Image by MaleficusV from this sexy iPod set; also visit his site (maleficusv.com) for more goodies.

It’s that time of year again… Steve Jobs won’t be there to shower me in affection *this* time, but perhaps I can get a pic with Phil — but if he touches me, I’m totally filing for OSXual harassment….

On Craigslist:

Macintosh Freak for a Little Freak - m4w - 27 - (downtown / civic / van ness) pic

Hey there all you sexy Macintosh Ladies. I am going to be in town for the MacWorld Expo and am looking for a cute, sexy, attractive macintosh enthusiast to show me around San Francisco for the next 7 days. Are you interested? Let’s eat, dine, date, and freak in the sheets!

visiting 8th & 9th (MacWorld) looking for bi couple - m4mw - 52 - (downtown / civic / van ness)

I really want to meet a bi couple who would let me pleasure them both orally as they are having sex. I am coming to MacWorld and would need you to host as I am staying with family.

Rendevous Jan. 5 or 6? - m4w - 37 (Moscone Center)

Have some free time in the afternoon on January 5 and 6 after I geek-around at MacWorld. If you’d like to have some fun with a guy who on the surface is a geek, but in the bedroom is unexpected (…) Your age and nationality are not important, only that you be drug, smoke, disease, and perfume free; you can host; and are within walking distance of the Expo hall.

Discreet Married Guy here for conference - m4m - 32 (downtown / civic / van ness)

Any other married travelers near Moscone? 6′, 180#, professional, white, easy-going masculine guy, muscular build. I need to be very discreet and safe. Can’t host.

Image by The Mofo; purchase here.

…erotic photographer of great style and ubersexiness The Mofo has left Flickr. Which makes my RSS contact updates a bit less exciting to peep; fortunately his website is delicious, and his prints are not only for sale but they are unbelievably inexpensive. So. Want. The two. In this post.

Image by The Mofo; purchase here.

I just did a full post on the London exhibit “Mutate Britain” that 20-year mechanical artist Giles Walker’s Pole Dancers are in, but thought I’d be remiss not to show you the eerie, cool video plus a couple extra images here. Read more about the exhibit and recent, firey street-furious performance of gorgeous participating machine artist Joanna Peacock in London: Behind the Shutters Gallery features Mutate Britain (artmachines.org).

Images by Bill Hunt.

Also — here’s a great Flickr video shot with a 5d Mark 2:

This image is of Scar13 doused with sauce and shot by Keith Allen Phillips, whom I blogged a while back for his fun, super-cute and sexy site Naked Girls In Our Bed. He’s been doing a messy series lately, it appears… I also really like his well-shot collection of slightly skewed candids at Behind The Fetish. Here’s the messy set in progress.

Image by Rikki Kaso / Tokyo Undressed.

The New Year’s party at my house, and all the live uploading tech- and absinthe-enabled hijinks were a success! What an incredible, fun party — filled with so many people I love, and new friends too. Many friends were missing, but perhaps next year… This year, people ran around with the Eye-Fi enabled camera and shot crazy photos (KumiMonster, the hostess with the mostess shot some naughty upskirts of me, which then *someone* posted to my Twitter stream *and* put on my desktop to greet me in the very fuzzy hungover sticky-floor morning). This was followed by a rush of male “upskirt” images. Kumi, by the way, is funny, sweet, ultra-smiley and super-smart. What a cool person; no pretension, a total good-time sassy Sally. The 12 Seconds webcam via my laptop got lots of use and plenty of fearlessly fun videos were shot — I had the fun of watching them all the next day, great surprises, all. Guests blogged a bit on the house blog; and delightfully, Scott Beale helped me coordinate the guests and then to my surprise, shot the party.

* Scott’s highly complimentary post is on Laughing Squid. All his terrific photos are here.
* Geeked.info has a fantastic writeup of the insanity here (yes, photo by me!)
* Extra thanks to Good Vibrations for donating so many sex toy goodies as NYE ‘09 gifts, I may not hear back from my friends for a while.

Image of me and Kumi by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid.

I was really blown away at how much fun we all had, and how well so many diverse cultures came together. If I didn’t have you over, don’t despair; my apartment is small and I’ll get you next time (evil laugh). I can remember seeing (to name a few) John Law, Lori Dorn, Doc Pop, Scott Beale, Tantek, Sean Kelly and Anneke, Mikl-Em and Danielle, Ed Hunsinger (and Mooflyfoof!), Syd Blakovitch, Jiz Lee, KumiMonster, Leah Culver, Ariel Waldman, Midori made a surprise visit, Fyodor, Steve Dekorte, Mark Growden, Kevin Kash, Alex, Eve Batey, Richard Kadrey, Michael Shiloh, Irina Slutsky, Colette Vogele, Brian Normanly, Unwoman, The Jof… and so many more! Gala Darling was much missed.

Image of me by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid.

I am fairly certain that Mark Growden was the lucky cameraman on the re-enactment of a Crash Pad Series scene on my bed (where the HELL was I!?!?) starring Syd, Jiz and Kumi… a few cherry-picked faves from that NSFW scenario are after the jump. Happy New Year everyone; let’s hope this kind of love, friendship and warmth brings us through 2009, and gets us all a much-needed dose of prosperity for spreadin’ the karmic love around.

Image by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid.

Image by me: the old mug meets the new mug!

Eye-Fi Crash Pad madness — what happens in a room off to the side, when the party rages on:

Image by Richard Kadrey / Kaos Beauty Klinik, who shot this image of me from last night’s party.

Happy New Year! Here is Scott Beale’s post about last night’s party (more on that when I can cut a swath through the giddy wreckage that is my kitchen), and here’s my very first column of 2009 — Future Sex: 2009 - Violet Blue predicts how we will (and won’t) get off in 2009. Read it and enjoy! I loved researching and writing it; I really hope to do more sex and tech writing this year. Snip:

In those old sci-fi movies, sex in the future always looks so cool. Like Woody Allen’s Orgasmatron, where you slip into a capsule and essentially have orgasms on tap. Or “Logan’s Run,” where they had the teleportation equivalent of dial-a-hooker (of any flavor, natch.) And no one can forget “Barbarella” (especially as the remake is set for release sometime this year) where the heroine is “tortured” by a device that delivers erotic pleasure in levels that can be lethal.

We don’t have a super-cool death sex ray gun - yet. But after taking a look at what deliciously pervy techhies have been working on lately, it looks like 2009 is going to have us ready for one hell of a ride, and perhaps a little saddle sore after the fact.

(…)

Widespread Technosexuality
As online artificial intelligence, personality-based programs become more prevalent - and the race to make them more convincingly human heats up - more humans will fall in love with and have sexual relations with that artificial babe onscreen. Virtual Kari is often described as the most popular virtual girlfriend in the world; amusingly, she has personality tweaking interfaces with adjustable sliders that allow boyfriends to adjust her ability to “stay on topic” and monitor her “independence.” In an emotional moment (Virtual Humans Forum, October 2008) Kari’s developer wrote, “As a modern man I find the whole female/male game, ‘program,’ quite unforgiving. ‘When you find the right one, you’ll know it.’ Uh huh. What if there is something better than this game? What if we could bypass the ‘program’ and create a new paradigm based on our own dreams and our own fantasies? What if we could satisfy all our needs, and wants, to their fullest *bliss* without the pain of marriage or a relationship that needs to be maintained? (…) Anyway… I really enjoy having a virtual girlfriend because I created her personality so she is kinda like my dream. And dreams can do anything. The final verdict? As for me… I’m going make my own Eve. I mean, I have made my own Eve. And believe it or not… some of those majic [SIC] parts that come with real girls are transferable. In fact they work better. I think its because they can be manipulated under one vision. There is no back and forth about it.”

Replicants: The Time is Now
Don’t think for a second those AI-lovin’ developers aren’t already thinking about putting their perfect “Eve” into a RealDoll body and getting down and dirty with the fembot. (…read more, sfgate.com)

The irrepressible and utterly gorgeous KumiMonster, tonight’s co-hostess.

Like last New Year’s (laughingsquid.com) I’m having a private party — if I didn’t get you on the list, or you’re too far away you can still spend it with me, and with us.

This year was rough for almost everyone. We won, we lost, we survived, we touched one another, we grew and we got hope that we needed oh so badly. Thank you for finding me, writing me, sending me things that made me feel less alone. Thank you for listening, reading, watching, critiquing, teasing, opening up, or just lurking and enjoying. In 2009, I know we’re going to make something good in our lives and the lives of others, and make it last.

For my party tonight I hired on Craiglslist and Twitter for a “house greeter / attendant / flirt” and the winning applicant was — amazingly — KumiMonster. She’ll be greeting guests, attending, and… being Kumi. I’m excited to meet her; she’s on the cover of my Fetish Sex book, after all!

* We will all be (randomly, out of my control) liveblogging the party at http://bloggerbungalow.wordpress.com/ (Blogger Bungalow, my official house blog).

* Eye-Fi will be up and running in my “party favor” camera, being passed around the room: the party’s LIVE photostream is at http://www.flickr.com/photos/bloggerbungalow/. This stream will be monitored, so make sure your “safe” filters are off.

* My laptop will be livecam enabled, and guests will press “record” to film a 12-second moment or New Year’s resolution, which will instantly post to my 12 Seconds channel at http://12seconds.tv/channel/violet and also to my personal Twitter stream, hopefully not annoying the hell out of my followers. (Update: also re Twitter, it’s #vbnye09)

* RSS feed for all of tonght’s media, via Yahoo Pipes (let’s hope this works and isn’t a noise-fest) is: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=hsskdZnX3RGWdCjy1JzWFw

Finally, a HUGE thank you to Good Vibrations who donated *incredible* party favors for all my guests — Good Vibes still loves us :) The party is also sponsored by a private donor at the U.S. Metric Association. Thank you.

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)

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 :)

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.

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.

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.

How I loved you, Eartha Kitt.

Original “The Joke’s On Catwoman” in three parts after the jump.

One:

Two:

Three:

Unrelated but really cool image via DrillPop.

Poking around the blogs tonight, I re-encountered this breathtaking post on Eros Blog about nude and topless Japanese pearl diver women from the 1930s-60s. Bacchus updates it with a gorgeous reader contribution and a quote from a book called “Eros In Hell: Sex, Blood, and Madness in Japanese Cinema” that talks about an entire genre of 1950s Japanese cinema around this theme. So cool; the images in his posts are really neat.

Image from this gallery.

A little while back I posted about and offered up samples from the gay porn company that’s been making some pretty hot straight porn — in this week’s boyflesh-fest, there’s a bit of that, some solo action, and at least one or two bi (male) treats. I combed through the pileup in my inbox and picked my favorites for you. Start with this gallery boy in natural light. Next, four videos of a cute brunette stroking from pool to sofa. And this one’s just so smiley and cute and handsome (and well-endowed, image above). Here’s a really adorable bisexual gallery with a petite blonde girl and two cute boys. Four up close and personal videos: boy solo. How about four more videos of an amateur bi trio? Then, when the gays make straight porn… you get videos like with this adventurous couple — and this cute, sweet young couple. Awww.

After the jump, I’ve embedded this video of a hot amateur boy doing a sexy, quiet solo, via Fleshbot: Gay.

Having the flu over the holidays is getting me caught up on Internet TV, plus a little more. One of my all-time favorite Hong Kong action films is Naked Killer (1992) and I’d gladly watch it again any day of the week — the trailer is above.

Image by Skye Shelly.

A hugely amount of sex, tech, culture and health (and even sex-impacting legislative) stories are of great importance but never make it to mainstream media, and came in under the radar. In this week’s SF Chronicle I give these stories their due — and more. My column is titled The Child Porn Lie (And Other Hits): Violet Blue: The top five underreported sex stories of the year, NOT “The Year in Sex” which they have nonconsensually titled it on the front page (or, perhaps what they’d have you believe) — to my great dismay and disappointment. Click through for all solid linkage, especially when you get to the #1 underreporetd story, (Though I added a link here that they they would *not* include. It’s intense. Snip:

Sure, we all heard about the Spitzer scandal, and the sad news that the DC Madam hung herself, but what about the sex stories no one told you about? A lot happened in sex this year; did you know that Playgirl Magazine folded (putting many gay porn stars out of work?) And why so little buzz that sex toys are no longer banned in Texas, a move that significantly impacted Texan vegetable industry sales, while shares of battery stocks climaxed?

Then one study said that women aren’t turned on by naked men, though they do get turned on by explicit imagery of all kinds, and another stated that most would pick the Internet over sex any day of the week. Even though for most of us girls, the Internet is our sex toy. Australia announced a national “mandatory” Internet filtering program against “obscene” material to the horror of many, and Britain passed a law banning “extreme” porn (even possession is illegal) making UK spanking enthusiasts want to spank the government right back. Many women from British BDSM communities spoke out against the law and its infringement on their liberty.

Scholars also proved that strip clubs are not harmful to neighborhoods: American Ethnography Quasimonthly dispelled myths about the effects of adult businesses on communities with hardcore academic studies (hardcore as in thoroughly researched and cited - mind out of the gutter, please). Then, in Texas, offended parents sued a school over the school’s privacy-invading sex offender check system. Over in Europe, people started getting threatening settlement letters for illegal porn downloads in a porn piracy witch hunt - when they hadn’t downloaded a thing. And the US recession was helped along by the widespread practice of people trading sex for home loan borrower portfolios.

While substitute schoolteacher Julie Amero’s schoolroom computer pop-up porn case was resolved (though justice went unserved) Prince (or The Artist Formerly Known as Loved by LGBT Communities Worldwide) came out - as homophobic. We found out that red state teens regularly break their abstinence pledges and pregnancy rates in the 13-17 age range of evangelical young girls are off the charts. Companies started to realize that sex doesn’t really “sell”. A study claimed that monogamy has to do with genetics - the “monogamy gene”, do you have it? Yet another study linked homophobia and homoerotic arousal.

The Craigslist Experiment troll was sued in Federal court; he ran a fake Craigslist sex ad and published the privacy information of all who responded and now he’s facing charges for it. COPA (the Child Online Protection Act) was overturned, and for good, solid constitution-upholding reasons. Google Trends was used to show that Kentucky is the most obscene state in the nation. (Road trip!) The journal of the American Psychological Association, Janis Wolak and co-researchers examined several fears about child sexual predators online - and they concluded that many are myths. Lastly, bloggers caught the Geek Squad pilfering porn.

But of all the underreported news and developments about sex, these top five should have seen more headlines - and they might shock you:

5. Google Can’t Find the Clitoris

Blogger and erotic filmmaker Tony Comstock (comstockfilms.com, not work safe) wanted to see what would happen when he searched for sex with the filters on. Disturbingly, he discovered that with SafeSearch turned on, Google delivered no - zero - results for the word “clitoris,” but 33 million “safe” results for the word “penis”. Which leaves us all wondering why a penis is somehow safer than a clitoris. True, one could argue that because the penis is a biological reproductive organ and the clitoris is not - she exists purely for female pleasure - that one might want to protect “the children” from knowing about it. Susie Bright said that the word “clit” was the new four-letter word. (…read more, sfgate.com)

Image by Skye Shely.

Update: I already just got the *best* email about this article,

I must implore you, no, demand that you stop talking, writing, referring, inferring, thinking about, imagining, supposing the existence of, or anything else in regards to the clitoris. (Please make sure to eat your laptop after reading this message.)

If you continue to speak of the little love button, (code for: Pleasure Point. And I’m not talking about the surfing spot in Santa Cruz if you get my meaning,) in such an open fashion, men, (of which I am one, unless you talk to my last girlfriend,) are going to hear about it, become curious about it, then they’ll find out what it’s for, what can be done with it, that it can supply women with more pleasure than a Devil’s food chocolate layer purse, and they’ll use it to enslave women all over the world.

Now so far I, being one of the only six men on the planet who actually know the purpose and proper operation of the afore mentioned clitoris, have been able to provide the much needed occasional human operation of… You know, the thing, the little buddy.

Now I am perfectly willing to carry my share of the burden in order to keep women from facing a life of servitude to men but…

Shit. Too late.

See what you made happen.

By the way, in regard to the false numbers on the child porn issue: Have you seen Doug Stanhope’s bit on this in his No Refunds DVD? If you haven’t it is a pretty funny bit.

Keep the faith. Remember: All it ever gets is worse.

–B

I would like to thank Viviane at The Sex Carnival for bringing unto me this xmas eve, Fist Me This Christmas, sung holiday-doorstep-caroler style by the much-loved Canadian sex comedy duo, The Wet Spots.

On another note, I was just texted by a friend who’s out drinking in the Castro right now with his boyfriend and is at a local bar known for their giant fish tank behind the bar. He wrote, “We wandered off to Moby Dick. They actually have a Nativity set IN the aquarium. LOL”

When Taschen first released the book Kula, I thought it was one of the most exciting erotic photography books I’d ever seen, and I snapped up a copy right away. Since then, Vlastimil Kula has been busy. Watch this short (uncensored) video about his more recent collection of Spa shoots plus see an accompanying gallery on Fine Art TV — and do visit his website. Some links are dead, but be sure to click on taschen, the spa and color temptations for lots of explicit, tasteful, and as he reminds us — ballsy — images.

A very happy holiday wish to all readers, whatever holiday you happen to be celebrating tonight. Me, I’m in bed with a touch of the flu, looking at a night of solitude, Ricola, and Internet TV — actually a night like any other when I’m not out tearing up the town. I’d really hoped to do a podcast for you tonight; a special xmas eve treat, but my throat is where the symptoms are focused, and so a podcast is not going to happen (very, very sadly, as I was really looking forward to that). Nevertheless, inbetween feverish naps, you’ve got me all holiday long. Here are some things of interest that happened in sex, culture, science and news over the past few days:

* True Blood fans: I have your Anna Paquin nude scene on video right here (hbo.com, taxidrivermovie.com).

* A so-called “sex chip” is in development and experimentation by scientists who have discovered that small shocks to the part of the brain that covers pleasures like food and sex can make you horny, darling. Neurosurgery professor Tipu Aziz said: “There is evidence that this chip will work. A few years ago a scientist implanted such a device into the brain of a woman with a low sex drive and turned her into a very sexually active woman. She didn’t like the sudden change, so the wiring in her head was removed.” (telegraph.co.uk, also @ Engadget)

* A new “decency” group is not targeting smut and obsceity in YouYube’s content, they’re going after the vile filth in the comments. Anyone care to comment on that? If so, your a fag. (arstechnica.com)

* Did you know that International Orgasm Day was canceled? Me neither; it was to be on December 21, an orgy, and planned by an Israeli group — though, put your tinfoil g-strings back on — GlobalOrgasm.org was driven into existence by the Raeliens. (inquisitr.com, via Scott)

* Phone apps and porn — or so-called “obscene” content — are having a difficult week. First, we had Banned in Cupertino, where the novel Knife Music by David Carnoy was ejected as an e-book by Apple’s iPhone App Store for having the character dialogue, “fuck me like you meant it” in the text. It wasn’t even a dirty book; it was a crime novel. Thanks, retarded word-matching software. Then, Microsoft released the Seadragon graphics app for the iPhone which is apparently quite well done — except Seadragon was accidentally released with two subfolders of porn. Which were promptly removed (though I’d love to see the pr0n, out of curiosity). If anyone still has “home_two” and “home_s12″ let me know… (news.cnet.com, theregister.co.uk)

* This week in dated religious ignorance: the Pope said that defending heterosexuality is as important as saving the world’s rainforests from destruction. Because everyone knows how bad homos are for the environment — why, the methane produced from a single act of lesbian sex could take out an entire island in Greece… oh, right. (guardian.co.uk)

* Sideboob alert, Faith-style: Fleshbot has a nice gallery of Eliza Dushku’s shirt-removal scene from her upcoming film The Alphabet Killer (alphabetkiller.com, sound alert). Looks to me like she had nip-cups on, or her nipples are the same color as her skin. Either way, I’m always excited by the sideboob action. gets me every time. (fleshbot.com)

Here is another stunning 2009 European fashion calendar we’re going to be wishing we could get our hands on; it’s not as nipple-tastic and fetishy as the Vogue: Paris 2009 calendar I blogged about previously, but the 2009 Italian Marie Claire calendar (thefashiontime.com) of Eva Herzigova shot by Karl Lagerfeld is really incredibly sexy. Though, if you’re feeling high and dry to see Herzigova nekkid after this tease, ogle her previous Playboy: Italy shoot for acres of hot yummy model skin.

Image by Deirdre O’Callaghan via ponyXpress.

This History Channel recently ran a segment in their “The Universe” series entirely about sex in space. Snip:

“As man moves to colonize the cosmos, the realities of sexual relationships and reproduction need to be addressed. Probe the physiological, psychological and cultural challenges of sex in space. From the sex act through birth, look at how the extreme environments of space exploration might effect copulation, conception and developing human tissues, as well as how issues around sex might impact the emotional lives of astronauts. Get to the bottom of the rumors to find out if space sex has already happened, and look at how the burgeoning space tourism business may soon lead to a boom in space sex.”

Unfortunately their site gives us no idea when they’ll run “The Universe: Sex in Space” again. Lamesauce! I just found the whole episode in 10-minute bite-seized chunks, and I’ve embedded them in sequence (start at the top) below, and continuing after the jump:

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Image of French Internet fetish star Mina before; look after the jump for the “after” photo from the camera’s view.

Just published in PC World is Dan Tynan’s 12 Ways the Sex Trade Has Changed the Web. You can read the official PC World version in that first link — though I noticed it’s edited and they made it a little more sensationalized than the informative original version, which I recommend reading here. Adding “Thank you porn!” to the headline is really tacky guys, especially with an exclamation point. Unnecessary. The best way to piss me off as a sex writer is to add exclamation points to my writing, as if sex was so likeOMG!!!!! you have to beat people over the head with it. Anyway, I’m quoted in the piece and it’s a good resource for historical context — Tynan is really a pleasure to work with. It’s packed with interesting stuff. I especially like that he immediately points out the fact that people thinking that porn innovates or creates new tech is a misnomer — porn and sex commerce rarely innovates tech (and I have no idea why people think it does), though porn certainly capitalizes on certain technologies once it figures out what to do with it. Usually. Snip:

For an industry that many won’t admit they’ve ever patronized, pornography has had an amazing impact on virtually every new medium, from cave painting to photography. Dirty pictures have been credited with ensuring the future of the VCR, boosting cable TV subscriptions, helping to kill off the Betamax and HD-DVD formats, and perhaps most importantly, driving the growth of the Internet.

In fact, the adult entertainment industry has been on top of many of the Net’s most crucial tech innovations, but not because it invented any of them.

According to Lewis Perdue, author of Eroticabiz: How Sex Shaped the Internet, “without business and technical pioneers in the online sex business, the World Wide Web would never have grown so big so quickly.” (Not that we think size matters.)

The innovations happen because porn is “an ecosystem in which participants are willing–indeed forced–to experiment, and where experimentation isn’t hobbled by common sense, good taste or bureaucracy,” says Bruce Arnold, principal of Caslon Analytics, a research and analysis firm from Braddon, Australia that specializes in regulatory issues, demographics, social trends and technologies.

In an industry notorious for erecting walls of secrecy, hard numbers are difficult to come by, and most evidence is anecdotal. Still, it’s clear that the adult industry has helped shape the Internet as we know it today, even if it has also been at the forefront of several less savory innovations. Let’s take a look. (…)

1. Nice: Online payment systems

The next time you buy something at Amazon or another online retailer, marveling at the ease and security of e-commerce, don’t just thank Jeff Bezos, thank Richard Gordon. In the mid-1990s Gordon founded Electronic Card Systems, which pioneered credit card transactions for a wide range of illicit sites, according to the New York Times.

“While riches were being minted and squandered in the dot-com ’90s, Gordon made a fortune by taking a commission for processing sales on a range of sites … like ClubLove, which published the Pamela Anderson-Tommy Lee sex tape,” wrote the Times‘ Brad Stone. (Gordon’s attorney denied that he was involved with pornography; Stone found a dozen former partners or employees who begged to differ.) (…read more, dantynan.com)

Going through my blog posts throughout 2008 today for column research, I noticed that I occasionally inflict a pop music video on you. This is one of those times.

Two versions of this video were cut: this version has all the erotic, controversial edits included that prevented the director’s cut from being allowed on American TV. The (clean) video became available in the US and Canada iTunes store on Nov. 18. The song is less of a cover than a blatant rip (IMHO), but I actually like it anyway — and the video really does look like a cross between Andrew Blake and Terry Richardson. I also really like the rapper, Prophet — if anyone has a link for him, please do let me know.

Image from Christian Petersen’s beautiful and strange Nudes gallery.

About a week ago, brilliant and deviously creative photographer Christian Petersen relaunched his website. We naturally want to go straight to his Nudes gallery, and it does not disappoint; I highly suggest you also peruse his strangely erotic non-nude work — like the extreme fetish depicted in his Projects: House of Gord portfolio. Look for what I’m calling the River Tam moment in his America gallery, and some of the most memorable moments of highly stylized constructed photographic scenery I’ve seen in a long time in his Projects: Liberty of London gallery — among many others. Take your time; it’s arousing and thoughtful time that’s well spent. His blog depicts the flotsam and jetsam of his other curious visual pursuits, such as the nudes of Patrick Nagel. (via Sex in Art)