Category: Culture

Image by fetishmamma for Smile-and-cry.ru fetish atelier. There’s not much for me to add, other than to point you toward the fabulous post Porn For Women Retrospective 2008, where the woman who runs the porn-for-women site For the Girls gives the most complete, incredible, fantastic wrapup of everything related to women as porn consumers that…

Image exclusively emailed to me from Andrew Blake, from his new “Night Trips: a Dark Odyssey”. This is the image that didn’t make it into my Chronicle column’s gallery… For this week’s SF Chronicle column, I had the extreme honor of interviewing one of my all-time erotic filmmaking heroes, Andrew Blake. Not just an interview…

Gorgeous image by elaisted. Here’s another fantastic essay that just undulates into your head: The Pervert’s Grand Tour – The Devil’s Playground by Tony Perrottet. It’s a travelogue visit to the Marquis de Sade’s castle in Lacoste (Provence), France and it is now owned by Pierre Cardin. It’s lyrical, lovely: Perrottet describes vividly the in-person…

Playboy Mexico + Virgin Mary nude spread = bad idea

For its December issue, Playboy: Mexico decided to honor the season by featuring a nude photo shoot of a model as the Virgin Mary (portrayed by Maria Florencia Onori). Which, not surprisingly, made a lot of devout Catholic Mexican citizens really pissed off, forcing a retraction of the issue and an apology from Playboy (reuters.com).…

Image via phheww. My belief: Typically, as grounds for porn laws and adult establishment regulations, localities and government programs have used “studies” showing so-called adverse effects that are scientifically flawed and can be challenged in argument, point by point. So, yeah — I’m bringin’ it: the last issue of American Ethnography Quasimonthly is actually called…