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posted July 9th by zjyw

By tagging the city with various sexual positions, this simple guerrilla campaign for Oohtique.com – an online sex store – encouraged individuals to be more spontaneous with a playful proposition” Have Fun”.

It doesn’t say what city this is in, most likely NYC. I don’t know how I feel about this. I know some parts of SF are pretty dirty, so if I saw this I’d think it added something new to a wall that would probably have graffitti already on it. But in the picture the walls used are nice and look like really nice areas that kids would play in and walk past by with their parents. If I were a parent with kids that could read and have a slight idea of what sex was, I’d be embarrassed because I’d have to talk to them about sex later that day.

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8 comments so far ↓

1 phil // Jul 9, 2009 at 9:12 am

I think it’s good if parents are forced to talk to kids about sex. You could get out of it by saying to your kid that it’s telling you to do handstands.

I saw the South Park puppet movie, I forget the name of it, but if you’ve ever seen it you know there’s an extremely explicit puppet sex scene about halfway through. There was a guy there with his 7 year old daughter who was asking him “daddy what are those people doing?” I felt bad for him.
2 beth // Jul 9, 2009 at 1:51 pm

As a kid, I definitely wouldn’t have understood this. I bet I wouldn’t have “gotten it” until I was about 13 or so – and by then they’ve taught kids about sex in school.
3 naida // Jul 13, 2009 at 7:54 pm

I think living in society opens up many opportunities to teach and parents should go for it. When explaining something to a child, a good way to handle their needs, is to answer the question they ask, specifically and keep it simple. In other words a five year old may say, “mommy what is that,” referring to the graffiti. I would say hand and footprints, it’s art, someone expressing ideas, etc. As they get older their questions will be more specific, thus prompting more descriptive answers. And if you have been open and helpful they will be ready for anything. My son is 12 and is able to comfortably tackle many issues that even adults struggle to discuss. Also he is not experienced, just aware:)
4 naida // Jul 13, 2009 at 7:57 pm

Oh for instance the “Vagina Monologues” quilt display in Ukiah was a definite opportunity to discuss the vagina. He could read and was young, maybe eight and wanted to know why there were quilts with vagina’s on them. Good question. And a discussion followed.
5 phil // Jul 14, 2009 at 9:15 am

I remember when I was a kid (maybe I read the word “condom” and so I asked my mom what the word meant and she said “It’s something people use when they want to have sex but they don’t want have kids”. Also around the same time I asked her what “gay” meant and she said it’s when a man wants to be with another man instead of with a woman, or where a woman wants to be with a woman.

In both cases there were things she could have said to avoid talking about things that were supposed to be above my level but she gave me the benefit of the doubt and gave me the simple answer.

I think that’s the right way to do it.
6 naida // Jul 16, 2009 at 9:39 pm

I agree. I just meant no need to explain anal intercourse unless asked:)
7 phil // Jul 16, 2009 at 11:03 pm

Exactly!
8 Joe // Jul 16, 2009 at 11:34 pm

“You know how taking an ess kind of feels good in a weird way? Well…”