April 14th, 2010 / 11:48 am
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Why More People Don’t Read, or Why They Might Soon

Crotches covered in what closely resembles a field of white mites? I’m sensing a sudden boom of interest in reading Pynchon.

[via Gawker]

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  1. stephen

      i guess i’m ok with a world in which people get to type “vajazzled,” hehehe…

  2. stephen

      i guess i’m ok with a world in which people get to type “vajazzled,” hehehe…

  3. Matthew Simmons

      Did you change the post because you decided you’d go ahead and stay if a woman dropped her pants and revealed a field of white mites?

  4. Matthew Simmons

      Did you change the post because you decided you’d go ahead and stay if a woman dropped her pants and revealed a field of white mites?

  5. Jimmy Chen
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  7. mimi

      The comment thread to this “story” (on Gawker) is funny.

  8. mimi

      The comment thread to this “story” (on Gawker) is funny.

  9. Blake Butler

      yes

  10. Blake Butler

      yes

  11. Justin Taylor

      What’s fascinating about this video is how poignantly it epitomizes the schizophrenic way this country relates to sexuality, especially its own. Forget for a second the implications of shaving off your pubic hair and replacing it with crystals–that shit deconstructs itself. What interests me is how the woman who’s job it is to put on medical gloves and glue shit to your genitals can’t say the name of that same genital without coming close to freaking out. It extends to Bryce Gruber also. This woman spends most of this video clip with her mons pubis fully exposed–if you encountered that same level of nudity on say fleshbot.com you’d immediately identify it as pornographic. And yet the video clip stops short of showing us the only thing that, in a certain sense, is the key image, which is necessarily the Courbet shot–because presumably in the scenarios described (weddings/valentine’s day/Jennifer Love Hewitt) the vajazzled woman is not performing some kind of burlesque dance (or, importantly, getting vajazzled just for herself, a la certain lines of thought about lingerie) but revealing themselves fully to a physically present partner. It’s so strange to me that it is culturally acceptable to do a feature like this one about genital adornment, but culturally taboo to show more than half of the genital. Doesn’t it seem QED that anyone considering this treatment would want to know what it looked like, not just peeking out of a pair of jeans, but from the perspective of the person with his(/her) head between your legs? Just saying.

  12. Justin Taylor

      What’s fascinating about this video is how poignantly it epitomizes the schizophrenic way this country relates to sexuality, especially its own. Forget for a second the implications of shaving off your pubic hair and replacing it with crystals–that shit deconstructs itself. What interests me is how the woman who’s job it is to put on medical gloves and glue shit to your genitals can’t say the name of that same genital without coming close to freaking out. It extends to Bryce Gruber also. This woman spends most of this video clip with her mons pubis fully exposed–if you encountered that same level of nudity on say fleshbot.com you’d immediately identify it as pornographic. And yet the video clip stops short of showing us the only thing that, in a certain sense, is the key image, which is necessarily the Courbet shot–because presumably in the scenarios described (weddings/valentine’s day/Jennifer Love Hewitt) the vajazzled woman is not performing some kind of burlesque dance (or, importantly, getting vajazzled just for herself, a la certain lines of thought about lingerie) but revealing themselves fully to a physically present partner. It’s so strange to me that it is culturally acceptable to do a feature like this one about genital adornment, but culturally taboo to show more than half of the genital. Doesn’t it seem QED that anyone considering this treatment would want to know what it looked like, not just peeking out of a pair of jeans, but from the perspective of the person with his(/her) head between your legs? Just saying.

  13. mimi
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  15. Nick Antosca

      Seen this video before. Sexy.

  16. Nick Antosca

      Seen this video before. Sexy.

  17. (not) Brent Newland

      hey thanks i just watched this vid at work and got fired hasnt anyone ever herad of a nsfw tag dam!

  18. (not) Brent Newland

      hey thanks i just watched this vid at work and got fired hasnt anyone ever herad of a nsfw tag dam!

  19. (not) Brent Newland

      (for the record my job was crotch jeweler)

  20. (not) Brent Newland

      (for the record my job was crotch jeweler)

  21. Blake Butler

      what do you call it when p diddy gets his dick dazzled?

      sorry

  22. Blake Butler

      what do you call it when p diddy gets his dick dazzled?

      sorry

  23. anon

      Cool blog thing about vajazzling: http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/2010/03/12/sexist-beatdown-vajazzling-and-its-inevitable-male-counterpart-dickerating/

      Excerpts:

      “Not to be all second-wave, but the continuing impulse to make ladyparts look less like themselves and more like gifts you would get from your dingier variety of novelty shop, next to the lava lamps, bespeaks some ill to me.”

      “I just wonder why they still want to put their dicks in it? I mean, take the anal bleaching example—you’re basically making your anus look less like an anus, so that your partner who enjoys placing their penis in your anus can do so without thinking about the fact that it’s actually a real functioning asshole?”

  24. anon

      Cool blog thing about vajazzling: http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/2010/03/12/sexist-beatdown-vajazzling-and-its-inevitable-male-counterpart-dickerating/

      Excerpts:

      “Not to be all second-wave, but the continuing impulse to make ladyparts look less like themselves and more like gifts you would get from your dingier variety of novelty shop, next to the lava lamps, bespeaks some ill to me.”

      “I just wonder why they still want to put their dicks in it? I mean, take the anal bleaching example—you’re basically making your anus look less like an anus, so that your partner who enjoys placing their penis in your anus can do so without thinking about the fact that it’s actually a real functioning asshole?”

  25. Justin Taylor

      “On my way home, I was very aware of the fact that I had just had crystals glued to my vagina. “

  26. Justin Taylor

      “On my way home, I was very aware of the fact that I had just had crystals glued to my vagina. “

  27. Lincoln

      I don’t get why they refer to the mons pubis as “the vagina” (or va-jay-jay or whatever). This is like sticking a jewel on your forehead and calling it a jaw decoration.

  28. Lincoln

      I don’t get why they refer to the mons pubis as “the vagina” (or va-jay-jay or whatever). This is like sticking a jewel on your forehead and calling it a jaw decoration.

  29. (not) Brent Newland

      you shld be sorry blake buttler

  30. (not) Brent Newland

      you shld be sorry blake buttler

  31. (not) Brent Newland

      i think its cause saying mons pubis makes it sound like youve never seen a vagoo but you spend lots of time looking at girl parts in anatomy textboks lincon

  32. (not) Brent Newland

      i think its cause saying mons pubis makes it sound like youve never seen a vagoo but you spend lots of time looking at girl parts in anatomy textboks lincon

  33. MoGa

      Those things seriously stay put during fun-time-sexy-time and don’t, you know, rub a friend raw? I can only think that the most pleasant positioning would be from behind, in which case, who’s seeing it and what’s the point?

      That girl has a weird mouth and turned me off from the whole thing before the story even started, too.

  34. MoGa

      Those things seriously stay put during fun-time-sexy-time and don’t, you know, rub a friend raw? I can only think that the most pleasant positioning would be from behind, in which case, who’s seeing it and what’s the point?

      That girl has a weird mouth and turned me off from the whole thing before the story even started, too.

  35. Pontius J. LaBar

      Finally, a vagina accessory that makes a laser pointer fun in the bedroom.

  36. Pontius J. LaBar

      Finally, a vagina accessory that makes a laser pointer fun in the bedroom.

  37. Lincoln

      whoosh

  38. Lincoln

      whoosh

  39. zusya

      lil’ akimbo

  40. Justin Taylor

      I’m a little frustrated that nobody is complimenting me on having coined the phrase “the Courbet shot.”
      Also, bonus points for Pontius– a laser pointer in this situation would be like ten Christmases in August.

  41. Justin Taylor

      I’m a little frustrated that nobody is complimenting me on having coined the phrase “the Courbet shot.”
      Also, bonus points for Pontius– a laser pointer in this situation would be like ten Christmases in August.

  42. (not) Brent Newland

      um… security?

  43. (not) Brent Newland

      um… security?

  44. mimi

      I’m going to go Google “Courbet shot” right now.

      If I learn something good, you’ll hear from me. If I don’t learn something good, you’ll hear from me.

      I ate a chocolate cupcake at my friend’s house and now I’m wide awake.

  45. mimi

      I’m going to go Google “Courbet shot” right now.

      If I learn something good, you’ll hear from me. If I don’t learn something good, you’ll hear from me.

      I ate a chocolate cupcake at my friend’s house and now I’m wide awake.

  46. mimi

      OK.

  47. mimi

      OK.

  48. Jhon Baker

      my new phrase – Vajazzle this! said forcibly with a middle finger protruding outward and upward

  49. Jhon Baker

      my new phrase – Vajazzle this! said forcibly with a middle finger protruding outward and upward

  50. Jhon Baker

      I watched the clip while listening to Tom Waits’s Way Down in the Hole. not intentionally but should I be watching it again… actually I am worried that I will forever remember vajazzle when I hear this song now.

  51. Jhon Baker

      I watched the clip while listening to Tom Waits’s Way Down in the Hole. not intentionally but should I be watching it again… actually I am worried that I will forever remember vajazzle when I hear this song now.

  52. Justin Taylor

      :)

  53. Justin Taylor

      :)

  54. Jordan

      Hahahahahahahahaha

  55. Jordan

      Hahahahahahahahaha

  56. Sean Lovelace

      Good to meet you in person, Justin.

  57. Sean Lovelace

      Good to meet you in person, Justin.

  58. socrates adams

      i am very glad they only use zwarovski crystals

  59. socrates adams

      i am very glad they only use zwarovski crystals