#prudish

[guavagyal]

I really need some young people to stop being so prudish & Puritanical. first, it's Sabrina Carpenter's album. next, it's people freaking out over Sydney Sweeney. and it's already bad enough people think there should be no sexyness at Pride. All this self censoring, wanting there to be no nudity in art, and being uncomfortable with other people wanting to be desired is gross and will lead us into the dark ages.

I'm saying this as a woman who has been celibate for about 3 or 4 years now.

there are levels to this and not every time a woman is sexy or risqué is doing it for the male gaze. both of these women kinda subvert that anyways.

[imagine-loki]

Imagine being known for your straightlaced demeanor. No one in the group has ever heard you swear, seen you drink, or even caught you with one hair out of place.

Needless to say, the nickname “Mrs. Grundy” gets thrown around a bit.

You’re in an elevator alone with Loki, and as the conversation goes on, he decides you’re more personable than you let on. Your personality still seems a bit prudish, but - lo and behold - you can laugh after all.

You accidentally drop something and crouch to pick it up.

Lok drops to help you and notices in his peripheral vision that a pant leg has ridden up just enough to let a small butterfly tattoo peek out from your inner ankle.

With the item retrieved, you both stand up.

“Thanks, Loki.”

The elevator doors open.

“Anytime, little butterfly...”

It takes you a moment.

You dart out before the doors can close again.

“Wait!”

Once you’ve flagged him down, you plead with Loki not to tell anyone.

[yesterdaysprint]

The Emporia Gazette, Kansas, March 16, 1891

[bettedavises]

[yesterdaysprint]

Altoona Tribune, Pennsylvania, March 19, 1926

From Wikipedia:  Post Office is a kissing game played by boys and girls at parties. It has been referred to in United States popular culture since at least the 1880s.

The group playing is divided into two groups – typically a girl group and a boy group. One group goes into another room, such as a bedroom, which is called "the post office". To play, each person from the other group individually visits "the post office". Once there, they get a kiss from everyone in the room. They then return to the original room.

Once everyone in the first group has taken a turn, the other group begins sending members to the first room.

[thesetwoutes]

"what are you guys up to, turning into popsicles?" Definitely a reference to the weather but all I can think is "I'm pretty sure I'm not putting a stick up my ass?"

[ragingdemocraticsocialist]

I think one common misconception about asexual people is that we're prudish and innocent. That is just not true. We don't immediately get grossed out when we see just the slightest bit of skin. We don't immediately close our eyes when there is a sex scene on TV. We aren't little kids! In fact many asexual people are very comfortable with nudity (e.g. me!). Sex scenes on TV can be cinematically very beautiful or tell a story. Of course there are asexuals that aren't comfortable with nudity, of course there are asexuals that dislike sex scenes categorically. But that's not because they are asexuals! That applies to everyone regardless if they are asexual or allosexual!

[howifeltabouthim]

Throwing aside Machiavelli's Prince with some disgust, for after all there were limits to people's behaviour, even in the olden days, he felt he must exchange the dead letter of history for the living contact with another human being . . .

L.P. Hartley, from The Harness Room