If I didn't know it was supposed to be a sex dungeon I'd have made it for a practice room for aerobic laundry or something.
Have I told the story here about the time I spent doing carpentry on Fire Island's Cherry Grove? There was this one house with a high stockade fence with the name of "Sanctuary." Scattered throughout the property and and inside the house were about a dozen different stocks, pillories, fuckswings, etc., the boiler room serving as a kind of trophy room with dozens of pairs of men's dirty underwear hanging up. I was glad the client was never at home when we worked on his house.
Have I told the story here about the time I spent doing carpentry on Fire Island's Cherry Grove?
Heh, I had an exhange in the comments at The Song In My Head Today about Fire Island. I'm glad to have additional evidence supporting the stereotype I was working from of it as a gay party spot.
5 There are a number of different communities on Fire Island each with their own character, the Pines and especially Cherry Grove are those which are most strongly identified with being the gay party spots.
It's not a party with just one pillory.
I concur with 1. Definitely that most tasteful UMC sex dungeon ever.
I think I first became aware of Fire Island's reputation as a gay party Mecca from reading Andy Warhol's diary. I don't believe he actually partied himself, but he would comment each summer on the poor miserable gay men who hadn't managed to get invited to Fire Island.
I'm sure the 70s were different, but there's probably a Hampton Inn or Marriott there now.
9: Probably without sex dungeons, though.
You could probably make something that wedges in a doorframe by pressure.
Its the hospital-white walls and floors that throw me off. A proper sex dungeon should be earth tones and dim lighting. Maybe some stone work and exposed timbers.
12: The idea is not obviously crazier than Juicero. You should look for venture capital.
I'm pretty sure it's been done. It's got to be easier to make (safely) than a fucksaw. Probably you should check Amazon.
15: I'm available for your board of directors.
Probably you should check Amazon.
Probably not from my work computer though.
5 There are a number of different communities on Fire Island each with their own character, the Pines and especially Cherry Grove are those which are most strongly identified with being the gay party spots.
From the article I found for the linked comment (titled "Ghosts in the Sex Forest").
There are two sections to this particular stretch of Long Island that are, more or less, separated by class: the wealthier Pines community and the younger, scrappier Cherry Grove (the literal dividing line is, in the words of one resident, "a sex forest" called the Meat Rack). It has been a lot of different things over the years. . . . It was a summer escape for gays even in the early 20th century, but in the early '80s, when Reagan was ignoring the AIDS crisis, the place became an important haven for gay New Yorkers, partiers and creative types alike. It's still one of the few beaches in the city where you can wander around completely nude. The founders of FIAR and the five residents who participated in the program want to prove that on top of all that, it's still an important site in the history of art in New York.
18: Better than the home computer.
Not surprising, but still: the asking price wouldn't get you a studio in SF (or NY). Not even half a studio.
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Set during World War II, the game lets players control any country in the world to build its military and economy. The end goal is to conquer as many nations as possible for you and your alliance: the Allies, the Axis, and the Communist International.I don't see how this squares with the Great Unequal Victimhood Narrative, tbh.
In the game, Tibet, West Xinjiang, and Manchuria - the northeastern Chinese region where Japan controlled the puppet state of Manchukuo from 1932 to 1945 - were represented as independent countries. Taiwan also appeared as the territory of Japan at the beginning of the game.
Hearts of Iron was accused of "distorting history and damaging China's sovereignty and territorial integrity." In 2004, China's ministry of culture ordered a crackdown to root out the game on the internet, CD shops and cybercafes.
I'm on side with the people who are claiming that a pristine white sex dungeon rather defeats the point.
But I went through the cleaned up pix first and decided that I wouldn't pay half a crown for the whole shebang unless I was literally homeless and had no friends. Great God! this is an awful place, as Captain Scott remarked on a particularly inauspicious occasion.
The heart wants what the heart wants.
My muscles hurt like I took up CrossFit at a gym that's rapidly becoming a cult.
I've given up on tissues and am just sneezing into my sweatshirt.
Have you tried the rum etc? I feel a well-designed trial will be valuable.
I just really can't. I get queasy at the thought.