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		<title>By: Troy46</title>
		<link>http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2010/03/10/vajazzling-revealed/comment-page-1/#comment-527304</link>
		<dc:creator>Troy46</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 06:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Maybe daddy &quot;touched me there&quot; pole-whores works better for you?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maybe daddy &#8220;touched me there&#8221; pole-whores works better for you?</p>
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		<title>By: yesart12</title>
		<link>http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2010/03/10/vajazzling-revealed/comment-page-1/#comment-463147</link>
		<dc:creator>yesart12</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Balljazzling information right here!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSivRNa_9m0</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Balljazzling information right here!<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSivRNa_9m0" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSivRNa_9m0</a></p>
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		<title>By: a woman</title>
		<link>http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2010/03/10/vajazzling-revealed/comment-page-1/#comment-410725</link>
		<dc:creator>a woman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why would you make the assumption that the only conversation women are capable about having about their own bodies is a petty, competitive, and deeply insecure one?  How can you not realize how offensive that assumption is, and how irrational it is that you insert this script into the mind of an anonymous woman you know only through a single brief comment on the internet?  Think about your reasoning:&quot;Women are bitches [ie. do things I don&#039;t like and/or don&#039;t understand] because they are jealous of other women&#039;s appearances.  This is a near universal fact and should be the default explanation for these behaviors because it is almost always the correct appraisal of the situation.&quot; &quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why would you make the assumption that the only conversation women are capable about having about their own bodies is a petty, competitive, and deeply insecure one?  How can you not realize how offensive that assumption is, and how irrational it is that you insert this script into the mind of an anonymous woman you know only through a single brief comment on the internet?  Think about your reasoning:&#8221;Women are bitches [ie. do things I don't like and/or don't understand] because they are jealous of other women&#8217;s appearances.  This is a near universal fact and should be the default explanation for these behaviors because it is almost always the correct appraisal of the situation.&#8221; &#8220;</p>
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		<title>By: lyssa</title>
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		<dc:creator>lyssa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 10:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There...There&#039;s pubic hair dye? o_o

Where have /I/ been?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#8230;There&#8217;s pubic hair dye? o_o</p>
<p>Where have /I/ been?</p>
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		<title>By: liz</title>
		<link>http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2010/03/10/vajazzling-revealed/comment-page-1/#comment-278426</link>
		<dc:creator>liz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hrm. Well, people get bored, so they do things to amuse themselves. This trend caught on. It&#039;s another way to be sexually provocative, and it seems to hold some sort of message that if you&#039;re bold enough to &quot;bedazzle&quot; your pubic region, + 10 hot points for you. Did you see the look on that talk show host&#039;s face?

Regardless, people should adorn themselves as they wish; however, I have real concern about how it&#039;ll impact women and girls and their body image. Are Moms going to start taking their teens to &quot;vajazzling&quot; sweet 16 parties? Are high school seniors going to get vajazzled before prom? Women have enough societal pressure to live up to, and now our pubic areas have to be sparkly? You know how much time women spend trying to remove every spot of hair on their bodies and now the hair follicles have to be replaced with jewels?!

I appreciate cultural creativity, I think it&#039;s fun and transformative. But it can project negative impact, I hope to god this doesn&#039;t become an expected norm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hrm. Well, people get bored, so they do things to amuse themselves. This trend caught on. It&#8217;s another way to be sexually provocative, and it seems to hold some sort of message that if you&#8217;re bold enough to &#8220;bedazzle&#8221; your pubic region, + 10 hot points for you. Did you see the look on that talk show host&#8217;s face?</p>
<p>Regardless, people should adorn themselves as they wish; however, I have real concern about how it&#8217;ll impact women and girls and their body image. Are Moms going to start taking their teens to &#8220;vajazzling&#8221; sweet 16 parties? Are high school seniors going to get vajazzled before prom? Women have enough societal pressure to live up to, and now our pubic areas have to be sparkly? You know how much time women spend trying to remove every spot of hair on their bodies and now the hair follicles have to be replaced with jewels?!</p>
<p>I appreciate cultural creativity, I think it&#8217;s fun and transformative. But it can project negative impact, I hope to god this doesn&#8217;t become an expected norm.</p>
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		<title>By: Lifestyle Muskelotti &#8211; Vajazzling!</title>
		<link>http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2010/03/10/vajazzling-revealed/comment-page-1/#comment-278323</link>
		<dc:creator>Lifestyle Muskelotti &#8211; Vajazzling!</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] ristiriitaisten tunteiden aallokossa. En osaa päättää, onko tämä uusi villitys nyt hienoa ja coolia vai täysin järjetöntä [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] ristiriitaisten tunteiden aallokossa. En osaa päättää, onko tämä uusi villitys nyt hienoa ja coolia vai täysin järjetöntä [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Vajazzling and possible intellectual inconsistency &#171; Not Your Bottom</title>
		<link>http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2010/03/10/vajazzling-revealed/comment-page-1/#comment-247795</link>
		<dc:creator>Vajazzling and possible intellectual inconsistency &#171; Not Your Bottom</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] 22, 2010 by notyrbottom    Okay, this. Vajazzling. I found out about it from Figleaf&#8217;s post about it on his Real Adult Sex [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] 22, 2010 by notyrbottom    Okay, this. Vajazzling. I found out about it from Figleaf&#8217;s post about it on his Real Adult Sex [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Jolanta Benal</title>
		<link>http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2010/03/10/vajazzling-revealed/comment-page-1/#comment-246758</link>
		<dc:creator>Jolanta Benal</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This thing about calling the vulva the vagina? It&#039;s Eve Ensler&#039;s fault: &quot;The Vagina Monologues&quot; should properly have been &quot;The Vulva Monologues.&quot; But since the play was a piece of crap anyway, it&#039;s no surprise she couldn&#039;t get her vocabulary right.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This thing about calling the vulva the vagina? It&#8217;s Eve Ensler&#8217;s fault: &#8220;The Vagina Monologues&#8221; should properly have been &#8220;The Vulva Monologues.&#8221; But since the play was a piece of crap anyway, it&#8217;s no surprise she couldn&#8217;t get her vocabulary right.</p>
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		<title>By: Product Review: Crystal Delights Glass Plug</title>
		<link>http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2010/03/10/vajazzling-revealed/comment-page-1/#comment-245058</link>
		<dc:creator>Product Review: Crystal Delights Glass Plug</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] think I could be walking around with a Swarovski crystal in my butt! WAY cooler than whatever those vajazzling shenanigans are, if you ask me. The plug is 5 inches total in length, with a 1.5 inch diameter at the largest [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] think I could be walking around with a Swarovski crystal in my butt! WAY cooler than whatever those vajazzling shenanigans are, if you ask me. The plug is 5 inches total in length, with a 1.5 inch diameter at the largest [...]</p>
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		<title>By: persephone</title>
		<link>http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2010/03/10/vajazzling-revealed/comment-page-1/#comment-244290</link>
		<dc:creator>persephone</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>To this and to some of your other comments:
Yeah, let&#039;s turn a discussion about why some women choose to undergo a specific form of body modification into a discussion of what turns YOU on. And if anybody suggests a possible reason the woman might want to do that (which might or might not be considered a good reason by anybody else)? They&#039;re obviously snarking on her for being prettier. I mean, I could see she had a scar - so what? I don&#039;t think it matters to her attractiveness, but moreso - her attractiveness is none of my damn business. It&#039;s her body.
Also, for someone who claims that &quot;it’s not MY fault that I’m male and gender socialization affects how I communicate&quot; - you&#039;re awfully judgmental of other people&#039;s communication forms (&quot;tone down that sarcasm&quot;).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To this and to some of your other comments:<br />
Yeah, let&#8217;s turn a discussion about why some women choose to undergo a specific form of body modification into a discussion of what turns YOU on. And if anybody suggests a possible reason the woman might want to do that (which might or might not be considered a good reason by anybody else)? They&#8217;re obviously snarking on her for being prettier. I mean, I could see she had a scar &#8211; so what? I don&#8217;t think it matters to her attractiveness, but moreso &#8211; her attractiveness is none of my damn business. It&#8217;s her body.<br />
Also, for someone who claims that &#8220;it’s not MY fault that I’m male and gender socialization affects how I communicate&#8221; &#8211; you&#8217;re awfully judgmental of other people&#8217;s communication forms (&#8220;tone down that sarcasm&#8221;).</p>
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		<title>By: Village Idiot</title>
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		<dc:creator>Village Idiot</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;I was just teasing, dude, don’t get your panties in a bunch.&lt;/i&gt;

So you were being obtuse and difficult on purpose then. OK, thanks. And if what you say is true (which I doubt) then it&#039;s be even more annoying than if you&#039;d been serious. In case you haven&#039;t noticed, sarcasm like that doesn&#039;t transmit very well over a medium like this. Also, your comment was as straightforward as many I&#039;ve seen expressing a similar sentiment so without any cue that it was &#039;teasing&#039; then it will generally be interpreted as what you really thought and meant to say. Saying stupid shit then backing off when challenged with some lame &quot;I was kidding!&quot; excuse just doesn&#039;t cut it IMO. Say what you mean and stand by it, offer a cue if you&#039;re being facetious, or shut the hell up and save the rest of us the annoyance (if you don&#039;t mind).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>I was just teasing, dude, don’t get your panties in a bunch.</i></p>
<p>So you were being obtuse and difficult on purpose then. OK, thanks. And if what you say is true (which I doubt) then it&#8217;s be even more annoying than if you&#8217;d been serious. In case you haven&#8217;t noticed, sarcasm like that doesn&#8217;t transmit very well over a medium like this. Also, your comment was as straightforward as many I&#8217;ve seen expressing a similar sentiment so without any cue that it was &#8216;teasing&#8217; then it will generally be interpreted as what you really thought and meant to say. Saying stupid shit then backing off when challenged with some lame &#8220;I was kidding!&#8221; excuse just doesn&#8217;t cut it IMO. Say what you mean and stand by it, offer a cue if you&#8217;re being facetious, or shut the hell up and save the rest of us the annoyance (if you don&#8217;t mind).</p>
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		<title>By: Glittery Vajayjays and the Denaturing of Female Sexuality &#171; Kittywampus</title>
		<link>http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2010/03/10/vajazzling-revealed/comment-page-1/#comment-243329</link>
		<dc:creator>Glittery Vajayjays and the Denaturing of Female Sexuality &#171; Kittywampus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] anyone would desire a crystal encrusted &#8220;vajayjay.&#8221; (How does one achieve this? Let Sociological Images enlighten you!) I don&#8217;t think this will take off as a real trend. A recession is on, and most of us can [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] anyone would desire a crystal encrusted &#8220;vajayjay.&#8221; (How does one achieve this? Let Sociological Images enlighten you!) I don&#8217;t think this will take off as a real trend. A recession is on, and most of us can [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Cecelia</title>
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		<dc:creator>Cecelia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m sad I watched.  We live in such a dumb culture.</description>
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		<title>By: CC</title>
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		<dc:creator>CC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I was just teasing, dude, don&#039;t get your panties in a bunch.

It makes sense that it would be a stripper thing, though. I&#039;ve always thought stripper bling was pretty. And I thought a lot of stripping did take dancing skill? I&#039;m not a stripper, though, so I dunno.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was just teasing, dude, don&#8217;t get your panties in a bunch.</p>
<p>It makes sense that it would be a stripper thing, though. I&#8217;ve always thought stripper bling was pretty. And I thought a lot of stripping did take dancing skill? I&#8217;m not a stripper, though, so I dunno.</p>
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		<title>By: Village Idiot</title>
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		<dc:creator>Village Idiot</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>CC, are you being obtuse and difficult on purpose or do you really think you&#039;re that clever in your ability to suss out what people REALLY mean to say? If you&#039;d bothered to read my earlier comments (or rather, comprehend them) you might&#039;ve taken a different tack with your self-satisfied but misplaced condescension. 

 Strippers entertain through visual stimulation, no? If there was actual sexual contact they would be prostitutes not strippers then, right? This vajazzling thing is clearly not very practical for anything but visual stimulation, therefore it was probably developed and is mostly sought by individuals concerned with how they look more so than how what they&#039;re doing might feel. Since it&#039;s an adornment of an anatomical region that under penalty of Law is only allowed to be revealed at home behind closed doors, on pay-TV/DVD&#039;s/the internet, or in strip clubs (in some States anyway), I don&#039;t think it&#039;s outrageous to assume the primary market and consumer of this product will be strippers or porn stars. And even though our culture is being &#039;pornified,&#039; strippers and porn stars are still widely perceived as morally suspect so alluding to weddings and anniversaries seemed to me to be a way to distance the product from that association. 

Or is your problem that I refer to them as &#039;strippers&#039; instead of &#039;dancers?&#039; It&#039;s not a shameful way to pay your way through college so you don&#039;t have to have a chip on your shoulder about it, but c&#039;mon... it ain&#039;t exactly &#039;dancing&#039; either. I know several women who did it and they&#039;re among the few graduates I know who aren&#039;t currently stuck paying a huge student loan debt, lol.


And I think the male version should be called &quot;Balluster!&quot; It works on so many levels...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CC, are you being obtuse and difficult on purpose or do you really think you&#8217;re that clever in your ability to suss out what people REALLY mean to say? If you&#8217;d bothered to read my earlier comments (or rather, comprehend them) you might&#8217;ve taken a different tack with your self-satisfied but misplaced condescension. </p>
<p> Strippers entertain through visual stimulation, no? If there was actual sexual contact they would be prostitutes not strippers then, right? This vajazzling thing is clearly not very practical for anything but visual stimulation, therefore it was probably developed and is mostly sought by individuals concerned with how they look more so than how what they&#8217;re doing might feel. Since it&#8217;s an adornment of an anatomical region that under penalty of Law is only allowed to be revealed at home behind closed doors, on pay-TV/DVD&#8217;s/the internet, or in strip clubs (in some States anyway), I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s outrageous to assume the primary market and consumer of this product will be strippers or porn stars. And even though our culture is being &#8216;pornified,&#8217; strippers and porn stars are still widely perceived as morally suspect so alluding to weddings and anniversaries seemed to me to be a way to distance the product from that association. </p>
<p>Or is your problem that I refer to them as &#8216;strippers&#8217; instead of &#8216;dancers?&#8217; It&#8217;s not a shameful way to pay your way through college so you don&#8217;t have to have a chip on your shoulder about it, but c&#8217;mon&#8230; it ain&#8217;t exactly &#8216;dancing&#8217; either. I know several women who did it and they&#8217;re among the few graduates I know who aren&#8217;t currently stuck paying a huge student loan debt, lol.</p>
<p>And I think the male version should be called &#8220;Balluster!&#8221; It works on so many levels&#8230;</p>
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