This is the one of the smallest issues in this ep but I like the one person imagining historians of the future popping their monocles over sexual content. I'm not a historian but I did a history undergrad degree and it was/is always delightful to stumble upon some random sex stuff from the past and immediately send it to all your friends and colleagues. Plus as we've seen in several episodes of this podcast alone (viz Victorian Bawdy Slam and Barnabas Stop Reading Ahead), humans always been goonin
How did you find the F+? (post #181)
Someone posted a link to "Carne Idiota" on r/vegancirclejerk (yeah, shamefully, I'm one of those), and I was hooked...
For what it’s worth, as illustrated by this content, these are people who hate sex for a bunch of reasons. I don’t think anyone looking at this group is assuming this what most asexual people are like especially when so many posts from asexual people on this sub are just complaints about the broader asexual community not being extreme enough. I think most people encountering this will recognize (probably using much less delicate language) that these thoughts and beliefs are the result of severely disordered thinking.
What’s truly wild is that there are people too extreme for this group too and those people are the combo anti-sex anti-natalist extremos that are essentially anti-life. They occasionally show up and argue with the eugenics creeps and the Malatora adjacent crowd that non-sexual reproduction is also bad. I didn’t include any of that stuff and I won’t make a doc for those spaces because it is just a bummer to read any of that stuff.
What’s truly wild is that there are people too extreme for this group too and those people are the combo anti-sex anti-natalist extremos that are essentially anti-life. They occasionally show up and argue with the eugenics creeps and the Malatora adjacent crowd that non-sexual reproduction is also bad. I didn’t include any of that stuff and I won’t make a doc for those spaces because it is just a bummer to read any of that stuff.
Fake porn titles make me giggle. (post #540)
Girth Marenghi's Dickplace
Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread (post #7798)
Writing 14/50 at the bottom of my shitty paintings so people think they must be worth something.
Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread (post #7798)
Welcome to the jungle, fun and games are temporarily out of stock, subscribe to our newsletter to receive the latest updates
As another vaguely asexual ballpit user; I'm amazed at the mental effort these people expend to not have sex.
Fuck me is this a grim community. I vaguely identify as ace* and I have way less of a hangup about sex than these people do.
It's like sex scenes in movies, right? This is a bugbear of mine cause I work as an intimacy coordinator in the theatre world on occasion and it's a profession that gets regularly mocked. People say that they should be entirely removed from films cause they don't "add anything" - which is both wrong and fundamentally misunderstanding the issue - but simultaneously, it's something that requires nuance when staging and also when talking about their history and portrayal.
Same thing around BDSM. It's great, I have experience of it - but you need to have nuance and care when doing it and discussing it!
Same deal when talking about porn, talking about sexualisation on games or on screen, when talking about erotica - these are all things that need nuance to talk about and this subreddit doesn't have it at aaaaallllll.
A lot of the posters in that subreddit seem to see sex as being something done to someone as opposed to a thing people actively participate in, and often they solely see women as victims rather than active participants.
Idk if y'all saw the Sabrina Carpenter thing, but she has a moment in her touring music show where simulates a sex position on stage, and in Paris she simulated doing an Eiffel Tower with two male dancers. There was so much discourse around it because a lot of people seemed to think that a woman couldn't consent to an Eiffel Tower and like... yes she can. And she could!
Sorry, long reply. Lots of thoughts!
*Disclaimer of yes my hormones are fine (experiencing physical desire is not the issue, it's just very rarely for me), yes I have sexual experience, yes I'm a grown-ass adult - cause I think ace people occasionally get a bad rap in these forums
It's like sex scenes in movies, right? This is a bugbear of mine cause I work as an intimacy coordinator in the theatre world on occasion and it's a profession that gets regularly mocked. People say that they should be entirely removed from films cause they don't "add anything" - which is both wrong and fundamentally misunderstanding the issue - but simultaneously, it's something that requires nuance when staging and also when talking about their history and portrayal.
Same thing around BDSM. It's great, I have experience of it - but you need to have nuance and care when doing it and discussing it!
Same deal when talking about porn, talking about sexualisation on games or on screen, when talking about erotica - these are all things that need nuance to talk about and this subreddit doesn't have it at aaaaallllll.
A lot of the posters in that subreddit seem to see sex as being something done to someone as opposed to a thing people actively participate in, and often they solely see women as victims rather than active participants.
Idk if y'all saw the Sabrina Carpenter thing, but she has a moment in her touring music show where simulates a sex position on stage, and in Paris she simulated doing an Eiffel Tower with two male dancers. There was so much discourse around it because a lot of people seemed to think that a woman couldn't consent to an Eiffel Tower and like... yes she can. And she could!
Sorry, long reply. Lots of thoughts!
*Disclaimer of yes my hormones are fine (experiencing physical desire is not the issue, it's just very rarely for me), yes I have sexual experience, yes I'm a grown-ass adult - cause I think ace people occasionally get a bad rap in these forums
Thanks for reading this one. The think the doc I sent Lemon includes more TrueMinecraftAlex. I think the most common thread of that community is that everyone is severely depressed.The ones who aren't just fascists are some of the saddest people of you dig too deep. Which is why we didn't.
vaMpiresoftWare, April 18, 2025, 07:26:35 pm
Thanks for reading this one. The think the doc I sent Lemon includes more TrueMinecraftAlex. I think the most common thread of that community is that everyone is severely depressed.