Image of pal Dana DeArmond by Chase Lisbon for Supercult, via ponyXpress.
Deadline accomplished, yay! Now back to our regularly scheduled sex blog, with some links I’ve been kicking around for the past few days.
* Not About Love has relaunched and looks totally fucking hot. Hours of fun; lots of hosted galleries but some great original stuff, too. Nice work! (via)
* Norman Mailer won the bad sex in fiction award from beyond the grave. Are we really all that surprised? I love this bullet point: “Judges underwhelmed by Mailer’s ‘grinding hound'”. I would be, too.
* It’s one of the funniest online videos I’ve ever seen in my life (this year): Protecting and Maintaining Your Heterosexual House of Cards. It includes epic acronyms like WANGZ (We Are Not Gay Zone), and now I totally understand. I mean, I *understand*. It’s also embedded after the jump. And poor, poor Trent Lott. He should have just kept his WANGZ covered. (thanks, Kirby!)
* Two pornalicious film fests coming up next weekend: Pornotopia in Albequerque, New Mexico (yes, we already made the “left turn” joke on Fleshbot and ZOMFG: Disco Dolls in Hot Skin 3D), and CineKink has a special show in Chicago. My pick for CineKink: Friday’s lineup of “Passion Plays”.
* Charlie Rose just had a program on sexology. No, really. It is available to watch here; Mind Hacks has an intriguing post about it, and notes that they left oodles about human sexuality out of the picture. And you know, because just talking about sex is sorta shameful they endeavored to legitimize the topic by making it as narrow and dry and biological as possible, because talking about sex because it’s *fun* would just be dirty and all down that slippery slope of porn… Mind Hacks also suggests, “I suspect their achingly academic approach to the subject reflects the need to be seen to be serious, but it’s also interesting that the Charlie Rose show is sponsored by Pfizer, the makers of Viagra, which may also account for the almost unrelenting focus on biology.”
* Transactional sex (as in prostitution) vs. romantic sex (as in normative love)? Male agency vs. female passivity in regard to sexual conduct? It isn’t accurate to see one or the other as separate, concludes an anthropologist who just conducted two consecutive yearly studies at a South African university. Check out An anthropologist on sex, love and AIDS in a university campus in South Africa. Interesting stuff. (Thanks, Praemedia!)
* Speaking of Africa — I know, it’s a big place — this news item caught my eye: Older white British ladies traveling to Kenya for young male studs. Not a bad holiday if you can swing it, I suppose. Make all the “cougars on the hunt” jokes as you must… Scary that they eschew condoms, though.
* Aussie amateur all-girl porn company Abby Winters just turned 7 years old. A round of one-handed applause for those very sexy girls, please…
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