By David Futrelle
For years I’ve been chronicling the manosphere’s obsession with the so-called “cock carousel,” that wondrous merry-go-round of endless zipless sex allegedly enjoyed by every twentysomething Western woman, but off-limits to all Western men except the Chadliest top twenty percent.
Well, it looks like I’ve finally found the first rider of this sex-go-round, and she’s a bosomy fictional slattern named Elaine, brought to life in the 1963 pulp novel This is Elaine by someone called Jason Hytes. If the front cover is any indication, Elaine was not really that into shirts.
I have not read the book — which you can purchase used for $28.50 on Amazon — but the back cover gives a bit more detail on the perverse world of Elaine and her naughty friends.
Wait, wouldn’t the carousel have to still be working for anyone to get off?
H/T — @pulplibrarian, whose tweet was pointed out to me by former regular WHTM commenter @pecunium; I found the back cover on Pop Sensation.
I think Moll Flanders and Fanny Hill may have beaten Elaine to it, even in the Americas.
@alan, they come in more colours than just black and brown – there are also blue and green bottoms. Personally, I wear Nokia boots myself. I have a fancy pair for watching rugby and basic pair for everything else.
@ rugbyyogi
I spend a lot of time in mud for various reasons. But I have a thing where, unless it’s very cold, I just stay in bare feet. I figure it’s easier to shower than clean boots. I’m like that with clothes generally. If I’m going to get dirty then I’ll just strip off as much as possible. Some people may call that lazy, but I like to think of the environment. Me in a shower uses less resources than a load in the washing machine (probably).
@Alan
Two years ago I entered a store barefoot while on a beer run with a friend, and the security guy wouldn’t lemme in because barefoot. I asked why and got an answer with the word “hygiene” in it, muttered in a tone that indicated he wasn’t buying it either.
I yelled that I wash my feet every night, “do you clean your shoes every night !?” and he eventually let me in.
MGTOW to me should be about men going their own way. Embarrasing to hear the so called “MGTOWS” criticising , bitching and moaning about every fucking thing that women do. Quit whinging you child and do something with your life.
I actually used to do this all the time when I was a kid. It would look to me like some of the horses moved more than the others so I’d be constantly switching if the ride wasn’t super crowded.
I guess it was an early sign that I’d grow up to be an evil slut or something.
Word origin of ‘slattern’
C17: probably from slattering, from dialect slatter to slop; perhaps from Scandinavian; compare Old Norse sletta to slap.
It is very telling that both slattern and slut actually refer to dirtiness and an unkempt appearance in women, but are both almost exclusively used now to insult a promiscuous or presumed promiscuous, or indeed ANY woman or girl, regardless of her appearance.
I am totally in support of it. I am someone who has found intimate relationships to be the cause of much pain in my life and believe that celibacy is vastly preferable.
But MGTOW is rooted in dishonesty. These are men/ boys who cannot put their personal rejections/ failures aside and instead regard all women as being cause of them. It is, after all, easier to blame others than look at oneself and see your own flaws, and do something about them.
The process is one of disempowerment.
The first MGTOW video I saw on youtube was a young man who did NOT rage at women. Since then I have found no other. I hope he is happy, and has not joined the rest of the MGTOW’s in their bitter hate.
@ sinkable john
I live at the seaside and there’s a weird etiquette about when it’s appropriate to wear swimwear in a shop. The rule seems to be “if you can still see the beach from the store”.
Since MGTOW was always based on the concept of marriage being bad because feminism has allowed female evil to run rampant rather than on just being happily single, I don’t see a way for it to be rehabilitated at all. It was only ever about outrage that they aren’t allowed to abuse and rape their wives and trap their wives in the marriage.
It’s why they obsess about marrying teenagers, buying foreign brides or moving to a country where they think feminism doesn’t exist in order to find a poor and powerless woman to exploit.
So wait, adultery makes an entire town’s business community fall into woman-y hands? And was Eastport the original name before it was decided that it would be more honest to just called it “Sexville”? Sorta like a reverse “Berlin, Ontario becomes Kitchener during WWI” kinda thing?
Part of me is morbidly curious as to how the dots are connected from extramarital affairs to “town’s entire economic vitality is ruined by butterfinger womz.”
Speaking of sexy midway rides, that’s one way to boost revenues at next year’s Canadian National Exhibition! I think we should suggest it in a carefully crafted email campaign. *ahem* “Dear Mayor John Tory….”
@dcfcfan1
Bruh you gotta try a little bit harder than this.
@WWTH
You are smart and entirely correct.
Carousels:
I’ve never liked carousels, and I like them a lot less as metaphors for monogamy.
What I did and do like is video games, and my pattern with them is clear. I play one for like six hours and its the best thing period, then I suddenly switch to a different one, and keep jumping games.
At its strongest, what I’ve felt for other people is similar to what I feel when I’m playing games, so I really suspect that if I ever start dating I’ll either be dating multiple people at once or serial dating. And I’m pretty sure the former is gonna be better for me.
I’m pretty sure no one should be buying such a tome “used”.
Speaking of carousels:
Buttercup said
This makes me think that this would be a grand parody of Twin Peaks and now I want it to happen.
Off topic, but I’ve been listening to those “Oh What a Feeling” discs that whatever organization runs the Junos released back in the 90s and as a Canadian history and music nerd I was shocked that I didn’t know this: the RCMP had a file on Canadian feminists back during the second wave, including Rita MacNeil.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/rita-macneil-included-in-rcmp-s-spy-campaign-on-women-s-movement-in-1970s-1.722609
*sigh* Dammit, Mounties, I know you’ve had issues since the Red River Rebellion, but come on, leave Rita out of your Red Scare crapola! If you want to bother some Cape Bretoners, go hassle the Rankin Family. Got plenty of them to work with.
Incidentally, any Mammotheers know where I can get Volume 2 of “Oh What a Feeling”? I don’t think it’s available for digital download anywhere and it’s probably long out of print. Volume 3 looks like it has too much Chad Kroeger for my tastes….
@Ellesar
Shame. I think a generation of bitter young men have Hijacked MGTOW and turned it into some women-loathing bullshit. I support MGTOW too but will never identify myself with a group of women-hating assholes.
I dont get why those young men just cant explore the world a little instead of obsessing with their rejections. I mean, Ive been to 14 countries and having the time of my life (people here wont believe). Italy on Friday, tick the 15th of the list ! Cant these young men who cant get dates just read, or exercises or study ?
Psst….MGTOW has ALWAYS been about the women-hating.
Respectfully, I dont agree. It was meant to be about self improving and not feeling ashamed of not getting a gf/married/living up to “societies” standards. Now it has turned into a women-hating sham
A review from Goodreads, of the same author’s book “One-Way Ticket”:
“A sensitive account of a woman seeking revenge for her father’s murder. True, the narrative focused predominantly on her boobers, but always tastefully, and i never felt like the descriptions of her skyward-pointing nipples weren’t essential to the plot.”
@Misogynist
Too bad. Disagreeing with facts doesn’t make you respectful, it just makes you willfully wrong.
Citation sorely fucking needed on MGTOW ever being about anything besides misogyny. It was certainly the same 7 years ago when this blog started and sad boner creep would’ve been 16. Doubt he was following MGTOW before that time.
@Irene Thanks for that. I wish I could compress that joke into 140 chars.
@dcfcfan1
Stop trying to gaslight everyone here. MGTOW has always been about men’s money and how men don’t think they’re getting their moneys worth out of a relationship. If they can’t partner with a 100% submissive “Stacy” and dump her without losing $$$ in a divorce, then a relationship just is not worth it for them. MGTOW has always been about male entitlement to having the best of the best of the best (SIR!) and nothing less than perfection will ever be good enough. Women have always been treated like commodities by you guys instead of living breathing complex human beings
You call yourself ugly. You say you’ll never get a girlfriend solely because of your looks. BULLSHIT. I’ve met plenty of straight and bisexual women who would love to meet a well rounded gentleman but you would write them off as hypergamous because they’re poor, not 100% pretty, or they’re chubby, or they don’t behave like doormats and porn stars. It doesn’t matter if they’re nice to be around or educated or responsible or have fun hobbies. You don’t trust women when they say all they want is a man who doesn’t use abuse them, use drugs and cheat on them.
You’ve admitted your a MGTOW and brag about your exploits jet setting across the world while most everyone else is struggling just to put food on the table. This absolutely REEKS of classist smugness and #NotAllMRAs speak, not to mention making it obvious to the entire fucking world you’re spending tons of money
“having the time of your life”for the opportunity of running into that ultra-submissive import wife because you secretly think American women are ungrateful assholes.If you think this assessment is unfair, too fucking bad. You’re not fooling me or anyone else here.