Alexis on the Sexes: Shocker, take 2

Editor's note: The Alexis on the Sexes column in the April 4 issue of Vita.mn dealt with a very serious subject: The Shocker. The column garnered a wide range of responses, from bemused to informed to, well, shocked. An excerpt from the Shocker discussion in the "not sexy" tag on www.vita.mn:

Alexis: The Shocker is a joke, gentlemen. It's not a real sex move. Please, for the love of all things erotic, stop doing it.

PeterHDK: You wrote, "The thumb hardly has the range of motion or the stamina to stimulate the clit properly." I dunno, my thumbs get a pretty good workout from the PS3 controller. I'd actually never heard of this so-called Shocker. Sounds so very sensuous.

Alexis: In a perfect world, your thumb would be strong for the PS3 as a result of regular clitoral workouts. But Peter, it makes my day that you've never heard of the Shocker. Bless you.

PeterHDK: I knew I was setting myself up for that one even as I typed it, Alexis. Um, but what I meant was, that's my nickname for the clit: a PS3 controller. yeah, that's it!

CityGal: A friend who is a fetish photographer and therefore has no reason to not know about the Shocker discovered "two in the cootie, one in the booty" not so long ago. It happens to good, strapping, sexually active men everywhere, I think. Even when they take pictures of cooch all day.

simon_peter (Vita.mn print editor): I never heard of it until I saw the T-shirt for Alexis' kickball team, the Toxic Shockers. Well Alexis, this column was the least you could do to compensate for the damage done by your own kickball team in putting the hype out there.

PeterHDK: Wait, they have their picture taken when? While doing it?

Cirkustanz: No, while flashing it. There are usually three or four guys in the picture, and invariably one of them messes it up. I can't find an example right now, but I've seen them all over MySpace profile pictures.

simon_peter: It is true that the Shocker is one of 78 common varieties of douchebag hand gesture, which is probably the only reason it gets propagated.

ecg129: Yeah, for some reason, this is like the modern day middle finger -- give someone the Shocker instead.

Alexis: It's a much friendlier gesture in my circle of friends, more like a replacement for the peace symbol (which has always annoyed me). It's also a "Hey you in that car there, I know you," weird kind of wave.

Cirkustanz: In her friend's defense, I had absolutely no idea what the Shocker was in 1997 other than a bad movie.

Alexis: Neither did I. Kudos for getting your pals to throw up the Shocker.

AlphaBean: I especially like the fact that she taught a foreigner, who then took it home and spread it to her friends and family, like in the movie "Outbreak."

D1VERZE: What about the "Double Fister"? That's not a joke, is it?