- A very important porn project: Public Sex, Private Lives is an intimate look at the professional and private lives of porn performers Lorelei Lee, Princess Donna, and Isis Love. Unlike previous films on the porn industry, Public Sex, Private Lives neither glamorizes nor condemns the work, but instead reveals the ambitions, dreams, and relationships of the women who do it. Public Sex, Private Lives: A Documentary on Porn Performers by Simone Jude (Kickstarter)
- Dan Savage first brought his frank and often funny brand of sex and relationship advice to Seattle’s alternative newspaper in 1991. Now he’s bringing it to MTV. Dan answers questions from college students around the country on “Savage U,” which premieres Tuesday. Each 30-minute episode is set at a different university, and students determine the topics discussed. YAY DAN!
Columnist Dan Savage brings his sex and relationship advice – but not politics – to MTV (The Washington Post)
- The acquittal by Brazil’s Supreme Court of a man accused of raping three 12-year-old girls on the basis that they were allegedly “sex-workers” is an outrageous affront to the most basic human rights and it has no place in Brazil today, said Amnesty International.
Brazil: Outrageous Supreme Court ruling gives green light to rapists (Amnesty International)
- With its sex-obsessed young heroine, Norwegian comedy “Turn Me On, Dammit!” goes where few movies have gone.
“Turn Me On, Dammit!” New Film a Horny Teen-Girl Manifesto? (Alternet)
- What many are calling the worst erotic novels they’re ever read wrapped in a clever PR campaign (and I call “Fifty Shades of Marketing” – seriously, have you tried to read them?) – Variety reports Universal and Focus Features won the movie rights to “mommy porn” trilogy novels, Fifty Shades of Grey.
Universal & Focus Features Snag Erotic ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Novel (FirstShowing)
- Swedish porn mogul Berth Milton – of Private Media Group – is set to be the subject of a forthcoming feature film billed as a cross between “The Godfather” and “Boogie Nights”. This way to the hype machine…
Swedish ‘porn king’ set for ‘Boogie Nights’ biopic (The Local)
- The CDC and a number of sexual health organizations including the Kaiser Family Foundation and Planned Parenthood Federation of America are observing STD Awareness Month this month, and are offering a number of resources for educators, parents, and young people at the CDC’s STD Awareness Resource Site.
CDC, sexual health organizations observe STD Awareness Month in April (Examiner.com)
- Now that you’re an expert on all things Unspeakable and Girly, I have to defer to you, Tiny White Man in My Underpants. This son of a bitch ovary hurts.
An Open Letter to the Tiny White Man the Republican Party Has Sent to Live in My Underpants (McSweeney’s)
- Rachel R. White writes, “From what I could gather, erotic hypnosis is a fetish, but if its proponents are right, it is also a new form of sex—safe, certainly, but also dangerous-seeming in its own way. Under hypnosis, it was claimed, a subject could achieve a climax without being touched at all. It’s also a twist on BDSM, an expression of sexual power and submission at its most extreme.”
‘You Are Getting Horny…’ Adventures in Erotic Hypnosis (The New York Observer)
- Fashionista spoke to Mad Men costume designer Janie Bryant about ladies’ undergarments – specifically the ones on Mad Men. While Janie was hush-hush on any spoilers, sartorial or otherwise regarding season five, she did dish about her new collaboration with Maidenform on a shape wear collection for the modern woman.
Mad Men Costume Designer Janie Bryant On the Importance of (Cute!) Shape Wear in the ’60s and Today (Fashionista, thanks MW!)
