This is Burning Man week out on the dry lake beds, or playa, of Northern Nevada near Gerlach. I’ve never lived the “Burning Man” experience, although I have lived in Reno since 1990, four years after its first year, but I have seen many ‘burners’ come and go as they invade Reno for supplies and gasoline for their round trip. Just being in a store or a parking lot can be quite an experience all by itself.
Near nudity or just plain nudity is the primary dress code, or so it seems, and I have seen many young ladies wearing next to nothing or nothing at all in the backs of their pickups or lounging near their old VW vans slathering their bodies with tanning oil, or even shopping in the most tiny and diaphanous of bikinis. One does not have to be a voyeur to witness this; it’s just there.
According to.an account on the front page of today’s “Reno Gazette Journal” Burning Man has the following ‘pleasure’ dens available:
“You may have heard about the “Orgy Dome.”
It’s one of the most notoriously kinky landmarks at Burning Man, even though a majority of the 80,000 people at the event never visit it, or even notice it when bicycling by.
In Black Rock City, a lot of Burners like to play, touch and get to know each other in an intimate fashion, and the Orgy Dome is just one of the places on playa where you can do so.
At camps all over the temporary city, there are opportunities to learn how to flog a partner during “open dungeon play” or get sponged in a “human body wash.” Burners can also get a “naughty nude portrait” or a print of their privates in the traditional Japanese method of Gyotaku.
“Burners are) doing what they want to do, but it’s not a free-for-all,” said Donna Rae Watson, director of the Bureau of Erotic Discourse, a large camp at Burning Man that teaches Burners about sex. The key being consensual sex.”
So the world is transforming, much of it prompted by the “Me Too” feminine movement. Whether all the overt sensuality and sexuality is a good thing or a bad thing depends on one’s personal points of view, I suppose. ~llaw