Frisky Friday

Edition 2
A quick round up of news, reviews and generally interesting things I have read over the past week.

Arsing around - a five thousand bum salute!


Surely a sight to behold - 5,200 bare bottoms cavorting in front of the Sydney Opera House in the morning sunshine, and all in the name of art. 43 year old photographic artist, Spencer Tunick called for 5000 volunteers willing to pose nude in various poses and embraces. They arrived before sunrise, queueing from the Opera House forecourt round to the Museum of Contemporary Art to be a part of the event.

It was difficult to get the straight participants to embrace the gay participants and vice versa. So I was very happy that that last set up finally got done and everyone came together (in a) united, friendly kiss, a loving kiss in front of this great structure. - Specncer Tunick.

More information and a video report (NSFW) can be found here.
Photo courtesy of the Australian Daily Telegraph. Image gallery can be found here.

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Daily Wail in uproar over 'sex dungeon' in sleepy village.

(On the first floor of a semi - detached no less! Oh my goodness!)

*Warning; this article contains opinions and views of a closed-minded variety - those sensitive to these matters will need to get their indignant faces at the ready. Jennifer's Closet does not endorse or condone such ignorance. /cheekydisclaimage.

Residents of sleepy Lee Mill, Devon alerted police to the four bed semi on account of unusual behaviour and strange noises emanating from the property. On arrival, police were stunned to discover a fully equipped sex dungeon.

We were surprised to uncover this to say the very least. Upon searching the house we found a room set up as a dungeon.

'It's fair to say we were not expecting to find a masochistic dungeon in sleepy Lee Mill. You don't expect to find this sort of thing anywhere ~ Detective Sergeant Stuart Gilroy

...erm, why not? As they say, it takes all sorts. You'd be surprised what you can find in any given town - even in the strange town I live in.

Now, I have seen reports that they confiscated two potentially illegal cattle prods (mixed info on this) - if so, fair cop, law is law, and obviously if sex/solicitation took place there is a cause for charges to be bought there. However, and correct me if I am wrong, but since when has a BDSM dungeon been illegal? Is this even a police matter, really?

Naturally, this 'news'paper - and believe me when I say I use that term loosely - isn't the most reliable source for information so I'll leave any further speculation on the facts and legalities for another time. What has really got my goat here are the attitudes of all those people quoted.

Such as:

'I've seen traffic jams caused by people trying to go there. It's disgusting. We just want them out and have a nice family move in.'

Excuse me? I am a mother of two - very involved with the local school due to my eldest disability. I am well educated, law abiding and respectful. While I may not be running my own establishment of this kind, I'm certainly open to the whole scene. Who is this ill-informed, ignoramus to pass judgement on how 'nice' a person is based on sexuality? True enough, I accept they really should have been more careful and discrete for the sake of all involved, but the attitude still disturbs me.

I agree wholeheartedly that we are all different - and that's how it should be. I fully expect tolerance to go both ways - including tolerance of the more vanilla types, not just their tolerance of us. It can be very hard to keep your cool though when sheer ignorance within the general public allows attitudes which are so intolerant to be so widely accepted and acceptable.

Still - some of the article ain't half funny! lookout for the fella who turned up for his appointment during the raid. Hehehe...
Read more here

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Police action over naked snow-woman.

More nosy-prude neighbours alert! Oh, how I would love to live in one of these places where police have nothing better to do than pander to the prudish twitching curtains brigade. A family who carved an impressive copy of the Venus De Milo from snow in their garden have been asked by police to cover her up after receiving an anonymous complaint from a neighbour. What I find amusing is how the complaint backfired - not only can the neighbours concerned and their visitors see the risque snow-woman, now thanks to news coverage caused by their interference, the whole world is seeing it. That'll learn 'em!

Full story here.

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That's all folks!

J x