- Vote like right NOW on the SXSW PanelPicker for a hell of a lineup: Dr. Carol Queen, Lisa Vandever (CineKink), Mike Stabile (Gay Porn Blog, my husband) and more want to converge on South by Southwest and present a panel on sex and tech. Register for the SXSW Panel Picker website and vote; I hope this one makes it.
Voting ends tonight at 11:59pm. Voting has now been extended through September 4 – yay! Go!
SXSW Interactive Panelpicker: Old Tech, New Tech, Same Old Sex? (SXSW)
- This looks incredible, revolutionary, awesome: Jiz Lee has put up a call for submissions seeking coming out stories from people that have worked in, and with, porn. You know it’s going to be sex-positive, queer, it will tickle the gender binary until it goes ~squee, and most of all it will change a fuckton of conversations that needed to be changed like yesterday.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: How to Come Out Like a Pornstar, the Book! (Jiz Lee)
- “Look, you sent your kid off to college, and once they are out of your prying eyes, chances are they are going to experiment. They’re going to drink alcohol, they might experiment with recreational drugs, and they are also going to … Have sex.”
6 late back to school gifts for your new college freshman (Tech Broiler, ZDNet)
- An exhibition has opened in Silkeborg, Denmark, that shows real people having sex in the gallery. Called Devoid of Shame, it aims to start a conversation about intercourse and sexuality.
Danish exhibition shows couples having sex as art (BBC News; evil SHAMELESS BBC video autoplay warning)
- Le France does le sex: “On Saturday nights, Europe 1 focused on desire. In “Chaude Est la Nuit” (“Hot Is the Night”), famous actors with voices of velour read erotic literary texts about female pleasure. RTL, a competitor, took a more clinical approach. In a daily two-hour series throughout July, sexologists, psychiatrists and gynecologists explored such subjects as “the trouble with the erection,” “sex for seniors” and “perversions.””
Sex and Savoir-Faire (NYTimes)
- NPR looks at nonconsensual, criminal sexual voyeurism – reminding us of the fantasy vs. reality conversation everyone should be having about sex. Songwriter Nikki Lynette talks about how being a victim has changed her life, and clinical social worker David Prescott explains what motivates voyeurs.
Peeping Toms’ Voyeurism Scars Victims’ Psyches (NPR)
Main post image via Daniel Sannwald with Herieth Paul & Jeneil Williams, POP F/W 2012.
Pixel Smut by Max Capacity is just a small corner of the vast treasure trove of arresting visuals this prolific artist has to offer. I do think that the pixel porn is among my very favorites to be found on Capacity’s Flickr – but there’s loads of art here, and I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention their sprawling web presence that includes Tumblr, Twitter, Flavors, videos/plus/FB/etc, AnalogMedium and much more.
Just don’t miss the whole astonishing Pixel Smut set (and some have animated gifs), and marvel that pixels can be twisted into nasty enough combinations to become so remarkably, surprisingly arousing.
Jiz Lee is posting their photos from a Down Under trip – and we are all OTT jealous of anyone who saw Jiz in action. The above photo is set to gravity standards of the region, of course. See many more hot photos of the sexyplayful, on-good-authority amazing kisser Jiz in the post Photos from Down Under!
Chasing down various filmmaker threads online just now, I just ran across an upload of Filmarilyn (1992), an experimental stop-motion short film by Paolo Gioli, using the famous photos of Marilyn Monroe from her last photo shoot (with Bert Stern). It’s not wank material (and you may not like the eerie music), so the film will be more entertaining to artier eros fans and those who love Marilyn Monroe – as opposed to dear readers who visit for more explicit entertainment. It’s impossible for me to watch this and not feel her beauty and warmth – as well as the darkness that followed her light everywhere. You may relate. Nudes are in the beginning, and there is a nice nude sequence beginning around 6:40.
