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By Alison Neumer
RedEye

January 16, 2004

Men, the fantasy starts here.

As five young women in low-cut jeans and tight, flimsy tops grind their hips together on the dance floor of a hot nightclub, space clears around them and the crowd stands back, mesmerized.

At another club, the clothes come off as the hour grows late. Six women, two topless, dance provocatively together.

Fantasy has become fad as scenes like these-at Buzz and SmartBar-play out night after night in Chicago's hottest clubs.

Lesbians? Bi-curious behavior? No, this is pure performance, cultural observers say, in the same vein as the "Girls Gone Wild" videos or Madonna swapping spit with Britney at the MTV awards. More young women are dancing, touching and kissing each other in public in order to titillate men.

Call it the Flexosexual Revolution, a feminine answer to the cultural overdose of metrosexuality.

The act seems to be working.

"What's better than two feminine women doing something to please you?" asks clubgoer Steve Matthews, 33, who said women have hooked up in front of him.

His neighbor at Buzz agreed.

"Guys think if they see a woman kissing a woman, it means she's a player," said James Allman, 31.

"They say 'Hey, that's a girl I want to be with.' "

Local party promoter Woody Levin says straight women making out at clubs and lounges is a common sight. In Chicago, he sees it most often at Gold Coast and River North spots, but occasionally in Lincoln Park bars as well.

"When you get a lot of alcohol and people out having a good time, they let loose," Levin says.

"Sexuality has become more out there in the media, and girls are pushing the envelope."

Just flip on an episode of "Elimidate" for what the soft-core porn industry might call girl-on-girl action. Or maybe you caught last night's episode of "Will & Grace," where Karen spouted off about dancing like "two drunk straight girls at a frat party."

Not everyone is impressed.

"It's just attention-getting," said one woman watching the scene at Buzz this week. "They're competing for the guys, they're not doing it for themselves."

Whatever their motives, young women are more willing to leave their options open when it comes to sexuality.

Recent news reports tell of high school girls who refuse to be labeled gay or straight and who carry out romantic relationships with whoever catches their eye-girl or guy.

The trend is called "bisexual chic" or "faux bisexual," reports the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel.

On the club scene, though, it's often the straight women angling for guys who are creating the buzz.

"We dubbed it 'fluxual-sexual,' " says Eric Ferguson, co-host of the "Eric & Kathy" morning show on Chicago's WTMX-FM 101.9.

The topic popped up earlier this week, and female listeners called in to say they fit the description-straight women who, when they're out with their girlfriends, are physically flirtatious with each other.

"You see it more and more now. There's a certain permissiveness of the culture now, an ambiguity," Ferguson says. "It seems like a trendy, attention-getting thing to do. ... It went from the thing no one talks about to the thing everybody talks about."

And post Madonna-Britney, it's no longer shocking or unusual, says party promoter Levin.

"If a guy is looking to see it, if he eggs the girls on, they'll do it," Levin says.
Copyright © 2004, Chicago Tribune

<--- Consider me one titillated speed-reader.

Yeah, you wouldn't believe how often that happens here in Utah...
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...which, of course, is never....:confused:

happens in SF. sometimes too much. when the girl who was originally doing it for attention says hey, fuck the guys i like this better.

and then shes no longer fair game. :(

but it IS hot