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why are there not more hygiene regulations? mandatory gloves? mandatory condoms? obviously there have to be mandatory controls where the service is observed by an official.

what about mandatory std tests for sex buyers? should they not also be id‘d for followup questions? is pissing and shitting on another person legal if you pay for it? doesnt seem like a healthy work environment to me.

if it‘s a service, there need to be more regulations and rules to avoid health complications. how long is the client allowed to strangulate the prostitute? how hard is he allowed to hit her? how long is too long for penetration? how many clients per day are allowed before it becomes a health issue?

considering the prevalence of drug abuse and trauma, there should be mandatory therapy and regular drug tests. why are prostitutes allowed to work on drugs and drunk? that does not seem like a job like any other. what a weird service.

is the service to make the client come or to perform a certain sexual action? is the client allowed to sue if the prostitute interrupts the service because she is in pain? what demands are appropriate and which are not? there should be a catalogue.

how long should a blowjob be? is deepthroat a health hazard or labor like any other? what about anal? is lube mandatory?

what about kinks? are all kinks allowed? what about cumming on the prostitute? would that not constitute a health hazard? no other job that deals with bodily fluids has this lack of regulation and demand for it.

should it not be mandatory every prostitute gets a bodyguard considering the prevalence of violence and abuse? should sex buyers not id to avoid violence and prosecute offenders? should sex buyers not prove that they are not convicted sex offenders or domestic abusers? if it‘s a service, there should be worker protection right?

On average, one woman in the UK is strangled to death by her partner every two weeks, according to Women’s Aid.

Now, though, it is women being choked – Mackenzie hasn’t found a single case of a man killed by a woman in an alleged “sex game gone wrong”. And sex surveys, advice forums, social media feeds and women’s magazines show the way the practice has become mainstream.

In his seminal sadism and masochism book, SM 101, sex educator and activist David Wiseman writes, "I know of no way whatsoever that suffocation or strangulation can be done that does not intrinsically put the recipient at risk of cardiac arrest… I know of no reliable way to determine when such a cardiac arrest becomes imminent. If the recipient does arrest, the probability of resuscitating them, even with optimal CPR, is small."

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Please, No More Subway-Sandwich Thighs!

I want to talk about a comic art convention I see from time to time that really gets up my nose.  Now, when I say convention, I mean an accepted technique or practice in the field rather than a gathering of gloriously enthusiastic nerds in costume.  In this instance, I am talking about a particular drawing shortcut that is accepted as “solid” and “professional” in the industry that I find teeth-grindingly lazy and bizarre.  I call it “Subway Sandwich Thighs”. As illustrated below:

As you can see, the thigh and the calf are sandwiched together, mid-air, without anything pressing against the underside of the calf to make it that way. Legs do not work that way, not even in bendy women. We cannot bend our legs and make them do that in mid-air. For that to happen, we need to put our weight on our bent legs, kneeling on the ground. It is the weight of our bodies that pushes the two parts of the legs together. Usually, the legs splay to the side, so that they aren’t pushed together too hard. We often sit on the side of our butts after about three or four minutes, cause that shit is uncomfortable.

As an experiment, go in front of a mirror, and try to bend your leg as much as you can, pressing your heel to your buttock. Do not use your hands to press the foot and buttock together – just check how close you can get naturally. If you’re a guy, I really want you to try this.

Now, stand there and imagine flying for more than ten minutes in that position. It fucking hurts, doesn’t it? It’s tight, it’s unnatural. It’s the sort of thing a dancer does for two seconds before leaping away into another pose. It is not a natural position to take.

I half-jokingly wonder if artists employ it because it evokes the mental imagery of a woman splaying on top of a man during intercourse, straddling him. It can display the buttocks in a pleasing way, and it also makes much of the crotch. But it’s the most ridiculous bloody drawing convention outside of the Rubber Spine thing, and I’d be more than happy if it died a quiet death.

Here are some gymnasts, naturally flexible people, bending their legs in the middle of routines. Notice their aren’t squishing the two halves of their legs together:

Here are some women kneeling. Just for reference for later corrections:

And now, some corrections:

Okay, enough of me picking on JSC.  Here’s the nitty gritty of the matter, and a hat-tip to stylistic choices:

Thanks to tumblr’s downscaling, the red text is: Leg too long, No pelvis all butt, heel goes where? and Where leg go? as well as “This looks odd but my body is really like this”.

The anatomy I’ve done isn’t perfect, but I think I illustrate my point.

The Anatomy of a Fuck Up:

So what’s happening here? Why are people making this mistake over and over? The reason is twofold.

One: Mistaken anatomy. When these artists draw their stuff to arse-up, face-down, no-time-to-fart deadlines, they don’t have the leisure I do to stop and think about how a woman looks when doing these poses. So when they have to think about a woman flying mid-air, they think about a woman kneeling, rather than an actual woman with her leg in the air. They just transfer the kneeling leg position to the upright position, even though the human muscles, tendons and body mass DO NOT ALLOW for that to happen.  With kneeling positions, they just go ahead and trundle out the shortcuts they learnt earlier in the piece, without thought to how heels and butt-cracks work.

Two: It’s Not Important.

In most situations, accuracy of a woman’s anatomy is not important in a comic book or graphic novel. A female character must be alluring above all, so certain anatomically impossible conventions get the wave and are never fixed. Other people learn these “shortcuts” and that it’s okay to draw like that, and it keeps on happening. FOREVER.