I get a lot of questions about the name “Vagina Drum”. When I say “questions”, I mean that people are like, “What the fuck is Vagina Drum and why are you so gross?”. This is the kind of question that I file under “rhetorical” and so I just shrug and maybe try to hit on them since they already have such low expectations of me.
I am still, however, taken aback when this happens, because Vagina Drum has been a fact of life for quite some time now. I wish I could tell a story about its origins that involves me finding out about some modern day Ted Bundy who kills women to use their vaginas as drum skins to play in his Guns N’ Roses cover band, and how I single-handedly shut him down minutes before my swearing-in ceremony, but I cannot. Although, it would be kind of fucked up if that really was the story, and then I went and appropriated a name from the twisted happenings, but it does sound like something I would do.
Instead, I plopped my ass on some kitchen counters, spread my legs, and just started beating away. I called it my “vagina drum” and it took me nearly four years to realize that it could me more than something I do for a cheap laugh. If you want my hippie Tommy Chong analysis, Vagina Drum is what you play when you are proud of your pussy or (for men) the fact that they exist. It is also about getting pissed off at rape as a war tactic, honor killings, and the fact that Warren Jeffs is alive and well.
I don’t think of myself as Vagina Drum, and I’m not hiding behind some ridiculous moniker. My identity is easily found online, I just think this one is much cooler.
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this shit is amazing! i have an unfortunate crush on you now.
I just very well might have to agree with Ethan.
Ditto here.
You are a goddess among blogs in my book.
Very interesting blog, found it thx to @nerdist on Twitter
in response to your porn blog:
like anything in life, there are various degrees of various degrees of various degrees….
porn remains ‘controversial’ because porn crosses lines of comfort that people choose to cling to about ‘sex’. my own personal experience with porn has been overall rewarding because as a ‘guy’ i do not adhere to narrow aspects of gender-agendaring.
instead, i opt to use porn as a tool and not as a means to remain trapped into the ‘sterotypical waters’ of what it means to be a ‘guy’ or a so-called ‘dude’. when i discovered porn years ago, i found porn to be meditative and would often turn down the volume and sound and observe the images as i read and listened to my own music.
over the years, i have continued to use porn not as any compass into the forays of sexuality BUT as a meditative element stirring the sensual waters of my strong MOJO.
like food – one can easily blame food for the obesity problems of this culture or one can squarely look the fat-ass in the eyes and tell them to use their intelligence to eat less, to eat well, and to train and to condition. to blame food for the fault of obesity would be to believe that ‘sin’ really does exist.
thank you.
esta bueno