Playful promises of what exactly?
Behold: an asexual-themed “lingerie” campaign. (Side note: what even is that stupid word? I’ve never had any “lingerie” in my life, I have underwear. Just one more way women are treated as the Designated Sex Toys.)
That’s asexual-themed??? Boy you coulda fooled me. It looks entirely sexual. The posing is sexual and the “lingerie” is sexual, as are the gloves. (Gloves???) The open mouth is not sexual? Come on. The cocked leg, the boots, the weird straps, the hair, the shooting from below, the thrown back head? There’s not one thing about it that’s not sexual.
But hey, #ThisIsWhatAsexualLooksLike! Who am I to argue?
This is really stupid. As I keep saying, there’s only one thing that asexuals need (aside from the general population), and it’s the ability to meet other people who want to form long-term domestic partnerships that don’t involve sex. I don’t understand how sexual-posed sexy advertising of sexy underwear helps that.
I could have posed in my sensible Marks & Spencer cotton vest, bra & knickers (non matching). I’ve also got cosy wincyette nightdresses for cold nights.
I didn’t realise “asexual” meant “crudest kind of porn posing”. Most lingerie ads purportedly sexual are less blatant than that.
Woohoo, “asexual” fetish wear, definitely a niche in need of filling.
That’s some next level photoshopping. :P
Who doesn’t wear gloves and boots for bed?
Come to think of it, in some of the houses I grew up in, it might have been a sensible idea.
That is about as far from ‘asexual’ as a cotton vest, a pair of Nora Batty woollen stockings, and incontinence nappies, are from ‘sexy’.
Lingerie: underwear designed specifically to sexually arouse. Asexual/Ace: not sexual. Asexual lingerie. Wow, what a concept.
“Asexual lingerie”. Hmm. Perhaps this new category will provide the marketers a clever way to deny they are sexualising anyone when it comes time to start targeting the youth demographic.
Like catnip for me. Of course I had to look up the etymology. Like so many English words, it was a perfectly serviceable French word that took on prurient connotations.
latslot: MIght I suggest you Google the YouTube shows “Another Dirty Room”? They visit divvy hot sheet motels in dying factory towns with black lights and contamination meters. It is both hilarious and disgusting.
But then, I have a weird and juvenile sense of humor
I think lingerie refers exclusively to fancy sexy underwear, the kind made out of lace and what-not. Anyway I guess this is sort-of asexual themed because it features an asexual person and one of the colors of the asexual flag (purple), but what a stupid way to go about it.
Maybe lingerie becomes, “asexual” when an “ace” wears it. Similarly, dirty greasy, sweatpants and tee become “surgical scrubs” when worn by a surgeon. It’s like the reverse of a skirt, lippy and gold lame purse turning a man into a woman. It’s magic!
Still all about the male gaze I see…
The asexual male gaze. Yup yup yup.
Actual asexual lingerie
That… looks incredibly uncomfortable. I mean, look at how it is digging into her thighs, and the whole rope set up – can she even stand up straight in that?
If that’s asexual, I can’t wait till she does a photo shoot with some really kinky shit. FFS, what a nonsense.
It does make me wonder if asexual has been co-opted by people who are in fact sexual, but just can’t much be arsed with all the strictures and ‘rules’ around forming and running sexual relationships?
Rob, I suppose that could be; it would make some sense. But it could also be like non-binary. An ordinary run-of-the-mill individual (like most of the population of the earth, including most of us here, I imagine) gets to be special by making a loud noise about being neither a man nor a woman. They get attention. But the “ace” don’t want to follow what others are doing; they want their own special. So they come up with asexual. Which then leads still others to be aromantic (or aromatic?). The acronym expands to include the entire alphabet (Xenosexual? Zenosexual? Xylosexual? Paleosexual? Macrosexual? The possibilities are endless!). And everyone who gets to shove their letter into the alphabet soup gets to be “special” and demand special treatment from those of us who are ordinary, run-of-the-mill non-special people who believe that our real worth comes not from who (or what) we sleep with (I’m still buzzed about the avocado mentioned on an earlier threat), but from what we do with our lives and how we do it. Silly us. All we have to do is declare something no one has heard of, no one knows what the hell it is, and then demand special words to apply to us.
How dare asexual people appropriate sexual culture.
I’m outraged, I am.
iknklast #18: Sort of like the diet miracle industry. Paleo! Vegan! Carnivore! Lacto-Ovo-Pescatarian, Intermittent Fasting! All kinds of special diets for special people