My Fair Lady, the Ultimate Power Exchange Dynamics
Since the release of the “Fifty Shades of Grey” the Internet got filled with articles elaborating on earlier non-Vanilla, BDSM inspired films. The basic template is to quote “The Secretary” (2002) but some manage to go as far as 9 1/2 weeks (1986.)
Bunch of amateurs, he he he. The one profoundly compelling Power Exchange movie dates back to 1964, and is sugar coated under the name of “My Fair Lady” with Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison.
The Stanford Theater in Palo Alto was full yesterday, not with the vibrant kink community of San Fancisco though. Mere mortals of all ages showed up; elders brought their youth along. I too attended with a seven and a seventy year old and enjoyed both, the film that I know by heart and the audience expressive reaction to it.
The power of transformation that happens when masculine and feminine in their pure form collide has universal appeal.
For almost a decade I tried to understand why Italians include "pool" in the short list of their street signs. The Darkening Age by Catherine Nixey, about the Christian destruction of the Classic world, provided a clue.
The ubiquity of the road sign “Public Pool” (Piscina Comunale) first caught my attention on a 2010 road trip through Puglia and Basilicata, the southern provinces of Italy. The signs were not pointers to the beach, as the towns where I spotted them were away from the sea. Some of the “piscina” signs around […]
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