Sex Droughts

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OK so this is going to sound like I put way too much thought into the matter, but in reality the reasoning that follows just happened in dribs and drabs whenever I have heard this song over decades.

I thought maybe "What do you do?" was the innuendo, but then the word "follow" threw me off - innuendos were to follow, and the lyrics that followed were "must be something inside," which was either really dirty ("something" = a dick "inside" = inside your mouth/s down south) but that seemed too raunchy, so maybe it meant "there must be something - religion, spirituality - inside of the person being addressed that keeps her (or him) from partying, but that didn't answer the question of what the subtle innuendo might be.

In the end I always just went back to figuring the innuendo was that the person didn't drink or smoke, so she must fuck, and apparently I was right.

(*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Monday, 17 September 2012 22:00 (eleven years ago) link

I wonder if he was trying to pick up on ian mackaye.

how's life, Monday, 17 September 2012 23:07 (eleven years ago) link

This is one of those great songs that for whatever reason I haven't heard in over ten years. I never listened closely to the lyrics; I assumed he was just mocking some girl who lived a dull life. I only now realize he's singing about himself and asserting to would-be interviewers that you can have a good time even without alcohol or drugs, maybe along with a general rant about how rock stars are so often portrayed as overly hedonistic boozers druggies.

Lee626, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 00:17 (eleven years ago) link

removed from the "I must respond to how I am portrayed in the PRESS!!" part of Adam's schtick, which was a big part of his schtick, this song does seem a little "what is he talking about," but it seemed quite clear at the time

Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 00:21 (eleven years ago) link

just watched the video for the first time - it spells it all out unambiguously

Lee626, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 00:34 (eleven years ago) link

When I was a very young kid I had an Adam Ant button that I won at a fair. I never heard any Adam Ant until much later in life, so I'd pretend that maybe he sounded like Falco, of whom I was only familiar with "Vienna Calling".

how's life, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 08:33 (eleven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Congrats! I've been holding my own sad little rainfall gif in reserve for *mumble* years at this point, I'm not even sure where it is on my hard drive anymore.

muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 02:25 (eleven years ago) link

is it a sex drought if it's deliberate? you know you can get laid if you want to but you avoid it for whatever personal reasons.. that's a dam, not a drought, no?

alpha farticles, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 15:08 (eleven years ago) link

that's global warming

barthes simpson, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 15:22 (eleven years ago) link

Undammed if you do, dammed if you don't.

I think I'm at least 2/3 dammed, 1/3 bedroughted.

Old Lunch, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 15:24 (eleven years ago) link

dental dammed if you do

borscht and bikinis (how's life), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 15:32 (eleven years ago) link

http://www.donaldedavis.com/2003NEW/MERCMOD.jpg

ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Friday, 19 October 2012 04:59 (eleven years ago) link

I've now gone 9 months without any intimate contact and about 4.5 years without having intercourse for longer than initial insertion, having been asked the three times my last girlfriend and I tried to remove it immediately. I like the dam/drought analogy. I think I'm 1/2 dammed, 1/2 droughted. I'm a serial monogamist who's terrified of getting into another bad relationship just for the sake of sex.

Bryan, Monday, 22 October 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link

Every time I see this thread I go

Sex droughts
isn't it nice
luring disco dollies to a life of vice

the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 00:30 (eleven years ago) link

Sex drought, isn't it nowt, luring disco dollies to a life of gout...

― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Tuesday, September 21, 2010 9:49 PM (2 years ago)

The Most Typical and Popular Girl Rider (Crabbits), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 00:31 (eleven years ago) link

A girl spilled a drink on me last night. This is officially the most action I have gotten in my entire life. To celebrate I think I will stare at a cubicle wall for nine hours and listen to my neighbor in the cubefarm talk about her kids and then maybe jump off a bridge

muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Thursday, 25 October 2012 14:48 (eleven years ago) link

I feel that way a lot of the time, too.

Bryan, Thursday, 25 October 2012 21:29 (eleven years ago) link

http://s3.freefoto.com/images/9907/03/9907_03_19_web.jpg

Maybe? I dunno, it's been a weird night

muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Sunday, 28 October 2012 06:48 (eleven years ago) link

:-D

ljubljana, Sunday, 28 October 2012 17:21 (eleven years ago) link

Maybe, though? I don't think anything's going to come of it but it's hard to think of a cute girl grinding on my junk to "Dancing With Myself" as anything but a step in the right direction

muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Monday, 29 October 2012 21:09 (eleven years ago) link

Also an unexpected text: "I totally support your gender neutrality btw". In a way maybe the nicest thing anybody's ever said to me.

muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Monday, 29 October 2012 21:13 (eleven years ago) link

:) that's great!

乒乓, Monday, 29 October 2012 21:25 (eleven years ago) link

Robyn is always a step in right direction. A chunky-shoed dance step, I like to think.

purveyor of generations (in orbit), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 14:42 (eleven years ago) link

I didn't know Robyn was covering Billy Idol nowadays

Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 14:51 (eleven years ago) link

Oh sorry, I heard that title to the tune of "Dancing on my Own"! Haha I don't know the Billy Idol song, I fail at the 80s.

purveyor of generations (in orbit), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 14:52 (eleven years ago) link

wait WAHT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG1NrQYXjLU

ALL TIME

also it's about masturbation so it's thread appropriate

Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 14:54 (eleven years ago) link

dude you've just kinda ruined that song for me

chow mein kampf (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 14:55 (eleven years ago) link

Yeah, "Dancing with Myself" is one of the best songs ever. Fact.

ENBB, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 19:17 (eleven years ago) link

Can someone explain to a slack-jawed yokel what the cloud photo was representing?

Bryan, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link

the potential end of a drought

Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link

Thanks. It's similar for me.

Bryan, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 20:08 (eleven years ago) link

you guyyys

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 22:39 (eleven years ago) link

[is still in the whiny early days of drought, shuts up]

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 22:39 (eleven years ago) link

drought is a personal experience

but with socks instead of football (darraghmac), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 22:40 (eleven years ago) link

nobody gets to tell you you're not thirsty

but with socks instead of football (darraghmac), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 22:40 (eleven years ago) link

it's hoos, he probably means he's walking home from the last shower

sug night (sic), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 22:44 (eleven years ago) link

Masturbation is kinda like drinking piss or sea water: you can do it and survive but not for long. Or maybe it's like only drinking Brawndo. I need to have some sex. :-(

Bryan, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 23:15 (eleven years ago) link

I see clouds rolling in.

homosexual II, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link

xpost guess I'm effectively amphibious at this point

Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 19:21 (eleven years ago) link

My gf will be here on Friday!!

Trip Maker, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link

been about 5 months for me, myeloma NAGL

saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 November 2012 06:05 (eleven years ago) link

Every teenage boy knows the "baseball metaphor" thing. There's never been any consensus whatsoever as to what anything but home plate signifies, yet everybody insists that their interpretation (and only theirs) is the one true meaning

In any case TT things are lookin' up...

soaked (Lee626), Thursday, 1 November 2012 18:04 (eleven years ago) link

I'd LOVE some 2nd base action.

Bryan, Thursday, 1 November 2012 23:53 (eleven years ago) link

Arranged for a Frankenstorm of drought-busters and participated in my first organized orgy. Sploosh.

(*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Friday, 2 November 2012 06:15 (eleven years ago) link

When it rains, it.... holy shit this is a hurricane!

http://sheraby.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/morton-salt.jpg?w=240&h=240

soaked (Lee626), Friday, 2 November 2012 12:18 (eleven years ago) link

1st base - kissing
2nd base - groping
long lead off 2nd - manual stimulation
3rd base - oral
home run - sex
stealing home - anal

just FYI

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Sunday, 4 November 2012 20:45 (eleven years ago) link

inside the park home run - ?

乒乓, Sunday, 4 November 2012 20:47 (eleven years ago) link

suicide squeeze - ?

乒乓, Sunday, 4 November 2012 20:47 (eleven years ago) link


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