for people to vacate their bladders and/or bowels.
The concept of wanting to pee in someone's mouth doesn't offend me in and of itself, actually; I've known people who were into piss play of one kind or another, and while not my thing, they had honest, forthright attitudes toward it that respected themselves, the act, and their partner. The word "play" in this case is key; it is an implict recognition of the difference between fantasy and reality, and the different rules that apply for each.
Virgin's toilets are just another example of the hypocrital way that sex is expressed in the mainstream; despite getting hit by loads of sexy images every day, the effect of most of them is not to dismiss shame, or to expand our visions of sexuality. Instead, they manipulate that shame. The advertising industry hits us with millions of image that increase our desire for sex
while holding it even higher out of our reach. This is what you should want to have, they tell us, but you can't have it, because you're too old, too ugly, too poor, too clumsy, your tits are too small, your dick won't stay hard long enough, and whatever you do will just be a shallow imitation of what our ultra-beautiful, ultra-skinny, ultra-rich, ultra-Botoxed, ultra-Viagraed models do with each other. But it's all right if you try; here, buy our stuff.
And similarly, I really doubt that any of Virgin's representatives would be willing to endorse consenting adults peeing on or into each other for a little bit of fun. Their fancy toilets are just a nasty, mean-spirited joke that lets guys with too much money and attitude go through the motions while still calling other people perverts. It quite neatly combines misogyny, class privilege, and fear of sex into one great big red package.|||107964742211503942|||Kissing and Pissing