In the debauched world of INDIEROTICA, the thin bra-strap of a line between the seductive and the obscene is torn, stripped, and ripped off so often that one can have difficulty differentiating between the exploitative and truly erotic. Here to help us connect the dots is the brilliant and sexy REBECCA, author of the clever blog, PORN PERSPECTIVES. "Examining the interplay between pornography, feminism, economics, and technology", it's possibly the smartest sex on the internet.
-Jess, INDIEROTICA.com
Not sure if they'll show up on wedding registries anytime soon, but a study recently found that 53% of women and nearly half of men report having used a vibrator. Nearly all the people who have used one have done so with a partner.
I'm a bit surprised that female solo usage isn't higher, but this is after all based on voluntary responses. Nonetheless, nice work, people!
The leading conservative journal Policy Review recently published an article comparing pornography to tobacco. It got so many things wrong I'm tempted to simply ignore the article, but since the publication is relatively prestigious I can't quite dismiss it as random crap.
Pornography is the single most searched-for item on the
internet and also the most profitable.
Today’s prevailing social consensus about pornography is practically identical to the social consensus about tobacco in 1963: i.e., it is characterized by widespread tolerance, tinged with resignation about the notion that things could ever be otherwise.
The example of tobacco shows that one can indeed take a substance to which many people are powerfully drawn and sharply reduce its consumption via a successful revival of social stigma.
What might this transformation imply for today’s unprecedented rates of pornography consumption? Perhaps a great deal. For in one realm after another — as a habit, as an industry, as a battleground for competing ideas of the public good — internet pornography today resembles nothing so much as tobacco circa a half-century ago.
Marilyn Chambers, star of the '70s porn classic Behind the Green Door, passed away over the weekend in her home. She was 57 and died of unknown causes.
She got her start as the face of Ivory Soap (99 adn 44/100% pure!), and was later dropped after her porn debut. Even though the film showed at Cannes Film Festival and received remarkably positive reviews, I suppose Ivory decided the quintessential virgin/whore wasn't the optimal face of soap.
As you may remember from an earlier post, Isabella Rossellini has created a series of educational sex films about animals called Green Porno for the Sundance Channel. They are educational, weird, and oddly poetic.
The films are now starting to become available over the web.
Check out Isabella explaining penises and vaginas here.
And here she is as a whale with a 6-foot long penis.
...and much, much more...
Several US airlines have started offering Wi-Fi on board their flights, to the consternation of business travelers who enjoyed having one blessed place where they weren't hounded by their offices.
And as we all know, give them Internet and pornography quickly follows. Most airlines have set up content blockers on their networks to keep customers from viewing x-rated content online. (The more enterprising of passengers can easily download content to their laptops pre-flight, but no matter.)
But good ol' Virgin America is the airline intent on becoming synonymous with rhinestone-studded thongs, appointing itself the official airline of Victoria's Secret, who hosted a supermodel pajama party aboard a 2007 JFK-LAX flight. And so Virgin America will not be blocking porn on its Wi-Fi network.
Theoretically, passangers will exercise the discretion they typically display when refraining to look at adult magazines, masturbate, or hook up with fellow passangers.
But somehow I'm not so sure...Virgin America's ads point to a different sort of social code, one which magically turns its planes into flying discos upon the moment of liftoff....
Geeks suddenly become cool, and grumpy moms morph into hot babes from the '90s:
Flight attendants become foxy stewardesses in nearly-sheer white blouses which strain against their heaving bosoms:
People chat each other up through the seat-to-seat instant messaging on their entertainment consoles:
Women primp for clubbing later that night while people who met via seat-to-seat chat get to second base:
Douchebags like this get laid:
...as you can see, Virgin America's flights ensconce you in a wonderland of models in pajamas, available women, and casual sex. I think I understand why Virgin sees no need to block Internet porn--with all this, who really needs it?
via AVN
Showtime, are you out of ideas or something? Because filming a show about a porn director filming a remake of another porn movie sounds pretty desperate to me. People will watch pretty much anything with porn in it, so this seems like a pathetic attempt to show porn packaged as something intelligent.
"Deeper Throat" premiers today, on Valentine's Day (really, guys?). I don't have Showtime, but out of passive curiosity I'll see if someone posts a clip somewhere online in the next week.
I just discovered a hilarious (and useful!) blog, Carnal Knowledge. In essence, it is a porn review blog maintained by a cadre of intelligent porn-lovers. But really, it is so much more...
For example, check out this entry in which the writers dissect a clip ("Secretary in office gets fucked real") which catches their interest because, unlike most supposed-real clips, this one really seems authentic. They present a running commentary of what makes the clip hot (its realism and the fact that the woman appears not to know she is being filmed).
Also, they love Kylie Minogue too, which inspires me to randomly post this hot clip which combines the delights of Kylie, Agent Provocateur, and Swedish garage-punk: let's call it a thank-you-for-reading.
The AVN Adult Entertainment Expo happily coincides with the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas each year. In January, both conventions debuted new technology, but the AVN side of the convention hall was a bit more scandalous.
Some high-tech highlights:
Click here for more devices and details from AVN.
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