The whore - A Sacred Slut

The whore.
The symbol of pure sin itself.
A symbol for the promiscuous woman, the plague ridden harlot, the witch, the untamed, the rebellious, the sexually aggressive, the hungry and the needy. Throughout history the whore has it's place.
The profession reached its peak and downfalls side by side with world economy, war, plague, industrial revolution, cultural change, art, religion and so on. Prostitution is not the oldest profession we know of, but it has a very old history. There is no way I can write about every important event in history when it comes to prostitution, but I will try to mention the events I feel had a important impact. I wanted to take my time on this entry, to do the women and men in this profession proper justice. I hope I succeed.

The harlot was mentioned for the first time in the 4000 year old story from Mesopotamia: Gilgamesh.
The epic tale tells us about the prince Gilgamesh, and his very potent sexual appetite. No virgin, boy or girl, is safe in his presence. His subjects saw this as a result of boredom leading to rape. Subsequently the gods created Enkidu, to be his equal and companion. But before the two met, Enkidu had a 7 day long encounter with a harlot from Ishtar's Temple (Ishtar is the protector of all harlots, goddess of love, war and sex).
Over these 7 days she taught him to bathe, to break bread, she taught him motherly affection, orgasmic sex and more. He was given a course in civilisation, resting on authority from the highest level in the temple of love. At the end of these 7 days, Enkidu was a changed man:

"The woman reveals her breasts. She separates her legs and gives him her flesh. She shows her arts and awakes his manhood. Enkidu plows in the fields of love. For 6 days he is captivated by Ishtar's woman. The 7th day he is full with this human game. And he wants to go to the wild animals...But the knowledge weighs him down, his foot is paralyzed.
He sinks down at the feet of the harlot.
And his new mind, receives her words." [My translation, from Norwegian.]
(This should make most of you men out there sigh and nod, I would expect)

Gilgamesh and Enkidu meet, and after a long battle they realize they are equals. Both in strength and in bravery. Gilgamesh was tamed through his new friendship, and Enkidu through his lessons with the harlot. The two continued to do great deeds together, with less than subtle undertones of homosexual relations. The epos teaches us the importance of sexuality combined with respect. And most important of all, it teaches us that these two great warriors had their life changed and their perception of society altered, due to the wisdom of the Ishtar temple harlot - The whore.

Implicitly we can see that prostitution developed in and around Ishtar's temples in Mesopotamia.
The temples had it's function as residence for gods and goddesses, also creating a form of collective identity.
The priests and priestesses engaged in complex business activities, lending out money and accepting gifts and in return giving the people their protection. The priestesses participated in holy weddings (hieros gamos), and man was represented in the ritual by a king. The idea was to secure earth's fertility by collaboration between the earthly regent and the world of the goddess. Basically this was a sexual fertility rite, common round harvest time. As mentioned in an earlier blog entry, the woman's fertility is closely linked with harvest throughout history. Simply put, if the various kings didn't bone the temple harlots, the people lost faith in earth's fertility. The Ishtar temples are actually the first we see of organized prostitution, and even modern nunneries are vaguely based on this system. Proper role models if you ask me.

A commonly encountered question is "why would any woman want to be a prostitute"?
In Mesopotamia, women had few rights, they had no property, or legal protection.
Most families could not afford the dowry, and did not want their daughters to end up as slaves. (Inscriptions tells us that girls from aristocratic families also spent some time in the temples.)
Sending their most beautifully daughters to the temples, meant she would learn dancing, she would learn proper etiquette and knowledge about sexuality. Time spent in the temple functioned as a time of transcendence for the young girl into womanhood. The aristocrats and kings paid an offering to the gods, in order to have divine sexual relations with the girls. But not only for sex, mind you. Religious inscriptions tells us about medical healing and magical uprising, making the girls both nurses and sex therapists. Just like many prostitutes are to this very day. The magical ointment used by the temple harlots, was a well kept secret only known to them (more about this here). As the girls grew older, they made more money, gained more knowledge and became desired wives for aristocratic men. The harlots of Ishtar's temples were actually highly respected.

In most parts of the world, archaeologist have found female figurines, categorized as the neolithic primal Venus. With large breasts, wide hips and butts, these are for the most part found closely located to sacred and holy places. The woman has through out time been worshipped for her fertility, therefore she is seen with such voluptuous curves. We see her as the Sumerian Innana, in the Greek Aphrodite and roman Venus, or Astarte, the hindu Devi and Druga, as well as various Celtic, Germanic and Norse representations, such as Nerthus and Frøya.
Common to these, are their relations with a son, lover or relative. He usually dies, and rises along with the duality in rain and drought, sowing and harvesting the corn. We see him as Frey, Osiris, Priapus, Eros, Adonis, Attis, Ba'al, Tammus or Shiva. We can see the woman as the stable, strong and fertile mother earth herself, and the male as the growing, ejaculation/sprouting, and then the fall. Like the cycle of the year and grain itself.

So.
If this was the early image of the prostitute woman, how did it change?

In the old testament the whore is more or less the sum of all the negative qualities a woman can have. And what actually happened in the Garden of Eden? We all know the story about Eve literally getting both herself and Adam thrown out from paradise. Eve manipulated by the phallic snake, tempting the innocent Adam to eat the forbidden fruit from the three of the knowledge of good and evil, or so orthodoxy tells us. According to the Gnostics, Adam was the embodiment of psyche, or soul, while Eve stood for the pneuma, or spirit. (Eve translates as "Breath" - Pneuma - Breath, while Adam is related to Atman, breath or soul). In gnostic mysticism Eve is actually the liberator, the one who awakens Adam and herself up to knowledge, the snake being the real God, in fact, freeing human kind from ignorance. Thus the serpent earns his name Lucofer - the bringer of light. (From the latin lux, meaning light.) Little is known about the mysterious Eve, some trace her back to a Sumerian legend of Ninhursag containing interesting links to the Garden of Eden and the myth concerning the rib.

Centuries later Orphic mysticism dealt with the evil nature of woman, and we can read about her evil doings in letters from both Paulus and Johannes. Both judaism and protestant christianity have been kinder to Eve than these early christians. In the medieval jewish book The Alphabet of Ben-Sira, she is actually Adam's second wife, his first wife was the demanding and rebellious Lilith, a fallen female angel. Lilith refused to submit to Adam, and she refused to be on her back in the missionary position, laughing in his face when he tries to force her, and left him on the spot. Adam grew lonely and God gave him Eve, the submissive and obedient wife.

Lilith went on to become mother of all demons and other creatures of the night (excluding goths - LOL) both incubi (male) and succubi (female). Known as the sex demons, raping helpless men and women in their innocent sleep. Lilith is in modern time now known as a feminist icon, lending her name to numerous feminist organisations all over the world. Jewish protestant beliefs, preach the downfall of humanity resulting from the army of the demonic seductresses in hell. Lead on by Satan himself. When women become whores, and when men are tempted, it is all due to these demons of evil, and not because of Eve and woman's nature, as the papal church has traditionally held. According to them, Eve, the woman, is the main reason for all things bad.

By now the woman has transcended from The Mother Goddess, to be seen as The Mother of Sin.
One can maybe say that the woman was doomed due to Eve's actions in the Garden of Eden. She is no longer the all knowing, all seeing, fertile mother figure with immense sexual powers. She is the originator of sin, and the destroyer of man. In christian religion that is.
Let's move on to some of the types prostitutes history has shown us.

In Greek history around 400 BC, there were 3 different types of prostitutes, and these types we still see in modern society. The working girls of today are not at all that different.
Deiktrides were women on display much like we see in the contemporary sex industry, we see them in windows with red lighting, popular in the Philippines, Netherlands and Germany. These Greek girls were lower class, often sick, mocked and laughed at by the public. Almost all were slaves.
The alutrides were dancers and singers, much like the strippers of today. These girls had knowledge and skills. They were hired for parties and much praised by the public, free to do what they wanted and they made quite alot of money.
Then we have the Hetaera. They were the classical type of sex worker, publicly offering sex for money, but also hosting expensive parties, engaging in philosophical conversations with clients. We can compare these girls to the high class prostitutes today. These women were more free than the classical wife at the time, The Hetaera could go anywhere, while the married women had to obey her husband and was rarely seen in public. The Hetaera would also host parties ending in sex orgies, taking place in their own luxurious homes.

In Scandinavia, female slaves (thralls) kept the men content, so there are no known signs of prostitution until 1200-1300. We know all slaves throughout history have been sexually abused by their masters/owners. In Bergen, Norway, prostitution started to flourish druing the hanseatic trade period. In England and northern Italy app 1200 the authorities instigate public supervision of the prostitutes by various efforts, all depending on who was in charge. Public baths were built, and it was common knowledge what was going down inside. Public baths are still a common location for gay subculture. These baths were found in Norway, Germany, Denmark and England and so on. In brothels and baths, there was usually a woman in charge. Prostitution was mainly a woman dominated business. And in Paris they were organised as well, fighting for causes they believed in. (I will write more about the politically organized sex workers further down the blog.) The prostitutes had to be clean, and by that I mean clean inside out. They were not not allowed to engage in anal or oral sex, because the missionary position was the only approved position, both by the brothel mother and the church. The more acrobatic sexual practices didn't appear until the 1500-1600 in Paris, with the most expensive girls. It was also illegal to visit the brothels during fast or holy days, and this was a constant debate between the brothel owners and the authorities. So having sex with a prostitute was not illegal, it was common for both priests, young men, aristocrats, and married men. But fucking a whore Christmas eve? Unheard of!

Many of the prostitutes had live in partners or were married, so nothing has changed there. Some countries had laws against marrying a prostitute, and in Florance in 1403 a law made it illegal for all men over 30 to have sex with prostitutes, hoping this would make them want to get married. Since most men got their rocks off by a working girl, few saw the need for marriage. By 1400, the prostitutes had to stay in specific streets, and live in specific houses, and the stigma began to grow. Although there were annual celebrations such as Mary Magdalen day, where the prostitutes participated, it became more and more important for the government to separate the sex workers from the decent women, both in dress and head gear. The clothes varied in color and shape, such as black or red capes, or bells in their hats, depending on where in the world they were located. There were also color codes so the public would know the woman with a red ribbon was "one of those". Another important change was that when times were bad, the prostitutes were to blame for say a bad harvest, or say an increased death rate. A huge difference from what we saw as customs in Mesopotamia, where the whore was the main source for a fertile harvest.
The prostitute went from being popular entertainers, to being the hated, public scapegoat.

An important woman in history, is Mary Magdalen.
As the middle ages were replaced by the renaissance, Mary Magdalen became more and more sensual, in the Gothic period she wore her hair covered up, whereas she was now seen in art with free, flowing red hair and revealed breasts. Mary, as history's most famous prostitute, was portrayed by the most luxurious of courtesans. She was portrayed as the repenting and remorseful, retired prostitute, and the church loved the repenting whore. But there is no evidence that Mary was in fact a prostitute, and the difference between a prostitute and a promiscuous woman became very vague, and this distorted the government's attempts at keeping records of the amount of sex workers at the time, making the numbers seem higher. Some theologians held that any woman who slightly blushed by just thinking about "sex", was a harlot at heart. We can now clearly see the stigma of the whore, and the suppression of female sexuality coming to life. A woman having several sex partners, was simply labeled a whore.

1500 years of theology, art and writings, had changed the pictures of the new testament second most important woman from love goddess, to ex prostitute, to a repenting, celibate young girl: The ideal woman of the time: a married and submissive wife, obedient, and with no sexual urges.

And then came syphilis.
This disease would turn the sex industry up side down. Syphilis is a venereal decease - sexually transmitted. The word venereal actually has it's root in the name "Venus", the roman love goddess. In keeping with the ongoing reform of female sexuality and prostitution, the choice of word seems fitting.
And the general public was agreed on the source of this horrible disease: they all blamed the prostitute. Any woman infected, was chased out of the city in the 16th century, brothels got closed down, and hospitals refused to attend to the infected. These were horrible times for the working girls. Outcasts, sick and mocked by everyone.

A fantastic piece of art by Sandro Botticelli, "mystic cruxifiction", shows us the syphilitic Florence in the background, with the crying Mary Magdalen in front, embracing Jesus. With her in the foreground, Mary became the very symbol of guilt. The harlot, not Jesus, must carry humanity's sin on her shoulders. Just like Eve.

The prostitute is no longer known as the skilled, intellectual teacher. She is now the scum of the earth, causing sickness, and as the very core center for all depravity mankind engage in. And these events sets stage for what we see next.

Feminism.
Josephine Baker, Emma Goldman, Margaret Mead, Karen Horney and Simone De Beauvoir and Margot St. James all based their philosophies on freeing the woman from her biological role. They were pro sex, and the liberation it self was found in the power of choice. According to these feminists, the woman should be sexually active, they wanted the women to re-discover their desire. On their own terms, and with whomever they wanted. Birth control, such as being on the pill or inserting a diaphragm, was in it self an act of liberation. Being in control of the body, and choosing sex partner, was a liberation from the conservative religious views. These feminists knew their history, and the fight was against the conservative church, not men per say. They also propogated masturbation as a form of self discovery and liberation.
Some of these pro sex feminists, like Elise Ottesen-Jensen (aka Ottar), have more in common with Jenna Jameson than the man hating, sex loathing radical feminists who use her name today. (Thanks to Gird for that comparison.)
And these ladies affected the sex industry.

Up until now, young unmarried men, sailors, students, immigrants and solders had their sexual encounters with prostitutes. But as women became liberated, these men could get their satisfaction and sex without commitment, from more and more girls. The sex workers lost their function as sex educators. Syphilis also changed environment, now infecting the common man and woman due to the liberated newly discovered sexuality. Prostitution decreased side by side with the feminists who playfully called themselves "whores". This led to an interesting shift in the sex industry. The prostitution market advanced because of the need for kinky and advanced sex that the "descent" girls never even knew was possible, and if they did know, they certainly would not try any of it. Yet another very important factor is that as time went by, men started to find the courting, wining and dining, expensive and tedious. Some women started to button up their pants and wanted to wait longer before parting their legs. With sex, came a demand for commitment and respect. Some men felt insecure now that women were so liberated, free and demanding, some men lost their self esteem. This again led to men yet again turning to the experienced and elder whores for problem free, commitment free sex, and the sex therapist once again rose from the ashes, comforting men, making them feel powerful and masculine.

An important event took place in France, Lyon in 1975. The police, then as now, made life miserable for the sex workers, fining them on the spot, and throwing those with no cash in jail. June 3, 150 prostitutes sought church sanctuary. The result was 40 police officers breaking down the church doors, dragging the girls out by their hair. Other churches had similar experiences. This led the sex workers to get organized. In the 70's and 80's strong unions were founded in USA, Great Brittain, Thailand, Brazil, the Philippines, France, Australia and Norway. With names such as Coyote, Pony, Puma, Hydra, Passion, Ocelot. In Norway, Pion was founded in 1990. And they all had the same demands: De-criminalization of the profession, legal protection, freedom of speech, the right to keep their children and more. The International Committee for Prostitutes’ Rights was founded in the mid 70's.

In the 1970's some women felt they'd had "enough sexual liberty", and started to look down on promiscuous women. Lesbian feminists were taking over the women's movement, and feminists such as Kate Millet and Gloria Steinhem were important. And the stigma against the prostitutes now came from the feminist themselves. The prostitute was a fallen woman, weak, or animalistic, and not fully aware of her actions. This was in line with contemporary marxist theories. The women's movements shifted gear into a battle concerning who was with them or against them. Abortion became an important cause for the feminists, the right to decide over their own bodies. But not when it came to selling sex. Abortion was "good", prostitution was "bad".
To paraphrase the feminist Sheila Jefferey: prostitution is guerrilla training, and a rehabilitation center for sexual terrorists" This period in feminist history can be labeled as authoritarian, if not totalitarian.

Kathleen Barry (author of Female Sexual Slavery) invited Margo St. James (ex-prostitute, pro sex feminist and founder of COYOTE ), to participate at a congress consering prostitution. But as soon as Margo and her organised sex workers came with their politics, the fight was on. The right to decide for themselves was the main source of disagreement. During the congress, the prostitutes were not alowed to present their arguments, only to answer questions, and they had to leave the podium immediately thereafter. It was a horrible treatment of intelligent and strong women. Still Kathleen Barry was crowned "wonder woman" in 1983 for her feminist agenda. Go figure. Margo St. James on her side claimed: "A blow job is better than no job!" She was infuriated with the feminists and how they wanted to force sex workers out of their profession, based on the feminist's own feelings about this line of work. In 1987 prostitution was labeled a world wide problem and a threat against mankind, by the international abolitionist federation, founded by Josephine Butler. Prostitutes were denied access to this meeting, but several managed to sneak in, and one forced her way to the microphone shouting her anger and resentment, and another one said "you are treating us like dogs!". The prostitutes were enraged, and it was now very clear that the feminists was not siding with the prostitutes in any way, shape or form.
Then we had feminists like Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon. Feminists like these had gotten the idea into their heads that penetration itself is suppressing women. The only non-suppressing sex was between women. These feminists saw men as animals, rapists, and as violent suppressors. Read up on your own, I can't be bothered to waste time on them.

What is the situation for the sex workers today?
Prostitutes are still harassed by the police, some are forced to give the cops all their money, or free sex, many are raped, many have their condoms slashed by the cops and so on. The prostitutes in Norway have a hard time in the judicial system, as she/he is seen as a low priority. The girls working indoors often have a security system with body guards and girls working the phone, thus making sure the customer gives his full name, address and phone number. These girls, usually live 2-3 in the same flat, the rent is being payed by the pimp. The girls commonly have from 3-12 customers in one day. These girls are mostly drug free, and they usually never go over their own limits as to what they are willing to do. Some work alone, choosing the clients she wants, having several regular men and as a result creating some security.These girls are often more specialised, offering a wide range of fetish and bondage, and they make large amounts of money. The girls working the street have little security, make a lot less, and have to settle for a huge number of various customers. Some of these girls are being beaten, raped and have a drug habit. Life is very hard, and the new law on criminalizing the sex customers, is making their job so much harder.
In 1982, the English Collective of Prostitutes used a church to stage a 12 day protest against police brutality and racism. They are still very active so stop by their site.

Last year the Norwegian government decided to criminalize the sex customers, claiming that this would help the sex workers. The authorities have this distorted image that if they remove the customer, the woman won't have to sell her body. They have this twisted view that every human engaging is selling sex, is weak, abused, forced, on drugs and living a live in hell. Yes. Some women fit this category, alongside a huge number of other women in different professions all over the world. Abused women, abused individuals of both genders are found in every kind of home, in every job, in every social class. But because some of these girls are in the sex industry, the profession is seen as the greatest of evils.

The whore, the mother goddess, the teacher, the skilled, the wise, the brave, the strong.
The whores will always live side by side us, doing one of the hardest job known to mankind, Please respect them.
I want to end this with a quote by Annie Sprinkle. I had the pleasure of interviewing her back stage a few years back.
"Some women are born sex goddesses, Some are born farmers. We are all different"

Sleepwalking into a Surveillance Society

Telecommunication data retention. In a proposed EU-side law, european internet service providers are requested to retain not only email, but any metadata of communication originating from their network . This issue is currently under debate in many europan countries, and several have voiced reservations, labeling the proposed law as unconstitutional. The politicians who are in favor of the law can't seem to dig up important arguments as to why we as civilians should welcome, or even accept such a restriction of our freedom.

The reason for this is, of course, simply because there are no good arguments. There is now way this law can be utilized as an effective tool for safety in our so called democratic society. Storing data from everyone, is labeling everyone as a potential criminal. A potential pedophile, a terrorist, a member of an organized crime network.
However, the claim is that the data will be available only if you commit a serious crime in the future. Then, and only then, will the police get access to your data trails. Well, atleast that's what they say now. Big Brother is watching you, and people are being watched in their sleep. What scares the shit out of me, is the amount of people who just don't care, claiming there is nothing to be afraid of - unless you are engaged in something dodgy. I want to reprase that to: "As long as you do as you're told."

Today John Ståle Stamnes from Kripos (the investive branch of the norwegian police) wrote about this in the biggest news paper in Norway. And by doing so, he reveals Kripos' lack of understanding of the internet, and also their unvillingness to attack internet crime from a different angle. The pedophile is a returning villain in his line of argumentation. I suppose this is in order to hopefully trigger the well known knee jerk response most people get from the word by itself. But the pedophile who downloads the child porn, is not the same person who raped the child in the first place. That child is allready a victim, and will remain so no matter how many people get arrested for wanking off to some underage filth. The child is primarily being hurt in the real world, not in cyberspace. The crime it being commited in homes, by dads and moms, by other family members and friends, by strangers, by pimps and by the mafia. These are the people that should be taken down. Take the producers, not the consumers.

The police don't need suveillance of you and me in order to do their job. By accepting this transgression against your privacy, you lower the bar for future abuse of power. you are in fact opening a door that cannot be closed. You are being watched while walking down the street, you are being watched while in the store, while in the bank, on the buss, in the train, on the plane. Everywhere. You don't need to be watched while you're on your computer as well.

Crime will not be prevented by watching you and me. Claiming so, is nothing more than an insult to these children. The people engaging in these crimes, are way ahead of the police, way more technically advanced using proxy servers, fake IPs and so on. Anyone who's spent alot of time online knows that child pornograpy is not rampant on google. It's a very closed lid business, with very limited access, for very few people. I've seen every sick site out there, I've seen fucked up shit you cant even imagine. BUT I have never once seen child porn. Have you?
Tust me, that "Barely Legal Teen" is a 25 year old porn star with room for a double DP and more. Sporting pig tails and a pink plaid skirt, does not make you a 8 year old virgin.

You and I do not need or want to be afriad of being labeled as perverts, nor do we want to be afraid of using the internet, or our phone, in fear of doing something potentially illegal. You want to be able to wank off to your tentacle hentai porn and not be looking over your shoulder while doing so.
You want your freedom. You want your right to privacy. Remember that.
There is no NEED for this law. And the need can not and will not be created through mass propaganda that taps into constructed fear. In China, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Burma and Belarus we label cencorship and internet surveillance as violating human rights , while here it's for "our own protection".
Not only does this law invade your privacy, it blurs the boundries between public and private spheres.
In the words of Michel Foucault surveillance creates a feeling of always being watched, thus enabling the public to self police. A terrifying dystopic future.

And who watches the watchmen?

" Nineteen Eighty-Four " anyone?

Listen: Your child is safe, your child is not in terrible, immediate danger of falling into the hands of the millions of pedophiles out there on the net. Beacuse there aren't millions of pedophiles on the net, or living next to you. You protect your child. Not the goverment. This is the goverment way of trying to create fear, a false need. Don't let them fool you.

This is not about protection, this is all about control.

We are sleepwalking into a surveillance Society.
And I ask you all to wake the fuck up.

Say no to techno- fascism.

Please stop by these links:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/resume.jsp?id=5275032&eventId=935334&backToCaller=NO&language=en

http://www.edri.org/issues/privacy/dataretention

http://stoppdld.no/

Remote control - sexual circuitry

"Monotones are very useful, and remain a major turn on for me.It also took us a while to get the modes of speech right: "Command. Protocol. Uplink. Established. This. Unit. Awaits.Your. Section". Sounds a hell of a lot sexier than ""yes Master"" .
Quote: Foxdroid.

Robot.
What is the first image that comes to mind? I'm guessing a mix between the old school funny looking,boxy robots we drew when we were kids and saw in the movies, and the high tech modern robots we see evolving in Japan made to cater our every need. But some of you will get all flustered and hot. Some of you came to my blog for the sole sake of reading about your darkest secret: Your robot fetish.

The net is full of forums and web sites dedicated to this. You would be amazed at the staggering amounts of people who are into this specific type of fetish. Male and Female.
But it didn't use to be like that, and we tend to forget that there was a time when there was no internet. But there has been no time in history when mankind didn't engage in deviant desires.
Some of you will picture these people fantasizing about mechanical engineered sex dolls, high tech and life like creations to substitute a human woman. Sure there are people into that (check out RealDoll) But this is not about high tech or substituting human flesh. It's all very low tech, and some are perfectly happy fantasizing about store mannequins or playing with wind up dolls.
For some of these people Toys R Us is referred to as a fetish shop.

Like with any fetish, this one also branches out to a huge field of different preferences. Some live out their fetish alone, some with partners. Some want to be the robot, others want their partner to be the robot. It can be about the detachment from life, from females, from sex itself. Or it can be a form of dominance and submission, ie taking, or giving orders.
I am willing to guess a lot of you would stay most of your time indoors if you had a naked, robotic partner and a remote control. Don't deny it.
To quote RobotMaster: " I have a strong fantasy about having a device that can be placed behind the ear of the back of the neck of an unsuspecting woman, which will in essence turn her into a robot controlled by remote."
He admits to being very insecure and shy around women. He is, however, actually married to a woman who occasionally lets him act out his fetish. But he prefers the interactive online sex sites where he can instruct the woman to behave robotically. How many of you engage in cyber sex? You all log on to a machine to get your rocks off. He enjoys the ridiculous looking fakeness of his outfits, and like most who share this fetish, he does not want to act the scene out with a real robot. That would be too real, too authentic.

Again, as for most people with a fetish, there is a sense of shame and fear of being looked at as a pervert, or a deviant. So little is known about the number of people who are into this specific fetish. But the number of related websites indicates that there's alot of them. Sex researcher and journalist Katherine Gates argues that this is objectification in it's purest form. Explaining this is a adult version of the doll play we engaged in as children, mirroring our fears and desires. I would say this is a valid point. As children we would set stage for every situation, as we were learning new information everyday. You would pick up a new word, or see something on TV - and the next day you would incorporate that in your games/role playing, with friends or by your self. Consider the popular game of playing house. Certainly Barbie dolls has had a huge impact of girls early experimentation with sexuality. Those dolls were asking for it. There is nothing obscene about that, it's healthy and part of learning. Some just never grow out of the games.

I want to explain the domination and submission side of this. Apart from the obvious (exerting control over another human), it's more than instructing a partner to perform sexual acts. It's the jerky movements, the monotonous speech, the winding up and the winding down. It's controlling life itself in a way. It's total control. But without typical bondage gear, no duct tape, no chains. As in more standard forms of BDSM, there has to be a great deal of trust. I mean if you don't know and trust that your partner is willing to act like robot and react to you every command, there can be no relationship. And like I have claimed repeatedly, the trust and communication in a BDSM relationship is an absolute prerequisite. It beats the vanilla relationships hands down. The BDSM relationship DEPENDS on honesty and trust. Everything must be agreed on, eg there is the contract and the safe word, both common, perhaps vital in BDSM relationships. In a vanilla relationships you have mind games and pouting. That's torture, if you ask me. As strange as the robot fetish might be to you, it is actually very safe and sane. As for the person playing out the role of the robot, we see the same needs as with any submissive human. The need to be controlled, told what to do, to reject all responsibility, to give up their body and soul to someone they trust completely. Being the robot is just another branch of the wide range of submission. I see no difference between being hog tied to a wooden torture table screaming "Thank you, Master!!" for every stroke of the whip. Different strokes for different folks.
(I kill my self.)

There is more to the robot fetish though.
As mentioned the jerky movements, the monotonous voice, the remote control, the on/off buttons, the computer like instructions, down to the fetish attire.
Robotic dolls can be seen as both alive and dead, powerful and helpless, human and machine. Take away humanity and you are left with the flesh, the reproductive organs. Robots can be scary on an existential level. They are created by man, but they can reproduce themselves, and they can, in a futuristic and fatalistic vision, take over our planet and end all life. How's that for a turn on? This dualism, fear of losing humanity/desire to become machine, can be seen in the amazing cult film Tetsuo: The Iron Man by Shinya Tsukamoto. While experimenting with shoving metal into his body, the main character wakes up to the nightmarish realization that he is in fact turning into a machine. His flesh is being taken over by metal. The human in him fights but loses. He ends up teaming up with a metal fetishist, bent on turning the world into metal and rust. Another artist well known for his biomechanical erotic nightmares, is the swiss H.R. Giger. He takes the fusion of body and machine to another level.
That's the scary side of this fetish.

But for the most part we see adults dressed up in home made, low tech costumes. Happy and content with cheesy, blinking buttons and homemade devices, or a make believe wind up between the shoulder blades.
Robotdoll, a self claimed technosexual, carries a wind-up key round his neck in a chain, (several other techonophiles are doing the same as a sign of their affiliation to this fetish). He dresses up in a silver spandex body suit, and his wife uses his belly button as an an on/of switch, and his nipples for control knobs. He looks nothing like a robot to me, but to him it's all he needs. He claims it's a form of meditation, an altered state of consciousness. Much of the thrill for him comes from the transcendence of splitting into two contradictionary parts : One aroused body, the other a pure mind. He does not feel like he is trying to escape emotions, rather like being an object of nothing but emotions and passion. A sex OBJECT, if you will, in the most literal sense possible. It's about controlling the passion, not erasing it.

For others it is about self hate, and the desire to actually merge with the machine, to escape the tormenting feelings of being human. As stated by Fraüline Robot: "I want to be gang banged by these ROBOTS as I KranK up their MusiK! I want to do to THEM what their MusiK does to ME...Machines can't LIE,CHEAT or otherwise HURT me the way humans always do. I can trust machines and kritters. I can NOT trust humans" (sic). This lady has a fascination for Kraftwerk. Yes, the band. She loves them for their mechanical performances, and dreams about building look alike robots in their image. She also wants to place her consciousness inside a perfect android body " so I could ditch my fat, ugly human body."
She also has a fetish for the well known Lieutenant Commander Data from Star Trek: The next generation. The actor playing Data (Brent Spinner) actually receives more erotic fan mail than any of the other characters of the show. (The creators of the series has made sure the fans knows Data functions in that way.) There is a massive community for fan fiction,
and the web is filled with comics, and elaborate art portraying various Sci-Fi heros engaging is unspeakable acts. This is indeed a complex subject, and you can find anyone doing anything anywhere. In slash fiction (gay fan fiction), you will find Spock and Captain Kirk exploring a very different form of space... This is something I will have to elaborate on in another entry.

Anyways...
The autistic author Temple Grandin, also strongly identifies with the android Data, in his clumsy attempts at human behaviour. Living with autism, she feels more related to the android than humans. As someone who has worked for years with children suffering from autism, I definitely see her point of view. I think most of us can relate to the feelings of awkwardness.
Foxdroid is a bisexual submissive who fantasies about abduction, deep mental reprogramming and rewriting of the thought process. For someone, like Foxdroid, who is raised in a strict christian home, the feelings shame and sin can be understood as a trigger factor in the need for not being responsible for his sexual activity. While there are many different takes on this fetish, like any other fetish, in the end it is all about tools for understanding, control or exploration.

This specific fetish has links to female mask fetish, fursuiting (furries, vore, plushies etc.), immobilization (eg mannequins, sleep-fetish and, I would say, to some extreme extent: necrophilia). Let me know if you want me to do blogs on any of these themes, and I will. You may of course write me anonymously, if you prefer.

To end this blog I will say that if you carry a secret desire inside, a fetish you think as too perverted, too weird, something you can't bear to share out of fear of rejection, log on to the forums, talk to people, get some advice on how to introduce your fetish to your partner. You might be surprised. If explained in a thoughtful way, maybe your partner will think it would be good fun to try it out. I will say it again: I love all you deviant humans out there. As long as you are not hurting anyone (unless they want to be hurt, mind you), you are free to do whatever tickles your fancy.

Have a good one, and do remember to come back to my blog for more on the fascinating sides of human nature.

Shame shame shame...

Obama wins 2009 Nobel Peace Price.
For what?
For his "inspiration" and "intentions"....

For his war in Afghanistan?
For being pro capital punishment?


This is a political price, and the many people who have used most of their life fighting for human rights, is yet again left in the shadows.
6 millions goes to someone who has the eyes of the world upon him, how has everything.
Obama has attention and motivation coming out of his ass.

To you people fighting day in and day out for human rights, the little man fighting the regimes...
I am so sorry...

What's the color of money?
It's red.

Never forget.

Sexual necromancy - illuminating the black arts

"I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised." -inscription on the tomb of the goddess Isis.

For this entry I will take you deep inside a world of ancient magic and reveal to you one of the darkest of taboos known to mankind.
Fall is upon us, what could be a more fitting subject than the mysterious and dangerous rituals surrounding the dead?

Life and death.
Most of us see those two words as a natural combination.
Others have a more literary take on it.
Going back to ancient Peruvian culture, Homer’s Odyssey, the renaissance demonic summonings. Everything deals with the following four:
1. Life
2. Death.
3. Sex.
4. Power

What would you wish for if you had the ability to control the above 4? All of us have a secret wish, It might be the wish of bringing back a loved one, it might be the secret lust for a beautiful woman that is out of your reach, maybe you want wealth, or power over people that have hurt you. Let yourself drift off into that forbidden fantasy that nobody else knows about, allow your self to fully explore every aspect of it as vividly as you can. Now, come back to reality and feel the frustration of not owning your deepest desire. Feels horrible, doesn't it.
Now, if you had the powers, what would you do? How far would you go?
The question is...would you bring back the dead...would you engage in necromancy?

From the beginning of time we as humans have had these secrets, desires and questions that needs answers. And when no mortal could come to our aid, we have often turned to our dead.
We ask our dead to tell us our future, to reveal secrets, to give us power and knowledge, we ask them to fight for us, to attack enemies or posses others. Several cultures believed that the dead had unlimited knowledge. Some, like the Greek and Romans, believed the knowledge you could access through the dead was limited to that which was within the deceased person's life experience.

In every culture we have funerary rites. We send our dead off to the gods, bringing gifts, amulets and talismans, and sometimes also loved ones (as in the now outlawed Hindu Satī practise, where the wife throws herself on her husband’s funeral pyre.) The Egyptians, and an array of other cultures used their Book of the Dead to help guide their deceased safely in the afterlife. Most cultures believe there is an afterlife, and this being granted, then the dead may hold the key to solving the riddle of eternal life. And if the gods do exist in the after life, wouldn't it seem a waste not to call on the dead and get infinite and eternal knowledge?

Today we call upon so called psychics to help us connect with the dead we can't bear to live without, or to give us the answers we need to find peace in life. But we don't call on our dead to learn knowledge from the gods, we want them to guide us in life. It's a billion dollar industry, talking to the dead during prime time TV, even the police sometimes ask for these psychics for help. Millions of frauds tap into our fear and our sorrow. We want to drag the dead back into our lives asking them to solve what we can't solve ourself. And in doing so, desperately trying to remove some of the paralyzing fear of death. After centuries of evolution, humans still die. And we just can't live with that.

Some cultures takes it even further.
A tale from Egyptian lore is at first glance a romantic and mystical story. Osiris was the king of Egypt and husband to the goddess Isis. Osiris's brother Set was so overcome with jealously due to his brother's power and position, that he lured him into a trap in the shape of a wooden sarcophagus which he threw into the Nile, in order to inherit his power and become king. Isis recovered the sarcophagus and buried him, but Set once again took his body, cut it into 14 pieces and scattered them across all over Egypt. Isis set out to find all the pieces of her husband, but could only recover 13. The missing piece was Osisis penis. Isis knew she had to give birth to a son to stop Set from taking the throne. She molded a phallus out of gold and used powerful magic to bring Osiris back to life, long enough to copulate with him and get pregnant with Horus before Osiris once again died. His souls (in Egyptian religion there are several souls) were in both the land of the dead and the land of the living. Simply put....Isis was having sex with the dead.

It might sound grotesque, but this is actually a metaphor on life, birth and death, or even the harvest it self. Several see similarities with Jesus and The Virgin Mary. (Jesus,the son of a god, gets killed, gets resurrected and brings salvation and eternal life, like Horus did). Some even believe the virgin Mary is actually the goddess Isis, and that Jesus is actually Horus himself. Claiming we are still worshipping Egyptian gods and have been doing so for the last 5000 years. The virgin Mary being the mother of god, and Isis being the goddess of maternity. Some believe the halo on Mary is actually the sun rising behind her, the sun being the creator of all life in Egyptian religion. The same theory goes for Jesus, making him a sun god rather than just the son of god. It's an interesting, but very far stretch, as the similarities tell us more about our needs as humans to create mythology than anything else, not to mention the number of differences and simplifications that prove this theory wrong.

In the Moche civilization in Peru,pottery has been found with images of skeletal figures engaging in coitus with the living. Necrophilia was practiced as a ritual to be able to communicate with the dead, some also engaged in necrophilia in hopes to revive the deceased, much like Isis did. I would go as far as calling these rituals a form of sex magic; the use of sexual energy combined with visualisation. In sex magic, the sexual energy is so potent it can help you transcend to a higher level of spirituality. Some men actually don't ejaculate during sex as they see the male orgasm itself as a waste of energy, whilst the female orgasm is a massive and positive energy that is elevated into cosmos benefiting all of humanity. Aleister Crowley was a great advocate for sexual magick, known for his emphasis on sex as the supreme magical power. He actually used his sperm in his magickal rituals, abstinence was not his cup of tea.
Combining sex magick and necromancy, would make for an intensely potent form of ritual to connect with a deceased loved one. Looking at it from this point of view, it doesn't seem so extreme, does it?

But then we have those that doesn't have a spiritual purpose for their actions. Their practise has one goal, and that is the physical contact with the corpse. They have no desire to reach out to the other side, and converse with the divine gods. I honestly don't think there is a word that can trigger more fear and disgust in us humans than necrophilia. The people with this sexual preference are even more stigmatized than the paedophile.The terms first originated in Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis. (A must have if you don't all ready own a copy) It's a world of total darkness. It's a practise that violates normal limits to an extreme extent. (I am not going to write about homicidal necrophilia/Lust murder as there are a million blogs on that theme, or post pictures of role playing as in all honesty most of the pics look slike something out of a hight school project horror film) If you want a visual approximation, this world is captured in the art film Nekromantik (1987), still banned in numerous countries. In this film there is also a scene very similar to the mytology where Isis forms a phallos for Osiris.

Who are the these people? I have read numerous interviews and cases during the years, and the common factors, are isolation and the fear of rejection. As in one 21 year old woman who had been sexually molested as a child, she describes her self as having "died in spirit", unable to have a sexual relationship with the living she found comfort in the dead. While others attempt to gain self esteem by the expression of power (similar to the expression of power during rape). Contrary to what most of you might think, not all engage in coitus. Holding hands, laying beside the body, washing it and talking to it is very common: The dead can't hurt you. There is a huge community online for the fantasy necrophiliacs and on of the more well known and old web sites, is Vicki's NECROBABES. ( I've tried to get in contact via mail for an interview, but had no luck). She, and her fans, engage in the role playing of playing dead: being manhandled, carried, or put into body bags. She states on her site: I enjoy fantasizing about being killed, this includes handling, and sexual manipulation of my body. It surprises me when guys ask, Why would a woman, like these kinds of fantasies? Why not? Think about it, I'm normally a very independent, controlled person. In my fantasies I am killed. Then I have no more control. My killer can then do what ever he (or she) wants with my body. I don't have to orchestrate, just allow them to indulge themselves. I don't think it's a domination issue, more of a detachment issue." Obviously elements of submission/masochism is involved in her case.

Men and women, young and old, of all ethnicity's and social status, usually with a high IQ, usually heterosexual and more often than not they all share a mental disorder. And according to Franklin S.Klaf, and William Brown who performed a study (Psychiatric Quarterly. XXXII, 1958: Necrophilia) "Inhibited forms of necrophilia and necrophiliac fantasies may occur more commonly then is generally realized." Do you have an ex girl friend or boyfriend who got off to playing dead? Or maybe you do so your self? As long as the fantasy is not put to life, I would say people who day dream about this or act out the role playing with their partner, is engaging in a form of BDSM, as many do. It's no body's business what you do in your own home. For the rest of you who actually act it out, I know it sounds stupid, but do use a condom. And try talking to someone. Not all the living are out to hurt you.

But I would like to say... With what I now have thought you about the powers of sex magick and necromancy, I ask you to be careful.
Maybe your combined supreme sexual energy's will summon someone you really don't want going postal in your bedroom.
I'm just saying.