- The films of Daisy Lowe (above, currently the face of Sony Xperia Unseen) have been shot using the Sony Xperia ray’s in-built 8.1-megapixel camera, and feature behind the scenes looks at Daisy going about her business on a normal day. None of this comes as a surprise to us though, the acronym for Sony Ericsson Xperia is SEX, after all… Daisy Lowe in her pants: Sony Ericsson gets sexy for Xperia ray launch pictures (Pocket-lint)
- Johnny Depp‘s got a counselor waiting in his dressing room and a nurse with a rape kit standing by, because he tells Vanity Fair (via Page Six) that posing in front of a camera makes him like he’s being sexually violated. Please escort Johnny Depp to the registration office of the Think Before You Open Your Fuck Ass Mouth School of Public Speaking. Johnny Depp Thinks That Posing In Photo Shoots Is Like Getting Raped (Dlisted)
- According to Hawkins, key NBC advertisers left “The Playboy Club” after receiving more than 20,000 emails through Morality in Media‘s site. “The efforts of Morality in Media, Parent’s Television Council, Gloria Steinem and many others lead to the public outrage and ultimate cancellation of the show,” said Hawkins. “The Playboy Club” Canceled – Morality in Media’s Efforts Victorious (Sacramento Bee)
- Australia’s highest court has ruled that two transgender people can be legally recognised as men, even though they have not had complete sex changes. Australia court in transgender ruling (BBC News)
- At a press event two weeks ago, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to elaborate on his notorious assertion from 2007 that there were no homosexuals in Iran. Does homosexuality exist in every human society? Ahmadinejad’s assertion about gays in Iran isn’t that crazy after all (Slate Magazine)
- October 21st is unofficially officially International Fisting Day! Join me in being vocal about fisting! I include my love of fisting on all my bios and do it on camera whenever I can. Let’s celebrate and normalize the act! October 21st is Fisting Day (Jiz Lee)
- “Asian men, however—at least since Sessue Hayakawa, who made a Hollywood career in the 1920s of representing the Asian man as sexual threat —have been consigned to one of two categories: the egghead/wimp, or—in what may be analogous to the lotus blossom-dragon lady dichotomy—the kung fu master/ninja/samurai. He is sometimes dangerous, sometimes friendly, but almost always characterized by a desexualized Zen asceticism.” Isn’t He Lovely: Fear and Loathing of Asian American Male Sexuality (Bitch Media)
- It has been reported that NYPD officers are telling women not to wear shorts or skirts to prevent being assaulted. This is victim-blaming, not prevention. Women’s Rights Petition: NYPD: Train Your Cops to Blame Rapists for Rape, Not Victims! (Change.org)
- Bostonians might well be concerned about the effect decriminalization of prostitution could have on trafficking or forced prostitution. While many of us are devastated by the cruelties of Boston’s Norman Barnes, legalization of sex work could actually help catch such culprits more quickly. The Gritty Reality of a Suspected Roxbury Brothel (Boston Daily)
- In the United States, a vocal movement of “intactivists,” or people who oppose male circumcision, is engaged in a fierce debate with doctors over the practice of clipping baby boys’ foreskins. ‘Circumcision is barbaric and stupid’ (IOL SciTech)
- Building Our Own White Picket Fences, presented by Femina Potens Art Gallery, will consist of collaboratively created visual art pieces and installations that will offer Queer perspectives on traditional notions of family, marriage, and relationships. Building Our Own Picket Fences – Queer Community Arts Project (Madison Young — Kickstarter)
- Presenters of UK adult TV channel Babestation Daytime, Hannah and Lori, explain what their jobs entail and discuss how they feel about the porn industry. The P Word – Adult TV station stars on porn industry (BBC – Newsbeat)
Uh, Violet, you might want to more clearly designate quotes from linked pages (as opposed to descriptions you write), especially quotes in the first person. Take the item about fisting. I remember your video interview with Woz and other people at that computer museum and wondered with trepidation what I missed.
Thank you so much, Violet! And by the by, I’m so fed up about this whole “Don’t wear short skirts” thing that my hemlines have risen ludicrously.
Yay! I do hope that you’ll be making a Fisting Day blog post Vi!!! Let me know if you need anything! xoxo CT
Violet,
Thank you for helping me spread the word about Fisting Day!
Yesterday, Smitten Kitten became the first wholesale order to carry Courtney Trouble’s forthcoming film LIVE SEX SHOW, which very well might be the first time in recent years that a sex toy retailer will openly sell a physical DVD which explicitly contains a fisting scene. I hope other female-friendly sex toy stores follow their progressive lead! Soon we will stop this foolish and homophobic censorship!
Throwing fists full of hearts at you. <3 <3 <3
Jiz