Image by elaisted. In the short NYT piece Lights, Camera, Lots of Action. Forget the Script. they discuss the gradual demise of scripted porn movies and the increase of all-action porn. In the article they talk to Steven Hirsch at Vivid, who blames the short attention span of Internet porn consumers. But I don’t think…
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Great interview: Laura Jackson on quitting stripping and the recession
Image of Laura Jackson by Romy Suskin. Over at The Rumpus, there’s a great interview series that just started about sex work and the recession: Recession Strippers 1: The Laura Jackson Experience. In it, Jackson talks about why she can’t quit dancing and the effects of the recession on her job. It’s a very unexpected…
Hot, naughty, NSFW… autism?
Praemedia sent me a link to Sociological Images’ post about using sex to sell — autism awareness. The videos above are particularly surreal, and the Rethinking Autism video page has a few more from the campaign. They’re intended to counter misinformation about autism; Leeann Tweeden, Playboy model and FHM cover girl is friends with parents…
Dakimakura
Image by Danny Choo. A dakimakura is a kind of large pillow from Japan. The name means “hugging pillow”. Danny Choo got a couple of adult anime dakimakura pillow covers and had quite an interesting time reviewing them. But then, Danny Choo is a really unusual guy, and so we can expect nothing less than…
Lesbians = 1 Cowboys = ?
Cowboy Atom.com: Funny Videos | Cinematic Comedy | Romantic Comedies Cowboy is written, directed and starring Matthew Modine; no sex but it’s hot and cute. Thanks, DD! On that note, see also: the 100 Hottest Butches, just in time for Pride weekend. Big props for seeing locals Shine Louise Houston, Syd Blakovich (OMG, that photo)…
And now, the Sex and Zen controversy
Image via Wysoccan. With no small amount of irony, I’m realizing that this post, about sex and Zen Buddhism will likely piss off more people than my last post about the HIV outbreak. Quietly, in a meditative kind of way, of course. So I’ll blame it all on my friend Brad Warner, a Zen Master…
The HIV Outbreak Controversy in Porn Valley Rages Onward
Right as I went crashing into my last book deadline, I got an email from a friend saying my voice was wanted in this MeFi thread, Publicizing HIV cases in the porn industry. I don’t know; some of the comments are spot-on and clarify quite a bit. Others, not so much… While I was head-down…
Pun-a-licious: Yes, the Cybernet Expo is coming to SF
Image by elaisted. And I’m speaking in this Cybernet Expo 2009 convention. I’ll be talking about writing. And stuff. I’ll be around making media and probably getting in arguments, as usual because I’m not from “the industry”. There’s a good writeup in the Guardian’s Sex SF blog about it, with a cute pic of a…
A visit to the sex therapist
Can it be any more uncomfortable — or funny? I am sure this is what it is really like. More from my pal Liam in Dr. Ulee, Sex Therapist.
This week’s Chron column: Bill Killed
Image via bangbang. I saw [typo fixed] the autopsy photos and the pic of him hanging in the closet. So this week I wrote Bill Killed – Violet Blue: The passing of David Carradine and the controversy of risk-aware kink. It’s very much about the death of David Carradine, and as opposed to all the…