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Author: Shannon Larratt

  • Nazi Fetishism

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    Shannon Larratt

    This photo is by Bellboy in Insaneskinarts in Sinapore. The reason I’m posting it is I’d like to raise the following subject for discussion — it’s very common in North America to see communist paraphenalia (the Hammer and Sickle, Stalin and Lenin, and so on) in the backgrounds of photos and no one really bats an eye at it. These days I’m seeing more and more Nazi paraphenalia from South America and Asia, which as far as I can tell is not strongly associated with neo-Nazism.

    Each type of image of course represents an ideology that resulted in the needless genocidal deaths of millions of people, yet one tends to generate a knee jerk reaction and the other does not — I’ve gotten many taken-down requests over this photo, but effectively none over pro-Stalinist imagery for example. I assume it all boils down to cultural context?

  • As seen at Live Free or Die, Manchester

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    Shannon Larratt

    Photo: Terran

  • Want to pan out? Just click.

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    Shannon Larratt

    iam:oncemore

  • Cao: Growing up kinky in Borneo

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    Shannon Larratt

    (from the interview; click through to read it and come back to comment)

    Cao is a friend of mine that grew up and still lives in Borneo where he has a “normal” professional career. You’d never guess — but that’s almost always the case — that under his pants his genitals have gone through a series of modifications, and that he’s had a fetish for them since he was young. This interview is an excerpt from my upcoming book, but I wanted to print it now because I heard a recent Jim Ward interview in which he opined that piercing had moved from the sexual arena into the aesthetic, which made me think of many older friends like Cao who are still very much motivated purely by their sexual eccentricities.

    Although the face of body piercing is certainly very visibly aesthetic, I still think his story will feel very familiar to many readers…

  • Tea Time Tattoo

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    Shannon Larratt

    Nicasaurusrex writes of her tattoo done at Blue Skin in Camden Town — “I’ll still love this one when I’m 65!” It’s true… old people do like tea, right?

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