THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2002
LIFESTYLE
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 11
Daily disguises bring sexy Halloween fun
SEX
Putting on a costume when it's not Halloween could help net you some tantalizing treats, and I'm not talking about candy bars and pieces of gum.
Meghan Bainum
mbainum@kansan.com
Costumes are a fun way to take sexual situations from routine to risqué, no walking around in the cold involved. In fact, add a little disguise to your love life and you might never leave your house.
Costumes are definitely more than just kid stuff, and donning some sleazy lotlizard Spandex, a panda bear suit or a fake beard can cause some adult feelings. Being in costume can bring a freedom to sex that is sometimes hard to get while running around in your own skin.
Suddenly it isn't you talking dirty to your lover and tickling his or her butt with a feather duster, it's your other persona—the naughty maid or housekeeper.
Changing your sexual persona can be as easy as slipping on an article or two of
clothing you don't usually wear and taking off your normal, everyday duds.
Men going to Halloween parties dressed as women are a pretty common sight. Lawrence is guaranteed to be filled with closely shaven young men adorned with wigs, stroking their balloon breasts and tottering on their female friend's high heels. Maybe one or two will up the ante and adorn some pretty panties or a lacy bra.
Women, too, get in the cross-dressing
spirit,donning fake facial hair with a sock stuffed in their boxer-briefs. There's something erotic about seeing a man as a woman and vice versa.Multiply this eroticism by about 100,and you'll understand what it's like to mess around with costumes in your sexual lives.
It's fun to make it more than just a sock, or two balloons, and actually assume a more masculine or feminine attitude in love and sex. Elaborate productions, while fun, aren't always necessary—a pair of panties on a guy, or a woman with her hand down the front of a pair of boxers can help imagination along just fine.
If you're into it, though, feel free to go all the way with your temporary attitude and appearance adjustment. Cross-dress on a random night to get that crazy tinge of Halloween excitement any time of the year.
If you're not comfortable with the idea
of turning into a different sex, just free yourself from your usual "look" to become someone totally different. Play cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians or even cats and dogs if you wish.
In fact, there's a whole sub-set of people who really like to get it on in a full-length costume — head included. Just remember, while most of these people, called furries, buy their own costumes, you'll probably be renting yours so be careful what you get in the fur.
When you're running around in your costume, take a second to think about all the erotic possibilities that can come with dressing a little differently than usual.
Then "forget" to take that gorilla suit back to the costume shop or keep that vampire outfit and fangs in the front of your closet — Halloween comes only once a year, but sex can be had any day. Isn't it wonderful?
Get inspired under the wire for costume ideas
FASHION
As I walk through my apartment, I notice that many of our framed pictures, hanging on our walls and magnetized to our refrigerator door, are from past Halloweens. No matter where you find yourself, at a fraternity party surrounded by a masquerade of Hugh Hefners and Playboy Bunnies or going from black and orange-garnished brouhaha to brouhaha on Ohio Street, Halloween is always memorable — sometimes only because of the aforementioned pictures.
Sara Behunek sbehunek@kansan.com
I'll be the first to admit that I never plan out a costume very far in advance. Not that I do not get in the spirit, but there is a certain exhilaration that comes with last-minute costume designs. For example, my freshman year, my two closest friends and I
bought little-boys' undershirts and ironed on "Seniors" to the front. Then we squeezed out freshman-15 behind in some cut-offs, pulled on knee-high socks and were the senior girls from the movie Dazed and Confused that hazed the incoming freshman. Not everyone at The Hawk caught on, but the best picture from
that night is still the screen-saver on my friend's computer. Memorable.
One of my roommates was recalling her favorite last-minute costume the other day as we were brainstorming ideas for this Halloween. Last year, she ran into a guy who had wrapped himself in white paper – think the kind from the rolls in elementary school – cut holes so he could see, colored the bottom brown, the very top red and was a walking cigarette. To top it all off, when he smoked that night, he exhaled out of the top of his costume so he was "lit." Inventive.
Having complementing or matching costumes is always a favorite for couples. The easiest and cheapest one I have heard of is a Greek god and goddess. Re-usable for a toga party and completely obtainable,
the divine couple accessorized their outfit with a lightning-bolt rod for him and a stein for her, which were both spray painted gold. Let us guess which one got more use that night. Cute.
We can also venture to the more raunchy side of Halloween costuming. My other roommate snickered as she described what an ex of hers had decided to sport one year. He wrote on a piece of poster board, "free mammogram machine" and wore it hanging on his neck with some string. Probably the most time-efficient and cheapest of all the previously mentioned costumes. Witty.
You can never use the "I don't have a costume excuse" on Oct. 31. Be creative, be resourceful and do not forget to bring a camera.
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