I am so confused right now.
Everyone gets together to burn someone in effigy? There are beads involved? What’s going on? 
Burning Man . Google is your friend. i wouldn’t normally say that but come on, Burning Man has been going on for awhile and is always in the media.
I saw Amazed Retard play at Burning Man last year…or was it one of the Woodstock revivals…or Lollapalooza…or the HORDE festival? Whatever, they really expanded my consciousness, man.
pssst Canadian. Maybe it doesn’t get mentioned much up there. No reason to mention it. Doesn’t get mentioned on the East Coast either. I’m sure it was going on for years before I ever heard of it.
Never heard about it. shrug It sounds pretty cool, though, and I had the time or money to travel… 
Sorry Kythereia, if you ever want to go and need a home base you are free to use my place. Didn’t mean to be so snarky.
No worries! It does sound like a great time for a Dopefest. 
Having led a sheltered life, I need to ask a (serious) question about the guy on Page 4 wearing the…appliance…
Spoilered for equally sheltered eyes:
If he should happen to get an erection, perhaps because of watching all those luscious topless ladies saunter past with flyswatters and cattle prods in their hands, does the ring on the head of his penis expand along with his penis, or does it stay in position so the enlarging penis slides through it, or what? Does it even allow him to get hard, or does it hurt like the devil, and is that perhaps the point of the whole exercise (even though I may have led a sheltered life, I do have a vague sense of what “BDSM” stands for…)
Great pictures. Any chance you could add some additional descriptions?
They are actually just elastic bands in different fuzzy colors. He gave me a yellow one.
Another guy in their camp was giving away fetuses (fetii ?). He had a big, big pile of inch or so long plastic fetuses he’d gotten at some christian store. Cutting a tiny hole in the bottom he injected them with jello shooters. They were served by taking a cleaver and cutting off the head and having you suck the red jello out. He had to step over the invisible line seperating their two trailers to do this as the woman of the camp wouldn’t let him do it on her side.
[spoiler]It’s called a “cock ring”, and you use it, basically, to stop the flow of blood into or out of the penis. If you put it on while flaccid, like the gentleman in question, then an erection is pretty impossible (especially since he’s wearing two - the silver one on the shaft and the studded one above the scrotum, also called a “testicle cuff”.) If you put one on while erect, it helps to maintain the erection, 'cause the blood can’t get out of the penis. It’s an old home remedy for erectile dysfunction. They even sell beaded ones for masturbation and vibrating ones for her pleasure!
They’re often worn by those in the BDSM scene by “submissives”. Often a particular person carries the key or device to remove the ring, and the wearer must ask for permission to remove it and get an erection. Sometimes it’s just emotional restraint and the ring can be removed by the wearer but isn’t removed without permission.
Or they can simply be worn as fashion pieces. [/spoiler]
Thank you, dear.
[spoiler]I was familiar with the concept of using a cock ring to maintain an erection (we even own a copy of The Joy of Sex , but I wondered about the physics of it if you put it on while flaccid, like, what happens “if”…Apparently, nothing.
I see.[/spoiler]
SandyHook, thanks so much for the photos! I was in a big ol’funk today, and somewhat depressed. Those photos just thrilled me, gleeful smile still on! I used to attend Mardi Gras in NOLA regularly,with good local artist friends, and it was always a wonderful (in)sanity break; Carnival is about letting creativity reign. Since NOLA has been devastated, well, there’s part of the depression…
Loved the bead guy, and the Tie truck, and, well, all of the vehicles. The Barbie Death Camp was badly funny and A Plus for elaboration and true motto above the ovens. (That was the awful scrollwork in the entry arch at Dachau)
My dream is to have a Giant ant farm to take out to Burning Man, with the front of the truck dressed out like an ant. Did anyone there have that?
Thanks again, and glad you had a good time.
There was an ant vehicle, and a damn big ant it was too.
Fantastic breastuses. Burn on.
An apology for my behavior in this thread can be found here.
Thank you, I accept your apology and offer my cyber-hand in cyber-friendship.
Thanks for the photo album, SandyHook.
I like to kid myself that I’ve lived an interesting life so far. Then I see something like this and realize I’m just a humble amateur.
I don’t understand why everyone’s naked…and why all the BDSM and sexual references?
I’d like to go to Burning Man, at least once.