Dickmeland Paris - La petite mort de la culture française

By Martha Anglish

Many hate it, many love it, but all know it. Dickmeland, named after its founder, the illustrious Candace U. Dickme (Auntie Cans), which she allegedly came up with while lounging in the back of a stripclub, watching one of her many boyfriends receiving a lapdance.

Auntie Cans, a true self-made woman, working herself up from stripper to owner of the largest Porn-empire the world has ever seen, has been dead for decades, but her legacy has endured. By all accounts, she loved sex and money as much as she hated communists, and what Dickmeland has become, would’ve exceeded even her notoriously megalomaniac wet dreams. Shamelessly commercialized and utterly depraved as it may be, none can deny its success.

When the first Dickmeland was built in the fifties, everyone in the entertainment industry thought Auntie Cans had finally gone mad. She wanted to build a place where you yourself could play the lead role in one of Dickme’s famous pornos. Multiple, if you’d like, or invent one of your own. It would be the first fully immersive sexual fantasy experience.

You’ll lose all your money, they said. You’ll have to get back on your knees, they said.

But old Cans U. Dickme was right. Dickmeland was a huge success. When the sexual revolution came, and the pill was approved for contraceptive use, Dickmeland grew out to the entertainment behemoth it was today, with similar parks on the east coast of the states, in Japan, China, Hong Kong, and here in Europe. Powered by a continuous stream of more or less successful movies and very successful merchandise, everyone and their mothers knows (and has likely visited) one of the parks.

Despite its more sensual culture, compared to that of the United States at least, the French weren’t very enthusiastic about the invasion of American culture that was the creation of the European Dickmeland. Still, the Americans went all in, and now, after years of financial losses, the sale of the entire park to a Saudi Oil Prince, and the eventual repurchase by the Cans Dickme Company, it is finally profitable and flourishing.

Still, despite its rough start, it is considered one of the most well designed parks—if you don’t count the Cans Dickme Porn Studios, which is still considered a mess, even with recent additions, though the Cans Dickme Company has recently announced a large expansion to that park.

Source: entertainmenthistory.com