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Jamaicans Get Party to Come to Them, via DVDCraig Phang Sang for The New York Times
A photograph of a dance party in Jamaica, where hosts often burn event footage to DVDs.
By SARAH MASLIN NIR
Published: March 31, 2013
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REPRINTSMONTEGO BAY, Jamaica — Glenville Brown has never left the island of Jamaica, where he was born and where he poles bamboo rafts full of tourists down a river for a living. But by his own reckoning, he has made hundreds if not thousands of appearances in New York City and throughout the Jamaican diaspora, simply because he loves to party.
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Keeling Beckford, an owner of a music shop in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, said expatriates “like to know what’s going on in the island.”
Raucous parties erupt nightly across the Caribbean island, in homes and in clubs, on roped off streets and in rural backyards. They are filled with the usual characters, gyrating women and amorous men tossing back booze to music spun by a D.J. — and one uniquely Jamaican fixture, the video man, hired by the host to capture the revelry.But unlike a wedding video that stays tucked away unwatched, footage of Jamaican parties gets a second life. Burned onto DVDs and exported to America and elsewhere, the films are snapped up and watched, at home, by Jamaicans abroad who are nostalgic for the sights and sounds and thumping bass lines of home.
“It’s just people dancing, you know, crazy, and people just love them,” said Keeling Beckford, an owner of Keeling Reggae, a music shop in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. “People over here in the States like to know what’s going on in the island — fashion, dance, the latest slang.”
There is no narrative or plotline in the films. They are simply start-to-finish recordings of parties, from the sluggish arrival of guests, to awkward milling, to rum-punch sipping, to a crescendo of feverish dancing to a popular form of music known as dancehall. The camera keeps rolling until the last sweaty guests wobble home on their heels. The films are typically watched beginning to end, an activity that can take as long as six hours.
It may seem melancholy to watch alone as a bunch of strangers cavort at a party you weren’t invited to 1,600 miles away, but many expatriates find it dulls the pangs of homesickness. They often look for films of parties from their hometown, to keep an eye out for friends and family members on the dance floor.
In this way the party videos have become just another coping mechanism for immigrants, a role more traditionally occupied by food or faith. And they reflect a common sentiment, that the United States has a lot to offer, including better job and educational opportunities, but Americans just do not know how to party.
Rodney Ivey, 31, a fixture at a reggae store in Queens packed with Bob Marley memorabilia, watches parties most nights. Like many fans, he takes special note of new fashions or hairstyles back home. Dances evolve from week to week in Jamaica. Sometimes, Mr. Ivey will leap off his sofa to practice a new move he sees on the screen, to later use at a party. “I watch them and I live them,” he said.
The hallmark of a good DVD is outlandish dancing. Egged on by the evening’s M.C., called a “selector,” and a shouted running commentary over furious reggae-inflected beats, women pinwheel their legs while standing on their heads. Some moves are acrobatic — a real showstopper involves a woman dangling from the ceiling and leaping onto a male dance partner, landing in a full split — while others, like “daggering,” are overtly sexual. The dancing often borders on pornographic and by night’s end can sail past that line as bodies jiggle free of minuscule clothes.
Both men and women buy films, and stress that they are for the most part wholesome entertainment. Sashauna Stewart, 27, who lives in Canarsie, Brooklyn, has been watching them since she was 15 years old, sometimes five in a weekend. She has come to know the party regulars as if they were the cast of a soap opera. Eventually she started flying back to Jamaica to attend parties and vie for a chance to be on camera. “They know that they’re going to be seen in America,” she said. “They try to outdo everyone so they can make the cut and be in the video.”
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Women more attracted to men with large genitals – Study
Previous studies on women’s preferences for male genital size have been mixed, and even though it is the men who typically worry about the size of their own genitals, it is not unusual for women to prefer large-size male genitalia, even if it is up to a point.
But scientists have always argued that the old studies relied on questionnaires, which they say may not always provide honest answers.
However, it is now scientifically proven that size does, indeed, matter significantly because women tend to be more attracted to men with large genitals.
A new study by Australian researchers found that while the average woman rates the average man with large genitals more attractive, large genitals also give tall men a bigger attractiveness boost than shorter men.
A publication of the study result in the journal of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, however, notes that the returns on bigger genitals start to decrease at a flaccid penile length of 2.99 inches (7.6 centimeters).
The study suggests that women’s preferences for bigger male genitals could explain why human males have relatively big genitals for their body size.
In previous related studies, scientists only asked women to judge the attractiveness of male figures in photos with only penile size varied, when in fact no trait is ever evaluated in a vacuum.
But in the Australian study, researchers at the Australian National University, showed 105 young Australian women life-size computer-generated figures of nude men, varying the figures’ flaccid penile size, height and shoulder-to-hip ratio.
Height and shoulder-to-hip ratio have previously been shown as factors used by women to judge attractiveness. The computer simulations varied penile width in sync with length, so that all penises were proportional.
The results revealed that women preferred taller men as well as high shoulder-to-hip ratios (meaning that the wider the shoulders were than the hip, the more attractive the man).
Shoulder-to-hip ratio was a major determiner of attractiveness, accounting for 79.6 percent of the variation in hot-or-not ratings.
Though the effect was less extreme, women also preferred larger male organs, at least up to 5.1 inches (13 cm) flaccid, which was the largest computer-generated penile size in the study. Beyond 2.99 inches, however, the additional attractiveness per extra length started to decline.
When the researchers controlled for shoulder-to-hip ratio, they found that a larger penis had a greater effect on attractiveness for taller men, hinting that a larger penis just looked more proportional on a taller man’s body, the researchers wrote, or it could be that women were biased against shorter men to the extent that even large genitals didn’t help. Interestingly, women’s own features mattered as well. Researchers found that taller women were more likely to find taller men attractive. Women with greater body mass per height were slightly more likely than thinner women to weigh penile size more heavily in their judgments of attractiveness, though the difference was small.
Researchers say the findings might help explain why humans have remarkably large genitalia given their average body size.
It is a fact that male humans have the largest penises that any other primate species: For example, male gorillas can weigh as much as 180 kilograms, but their erect penis length is only about 1.5 inches (4 cm).
Human males weigh about half of what gorillas do, but studies peg average erect or flaccid-but-stretched penis length from 4.7 inches (12 cm) to 6.5 inches (16.7 cm).
Evolutionary biologists theorize that large human penises might help remove sperm from
competing males during sex, but in an era before clothing, women may have been drawn to mating with men whose genitalia caught their eye.
Men with larger penises, then, may have passed on their genes more readily, resulting in the large-genitals trait being handed down the generations.
In other words, males may have females to thank for their greater-than-gorilla-sized genitals.
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