First, let me start off with an unfortunately-necessary disclaimer: There are extremely obvious political over- and under-tones to the Assange debacle. Most countries simply don’t care this much about alleged violations of consent when their messy little secrets aren’t involved. On top of that, an accusation is not a conviction. I’m not answering, or even [...]
Top career advice blogger Penelope Trunk has been known for taking unorthodox stances, but I was still surprised – and proud – to see her come out against three common sex worker-bashing cliches: oppression by pimps/madams, lumping different types of sex work together, and the depressed sex worker. In response to “Career Lessons from Eliott [...]
It isn’t safe for an honest pornographer in Iran these days: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 07 – A man was flogged in public in the town of Behshahr, northern Iran, for producing home-made pornographic videos, state media reported on Sunday. The unnamed man was lashed 100 times in public, the daily Etemaad Melli wrote. He had [...]
Quickie: Anti-Sex Bipartisanship, Premature Puberty, Free Porn
Commentary: Does Sitcom Strategy Explain Anti-Porn Laws? (AVN) Precocious Puberty on the Rise (Alternet; thanks to Sexoteric for the link) Forum Aimed at Limiting Spread of Free Porn Launches (XBiz) Stevensville man undeterred in his long battle against obscenity (Missoulian.com) Kink.com Acquires Historic San Francisco Armory Building (XBiz) Comment: Sarah Carey: We need more sex, [...]
From the “I like to think I’m this insightful when I’m drunk” files: So here’s what I want to talk about with class. This guy was all, “I would like to see sex shops zoned into a particular area.” Well that’s how it Already IS, fucker!! That’s how it’;s BEEN for decades now, and guess [...]
Quickie: FBI Meets With Adult, Gay Marriage, Voluntary Content Labeling
The FBI Meets With Adult: 1 (XBiz) Citizen journalism website seeks sex-trade worker to cover Pickton trial (Canadian Press) Porn Sites Start Adapting to Wii (1up.com) Indications of a Slowdown in Sex Entertainment Trade (New York Times) Sex Offenders Fill Geriatric Wards of U.S. Prisons (NPR) Sex-Crazed Teens, Porn and Booze Bunk: 2006′s Worst Science [...]
The phrase “porn addiction” has been repeated so often in the past few months that it’s becoming accepted as fact. First: Obsessive porn usage is a compulsion, not an addiction. It’s an addiction only in the same sense that any pleasurable activity is worth endlessly repeating. It’s a form of escapism and should be no [...]
Tease and denial is a form of submission even non-masochistic men can understand. It’s a sensual form of domination: the playfully wicked pricktease vs. her hopelessly devoted toy/wanker. At its core orgasm control and denial is about men submitting to the control a woman has over their pleasure and orgasm, letting her have her way [...]
If you haven’t caught the posts and discussions over at SugarBank on porn, obscenity, and the violence/sex split, get your smut-happy ass over there pronto. If there’s reason to draw a line between violent movies and sex movies, should we be drawing it now? If not is there anything that we shouldn’t allow others to [...]
Pornographers are on your side. It’s true. At least, as regards children accessing porn. You don’t have to approve of porn to realize the logic inherent in the following statement: “Pornographers don’t want kids to visit their websites” “A Pornographers Guide to Protecting Kids from Porn Online,” SugarBank Actually Sam Sugar raises a good, glaringly [...]
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