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pinnipedster -> Prediction: Trendy Sex is over in 2009 (1/8/2009 12:24:20 PM)

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TheHungryTiger -> RE: Prediction: Trendy Sex is over in 2009 (1/8/2009 2:17:34 PM)

Nothing realy suprising here. If you study historical trends this sort of stuff is obvious. Sexual revolutions happen on average ever 70-80 years. A generation of the revolution leads to a generation of sex being very public leads to a generation of sexual 'burnout' leads to a generation where sex is private and that leads into the next sexual revolution.

The victoriasn era led to the sexual revolution of the 'gay 90s' and that lead to the flaper era with its very public and open expresions of sexuality and that lead to a 'burnout' period durring the great depresion and WWII where people simply stoped caring and that lead to the privacy of the ward-and-june-cleaver 50s and that lead to the sexual revolution of the woodstock and the hippy movement and that lead to the hupersexuality of the modana era that has led us into the current phase of sexual burnout. (And the victorian era was caused by years upon years of sex scandel that everyone got tired of talking about.)

You can trace this flip-flop between sexual publicity and sexual privacy all the way back to the first liberteen movement. Its inevedabal as the tides. And we are now firmly within the frame where folks are getting tired of having sex shoved in their faces day after day after day. ..... What? There is another celeberity sex tape? Who gives a shit, lets talk about something else.

The days of 'out of the closet into the street' are over. Gone are the guilt trips that you were a sellout to the cause if you choose to keep your sex life private. There is a growing trend of 'private life' actualy meening privacy. Exactly as has happened in ever 'burnout' era that has come before us.



Vendaval -> RE: Prediction: Trendy Sex is over in 2009 (1/8/2009 4:59:17 PM)

Well, what do you think pinnipedster?  Is talking about your sexual behavior as a social statement, positive, negative or neutral?
 
Doing what you and your partners like is motivated by discussion, shared desires and consensus for me.  I am not interested in what the latest trend or fad is or who has been caught on tape in their underwear.  And we feel no need to impress anyone in the process.



marsneedswomen -> RE: Prediction: Trendy Sex is over in 2009 (1/8/2009 7:01:33 PM)

I agree that the pron industry is going bust and the sex novel as a literary form is about as dead as one can get, but sex is always going to be discussed and bragged about. The only difference is that the shock factor is definitely disappearing when it comes to what those over 18 are doing. 



pinnipedster -> RE: Prediction: Trendy Sex is over in 2009 (1/8/2009 10:07:19 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Vendaval

Well, what do you think pinnipedster?  Is talking about your sexual behavior as a social statement, positive, negative or neutral?


Me, personally?  Well, I certainly think people should communicate openly with their partners.  As for talking about it in public, I see it as mainly a personal preference.  But I also think people should have *some* discretion and discrimination. 

I'm generally willing to talk to most people pretty honestly about my sexuality, but not everyone wants to hear it.  So I generally don't unless I'm asked, or in a forum such as this where it's expected.  And there are a few people I know who I wish would be a little more quiet about their own.  (One woman in particular for many years had to tell me all about her sex life every time I saw her, despite the fact that she knew damn well how frustrated I was over my own lack of a sex life, and no matter how many times I asked her to stop.  She's gotten better lately though, fortunately.)

Me, the trend I would like to see "over" in 2009 is the trend for me not to have any sex life at all.  But I suspect I'm not alone there...



thetammyjo -> RE: Prediction: Trendy Sex is over in 2009 (1/9/2009 8:33:48 AM)


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ORIGINAL: marsneedswomen

I agree that the pron industry is going bust and the sex novel as a literary form is about as dead as one can get, but sex is always going to be discussed and bragged about. The only difference is that the shock factor is definitely disappearing when it comes to what those over 18 are doing. 


Actually in periods of social and legal repression, literature tends to thrive on forbidden topics but often in out of the way places or more secretly.

The "sex" or porn novel may be decaying but have you read mainstream fiction lately?

The amount of sex and the amount of descriptions of sex is increasing suggesting it is becoming more acceptable to face the fact that human beings have sex. In fact, the amount of sex in books for teens has gone way up a student project showed me a few years ago. When I get books to review from that age group I'm almost shocked at the amount of sex and sexuality that is discussed. That did not happen in the so-called free spirited 70s when I was a child.



MrRodgers -> RE: Prediction: Trendy Sex is over in 2009 (1/14/2009 3:54:49 AM)

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ORIGINAL: thetammyjo


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ORIGINAL: marsneedswomen

I agree that the pron industry is going bust and the sex novel as a literary form is about as dead as one can get, but sex is always going to be discussed and bragged about. The only difference is that the shock factor is definitely disappearing when it comes to what those over 18 are doing. 


Actually in periods of social and legal repression, literature tends to thrive on forbidden topics but often in out of the way places or more secretly.

The "sex" or porn novel may be decaying but have you read mainstream fiction lately?

The amount of sex and the amount of descriptions of sex is increasing suggesting it is becoming more acceptable to face the fact that human beings have sex. In fact, the amount of sex in books for teens has gone way up a student project showed me a few years ago. When I get books to review from that age group I'm almost shocked at the amount of sex and sexuality that is discussed. That did not happen in the so-called free spirited 70s when I was a child.

I agree in general but let's be sure here sex as well as other pleasurable occupations...always creates trends. What is a trend ? It is a noticable peak in interest and activity as reflected in all ways.

Porn yes, being parody it fixes its need on a niche...otherwise you are just in a very large madding crowd. (often that niche now is BDSM & kink)

As for the young who doesn't believe that the early appeal of say a Brittany Spears among others...isn't first sexual ?

So that all of this has come to an MSNBC blog is only in indicator of the freedom of the written word from the digitari...the last frontier...the computer screen and finally has found sex and sexual deviation actually exists.



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