Halloween Sluts - Part One

I LOVE Halloween.

I love dressing up, I still love candy - as much as I really shouldn't eat it anymore....I love watching little kids in costume, I love martinis with radish-eyeballs, I love carving pumpkins, and I love costumes.

Well, I love most costumes. Of course, there is one costume that I cannot stand. The "slutty drunk girl on Halloween costume". *shudder

First off, I can absolutely understand the drive behind the slutty costumes. I was a stripper, for God's sake - of course I understand the joy of being overtly sexual, of having eyes on you, of feeling gorgeous and wanted and sexy. One of the great joys of dancing (and camming, to an extent) is that you get to feel like a sex-kitten every day. I understand that for most women, that isn't an option, and the chance to let the inner slut shine is one to be taken advantage of.

However.

The issue that I have with the "slut" costume is that it isn't actually a costume. It is an excuse to wear a tight, short dress, or booty shorts and a bra, or maybe just some carefully places triangles.

I love costumes. I have great respect for good costumes, and since I was a kid,  I always fought to try and make the best, most original, most interesting costume. I even won a prize once, when I went as a lego brick (it was a box painted red, with circles on the front and arm holes. It was also awesome). I have tried to create costumes on my own, as part of groups, pairs and theme nights.

If it was up to me, I would wear costumes all the time, but sadly, I am limited to ComiCon and Halloween.

And THAT is why the slut-trend bothers me so much, because it puts emphasis on how slutty someone looks, rather than how good the costume is.  It ruins Halloween as a cos-play holiday, and turns it into a slutty holiday. And that just leaves me with ComiCon, where I'm both limited in scope, and way out of my league.

To top it all off, there are plenty of costumes that can be accurate and carefully put together, but that are incredibly slutty. Start with any female comic book character ever - all drawn by men, for men, and most of them are as pornographic as the drawings in 60's Playboy. Add to that pretty much every female Sci-Fi character, about half of the TV and Movie characters, most cartoon characters, a good chunk of female sportspeople (ballerinas, cheerleaders...).....there is a range of costume-appropriate sluttiness so wide that no one should ever have a problem finding a way to show off their boobs while still wearing something that is an actual costume.

My issue is with the costumes that are basically just "sexy" in front of any word, ever. Sexy tweetie bird. Sexy prisoner. Sexy teddy bear. Sexy shoe. Sexy toothbrush. All of the above are lycra mini dresses with an accessory. And none of them are made up.

For the love of all things cos-play - this halloween, if you want to be a "sexy" something, just make sure that the something is actually sexy, ok?

Here is a little test for you to try and figure out if your costume is actually a costume, or an excuse to look like a tramp:

Imagine that someone is asking you what you are supposed to be.
If they have to ask, it's not a costume.