Brief History of Sex Swings

Sex Swings (also knows as love swings, slings and hammocks) have been in used for several thousand years. Although no proof has been found of their existence in ancient Europe, numerous wall painting from South America show the use of vines and other plant life as sex swings. The first documented case of sex swings being used in the Western world came when a modified hammock was used in a “blue movie” in the 1920s. They didn’t become more widely used until the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. However, during this period, there was no manufacturers. All sex swings were home made, often using mass produced hammocks. In the 1980s the first sex swings went in to manufacture and became popular with swingers and are to this day a common piece at swingers’ clubs and parties.

The Use of Sex Swings

The ancient use of sex swings in South America may have been due to the fact that it was the comfiest way for them to have sex as at the time of the wall paintings, humans were living in primitive conditions. However, little is know of their actual use. During the 60s and 70s, sex swings were just treated as an interesting new way to have sex. Sex toy manufacturers got hold of this craze and marketed it as such, but also emphasised the fact that sex swings can make it easier to perform flexible sex positions and that they allowed for better penetration of obese women.

Continuing my sex and swingers series is a brief history of Doc Johnson, probably the mot prestigious sex toy manufacturer.

Doc Johnson began in a small garage in 1976 and has since ballooned to be arguably the most respected of adult toy manufacturers and undisputed largest manufacturer of adult rubber good. Starting with the 8″ Natural Dong, Doc Johnson have become pioneers of the sex toy industry, leading in the creating of new innovative toys like the Pocket Pussy as well as producing safer and more pleasurable material.

History

The dildo is the second most common of all sex toys, after the vibrator. It is also the one with the longest history, with its use going back at least 30,000 years. The oldest known dildo to be uncovered was found in Hohle Fels Cave near Ulm, Germany and has been dated as 30,000 years old. More recently, dildos were used by the ancient Egyptians and the Greeks. In Greece, explicit artwork has been uncovered depicting the use of dildos as a masturbatory aid and a group sex toy. The use of dildos probably went on through the dark ages, but there is little documentation of this. They emerged again in renaissance Itay, which was when and where the term dildo was coined. From Italy they spread throughout Western Europe and later came to England. Historic use of dildos has also been found in Africa, the Orient, the Asian sub-continent and Australasia. Dildos as we know them today, made of synthetic materials, first came about in 1966 and have since become a common possession of Western women and some gay males.

Material

Early dildos were made of wood and tar or any other material that could be easily moulded into a phallus. During the classical period, dildos were more often made of stone. Although poor people often used wood. During the renaissance most dildos were made of stone, but some have been found that were made of precious metals such as silver. In the 20th century dildos were originally crafted from plastic and later of PVC. In the last two decades silicone rubber became a popular material and more recently a specialised polyvinyl commonly know as CyberSkin.

Want to know how to install Imagemagick on ubuntu ?

No problem if you want to install imagemagick on your pc, ubuntu makes this very easy for you with only a few simple commands..

• Make sure u have pear install ( ’sudo apt-get install php-pear’ )
• Then run: sudo apt-get install imagemagick
• And then: sudo pecl install imagick
  **if you get an error which looks like this: configure: error: Cannot locate configuration program Wand-config

  then no problem, simply run the following command: sudo apt-get install libmagick9-dev
  Now re-run sudo pecl install imagick

All sorted ? Good, now simply add extension=imagick.so to your php.ini and your done

Incidently, if you want to get serious about PHP and Imagemagick, i highly recommend you check out mikko’s imagemagick blog which details lots of examples of using imagemagick and pushing it to the limit. cool stuff.

Hello anyone reading, i recently setup my ubuntu 7.10 (Which I’m absoloutley convinced is slower than 7.04) and anyway, here is a few notes from my installation, i hope someone finds some part of it useful. If so.. please comment…

There are 3 main sections:

• Initial Setup
• Look & Feel
• Setting up / configuring the web dev environment

Step 1, initial setup

Hello, this is my guide to setting up my ubuntu dev machine.

Here is my PC setup:

• PC: Dell INSPIRON 530
• Monitor: LG Flatron Wide M228WA

Issues with the INSPIRON 530 from previous ubuntu installations..

I have reinstalled ubuntu many times on the Dell INSPIRON 530, and have encountered a few issues in the past. I will detail them below.

Help, No ethernet !!

Prior to Ubuntu 7.10, if you installed ubuntu on your Dell INSPIRON box, you will find the ethernet on the back is not supported out of the box. To get the ethernet installed, please untar the following archive..

firstly do: wget theatons.com/test/dump/linux-backports-modules_2.6.20-16.tar.gz
then extract: tar xzvf linux-backports-modules_2.6.20-16.tar.gz
then run: sudo dpkg -i linux-backports-modules-generic_2.6.20.16.28.1_i386.deb

You might have to run the other one aswell, in some kind of order, but it makes no harm to just play about running those and then plug in your ethernet, give it 1-2mins to sort it self out, then run ifconfig and you should see your ip having connected via your ethernet.

Incidently the ethernet for the Dell INSPIRON 530 on ubuntu 7.10 works out the box

What about my Dell E228WFP ?

Well i know when i installed with ubuntu 7.04 it only went up to 1024 res out the box, however the correct xorg.conf and guide to getting this to 1680x on my other post here: Setting up the E228WFP with ubuntu.

I don’t know how this is with ubuntu 7.10 as i said i’m now using a LG Flatron Wide M228WA, which incidently is as much more superiour monitor, and works with ubuntu 7.10 out the box at 1680x resolution.

Step 2, personal preferences

Lets get it looking a little better so we can work on it properly..

Big fonts look ugly.

I highly recommend taking down the font-size from the standard ubuntu font-size of 10px to 8’s and 9’s.

Todo this go to ‘System’ -> ‘Preferences’ -> ‘Appearances’ -> ‘Fonts’ and then i use, in this order:

• Application font: 8
• Document font: 8
• Desktop font: 8
• Window title font: 9
• Fixed width font: 9

And keeping the font itself standard feels fine. I also set it to ‘Subpixel smoothing (LCDs)’ but this is all personal preference really.

Getting a start like, ‘windows’ menu…

If your coming from a Windows background, as i’m sure 90% of people are, i recommend a nice easy start style menu, again, all personal preference..

I do the following..

• Add a panel to the top menu, ‘Window list’
• Unlock the top menu and then add into it the ‘Workspace switcher’, ‘Deleted Items’ and ‘Show Desktop’
• Finally ‘Delete’ the bottom pannel, then drag the top pannel to the bottom.

Step 3, Setting up the ultimate webdev environment

What am i talking about ? Just installing the things everyone needs to get along in this web dev mad world !

• Apache 2
• MySQL 5
• PHP 5
• phpmyadmin
• SSL certificate
• mod_rewrite
• PDO and PDO_Mysql
• Imagemagick

Think i’ve missed somthing of the list ? No problem, drop me a comment and i’ll stick it on

Installing the major players, Apache2, MySQL 5, PHP 5, PhpMyAdmin, SSL, Morewrite, PDO and PDO_MYSQL…

I’m not going to bother rewriting all this up, as comprehensive instructions can be found on my previous post, by clicking here

Please note, if you intend on sending requests via CURL from https, when u will need to fix this error: CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
Todo this you simply need to type the following: sudo apt-get install ca-certificates

Want to know how to install Imagemagick on ubuntu ?

No problem if you want to install imagemagick on your pc, ubuntu makes this very easy for you with only a few simple commands..

• Make sure u have pear install ( ’sudo apt-get install php-pear’ )
• Then run: sudo apt-get install imagemagick
• And then: sudo pecl install imagick
  **if you get an error which looks like this: configure: error: Cannot locate configuration program Wand-config
  then no problem, simply run the following command: sudo apt-get install libmagick9-dev
  Now re-run sudo pecl install imagick

All sorted ? Good, now simply add extension=imagick.so to your php.ini and your done

Incidently, if you want to get serious about PHP and Imagemagick, i highly recommend you check out mikko’s imagemagick blog which details lots of examples of using imagemagick and pushing it to the limit. cool stuff.

I want my php to send emails aswell

If you need your php - dev environment to also send emails, simply install any kind of mail program, i use postfix.. sudo apt-get install postifx

Simply select ‘internet site’ if your unsure, make sure you put the mail server name NOT as your @domain.com email, as this will be treated as internal, and not sent via the web. a good server name might be: MyDevBox for example.

What about vim ? And syntax highlighting .. etc ?

Simply type: sudo apt-get install vim-full

Then cd ~/ to get to your homedirectory, then vim .vimrc and put in whatever settings you would like, eg: “syntax enable”. .. you may find some idea’s on the net from other peoples .vimrc files.. have fun

I have also put my personal .vimrc file online which can be found here: My .vimrc file / Vim setup file

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Microsoft release IE 7, and claim is as a savouir, yet this huge file is an absoloute piece of shit.

Even the most basic CSS and IE 7 decides to just go off on a tangent and do its own thing. What an complete and utter piece of shit.

Why should i bother to make a website for both IE 5.5, IE 6, IE 7 and no doubt, with different rending properties again, IE 8.

I would like Microsoft to pay for my wasted time and wasted life spent trying to come up with solutions to this fucking shit browsers handling of CSS !

How many times have you hit your head and though .. ‘how do i add a user on mysql again?’

Heres how:

mysql> GRANT ALL ON demo.* TO user1@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'mypassword';