I’m sometimes asked in interviews (and parties when people find out I look at porn for a living) if I’m burnt out on porn, or if I just hate it now, or if I can even look at it at all anymore. It’s true there have been times when I’ve gotten maxed out on it — like when working on the Smart Girl’s Guide to Porn I didn’t pace myself and just watched stacks and stacks of all kinds of porn, from the truly awful to the really yummy. Gorging myself on porn didn’t make me hate porn or sex, or make me need “harder stuff” to get off — nor did it turn me on. It just made me want to not look at porn for a bit. I needed to cleanse my palate.
Now I know how to pace myself when looking at porn for work, and I set aside the stuff I like for private, off the clock use later (though I’ll admit sometimes I find it helpful to blend work with play). But since most of what I look at now is on my computer — web, text and DVD porn — I like to give my girlpornbrain a rest, often by mixing up the (typically tired, old, boring barbie-like) explicit mainstream porn visuals I consume with erotic art. For this I have a small but satisfying sex/art linklist on which to rest my porn weary eyes, and I often discover some really incredible, inspiring psychopathological, hothot, and even shocking erotic imagery. My friend Jonathon sent me a new one yesterday, making me want to cull a few reliable favorites from my linklist:
Sex in Art * Art Nudes * Art at Large: Featured Artists * sexblo.gs * fluffy Lychees * Shooting Gallery * Sex? or not * everyday nakedness * sexe, love ‘n gaudriole (image via) * concept junkies * ALTphotos * deviant art
Hot femme top stuff, snip from the post:
A quickie: explicit female domination that centers around a Goth punk girl, her macho boyfriend, and a sexymean pair of pointy black high heels. I’m excited that my friend and colleage Rachel Kramer Bussel permitted me to read her story Spike from my book Best Women’s Erotica 2006; check out her awesome blog (and more) at Lusty Lady. (She is also the woman responsible for my utter helplessness to the sexual power of cupcakes.)
Link to post; link to MP3 audio file.
I drilled 480 holes today (120 parts @ 2 holes each + pilot holes) at SRL today. (I mean friday; just noticed it’s 2:30am.) My hands ache and are swollen right now. But I got to work on my favorite drill press all day and got a lot of thinking done. Got (another) offer from a publisher via email today on my Blackberry; before SRL I picked up my manuscript for BWE07 that I have to edit this weekend, and also agreed to Maxim interview. So tired and desire snuggles. My day in photos begins here.
FYI: I get *no* comps for this show. Bleh.
22 July 2006
Three photos from my day yesterday at SRL begin here; today's pics begin here, all with narrative. I just want to sink into a bathtub full of ice cubes, drink a beer, and have someone kiss my bruises.
I have the beer, anyway.
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21 July 2006
It must have been after 2am when I climbed off the parked car outside BOCA last night because they were telling us -- and everyone -- to get out. A guy came up to me and said, "Are you Violet Blue?" I think I smilled and nodded sheepishly. He said, […]
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18 July 2006
People who don't understand what I do think I write erotica -- I don't. I write nonfiction sex ed and I sexblog (yo, it's a *verb* now). But saying that, I've written exactly two pieces of erotica. Both are based on my own fantasies, which is I guess how such […]
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18 July 2006
Six hours ago I was emailed a few new free Hegre galleries to share, and while I'm still hotter from the table dance gallery than these selections, I still think what Hegre does with natural light and natural girls in these hi-res photosets is just a nice, pleasant soothing salve […]
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