Resumo de Scarlet - DITA VAN TEESE (Nov 06 guest editor)

ABSTRACT ? SCARLET - Monthly erotica magazine aimed at a female readership, but quite entertaining and informative for men too. Many men contribute to the work. Articles in the November 2006 edition include a feature on what to do if you are on a really lousy date. Suggestions include pretending that you regret the fact that you had a sex change. There are snippets of news on sexual hi-jinks from the world media. In one story, a raft race with rafts made of sex-shop blow up dolls was disrupted when a contestant had sex with his boat in the water instead of rowing her for the finishing line. There are tips on how to improve kissing techniques, alongside large glossy pictures of handsome men in their underwear. There is a lot of advice on improving the female libido, including making a masturbation schedule and keeping to it religiously. There is a lovely feature on the paternal male, showing that many men want children as much as their wives and girlfriends do. It shatters the myth that men see children as an inconvenience or a symbol of potency and heirdom. There is a fun feature in which a girl called Emily gets into erotic food fighting, with pictures of her plastered from head to foot in custard to prove it. She talks of the difficult clean up job afterwards, still smelling sugary on the train home after the shower. There is a fascinating article in which men are shown five images of vaginal pubic hair of different lengths and cuts, from clean cut to wild and bushy afros, and even trimmed into a heart shape like a wild act of topiary, and invite various men to comment on how they feel about each design. There is a history of the corset, from prehistoric images in cave paintings, through the waistline crushing restrictive designs favoured by France?s 13th century queen Catherine de Medici. In the days when media supermodels are seen as positively anorexic, it is refreshing to see how obsessed Victorians were with crushing the waistline to the absolute limit. The corset fell out of fashion as Lycra came into its own in the 1960?s until the Goths revitalised an interest in corsetry in the late 1980?s. There are reviews of sexy films, books, and sex toys to die for. A real highlight is the section called Cliterature, which presents high quality erotic stories and a Q & A session with their own art-designer, Garry Walton (who has done some very good complimentary work here). An eclectic magazine, mixing features on embryo freezing with a non-too serious astrology of sex column. This is a much better than average magazine that is a real turn on to mind and body, and not just for women. They have a free subscription online magazine called The Scarlet letter too, which I shall review separately. It?s at www.thescarletletter.co.uk. The November edition is edited with some enthusiasm by Dita Von Teese, well known for her Bulrlesque revival act, and her relationship with Marylin Manson.

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