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The ladies at dirtyspoke are still taking nominations for the 2006 Sex Blog of the Year awards. Nominations close 12 midnight EST on January 15, 2007 so get yours in now!

Only one nomination per IP address (duplicates will be deleted). Make sure to include the blog site address (i.e.-http://your-site.com) in the ballot form.

The following categories are open for nomination:

• Best Overall Sex Blog (Any sex blog, by a man, a woman, a group, gay/lesbian, etc.) - Winner to appear with Meme on the radio and receive a copy of Rachel Kramer Bussel’s new book “Caught Looking: Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and Exhbitionists.“
• Best Female Sex Blog (Limited to blogs written by a woman, that means she’s gotta have a vagina)
• Best Male Sex Blog (Limited to blogs written by a man, yes, with a penis)
• Best Couple/Group Sex Blog (This can be a blog written by a couple or group, but has to have at least 2 writers - Not a blog about group sex) Winner to receive a 2 DVD set of The L Word, Season 4 (Catch the premiere on Showtime Jan. 7, 2007 at 10pm)
• Sexiest Sex Blogger (Based on pictures of the blog writer) Winner to receive a copy of “The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities“

If you’d like to submit Full Frontal Politics for nomination, please use http://fullfrontalpolitics.com/ as the address. Thank you!

The end of 2006 is shaping up to be a pretty exciting week for the forces of porn:

The Adult Industry Podcast Network just launched and is taking submissions. If you’ve got a podcast out there geared toward the adult industry, or if you’re about to start one, check them out. They’ll host your podcast and promote you to their listener base.

Frankly I’m glad to see an industry-specific business podcast for adult entertainment. If you’re an adult webmaster or do sex-related affiliate marketing give their podcasts a listen.

Sam Sugar’s TGP.com is now in beta and is also taking submissions. The site’s relaunching with a bold new look and a very 2.0 theme:

TGP.com has entered the public Beta phase, allowing users to contribute to and benefit from what its owner calls “one of the adult Internet’s most valuable URLs.”

Here’s how the system works: Users upload erotic photos and links to their websites or affiliate programs. The photos automatically are placed in a gallery, and surfers who visit the site vote for their favorites. The most popular galleries appear on TGP.com’s home page, thereby generating significant traffic for the originating website.

“TGP-dot-com Announces Live Public Beta,” AVN Online

Affiliate links are more than welcome, and Sam has invited both the amateur and professional sex blogging community to participate. Solo models, your time has come…

Interested in coming together for a cause?

The Event

“WHO? All Men and Women, you and everyone you know.

WHERE? Everywhere in the world, but especially in countries with weapons of mass destruction.

WHEN? Winter Solstice Day - Friday, December 22nd, at the time of your choosing, in the place of your choosing and with as much privacy as you choose.

WHY? To effect positive change in the energy field of the Earth through input of the largest possible surge of human energy, a Synchronized Global Orgasm.”

More details at globalorgasm.org. Thanks to Halycon of Globalgasm for the tip.

I’ll be incommunicado observing the Solstice from midnight EST til dawn of December 22nd. Happy holidays.

(This is something new I’ll be doing. There are a lot of stories I’d like to pass on, but don’t have a chance to write a full commentary for. I’ll be posting those links as Quickies. Let me know what you think in comments.)

• ‘Rare’ Obscenity Case Targets Writings (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
• Porn Accusations Turn Up Heat in Virginia Senate Race (Times Online)
• A Week to Fight Pornography (Asheville Citizen-Times) *
• How the Web Prevents Rape (Slate, via Sexoteric)
• Abstinence-Only vs. “Intercourse Only” (Figleaf’s Real Adult Sex) **
• Stop Sex Infections the Smart Way (Wired)
• First Flickers of Male-Centric Consciousness: A Work in Progress (Figleaf’s Real Adult Sex)

* I’ll be blogging on this later.

** Update, 11/2 9:36p EST: See also commentary at Viviane’s Sex Carnival, The Huffington Post, and Violet Blue’s Tiny Nibbles.

‘SEX WORKER VISIONS’
OPENING TOMORROW

$pread Magazine Produces Sex Industry Art Exhibit

NEW YORK, NY - $pread, a quarterly magazine by and for sex workers and their allies, presents Sex Worker Visions, an exhibition featuring art by sex workers and about the sex industry, at the LGBT Community Center David Bohnett Cyber Center at 208 West 13th Street, New York City, from March 29 – May 20. Visions kicks off with an opening reception on March 29 from 6 to 9 pm.

Visions is curated by Audacia Ray, Executive Editor of $pread and former Assistant Curator at the Museum of Sex. Artists include sex activist and educator Heather Corinna, former SuicideGirl and illustrator Molly Crabapple, exotic dancer and photographer Charise Isis, and former prostitute and filmmaker Anne Hanavan, as well as Paul Sarkis and George Pitts’ intimate portraits of porn stars. Photographs by Erin Siegal and illustrations by Fly and Cristy Road originally appearing in $pread will also be on display. Sales will benefit the non-profit magazine.

The March 29 event is also the opening night of the Sex Work Matters conference, a joint venture of CUNY and the New School (www.sexworkmatters.net). For $pread, the evening will also mark the start of its second year of publication. In its first year, $pread won Best New Title from the Utne Indepenent Press Awards. The Spring issue of $pread will be available for sale at the reception.

For opening night only, the exhibit will be completely interactive with a webcam video project, “30 Second Sex,” masterminded by multimedia artist and erotic professional Melissa Gira and featuring webcam pioneers Ana Voog and Echo Transgression camming from remote locations. Computer monitors around the Cyber Center will display the websites of sex worker rights advocacy groups for the public to peruse. Former call girl Tracy Quan along with sex worker activist Carol Leigh (aka Scarlot Harlot) will be signing copies of their respective books, Diary of a Married Call Girl and Unrepentant Whore.

Get a sneak peek of the exhibition at http://sexworkervisions.blogspot.com

WHAT: Sex Worker Visions opening reception

WHERE: LGBT Community Center’s David Bohnett Cyber Center, 208 W. 13 St., NYC

WHEN: 6–9 PM

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And if you want to know a little more about the babe behind the scenes, Audacia’s brand new interview with Gothamist gets into her thoughts about modelling, sex work, the Sex Worker Visions exhibit, the Perverts’ Saloon, and where the hell this sex-positive activism movement is going. Very cool stuff.