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Just yesterday I asked a question on the polls about Polygamy and it's viability as a lifestyle and just very much enjoyed reading the responses. I ask this simply because I am interested what we as a society think about lifestyles that "step out of the norm" and what we as a society view as appropriate limitations on our freedoms. I am a libertarian at heart, I believe in true freedom. I am not an anarchist, I do believe that there are definitely very obvious things that need to be protected by the law ( life, property, borders etc) but aside from that I belive in FREEDOM.
I ask myself often if we live in a truly free society or in the illusion of freedom? Are we truly free and is all of this technology making us more free or shackling us more to the "norms" and limitations of a repressive puritanical culture? I ask this in the wake of several media worthy situations where people's Facebook accounts were scrutinized for "immoral" activity in the employment application process. Companies are scrutinizing the activity that people post about and display on their social networking pages, even colleges are doing this. Is what you do in your free time not your own personal buisness? Honestly if a guy or girl gets drunk and naked at a bar is that not their own buisness? What exactly is wrong with that and why would it or should it limit a person's employability or collegiate admission status? People should be judged by their professional and or academic merits only. We do after all have lives, desires and emotions outside of work and school. I like to think that we work to live not live to work. I like to think that we suffer through the banality of 9-5 hell to subsidize out extra curricular activity be they quilting, model trains, painting, or even exhibitionsim and a total party lifestyle. What we do in our free time is OUR BUISNESS not some school's or some company's. The way things have been popping up it seems that in those few free hours away from the job we are still "working" because we are not allowed to be ourselves. Selling our true selves for a meager paycheck? Sorry not my idea of freedom.
A life without scrutiny is a life of true freedom. The goal of our "free" society should be to help each other prosper in our journey of life and not to limit each other with outdated social morality. The Soviets tried that whole "morality" thing and it backfired in 1991 leaving a vacum of insane capitalism and debauchery in it's wake. We love to claim to be a nation of "individualists" but in reality that "individualism" is still dictated and controlled by certain oppresive ideas. Here in California the majority of the state voted against Gay Marriage. How is that right? Why are we as a government allowing people to vote away the rights of other human beings to simply be happy and celebrate their union? This is something voted on in 2008, not 1887.
The general public voting on who we can or cannot love and spend the rest of our lives with? The year that the USA elected the first bi-racial President, the supposedly "liberal" state of California voted away the right of a certain group of society to be happy, celebrate their love, and have the freedom to live life like everyone else. We are a weird nation when it comes to sex and gender. After the Civil War we quickly allowed former slaves to vote, provided of course they were males. People who were previously owned and treated like cattle were allowed the vote but women of any race did not get the vote for 60 more years. Then just 3 years ago we as a state voted away the marriage rights of a whole group of people in society. If it comes to God Guns and Guts we will vote support anything but if it comes to women, sex, or an orientation outside the biblical norm we will squash, mutilate and destroy until everyone shuts up and keeps pretending that everything is cute, white and fuzzy. Denial, not just a river in Egypt but the backbone of our social structure.
So what about polygamy? What does that weird, bespectacled French chick think? In all honesty I support anything that is consensual and does not force anything or anyone into anything they dont want. i think when it comes to things like this the government and the church needs to butt out and allow us to do what we want and who we want to do it with provided all parties are of legal age and in agreement. Personally I find polygamy to be viable and completely fine provided all parties agree and are equal. My husband and I are in a position where we elected to not have kids. I have stated this many times here. We are more oriented to a lifestyle that allows us freedom to travel, explore, see the world and be more mobile. Many times we have talked about the idea of finding another likeminded girl to join us in our adventures and our life. I personally would be completely open to that and see nothing wrong with it. Marriage rights in such a situation would only benefit our hypothetical life by offering security on many levels. Of course I dont believe in the Mormon style of polygamy where the husband is married to the women but they are not bound legally to each other by anything. I feel a triangle sort of arrangement would work for me where I had a romantic and legal bond with the other girl, true equality at work. Definitely not for everyone but definitely something for people that like it but would be VERY afraid to admt it publicly, why? Because we are far from living in a truly free society that would grant us as people the freedom to decide what is morally and romantically best for ourselves.
True freedom would be a society where everyone butts out of everyone elses personal lives and judges each other solely on the basis of applicable merits. We are people and we are not hyphenated statistics or sub nationalities. We should not be judged as "the first lesbian on the moon" or "the first gay general" we should only be judged for out merits and accepted simply as being fellow humans in the adventure and journey of life. Keep your religion and categorization out of our lives, our beds, and our hearts and then everyone will be happy.
XOXOXOXOXOXOXO
Much Love
Mlle Audrey
I ask myself often if we live in a truly free society or in the illusion of freedom? Are we truly free and is all of this technology making us more free or shackling us more to the "norms" and limitations of a repressive puritanical culture? I ask this in the wake of several media worthy situations where people's Facebook accounts were scrutinized for "immoral" activity in the employment application process. Companies are scrutinizing the activity that people post about and display on their social networking pages, even colleges are doing this. Is what you do in your free time not your own personal buisness? Honestly if a guy or girl gets drunk and naked at a bar is that not their own buisness? What exactly is wrong with that and why would it or should it limit a person's employability or collegiate admission status? People should be judged by their professional and or academic merits only. We do after all have lives, desires and emotions outside of work and school. I like to think that we work to live not live to work. I like to think that we suffer through the banality of 9-5 hell to subsidize out extra curricular activity be they quilting, model trains, painting, or even exhibitionsim and a total party lifestyle. What we do in our free time is OUR BUISNESS not some school's or some company's. The way things have been popping up it seems that in those few free hours away from the job we are still "working" because we are not allowed to be ourselves. Selling our true selves for a meager paycheck? Sorry not my idea of freedom.
A life without scrutiny is a life of true freedom. The goal of our "free" society should be to help each other prosper in our journey of life and not to limit each other with outdated social morality. The Soviets tried that whole "morality" thing and it backfired in 1991 leaving a vacum of insane capitalism and debauchery in it's wake. We love to claim to be a nation of "individualists" but in reality that "individualism" is still dictated and controlled by certain oppresive ideas. Here in California the majority of the state voted against Gay Marriage. How is that right? Why are we as a government allowing people to vote away the rights of other human beings to simply be happy and celebrate their union? This is something voted on in 2008, not 1887.
The general public voting on who we can or cannot love and spend the rest of our lives with? The year that the USA elected the first bi-racial President, the supposedly "liberal" state of California voted away the right of a certain group of society to be happy, celebrate their love, and have the freedom to live life like everyone else. We are a weird nation when it comes to sex and gender. After the Civil War we quickly allowed former slaves to vote, provided of course they were males. People who were previously owned and treated like cattle were allowed the vote but women of any race did not get the vote for 60 more years. Then just 3 years ago we as a state voted away the marriage rights of a whole group of people in society. If it comes to God Guns and Guts we will vote support anything but if it comes to women, sex, or an orientation outside the biblical norm we will squash, mutilate and destroy until everyone shuts up and keeps pretending that everything is cute, white and fuzzy. Denial, not just a river in Egypt but the backbone of our social structure.
So what about polygamy? What does that weird, bespectacled French chick think? In all honesty I support anything that is consensual and does not force anything or anyone into anything they dont want. i think when it comes to things like this the government and the church needs to butt out and allow us to do what we want and who we want to do it with provided all parties are of legal age and in agreement. Personally I find polygamy to be viable and completely fine provided all parties agree and are equal. My husband and I are in a position where we elected to not have kids. I have stated this many times here. We are more oriented to a lifestyle that allows us freedom to travel, explore, see the world and be more mobile. Many times we have talked about the idea of finding another likeminded girl to join us in our adventures and our life. I personally would be completely open to that and see nothing wrong with it. Marriage rights in such a situation would only benefit our hypothetical life by offering security on many levels. Of course I dont believe in the Mormon style of polygamy where the husband is married to the women but they are not bound legally to each other by anything. I feel a triangle sort of arrangement would work for me where I had a romantic and legal bond with the other girl, true equality at work. Definitely not for everyone but definitely something for people that like it but would be VERY afraid to admt it publicly, why? Because we are far from living in a truly free society that would grant us as people the freedom to decide what is morally and romantically best for ourselves.
True freedom would be a society where everyone butts out of everyone elses personal lives and judges each other solely on the basis of applicable merits. We are people and we are not hyphenated statistics or sub nationalities. We should not be judged as "the first lesbian on the moon" or "the first gay general" we should only be judged for out merits and accepted simply as being fellow humans in the adventure and journey of life. Keep your religion and categorization out of our lives, our beds, and our hearts and then everyone will be happy.
XOXOXOXOXOXOXO
Much Love
Mlle Audrey
The Hippie Girl Photos
Usually I am known for my tributes to the the Art Deco/Film Noir world but many may have noticed that I do delve into the ideals and values of the Counterculture and I do so with passionate zest. The world of flappers and witchy hippie girls is not that different, both were and are rebelling against stale puritanism and it's repressions. The flappers against Victorian/Edwardian lunacy the Hippies and Beats against the cardboard fakery of the 50s. I am both and so I celebrate both.... For those who enjoy the Hippie Girl photos I promise you there will be more.....
The Strange Girl.....
If you have followed me over the years, you will know that I am unusual, quirky, and often surreal, it's who I am. I cant help myself. As Summer wanes and August fades I think of Fall and of the approach of All Hallow's Eve and the witch in me gets happy. Today is 97 years since the passing of Rudolph Valentino, yesterday I posted a tribute to that effect. I am entranced to this day with the silent film era and the first snippets of celluloid immortality. I admit that for me, The Strange Girl touching his tomb and that history did have undertones of reverence mixed with intense sexuality. I would never be a modern groupie but back then I would have been insatiable. Just a snippet of lyrical nonsense about my thoughts today.... Back to life
Erotic Art is My Ultimate Anti Depressant
I often think that I do what I do simply because it gives me a sense of self in a world and reality that demands a total surrender of self. As much as we like to think that society has progressed the world still demands compliance from us, an adherence to a norm, a suspension of so much self and it demands it so we can do banal things like achieving subsistence. I mean how many of us can openly say "I have pierced nipples and I like to flaunt my tits and ass on the internet simply for a life affirming thrill'? We still have no freedom to do that. Half the population still cant show their nipples even on Facebook..... So when I get lost in the futile banality of the trials and tribulations of daily life I wander towards all things sexual and do my best to create erotic art that reflects my passions and my most intimate fetishes. These photos are equal and opposite reactions to what life throws at me and at us as a couple. It's a thrill to be a digital exhibitionist but at the end of the
The Summer of the Seventies
I have always been fascinated with the erotica of the 1970s especially Playboy and the beautiful women with lovely lighting and confident eye contact shamelessly flaunting beautiful natural bodies with a lovely sense of sexual aloofness. I've believed for years that I loved all this because it was a residual effect of my first exposure to erotica at an impressionable age. Erotica of these conventions was what I saw first coupled with the literary intensity of writers like DH Lawrence. These days I realize that it goes much deeper than that. For me the sexy stuff of the Hippie and Disco era is the stuff of flamboyant, fashion, great music, but it's also the stuff signifying a spectacular ownership and embrace of innocence. It was all sexy simply for the sake of being sexy, there was no political or moral statement there was just the awe of innocent discovery that can come only after the downfall of deep seated puritanical repression. They were called Flower Children for a reason because
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I agree about Polygyny. If you and your husband want to add a third, why not? It's not as if old testament folks didn't practice Polygyny. Abraham certainly did. Henry Miller and his wife June had a threesome with Anais Nin as you must know.
Polyandry is exceedingly rare. I recall a society in Tibet from my studies of kinship and marriage practices while getting my Cultural Anthropology degree back in the 1970's. I imagine the amazingly prudish Communist Chinese have suppressed it. This is an example from India: [link]
Polyandry is exceedingly rare. I recall a society in Tibet from my studies of kinship and marriage practices while getting my Cultural Anthropology degree back in the 1970's. I imagine the amazingly prudish Communist Chinese have suppressed it. This is an example from India: [link]