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19 yo art student Clayton Pettet has announced he intends to lose his virginity in a London gallery as a performance art piece entitled 'Art School Stole My Virginity'. The 19-year-old will have sex with another boy in front of an audience of up to 100 people who will then be invited to ask questions about his experience. This is scheduled to take place on 25 January next year and "aims to challenge the idea of sexuality". He explains in his blog: My name is Clayton; I am currently at Art School in London. I am nineteen years of age. I have brown hair and brown eyes and I am a Virgin. A Performance for The People The Idea of “Art School Stole My Virginity” came around when I was Sixteen, when all my peers at school were losing their Virginity it was incredibly hard for me to ask why I was still a Virgin and why it meant so much to the people all around me. My piece isnt a statement as much as it is a question. The whole aspect of Virginity was incredibly emotional for me and has been ever since. It became a thought process that turned into the performance piece that I wish to create for the public on January the 25th. The London Art Scene has slowed down recently and whilst London is in its prime and is constantly changing the contemporary artists are the same and they aren’t so contemporary anymore. I want my piece to inject some speed into the arts, a performance of the people if you will. I feel like now is the time for the new scene. To lose my Virginity with the new age is the Avant Garde that London has been unintentionally waiting for. He explains further in an interview “The key thing about performance art is that it should only be performed once, and this is the ultimate once-in-a-lifetime performance. I’ve held on to my virginity for 19 years, and I’m not throwing it away lightly. Basically it’s like I am losing the stigma around virginity. I want the audience to see if anything has changed between me and my partner. Since culturally we do hold quite a lot of value to the idea of virginity I have decided to use mine and the loss of it to create a piece that I think will stimulate interesting debate and questions regarding the subject.” The idea is that people will be encouraged to question the importance of virginity and the traditional values placed upon it while also considering issues surrounding sexuality and gender. "Virginity has almost become heteronormative in its definition," he says. "Is virginity even real? Or is it just an ignorant word that was used to dictate the value of a woman's worth pre-marriage?" He also said he has chosen not to tell his parents about the project but has informed his tutors at the university. No, they're never gonna find out. Nope. Not in a million years Well, if a dead shark floating in a tank of formaldehyde, and an unmade bed are art then I guess anything can be. As the artist Grayson Perry said: "Art can't shock us anymore – we are all bohemians now." http://thankyouartschoolstole.tumblr.com/ http://www.thenationalstudent.com/Weird_World/2013-11-04/gay_art_student_plans_to_lose_his_virginity_in_front_of_audience.html .
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Well, I suppose it's part of getting older, but the following has just amazed me. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-19353039 It has also disgusted me. Not for the usual gay ickieness about lady bits. I used to partake, in a previous life. No, but because it seems there is a whole lot of stupidity going on with this, and it's probably got a lot more to do with some idiotic notion of being in tip top condition for that most important of things, the heterosexual male who thinks he owns and shapes the whole world. Why doesn't someone just tell these women that if it ain't touching the sides, it's probably his deficiency, not theirs. And tell them to tell the patriarchy to take a long walk off a short boardwalk. Spreading gold dust on the affected part is more about making him think he's a stud stallion, than making her think she's in top hymen breaking condition. Us gay boys have the opposite problem: we have to take time to make places wider, less tight, not so painful, and not likely to bleed. So girls, next time a guy says he wants to dip his wick in a nice tight virginal pussy, tell him he is welcome. But not before you've done him with an unlubed strapon and a single, hilting penetration. That'll change his tune. From sweet nothings in your ear to window shattering screams citywide. ============================================================= On the other hand; was quite amused at the phrase: to close a gap in the market. That just must have been the journalist or publicist having a laugh. Grrrrrrr, just noticed the title typo
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