Calling all Kinksters

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Calling all Kinksters

Another great column by Mark Morford.

Calling all kinkster hippie sluts

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Hello, deviant. Hello, kinkster pervert hippie slut. Hello, you who are reading this right now, fondling your whips or shopping for fine fetish wear or perhaps merely squirming gently in your office chair, eager to find out more about all these titillating keywords because, you know, mmmm.

I know how it is. Have you been feeling it, too? The heat of recent media attention? The sour breath of bland, conservative evil on your nicely tattooed neck? Perhaps you've noticed. Sluts and sex, gays and deviants, perverts and hippies, yoga teachers and tattooed miscreants have been in the news a lot recently. More than usual, even. And that's saying something.

It's not difficult to see why. There's a very weird, grisly Republican presidential race underway right now, featuring some of the least appealing, most disagreeable conservative candidates to limp across the national stage in decades. And that's really saying something.

It's all a result of the sad fact that the once-noble GOP has devolved in the past few decades from a semi-reasonable party of stiff values and staid institutions, into a kowtowing, far-right, fundamentalist drainage ditch full of Christian fear, Bible literalism and anti-everythingism. Voilá: one hell of a kinkystrange little witch hunt, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

That's right, nothing. It's tempting to suggest there is a malicious attack afoot, that sex and intellectualism, kink and individuality and "alternative" lifestyles of every kind are under severe threat by the ultra right, all spearheaded by Rick "I (Heart) Dan Savage" Santorum's hilarious pledge to ban hardcore porn, banish gays, inbreed church and state, slap women back to 1952 and return sex to its rightful place as shameful, procreation-only guiltfest even your grandparents would be embarrassed not to have.

Don't forget confused sweatpuddle and ex drug addict Rush Limbaugh, who was kind enough to remind everyone that you absolutely do not call a young, intelligent woman a "slut" without express written dominatrix contract consent, and/or unless she asked you to do so as you spank her, quite hard ....

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