On being different and “people watching”
Posted on | January 16, 2008 | 11 Comments |
| You know she secretly has sex with her brother. It’s a Japanese thing…
Sorry I haven’t written a post for a while, guys – it’s starting to get to that exam feeling time of year again and the atmosphere is getting a little edgy around the medical school so I feel the need to lock myself in my room and vise all my work – vise as in the bit that comes before revising ^_^;;
Anyway, enough of that.
I wanted to write this post not as a complaint, but mainly as a thoughtful observation. I am different. Most of you probably are too, since you are the ones reading this slightly eclectic blog. I spend a lot of my spare time watching anime and i like various types of hentai, especially futanari and yuri. I have no trouble saying that out loud here on my blog (not least because only a select few people that I know in real life actually know of the existance of and read this blog and I have no qualms for them to know what they’ve probably already gathered)
As I get further and further from university life into the real world, I am starting to come to see and perhaps value how being different in a private sense is. The people that I spend most of my time around are what I have come to regard as normal – they come to college, play sports and go out of an evening, drink vast quantities of alcohol once a week, take a girl back to their hovel and have normal sexual practices in the privacy of their own bedrooms. Well, certainly not the kind of people that you can casually start a conversation with – “I found a great doujinshi on the internet the other day”.
Or are they?
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from reading Genshiken (and it’s not exactly an existentialist piece) it’s that everyone has a secret. Granted, not everyone will have such a niche secret such as my own, but there’s a guarantee that out of my very normal looking cohort of 230 there is bound to be a bondage enthusiast, someone really into S & M and perhaps a couple of closet lolicons. You never know.
I am happy to live in the age of the internet, since it’s side effect seems to have been to bring people with alternate tastes (I don’t usually like to call myself a pervert ^_^) together and let them know that they are not alone. Therefore, you can be as perverted you like in the privacy of your own home and never need to actively display what kind of person you are in order to find people of kindred spirit…
That brings me on to one of my less useful pastimes – People Watching. I’m sure a lot of you do it – there are spots that you can go to in any town where you can sit and loiter while the world goes past on its merry way, oblivious to the fact that you are analysing it down to the last centimetre. My favourite loitering place used to be Bluewater (for those that don’t know, it is the largest Shopping centre in Europe, which just happens to be next to my hometown in Kent.) Bluewater has loads of little coffee shops that look out onto the shopping boulevards so you can watch the shoppers mill past.
The objective of people watching is to scrutinise each person and try to imagine which ones are the most perverted behind closed doors. For instance, you can look at the middle aged mothers and try to work out which ones “tried things out” with their female roommate in university or how many have had threesomes with their husband and another man. Then you can look at the men and wonder how many are subservient to their wives and girlfriends (all of them, of course), which ones are happily married but have sex with medical students in their offices at night (ahem) or which ones swear that they are not gay but slip out of the house at night to have sex with strange men in public lavatories.
It’s quite a complex game. Quiet bookish looking ones are always fair game (I’m one myself, of course) Alternative looking girls are probably into a range of things and if stereotypes of hentai are anything to go by (of course – live your life by them ^_^) the rough and rugged looking ones and the slut type teenage girls are probably virgins…hmm…I think that might only be true in Japan. Not Coventry.
It’s also a fun game to play with a friend – though I have yet to have a friend unsqueamish enough to play it with ^_^;;
Next Monday the 21st of January is National Perverts Day – on which Perverts wear Purple. I’ll be making sure that my purple shirt makes it out of the dryer in time for the special occasion and I’ll be looking round for anyone else in my vague people watching kind of way but maybe, just maybe, my observations might be right…
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January 16th, 2008 @ 11:04 pm
Damn, and I don’t have a single purple item. Ah well, going to the Arisia convention that day, I bet I’ll see a few people wearing purple there.
January 17th, 2008 @ 4:27 am
I really need to get a purple shirt by then.
I do people watching too ^~^! Except that I hang out in bad areas so I do… which people don’t only smoke weed.
Anyways I missed you posting :D. Have fun vising.
January 17th, 2008 @ 4:33 am
Hey you’re exactly right Yuribou lol that’s the scary part yeah I personally love to go into malls and sit down at one of the designated or un-designated tables and just watch people walk by. And I try to figure out what I think there career is. About myself though if you saw me in public the only thing you would probably about able to deduce about me would be I like music and computers along with the occasional videogames. But in reality, I am actually a doujinshi/hentai fanatic that has well over 20+ gigs of hentai on my computer. So I agree ^_^.
Later
YuribouFan
January 17th, 2008 @ 5:16 am
Man, why purple? I don’t have anything purple.
People Watching is rather fun, though. I’m addicted to it. But it also makes me wonder how many people try to analyse my… vices… and how right some of them actually might be.
January 17th, 2008 @ 7:20 am
Wasn’t purple the colour of the aristocracy? Now it’s vaguely the colour of the gays- I could be wrong, though. Is there a reason perverts wanted to adopt purple too?
And yeah, I agree with the people-watching thing. I work at the mall to pay for tuition and it’s quite addicting. Most are basically annoying teenagers that have nothing better to do, but some people are quite strange.
I don’t usually imagine anyone’s kinks, but I do imagine what they do for living, what their jobs are, etc. Helps to pass the time.
And the quite bookish ones are definetely the ones to look out for! I’m loud as hell myself, and I think that’s why my hobbies are relatively worksafe. But I have a friend that everyone assumes is a teacher’s pet and all-around good person- and let me tell you, in close group of friends, the things that come out of his mouth would shock outside people if they knew XD.
January 17th, 2008 @ 9:21 am
Purple is probably one of the colors least commonly chosen for clothes. It’s most likely just to reduce the number of unwitting victims who find out the unlucky way that there is in fact such a holiday identified by such chromatically distinguished apparel that concerns such outrageous content. Heh.
January 17th, 2008 @ 8:17 pm
Purple was this seasons big color. I know, because it’s my favorite color. I had no idea it meant being perverted. lol All of my friends are bookish hentai loving people. I always assume “nerds” are kinky in some sort of way.
I hope you find kindred. Good luck! Ja!
January 17th, 2008 @ 11:24 pm
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Anyone else get this when trying to post?
January 18th, 2008 @ 6:48 am
Boo! I guess this is more or less strictly an English thing. Maybe the “National” part should have given it away. A rather cursory Google search turned this up: http://www.londonfetishscene.com/News/News/National_Fetish_Day_200801094087/
“Why purple? Purple is a colour that is heavily represented in BDSM/fet art, style and clothing. Purple is a colour that is still unusual enough to be different yet common enough to be deniable… so no-one wearing purple needs to be scared they are automatically outing themselves…”
I’ll keep my eye out for purple apparel anyway. Even if no one else knows about this day, I can always imagine… err… fantasise… I mean… ummm… yeah. :P
January 18th, 2008 @ 2:46 pm
I was puuzzled with “sex with her brother” caption. Is that incest?
January 20th, 2008 @ 10:35 am
Everyone has a secret, and you know what, I feel sorry for those who _haven’t_. What a dull life they must lead.
I have a purple top, but I sure ain’t going out in this weather in just that. So someone will have to be eagle-eyed to spot it in under my big black coat :D