Category: Life

Latex en Stereotiepen

Bron: www.ad.nl

Het pigment dat Smit voor haar kleuren gebruikt, ligt weerbarstig op het rubber.
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Rubber roept associaties op met seks. Het is niet anders. Condooms, sadomasochisme, kinky parties. Als Marian Smit (1956) mensen vertelt dat ze met rubber en latex werkt, krijgt ze veelbetekenende reacties. “Men denkt wel eens dat ik in rubberen pakjes rondloop, met een zweepje”, lacht ze. “Een vriendin noemt mijn werk altijd condoom-kunst. Tja, het is het zelfde materiaal. Maar als je het werk uiteindelijk ziet, doet het niet denken aan het soort rubber waar SM-kleding van gemaakt wordt”.

A total eunuch

Checking site statistics can lead you to something completely unpredictable. Found that test in Melissa‘s Blog:

You Are 50% Boyish and 50% Girlish
You are pretty evenly split down the middle – a total eunuch.
Okay, kidding about the eunuch part. But you do get along with both sexes.
You reject traditional gender roles. However, you don’t actively fight them.
You’re just you. You don’t try to be what people expect you to be.

Apart from the eunuch part I can’t agree more with the result 🙂

Selfbondage trend in Google

Google has recently added the ability to sneak into what people are looking for. This new tool is called Google trends. Is self-bondage getting more popular? Or vice versa? Let’s have a look:


Unfortunately not. According to Google, the interest to “selfbondage”, “self-bondage” or “self bondage” has been declining. The top10 of the countries looking for these words looks very surprising:

  1. Germany
  2. Czech Republic
  3. Denmark
  4. Russia
  5. Austria
  6. Switzerland
  7. Netherlands
  8. United Kingdom
  9. Norway
  10. Sweden

Where’s the US? My logs show that 40% of all hits come from the States and 70% visitors use Google. How trustful is Google’s statistics? Probably they do not have to search for selfbondage, they already know the proper places 🙂

Another interesting thing is that Europeans prefer to search for “selfbondage”, while Americans favor “self bondage”. The volume of “self-bondage” queries is negligible and can not be found in the Google Trend.

Here you can find the original report.