This is brilliant and fun: Argentinian indie filmmaker and animator Ariel Belziti made this terrific, 1970s softcore-style supercut of sex scenes from Game of Thrones. Whimsical and sexy, it is also a cute way to revisit the show while us superfans wait through the long winter until the show’s return next year…
Belziti explains,
As you might have guessed by the title it comprises a megamix of NSFW moments sliced from your #1 Most Torrented television series, beautifully restyled as b-grade Seventies soft porn complete with transitional star wipes.
(Via Ms. Naughty, who is currently experiencing bizarre content censorship issues with Vimeo.)
The above Argentinian PSA got me all verklempt. It shows a series of transgender Argentinians talking about how it feels to have the name on one’s ID not match one’s identity. It’s in Spanish, with English subtitles added after-the-fact by Blabbeando (the link comes via Charlie Glickman at Good Vibrations). With its perky, music, straightforward speech and from-the-heart feel, it celebrates trans rights beautifully…and it’s on television.
The PSA is part of a campaign to support Argentina’s Transgender Identity Law, currently being considered by the Argentinian Senate. The bill is meant, among other things, to make it easier to change the gender on one’s ID without proof of gender reassignment surgery. The gorgeous PSA was produced by a federation of Argentinian LGBT rights organizations (you can see all their logos at the end).
Argentina has a remarkable LGBT rights record in recent years. Same-sex marriage was legalized there in the summer, 2010, following a 2009 court ruling that allowed two men to marry — the first in Latin America. Gays and lesbians can serve openly in the Argentinian military. Even in prisons, officials are required to allow conjugal visits between LGBT inmates and their partners.
It wasn’t always thus in Argentina, with raids on gay bars occurring at least into the late ’90s — well after the end of the military dictatorship, which crashed in the early 1980s. Change in Argentina may seem to have come about rapidly, but it’s taken hard work by activists and lawmakers.
That’s why PSAs like the two following are felt necessary by an Argentinian provincial rights advocacy group. They are so Orwellian (particularly the first one, with the cops) that they made me feel physically ill watching them. The truly disturbing thing is that it wasn’t all that long ago in the United States that this kind of harassment was extremely common, and it’s still all too common…as I’m sure it is in Argentina.
According to Blabbeando, those two PSAs above come from an organization called the Observatory for the Promotion of Sexual Diversity Rights in Salta (Salta being a city and province in Northwestern Argentina). They were supported by United Nations grants, and are intended to promote the sexual diversity rights clause in the Salta provincial constitution.
If those last two PSAs creeped you out, this last one may cheer you up a bit. It came out during Argentinan LGBT rights groups’ (successful) 2010 campaign for same-sex marriage. This PSA is from the LGBT Federation of Argentina, and it’s so adorable it makes me squee. Imagine a diamond commercial without the crappy commodity politics — that is to say with shy, trembling expressions of heartfelt love instead of blood diamonds. Then populate it with hot Argentinians.
Girls, girls, girls. They make me so happy with their soothing smoothness and curves. This is a blog about culture and sex. This is the sex part, though unlike perceptions of the uninitiated, it’s light and erudite, with a touch of female finesse. Those who can’t be bothered to understand can just suck it up. Or, they can live in the present with the rest of us and quite worrying what people think. This is the new school of life. If you’re too embarrassed to link here, but want me to promo your shit or cash in on my appearance, get over it and treat me, and the hundreds of thousands of people who visit here with maturity and respect. (Not to mention the 8 million+ downloads of my podcasts and gods know how many books I’ve sold.) The human condition: here’s a beautiful part of it, courtesy of a refined community of tasteful user-generated erotic galleries, distilled and selected by me:
Yes, something’s bothering me. It’s something someone did online, and it would *definitely* piss you off, too. I’m working it out in my head so as to avoid an international incident.
I usually do a “pretty girl friday” but I’ve got so many free galleries of remarkably pretty girls in my inbox, I’ve just got to share. I go through galleries and sift out the ones I like the most on a regular basis; the action is almost like a meditative practice (except it’s a very *arousing* quiet state). It’s like a little vacation for my eyes and brain. And other bits. I hope you find these selections as soothing as I did.
I think Iveta is awfully cute. And I know I’ve posted hot smiley redhead Ariel before, but she just seems to get prettier and prettier. Same with Eufrat, who is becoming a TinyNibbles regular. I’m new to buxom, busty Iga (above), and she is very much “my type”. Brigi‘s gallery is explicit and I can almost feel her heat, sweat and intensity. Unforgettable: French fashion model looking Jane‘s fetishy pantyhose shoot stopped me in my tracks.
And I didn’t forget how some of you love those Argentinian amateurs, though it’s been a while since I’ve seen a gallery I’ve liked — today is different: I have one and two. Enjoy!
Image from the crazy-hot gallery of Gabrielle and Marlene.
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Image of Katja B. from this gallery.
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Image from this gallery.
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Image from this gallery.
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Image of super-hot, probable over-20 from this gallery.
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Image of Amandine from this gallery.
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Image of Freya A from this gallery.
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Image of Jenya D from this gallery.
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Image of Muriel from this gallery.
Fake lesbians.
Real lesbians.
That's it.
Just kidding -- but sometimes I feel like just making a post like that. I've got a good number of galleries I liked this week, but after the jump is a very special treat, customized just for me by the uber-hot real […]
Sasha Grey shot by Richard Kern
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For perusing the artsy […]
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