Random weekend notes and links

[rachelmanija]

Today in a thrift shop I spotted a book called, The History of Prostitution. I was about to pick it up when I noticed that the cover was smeared with a sticky-looking white substance. Instantly flashing back to my conversation this morning with canandagirl over "venereal disease" vs. "sexually transmitted disease," I fled the store like a vice cop was after me.

On a less disgusting note, black sesame Pocky is now in stores. It is the best thing ever, unless you hate black sesame. COincidentally, the LA Times has an article on the booming popularity of desserts that use black sesame as a flavoring. Why can't I find any of those desserts? I also tried Montblanc (chestnut pastry) Pocky, but it was too sweet for my taste. Generally the "decorer" line, with two layers of icing, is too sweet for me.

In case you were wondering, This is Pocky. It's addictive. There are also many savory flavors, such as salad, tomato, fried, cheese and potato, and Hokkaido butter, which are not listed on that website.

I am sure everyone has seen this already who is interested, as it was all over my friendslist when the latest chapter of Saiyuki reload came out in Japan in "Zero Sum," but here it is, just in case you are interested and haven't seen it, or enjoy drawings of beautiful, not-quite-human men in general, and don't mind a mild sort-of spoiler for the face of Youkai Hakkai, oh my God. Hakkai is the guy in my icon. He has another form, whose face has been revealed for the first time after fifteen volumes of foreplay suspense. Amazingly, it is not a let-down.

campfuckudie is seriously addictive, and I advise everyone to stay away unless they want to be sucked in for hours and hours. This goes double for all Saiyuki fans, as the ikkou are all there and their players are all really good, especially the one playing Hakkai.

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[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Feel free to audience us.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Ishida Uryuu is awesome too. And there was a thread that I loved a little while back, in which Wednesday Adams (I think) suddenly turned into Death from Sandman and a number of pretty intense conversations got going.

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

Ishida and the old Ichigo, who was also excellent, got me into Bleach. I'm also terribly fond of the KKM cast, though I still am slacking on their canon. And yes, that was Wednesday. She never wants to change back, hee.

[octopedingenue]

If you don't mind the game completely eating your life, go back to about May through August to track down the old Bleach cast threads--Ichigo, Rukia, Orihime, Hitsugaya, and Isshin all used to be there (and left about the same time), and they were the best thing ever. (We will never get another Ichigo, the first one was so good.)

The threads where Ishida became a Black Rose Duelist and pulls a sword from Ichigo. Oh my God.

And Tohru Honda getting the Death Note, which is pretty much THE classic CFUD post.

[kate_nepveu]

I've been scared to read it, because keeping up with milliways_bar takes quite a lot of time even reading very selectively--but Milliways only has a Hakkai, and not a very good one either I'm afraid, and I keep wishing for good Saiyuki characters to show up there.

(OTOH, the last round of new characters brought good characters of Mugen, Jin, and Agent Dale Cooper, so I shouldn't complain too much.)

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Check the comments in this thread for selected CFUD posts, if you just want to sample a couple.

[kate_nepveu]

I have before--the comm seems to run to even longer comment threads than Milliways, which is saying something. Also, the number of characters I'm unfamiliar with is really high, too high for me to enjoy reading, I suspect.

I'll just stick with Milliways, which I know (and which has had its share of Rose Bride duels. You can see why I'm planning to watch _Utena_ at some point.).

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Did you read the thread last night where Hakkai threatened the body-switched Gojyo and Yumichika, and scared them both so badly they spontaneously returned to their normal bodies? It was the funniest thing I've read in ages.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I found that one today. That was awesome.

[oyceter]

Wait, I can't find it! Link?

[sheep-gotohell.livejournal.com]

I laughed so hard I think I hurt myself. THE ICONS. WHY. OMG.

And in a nifty confluence of the topics that Rachel mentioned above, you know what the new Youkai Hakkai pictures will mean: DEMON SEX AUS.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

With Pocky!

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I told telophase that she ought to do a drawing exploring the question of exactly how far down the vines extend.

[octopedingenue]

campfuckudie is my fandom. Some of its threads have made me cry, especially the Saiyuki ones.

[oyceter]

OMG you are evil. campfuckudie is also evil.

*tempts you, like a tempty thing*

[octopedingenue]

AU sex thread for the win! (And one with Umeda from HanaKimi asdkljfasw3rethreesomehotness. Also the first AU sex that will be remembered through the ages)

Re: *tempts you, like a tempty thing*

[oyceter]

Ngyaaaaaaaah evil. All of you.

[teleute12.livejournal.com]

I have that second one bookmarked as "there was a porn and a conversation broke out."

And you've probably seen this by now, but for rachelmanjia/anyone else interested: another memories listing of camp posts (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=cfud_scrapbook), organized by canon and by character. It's still several months behind, but it's a lot more up to date than mamas_boy.

(Pee Ess your Yaone is completely and totally awesome, have I mentioned that?)

[oursin.livejournal.com]

I spotted a book called, The History of Prostitution. I was about to pick it up when I noticed that the cover was smeared with a sticky-looking white substance.

Although this was probably someone's inept attempt to effect repairs using library paste, I think you have probably been spared a really bad book, because I don't think I know of any reputable studies on the subject with that title. Because the underlying, unexamined assumption will be that it is the 'oldest profession', an 'unfortunate necessity', and a completely unchanging and transhistorical phenomenon.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I did think that it looked too short to be a decent overview of such an enormous subject. Do you have any recommendations for good books on the subject, though? Particularly if they don't exclusively focus on Europe and America?

[oursin.livejournal.com]

How sad is it that I actually have a file called 'prost biblio' on my computer? It's extremely eurocentric and mostly C19th, as I put it together for a rather specific piece:
Paula Bartley, Prostitution: Prevention and Reform in Britain, 1860-1914, Routledge, 1999
Laurie Bernstein, Sonia's Daughters:Prostitutes and their Regulation in Imperial Russia (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press 1995)
Edward Bristow, Prostitution and Prejudice: the Jewish fight against white slavery, 1870-1939 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982)
Alain Corbin, Time Desire and Horror:Towards a History of the Senses (London: Polity Press 1995)
Alain Corbin, Women for Hire: Prostitution and sexuality in France after 1850 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990)
Frances Finnegan, Poverty and Prostitution: A study of Victorian prostitutes in York (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979)
Mary Gibson, Prostitution and the State in Italy, 1860-1915 (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1986)
Jill Harsin, Policing Prostitution in Nineteenth Century Paris (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985)
Philippa Levine, Prostitution, Race, and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire (London; Routledge, 2004)
Linda Mahood, The Magdalenes: Prostitution in the nineteenth century (London: Routledge, 1990)
Judith R. Walkowitz, Prostitution and Victorian Society: women, class and the state (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980).
On China, I haven't read all of this: Christian Henriot, Prostitution and sexuality in Shanghai : a social history 1849-1949 (Cambridge University Press, 2001), but I did read an interesting article by him about the shift from traditional forms to more 'modern' practices in early C20th. I have also heard good things about Gail Hershatter Dangerous pleasures : prostitution and modernity in twentieth-century Shanghai (University of California Press, 1997)

[canandagirl.livejournal.com]

I was about to pick it up when I noticed that the cover was smeared with a sticky-looking white substance.

Eewwww!!! With any other non-sex topic, I'd probably wouldn't have even noticed it.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me neither.

How was Robin Hood? Did you drink cider? Did you play darts?

[teleute12.livejournal.com]

campfuckudie has eaten my brain, my life, and quite possibly my soul; yet I stick around because how could I *not* love a thing that can make me giggle myself sick as easily as it can break my heart and make me cry?

Also hi, I stalk watch your journal because we have a bunch of the same people friended. ... Although, come to think of it, I'm going to just go ahead and friend you. Hi! Hee.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

how could I *not* love a thing that can make me giggle myself sick as easily as it can break my heart and make me cry?

Much like Saiyuki.

Hi there! Come on in, the water's fine.