December 2008

Image by one of my top fave erotic photographers, Christian Petersen.

It’s not clear that it’s *certain* they’ll drop the censorware, but still all I can say is YAY and let Ars Technica’s Matthew Lasar tell you the good news (sorry, Australia) — snip from Martin drops porn filtering from FCC free wireless broadband plan:

Kevin Martin, the Chair of the Federal Communications Commission, called Ars Technica today to let us know that he has revised his proposal to roll out a free (and smut-free) wireless broadband service. In an effort to corral more votes, Martin has already circulated a new version of the plan, one that removes the controversial smut filtering requirement.

Why the change? “I’m saying if this is a problem for people, let’s take it away,” Martin said. “A lot of public interest advocates have said they would support this, but we’re concerned about the filter. Well, now there’s an item in front of the Commissioners and it no longer has the filter. And I’ve already voted for it without the filter now. So it’s already got one vote.”

“Got anybody else?” I asked him.

“Not yet,” Martin admitted with a chuckle. Then he expressed a bit of impatience with his four colleagues. “This is an item that has been pending at the Commission for several years, that the Commissioners were originally critical of not having moved forward faster,” he said. “Other Commissioners said, ‘We’re overdue; we’ve got to do this.’ But when an actual item is put forth where you have to make a hard decision, they say, ‘Well, I’m not so sure what I want to do anymore’.”

Bring on the free smut!

As we have been reporting for some time, the FCC’s outgoing boss has been championing a proposal to auction off a hefty chunk of the Advanced Wireless Services 3 band (2155-2180MHz) for a free service that (until now) was to come complete with smut filtering. (…read more, arstechnica.com)

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Image of Justine Joli by Steve Diet Goedde for Stockroom.

* Off topic: I’m in Joi Ito’s new book, Freesouls — with a lot of really heavy hitters in the technology arena. It’s a huge compliment, and the book looks incredible.

* FriendFinder Networks, aka Adult Friend Finder / Penthouse Networks is going IPO public in a Hail Mary gesture — and they’re not being met with open arms (or legs, for that matter) on Wall Street. They are $450 million in debt. Again, so much for “sex sells.” (news.cnet.com)

* A friend has a nice snack-food sized roundup of the year in (mainstream) sex that’s a fun read. I think the “starfuckers” blip was my favorite, though it’s got a lot of stuff I’ve blogged so I may be jaded. Still I think it’s enjoyable, and how *hilare* is it that that The Daily Beast is trying to be all big bad in media but still won’t print the word “fuck.” (thedailybeast.com)

* The New Yorker, which is a mainstream media outlet unafraid to use the common word “fuck” has a review of the old book “The Joy of Sex” and accompanying slideshow. Won’t it be neat when they start reviewing contemporary and more relevant sex bestsellers of high cultural impact (waiting until 40 years after the books were printed, of course)? (newyorker.com)

* Everyone’s fave sci-fi blog has a tasty post with the trailer for Lesbian Vampire Killer, whose byline is “Shaun of the Dead with tits.” You need say no more to get my fangirl temperature up. (io9.com)

* Yay Lux: Fleshbot Craft Corner is featuring a video of the DIY Lego masturbator (much like those Japanese handjob machines). Sharp corners notwithstanding, I’d love to see a little Lego Mindstorms action added on, like a flamethrower or remote-control driving capabilities. (fleshbot.com)

* Speaking of Lux’s Boinkology, right now she’s got a popular post about the world’s “classiest” butt plug — the “gentleman’s” plug Earl by Lelo that does indeed come with matching cufflinks, for all your formal black tie prostate massage holiday parties. The gold set is only $990. (boinkology.com)

* In case you missed the blogosphere blast today, The Times of Harvey Milk is indeed free to watch on Hulu right now. It looks like Hulu blocked The Sex Carnival’s embed, but not Laughing Squid’s — how sad of Hulu to do that. (hulu.com, seen @ The Sex Carnival, Laughing Squid, Joe My God)

* Teens don’t self-report the realities of the sex they’re having and virginity pledges don’t work. Shocking, I know. But it’s nice to see it backed now by data and being reported widely. (reason.com + washingtonpost.com, thanks Praemedia and Paul)

* Gratuitous porn of the nom nom nom variety: I love the new user-generated gallery collections at Met Art. Here is a fan of sexy Sofi A, a great multi-model selection, someone who loves sultry Hene A and a collection from someone who has great taste in itty bitty titties :)

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One of my sideline funtime obsessions is looking for paysites with quality porn where I can sign up as an affiliate and get free gallery content to share with you. I often find all kinds of strange and curious (and sometimes fantastic) ephemera of human sexual expression. Fetish For The People is one of them.

Now, I’ll warn you that it’s not for everyone, but I sent an inadvertently teasing Tweet out about one of their lines regarding their ability to cater to the fetish for “finger brushing” of which I had never heard about. Then in answer to KumiMonster, I screencapped their excellent and perplexing list of featured fetishes.

So there you have it. Click the image to see the larger, readable size.

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A small but HOT photoset for Jiz Lee and Dylan Ryan (from a No Fauxxx set extracted from the highly recommended video Lesbian Life: Real Sex San Francisco) just went up in this post. You can also see more of this kind of real lesbian orgasmic action at Crash Pad, where a new trailer just went up.

Drool.

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Totally just stumbled across this video Ulay by accident while researching an upcoming post about Balkan erotica — I love the music, Euro ethno funk with great horns, from Auroboro.

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