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Underground Fields

hello from a little old process named Underground Fields! way back in march of 2019 it was named “Underground Fields”, and then in april i had a brief conversation there about valerian and washed some dishes-- now it’s time for this post, and that’s about all it does! funny little old process

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finally posting from the process Original Poster

in this recording i bother to stick with any of my ideas for more than a second so they're actually heard at all maybe

unlike most of these tracks so far, in this recording i cultivated an uncertainty about whether or not the track would be published, in an attempt to bring you closer to my own experience of the patch

another aspect of how i've been using this patch, playing along with myself on a longer delay to build beats,, more audibly mouth-noisy in this one, does get screechy

just a vibe i was feeling

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(Mungojelly)

here i am performing on a musical instrument, let’s say

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I've still been practicing on this, let's say, musical instrument, every day,,,,, I've improved a lot since that recording, I should make a newer one someday

a ghost visited Fire Lane, or perhaps an eidolon, or maybe it was me sounding ghosty, whatever, who can be sure, ghosts are subtle

a ghost visits Fire Lane

I’ve been saying “non-sexual touch” is what I’m interested in, and I don’t think that’s communicating what I mean very well.

People seem to respond by thinking of a spectrum with sexual touch on one side, and since we’re talking about the opposite of that, the archetype of what kind of touch I mean must be somewhere far to the other side, far away from sexual touch-- like I’m heard as if I’d said “anti-sexual touch.”

What I’m interested in is a type of touch that’s not mostly sexual, but not particularly distant from sex and sexual touching either. I’m interested in playing with bodies, playing with various sensations all over bodies, not just a few particular safe sensations that can be isolated and clearly marked as non-sexual by broad taboos that resonate with the wider culture.

One way this is different from touch that’s able to be very clearly distanced from sexual touch is that it requires a different kind of negotiation. If you’re being non-sexual by staying miles away from anything that you assume could be sexual (I mean BTW shouldn’t this seem absurd and impossible anyway if you’ve heard of fetishes, but I digress) then you can make do with broad rules and aesthetics, just take everything hard in the anti-sexual direction. If you’re doing something that’s not about sex but it’s not especially distant from it either, then you need detailed communication about how each thing feels to each participant, to tiptoe around sensations you’re not intending to create.

So for instance if clothing that obscures sight and touch of your body feels very anti-sexual to you, which is how clothing is normally understood by modern society, and clothing doesn’t obstruct what you’re wanting from touch, then you can make the touch more anti-sexual by just saying, everyone must be very clothed! Everyone wear all the clothes!! Phew. You don’t even have to mention what nudity is exactly or how it makes you feel, you can just talk about it in terms of mandating lots of clothing, and that will make everything feel safe (apparently, not speaking for myself, I find clothes sexy).

But if the non-sexual touch you want involves lots of skin touching lots of skin, now you have to get into details. Which parts being uncovered when makes you feel sexy how, and how does it feel to everyone affected if we go through or very near those sexy feelings because that’s the only or easiest route to somewhere non-sexy we’re trying to get to?? It might not be obvious that keeping touch non-sexual when it gets close to sexual feelings can require detailed conversations about what turns everybody on so that you know what to avoid.

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Something that stood out to me about my local cuddle party instructions is that they specifically say that you shouldn’t wear tank tops because it isn’t a sexual event. Isn’t that interesting?? Because I mean like this is a liberal lefty hippie little city where all of the participants would presumably be horrified by the opinion for instance that young women shouldn’t wear tank tops to social events because that would be too sexual. And I don’t think it’s authentically their opinion at all that shoulders and armpits are really so inherently sexual that exposing them sexualizes contexts. So I don’t think they’re quite really saying what they’re saying.

What I think they’re trying to say without having the words for it is that this is an AFFECTIONATE event as opposed to a SENSUAL event. if you add to the frame sensual touch as a possibility as well as sexual touch then a lot of their messaging makes more sense. What it seems to me to really say is: Some people read sensual touches as affectionate, while others read those same touches as sexual. This ambiguity is likely to cause both unintentional boundary violations because people have different perspectives on the same touches, and also intentional pushing at the edge of what’s acceptable social behavior in the context because if people are trying to satisfy sensual rather than affection needs they’ll be too interested in too many areas and aspects of their bodies which will make them push towards areas that will seem sexual to willing or unwilling participants or observers and cause further confusions and tensions.

body-writing

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More than 1000 followers to @body-writing but I don't feel like anyone's listening

body-writing

The name and theme of this blog, on my left leg.

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I meant to do this for a long time! There! @body-writing has an icon

I feel like interrogating this feeling I've always had of needing to investigate pictures of skin to figure out which body part they are. It feels a lot like my habit of investigating pictures of people to pretend to tell what gender they are. It's not genuine curiosity when it's so compulsory, this need to relate to the perception by grounding it in a simple social category.

I am eating a pepper

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Still waiting on that milkshake

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what i like most about this piece is the hair going over her fingers .. gives depth to it, texture, almost a tension,, makes me feel it more, like i can almost feel the hair on my fingers looking at it

the shapes in the sheet are also very nice

I'm going to start posting my body to the internet more.... Just that feels more true to myself.... Sorry if it's not what's right for you,, feel free to unfollow ❤️

i've been inspired for a long time by the art, style and dancing of https://instagram.com/alexa_bunny19/ (NSFW) i really recommend you all check her out <3

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