Public sex acts?

[Simon of the Playa]

leave the cell phones at home...

[DrewDubious]

INTERMISSION

Warning; boring anecdote coming up:

This one time at Burning Man… we were camped across the street from a large tent with an inviting sign above the door. Inside was an art gallery with lots of nifty paintings and sculptures on display. All G-rated.

While viewing the exhibits, I noticed a person walk right thru the back wall of the tent, and I realized there was a portal to an adjacent tent, with two sets of curtains so that only minimal light could enter or escape, even when someone walked thru.

I assumed there was more art in there, either non-G-rated or something with clever lighting that required a dark room to appreciate. So I walked thru.

Inside were rows and rows of rudimentary beds, just mattresses with sheets, maybe 20 of them. And on each mattress was a naked couple apparently warming up to make a baby.

I have no problem with people mating. It’s a sweet and harmless thing to glimpse. If a couple does not prefer privacy, it is no skin off my nose. But I was not prepared for an industrial grade baby assembly line, so I probably stood there slack-jawed a little too long – until a production foreman sauntered up and gently invited me to enjoy the exhibits in the outer tent instead.

Later in the week this camp hosted a Beaver Eating Contest, and two members of my own camp participated. But this was also a no-spectators affair, and so far as I know it was not web-casted.

Now back to our educational program.

Ahem, you don't happen to remember the name of that camp, do yah?

[illy dilly]

I have no problem with people mating. It’s a sweet and harmless thing to glimpse. If a couple does not prefer privacy, it is no skin off my nose. But I was not prepared for an industrial grade baby assembly line, so I probably stood there slack-jawed a little too long – until a production foreman sauntered up and gently invited me to enjoy the exhibits in the outer tent instead.

Every time I read this I completely loose it!
"Industrial grade baby assembly line" and "production foreman" crack me up.

[Elliot]

Weiner and Eliot Spitzer are brothers, right? They even look alike -- or at least did before Spitzer fattened up.

Sorry, no, I don't remember that camp name. They were at 4:30 & C in 2007, and ran a "radio station" that played "Morning Train" every day at 9 AM -- which we enjoyed.

Illy Dilly, you are welcome.

[oly14]

Sorry, no, I don't remember that camp name. They were at 4:30 & C in 2007, and ran a "radio station" that played "Morning Train" every day at 9 AM -- which we enjoyed.

Ah, a puzzle to solve. Could it have been Animal Control?
http://eplaya.burningman.org/viewtopic. ... 01#p885789

[Elliot]

Could be, but they were definitely on Coral Reef street. Man side, 4:35 side, with the art exhibit tent facing 4:30. I was straight across 4:30 from them; Man side, 4:25 side, in my Kinetic Sculpture Race Camp.

I don't know if they were broadcasting only by loudspeaker, of they had an actual radio wave transmitter. If they had a radio transmitter, any camp -- including someone two blocks away on E -- could have plumbed the broadcast into their own loudspeaker.

[goathead]

"it's always an orgy when you fuck a schizophrenic"

it's also an orgy when a schizophrenic masturbates

lucky Liz is Estrada and not Borden.

[JesseP]

I know burning man is a great place for self expression and counter culture, I don't think the acts of public sex would be welcomed by everyone. You would probably have a few people who aren't too thrilled about the idea, but i'm sure there would be a few that would willing participate. Dreaming about such acts is always nice, but when it comes to reality, I think its a much different story.

[goathead]

I know burning man is a great place for self expression and counter culture, I don't think the acts of public sex would be welcomed by everyone. You would probably have a few people who aren't too thrilled about the idea, but i'm sure there would be a few that would willing participate. Dreaming about such acts is always nice, but when it comes to reality, I think its a much different story.

Not when they are performed badly, when well done applause are in order.

[VultureChow]

I know burning man is a great place for self expression and counter culture, I don't think the acts of public sex would be welcomed by everyone. You would probably have a few people who aren't too thrilled about the idea, but i'm sure there would be a few that would willing participate. Dreaming about such acts is always nice, but when it comes to reality, I think its a much different story.

Not when they are performed badly, when well done applause are in order.

When performed poorly I suppose we can heckle them.

[delle]

Picked up a copy of Nerve.com's "Bad Sex - We Did It So You Don't Have To" book at the second-hand store yesterday (for a buck). Promptly gifted it to my husband to read on the long plane ride to TTITD.

I think he's happier with this purchase than any other I made all last week.

From what I've read so far, it's freaking hilarious!

[geospyder]

I know burning man is a great place for self expression and counter culture, I don't think the acts of public sex would be welcomed by everyone. You would probably have a few people who aren't too thrilled about the idea, but i'm sure there would be a few that would willing participate. Dreaming about such acts is always nice, but when it comes to reality, I think its a much different story.

Not when they are performed badly, when well done applause are in order.

Four years ago on Sunday afternoon a couple was getting it on in an open space out past I or J - way out in nowhere. As our group passed by we all applauded. They paused, waved and then continued.

[PlayaPatrol]

Haliegh, you won't get much useful info on eplaya. the 1000+ post regulars are insecure trolls who "snark" (attack) newbies. Sex in a place where minors can see is forbidden. Sex in a place visible to people outside your immediate campmates might get you in trouble. Best to keep it inside and private. There are private sex venues/camps that couples and single females have access to.

[PlayaPatrol]

Just a thought-If people have nothing to add to the discussion they should refrain from replying and showing themselves to be judgmental holier then thou haters. You come across as the Dr. Drew of Burning Man.

B) Think of ePlaya as a house party. Do you walk into a room full of strangers & ask, repeatedly, if anyone's kinky & if you can have sex on the couch in front of everyone? Don't be surprised that people are reacting with a bit of... distaste.

[DrewDubious]

Ah, a puzzle to solve. Could it have been Animal Control?

Animal control was after me this year heheh

[tamarakay]

During exodus a couple in front in front and to the right of us laid a blanket down under their flat bed trailer and tried to discretely have sex. The blanket they taped up on the side fell down, but at that point they didn't care anymore. They get a 10 from ken, an 8 from me. Guy next to them handed her a pack of baby wipes when they were done. Hilarious.

[kiss-o-matic]

Guy next to them handed her a pack of baby wipes when they were done. Hilarious.

That's what Burning Man's all about.

I ran across only one couple making sweet love. I think they were sharing head phones w/ Barry White playing. I was impressed. Sun was up... no blankets... didn't give a shit.

[Canoe]

..you won't get much useful info on eplaya. the 1000+ post regulars are insecure trolls who "snark" (attack) newbies. ...

People tend to attack any incorrect and misleading information posted by people who don't bother to do their homework and read the extensively provided materials on Burning Man, BRC and the playa.

We'll regularly snark anything the whim takes us, usually trying to wait until page 2 to give a chance to meaningful answers.

[Captain Goddammit]

Well I'm here to say that nothing xxx rated ever happened aboard my boat on the playa. Not even just off the 2:00 corner near the art gallery dome at 4:00 am.
That's absolutely the report I'm filing.