Listen to me very carefully. I am going to provide a link to the latest photo essay by Zombie, Bay Area muckraker extraordinaire. But before I provide the link, you must be forewarned.
Zombie is there at all the major left-wing events around San Francisco, taking photos of the things you rarely, if ever, see the mainstream media show. Zombie has certainly done that here. The other day, San Francisco held its annual Folsom Street Fair. My wife, who graduated from San Francisco State, received the shock of her life when some friends took her to this fair while she was in college. After viewing Zombie's photos, I can totally understand why. Whether the participants are gay or straight, I don't care. What disgusts me is the public display of nudity, hedonism, oral sex, and the crowds of onlookers egging all this on, along with the SFPD officers standing around letting it all happen.
Before I provide you with the link to Zombie's report, please consider yourself warned that what you will see if you click on the link (and go through Zombie's warnings as well) is a horrific and graphic presentation of the worst kind of public decadence that the City by the Bay has to offer. What you do behind closed doors is one thing; but for stuff like this to be done where unwitting bystanders - including children - can be exposed to it is absolutely reprehensible, and the city of San Francisco ought to be ashamed of itself for allowing this annual travesty to happen. Of course, if you have the stomach to view Zombie's photos, you will see that shame isn't exactly in large supply at this event.
OK, last warning: Zombie's photos of this year's San Francisco Folsom Street Fair are extremely graphic, disturbing, and, I believe, sad. It's a shame that people are willing to degrade themselves like this in public, and it's a shame that the local government allows it to happen and further tarnish the image of what could be a great city.
Here is the link.
Do not go to the link if you are at work. Zombie's photo essay is totally inappropriate to view anywhere but in your own home.
Good Day to You, Sir
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free... it expects what never was, and never will be." --Thomas Jefferson
7 comments:
If they rented the Cow Palace (does that even still exist?) and held an event like this indoors, more power to them. But public nudity and hedonism like this is just nasty.
Saturnalia, Bacchunalia both rolled into one?
They call this a "normal" lifestyle, so someone went out and took hundreds of pictures. Nothing inappropriate here, is there? How about common decency? (Excuse me, I have to go back and see the rest of the garbage, so as not to offend that "artistic" photographer. Oh, and the text was pure Dickens [pardon the pun].)
You know, I'd like to peer into the bedrooms, back rooms, and hotel rooms of all of you so-called moralists (if you aren't one, I'm not talking to you)as you cheat on your wives, tap your toes in toilets, molest your neighbors children (most pedophiles being in position so trust with children, straight, and white), and covet to your hearts content.
Folsom St Fair is an adult venue--kids aren't exposed--and if you don't like what it is, then don't go--in fact, head thee to Utah or wherever so you can be with your bitter, angry selves.
Common decency would have kept your photographer from "documenting" - I wonder how many of you are whacking off to this tonight.
I seriously feel like puking. Is there still any wonder as to why the AIDS epidemic is raging through the gay community? Is this liberation? Seriously.
Anon: Perversity is not the norm, not everyone who calls what they saw in the photo show is a closet molester, and I did not jack off while viewing the photos. Good point about taking the photos though. All of us have yet to experience the sexuality that God has intended for us.
However, I am better educated about the gay, trans, etc. community and I ain't interested. I don't see what they are doing as liberated, in fact it is, well, bondage.
George
I'm getting the message from my comments that you are offended that Zombie took these photos. Am I understanding this correctly?
So that standard is that if something is happening that is offensive, no photos are to be taken? That doesn't make any sense.
Not to compare the Folsom Street Fair to the Holocaust, but what if photographers had not documented the vileness of the what the Nazis had done to their death camp victims? To blame the photographer for documenting something offensive so that people are aware of it is simply ludicrous. "Common decency" would have kept the Fair celebrants from advertising their wares in a public venue in the first place.
And to 1st Anonymous, if the Folsom Street Fair is an adult venue, then don't have it on a public street! As Darren suggested, rent the Cow Palace or something.
Your suggestion that you would like to "peer" into bedrooms, backrooms, and hotel rooms is exactly the point. You would have to consciously do so in order to view the hedonism going on. To see the vileness of this Fair, you only need to be some unknowing tourist from Iowa who stumbles across the thing as you are walking the streets of the City.
"Tapping your toe in toilets" is fine by me if it is not done in a PUBLIC toilet. I get the feeling you don't understand the difference between public and private.
By the way Anonymous 1:
In response to your pontificating about adultery, pedophilia, and masturbation, do I detect a little projection going on here?
ick...
And this is normal? No thanks. And just to be clear, an event like this would NEVER go down here in Las Vegas. Metro would shut it down pronto. That's why we have convention halls you know. I've never heard of anything close to this at the AVN show that is held yearly in Las Vegas.
Double ick...
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