Sometimes I find myself trolling for porn on fashion blogs more often than places that intentionally feature pornography. I know that for some, there is no difference. We in the pursuit of well dressed but half naked models salute you.
Click on images to see the full spreads. The one linked to below is actually my favorite.
This post is actually a flimsy excuse to share my late night oglings with you and also to run a test. A while back, dotBen gave me a present and it’s ready to roll for SXSW this coming week: a shiny black top of the line Asus netbook for my purse. I wanted to give it a test run for my blogging process; it’s gorgeous, has a big screen and a camera, everything on it is free open source software (and legal!), and it’s running ubuntu. It’s a sweet machine, and makes me outrageously mobile. This is going to be fun like a whole passel of well dressed half naked models in my purse fun …
If you’re arriving after hearing/seeing NPR’s All Things Considered on sex and internet history, welcome! You might want to check out this fascinating timeline of sex and the internet, showing in depth a lot more of what we all talked about on the show. You didn’t? Then check out something I worked on for a few weeks, NPR’s Thank Sex For Making The Internet Hot. If you’re a new visitor interested in following my sex column Open Source Sex (mentioned in the feature), my column will no longer appear in the San Francisco Chronicle and will re-appear shortly in another venue. Please stay tuned. Otherwise, enjoy the wonderfully nerdy sexy images in this post by Flash developer Exey Panteleev who had also made video stop-motions of his other (non-erotic) photoshoots here. I’m a big fan: his photos on Flickr even include markup descriptions and tips!
“Put your content into DIVs not TABLEs.”
“Time is a new HTML5 tag that defines time or date, or both.”
First it was the porn recession. Then it became a porn depression. When the porn trade industry show and awards shrunk a large percentage and moved to a smaller venue this year, we got articles about porn’s financial meltdown — which by all accounts, is also a portrait of an industry that, like newspapers, is dying at its own hand. A director friend was told this year by her studio (a very famous one) that her job required her to attend AVN: it seems the industry is now held together by maintaining appearances. The faithful maintain the crisis is to be blamed on the evils of file sharing. Meanwhile industry outsiders and those making a mint outside AVN’s old porn culture watch grandpa screaming at the kids to get off his lawn — while quietly adapting to online business models and social networking principles.
A lot of it has to do with poor product delivery choices and not diversifying delivery methods: the porn biz is reliant on the DVD. Not good: the DVD was introduced in 1997, and as of 2009 DVD sales in porn were down by 50% from 2004. It seems that a business which is known for over-recycling footage (and starlets) had better hope that polycarbonate is recyclable, lest they end up collecting cans.
I’m feeling disgusted by the seriously slanted anti-porn feature being run in the Washington Post this sunday. And I’m irritated that no one will offer a counterpoint in mainstream media (oh yeah, I was the only one), so I maded you a happy porn post. Don’t believe the porn myths and stereotypes you see in WaPo right now; unsubstantiated claims and sneering at healthy porn use does not make a string case. It’s all they got.
IMHO, we’re just all tired of these loud hysterical buffoons acting as if we’re children. They really think porn destroys relationships — I hate to break it to people who don’t want to face reality, but it’s people who destroy their relationships with their behaviors. Just ask any gaming widow (and be sure to talk to avid gamers who have great relationships, too).
Onward to the porn, please… Every gallery below is free, and quite explicit. Much of it is made by women. All is personally selected. Hope you like!
Met Art beauties: Dominika and Lada; my goodness Ariel A is gorgeous. Cinema Erotique is a UK based woman-run site with all manner of playful fantasy and light kink; here’s video page one and two (I had the pleasure of naming their video, “In Your Face”).
Girl-girl porn, rawr! Lots of video goodies from Sapphic Erotica which could be classified as whatever the opposite of tattooed altporn is: I liked one, two, three and fisty-four.
Moving into altporn and fetish… I’m not sure I like Lexi Belle as a blonde. I’m even less sure about her doing clown porn shoots, but she’s hot, so there you go. Also at women-run Juliland, I found these two sizzling videos of super busty Jada Fire puoring milk on herself, and moisturizing her busts. But whither the altporn fellatio, you say? Why, yes, it’s here.
I tweeted this video last night, but it’s too amazing to only share there. My dear friend Mojo sent me this video last week when I was sad about pulling my column from the Chron. It will live again elsewhere when I decide on a good home (besides me, many people are missing it and readers are saying they’ll follow it wherever it goes). As for this video, you should only be worried if a) your head is a watermelon and b) this woman is in charge of the fruit salad at your wedding.
In what my friend The Sexademic calls “an interesting move for the private sector” we now have STD Test Express, a fully private STD testing website. I pinged her before posting because Sexademic has been exploring more ‘open source’ options for STD tests lately, and we just took an STD/STI update class where it was reinforced that testing isn’t always there when you need it. For instance, you pretty much can’t get tested for Herpes in San Francisco right now unless you’ve had known exposure; the test is just too expensive and lots of people have it in some variation… I found this site from their enjoyable blog, notably a recent post about their recent survey where they found that “1 in 3 people will still have sex with someone who refuses to get an STD test…even after being asked to get tested…even though they know ‘they shouldn’t.’” I also liked their post about Ozzy Osbourne’s Russian Roulette with sex. It’s just like ChatRoulette and Jon Stewart’s succinct description that it’s “five chambers” of cock.
Is oral sex considered sex? It wasn’t to around 30 percent of the study participants. How about anal sex? For around 20 percent of the participants, no. A surprising number of older men did not consider penile-vaginal intercourse to be sex. More than idle gossip, the answers to questions about sex can inform — or [...]
The submissions are all in for American Apparel’s “best bottom” contest; when it was announced in January, reactions ranged from outrage and cries of “sexism!” to pervy excitement and posterior posturing of all kinds. I’m enjoying the range of butts that made the top categories and happy to see that the #1 butt is one [...]
The Feminist Porn Awards has become a remarkable celebration of women and porn; they just emailed to let me know they’ve announced their 2010 nominations, and have an impressive stable of guests. Here are ten of the top noms:
I’ve had these in my tabs for a bit and just can’t let them go to waste… Plus I get to say, ‘and now for something completely different.’ Above we have a lovely image from Bestweekever.tv’s gallery of The 40 Most Sexual Photos From The Olympics, which we’re all glad someone else took the time [...]
Image of The Chronicle being printed in their now-closed plant.
In 2006 I was tapped from the blogosphere to become San Francisco’s sex columnist. I recently discovered that the SFGate (the online home of the San Francisco Chronicle) is copying my column archives and distorting them. After four weeks of asking the Gate to fix them, [...]
I’ve been wanting to see this happen for a very long time; at one point I even approached friends at Kink to crate a “best practices” based on their own spotless safer-sex guidelines and put them out for all to see (and hopefully follow). They did not, but [...]
Image: beautiful artwork by The Pearls (adriana munoz).
Wherein I provide you with inarguable proof that there is no such thing as a “slow news week” for sexuality. This is just part of what’s in my inbox, plus a bit of what I’ve encountered online. Cherrypick your clicks accordingly:
* As a girl who has been playing [...]
I’ve been researching the history of sex and the internet to prepare for my NPR / All Things Considered interview (might go on the air tomorrow). I just got off the phone with the producer and had opened up my notes; I realized I did the entire call with my desktop looking [...]
Right or wrong, I knew that once I saw the censored gallery on HuffPo of the second annual German topless sledding event, that if I waited a minute many uncensored photos would surface and I could give you the chilly nekkid Olympian-esque post that you deserve. What I did not expect, and I should have, [...]
We have two new reports especially for the sex nerds in the audience, so if data and stats get you all revved up don’t touch that mouse. Many readers will find the OkTrends Blog post especially interesting, as it dishes on sexual activities by age and interest, while dropping tasty stats on how often female [...]
The director of controversial film “Sex and Lucia” has a new film that has all the lesbian (bisexual) drama you need to last until your little sister gets back from college in June. The uncensored version of Julio Medem’s “Room In Rome” trailer I found above, however, is quite arousing and shows a surprising amount [...]
It’s no secret that Apple doesn’t allow adult content in its app store. And without writing too much about it here (I will be writing about it elsewhere), it’s easy for those without iPhones to kind of shrug and go, hm, well, that’s weird and prudish and out of step with culture and life, but [...]
Violet Blue is a Forbes "Web Celeb", Associate Editor at Laughing Squid, a high-profile tech personality and one of Wired's "Faces of Innovation." She is regarded as the foremost expert in the field of sex and technology, a sex-positive pundit in mainstream media (MacLife, The Oprah Winfrey Show, others) and is regularly interviewed, quoted and featured prominently by major media outlets. Violet has many award-winning, best selling books and was the notorious sex columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. She headlines at conferences ranging from ETech, LeWeb and SXSW: Interactive, to Google Tech Talks at Google, Inc.
Violet Blue's next (re)appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show is Thursday, March 25.
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