if you cover something up, you create a sense of desire
July 10, 2020 11:54 AM Subscribe
Does Wearing a Mask Make You Look Hot? (GQ): A semi-scientific investigation.
Also I mean my masks do make me "look hot" in that they cause me to pour sweat from every inch of my face and scalp constantly, which prompts people to ask me if I am hot, which I am, I am basically about to pass out all of the time from how hot I am. So fuckin' hot.
posted by We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese at 12:01 PM on July 10, 2020 [26 favorites]
posted by We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese at 12:01 PM on July 10, 2020 [26 favorites]
I don't know about the desire thing. I HAVE noticed that people who refuse to wear masks invariably would look more attractive wearing them. Ignorance and demonstrating a lack of compassion for others is unbecoming in the extreme.
posted by jcworth at 12:02 PM on July 10, 2020 [42 favorites]
posted by jcworth at 12:02 PM on July 10, 2020 [42 favorites]
Oh for goodness sake.
“Where people cover the face but the eyes are visible, it's quite attractive because you're drawn in to that potential intimacy because the eyes are there, but you're also made aware of the fact that a lot of other things are being withheld from you.”
How on earth did they write this entire article, include this from Brown, and not make any mention of the contemporary western portayal of hijabs, niqabs and burkas?
posted by Braeburn at 12:06 PM on July 10, 2020 [50 favorites]
“Where people cover the face but the eyes are visible, it's quite attractive because you're drawn in to that potential intimacy because the eyes are there, but you're also made aware of the fact that a lot of other things are being withheld from you.”
How on earth did they write this entire article, include this from Brown, and not make any mention of the contemporary western portayal of hijabs, niqabs and burkas?
posted by Braeburn at 12:06 PM on July 10, 2020 [50 favorites]
Truly, nothing says “Get over here!” like a guy wearing a mask over his nose and mouth.
posted by Huffy Puffy at 12:30 PM on July 10, 2020 [20 favorites]
posted by Huffy Puffy at 12:30 PM on July 10, 2020 [20 favorites]
Porn is going to get so fucking weird.
posted by PMdixon at 12:31 PM on July 10, 2020 [16 favorites]
posted by PMdixon at 12:31 PM on July 10, 2020 [16 favorites]
If it will convince someone who wouldn't otherwise to wear a damn mask, then I say yes. You're fucking gorgeous with a mask. You're incredibly handsome with that mask on. I will bestow whatever superlative description of attractiveness you desire to you and your mask. It compliments your eyes and your hair and makes you look amazing. Is that a mask on your face that's at least six feet away from me in the grocery store, or am I just happy to see you?
posted by mrgoat at 12:43 PM on July 10, 2020 [28 favorites]
posted by mrgoat at 12:43 PM on July 10, 2020 [28 favorites]
I have always thought the guys from Daft Punk were sexy, and I have no idea what they actually look like, nor do I particularly wonder.
Masks with attractive fabrics are nice, and I've got a couple, but the ones with logos depress me. Seeing the Sox or a joke catchphrase on one of them just makes me think: this is part of our fuckin crap lives now, isn't it. And now the Facebook algorithm masks are out there, which is even more disheartening.
One thing I do appreciate about the mask, even in July, is that it helps me be less self-conscious about my face. Under normal circumstances, I'm constantly worried about whether I look like I have a moon face, but the mask covers my cheeks and chin. So as stuffy and miserable as it might be, I can hate one less thing about my appearance.
posted by Countess Elena at 1:10 PM on July 10, 2020 [4 favorites]
Masks with attractive fabrics are nice, and I've got a couple, but the ones with logos depress me. Seeing the Sox or a joke catchphrase on one of them just makes me think: this is part of our fuckin crap lives now, isn't it. And now the Facebook algorithm masks are out there, which is even more disheartening.
One thing I do appreciate about the mask, even in July, is that it helps me be less self-conscious about my face. Under normal circumstances, I'm constantly worried about whether I look like I have a moon face, but the mask covers my cheeks and chin. So as stuffy and miserable as it might be, I can hate one less thing about my appearance.
posted by Countess Elena at 1:10 PM on July 10, 2020 [4 favorites]
I feel like there’s so much more to this complicated and interesting topic that TFA didn’t explore. Like Braeburn comments, I was very surprised by what it omitted — not even hinting at the sexist and racist violence those wearing Islamic dress in non-Muslim majority countries experience to add to the “experts” they quoted about desirability in a mask. I’m now seeking out that perspective in other pieces since I am a white person who has been privileged to not be aware of that contrast.
This topic of attractiveness has been on my mind because I feel more attractive and confident with a mask on. For a variety of reasons (rosacea, overcompensating for my body size, socialized as female) I always wear makeup outside the house or around houseguests (my partner is the only person who has seen me not wearing makeup as an adult more than a handful of times). When I don’t feel like my face looks like the socially acceptable way it should, either I am treated worse than a conventionally attractive person or I am anticipating that happening, which has the same negative effect on me.
Wearing a mask means at most I need eye makeup. It also means that I don’t feel self conscious breathing through my mouth walking up a steep incline, and I don’t have to worry as much about resting bitch face. I find myself less stressed about conveying to people how NICE and APPROACHABLE I am at all times because approachability is no longer the goal. I find myself happy to reach for the mask when I leave the house these days and missing it on video meetings.
posted by the thorn bushes have roses at 1:32 PM on July 10, 2020 [19 favorites]
This topic of attractiveness has been on my mind because I feel more attractive and confident with a mask on. For a variety of reasons (rosacea, overcompensating for my body size, socialized as female) I always wear makeup outside the house or around houseguests (my partner is the only person who has seen me not wearing makeup as an adult more than a handful of times). When I don’t feel like my face looks like the socially acceptable way it should, either I am treated worse than a conventionally attractive person or I am anticipating that happening, which has the same negative effect on me.
Wearing a mask means at most I need eye makeup. It also means that I don’t feel self conscious breathing through my mouth walking up a steep incline, and I don’t have to worry as much about resting bitch face. I find myself less stressed about conveying to people how NICE and APPROACHABLE I am at all times because approachability is no longer the goal. I find myself happy to reach for the mask when I leave the house these days and missing it on video meetings.
posted by the thorn bushes have roses at 1:32 PM on July 10, 2020 [19 favorites]
What I should have mentioned, and apologize to those for whom it was obvious, is how being a white woman means that I am not seen as threatening or an outsider. It’s a privilege for me and other white/white passing folks to be able to safely wear masks without being seen as such. I recognize especially that the topic of being attractive in a mask means fuck all to any Black men who risk death by white people feeling threatened when they wear one.
posted by the thorn bushes have roses at 1:37 PM on July 10, 2020 [10 favorites]
posted by the thorn bushes have roses at 1:37 PM on July 10, 2020 [10 favorites]
there was a Polish ASRM youtuber whose bit was to always wear a mask, e.g. here . . . it certainly was A Look.
posted by Heywood Mogroot III at 2:16 PM on July 10, 2020
posted by Heywood Mogroot III at 2:16 PM on July 10, 2020
> and now the Facebook algorithm masks are out there
There is NOTHING HOTTER than a GRANDPA who was born in April and LOVES his grandkids and his TRACTOR
posted by The corpse in the library at 2:20 PM on July 10, 2020 [16 favorites]
There is NOTHING HOTTER than a GRANDPA who was born in April and LOVES his grandkids and his TRACTOR
posted by The corpse in the library at 2:20 PM on July 10, 2020 [16 favorites]
Anything that covers half my face instantly makes me look 50% better.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 2:31 PM on July 10, 2020 [9 favorites]
posted by The Underpants Monster at 2:31 PM on July 10, 2020 [9 favorites]
Like, I honestly don't know why no one has come up with even a cloth-printed version (though obviously I'd prefer the full thing, but I do understand rights-clearance and supply chains and so forth) of such masks as Immortan Joe or Facehugger.
I'd also like a full-sized Residents head with filters.
And I find it worryingly suggestive of a sarcastic God to spring this on authoritarian governments who have been dumping on women in traditional Islamic head and face coverings and paying their police forces to invest heavily in facial recognition systems.
I find wearing masks strangely liberating. Apart from the breathing thing. Psychologically liberating.
posted by Grangousier at 2:50 PM on July 10, 2020 [9 favorites]
I'd also like a full-sized Residents head with filters.
And I find it worryingly suggestive of a sarcastic God to spring this on authoritarian governments who have been dumping on women in traditional Islamic head and face coverings and paying their police forces to invest heavily in facial recognition systems.
I find wearing masks strangely liberating. Apart from the breathing thing. Psychologically liberating.
posted by Grangousier at 2:50 PM on July 10, 2020 [9 favorites]
While I understand the theory that compassion and intelligence are attractive, I nonetheless find the sight of masks on people quite awful, just viscerally upsetting, and do my best just not to look.
posted by We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese at 3:08 PM on July 10, 2020 [3 favorites]
posted by We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese at 3:08 PM on July 10, 2020 [3 favorites]
Fanon's "Algeria Unveiled" would seem to deserve at least a mention here. Vanessa Brown's quotes in the GQ article track uncannily closely with what Fanon describes of the colonial French obsession with veils and the sexualization of facial coverings.
Obviously there's more than one thing going on here, but it seems like an obvious through-line from the imperialist exoticization/eroticization of Middle Eastern and North African women in the 19th and 20th centuries, with the accompanying weird fixation on facial coverings, to 2020's "masks are hawt".
Of course, if this sort of thing gets more people to mask responsibly then great. But anyone who has consumed Western media from before the 1990s-or-so will have encountered numerous examples of eroticized facial coverings, so it seems a little odd to leave that out of the conversation, or think it wouldn't have a continued impact on how people (especially in the West) think about facial coverings.
posted by Not A Thing at 3:16 PM on July 10, 2020 [6 favorites]
Obviously there's more than one thing going on here, but it seems like an obvious through-line from the imperialist exoticization/eroticization of Middle Eastern and North African women in the 19th and 20th centuries, with the accompanying weird fixation on facial coverings, to 2020's "masks are hawt".
Of course, if this sort of thing gets more people to mask responsibly then great. But anyone who has consumed Western media from before the 1990s-or-so will have encountered numerous examples of eroticized facial coverings, so it seems a little odd to leave that out of the conversation, or think it wouldn't have a continued impact on how people (especially in the West) think about facial coverings.
posted by Not A Thing at 3:16 PM on July 10, 2020 [6 favorites]
Interesting— today I was walking on a trail and realized I was averting my eyes when people who weren’t wearing masks walked by, as if they were being slightly inappropriate.
posted by The corpse in the library at 3:17 PM on July 10, 2020 [18 favorites]
posted by The corpse in the library at 3:17 PM on July 10, 2020 [18 favorites]
(That was to We our our faith.)
posted by The corpse in the library at 3:17 PM on July 10, 2020
posted by The corpse in the library at 3:17 PM on July 10, 2020
With my mask on, I feel more free to let not only my Resting Bitch Face but also my Active Bitch Face do its own thing, as if I think the mask makes my entire face invisible and no one can see my eyes scowling at them.
posted by Serene Empress Dork at 3:26 PM on July 10, 2020 [10 favorites]
posted by Serene Empress Dork at 3:26 PM on July 10, 2020 [10 favorites]
On the plus side I am now quite familiar with current footwear trends, and pleased to see that gladiator sandals seem to have fallen out of favor.
posted by We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese at 3:30 PM on July 10, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese at 3:30 PM on July 10, 2020 [2 favorites]
ego+no × ID÷ yes=@
posted by clavdivs at 3:32 PM on July 10, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by clavdivs at 3:32 PM on July 10, 2020 [1 favorite]
Okay so I am seven years old, but I enjoy myself no end sticking my tongue out at important people from behind my mask.
posted by chavenet at 3:32 PM on July 10, 2020 [13 favorites]
posted by chavenet at 3:32 PM on July 10, 2020 [13 favorites]
It partly depends on whether your mask is made from the face of your latest victim, TBH.
posted by GenjiandProust at 3:35 PM on July 10, 2020 [3 favorites]
posted by GenjiandProust at 3:35 PM on July 10, 2020 [3 favorites]
Who is more attractive than Cobra Commander?
posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 3:42 PM on July 10, 2020 [8 favorites]
posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 3:42 PM on July 10, 2020 [8 favorites]
Amusingly, I’ve overheard conversations in Japan (years ago now) between women talking about how sometimes they’ll wear masks to work or whatever so they don’t have to do as much makeup that morning
posted by DoctorFedora at 4:12 PM on July 10, 2020 [5 favorites]
posted by DoctorFedora at 4:12 PM on July 10, 2020 [5 favorites]
Who is more attractive than Cobra Commander?
Oh yeah.
posted by GenjiandProust at 4:18 PM on July 10, 2020 [2 favorites]
Oh yeah.
posted by GenjiandProust at 4:18 PM on July 10, 2020 [2 favorites]
It partly depends on whether your mask is made from the face of your latest victim, TBH.
Piffle! It's made from the face of my first victim, the one who gave me my power.
posted by rhizome at 4:26 PM on July 10, 2020 [2 favorites]
Piffle! It's made from the face of my first victim, the one who gave me my power.
posted by rhizome at 4:26 PM on July 10, 2020 [2 favorites]
You can’t spell necromancer without romance.
posted by GenjiandProust at 4:27 PM on July 10, 2020 [14 favorites]
posted by GenjiandProust at 4:27 PM on July 10, 2020 [14 favorites]
Interesting— today I was walking on a trail and realized I was averting my eyes when people who weren’t wearing masks walked by, as if they were being slightly inappropriate.
Me too!!! I did it and then was like "that was weird, why'd I do that?"
The "cover your face 'cause you don't feel like having it seen at the moment" (tired, feeling lazy, no makeup, etc.) is a totally common and valid reason to wear a mask here in Japan, especially in the colder months.
posted by gloriouslyincandescent at 4:36 PM on July 10, 2020 [3 favorites]
Me too!!! I did it and then was like "that was weird, why'd I do that?"
The "cover your face 'cause you don't feel like having it seen at the moment" (tired, feeling lazy, no makeup, etc.) is a totally common and valid reason to wear a mask here in Japan, especially in the colder months.
posted by gloriouslyincandescent at 4:36 PM on July 10, 2020 [3 favorites]
I enjoy myself no end sticking my tongue out at important people from behind my mask
It has been interesting, learning how much of the time I spend fake-smiling.
posted by penduluum at 5:00 PM on July 10, 2020 [8 favorites]
It has been interesting, learning how much of the time I spend fake-smiling.
posted by penduluum at 5:00 PM on July 10, 2020 [8 favorites]
I've experienced, and also heard from other trans people, that we get gendered correctly more often in a mask.
posted by ITheCosmos at 5:14 PM on July 10, 2020 [6 favorites]
posted by ITheCosmos at 5:14 PM on July 10, 2020 [6 favorites]
I don't necessarily follow this to the conclusion given, but I do think there is *something* to this.
I've coined the term "Enkuklophilia" to describe an aesthetic appreciation (uh, ok, fine, paraphilia) for "encircled things"...
This includes (but is not limited to, for example):
Stockings, Garters, Evening Gloves, Fingerless Gloves, Thigh High Boots, Socks, Mid-riff baring cut-off T's, Chokers, Mini-Skirts, Bikinis/Microbikinis/Monobikinis (one might even hazard the evolution of the bikini is a process of shaving off over time, what was "revealing" between the shown and unshown" becomes accepted and the norm, so a new "scandalous" form takes shape).
Obviously since it's a "fetish"/paraphilia, not everyone will have such an affect, but certainly to some people it will engender some sort of attraction.
I think it's stupid to say this is some hard/fast rule to people at all times, but certainly there are a subset of people who do harbor such attractions towards this aesthetic.
Perhaps it's too many 80s aerobics and LaToya Jackson music videos, who knows.
Thanks for coming to my weird ass Ted Talk.
posted by symbioid at 6:08 PM on July 10, 2020 [2 favorites]
I've coined the term "Enkuklophilia" to describe an aesthetic appreciation (uh, ok, fine, paraphilia) for "encircled things"...
This includes (but is not limited to, for example):
Stockings, Garters, Evening Gloves, Fingerless Gloves, Thigh High Boots, Socks, Mid-riff baring cut-off T's, Chokers, Mini-Skirts, Bikinis/Microbikinis/Monobikinis (one might even hazard the evolution of the bikini is a process of shaving off over time, what was "revealing" between the shown and unshown" becomes accepted and the norm, so a new "scandalous" form takes shape).
Obviously since it's a "fetish"/paraphilia, not everyone will have such an affect, but certainly to some people it will engender some sort of attraction.
I think it's stupid to say this is some hard/fast rule to people at all times, but certainly there are a subset of people who do harbor such attractions towards this aesthetic.
Perhaps it's too many 80s aerobics and LaToya Jackson music videos, who knows.
Thanks for coming to my weird ass Ted Talk.
posted by symbioid at 6:08 PM on July 10, 2020 [2 favorites]
Okay but what kind of mask is most attractive? Cloth or surgical? Print or solid? Light or dark?
posted by HotToddy at 6:20 PM on July 10, 2020
posted by HotToddy at 6:20 PM on July 10, 2020
I've experienced, and also heard from other trans people, that we get gendered correctly more often in a mask.;
For me it was confirmation that my beard is the primary feature standing between me and the dreaded "miss." Now that it's shorts weather my hairy legs seem to help but Boston's chilly spring was tough.
posted by martinX's bellbottoms at 6:22 PM on July 10, 2020 [1 favorite]
For me it was confirmation that my beard is the primary feature standing between me and the dreaded "miss." Now that it's shorts weather my hairy legs seem to help but Boston's chilly spring was tough.
posted by martinX's bellbottoms at 6:22 PM on July 10, 2020 [1 favorite]
My giant beard makes wearing a mask a bit more difficult and very much less effective, but I've been having great fun wearing what is known in the furry community as a "bandanimal". Mine is one I get as part of a con schwag package, but here's one online store. There are many others if you search for the term.
posted by hippybear at 6:26 PM on July 10, 2020 [3 favorites]
posted by hippybear at 6:26 PM on July 10, 2020 [3 favorites]
Metafilter: Thanks for coming to my weird ass Ted Talk.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 7:21 PM on July 10, 2020 [4 favorites]
posted by The Underpants Monster at 7:21 PM on July 10, 2020 [4 favorites]
So Australia is still not doing masks (although yesterday the Premier of Victoria announced that people there should consider wearing them in a handful of specific situations, like taxis and ubers, though they were careful to note that people in other states still shouldn't bother). Apart from at the Black Lives Matter protests, where everyone except the police was masked because the organisers specially requested it and also had volunteers distributing free masks, I think I've seen a total of three people in the past few months wearing masks. Yesterday I did my fortnightly grocery shop and there was one person in the whole crowded store with a mask on. I also noticed in pictures of health workers going door-to-door to test and give advice in Victoria, the health workers themselves weren't even masked.
Nevertheless, under the assumption that this is likely to change if the Victorian outbreak gets worse, or if it spreads to NSW, I ordered a couple of reusable face masks yesterday from Etsy. I was surprised by myself how much I cared about aesthetics. To the point that I was very tempted to order masks that seemed likely to fit worse, but were much cuter. (And I have to admit I held up similar coloured scarves I already own to my face before purchasing masks of that colour, to check that the colour looked nice against my skin). I'm not someone who wears make up pretty much ever, or jewelry, and I feel weird caring about what I look like in a mask, when it's meant to just be functional.
posted by lollusc at 8:55 PM on July 10, 2020
Nevertheless, under the assumption that this is likely to change if the Victorian outbreak gets worse, or if it spreads to NSW, I ordered a couple of reusable face masks yesterday from Etsy. I was surprised by myself how much I cared about aesthetics. To the point that I was very tempted to order masks that seemed likely to fit worse, but were much cuter. (And I have to admit I held up similar coloured scarves I already own to my face before purchasing masks of that colour, to check that the colour looked nice against my skin). I'm not someone who wears make up pretty much ever, or jewelry, and I feel weird caring about what I look like in a mask, when it's meant to just be functional.
posted by lollusc at 8:55 PM on July 10, 2020
I've experienced, and also heard from other trans people, that we get gendered correctly more often in a mask.
My experience is the opposite.
I suspect there's going to be a degree of reporting bias going on here - there's a good chance people are more likely to speak up about suddenly seeming to pass better than they are to bring up being misgendered.
posted by Dysk at 11:55 PM on July 10, 2020 [2 favorites]
My experience is the opposite.
I suspect there's going to be a degree of reporting bias going on here - there's a good chance people are more likely to speak up about suddenly seeming to pass better than they are to bring up being misgendered.
posted by Dysk at 11:55 PM on July 10, 2020 [2 favorites]
We are using double layer synthetic double knit masks (0.01 micron)at work which are quick dry and lightweight and a lot better than cotton or surgical masks in 105 ° weather. They also have the unintended consequences of tightening up jowls and double chins, and do a real nice job of covering two-day stubble, so I am totally into it.
posted by halfbuckaroo at 1:10 AM on July 11, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by halfbuckaroo at 1:10 AM on July 11, 2020 [2 favorites]
...I feel weird caring about what I look like in a mask, when it's meant to just be functional.
I have like 10ish masks in all kinds of colors and patterns, thanks to Etsy mostly. I love it! It’s like a new accessory! I don’t wear jewelry or makeup but I do like to wear color/patterns and this is just another way to do that
posted by LizBoBiz at 6:25 AM on July 11, 2020 [3 favorites]
I have like 10ish masks in all kinds of colors and patterns, thanks to Etsy mostly. I love it! It’s like a new accessory! I don’t wear jewelry or makeup but I do like to wear color/patterns and this is just another way to do that
posted by LizBoBiz at 6:25 AM on July 11, 2020 [3 favorites]
Okay but what kind of mask is most attractive? Cloth or surgical? Print or solid? Light or dark?
It's less about mask as accessory and more mask as an integral part of a 'Full Look'.
posted by sebastienbailard at 7:00 AM on July 11, 2020 [1 favorite]
It's less about mask as accessory and more mask as an integral part of a 'Full Look'.
posted by sebastienbailard at 7:00 AM on July 11, 2020 [1 favorite]
Okay so I am seven years old, but I enjoy myself no end sticking my tongue out at important people from behind my mask.
We’ve been making masks and just sent out a bunch to family and friends. We put a small instruction sheet about washing them, and in big type at the bottom it says “IMPORTANT: be sure to make funny faces at people while wearing your mask. They’ll be none the wiser.”
posted by azpenguin at 7:19 AM on July 11, 2020 [2 favorites]
We’ve been making masks and just sent out a bunch to family and friends. We put a small instruction sheet about washing them, and in big type at the bottom it says “IMPORTANT: be sure to make funny faces at people while wearing your mask. They’ll be none the wiser.”
posted by azpenguin at 7:19 AM on July 11, 2020 [2 favorites]
I have like 10ish masks in all kinds of colors and patterns, thanks to Etsy mostly. I love it! It’s like a new accessory! I don’t wear jewelry or makeup but I do like to wear color/patterns and this is just another way to do that
I’ve started sewing matching mask-and-scrunchie sets.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 7:31 AM on July 11, 2020 [3 favorites]
I’ve started sewing matching mask-and-scrunchie sets.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 7:31 AM on July 11, 2020 [3 favorites]
I recently saw a woman in a matching maternity dress, mask and floppy sun hat. It was quite the commitment to a single aesthetic.
posted by mmascolino at 9:05 AM on July 11, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by mmascolino at 9:05 AM on July 11, 2020 [2 favorites]
I sewed myself a matching pajama and mask set, but haven't found the perfect occasion yet to wear it.
posted by The corpse in the library at 11:18 AM on July 11, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by The corpse in the library at 11:18 AM on July 11, 2020 [1 favorite]
I just got my Nina Paley - Angel of Death mask in the mail yesterday.
posted by bonobothegreat at 11:22 AM on July 11, 2020 [3 favorites]
posted by bonobothegreat at 11:22 AM on July 11, 2020 [3 favorites]
Yes, let's ignore the profound double standard being applied to the current use of masks vs the wearing of veils, burkas, niqabs, etc. Gross.
posted by Kitchen Witch at 1:11 PM on July 11, 2020 [4 favorites]
posted by Kitchen Witch at 1:11 PM on July 11, 2020 [4 favorites]
What I’m wondering is “How many people are developing a breathplay/mask kink?”
Porn is going to get so fucking weird
The NYC Health Department has already recommended considering “glory holes” as a safer sex practice. Is it the porn getting weirder, or are the consumers just developing expanded sexual repertoires?
🎶 “How ya gonna keep ‘em down on the farm / After they’ve seenParee Gas-mask Sex? 🎶
posted by Pirate-Bartender-Zombie-Monkey at 6:16 PM on July 11, 2020 [2 favorites]
Porn is going to get so fucking weird
The NYC Health Department has already recommended considering “glory holes” as a safer sex practice. Is it the porn getting weirder, or are the consumers just developing expanded sexual repertoires?
🎶 “How ya gonna keep ‘em down on the farm / After they’ve seen
posted by Pirate-Bartender-Zombie-Monkey at 6:16 PM on July 11, 2020 [2 favorites]
as someone with dysphoria — both gender and often feeling like a decrepit troll — masks have been wonderful. and i’ve been called ma’am/miss twice. even if covid were to somehow magically disappear i hope masks and face-coverings of all sorts remain de-abnormalized
posted by LeviQayin at 8:32 PM on July 11, 2020
posted by LeviQayin at 8:32 PM on July 11, 2020
...I feel weird caring about what I look like in a mask, when it's meant to just be functional.
You could really say the same thing about hats and my bald-ass head, and yet here I am picking and choosing which ones I want to buy and wear based on . . . Well let’s not discuss it.
We went to the beach here in NYC last week and I was a little disappointed to not see anyone rocking a “three piece” bathing suit (matched bottoms, top, mask)
posted by Exceptional_Hubris at 5:00 AM on July 12, 2020 [1 favorite]
You could really say the same thing about hats and my bald-ass head, and yet here I am picking and choosing which ones I want to buy and wear based on . . . Well let’s not discuss it.
We went to the beach here in NYC last week and I was a little disappointed to not see anyone rocking a “three piece” bathing suit (matched bottoms, top, mask)
posted by Exceptional_Hubris at 5:00 AM on July 12, 2020 [1 favorite]
Porn is going to get so fucking weird.
Curiously enough, masks were already ubiquitous in some porn genres, long before Covid-19.
posted by ymgve at 4:25 PM on July 12, 2020 [1 favorite]
Curiously enough, masks were already ubiquitous in some porn genres, long before Covid-19.
posted by ymgve at 4:25 PM on July 12, 2020 [1 favorite]
I just got my Nina Paley - Angel of Death mask in the mail yesterday.
Sadly, it seems Nina Paley has fallen down a TERF hole.
posted by GenjiandProust at 4:34 PM on July 12, 2020
Sadly, it seems Nina Paley has fallen down a TERF hole.
posted by GenjiandProust at 4:34 PM on July 12, 2020
You can of course get face masks printed with your own face.
Belgian Health Minister, Maggie De Block, wore one to Parliament yesterday. 'She doesn't worry that it looks a bit scary. "Masks are compulsory; I got this one and I find it original, so I wear it."'
She doesn't say where she got it, but there are many makers out there; Maskalike is just one of them.
posted by Cardinal Fang at 5:29 AM on July 15, 2020
Belgian Health Minister, Maggie De Block, wore one to Parliament yesterday. 'She doesn't worry that it looks a bit scary. "Masks are compulsory; I got this one and I find it original, so I wear it."'
She doesn't say where she got it, but there are many makers out there; Maskalike is just one of them.
posted by Cardinal Fang at 5:29 AM on July 15, 2020
Well I certainly didn't expect such a...Clive Barker look for those.
posted by rhizome at 2:23 PM on July 15, 2020
posted by rhizome at 2:23 PM on July 15, 2020
They are finally strongly recommending people wear masks here in Melbourne, particularly in situations where it's hard to social distance. The government has bought a huge number to distribute.
I'm seeing more people talk about wearing masks, which is good.
posted by daybeforetheday at 2:36 AM on July 16, 2020
I'm seeing more people talk about wearing masks, which is good.
posted by daybeforetheday at 2:36 AM on July 16, 2020
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