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Key

Male chastity is something that interests and, to be honest, often amuses me. For a man to voluntarily deny himself sexual release because a woman tells him to can be an act of deep devotion. On a shallower note, there are few things as funny as watching the frenzy a frustrated man can get himself into when he’s told he can’t do something.

The “Denying Thumper” blog is a fascinating look at this from a chap’s perspective. It’s often a controversial subject, as you will see if you read through the heated discussions that have previously erupted, the most recent being over the complex politics of orgasm control vs orgasm denial. Meanwhile though, I’ll point you in the direction of the entry pasted below, simply because it made me laugh:

“Belle’s lost my key.

I just like saying it. Belle, my keyholder, has lost the key to the inescapable steel trap she locked onto my body. Yes, that key.

No biggie.

If you remember, she locked me up before she went away last week (wisely not trusting me to be alone with the cock). I gave her the key back when I was done. The next time I saw it was a couple of days later when my son (of all people) showed it to me and asked me what it was for.

“Uh,” I said, “Where’d you find that?”

His friend had found it on the floor of my son’s room. Very weird. So I took it back and, redirecting him from his original question like Obi Wan Kenobi, told him I’d give it to his mom. I placed it in my pants pocket. Which pair? No idea. No neither of us know where it is now. Maybe it’ll show up in the laundry.

Not that it’s at all necessary. She appears to be wanting to keep me locked up until at least Valentine’s Day. She hasn’t come out and said that explicitly, but I know how she works. She likes holidays. So that’s still a few weeks away. If not Valentine’s Day, then maybe St. Patrick’s Day. It’ll turn up. I’m not worried. Much.

And if not, there’s always the emergency key.”

Original post here.

Love on Trial

I may or may not make it to this marvellous Mutineers’ mass-debate (I’m still a bit wobbly since being bashed by that bus) but it looks like it’ll be a good one. It’s at the Resistance Gallery (265 Poyser St, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9RF) and several acts have confirmed so far, including musician and comedian Helen Arney and performance poet Alison Brumfitt. Here are the details, via the lovely Lola Sparkle on the event’s Facebook page:

“Following the success of last year’s ‘on Trial’ events, Mutiny presents Love on Trial – an alternative Valentine’s night out of revolutionary politics, art and performance at the avant-garde Resistance Gallery in East London.

Join us for a carnivalesque evening of live entertainment and discussion as we cross-examine the concept of love from the left, starting with speed-debating and progressing through three interactive sessions… exploring a host of themes:

**How does romantic love work as an ideology, and can we escape the singular vision of it that saturates our airwaves? What is the relation between our historically specific conception of romantic heterosexual love and late capitalism? What other kinds of love might be valuable? Do we have enough love for our public services to save them?

**How does the state institutionalise, police and teach its citizens to love? How have schools, the church and the law helped and hindered the shift towards acceptance of a greater diversity of types of love? How did we build resistance in the past and where are the points of prejudice and control we need to confront today?

**What relation do love and other emotions bear to activism? Can daring to love differently be an efficacious political act in itself? Is it possible to separate our private lives from our political acts? What might love look like after the revolution?

With live music, performance poetry, and original live theatre, it’s a political party not to be missed.

Tickets £5 on the door or a very romantic buy-1-get-1-free online in advance at www.jointhemutiny.org.

Read more at the Mutiny Blog.