I Am Curious (Yellow)

Today’s sex column by Ashlea Halpern in PW’s alt-weekly competitor Citypaper deals with something my paper didn’t cover in our Next issue: The Next Hot Fetish. Naturally, that fetish is “watersports,” which is a nicer way of saying “pissing on each other.”

I’m all for people being able to do whatever the hell they want to in the bedroom, and urine is sterile, so it’s not like this is something that’s going to shake the moral fabric of society. (Expect Rick Santorum to introduce legislation suggesting a ban on it in a few months, then.) But it’s not quite my cup of tea. Or, really, anywhere near it.

Halpern interviews some watersports aficionados, including Rob, a 27-year-old ad exec:

On a fundamental level, Rob likes pee because it feels good. “I also like how it says, ‘I fucking love you so much, you can even do this and it will be hot and we’ll still be cool afterward.’”

The way he puts it, pee play sounds almost romantic.

Yeah. What says ‘romance’ more than piss! I’m sure Rob got a heart-shaped flask of urine for Valentine’s Day.

Yellow Fever [CP]
Next Philadelphia [PW]
Photo by dplanet

Blogicized: Lincoln logs

• I do a whole morning of puppies last Thursday, Philebrity does a whole day of Belle & Sebastian. Seems about right. [Philebrity]

• A question that I’m surprised hasn’t been answered before: Does the violence in the riots over cartoons adhere to the same laws of cartoon violence from Looney Toons? [iFlipFlop]

• In addition to being gay, Abraham Lincoln was also now depressed. Man, what won’t we find out about our nation’s 16th president? Did he enjoy watersports? Did he know any magic tricks? Did he hide a totally killer bong in that stovepipe hat of his? [The Trouble With Spikol]

• Found the Super Bowl boring? Blame Conservatives! Because, without conservatives, the NFL would never have hired those obscrure right-wingers the Rolling Stones. [dragonballyee]