Last night I discovered that I might be an unwitting member of the online Burqa Fetish Community.
I had never been aware of this fetish, which seeks and celebrates “complete coverage.” I only knew that I like pictures of people wearing veils. In my Tumbler collection, there are hundreds of photos of veiled women (and a few men too.)
Veils are mysterious and exotic, and every culture that employs a veil in some way gets a big thumbs up from me.
Coming across weird photos of draped figures sitting around doing nothing has piqued my interest, but not enough to do any research. God, am I lazy; that’s probably why I’m always the last to know anything.
Now, voila, I get it!
A book called 2041 features a “complete coverage” enthusiast who goes by that number on Flickr, a man who has 60,000 photos that the publishers have edited to form a narrative that is humorous, sinister, and surreal.
It stand to reason that 2014 is British. The Brits really know how to do fetish, don’t they? Remember those guys who can’t be happy until they chop off one of their legs? British. And the tourist who was arrested for coming to the US to have sex with a stallion? British.
But of course, these enthusiasts are not all British. 2041 is part of a connected online community of men and women from across Western Europe and the Gulf States. They are Christians, Muslims and without religion.*
Personally, I don’t care about the drives and underlying psychology behind this fetish. You can do your own research if you want. I only care about the allure and the weirdness.
Here’s what one of the editors says about 2041:
There is definitely an aesthetic dimension of these images that is appealing – the composition and contrast between flatness and texture, the shapes are unlike others I have seen – and there is also a lot of time and effort that has gone into these.
Okay, good He’s the expert.
I love them because what’s not to love, god damn it!
(c) 2041, Here press
(c) Mustafa-Sabbagh
(c) Brendan Zhang
Now look here, Miss Wolf, as an old-school Brit, I’ll have you know that it was a mare in which I was intending to deposit my precious seed, NOT a stallion. There’s nothing queer about me!
Just put done sheets in the dryer…800thread count, great feel and drape…
Sister Wolf, Sorry to high jack this thread but you are the only person I could think of to ask this question You’re in So Cal, right? If I am wrong, well nevermind….but here goes…
Today, on some news program on television, a police detective working on the case of the young woman/mother jogger who was abducted and held for three weeks…
he talked about a corridor, a specific highway in California, starting at the Mexico border, finally ending in Portland Oregon, that is a known sex trade/kidnapping route. He said thousands of people are abducted every year, women, girls, and boys, too.
Really?
Is this true, and common knowledge in CA?
If the guy wasn’t lying on national television, I would be totally shocked that the people of CA, as well as the rest of the country, would tolerate such a situation.
I am truly flabbergasted.
Fell free to ignore me if I got your location wrong,or venture your opinion on some future date.
Oh, and I forgot to add…no one followed up on his remarks. I don’t know why, but I expected this would be news to someone, that it might be repeated somewhere else today….but nothing. The detective made some side comments about all kinds of stuff relating to trafficking going on in the state….I had no idea.
Still shaken up from the report.
David Duff – Oh come on, you’re the exception to the Pervy Brits generalization. (Just make sure you delete your search history AND cookies.)
G – I’m not following this story…but I haven’t heard about a series of kidnappings. I’m too engulfed in the daily Trump Show to take in much else.
Dj – Can we get some pictures???
Us Brits are great at sexual perversions. It all goes back to repressed desire and calls to mind a favourite Oscar Wilde quote – “The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.”
The Germans have some pretty bizarre kinks too.
Some of these pictures are beautiful. Others I love for their unashamedly pedestrian qualities and odd placement of furniture (like a readers wives section in an old 80’s porno mag.)
“Cocaine in flower” is a very interesting name for a perfume. I wonder if this bottle inspired YSL’s Opium? There’s more than a passing resemblance in silhouette and then there’s the obvious opiate similarity.