Come Out and Play

It's never been about the candy. It's always been about sex, fetish, alter ego, and taboo.

What's your fetish? Think you don't have one? Afraid that you do? Look around you on Halloween—what looks good? What do you like? What are you dying to dress up as? A sexy witch, a sexy pirate, a sexy school girl—there's a pig-tailed, short-skirted, girl-bent-over-the-desk fetish in the last one. There's a naughty, dirty temptress in all of them; there's a girl who's been given permission to misbehave. There's no bigger fetish than a woman's sexuality—it's the most demonized thing on the planet, the thing that frightens men the most. Fertile women are still made to cover themselves from head to toe, lest a man should not be able to control himself at the mere sight of her skin, and a woman in a short skirt was asking for it—because how can a man be expected to control himself in the presence of her exposed sexuality? There's a secret dominatrix in every sexy Alice in Wonderland who brings her sexuality out to play and uses it to lead men around by the nose—quite a fetish.

Who's your alter ego? Think you don't have one? It's amazing what people will say when they know it's anonymous (see previous posts), and it's amazing what people will do when they, and everybody else in the room, is masquerading as someone else. It's the role-play fetish at its finest.

Twenty bucks says the ratio of fucking in the bar bathroom on Halloween vs. every other night of the year is 10-to-1. Another twenty bucks says the ratio of fucking in graveyards on Halloween vs. ever other night of the year is 100-to-1.

How did the Day of the Dead become so hypersexualized? All Hallow's Eve is a wiccan holiday—when the veil between the physical world and the spiritual world is the thinnest, when our dead are ascending. How did we sexualize spirits and the dead? That's a fetish, too.

Sexy Alice-in-Wonderland, of course, is a far cry from any kind of vampire/spirit/dead fetish. But still a fetish.
Halloween is coming. Take your alter ego out to play. It will take responsibility for your actions in the morning.

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