Black and blue marks: the newest fashion accessory
Posted at 9:42 AM Aug 26, 2008
By Bonnie Ruberg
After a night of rough-house style passion, ever wondered what to do about all those bruises? Wear long sleeves in the summer? Only whip out the running shorts for nighttime jogs?
One Brooklyn woman, who's recently met a tough love lover, asked the ladies over at Bedpost just that:
Every inch of me is literally covered in bruises! Not hickeys, bruises. They start out mouth-shaped and identifiably sex-markish, but eventually the edges fuzz out and I just look like I've been battered!
While she's worried about what people will think of her marks, she doesn't want her lover to stop leaving them. Girl, do I ever feel your pain. Still, I was pleasantly surprised that the sex advice she got from sexperts Em & Lo was black and blue positive:
We think you should wear your bruises with pride. They're coming from such a positive place, why not embrace them? When people nosily ask, just tell them the truth: "What can I say? Amazing sex!" and leave it at that (and leave the inquirers green -- and brown and yellow -- with envy).
Sweet, now we not only get to wear our bruises with pride, we get to show them off like fashion accessories. "Where did you get that one? It's lovely!" "Oh, you know, from Bill. It's designer." OK, it's a bit absurd, but this bruiser for one is psyched to be in style. Maybe that'll make up for the trauma of trying to explain to the OBGYN why it looked like my inner thighs were in a car accident...
Comments
I'm inclined to agree here. It's really not fair that I can proudly show off scratch marks, but you girls have to hide love-bruises.
Also, heh, I find it amusing that the required text field on this post is 'the force' instead of the usual 'sandals'.
Posted 08/26/2008 at 12:49:48 PM