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The E-Magazine Issue 12 / 2006 Editorials the e-magazine issue 12 / 2006 Editorials t seems lately, with a little help we try to cover sexuality as best we can but ow, what a As talented and marvellous as we are, we from our young IT magician, we after all that’s what Ovi is, we try to cover month it has could not keep Ovi going without our fan- have something new to offer with every issue. been since we tastic contributors who have excelled once every issue. This time Oliver has last met! I have again this issue taking the number of srt- created our very own blog which Naturally current events, especially the car- moved house ciles to over fifty. Tackling the subject of we try to refresh every day. We toons about Mohamed, have their fair share for the second sexuality and gender are Jan Sand, Melissa are at the beginning with the blog in Ovi magazine, a strong share I have to time in six Dennis, Juhani J., F.A. Hutchison and a so we are still a bit…numb with the experi- admit but as much as we fight every preju- weeks, recovered from a cold, my daughter Belgian porn webmistress called Mickey Ience. But please do visit it and make your dice we must fight for freedom of speech Whas discovered her tongue and my wife was Hotlove. comments, or join in a conversation that as well. not impressed with my heartfelt request, has already started online. “Darling, Ovi issue 12 is about sexuality, Our regulars are back with Phil Schwarz- iKritic is…just Asa and I think in the end so it would be great if we good make love mann writes his Bilingual illiterate column, I started with our new blog but the big thing we will call it Asa-critics!!! Most of all, I and I could use the earthmoving experience Tony Butcher examines the departure of about this issue is sexuality, is sex, is choice was happy to see Ovi fiction improving with as foundation for my research.” Alan Greenspan from the Federal Reserve, and joy. I want to believe that we made a more stories joining. In this issue we make Nic Mepham composes some poetry and good issue with a lot of help from our a reader test with the first chapter of a book Reeling from a negative answer, I had a Satya Prakash contributes three interesting friends around the world. And yes, there are we Asa and I are writing together. This is cold shower and returned to the keyboard articles. Newcomers Nathan Hurst investi- things we missed but we hope in the future another adventure I live with Asa and it has to write about famous Finnish women, gates biomechanics, Lee Thorkhill reviews more people will join Ovi and write about had surprising results that I hope you will communications problems between the ‘Walk the Line’, Riku Pyhala looks at all these things we missed. enjoy and send us your comments. sexes, the power of sex and an examination Finnish cinema audiences, Ted is Neurotic of a male sex toy named the Fleshlight. It Narcissus and Theo Versten will probably Still, Asa has a very funny moment with Ovi magazine is getting bigger and we seems Thanos has been celibate this month shock. his wife in a couple of articles, I try to in- thank you for your support. We want peo- too because he has written over twenty ar- vestigate the big mystery of cream and sex, ple to join us, write and express themselves ticles, including age and sex, his first time, There is so much material here that it plus Melissa and Mickey Hotlove take us to through our pages. We would like to have fantasies and cream. I think we both need to should keep you busy for the next month, other dimensions that I admit I have never correspondents everywhere that is possible get out more. until issue 13 (topic is radio) is released. thought about. Jouko gives us his personal and I really hope we will manage to see that Keep spreading the word, submitting feed- experience about what freedom of choice one day. Thankfully, our minds have drifted off into back and don’t forget to click on to our new in sexuality means and we really thank him other directions too, with articles about blog. since it is not easy to write about personal We are hoping that this issue will help you nursery rhymes, opening ceremonies, ref- experiences when it comes to issues like to see beyond prejudices and fears. erees and the Oscars, plus reviews of Ado- Now, I am going to see if my wife wants to that. be Creative Suite 2 and an excellent Greek help me finish my research… Thank you film called A Touch of Spice. World politics Tony, Phil, Nathan, Satya, Jonathan and Jan are dealt with in our individual styles, plus Asa are back, plus Hutch, Nic, Lee, Riku, Nick, Thanos we throw our opinions about the Moham- Ted, Theo and finally our lost black sheep med cartoon controversy into the ring. John from the States. So you can see that Sexuality TheBy Thanos Kalamidas first time Pardon,By Asa Butcher darling? When you talk about sex and sexuality it is difficult to avoid remembering your first experience however old a Everyday my wife complains that I don’t listen to her, which is strange because I always seem to hear that part. dinosaur you are. There is difference between a first kiss and first sexual experience. Most of us remember our Difficulty in communication is one of the greatest sources for arguments between the genders and is also a multi- first kiss, I mean real kiss with a sense of romance and forgotten promises; but the first sexual experience can be million pound industry offering books, counselling and courses for relationships suffering from the ‘Men are from rough. Mars’ syndrome. Growing up in the ‘60s didn’t nec- had the experience. It seems that all the gods conspired with a naked woman in a room, I Recently I read that a scientist stud- Husband - Errr, he’s got a new them, they are usually too drunk to essarily mean that the sexual revo- For the next days and after read- because one evening during the sort of recall her helping me to get ied 20 men and 20 women and dis- drill. remember the advice. Friday, 21st June 2002 lution had reached every age. Ac- ing carefully all the reader’s let- second week and after our friend’s undressed but what happened af- covered that men use the left side tually, most of our parents lived in ters in Playboy and a couple more second manhood visit, a relative of ter is a mystery. And I assure you of the brain - traditionally associ- GIRL’S DIARY the era of the Puritanism and they magazines that came to our hands, mine told me that I am at the right that I have tried to remember many ated with understanding language Saw John in the evening and he were scared of the changes happen- our questions started getting a age and we should do something times. - to pick up conversations, while was acting really strangely. I went ing around us, including sex behav- better shape, including questions about it. Saying that, he added The next week at school I had the women also used the right side. shopping in the afternoon with the ior. By that time, and I was in the like: Does she have friends? Can that next weekend we were going same serious look and the same The research revealed that women girls and I did turn up a bit late so first year of the high school, there we meet her and her friends? The somewhere where I would become shining eyes explaining to every- may need to use more of their brain I thought it might be that. The bar were schools for boys and different answer was ‘yes, she does have a man. I just had to be careful and body that this was a moon walk- to listen to conversations, but it was really crowded and loud so I schools for girls. friends. Yes, her friends are willing. have a good shower before, which ing experience difficult to explain could show women could listen to suggested we go somewhere quiet- Mixed schools came a few years And yes, you have to pay!’ That was made me wonder in the beginning and that experience is something two conversations at once. er to talk. He was still very subdued later and I didn’t have the chance to another bomb. Please do remember but then made me count the sec- you earn and not transmitting with I cannot explain why my hearing and distracted so I suggested we go live the experience, since the first that we talk about 13-year-old boys onds to the weekend. speech. The other boy and I be- switches off when my wife begins somewhere nice to eat. All through girls in my school joined when I back in the ‘60s. Information then More questions aroused and ask- came something like a legend for to talk, but my concerns were soon dinner he just didn’t seem himself; was in the last year and the system was not like today; television was ing for further information from the next couple of months till the laid to rest when I heard my Mum, he hardly laughed, and didn’t seem trying to soften the shock didn’t football world cup started and we my brother’s fiancée, female rela- to be paying any attention to me or make the whole school mix, but both did enjoy it establishing our tives and friends all repeating the to what I was saying.
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