Gloria's Oversexed Mind

Crappy 4.5" X 2.5" Laser Level Line Marker and Cat Toy

You are bidding on a new, mostly plastic, "Laser Level". Why spend a fortune on a tool you will rarely use? This cheesy, Chinese made, toy like item can come in handy in a pinch. It runs on 2 AAA batteries (not included) and puts out a pretty strong beam (indoors). Personally, I am a little skeptical about the accuracy of the two bubble levels installed on this unit. They are either slightly off or my house is about to fall over. But we all know that the true value of these guys comes shining through when you need to hang things on an angle.

This item is almost a toy except that it puts out a highly focused beam that you wouldn't want your kid pointing at his eye. It also comes with two push-pins (conveniently located under the batteries) that can be used to hold it in place if you are working alone. Wouldn't want a kid playing with those either.

If for nothing else - this is what you'll give to your brother in law when he comes looking to borrow your tools. (This item can also be used to entertain your cat for hours!)

May 31, 2008 in Post-Modern Pop Culture | Permalink | Comments (0)

Cute! Exercise your creativity for a good cause and bling up a 36C bra for this fun fund-raising contest.

Creative Cups: Adelphi University-New York State Breast Cancer Hotline and Support Program

Creative Cups™ is a thought-provoking art exhibition fundraising event to benefit the Adelphi NY Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline & Support Program. This life-affirming celebration will feature bras that are transformed by their creators into works of art. Creative Cups™ celebrates the lives of those living with breast cancer and those we have lost to this terrible disease. The auction/gala celebration will be held on March 19, 2009, at Adelphi University in Garden City, NY.

May 31, 2008 in Sexual Health | Permalink | Comments (0)

Have you ever come here and wished you could totally revamp my blog to make it hotter, more interactive, more....how shall I put it...more BETTER? Yeah? So how would you like to pimp my blog?

I desperately need someone with the time, energy, expertise, commitment and enthusiasm to work for me (part-time) in redesigning this Typepad blog. You'll need:

- experience doing Typepad blogs

- good coding skills

- awareness of the latest and greatest in web design and tools

- a creative vision for this site

and, perhaps most importantly,

- a professional attitude if you want to get and keep my respect.

A blog slave, a masochistic volunteer, a graphic artist who'd love to add me to their portfolio, or someone who'd like to barter services are all welcome. If you want to be paid at a professional rate, that's fine too, but please give me your rates up front. All terms negotiable, but keep in mind that I am a strict task-mistress. I take commitments seriously and will expect the same of you.

Drop me an email if interested. Please include a URL where I can look at some of the pages you've already done.

Gloria

May 29, 2008 in Autobiographical Urges | Permalink | Comments (0)

From my friends at Cleis Press comes this call for participants in an important new book about lesbian relationships by author Felice Newman. Note: this is for lesbian, bi & queer women couples only.--ggb

An invitation from Felice Newman, author of The Whole Lesbian Sex Book

Lesbian, Bisexual & Queer Women Couples:

Have you been together for 5+ years?

Do you enjoy a satisfying sex life?

I’d like to hear from you: What makes your sexual relationship work?

Will you help me research a new sex guide for lesbian couples?

I am conducting confidential interviews (via telephone) with couples who enjoy a satisfying sexual relationship. I am interested in exploring the ways we “grow” our sexual partnerships.

I want to know what makes your sexual relationship work. How do you sustain erotic interest over the years? How do you face the sexual challenges that inevitably arise in a long-term relationship? How has your coupled sexuality evolved? How does your partnership support your sexual growth and pleasure? In short, what are the payoffs of an ongoing sexual relationship?

I want to hear from couples who have been together 5+ years, and who feel their sexual relationship “works” — however you would define that. (Even if you wouldn’t say you have the perfect sex life, if you are generally fulfilled in your sexual relationship, I want to hear from you.)

The Whole Lesbian Sex Book has informed, supported, and entertained many thousands of women in the nearly 10 years since it was published. Now I’m turning my attention to couples. As a somatic coach and sex educator, I help many couples who are quite unsatisfied with their sex lives. I know this book will be an empowering resource for our community.

There will be a reciprocal aspect to these interviews. In our telephone conversation, you’ll have an opportunity to ask me questions, too.

All interviews will be strictly confidential, and interviewees will be quoted anonymously in my book.

If you'd like to participate, please fill out the form below.

Thanks so much!

Best wishes,

Felice Newman
www.felicenewman.com

Whether you identify as lesbian, bisexual, or queer; butch, femme or androgynous; polyamorous, monogamous; adventurous, sensual, kinky; boi, MTF, intersex, traditionally gendered or trans; sexually experienced or new to sexual exploration, I want to hear from you!

Felice Newman is a sex educator and Somatic Coach certified by the Strozzi Institute. She is the author of The Whole Lesbian Sex Book: A Passionate Guide for All of Us (Cleis Press), and a founding co-publisher of Cleis Press. Felice has appeared on Dr. Drew's Love Line, Derek & Romaine Show, and other radio programs, and has spoken to audiences on sexuality in many cities. She has been the resident sex coach on ClassicDykes.com and has offered sex advice on About.com and LesbiaNation.com. She lives with her partner in the San Francisco Bay Area where she coaches individuals and couples. She is a member of The American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT) and the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS).

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FELICE NEWMAN'S LESBIAN COUPLES RESEARCH PROJECT

Please complete and send to: felice@felicenewman.com

NAME (Age) Phone #

1. _________________________________________________________________________________

2. _________________________________________________________________________________

How long have you been a couple?

What is the best thing about your sexual relationship?

What has been the greatest challenge to your sexual relationship?

What interests you about participating in this research?

What city/state do you live in?

Phone #:

Best time(s) to schedule a conversation?

All interviews will be strictly confidential, and interviewees will be quoted anonymously in my book.

Please send completed form to: felice@felicenewman.com

May 28, 2008 in Sex and Relationships | Permalink | Comments (0)

Well, fellow pervs, what do you think? She had to hide the jewelry SOMEWHERE, right?

Nude maid accused of really cleaning up

TAMPA - A nude maid is accused of really cleaning up at a Florida man's home. The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said a 50-year-old man hired the maid from the Internet on Friday to clean his Tampa home.

Authorities said the woman arrived at the home in a one-piece, light colored dress. She took off the dress and cleaned the house for $100-per-hour. Sheriff's office spokeswoman Debbie Carter said the man told deputies he left the maid alone in the bedroom to clean.

When the man's wife came home from vacation, she discovered $40,000 in jewelry missing from their bedroom.

Police are investigating.

Let's just hope they don't waste time pussy-footing around.

May 28, 2008 in Sex Laws and Crimes | Permalink | Comments (1)

Just when you think you've heard it all, a new fetish appears on your horizons. Mechaphilia: erotic fascination with machines. Or, in this particular case, with cars.

Mechaphiliac Admits to 'Having Sex with' 1,000 Cars

We know what it's like to fall in love with a car, and we have nothing at all against a little steamy-window sex in the backseat of a '67 Chevy -- as long as you're with someone else.

Edward Smith, on the other hand, currently "lives with" a white Volkswagen Beetle named Vanilla whom he calls his "girlfriend."

Smith, a self-professed "romantic," writes poems about his cars, and says he first had sex with a car at the age of 15. Since then, he says he's only been attracted to autos, not humans.

Oh, sure, I've known people who get aroused by doing things in cars, ho-hum, and even a special few who are quite specific about the particular type of car they enjoy for their romps. But people who get aroused BY cars....without any other humans involved? I'm guessing it's fairly rare. (And, no, creaming your jeans over the latest greatest model on a show-room floor does not count.)

But where there's one person with a fetish -- you can always find another with the same or similar fetish. Haven't located a chat-forum for people who are revved by motors, but a little googling yielded a memoir titled MECHAPHILIA on Amazon, detailing the author's life-long erotic fascination with machines.

Well COOOOL. I love strange fetishes and this one gives the expression "turned on" a whole new dimension.

May 28, 2008 in Sex and Sadomasochism, Sexual Strangeness | Permalink | Comments (2)

I kind of expect most readers already know, but I figure it doesn't hurt to remind folks that a vote for McCain this fall could mean an end to a couple's right to choose whether or not to terminate a pregnancy.

And, yep, I said a couple instead of "a woman's right to choose," because while there are plenty of women who make the choice on their own, I think there are even more women who make this decision with the support and consent of the men who impregnated them. In fact, I wish we'd get away from constantly seeing abortion as a woman-only feminist issue. It is not: it is a social issue. And on this social issue, as on oh so many others, it's Obama who genuinely supports freedom of choice for Americans while McCain just sounds like an old recording of George Bush, still stuck at the part about how planning how many kids you want to have is evil."

Here's a link to their respective voting records on family planning and reproductive freedom.

Where do Sen. Obama and Sen. McCain stand on reproductive-rights issues?

Sen. Obama said, "I have consistently advocated for reproductive choice and will make preserving women's rights under Roe v. Wade a priority as President."

Sen. McCain said that Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that recognized a woman's right to choose, should be overturned.

May 28, 2008 in Sexual Health, Sexual Politics | Permalink | Comments (2)

Interesting feature by author and Village Voice writer, Tristan Taormino, on some SM sex-play/role-switching on one of the hottest streaming porn sites for pervs. She focuses on a woman primarily known as a hard-core dom player who decided to see if she could take as much punishment as she likes to dish out. O? OOOOOOH.

The Training of O Turns the Tables on a Well-Known Domme

....Part of what makes Kink.com so successful is the personalities behind the various sites and the level of authenticity they bring to their scenes. Having established her persona as a pervy domme, Princess Donna decided to push her own limits and boundaries in a very public way; because she's so well known for dishing it out, it's not surprising that lots of people are ready to see if she can take it, too. "I was so interested in being a part of that rigorous program," she says. "I love seeing how far I can push my body, and reaching that point of total mental and physical exhaustion is so exciting." Many of Kink's regular models switch roles, but Donna is the first webmaster of a site to undertake the training program...

BTW, Tristan has also just published a very fine guide to polyamorous relationships. Very accessible, very sensible, and very well-written. Here's an Amazon link to learn more.

May 28, 2008 in Sex and Sadomasochism | Permalink | Comments (0)

While I am not a fruit fly, and do not want to be one, I must say this little bit of scientific news makes me wonder.....could 20-something boys be my Fountain of Youth?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm...........

Hanging with the young doubles life span of fruit flies: study

Forget radical calorie restriction or human growth hormone. If it's longevity you are after, you may want to consider spending more time with members of the younger generation, according to an animal study released Monday.

The study was done in fruit flies and builds on earlier research showing that interaction with younger members of the species appears to be a factor in healthy aging, both in humans and animals....

May 28, 2008 in Sexual Science and Medicine | Permalink | Comments (3)

Finally, for buttologists seeking the perfect address....

May 27, 2008 in Sexual Humor | Permalink | Comments (0)

Dessert options.

May 27, 2008 in Sexual Humor | Permalink | Comments (0)

Looking for that special treat for your butt-loving best friend?

The Incredible Edible Anus

(thanks to Mike for the link)

May 27, 2008 in Sexual Humor | Permalink | Comments (2)

Where to eat tonight...so many choices....

May 27, 2008 in Sexual Humor | Permalink | Comments (0)

Anal sex fans, today is your lucky day, with a few bloggy tidbits for discriminating buttologists.

Starting with recommended reading for anyone who wants to avoid accidentally messing their pants...and everyone who wants to bring it on.

via Divine Caroline:

Five Foods That Cause Anal Leakage

May 27, 2008 in Sexual Health, Sexual Humor | Permalink | Comments (0)

via Cute Overload! :)

May 27, 2008 in Pets and Animal Love | Permalink | Comments (0)

For a peek into the personal, check out my post on MySpace today.

Happy BBQs to you all.

May 26, 2008 in Autobiographical Urges | Permalink | Comments (0)

Note: Heads up to regular readers. This is going to be my last Erotic Art Friday for May and June this year, as I'm going to have to take off from art research to focus on an off-line writing project that is seriously horribly overdue. I'll also be blogging a bit more sporadically than usual, in hopes of both completing the writing project, starting on the next one and, of course, getting as much gardening in before the impossibly hot days of summer set in.

Today's show is devoted to female nude portraits by women painters. Most if not all of these painters may be new to you -- some are just starting out, some have begun to make inroads and are emerging as successful painters, and some are now gone but have left a legacy of somewhat obscure yet achieved work that continues to get attention.

I started this research wondering if a focus on female nudes by female artists would show me something different from female nudes by male artists. It did! But I'm not sure exactly what. Still, I noticed that after googling for a couple of hours I could predict, with reasonably good accuracy, which nudes would turn out to be the works of women and which would be done by men. One very obvious difference, of course, is that nudes by men on the whole are more sexually suggestive and tend to draw attention to specific areas of the female body (particularly breasts, with asses and legs close behind). Yet even when it came to simple figure studies where it almost appeared that the male and female artists could have been working off the same models or under the same teacher, there was some difficult-to-pinpoint fundamental difference between the way women perceive female nudity and the way men do.

Am I imagining all this? Look carefully at this grouping of women artists (from the early 20th century through today) who've created lasting impressions of the naked female body and tell me what you think.

Artists arranged alphabetically after the jump.

Angela Abbott

May 23, 2008 in Sex and Arts | Permalink | Comments (1)

Now, where did I put that Erotic Art Show?

May 23, 2008 in Sex and Arts | Permalink | Comments (0)

Just stumbled upon, looking for something else.

Highly recommended to those who like pulp art of the bondage kind.

This is Fastner & Larson!.

From their Bed & Bondage series:

May 22, 2008 in Sex and Arts | Permalink | Comments (3)

Meanwhile, on our own shores, politicians in Indiana have created a law that will force anyone who sells sexually-explicit material to register with the state as a vendor of adult materials. You read that right. If a store carries books with sexual content, the state will now view that store as a smut merchant.

The law was announced back in March. Here are the salient details.

Sexual content law irks booksellers

A new state law that requires sellers of adult material to register with the state has Hoosier bookstore owners fuming about government censorship and threatening a legal challenge.

“This lumps us in with businesses that sell things that you can’t even mention in a family newspaper,” said Ernie Ford, owner of Fine Print Book Store in Greencastle.

Ford was talking about HEA 1042, which Gov. Mitch Daniels signed into law last week. He was one of 15 independent Indiana booksellers who signed a letter last week urging Daniels to veto the legislation.

The new law that takes effect July 1 requires businesses that sell sexually explicit material to pay a $250 fee and register with the secretary of state, which would then pass the information to municipal or county officials so they can monitor the businesses for potential violations of local ordinances.

The only thing more bizarre than this new law (I'm speechless at its insanity) is how hard it is to find reporting about it. Considering its legal and economic implications for booksellers and buyers throughout Indiana, you'd think there would be lots of hot debate raging in their media. Certainly the new law's draconian attitude towards sexual literature and its not-so-subtle pressure on booksellers and, by extention, publishers, to keep sexually-related material out of books is an act of censorship. Why aren't national media paying attention to this little sex-literature Taliban operating in Indiana?

Think about it. How can this be anything but disastrous? Will the chain store at your local mall have to register if they carry the works of, say, Flaubert, Henry Miller or Ann Rice? Will a mom-and-pop shop now have to identify as an adult vendor because they carry sex advice manuals, romance novels, and pot-boilers? Will bookstore owners have to read every new book they stock to be sure there are no accidental erections? What the flying fuck is going on in Indiana?

One glimmer of hope: the ACLU's fighting back. I found this little update on a legal forum:

dated: May 7, 2008

The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana and attorneys for several national organizations representing booksellers filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court today seeking an injunction barring enforcement of a new state law which requires businesses that sell sexually explicit material to register with the state....

Ken Falk, legal director for the ACLU of Indiana, said the law is overly broad, too vague as to who must register and violates the First Amendment.

Falk stressed the groups filing the suit do not represent adult bookstores. They include businesses that sell popular books for children and adults, as well as others that deal in arts, including the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the Indianapolis Downtown Artists and Dealers Association.

Anyone with more info on this legislation or better interpretations of how it will impact Indiana booksellers, please comment or email. I'd really like to keep an eye on what happens here.

May 22, 2008 in Sex Laws and Crimes | Permalink | Comments (4)

If trends continue, your right to read porn, and the type of porn you are permitted to look at, is going to be so compromised as to turn everyone with kinky interests into a criminal.

Censorship seems to be on the rise both in the US and the UK, with yet more legislation to, once again, try and legislate morality. What a waste of time and tax-payer money, what a hollow gesture and what a nasty way to perpetuate ignorance and prejudice against sexual minorities. We all know censorship does not work. We all know that trying to curtail sex does not stop anything but sends it further underground. We also know that there is nothing wrong with kinky material in the first place, except in the minds of sanctimonious twats who equate sex with sin.

As far as I'm concerned, this is nothing more than politicians pandering to the lowest common denominators -- mass hysteria, public shame, and the need for scapegoats -- to gain popularity. There's no doubt in my mind that some of the people writing and pushing this legislation are themselves consumers of the very stuff they are outlawing. We've seen it happen too many times already in the US to be fooled by the moralists with boy scout faces who say "do as I say, not as I do." Mark Foley. Elliot Spitzer. Inter way too many alia.

I blogged this story a while back, but Mike sent me a link to an update. This legislation is certain to case a big, icy chill upon all publishers of, and audiences for, so-called deviant/perverse sexual materials, both in the UK and perhaps beyond its shores.

When does kinky porn become illegal?

A bill outlawing the possession of "extreme pornography" is set to become law next week. But many fear it has been rushed through and will criminalise innocent people with a harmless taste for unconventional sex.

Under the new rules, criminal responsibility shifts from the producer - who is responsible under the OPA - to the consumer.

But campaigners say the new law risks criminalising thousands of people who use violent pornographic images as part of consensual sexual relationships.

Here's a list of what kind of porn will now be explicitly outlawed by this legislation:

As defined by the new Criminal Justice Bill:

An act which threatens or appears to threaten a person's life
An act which results in or appears to result in serious injury to a person's anus, breasts or genitals
An act which involves or appears to involve sexual interference with a human corpse
A person performing or appearing to perform an act of intercourse or oral sex with an animal

First off -- don't you just love the way people always group SMers with the people who molest corpses and abuse animals? Such an attractive comparison, isn't it, with its underlying implication that if you like it rough or fetishy in bed you are, by nature, a criminal. Are these people really living in the 21st century or did they pass through some time warp on the Victorian Sex Time/Space Continuum? The fact that SM occurs between two consenting adults, while necrophilia and bestiality involve partners who cannot give consent, doesn't even seem to register on their consciences.

Next, notice that nothing has to actually cause harm: they only have to "appear" to do so. Which, I think, makes this bill an utter joke that will tie up the British courts with ludicrous testimony. There are undoubtedly those who would swear by the Bible that a spanking could result in serious injury. Then there are those who are sane. Oh, who, who will win? The hysterics or the voices of reason? Stay tuned for a test case of this stupidly crazy new law.

May 22, 2008 in Sex Laws and Crimes | Permalink | Comments (4)

May 22, 2008 in Sex and Culture | Permalink | Comments (0)

Love this little story in today's news about an African Grey who escaped from his cage and ended up on a neighbor's roof, where cops captured him. The cops were trying to figure out where he came from when the bird decided to fess all to the staff at the vet hospital where he was being sheltered.

"I'm Mr. Yosuke Nakamura," the bird told the veterinarian. The parrot also provided his full home address, down to the street number, and even entertained the hospital staff by singing songs.

Link: Lost parrot tells veterinarian his address

The escapee:

May 21, 2008 in Pets and Animal Love | Permalink | Comments (1)

He's a jaunty fellow, isn't he?

BAMUN 'TRIPOD' FIGURE, ca. 1960

May 21, 2008 in Sex and Culture | Permalink | Comments (1)

Well...maybe not word for word.... :)

(Another thanks to Mike for this. Dude, you are the flying penis KING!)

May 21, 2008 in Sexual Strangeness | Permalink | Comments (1)

She's only a scale model...but if she were life size...would you?

from that wellspring of weirdness known as eBay - Check out the auction.

May 20, 2008 in Sexual Strangeness | Permalink | Comments (5)

Thanks to Mike for the link to this truly one-of-a-kind prank played on famous chess champ, Garry Kasparov.

Sure wish I knew what he said to make everyone laugh!

May 20, 2008 in Sexual Strangeness | Permalink | Comments (3)

Talk about a head-rub. I wouldn't mind giving this miniature thingamabob a twirl....

from eBay:

Bronze Kinetic Penis Finger Sculpture -
~One of a Kind ~
complete with penis head/finger detailing!

LINK

May 20, 2008 in Sex and Arts | Permalink | Comments (0)

Erotic walking stick, recently sold on eBay:

May 20, 2008 in Sex and Arts | Permalink | Comments (0)

Interesting letter to--and good advice from --Salon's Cary Tennis.

My husband wants BDSM

When I married seven years ago I knew my husband had had experience dating men and cross-dressing. He seemed uninterested in pursuing cross-dressing in our relationship at the time, and I didn't particularly insist he spell out his feelings about it either. He said he was invested in monogamy. Our sex life was very good, if less frequent than I wanted sometimes, featuring a lot of oral on his part, and some mutually desired penetration of him, as well as the usual.

Somewhat naively, I did not conceptualize any of that as BDSM (bondage and discipline and sadomasochism).....

May 20, 2008 in Sex and Relationships, Sex and Sadomasochism | Permalink | Comments (1)

From my friends at Libido Films comes this original animated sex film, "My Art School Summer." You can watch the hilarious trailer for free. NSFW. (Thanks for the link, Jack!)

My Art School Summer

LibidoFilms is mighty proud to present a sexy, funny original musical animated feature from Out on a Limb Animation, featuring the fresh, inventive work of David and Mary Sandberg.

LINK

May 20, 2008 in Sexual Humor | Permalink | Comments (0)

Thanks to Quill for the link to this interesting piece about the revival of Burlesque in NYC.

Burlesque Makes a Comeback in New York

Burlesque, that fabled if slightly soiled fantasy realm whose heraldic totem was the twirling pasty and whose undisputed queen was Gypsy Rose Lee, has returned to New York, dripping with rhinestones and trailing clouds of glitter. Under the rubric neo-burlesque, a Depression-era genre whose hallmarks were smut with attitude, bargain-barn glamour, rock-bottom ticket prices and a proudly stuck-out tongue is reasserting itself, flourishing in unexpected corners around the city.....

At “Showdown: Bare Knuckle Burlesque,” a recent offering at the Zipper Factory on West 37th Street offered more self-assured leering and a little less Saran wrap and aluminum foil from the costume department.

The mistress of ceremonies was a dominatrix wearing an orange eye patch and black bangs of a shoe-polish sheen, her body poured into a purple and black hour-glass gown. Introducing herself as Ms. Astrid (in real life Kate Valentine), she explained to the 200-member audience that Selena Luna, the “Pocket Venus” from Los Angeles, would face off against the East Village’s Miss Dirty Martini (“Just call me Dirty — everybody does”), an odalisque of operatic proportions, given name Linda Marraccini....

May 19, 2008 in Sex and Culture | Permalink | Comments (0)

I have only one question.

WHY?

Guinness World Record holder for the 'Most Pierced Woman', Elaine Davidson....showing some of her five thousand nine hundred and twenty piercings

LINK

May 19, 2008 in Post-Modern Pop Culture, Sex and History, Sexual Strangeness | Permalink | Comments (1)

My how fashion runways have changed.

Models walk the catwalk during a fashion show of the underwear label Agent Provocateur. LINK.

I particularly love the shot of the Vienna Boys Choir getting an eyeful of fashionista tushie:

May 19, 2008 in Sexual Beauty | Permalink | Comments (2)

This review by Violet Blue has us salivating! Has anyone seen it yet?

"Walk All Over Me" The Movie / Film fest comedy-thriller hit stars Leelee Sobieski and Battlestar Galactica's Tricia Helfer (Number Six) as dominatrices; Violet Blue asks director Robert Cuffley about all the whips and guns.

In "Walk All Over Me," Leelee Sobieski plays Alberta, who escapes an abusive relationship and flees to Vancouver where she looks up the only person she knows, her childhood babysitter, Celene (Tricia Helfer, "Battlestar Galactica's" Number Six). Helfer takes her in, and Sobieski works at a supermarket -- until she sees Helfer raking in $300 an hour as a dominatrix. Sobieski decides to give whip wielding and rubber corsets a spin -- naively impersonating Helfer, topping a male client who's in a whole lot of criminal trouble, and getting both women into a dangerous, action-filled predicament.

It's not difficult to imagine Number Six as a hot dominatrix. In fact, it's been my favorite pastime since I first heard of "Walk All Over Me."

May 18, 2008 in Sex and Arts | Permalink | Comments (1)

via AfterElton.Com

May 18, 2008 in Sex and Culture | Permalink | Comments (0)

No mention of BDSM or kink -- just "rough" sex. Where do you draw the line?

(Thanks to kp for the link.)

Canadian pierces lover's heart in botched sex game

A Canadian man who asked his lover to carve a heart-shaped symbol on his chest during a rough sex game almost died when she accidentally pressed too hard and punctured his heart, a newspaper said on Thursday.

The Winnipeg Free Press said the 25-year-old woman had been sentenced to three years' probation after she pleaded guilty to assaulting the man in February 2007.

The 24-year-old man was initially given little chance of survival but made a full recovery and is backing the woman. Both had been drinking heavily and engaging in rough sex when he asked the woman to carve the symbol.

May 17, 2008 in Sexual Health | Permalink | Comments (2)

As previously mentioned, I haven't been able to focus on researching a complete erotic art show for this week. But I have the beginnings of shows I've been building and rather than hold off yet another week, I'm cheerfully declaring this Erotic Art Friday an example of Less Is More.

I began compiling this show some weeks ago, after seeing a cool mechanical toy on eBay that showed a satyr and his nymphy love.

One minute they're chatting...

The next they're....well, here you go...munch munch munch.

This inspired me to start googling for other examples of satyrs -- and, just to keep the representation fair and equal, for images of succubi. Though you don't have to read the complete Wiki entries to enjoy these bits of arts, you can check out their listing on the Satyr for an excellent illustrated history of the horny creature. Their constant erections inspired doctors to name a medical condition after them: satyriasis. Yeah. What happens if you take too much Viagra (or if you take the right dose but something goes very wrong).

Herewith, a very brief snip from Wiki about the mythological half-man, half-goat. What's not to love?

Satyrs are described as roguish but faint-hearted folk — subversive and dangerous, yet shy and cowardly. As Dionysiac creatures they are lovers of wine, women and boys, and are ready for every physical pleasure.

Satyr

Wiki's entry on the succubus is far less complete, but offers a good working definition:

In Western medieval legend, a succubus...is a demon, who takes the form of a beautiful woman to seduce men, especially monks, in dreams to have sexual intercourse.

Succubus

It was interesting to see how many contemporary images of satyrs and succubi abound on the Internet, with many pagan and anime interpretations of these mythological creatures to be easily found. I opted for more classical representations of them whenever possible but included a number of contemporary works (particularly for the succubi).

Most interesting is that while the succubus is traditionally a woman who visits men at night, virtually all the ones I found searching under "succubus" during my first research sweeps across the Internet yielded either an incubus (the male version of a succubus) or the sprawled naked body of a ravished woman. My next round of research was going to be an effort to root out more literal depictions of the myth (a beautiful woman and a ravished man). So the incomplete research leaves me with an open question: where are all the devouring demon babes raping men? Were depictions of succubi too horrific (or sinful?) for classical artists to treat?

My original plan was to split satyrs and succubi into separate categories and do full show on each but since I only got about half way, I'm clumping them together. I'll start with the succubi -- after the jump. And by the way if you think there is an SM-y edge to some of these--I think so too.

Succubus/Incubus

"Succubus" found on Deviant Art, by an artist named Borda.

Satyrs

From contemporary artist Judy Fox (ca. 1999).

Matisse took an interesting perspective on the myth of the Satyr:

Finally, though listed as satyrs, since they have neither hooves nor permanent erections, these two classical sculptures appear to be fauns--very hot Roman fauns. The last sculpture is simply incredible.

I'd ravish him right now....

May 16, 2008 in Sex and Arts | Permalink | Comments (2)

You're going to make me look, aren't you?

May 16, 2008 in Sex and Arts | Permalink | Comments (0)

So...I thought 2007 was pretty hairy but 2008 is getting so ridiculously crazy I'm almost starting to develop a grim sense of humor about it. In this week's news: my mom broke her hip on Wednesday and had surgery yesterday (her 87th birthday, no less). The surgery seemed to go okay but we'll know more soon. She is completely zonked on drugs and saying a lot of strange things right now. Ergo: I haven't had time or focus to research an art show completely for today. The Yiddish word for my current mood: fertumult.

Meanwhile, just found out from Jen that her co-worker and our good friend, totaled his car last night (walking away with bruises but no serious injuries, fortunately). Jeez. (Feel better soon, Al!!)

I think of the people of Myanmar and China and such troubles seem petty but I also know you can never compare such things. Are you having a cavalcade of bad news, affecting you or those near and dear to you? Is it something in the stars? The water? Or maybe, at least in my case, it's just TIME: that sad period in life when the members of the previous generation in your family (and your aging pets) simply reach the end of their days. In the past two years, we've lost six close relatives and three beloved pets.

Will is so stoic. Keeps repeating "death is a part of life, life is a part of death." Oddly, it helps.

May 16, 2008 in Autobiographical Urges | Permalink | Comments (1)

At least I think it's Roman era.

May 15, 2008 in Sex and History | Permalink | Comments (0)

A ring would love to own. Mmm, carved lapis.

May 15, 2008 in Sex and History | Permalink | Comments (0)

Not the kind of news I usually cover but as someone who's watched waaaay too many bad SciFi channel movies, and who has a housemate who is morbidly fascinated with the newest and scariest in ecological disasters, I couldn't resist this story about billions of ants overrunning Houston.

In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out electrical boxes and messing up computers.link

They are omivorous and will eat everything from flora to other insects and even the hatchlings of a local grouse called the prarie chicken. They have destroyed all matter of electrical equipment, insinuating themselves into fire alarms and sewage pumps, mucking up the works as they go. link

If any raspberry ants are listening...please make your next stop Crawford.

May 15, 2008 in Post-Modern Pop Culture | Permalink | Comments (1)

Methinks the world has gone mad. With all due respect to the artist (Takashi Murakami, a designer for Louis Vuitton), I can't believe anyone paid that kind of money for this kind of work. Unless, of course, the buyer was Michael Jackson. (eeeeewwwwwwwwwww)

from Gawker:

Jack-Off Sculpture Sells For $15 Million

May 15, 2008 in Sex and Arts | Permalink | Comments (1)

I've always wanted to see Iceland for its astonishing landscapes...and now, there may be an even better reason to go.

Icelandic museum offers long and short of male organ

...Hjartarson is founder and owner of the Icelandic Phallological Museum, which offers visitors from around the world a close-up look at the long and the short of the male reproductive organ.

His collection, which began in 1974 with a single bull's penis that looked something like a riding crop, now boasts 261 preserved members from 90 species.

The largest, from a sperm whale, is 70 kg (154 lb) and 1.7 meters (5.58 ft) long. The smallest, a hamster penis bone, is just 2 mm and must be viewed through a magnifying glass.

One species conspicuous by its absence is homo sapiens, but that may soon be rectified since a German, an American, an Icelander and a Briton have promised to donate their organs after death, according to certificates on display....

Not surprising....

A growing number of people from all over the world view the collection each year, 60 percent of them women.

...and the other 40% gay?

Beam up, Scotty!

May 15, 2008 in Sex and Culture | Permalink | Comments (0)

Since I can't get out into the garden today, seems like a perfect time to reflect on the things of nature -- especially their sex habits.

Was fascinated recently to find a couple of studies on the sexual behaviors of flowers. Those pretty little sex organs we take for granted are filled with mysteries and intricate systems for spreading their pollen far and wide. As these mysteries are revealed, they suggest sexual behaviors that seem nearly human. How do plants achieve these coy mechanisms, without brains? And, by the way, wouldn't it be a blast if human sex organs were as versatile in their courtship?

For example, the orchid apparently has perfected a technique that mimics female wasps -- fooling males into mating with them. Scientists weren't sure why they did this but now it seems there is an evolutionary purpose: by drawing male wasps to mate with them (instead of female wasps), the flowers get a larger pool of wasps to carry their pollen to other orchids.

Sexy orchids do more than embarrass wasps: study

Orchids that mimic female wasps may not only waste the time of the male wasps they lure into spreading their pollen -- they also seduce them into wasting valuable sperm, Australian researchers reported on Wednesday.

And the flowers benefit twice -- getting help in their own reproduction, and perhaps indirectly producing more male pollinators in the process.

Some of the most exotic orchids are known to have evolved their convoluted shapes to attract insects, who unwittingly collect and transfer pollen as they try to mate with the flowers.

Meanwhile, have you ever wondered why flowers have long stems that make them wave so freely in the slightest breeze? Me neither. But scientists decided to look into the matter and discovered that it is yet another sexual ploy to attract potential pollinators. While humans may worry about whether size matters, in the world of waving flowers it's all about the wobble.

Flowers "wave" at insects to get their attention, scientists have discovered.

This acts as a powerful signal to passing pollinators, allowing the plant to attract more insects than less mobile flowers growing atop short, thick stems.

"We found wavy flowers are more visible to insects, and thus attract more pollinators and set more seeds," said John Warren.

But flowers ultimately face an evolutionary trade-off, he believes.

"Short, fat-stalked flowers don't wobble enough and are less attractive to pollinators; yet very wobbly flowers are just too wobbly for the insects to handle, as the insects cannot land on them.

"Only flowers that wobble the right amount are successful in setting seeds."

I think people forget, when surrounded by nature, that what really surrounds them is a non-stop orgy of animal and plant lust. Every living thing we see about us diligently goes about the business of getting fucked again and again and again. No wonder I love spending time in my garden.

Here's a youtube view of some lavendar seducing bees:

May 13, 2008 in Pleasures of the Garden, Sexual Science and Medicine | Permalink | Comments (0)

Do you suppose that one day, some of the little kids who play in this park will grow up to have a fetish for women whose giant asses jut out when they squat?

May 13, 2008 in Sexual Humor | Permalink | Comments (0)

This article should explain why I nominate this couple as perhaps the world's skankiest BDSM couple. One wonders whether any of the people who visited the underage dominatrix realized they were subbing to a minor.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Federal prosecutors on Monday unsealed an indictment against a man and woman accused of training the woman's child to be a dominatrix, selling her services and photographing some of the acts.

U.S. Attorney John Wood said the case is the first in which a parent of the victim has been charged with the commercial sex trafficking of his or her own minor child.

Todd B. Barkau, 35, of New York, and the 44-year-old mother were charged in the seven-count indictment. Both used to live in Blue Springs, Mo. in the same household.

From Jan. 1, 2002, until Feb. 20, 2005, Barkau created a venture to entice the minor to engage in commercial sex acts, according to the indictment.

"The court filings allege that Barkau obtained control of a 12-year-old girl and he groomed, trained and forced her to become a sexual dominatrix..."

LINK

May 13, 2008 in Sex Laws and Crimes | Permalink | Comments (5)

The problem with being a pervert is that little vanilla phrases can totally throw you off.

For example, SPEED-TV hosts a show called Unique Whips and, dammit, every time I surf channels and see the title, my finger *plips* the remote faster than my mind remembers it's just some show about car racing. I swear, it gets me every single time.

And then the other day, I was totally agog over the startling headline, Great tits cope well with warming , wondering what makes a tit great and who decides, and why does having great tits make it easier to cope with global warming? My rack's been frequently praised -- is it possible they are self-cooling? So I clicked and oh crap, it's about birds.

Maybe I should title my autobiography "Great Tits and Unique Whips" and call it a draw.

On the other hand, I confess I was not entirely disappointed by the link to these Big Tomatoes. They're like the Dolly Partons of organic farming.

May 12, 2008 in Sexual Humor | Permalink | Comments (1)

Around the time Ed sent me the Bound South press release, mentioning their fund-raising activities on behalf of LA&M, my mail-clipper sent me a link to a favorable article to this favorite Scene institution. Long live the Leather Archives and Museum (located in Chicago and serving the world!).

Leather museum whips up sexy side of history

An unassuming brick building stands at the end of a residential street in Rogers Park, and the only sign of what’s inside are two banners with boots on them and big block letters saying LA&M. Though you could walk by without noticing it, the building actually holds a museum documenting one of the most taboo topics in society: leather fetishes and alternative sexual practices. Welcome to the Leather Archives and Museum.

LA&M exhibits many items that you might expect, such as whips, erotica paintings and fetish dolls. This is not just a closet full of toys, though. Everything holds significance in the fetish culture. For example, a bright-red, custom-designed spanking bench on display did not just serve one person’s fantasy. The “Infamous Red Spanking Bench” was first used at a private BDSM (bondage/discipline, dominance/submission, sado/masochism) party and traveled through various parties for two years before a Chicago BDSM club took it permanently.

May 12, 2008 in Sex and Sadomasochism | Permalink | Comments (0)

From organizers at Bound South, "A Charitable Fundraising Organization of the Leather Community," comes word of an upcoming event in Florida this fall.

On Friday November 28th, 2008, Bound South presents the 3rd annual "The Leather Masked Ball" event.

Once again this landmark event is expected to surpass 1000 attendees.

The evening will consist of raffles, a silent auction area, VIP pre cocktail reception, major renowned DJ’s and special guests and the hottest Leather Men on the planet. And some women too.

DJ Sin Morera has agreed to be our main featured DJ. Sin is huge in the New York music scene as a DJ/ Remixer and a producer, having collaborated with Shep Pettibone, Tony Moran, Jimmy Greco, Peter Zizzo, Tommy Faragher, and Junior Vasquez to name only a few.

DJ Jeffrey Jacobs entertained guests in our exclusive VIP Lounge at The Leather Masked Ball II and will return in 2008 to keep the atmosphere in there just right with his deep European style of House music.

South Florida Bondage Club will once again provide demonstrations and make some equipment and toys available for attendees use.

Last year’s event raised $18,000 for the Stonewall Library and Archive in Fort Lauderdale and the Leather Archive and Museum in Chicago.

We hope to double that this year to underscore the Leather Community’s commitment to the world around us.

This year’s event will benefit

- Tuesday’s Angels to fund the direct assistance they provide to local people living with HIV/AIDS

- The Leather Archive and Museum for the preservation of leather lifestyle history, archives and memorabilia for historical, educational and research purposes.

We invite you to join the excitement by planning to attend on November 28th and becoming one of our sponsors or silent auction donors. Contact Ed Nicholas (Ed@Edesign-USA.com) for Sponsorship opportunity levels.

Bound South is headed by Bill Hoeppner, Mr Ramrod 2006, International Mr. Leather 2007, 2nd Runner Up and a Forbearer Award nominee to the Pantheon of Leather this year along with other Fort Lauderdale business and community leaders.

Bound South was founded by Eric Lawrence and Ira C Smith, also both Forbearer Award nominees for Pantheon of Leatherthis year in recognition of their years of service to the community.

Learn more about Bound South and the people behind the Leather Masked balls at
About Bound South

May 12, 2008 in Sex and Sadomasochism | Permalink | Comments (0)

Strange but true (to those whose vanilla perspective precludes the reality v. the fiction about consensual SM), sometimes male doms are the victims of weird masochistic female predators.

BDSMers occasionally talk about the "dangerous" subs out there -- most especially femsubs who either consent to BDSM only to change their minds later and complain to the police, claiming they were forced into it. This Australian case is a bit different -- a mad, lusty SM teen who apparently tried mind-fucking a dom guy into doing her and then set out to destroy him when he balked at sex because she was underage.

That the idiot agreed to whip her in the first place is inexcusable. But that it ended up in a public trial is sad. FORTUNATELY he was acquitted. I can't help wondering though if he would've been treated nearly as fairly in the U.S. where underage-sex-hysteria and discrimination against BDSMers run rampant.

Man acquitted of sex with underage 'pain junkie'

A South Australian District Court jury took four hours today to find Warwick Acott, 39, of Seaton, not guilty of one count of having unlawful sex with a teenager he met on vampirefreaks.com, and two counts of assaulting her.

The girl said he stalked her for years with sexually violent messages before pushing his way into her house on June 18, 2006 - when she was 16 - biting her breast, whipping her with a cat o' nine tails and forcing her to perform fellatio.

But Mr Acott said the girl pursued him, telling him he was gorgeous and she wanted to be his slave, after finding his photograph on the vampire website.

He said he was flattered and fascinated when she told him she was a "pain junkie" and wanted to be his whore.

He told the jury he'd broken off contact with the girl twice after finding out she had lied about her age.

But he was happy to see her again when she tapped him on the shoulder in a sex shop, and asked him to buy her a whip for her 16th birthday.

He said she invited him home, where he admitted he whipped and bit her - at the girl's request.

But he denied the fellatio occurred, saying he pushed her away when she revealed sex would be unlawful due to her age....

Mr Acott said that, after he unleashed a tirade of abuse at her, she warned him she would make him suffer.

"She looked me dead in the eye said: 'no one f..s me over, you will pay for this'," he told the court.

There's a sentence no consensual sadist ever wants to hear.

What's particularly interesting to me about the story though is that it turns all conventional thinking about male/female, dom/sub, adult/teen on its head. The usual narrative is that an adult dominant male is always in control and should therefore always be held responsible if/when a scene goes bad or toxic. Usually that is how it plays out. But this case reminds me that no sex-role generalization can ever hold true for all people all the time. A determined, hormonally-crazed teenage submissive girl can indeed psychologically overpower an adult male dominant and make him do things he would ordinarily never dream of doing. This case is the proof.

May 12, 2008 in Sex and Sadomasochism, Sex Laws and Crimes | Permalink | Comments (0)

Did you have a good Mother's Day? Are you thinking about the poor people of Myanmar and China? Are you wishing Hillary Clinton would get out of the race already, fer chrissake?

Life has a way of going on even when blogs grow silent. Apologies to hard-core Mind junkies who haven't had your daily fixes in a while. I haven't been up to blogging recently. Still semi-reeling from the events of last month, plus significantly overwhelmed with new, albeit less momentous, ones. You ever have periods where you wait for that other heavy shoe to drop and then a rack of socks collapses on your head? Kinda like that, yeah. Fortunately, all the latest crap can be fixed with money, sweat and time, and lots and lots of over the counter remedies. And possibly some goggles.

When things get real dicey here I go outside and get lost in the garden, which is where I've spent much of my free time the past couple of weeks. My wondrous hubster, Will, has been a lifesaver, doing the work of two men out there, digging, dividing and replanting some monsters that I'd despaired of ever moving. Ah the joys of living with an archaeologist who can meticulously excavate giant root systems without disturbing the things around it. I stand in awe of his artistry with shovels and picks. The results are splendiferous. And despite a bout of food-poisoning, Jen, our gleeful canna-worm-crusher, has been doing her part by marching about, fingers pinched, to murder the pests that would make our leaves curl. Also gathering blossoms to create incredible ikebana arrangements (her March trip to Japan left its aesthetic mark). Everything's looking so healthy, you'd never know the gardeners have been feeling like crap.

We so need to have a massive garden party this year.

Anyway, onward, and with any luck, upward. Will be catching up on some stories and stuff today, plan to get the art show Fridays back in gear, and etc. etc. etc.

May 12, 2008 in Autobiographical Urges | Permalink | Comments (0)

Check out the ultimate in lascivious dining, a collectors' series of fine art plates devoted to the magical, mystical twists and folds of the female hoo-ha.

Shown: The Golden Pussy

from:
The China Vagina Collection from Blighty Creations

May 8, 2008 in Sex and Arts | Permalink | Comments (1)

I blogged about this new indie BDSM film after reading an interview with the director and expressed my doubts about his insights into SM. Recently heard from the lovely Alexism, who actually saw it.

Check out the Mondo Bondo review on Vitamin, which starts off with this hilarious note:

Okay, I saw Mondo Bondo last night. At the risk of sounding like a film critic (which I am most certainly not), I'd like to offer the following personal observations:

- The filmmaker also narrates, and heavily. He sounds exactly like the Geico gecko, so it was difficult to push the image of a little green lizard out of my brain.

From the rest of the review, I gather that the film had trouble maintaining its focus on its subject (bondage) and d tended to veer off-topic in occasionally odd ways. Despite its many flaws, though, it sounds like there are some good bits too. Thanks for the links, Alexism.

May 8, 2008 in Sex and Arts | Permalink | Comments (0)

Found this light-hearted multimedia (NSFW) quiz from lube-makers K-Y which asks "Art you British in bed" and, OMG, turns out, I'm Russian!

"Your lovemaking is revolutionary! It will inspire others to stage their own sexual revolutions for generations to come. You're a Czar in the bedroom. Merely satisfying your partner will never be enough for you...you must conquer them completely!"

I feel so...busted. :)

So what nationality are you? Find out by taking the K-Y quiz: Are you British in bed?

May 8, 2008 in Sexual Humor | Permalink | Comments (5)

This story about killed me.

Philippine cleric objects to gays playing female saints

Philippine churches that allow cross-dressing homosexuals to play female saints in religious festivals are insulting the Virgin Mary and must be punished, the nation's top cleric warned Monday.

Yeah! Make those homosexuals wear leather chaps! What kind of a party is this, anyway?

"We should keep sacred what is sacred," Manila Archbishop Gaudencio Rosales said as he attacked parishes for allowing male homosexuals to play Saint Helena and other female roles traditionally acted out by local beauty queens.

Yes, by all means: Rosales is definitely on solid ground when he insists on upholding the sacred tradition of...of...recruiting beauty queens to play the female roles in Church pageants? WHAT?? Is that how they do it at the Vatican? I don't THINK so.

How long has this sacred tradition existed in Manila anyway -- 40 years? 20? Or perhaps only since that other Manila Bishop was