Comments on: Sotadic and Other Zones: The Cartography of Human Sexuality http://bookkake.com/2009/08/21/sotadic-zones/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:14:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Sex Toys, Adam & Eve http://bookkake.com/2009/08/21/sotadic-zones/#comment-22560 Sex Toys, Adam & Eve Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:00:36 +0000 http://bookkake.com/?p=774#comment-22560 What's nice about seeing these sexual maps is that they give visual representation to something that is normally so private and hidden. Don't know if that's 'normalising,' but it is certainly fascinating! What’s nice about seeing these sexual maps is that they give visual representation to something that is normally so private and hidden. Don’t know if that’s ‘normalising,’ but it is certainly fascinating!

]]> By: James Bridle http://bookkake.com/2009/08/21/sotadic-zones/#comment-15747 James Bridle Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:15:10 +0000 http://bookkake.com/?p=774#comment-15747 @Claire - You're not wrong - I saw the same thing in India earlier this year, with the benches in public parks thronged with the young folk a-petting. Much like teenagers who still live at home - except it applies all the way up to marriage... @Golan - Thanks that's a great link. @Ben - I can't find the lower-left one, but good catch on the blue-blue - the pink was the one I'd spotted. @Claire - You’re not wrong - I saw the same thing in India earlier this year, with the benches in public parks thronged with the young folk a-petting. Much like teenagers who still live at home - except it applies all the way up to marriage…

@Golan - Thanks that’s a great link.

@Ben - I can’t find the lower-left one, but good catch on the blue-blue - the pink was the one I’d spotted.

]]> By: Ben http://bookkake.com/2009/08/21/sotadic-zones/#comment-15171 Ben Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:45:21 +0000 http://bookkake.com/?p=774#comment-15171 I see three same-sex relationships in the map; there's a blue-blue in the lower left of the main oval, a blue-blue ending an upward branch of the long up-right branch of the oval, and a pink-pink in the sideways Y thing just to the right of the oval. I see three same-sex relationships in the map; there’s a blue-blue in the lower left of the main oval, a blue-blue ending an upward branch of the long up-right branch of the oval, and a pink-pink in the sideways Y thing just to the right of the oval.

]]> By: Golan Levin http://bookkake.com/2009/08/21/sotadic-zones/#comment-15144 Golan Levin Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:57:37 +0000 http://bookkake.com/?p=774#comment-15144 See also Martin Wattenberg & Fernanda Viegas' project, Fleshmap (http://www.bewitched.com/fleshmap.html) for other sex+infovis. See also Martin Wattenberg & Fernanda Viegas’ project, Fleshmap (http://www.bewitched.com/fleshmap.html) for other sex+infovis.

]]> By: Claire http://bookkake.com/2009/08/21/sotadic-zones/#comment-14740 Claire Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:47:23 +0000 http://bookkake.com/?p=774#comment-14740 "(One of the counterintuituve points raised in Unspeakable Love is the widespread eroticism present in modern Islamic cultures: when sexuality is denied private and inviolate spaces, it permeates the entire sphere - the street, the marketplace, the bus station, all become erotic zones, charged with possibilities)." In my observation this is also quite true in countries like Spain or Italy, where Catholicism casts a shadow and economic/cultural factors drive young people to live with their parents until marriage. Perhaps because of the conservatism in private spaces, it's not uncommon to see young people gettin' it on (or coming very close to doing so) in parks, etc. “(One of the counterintuituve points raised in Unspeakable Love is the widespread eroticism present in modern Islamic cultures: when sexuality is denied private and inviolate spaces, it permeates the entire sphere - the street, the marketplace, the bus station, all become erotic zones, charged with possibilities).”

In my observation this is also quite true in countries like Spain or Italy, where Catholicism casts a shadow and economic/cultural factors drive young people to live with their parents until marriage. Perhaps because of the conservatism in private spaces, it’s not uncommon to see young people gettin’ it on (or coming very close to doing so) in parks, etc.

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