There is a post over at Petapixel that I think will be a must-see for most readers of this blog, and I think many of you regulars will understand the resonance it has along the gender-inclusive spectrum of our tastes here – and among friends/community of this blog. The post’s title is Portraits of Albanian…
Category: Culture
Confessions of a former TSA screener: ‘Yes, I have a dildo.’
The blog Confessions of a Former TSA Screener is currently making the rounds on tech forums. It’s a fantastic blog, and might be especially timely reading for those traveling over the holidays this coming week. I love it! But it took a pal who works at Twitter to point out this delightful section in the…
Exclusive CineKink 2013 Call for Entries extension – mention ‘Violet Blue’
A scene from “The Pawn Layman,” one of the films featured at CineKink 2010, image via. The tenth annual CineKink will be February 26-March 3, 2013; the call for entries is currently closed. But I emailed CineKink saying I was sorry I missed telling my readers about the call for submissions, and they decided to…
Stephen Elliott’s unusual, darkly funny Kickstarter for Happy Baby
Set aside your Kickstarter fatigue for a minute and take a look at a very unusual – and well done – Kickstarter for a project I really hope gets its funding: Happy Baby, the Movie (by Stephen Elliott). It also happens to be the project of someone I admire very much, and with whom I…
[Video] Clever Durex condoms spec ad by Charlotte Rabate
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This would be a great ad – it’s a spec for Durex, so it’s not the company’s ad, but rather the brilliant on-spec (unpaid, with the hope of winning business) creation of Charlotte Rabate. Not sexually explicit, but I think you’ll like it anyway :)
Molly Crabapple’s Vice essay “The World of a Professional Naked Girl”
Image: Crabapple’s “Impossible Couture” photo/art collaboration with Najva Sol for Filthy Gorgeous Things. Artist, activist and co-founder of the amazing Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School – the extraordinary Molly Crabapple has an essay in Vice that’s well worth reading. Here’s a snip from The World of a Professional Naked Girl: (…) I was 20. I’d been…
The incredibly fucked up, hilarious trailer for Movie 43
The lines about HPV, and Johnny Knoxville complaining about someone else’s obsession with balls seals it for me. I have to see this film. Movie 43 also stars Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman, Anna Faris, Richard Gere, Emma Stone, Kate Winslet, Uma Thurman, John Hodgman and many more in a huge ensemble cast. While shot in…
PR is not news: The dot-XXX search engine
On September 17 (9 days ago) I got a cold-call email from an Account Executive at PR firm KCSA Strategic Communications. This is what it said: Hi Violet, Later this month, ICM Registry, the company that created and now operates .xxx domain names, is launching their very own search engine just for adult entertainment websites,…
A Steampunk’s Guide to Sex
Adorable, and must be featured here for all Victoriana fetishists: A Steampunk’s Guide to Sex is a project in the making by Combustion Books that is currently looking for Kickstarter support. For some, the halcyon days of steampunk may be long gone, but this idea has enough whimsey and potential usefulness that I think I…
Boardwalk Empire returns: we miss you, Jimmy
HBO’s Boardwalk Empire returned this past Sunday in a hail of bullets, betrayal, bitterness and sex – thank the gods. As you can see by the above image of gorgeous Meg Chambers Steedle (Nucky Thompson’s new mistress), we’re off to a great start. There is so much to love about Boardwalk Empire’s inspiring 1920s sex.…