- Cindy D., Denis D., Mona L. – Threesome
- Evi, Presley and Van – Triple Pleasure
- Ben, Carmen C., Misty S. – Perfect Trio
- Ben, Carmen C., Gina V. – California Tenderness
- Alysa, Ben, Gina V. – Dinner for Three (main post photo)
- Heather S., Nikki, Tommy – Lost on Venus
Note: Last year I stopped promoting a porn company that had filed lawsuits against people who had allegedly torrented its porn, in what was a typical, ruthless porn company shakedown. X-Art had contracted a notoriously predatory troll lawyer. It saddened me to see a company that made great, respectful porn have its management do something so disgraceful and I stopped promoting X-Art, after a lengthy back-and-forth with reps for the company.
I’m pleased to say that the lawsuit – not surprisingly – just went down in flames, and after a 6-month hiatus sending them traffic, I’ve decided to resume sharing their free galleries. If you buy anything from them it’s up to you, but their work is nice to look at. They treat their performers well, and while the lawsuit is a black mark against the way they have treated fans and potential viewers, hopefully X-Art will be putting this attitude behind them.
I think you’ll agree with me when you start to scroll through the outstanding art nudes by Splice Pictures that this is a hell of a collection. The photos are all of quite beautiful young women, and capture an intimacy that leaves the viewer with a feeling that stays long after the browser tab is shuttered.
The photographer writes in their ‘about‘ section:
I am a photographer working mostly in the USA and Europe.
This site contains examples of my personal photography.
My personal work is characterized by a passionate yet unsettling exploration of intimacy. Like voyeuristic intruders, I want the viewers to be forced to self-consciously experience the most intimate of moments. The anonymous locations of the shoots are often motels or characterless suburban interiors or backyards – places that denote painful isolation over intimate contentment. I try to capture the palpable tension within the language of visual curiosity and sensibility, revealing moments charged with anxiety and laced with an underlying fragility.
- In my opinion, this is the most important article written about sex so far this year. Please share it as much as you can. I think it’s a show-stopper. “Over the weekend, the UK’s Observer published an editorial about transgender people that crossed a bunch of lines. … I’m not transgender, and I don’t have any close friends or family who are, so why was I treating that editorial like it was personal? I am a dude who is straight and cisgender (that is, someone whose gender identity matches their biology) and who seems to have no stake in this fight. Here’s why I take transgender issues personally…”
Guy Talk: Why A Straight Man Like Me Cares About Transgender Rights (The Frisky)
- An iPhone app for penis sizing hits Apple’s app store, while a photography app is pulled from the Apple app store for possibly allowing users to see nudes. Also, India attempts a tech solution to try and help women as they are being assaulted, though their wristwatch-SOS-GPS prototype is at least six months away…
Sex Tech: Apple App Store banhammer, GoDaddy revenge porn suit (ZDNet)
- An official says Nepal’s government will begin issuing citizenship certificates with the category “third gender” for people who do not wish to be identified as male or female. Activists hailed the decision, saying it was an achievement for gay and transgender rights.
Nepal to Issue ‘Third Gender’ IDs (ABC News)
- Yes, this – so much. Op-ed: “While it’s all very well to announce that more women are watching porn, what’s more interesting is the hope that the historically conservative view of female sexuality is becoming more expansive and less judgmental.”
Why ‘women are watching porn’ should not be a story (Sydney Morning Herald)
- This is amazing – an incredible state-by-state data on sexual health and pleasure, the first large-scale open collection of the data ever.
Sexual Health Rankings (Sexual Pleasure)
- “I argue that the ‘leftover women’ term is actually part of a sexist media campaign by the government, which is facing a severe demographic crisis,” says Leta Hong-Fincher, an American doing her sociology Ph.D at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. She’s written about the so-called ‘leftover women’ phenomenon, and she says state-run media started using the term in 2007, the same year the government warned that China’s gender imbalance – caused by selective abortions because of the one-child policy – was a serious problem.
Single and Over 27: What the Chinese Government Calls ‘Leftover Women’ (PRI’s The World)
- Marc McAndrews spent five years photographing 33 of Nevada’s (legal) brothels for Nevada Rose: Inside the American Brothel (Umbrage Editions). Slate has a full photoessay with his images.
Nevada Rose, Inside the American Brothel (Slate)
Main post image: Kacie Marie as seen in the (very fun, sexy) Var Magazine.
THE BOXER REBELLION: THE RUNNER HD from MARC & ISH on Vimeo.
This video (Hannah May and Andrea Chovanova) is gorgeous and sexy, but not exempt from emotional grittiness – I really love it, but wanted to warn you that it’s got a jagged ending. The creators – who made that sexy Renault ad I liked last year – explain,
UK directing duo marc & ish created this film with The Boxer Rebellion. They gave us the track and we took the idea of honesty from the lyrics and created a narrative that would be both completely surprising and utterly compelling. We wanted to make a something that was seriously playful and naughty, but also might be profound, raw and honest.
Two “it” girls come home from a party and we compress 24 hours of a drunken roller-coaster of highs and lows, passion and heartache into 4 minutes. We wanted to explore a frenzied relationship, present the viewer with something that might be seen at first glance as controversial or sensational, but break through this…. break through the fashionista styling, photo-shoot imagery, the beauty, the sexuality, the crazy night out… and try and find an intimate humanity that is shockingly real.
