When I founded Bearded Eloise I knew that I wanted to write about kinky, sexy, scary and weird stuff. Our contributors, especially the incredible Brie Nicholson, have delivered the sexy up until this point but we now have a new (hopefully exciting) feature coming to the site. We’re going to be seeing articles, interviews, poetry and music related to sex; specifically the more unusual end of the spectrum.
There are a couple of reasons why we’re doing this and I feel it’s very important for these to be explained before anything is actually posted. I see myself as a very sex-positive person and I would always encourage openness in terms of sexuality, preferences, etc. In my eyes, nothing is “weird” or “fucked up” as long as everybody involved in the scenario is consenting, and able to consent. I keep seeing this normativity perpetuated everywhere I look; films, TV, music videos, advertising. For a society that many consider to be sexualised, I find it depressing how few “versions” of sexuality are actually shown.
I saw a website the other day detailing a particular fetish, describing its “symptoms”, and that really did strengthen my will to help change things. I don’t believe that desire has “symptoms”. No matter who or what or how you want to fuck, it is natural and human and beautiful and raw and sexy. After I sent a tweet asking people about their own fetishes I was greeted with a huge amount of messages from people who are ashamed of their desires or described themselves as “weird”, “sick” or “repressed”. By attempting to show a wider variety of experiences on this site, I hope that those people will feel a bit more able to come to terms with whatever it is that gets them off.
Some of it will be sexy and hopefully some of it will turn you on but it is NOT intended to be salacious or titillating. I want to make it clear that this is not exhibitionism, I don’t have a “sex sells” attitude and none of it will be treated as a joke. I will not tolerate comments where people are mocked for their sexual desires, are laughed at because of their profession or anything else of the sort. Some people have ‘vanilla’ sex and some people don’t; that really shouldn’t be a contentious or particularly amusing issue.
The name of this section will be “pleasure” rather than “sex” because I want to make the whole thing as open and inclusive as I possibly can. It goes without saying that a lot of it will be NSFW (depending on where you work…). I hope you all enjoy the posts and are surprised, shocked and turned on in equal measure by them all.
