Sex Tape Hype Etiquette

April 9, 2013

The classic celebrity sex tapes were true amateur productions for private enjoyment that somehow leaked out. Nowadays, many celebrity sex tapes are just marginal celebrities doing one-off porn flicks, conceived and created for public consumption and a quick payday. For the sake of marketing, the marginal celebrities often pretend that these were true amateur productions [...]

Read the full article →

Morality in Media hates on bookstores, libraries, the internet

April 2, 2013

Conservative Christian activist org Morality in Media has issued a report denouncing what it calls “the top 12 facilitators of porn” in the USA. Here’s their list: 1. Attorney General Eric Holder 2. Comcast 3. Facebook 4. Google Marketplace for Android 5. LodgeNet 6. Hilton 7. American Library Association 8. Twitter 9. Wikipedia 10. Cosmopolitan [...]

Read the full article →

The NASA Space Shuttle Sex Experiment Hoax

April 1, 2013

On November 28, 1989, the following document was posted to the Usenet group alt.sex anonymously from a University of Iowa computer. XXXXXX Experiment 8 Postflight SummaryNASA publication 14-307-1792byXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX ABSTRACT The purpose of this experiment was to prepare for the expected participation in long-term space based research by husband-wife teams once the US space station is [...]

Read the full article →

Erotic Scrimshaw Art at Vancouver Maritime Museum

March 27, 2013

The Vancouver Maritime Museum is currently running an exhibition called “Tattoo and Scrimshaw: The Art of the Sailor”. Scrimshaw is the art of engravings made on ivory whale teeth, developed by 19th century whalers. The term can refer to several related practices; the linked article is a fascinating introduction. Melville’s Moby Dick mentions “Lively sketches [...]

Read the full article →

Monday Penis Links

March 25, 2013

The “big dongle” joke that rocked Silicon Valley … I’m the guy who made a comment about big dongles … Amanda Blum: How we all lost … My take: Adria Richards is in the wrong industry. She will make a fine university president someday. Penis-snatching fears grip Central African village Interview with Patrick Moote, star [...]

Read the full article →

Sex in Space Will Not Be Safe Sex

March 20, 2013

The sex in space fantasy takes another hit, this time from a research study published in PLOS ONE. The academic paper is entitled “Cell Wall Assembly and Intracellular Trafficking in Plant Cells Are Directly Affected by Changes in the Magnitude of Gravitational Acceleration”. That doesn’t sound like it’s about fucking, does it? Fortunately, pop science [...]

Read the full article →

Fifty Shades of Grey movie casting

March 18, 2013

Casting the roles of Anastasia and Christian for the officially-sanctioned Hollywood adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey is turning into a debacle. Nine months ago it seemed like young A-listers were clawing to get the roles. Now it seems like they’re having trouble finding anyone famous who wants to do BDSM, even sanitized Hollywood BDSM, [...]

Read the full article →

BBC News Series About Celibacy

March 15, 2013

BBC News Magazine last week ran an essay asking, Is it even possible to live a celibate life? The author quotes people with varying perspectives. Forcing priests to suppress their urges or hide their sexual behaviour has warped people, believes Elizabeth Abbott, author of A History of Celibacy: “For thousands of years it’s failed. It [...]

Read the full article →

European Parliament rejects porn ban, sort of

March 13, 2013

The European Parliament approved a resolution promoting gender equality, but rejected sections which called for a “ban on all forms of pornography in the media”. This CNet article tries to explain the arcane parliamentary maneuvering and language, which confused the hell out of me but maybe you can figure it out. The bottom line: Europeans [...]

Read the full article →

Britney’s Bare Bottom and Nostalgia

March 13, 2013

I could not resist clicking on the link to this Daily Mail story promising photographs of Britney Spears “baring her bottom as she suffers a Marylin Monroe moment at son’s soccer match”. The bottom-baring in question is barely noticeable, and the linker’s claim that Britney was “going commando” is entirely unsubstantiated. Nonetheless, the whole thing [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →