Like many people, I wish I had a lot of money and obedient robot clones. If I was this kind of sex blogging criminal mastermind I would already have V-Bot 22 on a jet to London with a really nice DSLR camera to attend the Saturday opening of Body to Body at at London’s Ordinary-Light…
Category: Culture
When being a lesbian gets you killed: Help save Kiana Farouz
Last night I had the privilege — and I mean that in every sense — to attend the private 20th anniversary dinner for The International Women’s Media Foundation. We seldom hear how dangerous it is for women who work in media outside of Western countries: journalists, filmmakers, photographers. (Although I did reflect that I have…
Trailer: Ramzi Abed’s Altporn Documentary The New Erotic
This week I actually got two press releases that turned out to be things I was happy to nonconsensually learn about. One was getting the trailer for director Ramzi Abed‘s upcoming documentary on altporn filmmaking “The New Erotic.” According to IMDB the film is completed, but none of the marketing materials tell me when it’s…
Footballers’ wives? Hold the wags, just ‘ballers please
Photo above is Japanese ex-footballer Hidetoshi Nakata for Calvin Klein. I’ve never been that into sports per se. I’ve grown up with a distant American girl, West Coast appreciation for baseball and basketball. But I’ve always been more into skating, snowboarding, surfing, fighting, motorcycle racing and BMX. And now that I think about it, I’ve…
Expanding on the “erotic capital” theory
Image of Natasha S from this gallery. Yesterday I read two great articles about sociologist Catherine Hakim’s theory on “erotic capital.” One way by Hakim herself in the pages of Prospect magazine titled Have you got erotic capital? The other was an interview with Hakim called Making capital out of sex appeal, which explains that:…
Tinker Bell as… Tinker Bill?
Image of an astonished Frodo Baggins by Rebecca Tillett. Kids are awesome. You tell them gender is binary and they ask for a cookie. (…) Tinker Bell and her mischievous crew of fluttery scamps have been familiar to little girls – and their parents – ever since Disney rolled out the fairy franchise in the…
Saturday sexiness: To do in San Francisco and Chicago
Image of AP lingerie line by Rachel Roses (Countess of Beaumont). If you’re in San Francisco tomorrow afternoon and feel like soaking up some of our local sexy, Agent Provocateur is having a live modeling show in their storefront window — and the show will also be happening simultaneously in the window of their Chicago…
Vote in the British general erection
Image by Pete Woodhead. Yes, you read that correctly. It’s voting time in the UK, and it looks like their electoral process needs a fluffer. My cheeky friends at LoveHoney UK are featuring their bestselling vibrating cockring (great for clitoral and electoral stimulation) as a super-special General Erection Love Ring for only 25p. But my…
AlphaFemmes and Porn Distribution
The above image for AlphaFemmes looks amazing, yes? I was surprised when I got an email from the Oakland-based director, Anna Devia, sharing it with me and finishing her very wonderful email about women and porn by saying that AlphaFemmes is looking for distribution. I would have thought that a tasty morsel like this would…
Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” butch kisses and tells (all)
If you watched Lady Gaga’s recent video “Telephone” and wondered what the story was behind the prison yard butch makeout session, look no further. I was really surprised and excited simply to see a butch in the video; masculine lesbians are just not cast in mainstream or pop anything, even though they are iconic as…