Nathalie L

Cleaning my apartment. I know it's incredibly warm outside, but it was getting really messy! I feel more organized now :) Additional Comments: also, writing a poem for a cross-continental lover.

What a great thread idea! I love lingerie from Lilac Lingerie in Ottawa. Lilac Lingerie are the sole carriers of the brand "Pleasure State". As someone with wide shoulders and small breasts, it is difficult to find suitable lingerie. "Pleasure State" is not only perfect for me, but incredibly beautiful. p.s. I own the grey and black set in the second picture ;)

I agree with what everyone has said. Great thread idea Jade, as someone previously mentioned, you're an incredibly intelligent (and might I say beautiful) woman. I truly enjoy the interpersonal connection that sex and intimacy can bring to an encounter, but first and foremost, I enjoy moving beyond the purely physical. I enjoy encounters best where both parties are able to be open and share their thoughts and feelings about various things. When I initially read this thread, I thought it was going to be about yoga! The mind and body connection during meditation/yoga/thai massage is really important. Sometimes during my longer encounters I offer this service and it really helps with establishing that mind/body connection. Thanks for posting this thread, it's great to see that some of the liveliest posters on CERB have similar thoughts and feelings about what makes a good encounter.

I was also wondering about them. I saw an ad they posted on Craig's List looking to employ SPs and wondered whether they were legitimate. If they are legitimate, I wondered what the working conditions were like and who runs the business. Having always been independent, I wonder how it works to be employed by an agency!

The first page of this thread had me incredibly aroused. Phaedrus is right, it can be incredibly sexy when it's done right. Now turning to page two of the thread... well... *sigh* Harper and Bush are not attractive!

I love the Nordik Spa and Wakefield. Both really great places. Any other suggestions? I'm looking to explore places I haven't been yet (maybe I've been everywhere, I don't know!)

What are your favourite activities and sights in Ottawa? I've lived here for 5 years but there is still so much I haven't explored. I've been to all of the museums and art galleries, but I wanted to start this thread to make suggestions for fun things to do in Ottawa that people don't think of sometimes. Here are some things I like to do in Ottawa bouldering at Vertical Horizon going to the Arboretum for dog walks biking in Gatineau swimming at various community centres Fringe festival (starts today) Verse festival (it's this winter but still very fun!)

Sleeping in this morning and thinking about what a lovely evening I had last night.

Here's a another article by CBC on the same case. "Teen prostitution suspect sought by police". I'm not willing to say these youth had no agency and didn't know what they were doing (i.e. the 'but they're just children!' argument), but I also don't think they should receive the full force of adult sentencing and detention. I would hope, like Tonie, that there was room for rehabilitation and youth criminal justice...

Congrats Shortcake!

Waking up early to watch the sunrise with a cup of tea and a good book. I love and appreciate the simple pleasures in life, and don't want to forget that they can be the highlight of my day.

Congratulations mrnice2! Your contributions on CERB are always thought provoking and insightful. You deserve this recognition, and much much more!

London 2012: Will the Olympics bring more prostitutes? Major sporting events such as World Cups and Olympic Games are often preceded by warnings about a rise in prostitution and sex trafficking as a result of the impending influx of spectators. But will prostitution in London really increase because of the 2012 Olympics? It seems like every time a World Cup or an Olympics appears on the horizon, so do warnings from the international press, government ministers and police. They all express fears that thousands of women will be trafficked to the host nation to satisfy the sexual desires of the crowds. The same messages have long been issued for the London 2012 Olympic Games. In January 2010 Tessa Jowell, then Minister for the Olympics in the previous government, told MPs: "Major sporting events can be a magnet for the global sex and trafficking industry; this is wholly unacceptable. I am determined that traffickers will not exploit London 2012." And Dennis Hof, who owns the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, a large-scale brothel in Nevada, US, says he expects London to see "1,000 girls to be trafficked in by South East Asian, Albanian and African gangs, violent gangs involved in crime and drugs". Hof, who wants to run a legal brothel during the Olympics, bases his prediction on what he said he saw at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada. But are such warnings accurate? The 2004 Olympic Games in Athens seems to be the first major international sporting event to have invoked widespread warnings about a rise in prostitutes and sex workers. It is often reported to have seen its sex trafficking almost doubling. However, a report by the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) shows the number of cases in Athens during the whole of 2004 was 181, up from 93 in 2003 - a far cry from the many thousands of women said to be threatened by trafficking in these situations. None of these 181 cases were linked to the Games by Greek authorities. Prior to the 2006 World Cup in Germany, similar warnings were issued by media and various officials, but according to an EU report from January 2007, the German government only found five cases of trafficking cases linked to the tournament. The report also states that "the increase in forced prostitution and human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation during the 2006 World Cup in Germany which was feared by some did not materialise" with "no sign whatsoever of the alleged 40,000 prostitutes/forced prostitutes - a figure repeatedly reported, also in international media". Where are you going to put them? Are you going to buy a property in east London for six weeks in order to operate this business? How are to contain all those women you have coerced into sex work especially for the Olympics? There is simply no evidence that this sort of thing takes place. The public authorities and police haven't quite grasped how trafficking takes place. They're attacking the wrong targets for finding those trafficking victims. By being so obsessed with sex trafficking, which sells newspapers, we've ignored that cheap labour trafficking is probably a bigger problem. And yet, the 2006 World Cup has been used as an example of an instance where huge numbers of prostitutes were paid for sex by large numbers of the tournament attendees. Sticking with World Cups, a study funded by the United Nations Population Fund and conducted after the 2010 tournament in South Africa found there was no significant change in the numbers of men visiting prostitutes during that event. But there had been broad speculation that between 40,000 and 100,000 sex workers from all over the world would enter South Africa because of that tournament. The 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, held in Vancouver, Canada were also subject to similar speculation - but according to a study conducted afterwards by University of British Columbia researchers, mass trafficking didn't happen there, either. The study says that "despite sensationalised media coverage" prior to the Games, there was "no evidence in this study to support concerns of an influx of sex workers or reports of trafficking of women or girls". Many have used the experiences of the Greeks, Germans and South Africans to form an argument that London will have to brace itself for increased numbers of sex workers. But more than two years later, Tessa Jowell, who once told the Commons about her determination to combat sex trafficking at London 2012, now admits that "current intelligence would suggest that we are unlikely to see large scale trafficking into London as a result of the Games". "There is some anecdotal evidence to suggest that international sporting events might create demand for paid sex due to the influx of tourists, site workers, contractors, the media and indeed the athletes themselves - although this is contested." Jowell also says that it is "hard to know" whether the lack of evidence for Games-related trafficking "was a result of the measures that were put in place" by her officials "or whether the threat simply hasn't materialised". "We would certainly rather be having a conversation about whether the threat of trafficking was ever going to materialise rather than about it as a reality on the streets of London and we should continue to be vigilant in the face of such a threat." The Metropolitan Police Service's Human Exploitation and Organised Crime Command (SCD9) was set up at the start of 2010 to tackle vice, human trafficking and immigration crime. It has a team focusing on vice-related crime in the five Olympic host boroughs - Newham, Hackney, Waltham Forest, Tower Hamlets and Greenwich. SCD9 was given £600,000 to tackle the potential increase in trafficking in those five boroughs in the run up to 2012. However, a Met Police Authority report on SCD9 published in October 2011 said the "intelligence currently held does not support any increase in prostitution in the Olympic Boroughs and actually shows a decrease in some locations". And a Met Police spokesman says SCD9 was set up "based on assessments made over three years ago" which had used "the best information available" at that time. "As time has moved on we have not seen any rise in trafficking linked with the Olympics," he adds. Conservative London Assembly Member Andrew Boff has compiled the Silence of Violence report which also says there is "no strong evidence that trafficking for sexual exploitation does in fact increase during sporting events". He also says raids on brothels were increasing as the Olympics approached, with 80 being closed in the Olympic borough of Newham in the last 20 months or so. Sarah Walker, of the English Collective of Prostitutes, echoes this view, saying recent frequent police raids on east London brothels represent a pre-Olympics crackdown - about which the ECP is "outraged". Continue reading the main story London 2012 - One extraordinary year The BBC's home of 2012: Latest Olympic news, sport, culture, torch relay, video and audio However, the Met Police denied conducting any crackdown, saying it has "not increased operations targeting brothels in the five Olympic boroughs" and was "responding to local concerns and feedback from residents and businesses across London about street prostitution". Another group representing sex workers, x:talk, is calling for a moratorium on arrests, the detention and deportation of sex workers until the end of the Olympics. A spokeswoman also says police raids on brothels, particularly in east London, are driving sex workers further away from their support network of co-workers and health services, prompting the call for a pause on arrests. "Ultimately, arresting these women and raiding their places of work just makes them more vulnerable," she says.

I actually prefer smaller, yet equally strong, vibrators! The Hitachi is a bit too big for me.

Thank you to everyone who has congratulated me, and also anyone who has ever provided me with a nomination or reputation points. It's truly a pleasure to be back on CERB and I'm excited to participate in threads here on CERB and meet new friends ;)

I agree. I've had a few dinner parties with 6-8 people where I've had deep and intimate conversations, but they were my closest friends and they themselves didn't offer much about themselves (because they didn't know each other as well). It was nice for me, though! Have you ever tried having a deep and intimate conversation in that kind of setting regardless? Divulging intimate details about your thoughts and feelings to spark a conversation that might please you more? It's been hit and miss for me, and makes some people feel uncomfortable! There is a spectrum, I agree. For example, I can be great in bigger crowds of people, I simply choose not to engage. I find it too emotionally exhausting. However, some introverts can't at all.

Georgiana Sweet has an incredible beautiful bum, not to mention excellent taste in lingerie. *blush* she's so beautiful.

I like Angela because she just made me laugh. She's witty, nice, and always helpful.

I think everyone on CERB is a little perverted ;)

Firstly, you're welcome and truly, it's my pleasure. Secondly, I've often been mistaken for arrogant as well, and so has Jonathan in the article I posted. At parties I have a tendency of finding the one person I can connect with, sitting in a corner, and having an intimate conversation with them for the rest of the evening. Generally, I need reassurance that I'm not preventing them from socializing with other people! Additional Comments: I don't think it made a difference, except that my encounters tend to have very deep, intimate, and philosophical connotations. I love sharing thoughts and feelings, and talking about life, solitude, love, romance. I'm playful, but my introversion definitely plays out with patrons.

Very true. I'm not sure why, but I also have very sensitive eyes and brightness can give me a headache sometimes. I always wear sunglasses outside :)

I would like to nominate Tgirl Nikki as my CERB goddess of the day. The Executive Director of Sex Professionals of Canada (SPOC), and advocate for the decriminalization of prostitution via Bedford. v. Canada, I admire her beauty, poise, and obviously, her politics!

Eating breakfast with my extended family. I haven't seen them in months! All the way from Quebec City, Nat

I really love "House of Sand and Fog", "A Single Man", and "XXY" I've never really loved comedies (oddly enough, because I love humour!) I love a movie that will make me think, cry, and laugh because of its sincerity.

I soak myself in sunscreen when I go outside during the summer. When I was 16 I went kayaking with a friend without sunscreen. It wasn't nice outside - there were rain showers - but we went out for 2 hours. I remember we went to the cinema afterward and I couldn't get out of my seat. By the time I stretched out my legs (which at this point felt like dried elastic bands) and went outside, my friends stared at me with a lock of utter horror. My face, arms, and legs were tomato red. The worst sunburn I'd ever received in my life. I had to go to the hospital for 2nd degree burns! Ouch!