Things I’ve seen in Albania so far that make me smile -
Armed police dressed in riot gear racing each other along the road in electric scooters
Egg mayonnaise as standard in a club sandwich
A lady knocking on my door and asking if I mind her son practicing his piano then giving the piece of music as standard -
Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18.
Asking at the market if the fruit comes in smaller bags. Him opening the bag & handing me a pear like I’m simple while smiling at me.
Using my Albanian phone so nobody I know can call me.
A popcorn vendor asking where I’m from then asking how the Scottish people will achieve a section 30 order.
That is perfection.♥️💫
Armed police dressed in riot gear racing each other along the road in electric scooters
Egg mayonnaise as standard in a club sandwich
A lady knocking on my door and asking if I mind her son practicing his piano then giving the piece of music as standard -
Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18.
Asking at the market if the fruit comes in smaller bags. Him opening the bag & handing me a pear like I’m simple while smiling at me.
Using my Albanian phone so nobody I know can call me.
A popcorn vendor asking where I’m from then asking how the Scottish people will achieve a section 30 order.
That is perfection.♥️💫
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RT @TuckerClemens: Please, not this shit again. There's no way I'm going to be able to spend vouchers in all the places I need to. Please a…
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NN Williams retweeted
So far the only active petition I can find against the recent changes to the obscene porn laws in the uk is the one below.
I know there are others which are in the review stage. When they are live again, I'll share them
petition: Repeal sexist anti-porn laws in the UK share.google/Mj5hyJSvFjQPYA…
I know there are others which are in the review stage. When they are live again, I'll share them
petition: Repeal sexist anti-porn laws in the UK share.google/Mj5hyJSvFjQPYA…
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Kemi Badenoch cites a double amputee who ran a marathon and an autistic man who runs a company as justification for cutting disability benefits. There are 268,965 people on PIP whose main condition is autism and 106,087 whose main condition is ADHD. Only around a third of working-age autistic people are in employment. Using two exceptional cases to withdraw support from hundreds of thousands of others is not good policy. It’s people’s lives. This is morally outrageous and shows the utter contempt she has for the most vulnerable.
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1/3 🧵 France’s proposed bill would criminalize some cam sites and is modeled after Sweden’s expansion of “sex buying” to include online content last year.
Follow @sexworkeurope for ongoing updates.
eswalliance.org/newly_introduc…
Follow @sexworkeurope for ongoing updates.
eswalliance.org/newly_introduc…
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1659 painting by Elisabetta Sirani depicting Timocleia of Thebes pushing the Thracian captain who raped her into a well #womensart
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Labour MPs regret voting for Palestine Action ban that led to 4,000 arrests in a year
Backbenchers say the right to protest has been harmed since they were ‘pressured’ into proscribing the organisation as a terror group
observer.co.uk/news/politics/…
Backbenchers say the right to protest has been harmed since they were ‘pressured’ into proscribing the organisation as a terror group
observer.co.uk/news/politics/…
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What is a kink, exactly? Where does ordinary desire tip over into something that gets filed under BDSM, or relegated to the side room, or treated as a specialist interest rather than just sex?
A kink implies a pattern. Something that turns up often enough that it starts to feel like a requirement, or at least a strong preference. But every single time still depends on the person in front of you and the circumstances that exist that night. The same act can be nothing more than a variation one evening and the centre of the thing the next. The label is retrospective more often than it is predictive.
If you’ve never tried it, is it still a kink? Or is it just a private experiment that has not yet been tested against reality? Part of an imaginary life that may or may not survive contact with an actual body, an actual mood, an actual other person? Plenty of things stay in your head because the right moment never arrives, or because curiosity is not the same as appetite. Imagination is cheap. Execution has costs.
I would never break a hard limit and do “act x.” That part is simple. But preferences and desires are not sealed in a time capsule at twenty. What you refuse at one age is not necessarily what you refuse at another. The refusal can be absolute when you say it and still not be permanent. That doesn’t make the earlier statement a lie, and it is not evidence of some moral failure or lack of self-knowledge. Sexuality is fluid. Bodies change. Trust changes. Boredom and curiosity both do work. The fact that something once felt impossible does not mean the person who felt that way was wrong at the time.
My own lines have always been broader than most people’s. When someone asks “have you ever done…?” the answer is usually yes. The more useful question, which comes up far less often, is “did you enjoy it?” Once you take the money out of the equation, the list of things I actively want narrows a great deal. There is a difference between what I did for a living and what I choose when the only reward is my own pleasure. Those two sets of experiences are not identical, and treating them as if they are produces a very misleading picture of what I actually like.
When you are looking for a partner rather than a booking, do you lead with the sex acts you prefer? Most dating apps are not structured for that. They are not hook-up sites in the pure sense, but they are also not places where two people are simply negotiating a long-term relationship in the open. There is a murky middle ground: arrangements that have consistency, that involve the same person more than once, that sometimes include conversation and coffee and ordinary life, but that still never quite leave the hotel room. In that space the usual scripts for either pure sex or pure relationship both fail. You have to invent the scene as you go.
Both people still need to be able to say what they want. That’s true. But someone who lacks the precise vocabulary shouldn’t be excluded on linguistic grounds alone. The fact that a person says “a bit of rough” instead of “impact play,” or uses an older, slightly clumsy phrase, does not tell you whether the sex would be good. It doesn’t measure their experience, their attentiveness, or whether the two of you would actually enjoy each other. In person you would rarely stop to correct the wording. You would listen to the sense of it. Writing makes that harder. The screen invites pedantry. A slightly archaic or imprecise choice of words becomes more visible, and it is easy to treat the failure of terminology as a failure of desire itself. It’s not. The desire can still be there, and it can still be specific, even if the person has not yet found the currently approved way of naming it.
None of this is an argument for ignoring hard limits or for treating clear “no” as provisional. It is simply an argument against treating the categories as more stable, more moral, or more diagnostic than they are. The map is useful. It is not the territory. ♥️
A kink implies a pattern. Something that turns up often enough that it starts to feel like a requirement, or at least a strong preference. But every single time still depends on the person in front of you and the circumstances that exist that night. The same act can be nothing more than a variation one evening and the centre of the thing the next. The label is retrospective more often than it is predictive.
If you’ve never tried it, is it still a kink? Or is it just a private experiment that has not yet been tested against reality? Part of an imaginary life that may or may not survive contact with an actual body, an actual mood, an actual other person? Plenty of things stay in your head because the right moment never arrives, or because curiosity is not the same as appetite. Imagination is cheap. Execution has costs.
I would never break a hard limit and do “act x.” That part is simple. But preferences and desires are not sealed in a time capsule at twenty. What you refuse at one age is not necessarily what you refuse at another. The refusal can be absolute when you say it and still not be permanent. That doesn’t make the earlier statement a lie, and it is not evidence of some moral failure or lack of self-knowledge. Sexuality is fluid. Bodies change. Trust changes. Boredom and curiosity both do work. The fact that something once felt impossible does not mean the person who felt that way was wrong at the time.
My own lines have always been broader than most people’s. When someone asks “have you ever done…?” the answer is usually yes. The more useful question, which comes up far less often, is “did you enjoy it?” Once you take the money out of the equation, the list of things I actively want narrows a great deal. There is a difference between what I did for a living and what I choose when the only reward is my own pleasure. Those two sets of experiences are not identical, and treating them as if they are produces a very misleading picture of what I actually like.
When you are looking for a partner rather than a booking, do you lead with the sex acts you prefer? Most dating apps are not structured for that. They are not hook-up sites in the pure sense, but they are also not places where two people are simply negotiating a long-term relationship in the open. There is a murky middle ground: arrangements that have consistency, that involve the same person more than once, that sometimes include conversation and coffee and ordinary life, but that still never quite leave the hotel room. In that space the usual scripts for either pure sex or pure relationship both fail. You have to invent the scene as you go.
Both people still need to be able to say what they want. That’s true. But someone who lacks the precise vocabulary shouldn’t be excluded on linguistic grounds alone. The fact that a person says “a bit of rough” instead of “impact play,” or uses an older, slightly clumsy phrase, does not tell you whether the sex would be good. It doesn’t measure their experience, their attentiveness, or whether the two of you would actually enjoy each other. In person you would rarely stop to correct the wording. You would listen to the sense of it. Writing makes that harder. The screen invites pedantry. A slightly archaic or imprecise choice of words becomes more visible, and it is easy to treat the failure of terminology as a failure of desire itself. It’s not. The desire can still be there, and it can still be specific, even if the person has not yet found the currently approved way of naming it.
None of this is an argument for ignoring hard limits or for treating clear “no” as provisional. It is simply an argument against treating the categories as more stable, more moral, or more diagnostic than they are. The map is useful. It is not the territory. ♥️
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NN Williams retweeted
They didn't burn witches. They killed women. Fierce women.
Outspoken women.
Sharp-minded women. Women who refused to stay silent.
Women who refused to back down. Women who refused to obey.
Outspoken women.
Sharp-minded women. Women who refused to stay silent.
Women who refused to back down. Women who refused to obey.
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I’m listening to ‘Danny Boy’ with scotch. This doesn’t end well, but I’m doing it stylishly.
Nothing beats a good wake: someone playing ‘The Wild Rover’ badly on a piano and Tennents glasses on the coffin. The highlight is ‘The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God’.
That’s the bit when we all wish we too were dead, but a scotch egg softens the trauma. ♥️💫
Nothing beats a good wake: someone playing ‘The Wild Rover’ badly on a piano and Tennents glasses on the coffin. The highlight is ‘The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God’.
That’s the bit when we all wish we too were dead, but a scotch egg softens the trauma. ♥️💫
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Want to be a part of Fetish Weekend London?
Looking for House Domme's / slaves, Day Helpers, Market Vendors etc..
Get in touch!
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Looking for House Domme's / slaves, Day Helpers, Market Vendors etc..
Get in touch!
https://
fetishweekendlondon.com/contact/
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NN Williams retweeted
When sex workers said the porn restrictions would spread to other sites, you didn't listen.
When it spread to social media, you still didn't listen, you said it would stop there.
It's still spreading further and further
When it spread to social media, you still didn't listen, you said it would stop there.
It's still spreading further and further
🚨 NEW: The Government is set to ban under-16s from eBay, Vinted and Depop over fears their messaging features allow adults to groom children
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