Sexual Diversity Day in Bangkok

[Brad the Impala]

Thailand's celebrating its first National Human Rights Day for Sexual Diversity on Nov 29, 2008. The event will be held between 9am-5pm at Lido cinema, Siam Square, Bangkok. With "Towards a Clear Sky" as its theme, the program will include performances to celebrate sexual diversity; discussions on the titles law for transgenders, same-sex marriage and LGBTI youth; seminar on LGBTI rights in Thailand; and screening of award-winning Thai Queer Short Films. The full-day event will culminate in the first Rainbow Umbrella March, from Lido to the Bangkok Art and Cultural Center between 4pm-5pm. All discussions will be conducted in Thai. Rainbow umbrellas will be provided to participants in the march. For more information, email asiantrekker@yahoo.com or huab2007@gmail.com.

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[joe552]

Quick question - what does the I in LGBTI stand for? I know the others, but can't figure this one out.

[Uranus]

I stands for Intersex. Sometimes a Q is added too, and that stands for Queer.

[Brad the Impala]

Intersex, those born with biological characteristics both of the male and female.

Thailand's celebrating its first National Human Rights Day for Sexual Diversity on Nov 29, 2008. The event will be held between 9am-5pm at Lido cinema, Siam Square, Bangkok. With "Towards a Clear Sky" as its theme, the program will include performances to celebrate sexual diversity; discussions on the titles law for transgenders, same-sex marriage and LGBTI youth; seminar on LGBTI rights in Thailand; and screening of award-winning Thai Queer Short Films. The full-day event will culminate in the first Rainbow Umbrella March, from Lido to the Bangkok Art and Cultural Center between 4pm-5pm. All discussions will be conducted in Thai. Rainbow umbrellas will be provided to participants in the march. For more information, email asiantrekker@yahoo.com or huab2007@gmail.com

An event only for the most committed of gay activists, I think. :blah5: :blah5: :blah5:
Those here for a quick bonk or for waving it around in the toilets of Silom Complex should avoid.



Intersex, those born with biological characteristics both of the male and female.

Why not use the correct term: Hermaphrodite ?

An event only for the most committed of gay activists, I think. Those here for a quick bonk or for waving it around in the toilets of Silom Complex should avoid.I was hoping for demonstrations of new positions and combinations involving, say, six boys and me (how much more diverse can you get than that and keep it manageable?) but I think I'd be disppointed

Why not use the correct term: Hermaphrodite ?

Because it is not the correct term, at least these days.
The terms hermaphrodite and pseudohermaphrodite, introduced in the 19th century, are now considered problematic as hermaphrodism refers to people who are both completely male and completely female,


Intersexuality is the state of a living thing of a gonochoristic species whose sex chromosomes, genitalia, and/or secondary sex characteristics are determined to be neither exclusively male nor female. An intersex organism may have biological characteristics of both the male and female sexes. Intersexuality is the term adopted by medicine during the 20th century applied to human beings who cannot be classified as either male or female. Intersexuality is also the word adopted by the identitary-political movement, to criticize medical protocols in sex assignment and to claim the right to be heard in the construction of a new one.

[joe552]

Never too old to learn, I guess. Thanks for the info

[Brad the Impala]

Recently watched an intelligent and enjoyable Argentinian film on the subject called XXY. Perhaps most memorable for the scene when a teenage guy thinks he is about to fuck the "girl", only she turns him over at the last minute!

[TrongpaiExpat]

Recently watched an intelligent and enjoyable Argentinian film on the subject called XXY. Perhaps most memorable for the scene when a teenage guy thinks he is about to fuck the "girl", only she turns him over at the last minute!

Yes, great movie and it was at the Bangkok International film festival last year. The director did a 'q and a' after the film.

This year one film, 'Otto or up with the Dead', was shown. I can't believe it made it by the Thai censors. In USA it would never have made the 'R' rating. They did require being over 18 to see it.

Yes, great movie and it was at the Bangkok International film festival last year.

It won the top film award - the Golden Kinnaree. Not sure, in this case, if a Kinnara would have been more appropriate or not.

I stands for Intersex. Sometimes a Q is added too, and that stands for Queer.

Sometimes lots of others are added too - and the Q can sometimes stand for Questioning (which does appear more logical, as "Queer" would seem to have been already covered).

LGBTTTIQQPPAA: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, Transsexual, Two-Spirited, Intersexed, Queer, Questioning, Pansexual, Polyamorous, Asexual and Allied

The only group apparently excluded are Paraphilias.

[joe552]

And heterosexuals don't make the list either? I've never felt part of a 'gay community' so what I'm supposed to have in common with a Polyamorous or Intersexed person is beyond me. Lesbians were always a bit of a reach too. What on earth is paraphilia?

... What on earth is paraphilia?

A paraphilia is a condition involving sex fetishes where a person's sexual arousal and gratification depend on fantasizing about, and engaging in, sexual behavior that is atypical and extreme. A paraphilia can revolve around a particular sex fetish like an object (e.g., children, animals, underwear) or around a particular sex fetish act (e.g., inflicting pain, exposing oneself).
Most of the paraphilias are far more common in men than in women. The focus of a paraphilia is usually very specific and unchanging. For example, for someone who derives sexual pleasure from exposing his genitals, watching others engaging in sexual activity will not generally provide sexual gratification.

A paraphilia is distinguished by a preoccupation with the object or behavior to the point of being dependent on that object or behavior for sexual gratification. In most cases, types of sexual activity outside the boundaries of the paraphilia lose their arousal or satisfaction potential unless the person fantasizes about the paraphilia at the same time.

Although many of the paraphilias seem so foreign or extreme that one could not imagine how the object or behavior can be arousing to anyone, they are easier to understand if one thinks of those behaviors that, in less extreme versions, are quite common and not considered abnormal. For instance, having a partner "talk dirty" occasionally may be a "turn-on" for some people, but when talking dirty is the only way that sexual arousal or satisfaction can occur, it would be considered a paraphilia.

Others want to be bitten, scratched, or spanked, or find that watching their partner undress is highly arousing. Viewing a nude person or watching sexually explicit videos can be arousing for most people. Each of these acts is innocuous unless magnified to the point of psychological dependence.

Discovery Health : Paraphilia (http://health.discovery.com/centers/sex/sexpedia/paraphilia.html)


Paraphilias
Some paraphilias have have more than one term to describe them, and some terms overlap with others.

Abasiophilia: love of (or sexual attraction to) people who are lame or crippled and/or who use leg braces or other orthopaedic appliances
Agalmatophilia: sexual attraction to statues or mannequins or immobility
Algolagnia: sexual pleasure from pain
Acrotomophilia: sexual attraction to amputees
Andromimetophilia: sexual attraction towards female-to-male transsexuals
Apotemnophilia: sex arousal associated with being, becoming, or being perceived as an amputee
Asphyxiophilia: sexual arousal from self-strangulation
Autagonistophilia: sexual arousal from being on stage or on camera
Autassassinophilia: sexual arousal from staging one's own murder
Autoerotic asphyxiation: sexual arousal from self-induced asphyxiation to the point of near unconsciousness
Autogynephilia: a male's sexual arousal in response to the image of himself as female
Autonepiophilia: sexual arousal from impersonating and being treated like an infant
Autopedophilia: sexual arousal from the thought or image of one's self as a child
Bestiality: sexual attraction to animals
Bestiosexuality: sexual attraction to animals
Biastophilia: sexual arousal from assault and rape
Chremastistophilia: sexual arousal from being robbed or being held
Chronophilia: sexual attraction to a partner of a widely differing chronological age
Coprophilia: sexual attraction to (or pleasure from) feces
Cratophilia: sexual attraction to strength
Diaperism: sexual interest in wearing diapers
Erotic asphyxia: sexual attraction from asphyxia (also called "breath control play" or "strangulation"), including autoerotic asphyxiation
Erotophonophilia: lust murder
Exhibitionism: the recurrent urge to or enacting of exposing one's genitals to unsuspecting, nonconsenting persons; also, sexual arousal by engaging in sexual behavior in view of third parties.
Fetishism: sexual interest in nonliving objects
Formicophilia: sexual attraction to smaller animals, insects, etc. crawling on parts of the body
Frotteurism: sexual arousal from the recurrent urge or behavior of touching or rubbing against a non-consenting person
Gerontophilia: sexual arousal from significantly older partners
Gynandromorphophilia: sexual attraction to women with penises, men cross-dressed as women, or male-to-female transsexuals.
Gynemimetophilia sexual attraction towards male-to-female transsexuals
Hebephilia: sexual attraction to pubescent children
Homeovestism: sexual arousal by wearing the clothing emblematic of one's own sex
Hybristophilia: sexual arousal to people who have committed crimes, in particular cruel or outrageous crimes
Infantophilia: sexual attraction to children five years old or younger
Infanitilism: sexual pleasure from dressing, acting, or being treated as a baby
Kleptophilia: (or kleptolagnia) sexual arousal from stealing
Klismaphilia: sexual pleasure from enemas
Lactaphilia: sexual arousal from human milk
Lust murder: sexual arousal from committing (or trying to commit) murder
Macrophilia: sexual arousal involving domination by giants, primarily giant women.
Mammaphilia: (also mammagynophilia, mastofact) sexual arousal from the breasts of a woman
Masochism: the recurrent urge or behavior of wanting to be humiliated, beaten, bound, or otherwise made to suffer
Menophilia: sexual arousal from menses or menstruating women
Morphophilia: sexual preference for individuals with a particular body shape and size
Mucophilia: sexual arousal from human mucus
Mysophilia: sexual attraction to soiled, dirty, foul or decaying materials
Narratophilia: sexual arousal in the use of dirty or obscene words to a partner
Nasophilia: sexual arousal from touching the nose of a person
Necrophilia: sexual attraction to corpses
Nepiophilia: sexual attraction to infants
Olfactophilia: sexual stimulus with smells or odors
Osmolagnia: sex arousal from odors
Osphresiolagnia: sexual arousal dependent on smells or odors
Ozolagnia: sexual arousal dependent on smells or odors
Ondinism: (also undinism) sexual attraction to urine
Partialism: exaggerated sexual interest in a non-genital very specific body part
Peodeiktophilia: sexual arousal from exposing one's penis
Pedophilia: (British spelling: paedophilia) sexual attraction to prepubescent children.
Pedovestism: sexual arousal from imitating children in appearance
Pictophilia: sexual attraction to pictorial pornography or erotic art
Podophilia: sexual attraction to human feet
Renifleurism: sexual arousal in response to the smell of urine
Sadism: deriving pleasure, or in some cases sexual arousal from giving pain
Salirophila: sexual arousal by soiling (only the appearance of) the object of one's desired partner
Scatophilia: sexual arousal from involving feces
Scoptophilia: (or scopophilia) sexual preference for watching others masturbating or having sex
Raptophilia: sexual preference for committing rape
Somnophilia: sexual arousal from sleeping or unconscious people
Sthenolagnia: sexual arousal from the demonstration of strength or muscles
Stigmatophilia: sexual interest in piercings, tattoos
Symphorophilia: sexual arousal from disasters
Telephone scatologia: being sexually aroused by making obscene phone calls to strangers
Telephonicophilia: being sexually aroused by making obscene phone calls to strangers
Transvestic fetishism: arousal from "clothing associated with members of the opposite sex."[
Transvestophilia: sexual preference for a cross-dressered partner
Trichophilia: sexual arousal from hair
Troilism: (also spelled triolism) sexual interest in watching one's regular sexual partner having sex with a third party,[9] usually unbeknownst to the third party
Urophagia: sexual attraction to consuming urine
Urophilia: sexual attraction to urine, including urinating in public, urinating on others, and being urinated on by others
Vampirism: sexual arousal from drawing, sucking, or drinking blood
Vomerophilia: sexual attraction to vomit
Vorarephilia: sexual attraction to eating others or the idea of being eaten by others; usually in one piece
Voyeurism: sexual arousal through secretly watching others in intimate situations, such as disrobing, being naked, or having sex
Zoophilia: sexual attraction to animals
Zooerastia: sexual attraction to animals
Zooerasty: sexual attraction to animals
Zoosadism: sexual gratification derived from causing pain and suffering to animals

Wikipedia list of paraphilias (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scatolophilia#Alphabetized_list)

[joe552]

What a sheltered life I've led.

What a sheltered life I've led.

Ay Lad ... there's more to it than just shoving it up the wrong 'un.

[joe552]

Padlom, didn't even know there was a wrong 'un! Where's that been hiding? Most men and boys I've know only had the one in back.

Sorry, fatts and others, but I just could not resist a quote from Plautus:

Mus uni non fidit antro - A mouse does not rely on just one hole.

Sorry!

[joe552]

GF, thanks for this example of when your knowledge of Latin is entertaining rather than 'oneupmanship' as it appears to me (as in another thread).

[Jetsam]

all this blabla about all those isms and ilia's

sexual diversity day is all about the off fee, you pay less in a gay bar for an off than in a girlie bar, but you pay way more for a drink.

can we stay on topic please :clown: