From the monthly archives:

February 2012

Hot hot hot. The video is Empty Room by Dawid Pietraszewski (there is some incredible work on his website), via Bambi Attack.

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  • TV writer Jill Soloway not only thinks rape jokes are hilarious and necessary, but that if you don’t laugh it’s because you are probably a lesbian because Jill Soloway believes that women become lesbians from being raped. I am not joking, and this article will trigger survivors of rape, sexual abuse and sexual trauma of all genders and orientations.
    Rainn Wilson, ‘2 Broke Girls,’ and the Rise of the Rape Joke (The Daily Beast, tip: Harold)
  • Seattle’s Wheredidyouwearit is sort of like crossing safer sex with Foursquare: The program to hand out condoms with QR-coded wrappers at colleges and universities in Western Washington is sponsored by Planned Parenthood and designed to make you proud of practicing safe sex. Scan the QR code with your phone and add a pin to the map.
    When Foursquare and sex meet (KCPQ)

  • Adult performer Kimberly Kupps and her husband both agreed to a plea deal over obscenity charges. After Kupps was arrested, the Polk County sheriff — Grady Judd — declared war on the production and distribution of porn in his county. “We want a wholesome community here, we don’t want smut peddlers,” Judd said, “and if they try to peddle their smut from Polk County or into Polk County we’ll be on them like a cheap suit.”
    Adult Performer Kimberly Kupps Agrees to Obscenity Plea Deal (XBIZ Newswire)
  • This is a very limited look at the contemporary porn star, yet an interesting read. I completely disagree that porn stars “can barely find work” and that the new way porn stars are minted and viewed has piracy “to blame” – don’t forget that the people who torrent are fans, too. To state that porn stars are a dying breed comes from the POV of someone who doesn’t pay attention to internet porn trends.
    Porn Stars: The Death of a Sex-Industry Profession (The Daily Beast)
  • Don’t bang your students, part fifty mazillion: After accusations of sexual impropriety with female students, John Friend, the founder of Anusara Yoga, one of the world’s fastest-growing styles, told followers that he was stepping down for an indefinite period of “self-reflection, therapy and personal retreat.”
    Yoga Fans Sexual Flames and, Predictably, Plenty of Scandal (NY Times)
  • This is fun: anti-porn hysteria and linkbait from Business Insider! As a technical matter, if you search for “porn” on Pinterest, you don’t get any X-rated results. But that’s misleading, because Pinterest’s users are too smart to simply post smut and label it as such.
    Pinterest Has A Porn Problem (Business Insider)
  • What makes a good porn name? The Internet shifted the way adult film stars named themselves. Steven Hirsch, founder and co-chairmen of Vivid, explains that today domain names have serious influence over what an adult film star will choose to be called.
    The porn identity (Salon.com)

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I jumped into erotic e-books as a writer and small publisher at the very beginning. My hope was to have free and open distribution of erotic lit that was not determined by anyone except those who wanted to write it and those that want to read it.

I think this new development with PayPal is taking us back to the dark ages. Especially with BDSM on the list of forbidden subjects that e-book publishers can’t carry of they want to keep their ability to process payments with the 800-lb gorilla known as PayPal. Snip from PayPal Strong-Arms Indie Ebook Publishers Over Erotic Content:

On Saturday February 18, PayPal began threatening indie book publishers and distributors with immediate deactivation of the businesses’ accounts if they did not remove books containing certain sexual themes – namely, specific sexual fantasies that PayPal does not approve of.

PayPal told indie e-book publishers and retailers – such as AllRomance, Smashwords, Excessica and Bookstrand – that if they didn’t remove the offending literature from their catalogs within a few days of notification, PayPal would close their accounts. (…)

One corporation begins to shape an entire market

Smashwords had little choice. On February 24, Smashwords sent a letter to all of their authors saying that it was being forced to make PayPal’s guidelines about erotic literature the new rules for content Smashwords would publish and distribute from now on.

All of the Smashwords authors were told in an email that if they want to see their work published and distributed through the popular alternative e-book e-tailer, they will need to make sure their works of fiction conform to PayPal’s acceptable use definitions of sexual fantasies.

Bookstrand went nuclear, and completely eliminated most of the indie titles from their catalog.

AllRomance has decided to stop publishing books that focus more on sex than romance – they are effectively purging all titles that are primarily sexually explicit storytelling “where sex [not romance] drives the story” from their catalog.

PayPal would ban works by Anaïs Nin, Vladimir Nabokov, Henry Miller, Marquis de Sade and books like Caligula, The Sookie Stackhouse Novels (True Blood), The Story of O, Venus in Furs, Lolita…

(…read more, Pulp Tech)

Image: Saskia de Brauw & Kat Hessen by Boris Ovini for Exhibition #1

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Impressively hot photoset of model Sarah Taylor shot by photographer Eddie Chacon in nylons, suspenders, more fetish items and in bondage on Bambi Attack. Love that blog.

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  • Delegate David Albo’s wife was apparently so upset about his name being attached to the state’s controversial “trans-vaginal” ultrasound bill that she rejected his sexual advances. This is a totally appropriate anecdote he relates on the floor of the Virginia House Of Delegates while having “porn” music play.
    A Virginia State Delegate Gets “Porny” On The Floor Of The House (Buzzfeed)
  • Event, March 15: An expert panel from San Francisco’s single scene will discuss how the proliferation of dating websites, matchmakers, and instructors that teach the art of meeting your mate have changed how super-wired San Franciscans find companionship. (Panel includes OkCupid Labs CSO, me, and more.)
    Yerba Buena Arts In Dialogue: How We Date Now Panel Discussion (Visit Yerba Buena)
  • Another reason to love the badass that is Stephen Hawking (and dust off the nurse uniform): Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking is somewhat of a regular at a Devore, California sex club. According to a source who has been a member of Freedom Acres swingers club for nearly half a decade, Hawking shows up to the club with a bevy of nurses and assistants and has naked woman grind on him. YAY! Renowned Physicist Stephen Hawking Frequents Sex Clubs (Radar Online)
  • The Silicon Valley Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force made three arrests in a child pornography raid through Marin County yesterday. The Task Force’s raid team was a big one involving 75 agents and officers from 20 different city, state and federal agencies and, according to KCBS — Two and a Half Men star and anti-sex trafficking crusader Ashton Kutcher.
    Ashton Kutcher Rode Along During Child Porn Raid (SFist)
  • Fake porn is viral: There’s a boring, obscure video on YouTube titled “Pregnancy Booster Clomid (Pregnancy Health Guru).” It has over 174 million views—beating famous songs by Katy Perry, Bieber, and Chris Brown. How? Like dozens of others, it’s pretend porn.
    The Biggest YouTube Porn Fakeouts of All Time (Gizmodo)
  • Yinling Yen was known as Yinling of Joytoy, or Yinling the “ero terrorist”. In her DVDs, Yinling would wear USSR military uniforms, and then tear them off, revealing a string bikini. That was then. This month, Yinling released her latest work: a cookbook.
    From NSFW Erotic Terrorism to Cute Cooking (Kotaku)

Main post photo: Tony Kelly, previously adored here.

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Naked Girls as the Canvas: The Paintings of Gesine Marwedel

24 February 2012
I'm more a fan of tattoos than body painting, but that may be the result of growing up as a Goth punk girl in the birthplace of the hippie movement: body painting was what my mom and her stoner Silicon Valley engineer pals would be into. And then Burning Man […]
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RIP: Actress Lina Romay, Jess Franco’s Muse and “Daughter of Dracula”

23 February 2012
The "Bare Breasted Countess" has died. It has been confirmed that actress Lina Romay, x-rated horror actress from Europe's heady heyday of blood-spattered lesbian vampire films of the 1970s, died on February 15. If you're not familiar with Romay's work, and you like cheesy horror films that take themselves seriously as […]
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Eye Candy: Best of Babes

23 February 2012
Courtney Foxxx (above) Tess Lyndon Ines Gallery of Stacey solo here (from above video) Silvie Tabitha Georgia and Faye Livia and Nailah Nikka and Luka Quinn (interesting comment about her at Occupy Melbourne) Yulianna Kami Lilya Altporn: Ariel and Arden Altporn: Roggie Altporn: Powpow (picture at right) Gallery of Lorena and Belinda (in above video)
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Amazing Photos From Inside A Chinese Condom Factory (Complete)

22 February 2012
This is one of those instances where it really pays to track down the story source. And these photos taken inside a Chinese condom factory require explanation - as well as the interesting story behind Reuters' visit inside the Safedom condom factory in China on February 6. Buzzfeed has a […]
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Sex News: Home Sperm Test, San Francisco Cherry, Awkward Portlandia Sex, Dominique Strauss-Kahn

22 February 2012
Yes, that's Kink.com, San Francisco (and Lorelei Lee) in the above trailer for Cherry. The two competing Linda Lovelace biopics aren't the only movies about the porn industry that will be arriving in theaters soon. There is also Cherry, the new film from writer/director Stephen Elliott that includes James Franco, […]
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Eye Candy: Quickies

21 February 2012
Connie and Aaron (above) Eufrat and Silvie Carmen - poolside
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[Video] Russian Fitness Ad, Alt Title: “The Buttcracker”

21 February 2012
Maybe don't put your nuts there. Video: Вот для чего нужно ходить в спортзал женщинам (via)
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New BAMBI Magazine #9 is Ridiculously Hot

20 February 2012
Above is the video for freshly updated BAMBI Magazine (its brand-new issue #9), and this delicious video is the first thing you see when you enter the website (sound alert on all bambimagazine.com links). Holy melting cupcake frosting - seriously, if you watch any dirty videos this week, please do […]
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[Video] Sex Kitten Helen Mirren in Herostratus (1967)

19 February 2012
Oh, you naughty avant garde 1960s sex kittens... how I love you! And how I love Helen Mirren. This lesser-known video of Mirren is a scene from the movie Herostratus (1967), directed by experimental filmmaker Don Levy. This is beautiful-at-any-age Dame Helen Mirren in one of her first movie appearances.
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[Video] Jizz by Jason Last

19 February 2012
Just found this sexy tease of a video, Jizz by Jason Last (also: here is Jason Last's website). It features model Carmen Solomons in jewelry by Bliss Lau (OMG WANT) and music by Isaiah Toothtaker.
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Sex News: Facebook Censorship Rules, Fleshbot Sold, Role Play Arrests, HIV Resistant Women

18 February 2012
This is a big Sex News post, with a lot of links worth looking at. We had to do a little server maintenance this week, and I apologize for the backlog (but now we're sleeker than ever on the, er, back end). In case you were wondering, the photos from a […]
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[Video] ‘What Makes A Baby’ is an Outstanding Project

18 February 2012
What Makes A Baby is Not Just Another Kickstarter - by a longshot. First of all, I rarely see Kickstarter projects that take off with such an overwhelming buy-in of support. To say that it's popular is an understatement! The project hit $14,000 in the first day and the financial […]
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[Video] New from Dave Naz: Caroline Aquino in Rope Bondage

18 February 2012
Friend and uber-talented photographer/videographer Dave Naz messaged me a day ago with one of his new videos - and I'm excited to see he's been really prolific lately! Above is Caroline Aquino in rope bondage. The rope rigging was done by Damon Pierce, music is by Thee Oh Sees on […]
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Eye Candy: Gritty Porn Saturday

18 February 2012
You may remember that last weekend I did an Eye Candy post called Pretty Porn Saturday - and remarked that I'd like to do a matching post with pretty porn that is a little more... intense. These new galleries and videos are dirty, though they're from professional studios and not […]
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