- In collaboration with Parisian cabaret Crazy Horse, Christian Louboutin, a French footwear designer, has consented to be the show’s frist “Guest Creator” and to put up what will hopefully be an exciting play.
Here’s a full uncensored gallery at Vancouver Sun – read more at: Crazy Horse: Christian Louboutin Choreographs Erotic Play for Parisian Cabaret (International Business Times)
- Monday the jury in the federal obscenity trial of fetish filmmaker Ira Isaacs began considering whether his movies, which feature women eating (fake) feces and performing sex acts with (real) dogs, have enough artistic, political, or scientific value to render them nonfelonious.
Porn So Icky That It Can’t Be Obscene (Reason Magazine)
UPDATE 3.7.12 12:30PST: Mistrial declared in obscenity case over fetish film(s) (Standard-Examiner)
- ICANN… ICAN’T. Within three months of the launch of the Internet “pornography” domain “.xxx” 10 cases have been launched against Web pirates registering sites on it using the names of reputable companies and people, insiders said on Monday.
Porn domain on Internet touches alarm buttons (Reuters)
- The auteurs behind Miami porn company Bang Bros — who made their name filming men in vans who purportedly picked up “innocent” women from sidewalks and then sweet-talked them into filmed fornication on the road — seem to have turned to public transit for their newest series. (The women were paid and contracted performers.)
Gay porn filmed on bus routes has Miami-Dade Transit in a tizzy (Miami New Times)
- Actors in many of the adult films made in the nation’s porn capital must use condoms under a law that took effect Monday, but the prophylactic police aren’t yet on the case. How they will enforce such a regulation once they do begin enforcement is anyone’s guess.
Condoms now required for Los Angeles porn actors – but how will law be enforced? (NY Daily News)
- Those classy UK tabloids, again: they’ve outed BDSM romance author EL James against her will. The Evening Standard tracked her down to the terrace home in Brentford she shares with scriptwriter husband Niall and two teenage sons. She said: ‘How did you find me? I didn’t want my real name to come out.’
Bondage writer whose books have taken America by storm is British mother-of-two (Mail Online) + ‘Makes you want sex with your husband’ (The Star ZA)
- Proving that Tom Tomorrow‘s This Modern World is a national fucking treasure, here is his take on female sexuality as debated by religious and government decision makers and pundits – and he flawlessly nails the essence of America’s current contraception debate.
A controversy erupts (This Modern World)
- TED 2012 provided a talk on sex that is a threadbare copy of the baseball diamond / sex reframe talk we’ve done at SFSI for over ten years and several years behind the XKCD comic of the exact same topic. So, in ten years TED will get to topics on this blog circa 2010…? Poor TED.
Let’s talk about sex — and pizza: Al Vernacchio at TED2012 (TED Blog)
- “I’ve always said that it’s a generally fantastic experience to be a man in our culture. This is because, in comparison to women, we men get way more room to be ourselves or do what is most comfortable for us. One of the areas in life where men are most coddled is how we are permitted to emotionally express ourselves.”
Treating Men Like Four-Year-Olds (The Current Conscience)
- Robert Pattinson has found a bizarre way to bond with his dad — partying at a German fetish club. The 25-year-old Twilight star, nicknamed R-Patz, visited Berlin’s infamous KitKatClub – and plans to take his father with him on the next visit.
Twilight actor Robert Pattinson visits Berlin fetish club (The Sun)
“Gay porn filmed on bus routes has Miami-Dade Transit in a tizzy (Miami New Times) ”
As a native Miamian I support this endeavour. Also lolz.
50 shades of Grey is now number 27 on the NYT best seller list. Has there been a precedent for kinky fiction story being that high on the best seller list? Certainly the Beauty stories went mainstream but it’s not something I’ve followed. I wonder what it says, that BDSM and kink has gone mainstream or the main characters appeals to many. Or good marketing? Now I’ll have to read it although the pseudonym outing was the main reason I followed the story.
Looking at the Tom Tomorrow’s strip, I point to a *too very much real* example. In my country, after several years of sufficient (they had room for improvement but they at least worked) abortion has become now again illegal except in very exceptional cases. This politician provides some sort of “moral” justification:
“Gallardón: There is no truest right for the woman as that of the motherhood”
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