Adventures in Europe, Chapter 34: Too Many Monkeys!

[tacit]

The day after our nocturnal traipse around London's gristly but sadly amber-free sites-of-historic-horror-cum-tourist-attractions and equally livestock-free Tower Bridge, your humble scribe awoke and, after tea and eggs (marred only by the horrifying sight of seinneann_ceoil's flatmate digging into black pudding with gusto) travelled to the House of Joy, the

Comments

[polylizzy]

I wonder if herbert could become a BDSM based rapist (or would that be like a lion changing his spots?) that drawing would be a great @BDSMBadAdvice type cartoon.

Also, your map...I am dangerously close to showing it to my offspring...(or "letting" him find it)

15yr old son, who is dealing with his gender identity issues though is not sexually active (we have had discussions, I ask him jokingly and not and he never shows any of his "I'm lying" tells when he says he is still a virgin)

He is out with myself and my family as Bi, but is scared to tell his dads side of the family.

I just don't want to scare him with ALL of it yet but i think it would be great for him to see how many variations there are in life.

I do thank you for making it.

[onyxrising]

Have you ever read anything by Dr. Fatema Mernissi? It was very interesting to me to read a feminist perspective out of the middle east, especially concerning her views on female oppression in the east vs. west.
Needless to say, though, Dr. Mernissi doesn't wear a head scarf, much less a burqa.

[tacit]

I haven't! Any recommendations?

[onyxrising]

Start with Dreams of Trespass. It's her autobiographical account of growing up in a domestic harem in Morocco.
After you're done with that, you'll want to read Scheherezade Goes West. During her book tour for Dreams of Tresspass, Mernissi got asked a lot of questions which displayed that many westerners had somehow managed to read her book and not get that harems didn't necessarily entail a bunch of scantily clad sex slaves milling about. She decided to publish further. Scheherezade Goes West is concerned largely with concepts of beauty and gender roles, exploring how Scheherezade changed as it moved from the middle east to the west.