What are you all about?

Profile A
Go to Mars

 

Profile B
Call us!

Profile C
Maybe you are like us/ Betty?

You are training your body to desire, you are playing in the public and private places of your life to regain possession of a higher quality of relationships, you are experimenting a more meaningful, fun, seductive and why not provocative way of leaving a mark on the world.
You as well have worked as an ice cream vendor, bar-girl, office worker, telephone girl in a call center and hostess at the last city fair to pay your rent, bills, university taxes and aperitif, waiting pass leftover time with much more desirable activities even if not at all profitable.
And yet like us you think that the feminization of jobs is not just but also an opportunity.
It’s undeniable, in fact, that in your and our life everything is precarious and flexible, that working and non-working time get confused and end up taking up every moment, that all the union worker rights from “our mothers times” don’t have much to do with our working conditions.

You as well don’t have enough certainties, economically and work stability wise, to plan your life on the long run and make important choices such as deciding to have a baby.
There is more. Thank God or Women! It’s true that working odd hours and doing different things allows us to experiment ourselves according to our creativity and to make the most through non-conventional working, our desires and capacities.
Maybe this woman-becoming of jobs also opens some usable and relational spaces where it’s more pleasant to work; where cooperation and transversal relationships are valuable; where knowledge is capable of redefining power, erasing it’s own arbitrary characteristic; where one can create other ways to debate and deconstruct the social-economic-politic context you are part of. Spaces where one can rethink the conflict.

Maybe you as well have this same perception of reality. For intellectual honesty, you know you are not in a socially uncomfortable position, integrated as a citizen or having become one, having had the time and way of building up knowledge put at stake in a series of significant relations lived in highly stimulating places.

Maybe you as well, have had the courage of being an autodidactic and to create your professionalism with a patient patchwork of skills, used allover, from the precarious jobs and through the activities learned in social spaces.
And because of this, you as well, can look at how things are evolving in the job market beyond the first needs and from here start again to give life to new strategies of liberation.
We have “liberated” our time imagining and creating a sexy shop, and not by chance. We looked around and found out that a vibrator represented us better than the clogs and flowered skirts, symbol of the seventies feminism.
We are more interested in practicing transversal ways rather than “horizontal” ones, often shown off but not put into practice, that belong to the movement we are part of.

The interface between us and this movement, different feminisms, and the whole world, is a plush sofa surrounded by desirable objects.
We wanted to “liberate” butterflies, pleasure balls, vibrators and dildos from the negative view that people have given them: we thought that in a colorful setting filled with fantasy, all objects of pleasure could be finally used by all women and whoever wants to enrich their imagination.
This experience has been the instrument with which we made ours the feminism history and elaborated a new path that can value all subjectivities and that makes desire the center of all relations and plans, since we are convinced that there is nothing that can’t be talked about or shown.

We expressed this desire linking and comparing different languages, music and chocolate to promote a campaign against violence on women, rum and make-up to present a book on the trans-world, massage creams and aphrodisiac food during a conference on prostitution, videos projected on tulle to talk of biotechnologies, graphics and color to defend the right to abortion, creating situations that stimulate a critic view and play, appetite and good humor!!!

Our motto is contamination and “OUR LAW IS DESIRE”
Haven’t you done so as well? Haven’t you let yourself be dragged by desire? Don’t you feel that your body is drawn by pleasure? And don’t you think that satisfying it means experimenting in and out with the total respect of us and others bur also spread it so that everybody can enjoy it?

You as well think that today it’s on our bodies that the political battles that most tighten personal and group freedom, are fought.
The body is the fundamental element that puts in touch man and woman with the world building around itself a thick net of relations.
It’s these relations that that tell peoples histories. Yet there are still people that links life’s expression to the picture of an embryo: has anybody ever met one on a sidewalk!

You as well think that assisted reproduction techniques and abortion are or should be scientific and medical instruments in the interest of the “real” women’s desire for maternity. You think that laws should control it’s use to allow the widest access defending the Public Health system and not becoming instead a way of giving battle to women’s autodetermination.
At stake is the right to an aware maternity and the discussion on the Italian abortion law (194) that we don’t think is good enough.

You as well think that there don’t exist “good behaved women” and “bad behaved women”, perfect mothers and women that abort, pure virgins and pleasurable women, “healthy” women and “sick” women, women that practice sex within the family and women that make of sex an exchange good.
In nature there aren’t boundaries that separate so distinctly what can and can’t be done, what exist are laws that make giuridic these distinctions and give them a moral value.

Do you think that the last prostitution law, that plans erotic centers and limits urban zones where it can be practiced and the right to freely prostitute oneself (enacted in Italy with the Merlin law) is an uncivil act that forces night ladies into erotic supermarkets with forced sanitary check-ups. Besides, this law that so prides itself of giving attention to prostitution related problems, forcing prostitutes to abandon the streets encourages the organized criminality that controls this market.
At the same time you think that the application of the paragraph of statute 85 “transvestitism”- masking of ones identity punishable with passport confiscation, that many Italian transgenders have undergone regardless of the last twenty years battles, is a step back.
You think that if people want to dress up and look for their identity, regardless of all rigid definitions, preventing them from doing so is an unjustifiable violence.
The common sense that has permitted the compliant formulation of this law is the same that stops at the appearance of things, to the so called degrade of shown-off titts, and doesn’t know how to look domestic and everyday violence in the face.

*Betty has many identities and none and because of this cannot be represented, doesn’t have a gender because loves everybody, doesn’t have a color because loves melanges (although has a particular inclination for pink), Betty is multilingual, Betty is nomad, Betty doesn’t need any documents because has had the fortune (till now) to be a citizen.

Betty is the group name of the Sexy- Shock women

**(thank's to A/MATRIX).