Helping the less fortunate...

[chrisvenus]

A friend drew my attention to http://www.operationorgasm.co.uk/ and I was horrified by the statistics and lauded what they were doing:

"A recent survey by Sextoys.co.uk revealed that a massive 12.9% of women have never experienced the pleasure of an orgasm, so we are making it our mission to open up the opportunity of orgasm to every woman in the UK!"

Well, sextoys.co.uk are doing there bit and I'm willing to do mine. So anybody in the UK who wishes to should feel free to contacat me and I'll do my bit to help that poor 12.9% and the other 87.1% too if they want. I'll even extend the offer to those outside the UK as long as they help with travel arrangements.

I'm just so considerate, you know.


P.S. This post may not be 100% serious.

Comments

[uberredfraggle.livejournal.com]

So you won't pay for my flight from Oz and make me come? damnit.

[chrisvenus]

'fraid not. And I think if I was going to pay for any flights I'd more likely take a trip to Oz rather than the other way around. :)

[uberredfraggle.livejournal.com]

Well I have the place to myself including jacuzzi. HEhehe

[chrisvenus]

Tempting but I've just realised my passport has expired so I can't right now. Sorry. :)

[scat0324.livejournal.com]

What proportion of that 12.9% are really really offensively smelly/ugly/whatever?

[chrisvenus]

Hence the Not 100% serious note. For the hot ones I am 110% serious. :)

[floralaetifica.livejournal.com]

You know, you're not the first guy to make that offer. Interesting that so many men have a high enough opinion of themselves that they think they can help such women :)

[chrisvenus]

Tell you what, when are you free over the weekend and we can have the discussion in person, its much easier that way. :)

And in less lascivious style, if you ever do feel up for a visit then I'd been more than happy to come bring a DVD, popcorn, whatever. I haven't seen you since KCon2! :)

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Interesting that so many men have a high enough opinion of themselves that they think they can help such women

Equally interesting that they have such an optimistic outlook concerning people whose only known attribute is "female" that they imagine they'd want to!

My immediate mental image associated with the 12.9% was something approximately resembling Anne Widdecombe with a moustache.

[chrisvenus]

see my above response to scat0324. :)

[floralaetifica.livejournal.com]

Wow. You know that's not a great reflection on *your* ideas about women, either...

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Did you miss the winky? Or am I being offensive in some way I don't entirely understand?

[floralaetifica.livejournal.com]

Ah, I did miss the winky! I never look at the blue bit. I take it all back.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

I don't like LJ's plug and play styles for exactly this reason. It's one thing to have CSS-like separation between markup and implementation, but it causes big problems when some implementations might be randomly rubbish.

Another annoying example of this is leathellin's LJ. Her style has hyperlinks invisible until you mouse over them. Which means if you follow normal good practice and make your hyperlinked terms descriptive, people miss the links entirely. (eg. "Everyone loves a brave knight!")

[floralaetifica.livejournal.com]

Hm, her links *are* actualy a different colour from her text - but I agree, the contrast is practically zero. Naughty leathellin.

[leathellin.livejournal.com]

Shocking - dissing people's styles while they're on holiday :-)
Actually my links are quite a noticeably different colour when they aren't visited links (so I can quickly see if I have seen that one recently or not). Either that or I just have better colour vision than the rest of you :-p

[floralaetifica.livejournal.com]

The latter, I think, as I've never visited any of your links! To me your links look to be only a tiny bit lighter than your text. Perhaps you have a very high contrast monitor?

[floralaetifica.livejournal.com]

Yep, I think it's the monitor - having just looked on my home monitor, which is highly coloured, the links are clearer than on my work monitor, which has a good colour profile.

This is the kind of thing that makes life so much fun for web designers: no design looks the same on any two screens.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

I get round this with a GreaseMonkey script that forces "&style=mine" to any journal page I visit. My own style is far from beautiful, but it's pretty clear.

[dave [earth.li] (from livejournal.com)]

> Interesting that so many men have a high enough opinion of themselves that they think > they can help such women

Even if they don't manage to help I suspect it'll be fun trying.

[floralaetifica.livejournal.com]

Even if they don't manage to help I suspect it'll be fun trying.

For them.

[chrisvenus]

I think you're going back to taking it a bit too seriously again. Why don't we assume in nature of this lighthearted joke that both parties may enjoy the trying. I'm not sure I can conceive of somebody who is willing to try but really wouldn't enjoy it one single bit anyway...

Bah, now you've got me thinking about it seriously. :)

[floralaetifica.livejournal.com]

I can. It's easy to think that someone else has the answers to your problems.

But ok, I'll drop it, I know you meant it as a joke. I'm just not very comfortable with jokes about this kind of thing. For the people who have these problems it's not remotely funny. And for a guy to say (yes, I know, joke) that he can help is a little like saying that lesbians just haven't met the right man. Or, a more direct comparison, if a woman joked that she'd be happy to help 'cure' a bloke with impotence - presumably most guys don't find impotence especially funny? It just trivialises the very real problems that those people are having.

Oh, look, I utterly failed to drop it. Dropping it now.

[floralaetifica.livejournal.com]

In an interesting crossover with the debate currently raging in secretrebel's lj, although I don't find the joke in question remotely funny, I *do* find the *idea* of it appealing, when utterly divorced from reality. See, sex, not remotely rational.

[chrisvenus]

I had a quick scan through that discussion (your bits in particular) and I see exactly what you mean. I'm not going to get deeply into the sex discussion on a public forum since I know that my head has some very very twisted thoughts that I am not going to put out on a public post but yes, sex is not rational.

*hugs*

[chrisvenus]

I think the bit that was meant to be dropped was really the in between bit of it not being serious or jokey. I am actually more than happy to talk about it seriously if you want and you've just given me something to latch onto.

I think its one of those things that varies. The original post was as much about taking the piss out of the vibrators (I assume you have as much problem with that as with my own post) though I should add that is not saying that I didn't make the joke too.

And impotence can take many forms. Personally I don't find impotence to be funny but I can still find jokes about it funny I think. I guess I don't have severe impotence though so I'm not really in a position to speak for that demographic though.

For my part I don't think this is really trivialising things in a problematic way. Sure, its making light of a problem but I don't think it will do any harm to that 12% of women and since statistically a fair few people reading this must be in that situation I am not sure that this post will stop them trying, dealing with it or whatever else they were doing beforehand.

And lastly I should add that no intent to offend was intended and sorry if it made you feel uncomfortable. Feel free to leave my typically male ideas well alone. :)

[floralaetifica.livejournal.com]

You seem to be clear on the difference, but I've met men who genuinely believed they *could* solve any such problems a woman had. They're creepy.

I guess I tend to feel that joking about such things perpetuates such ideas. There are a lot of sexist ( /racist / insert prejudice of choice) jokes made under the defense that its 'just' a joke, but sometimes that's the most insidious form of such ideas.