this thing is gonna crash in burn.

Agreed. But then I think there are times when people intentionally design things to flare out brightly to create a name for themselves. Doesn’t matter if it’s a success always as much as it matters that you gain the experience and the CV material.

the guys who run the company look, well…dorky as all get-out, too. the whole bdsm codes thing is cool because, not to beat or whip or splay a dead horse, it came out of an existing community in an organic way. and it’s an “in thing” and secret society seeming stuff always has an appeal. this, on the other hand, is just way too easy. the idea of codes is that only the people who are really really interested will take the time to dig, learn the codes and signifiers and actually be part of the community. this is kind of like, well…the fact that they’ve got a press department means the shelf-life of this, if it ever does catch on, will be about the same as the friendster-hype. six months; 8 to 10 factoring the time it’ll take the folks outside the major urban areas to hear about it. but, yeah. eye’m with null. this thing is gonna crash in burn.

sayin’, all that eye’d still get a shirt–a dooky smiley face shirt. hey, shit don’t always have to read as desperate, it can also read as: eye’m fuckin’ with you.

Skidoo.

That’s what verbal and (especially) NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION for!

Yeah no kidding!

80% of this shit is below the threshold of conscious awareness anyway, if that ain’t there no amount of advertising is gonna make a difference, to me a T-shirt just screams “desperate”

This is a Spacey, Fruity Shit! HAHAHAHA!
You don’t know need this shirt to communicate
that you’ve got the hots for someone and want
to do the POONTANG! LOL!!!

That’s what verbal and (especially) NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION for!
You don’t even need to say word to communicate that horny for someone!
Geesh!

Anyway, Funny Shirt!
NO! Im not gonna buy one!

My own brand study dept. says, kodesex seems like one of those sensitive libertarian ideals, helping bridge social divides with a relatively affordable easy commodity. At the same time, kodesex’s tulpa really looks like it could use some help or re-purposing, it seems a little too focused on getting everyone what they want. Come on, Pagan Partner? I bet if I suggest it, they’ll print off a thousand “Sex Magickian” shirts, with a closed fist inside an eight-rayed star. Final analysis: innovative marketing of an already-done idea, too many initial products in rollout. predicted disaster. sell short. one less logo to worry about. moral: focus your intent & focus on your intent. and before anyone says, “why don’t you ever try anything yrself,” don’t worry, I’ve got some plans.

What about for the shirt “I have low self-esteem” for girls and “vulture” for boys?

And the gangbangers (huh huh, bangers) always have made me wonder. Did anyone see the Warriors? For being so masculine, it’s kinda, well, gay.

Gangbangers advertising themselves as tops & fisters is definitely funnier tho!

Just for kicks, here that is the hanky code from wikipedia:

Handkerchief code, more commonly known as hanky code or “flagging” was a way of indicating, usually among gay male casual sex seekers or BDSM practitioners in the US and Canada, whether they were a top or bottom, and what kind of sex they were seeking, by wearing color-coded handkerchiefs, usually in the back pocket. These were worn on the left side of the body for tops and the right for bottoms (this division is still somewhat common: tops may wear keys on the left belt loop and bottoms on the right, for example).

The practice has largely fallen out of favour, perhaps due to the advent of internet dating and the coming out of more members of the leather and BDSM communities.

There is no universally understood color code, and there may have been regional variations. There was general agreement upon the colours for more common practices (eg: yellow for watersports), but there was no consensus for the more uncommon practices.

One Example of a Hanky Code
Color Meaning

Black S and M
Leather Leather Fetish
Grey Bondage
Charcoal Latex Fetish
Dark Blue Anal sex
InternationalOrange Safe sex
Sandalwood Carpenter Sex
Medium Blue Cop Sex
Robin’s Egg Blue 69
Khaki Military Sex
Grey Flannel Suit and Tie Fetish
Yellow Watersports
Light pink Dildos
White Novice Sex/Vanilla
Blue Top
Green Bottom
Pink Sex Toys/feet fetish (pinkies)
Goldenrod Sugar daddy
Red Fisting
Brown Scat
Mauve Navel fetish

Is this rambly?

Skidoo.

Sounds like a trendy and sexy way to sell t-shirts.

Yeah, essentially. Am I the only one who things these t-shirts are kind of ugly though? Really though, the core idea is smart. They’re saying (1) we want to sell t-shirts, but (2) everybody sells t-shirts. (3) How can we get free press and word of mouth marketing? (4) sex sells and everybody loves secret codes (5) create a code that “empowers” people culturally, and then bam! The rest takes care of itself.

The cool part I think is that these shirts highlight the fact that there are secret codes that subcultures use which are not usually so much secret as unknown by larger audiences. And there’s this idea that by not knowing these codes, you could be missing out on meaningful or exciting interactions and levels of meaning. The “kodesex” could be applied to a lot of other areas, which we could develop secretive sets of symbols to communicate with people ‘in the know ‘

dude… sometimes it’s scary how much overlap there is in our reading.

Dude, that’s because I got it from your saved pages list!