Boobs? Open Source?

Scenology — By Adele on 23 April, 2008 8:26 pm

Sometimes news and gossip relating to human sexuality completely stumps me with its sheer whackiness.
John Scalzi writes:

The gist of [Open Source Boobs Project] is that at Penguicon women who were wearing buttons that said “Yes You May” were allowing folks of both sexes to touch their breasts (edit: the button apparently meant you could ask to touch, to which the answer could be “yes, you may” or not). The idea there, as I understand it, was to reinforce the idea that breasts were not these sacred and yet bizarre objects designed to attract attention to themselves and away from the person they are part of.

And handing out free gropes reinforces this idea… how exactly? When you are feeling up breasts, you’re feeling up breasts. I doubt that your perception of this pleasant activity is going to change much whether you have the boobs on tap, or have to struggle for each handful.

I’m all for this idea, though. I would love to be ordered to wear the button, and to be told that I may say no only to three people over the course of the weekend, and so to choose my rejections wisely.

The next logical step would be the “Open Source Bum Project”, intended to show that bottoms were made for smacking, and are wasted when not thus used. The button worn by participants is to say “You wouldn’t dare!” The code question would in turn be “Do you want to try me?”