Gloria's Oversexed Mind

I've been following the strange tale of Max Mosley, the F1 racing boss allegedly caught doing Nazi play in an SM dungeon. The alleged part refers to the Nazi play; Mosley himself has openly admitted he engages in SM. In fact, I blogged a while back about how I admired his courage in choosing to openly admit to being a sadomasochist, not apologizing for it or making the vaguest attempt to deny his proclivities, instead fighting to keep his job (successfully) and suing the paper which published the story.

Mosley is particularly piqued about the claim that Nazi play was involved. Mosley -- the son of a notorious Nazi sympathizer -- clearly has an emotional stake in all this and seems determined to prove several points. First, that the paper had no right to violate his privacy; that their story contained lies; that consensual SM is acceptable; and, perhaps, that as the child of a fascist, he is pretty damn pissed off about being tarred with his father's sins.

Meanwhile, as if all the above wasn't wild enough, the story is filled with more twists than a corkscrew.

For one, turns out, Mosley was set up. For another, he was set up by one of the professional dommes who was there. For yet another, that prodomme happens to be married to a British spy. Leading to a whole LOT gossip about conspiracies and why a spy's wife worked as a dominatrix....leading to statements from the spy about how this scandal has destroyed his career and his life.

The MI5 officer who quit after his wife was exposed as a prostitute in a sadomasochistic orgy with Max Mosley has told for the first time how the affair has ruined their lives.

The spy was forced to resign after confessing he was married to the ‘professional dominatrix’, who secretly videoed the sex session with the F1 motor racing boss and sold details to a newspaper.

The former £30,000-a-year mobile surveillance officer – who tracked terror suspects – said he quit to spare his bosses embarrassment.

He would not discuss how much he knew about his wife’s involvement in setting up the sting against Mosley, or if he played any part.

MI5 officer whose wife was exposed as a prostitute in Max Mosley orgy says the ordeal has devastated their lives

But wait! There's more! It now appears his wife has either gone mad, or was mad in the first place, because she's just been declared too mentally unstable to testify.

The Max Mosley privacy case took a dramatic turn yesterday as the star witness failed to appear.

Woman E, a dominatrix, took part in a sado-masochistic session with the motorsport boss and four other women and secretly filmed it for the News of the World.

But yesterday the paper's QC told the High Court her 'emotional and mental state is such that it would not be fair or reasonable to call her to give evidence'.

Dominatrix who secretly filmed Mosley sex party is declared 'unfit' to face court

July 23, 2008 in Post-Modern Pop Culture, Sex and Culture, Sex and History, Sex and Sadomasochism, Sex Laws and Crimes, Sexual Politics | Permalink | Comments (0)

Perhaps the most ridiculous and too-stupid-to-take-seriously lawsuit everin the news comes from Greece, where three people who live on the island of Lesbos tried to get local courts to make it illegal for lesbians to call themselves lesbians.

Court rules lesbians are not just from Lesbos

A Greek court has dismissed a request by residents of the Aegean island of Lesbos to ban the use of the word lesbian to describe gay women, according to a court ruling made public on Tuesday.

Three residents of Lesbos, the birthplace of the ancient Greek poetess Sappho whose love poems inspired the term lesbian, brought a case last month arguing the use of the term in reference to gay women insulted their identity.

In a July 18 decision, the Athens court said the word did not define the identity of the residents of the island, and so it could be validly used by gay groups in Greece and abroad.

In other world news, three lesbians from the Isle of Man are petitioning the World Court to make it illegal for men to call themselves men.

July 23, 2008 in Sex and Culture, Sex and History, Sex Laws and Crimes, Sexual Politics | Permalink | Comments (0)

OMG. An actual breath of sanity from the federal courts.

(Thanks to nightheron for this)

Court tosses FCC 'wardrobe malfunction' fine

A federal appeals court on Monday threw out a $550,000 indecency fine against CBS Corp. for the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show that ended with Janet Jackson's breast-baring "wardrobe malfunction."

The three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Federal Communications Commission "acted arbitrarily and capriciously" in issuing the fine for the fleeting image of nudity.

July 21, 2008 in Sex and Culture, Sex Laws and Crimes | Permalink | Comments (0)

On the off-chance you haven't yet seen this story (currently running all over the blogosphere....)

from Perez Hilton (who also added the "HO" to her jacket).

Introducing: Slutty Barbie

Looks like the people at Mattel are receiving some major backlash!

The toy makers have created a new Barbie doll which many are describing as the S&M Barbie.

The doll comes with black fishnet stockings, a black leotard, gloves, and boots.

S&M Barbie is being modeled after DC comic superhero Black Canary.

The Black Canary Barbie doll is scheduled to be released in September, but we'll see if that goes as planned.

Some are just outraged like the religious group Christian Voice, which said, “Barbie has always been on the tarty side and this is taking it too far. A children’s doll in sexually suggestive clothing is irresponsible – it’s filth.”

Love that quote from a group on the religious right...particularly in light of the next post I'm going to get up on the blog.

July 20, 2008 in Post-Modern Pop Culture, Sex and Culture, Sex and Sadomasochism, Sexual Politics | Permalink | Comments (5)

According to Snopes, the rumor China is recycling Condom into hair bands is true. Great idea on principle: save the planet and tie up your hair.

However they note that they can't yet determine if another rumor whether or not some of those recycled condoms were USED. Ew. Another reason to buy American.

July 20, 2008 in Post-Modern Pop Culture, Sex and Culture, Sexual Health, Sexual Strangeness | Permalink | Comments (2)

I guess it's understandable that curious fans would google a hunky local celebrity. A little less understandable is the excitement it's created on some blogs. Aside from the tabloid gossip angle -- "woo-hoo, I saw your weenie on the screenie!" -- is there a story here?

from the Dallas Voice:

Something tells me that we haven’t seen the last of Mikey Verdugo or “Mikey V.,” the studly police officer who competed on “Design Star: Nashville.”

Arguably this season’s sexiest contestant, Verdugo stopped many hearts whenever he appeared onscreen. Fans’ searches on the Internet led to an Oct. 18, 2007 BrowardPalmBeach.com article about Verdugo’s phenomenal success as a rookie detective and the difficulties he faced coming out as a gay cop.

But this week, porn bloggers made a positive identification. It looks like Verdugo had another screen credit under his belt — as “Jeremy Wess,” star of “Rope Rituals” and “Classics Vol. 2” ($59.99). Tom “Ropes” McGurk, who’s known as the “king of reality hardcore bondage,” made both videos.

Porn star to Design Star

Being a (former) porn star hardly is in conflict with either becoming a cop or having a talent for design. It's not like he was being a hypocrite, publicly on record for bad-mouthing the things he himself did (cf. Ted Haggard, Mark Foley, Eliot Spitzer, et al) or supporting anti-gay or anti-BDSM policies.

Yet idle gossip about sexual proclivities can and do end careers. This is precisely the reason why a lot of BDSMers stay in the closet: fear that if their sexual identities are revealed, they'll be punished or mocked by the vanilla public. That fear drives a lot of people not just to hide in the closet but to lock and soundproof the door.

July 18, 2008 in Post-Traumatic Tabloid Disorder, Sex and Culture | Permalink | Comments (0)

I had no idea that driving while gay is a crime in Italy.

Fortunately, Italian courts agree that it isn't.

Thanks to Mike for the link to this bizarre story.

Italian wins damages over gay driving test retake

An Italian court has ruled the government must pay 100,000 euros (79,981 pounds) in damages to a man who was told to retake a driving test because he was homosexual.

When 26 year-old Danilo Giuffrida told doctors he was gay at his medical examination for military service, they passed the information to the transport ministry, who told him he must repeat his driving test or have his licence withdrawn due to his "sexual identity disturbance."

Giuffrida agreed to re-take his test, passed it for a second time, but the ministry renewed his licence for just one year rather than the usual 10 years because of his homosexuality.

July 18, 2008 in Sex and Culture, Sex Laws and Crimes | Permalink | Comments (0)

From an interview with British playwright, Simon Stephens, about redefining pornography

We live today in a world where the impersonal practice of sex – formerly an intimate matter – is betrayed by the very commonalities of spoken language. The ‘money shot’ is a phrase used across the culture to describe any climactic moment. Many people profess themselves baffled by the age of the abbreviation and acronym when you mention the G8 and CAP, but all of them smile knowingly at the letters BDSM.

Link

July 17, 2008 in Sex and Culture | Permalink | Comments (0)

I can see the letter of apology now.

"Dear Saratoga Springs,

Sorry I acted like such a dick."

Judge: NY man in offensive costume must apologize

A judge has ordered a 19-year-old man to write an apology to a the city of Saratoga Springs in New York for dressing in an offensive costume at a high school graduation.

Calvin Morett had pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct for dressing in a 6-foot penis costume at the graduation at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. A video of his visit last month has appeared on YouTube.

And here it is:

July 17, 2008 in Sex and Culture, Sex Laws and Crimes | Permalink | Comments (0)

Exhibit at the World Erotic Art Museum

July 14, 2008 in Post-Modern Pop Culture, Sex and Arts, Sex and Culture | Permalink | Comments (1)

Thanks to Mike for sending me this link to an article on erotic furniture in the Spiegel. I'd blogged a couple of pieces by this Dutch furniture artist before, without knowing his name. It's always cool to find out who you've actually been admiring for a while.

Here are three more delicious examples of Mario Philippona's work.

July 11, 2008 in Sex and Arts, Sex and Culture | Permalink | Comments (0)

This one caught my eye, not just because there's a lady dressed in pearls, bikini and heels all tied up on a beach and about to be fucked in the ass by a cartoon character with a ginormous erection, who speaking...um, Latin? (unless it's a pun on the American word boner).

It's that the lady in question is trans. God I love the Internet.

July 11, 2008 in Sex and Culture | Permalink | Comments (0)

My festival of found treats from Flickr continues today, beginning with a link to a 13-photo set of live-action (and occasionally blurry) shots from a Bondage stage show in Chile featuring beautiful performers doing hot wax and flogging scene.

July 11, 2008 in Sex and Culture, Sex and Sadomasochism | Permalink | Comments (0)

July 9, 2008 in Sex and Culture, Sex and History, Sexual Humor | Permalink | Comments (0)

My friend Annie's the main attraction at this fun event. Wish I could be there!

Former porn stars, sex gurus, belly dancers and performers make an appearance at this event, filled with drag and burlesque shows, orgasm workshops, fetishism and more. The festival also includes an erotic arts exhibit at Load Of Fun Studios, running through July.

The main attraction, however, is Annie Sprinkle, a former prostitute and porn star whose experiences led her to become an author, performance artist and an influential member of the sex positive feminist movement of the 1980s. Jacq Jones, owner of Hampden's sex shop Sugar and one of the sponsors of the festival, said she has long been a fan of Sprinkle.

Link: Baltimore Erotic Arts Festival

July 8, 2008 in Sex and Culture | Permalink | Comments (0)

Aha! I knew there had to be at least one economic disaster we can't blame on George Bush.

Husband and wife Francisco and Casilda Figueiredo are among the last exponents of a traditional Portuguese handicraft -- making ornamental ceramic penises.

For more than three decades, the couple have carefully shaped thousands of ceramic male organs, moulding them into upright shapes and painting them in life-like colours for export to Germany, France and North America.

Francisco and Casilda, aged 68 and 65, still toil away in a humble village workshop in the Caldas da Rainha region, about 100 km (60 miles) north of Lisbon, but say the tradition is dying out.

"The days of the ceramics trade here are numbered, I see no possibility of survival," Francisco said as he prepared moulds of the couple's top-of-the-range two-foot phallic-shaped bottles in his workshop.

The couple produce ceramic mugs with a penis sticking out of the bottom or the side, penis-shaped bottles and ceramic soccer figures with the male organ popping out from under a flag.

Story and image: Couple maintain Portugal's ceramic penis tradition

July 5, 2008 in Sex and Culture, Sex and History, Sexual Humor, Sexual Strangeness | Permalink | Comments (0)

(Thanks to Mitch for this.)

There are two absolute truths in this world.

First, every plan that Bush has, backfires. The merde touch.

Second, there is virtually nothing that is bad for the porn industry.

And now, this is what you call synergy:

An unforeseen and surprising beneficiary of the Economic Stimulus Plan, a plan that George Bush contends will "boost our economy and encourage job creation," has surfaced this week. An independent market-research firm, AIMRCo (Adult Internet Market Research Company), has discovered that many websites focused on adult or erotic material have experienced an upswing in sales in the recent weeks since checks have appeared in millions of Americans' mailboxes across the country.

Link: Firedoglake » Stimulus Package, indeed

I guess we shouldn't be surprised....after all....Bush loves TWAT....

July 3, 2008 in Sex and Culture, Sexual Humor | Permalink | Comments (0)

From a feature on canoe.ca about outrageous ads, a handful of interestingly SM-y ones (some of which were pulled in response to complaints).

Popular Science pushing an issue on Egypt, suggests that there's an easier way to learn about the techniques involved in mummification. But the duct tape does have its charms, n'est-ce pas?

This one raised an uproar for being too violent and got pulled. But it certainly makes its point. Killer heels indeed.

And the obligatory rear hog-tie involving....OH NO! Not the Easter Bunny!

June 30, 2008 in Post-Modern Pop Culture, Sex and Culture, Sex and Sadomasochism | Permalink | Comments (1)

So I heard that Heinz created a sexually suggestive ad for their new "Deli Mayo." Ooh. Sexually suggestive. *perk* I thought perhaps the mayo would be spurting or oozing from a frankfurter or something equally gross-yet-funny. But no. Here it is.

And now...Heinz has pulled this cute ad because of 202 complaints from viewers that it is "offensive."

Offensive to whom? Ketchup lovers?

Homophobia is sick--and sickening. As far as I'm concerned, homophobia should be listed in the DSM as a pathology, particularly since it leads to violence.

And 202 is such a tiny number. Can't people who have a clue start organizing to praise corporations which attempt to live in the 21st century by playfully acknowledging diversity?? I'm guessing there have to be many thousands of us who would be willing to write Heinz to support their use of progressive themes to sell products. Why does the nut-wing always win these ridiculous battles. GRRRRR.

June 26, 2008 in Post-Modern Pop Culture, Sex and Culture, Sexual Politics | Permalink | Comments (1)

Only in America.

The $6 million lawsuit filed by the New York City street performer known as The Naked Cowboy against M&Ms candy maker Mars Inc can go forward on grounds of trademark infringement, a judge ruled on Monday.

Robert Burck -- for 10 years a fixture in Times Square, who strums a white guitar while dressed only in white cowboy boots and hat and skimpy white underwear -- filed the suit in February over video billboards depicting a blue M&M dressed in his signature outfit.

U.S. District Court Judge Denny Chin denied a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, ruling that Burck may proceed with his false endorsement claim, "for he plausibly alleges that consumers seeing defendants' advertisements would conclude -- incorrectly -- that he had endorsed M&M candy."

LINK

OK, impromptu poll: who would you rather have melt in your mouth?

June 25, 2008 in Post-Modern Pop Culture, Post-Traumatic Tabloid Disorder, Sex and Culture, Sex Laws and Crimes | Permalink | Comments (3)

I've missed out on the whole Hard Rock Cafe collectible pin thing, and would gladly have continued to miss it, but these kitschy collectibles caught my eye. (Some of these are so desirable, they're selling on eBay for $150. ) Is this what junior's buying while mom and dad are eating burgers in the back?

June 25, 2008 in Post-Modern Pop Culture, Sex and Culture, Sex and Sadomasochism | Permalink | Comments (2)

Presumably no one will making sexist crap like this these days...

From the mid 1980s'

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

They say love conquers all -- I can only hope that one day, all Americans will wake up to embrace the concept and allow all adults to freely choose to marry whomever they damn well please. The story of these two women (now in their 80s) gives me hope.

Lesbian Couple of 55 Years to Marry

Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin fell in love at a time when lesbians risked being arrested, fired from their jobs and sent to electroshock treatment.

On Monday, more than a half-century after they became a couple, Lyon and Martin plan to become one of the first same-sex couples to legally exchange marriage vows in California.

June 16, 2008 in Sex and Culture | Permalink | Comments (0)

Mmm. Now here's a trend I wouldn't mind seeing in the U.S.

Would You Adopt a “Pet Boy”?

If you’re a girl looking for a man who will keep you company anytime you want, go to movies you want to see, shop with you and even take you on a romantic dinner, then you will love the recently popular South Korean trend of adopting a “Pet Boy”....

(Thanks to Tim for sending this!)

June 12, 2008 in Sex and Culture | Permalink | Comments (3)

I was idly surfing eBay on "bondage" and saw there were listings in the health and personal care category. Hmmm....are restraints now being touted as a natural remedy for whatever ails you, I wistfully wondered. No, darn it, it's manufacturers who co-opted the word (and concept) to spice up sales for otherwise normal drug-store beauty goop.

Guess it's not a big leap to use the name "bondage" on hair goop -- I'm assuming this stuff tames your mane

But, despite the cute corset that's clearly going to draw your eye to the product -- what made someone associate bondage with tanning goop? (Or, for that matter, with Pepto Bismal? Euwww.)

Maybe it's all some kind of sarcastic post-modern statement on being a slave to fashion...

June 7, 2008 in Sex and Culture, Sex and Sadomasochism, Sexual Strangeness | Permalink | Comments (0)

Considering how many media outlets already give us fake news, running some fake ads doesn't seem so bad.

Phila. newspapers run ads about fake airline Derrie-Air

Readers of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News opened their papers Friday to see ads for a new airline called Derrie-Air, which purportedly charges passengers by the pound.

But the new carrier will never get off the ground. It's a one-day advertising campaign about a fake airline by Philadelphia Media Holdings, the papers' owner, and Gyro ad agency.

In light blue banners throughout the papers — as well as on their Web site, Philly.com — Derrie-Air cheerily trumpets its policy: The more you weigh, the more you pay. The ads direct readers to the Web site http://www.flyderrie-air.com

Visitors to the airline site learn that Derrie-Air is the world's only carbon-neutral luxury airline, and it justifies its fare policy by saying that it takes more fuel to move heavier objects. The carrier pledges to plant trees to offset every pound of carbon its planes release into the atmosphere.

Derrie-Air's sample rates range from $1.40 per pound to fly from Philadelphia to Chicago to $2.25 per pound to fly from Philadelphia to Los Angeles.

June 6, 2008 in Sex and Culture | Permalink | Comments (0)

There are protests...and then there are protests.

Pretty amazing to think of this merrily chugging along the streets of a city in Finland -- what would happen if she rode it in Cleveland?

via Jezebel

A Finnish artist named Mimosa Pale has created a giant vulva-shaped (and incredibly detailed) pedicab in protest of a world she thinks is too 'man-parts-centric.'
Vagina Power: The Town Bicycle

June 5, 2008 in Sex and Culture | Permalink | Comments (2)

Boxing champ Emile Griffith just published his autobiography, and made this very poignant observation.

via Fanhouse.

"I keep thinking how strange it is ... I kill a man and most people understand and forgive me. However, I love a man, and to so many people this is an unforgivable sin; this makes me an evil person. So, even though I never went to jail, I have been in prison almost all my life."

Boxing Champ Emile Griffith describing his feelings about his 1962 fight with Benny Paret, who taunted him with a homophobic slur at their weigh-in. Griffith viciously pummeled Paret in the ring at Madison Square Garden, and Paret went into a coma after the fight and died 10 days later.

Link:
New Book Explores the Life of Openly Gay Boxing Champ Emile Griffith

June 2, 2008 in Sex and Culture | Permalink | Comments (2)

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

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

BAMUN 'TRIPOD' FIGURE, ca. 1960

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

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)

via AfterElton.Com

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

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)

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 caught molesting his secretary? (And I'm sure many a Catholic breathed a sigh of relief to learn that the secretary was an adult female for a change.)

How about some REAL Catholic traditions? You know, like that one where they castrated young boys so they could sing sweetly to Catholic audiences? Or the one in which women were never permitted to participate directly in sacred acts/rituals or feasts and were routinely supplanted by effeminate young men of ambiguous sexuality? Or even the established tradition of closet cases running things as long as they don't publicly admit they're gay. Oh yeah. Give me some of that (oddly homoerotic) old time religion.

But I guess when you're an Archbishop, you get to invent your own traditions. Besides, it's more politic than admitting you are a homophobe who believes in a hateful God.

May 7, 2008 in Sex and Culture, Sex and Spirituality, Sexual Politics | Permalink | Comments (1)

What is it about Meerschaum pipes that inspire craftsmen to lavish them with explicitly sexual themes?

April 30, 2008 in Sex and Arts, Sex and Culture | Permalink | Comments (0)

Thailand has recently decided to outlaw "cosmetic castration" (meaning elective castration), making it more difficult for ladyboys to transition.

story link

Thailand's health chiefs barred hospitals and clinics from castrating would-be "ladyboys" amid growing concern about the operation being seen as a cheap and quick alternative to a full sex-change.

In a letter to 16,000 private health units, the Public Health Ministry said doctors performing the operation outside formal sex-change therapy -- which requires rigorous physical and mental evaluation of the patient -- faced up to six months in jail....

Thailand is home to a large number of "ladyboys," or "katoey" in Thai, a term that covers anything from a transvestite to a man who has undergone a full sex change.

The tolerance shown towards the "third sex," as it is often referred to, has led to the country becoming a world leader in sex-change surgery.

However, at the lower end of the market, clinics have responded to demand from teenage boys to look more like girls by posting Internet advertisements offering castration for as little as 4,000 baht ($125).

Not sure what to think about this. On one hand, I don't see why -- in a world where people are getting bizarre cosmetic surgeries of every possible kind without governments seeming to care -- the Thai would suddenly target castration. Surgically speaking, it's far less risky than a boob job or face-lift.

On the other hand, I share their concern about teenagers getting the surgery and thus making a decision in adolescence that they might profoundly regret later in life. But then couldn't they just set an age limit on this and not target the surgery itself?

It has been a standard of professional care that a transitioning TS has to go through a 1-2 year long process of counseling and "real life experience" (in the sex one is transitioning to) before a complete surgical sex change is okayed by medical authorities. I'm not sure, however, whether this necessarily means we should institute laws to govern this.

I suppose a therapist shouldn't throw this out there, but then, I'm not your typical therapist. So here's my question: should adults have a right to fuck up their lives or is it up to the government to see that we don't?

April 24, 2008 in Sex and Culture, Sexual Health, Sexual Politics | Permalink | Comments (0)

Thanks to Mike for finding this surrealistically strange, award-winning ad for "Marathon Endurance" condoms. Give this artist all due props -- and another well deserved dose of shrooms.

link

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

Several people have emailed me (thanks guys) about this year's weirdest dead celebrity story, asking my opinion about the news that a secret sex tape showing Marilyn Monroe sucking someone off was sold to a private businessman for $1.5 million by the son of an FBI insider who claims it came from Hoover's (no-doubt plentiful) stash of illegal tapes.

Here's my opinion: a curse on Hoover. I only wish he (and Roy Cohn, too, by the way) had been completely outed in their lifetimes so the American public would have understood the depth of their hypocrisy and sociopathy then, when these men could have been stopped.

As for poor poor Marilyn, who once said of herself, "Big tits, big ass, big deal," and who was profoundly conflicted about her role as America's sex kitten, I feel tremendous pity that she continues to be so widely exploited by exactly the kind of people she feared and mistrusted in the first place. It disgusts me that somone earned $1.5 million off a tape that should never have been made in the first place. If he had any decency he would have destroyed it, not sold it. It saddens me that there was a bidding war for this ugly and completely non-consensual leer into her private life and that its sale gave the American public another opportunity to bask in the sunlight that apparently still shines for them out of poor Miss Monroe's long-decayed vagina. It is reassuring to know the businessman doesn't plan to sell copies on the Internet -- but neither is he destroying it. Which adds its own level of creepiness to the tale: what DOES he plan to do with it? Jerk off while watching it? Get a thrill of power from knowing HE has a piece of Marilyn's sexuality that no one else possesses? Creepy, creepy, creepy. Leave the poor woman alone already. There should be a statue of limitations on how long any one actress is supposed to fuel male masturbatory fantasies: she's been dead 50 years. This is some kind of a crazy necrophiliac obsession I simply do not get. Vanilla people can be sooo sick. Thank God I'm a wholesome sadomasochist. Consent and the right to privacy matter to me.

April 16, 2008 in Sex and Culture | Permalink | Comments (0)

Interesting review of what, at first, sounded like a great indie film.

Minnesota filmmakers at the festival

Ropes, cuffs, nipple clamps, and all the miscellaneous tackle of America's most persistent sexual taboos (custard pies included) are the underdog protagonists of Mondo Bondo, Cane-Honeysett's immensely entertaining documentary about American bondage and its participants. Though bondage may not be the fearsome menace it was in the xenophobic days of American sexual antiquity, it is still a hush-hush underworld that is grievously misrepresented in popular culture as a subversive and often violent perversion.

....Mondo Bondo is an odyssey of breezy, winking confrontation, one that uses its humor and wit to knock the wind out of the prejudicial bluster of an American sexual mainstream and bring into restorative sunlight an artful practice that is as much about aesthetic as it is about sex.

So far so good....but then came this quote from the director:

"My film is about the B and D, not the S and M," he points out, referring to the acronym BDSM, which stands for bondage, domination, sadism, and masochism. "They are extraordinarily different. The B and D that I saw is an art form. When you see the rope work involved, it's exquisite. It's absolutely beautiful. But I also saw a guy get strung up and have his back slashed up with razorblades. Covered in blood. To me, that wasn't artful. It was blatant exhibitionism. I couldn't grasp it psychologically."

First, a correction: BDSM stands for Bondage and Discipline, Dominance and Submission, and Sadomasochism. BD+DS+SM=BDSM.

Next, I wish people would learn to distinguish between their own personal takes on BDSM and reality. Just because he saw something he considered art doesn't make it art, any more than his inability to identify with an extreme masochist makes the masochist "a blatant exhibitionist." Huh? Is that a fancy-schmancy way of saying the hardcore masochist is fucked up? What if the bondage fans were role-playing for the camera while the slasher was experiencing a private ecstasy and bliss few can imagine? I think if you're making a documentary, that's the question you want answered -- what's real here? -- unless, of course, the whole film is a vanity enterprise about the things that personally turn you on. (coughing politely)

B&D and S&M are NOT "extraordinarily different." They are not, in fact, different at all. Research the history of the terms and you will find that, not so terribly long ago, they were completely interchangeable. D&S, B&D, S&M -- those of us doing this stuff in the 80s and earlier never considered that someone who was doing B&D was different from those doing S&M. It was just a matter of what term you used to describe the same things. Most people picked up B&D, in fact, from the magazines and other publications of the (pre-Internet) day. Back then, S&M had such nasty connotations (serial killers, violent criminals) that lots of perverts favored a "softer" term to distinguish consensual kink from criminal behaviors.

If you look back at the SM rags of the 70s and 80s you'll see most magazines referred to B&D on their covers while, inside, their pages depicted hardcore sadomasochism. All this "light domination" and "sensual domination" stuff has been a post-modern (post 90s) scene. In the 60s, 70s, and 80s, you were either serious about kink or you were not taken seriously. That may seem harsh today but that's just the way it was back then, when the "discipline" part of B&D meant a helluva lot more than a light spanking.

In the 80s, some SM activists - most notably, Pat (now Patrick) Califia in Coming to Power - came along and said, HEY, instead of wimping out and using "softer" words to describe what we do, how about reclaiming the term for ourselves and not allowing other people to define what sadomasochism is or should be? Califia's discussion of reclaiming and liberating sadomasochism from the linguistic death grip of prudes and psychiatrists inspired me to forever after call myself a sadomasochist, and do so with pride. I am what I am, I am not afraid of it, and I don't care what other people who don't get it think that being a sadomasochist means. As the great Reggae song says, "who feels it knows it."

And then...and then...something happened on the Internet, when UseNet's alt.sex.bondage appeared, creating a safe space for a small serious group of people to network about SM. This founding group first came up with BDSM as a way to unite kinksters under one basic, community-loving kinky umbrella. Before too long, this community outgrew its own capability to keep the BS down. It soon became the repository for every clueless yet highly opinionated self-styled kink-expert to opine and, more often than not, bully other people. It was not a bad place if you had much too much time on your hands, and not enough real-life friends to occupy you, giving you the leisure and Asperger-like obsessiveness to analyze, parse, redefine, and essentially recreate reality according to your own narrow neurotic view (the same view that gave you all that leisure time in the first place). Ah Usenet, home to alt.sex.bondage and alt.torture and alt.too.much.time.on.my.lonely.hands.

Oh, it had its moments. WIITWD was ok. WTF. Like BDSM, it was another umbrella term for everyone from latex nun fetishists to adults in diapers to the sadists who beat their slaves (*taking a small bow at this juncture*). Yeah. What it is that we do was all good.

But then things took a terrible detour when the term BDSM, designed to bring us together, was torn asunder. Broken up into its components, it was now redefined into three unique kinky camps. The very thing activists were trying to eradicate (the notion that one type of kink play is somehow superior to another) became the holy grail, implying that one type of relationship was somehow better or (even worse) more authentic than another. Instead of a big community of people who used to use the terms interchangeably, we now saw people draw lines between camps. It's opened the door to all kinds of self-hating behaviors within the scene, including people on one end of the spectrum sneering at "the slap and tickle set" and those on the other end feeling appalled and embarrassed by "the master/slave set."

As I see it, every time we break BDSM up and try to look at kink as separate -- and not necessarily equal -- behaviors all we've done is to assimilate and promulgate the same prejudices the straight world has against us. Is it really better to bind than to cane? When you go into a straight courtroom filled with straight people do you think they will give you a break because you claim you do B&D and not S&M?

BDSM is a political term. It's rhetorical, not specific: it's a way of unifying a diverse population. It's a way for all kinky people to accept that whatever our differences in types and expression of kinky sex, we can and should work towards common goals because we face common struggles.

This director's uninformed assertion makes him look like a poseur, and makes me wonder how honest the film can be. I'll definitely see it if I get the chance. But now mainly to find out if the film itself is filled with similarly erroneous assumptions about BDSM.

April 16, 2008 in Sex and Culture | Permalink | Comments (4)

Sweet twist on a universal theme. Also, another example of how the human mind can find virtually everything, including common objects, sexually suggestive and exploit that suggestiveness to create erotic art. According to the eBay antiquities dealer who's selling this (for a mere $865), one side is male and the other side is female. So I guess the corkscrew simultaneously reams them both in the ass. (Is there an Internet nomenclature for this perversion yet?) Also note the sock-garters, which means this piece probably dates back to the late 19th/early 20th century. And pardon me for noticing but check out the balls on this mini. Not bad for half a man, eh?

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

Interesting concept: some Danes who feel stronger community with their chosen (gay) families than their biological families are now hoping to be buried in a specially-designated gay section of a Danish cemetery.

Gays in Denmark get own cemetery space

Homosexuals have been designated an area in a Copenhagen cemetery for those who want to be buried among people who shared their sexual orientation, one of the project initiators said on Tuesday.

So if you could, would you want to be buried in a sadomasochistic (or leather) graveyard?

April 9, 2008 in Sex and Culture, Sex and History, Sex and Spirituality | Permalink | Comments (0)

A few smoking-related things that intrigued me.

First, a rather interesting leather cigar case. Who says tobacco, water sports and misogyny don't mix? The second image is the reveal.

And speaking of strange pairings, cigarettes and, um, gynecology come together in this cigarette case.

Now this I understand: lingerie and smoking. A combination I've often enjoyed. Good shoes too! ;)

April 8, 2008 in Sex and Arts, Sex and Culture, Sex and Sadomasochism | Permalink | Comments (1)

The Museum of Sex in NYC recently launched a fun show devoted to their pick of fanciful sex toys. Click below to see a slide show.

Designed for Sex: The World's Most Elaborate Sex Toys

The Museum of Sex recently launched a new exhibition of the best and most elaborately designed sex toys, which should inspire you to be more discerning at your local erotic boutique (or else make you wonder who in their right mind would really buy a chain-mail condom).

You can also check out the site by the designer of the lap-juicer

(Gives all-new meaning to the expression "pussy juice"....)

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

Or, as I like to think of them, Knickers against Guantanamo.

Being auctioned on eBay right now....

Limited Edition Agent Provocateur Knickers for Reprieve

as Featured in Vivienne Westwood's London Fashion Week Show

Legal Action charity Reprieve and Agent Provocateur recently unveiled a new line of Guantánamo-orange underpants emblazoned with the slogan: Fair Trial My Arse. All proceeds from this ebay auction go to Reprieve, the UK charity that uses the law to enforce the human rights of prisoners held in the “war on terror.”

March 27, 2008 in Sex and Culture | Permalink | Comments (0)

What every girl needs: a whip with a crystal-encrusted handle.

Lingerie by Agent Provocateur - Whip

March 27, 2008 in Sex and Culture | Permalink | Comments (0)

One of the great things about living with an archaeologist (now former but still a walking encyclopedia of anthropology) is that he can always add some bizarre cultural information to the mix when we're discussing politics or history. Can't remember the original subject the other night but he mentioned the Sambia tribe of New Guinea and its masculinization rituals. The details were so mind-boggling, Jen and I immediately starting googling.

In brief, the Sambia believed that semen is a limited resource that must be shared among men. Initiation into manhood means that young boys must live as homosexuals throughout puberty and adolescence to build up their supply of semen.

There are plenty of links out there but I picked a page from an academic site. Excerpts below.

Intro to Cultural Anthropology: The Sambia

At the age of 7 to 10, Sambia boys are taken away from their mothers (girls continue to live at home);

* Boys are taken to a men's house in the village, where they will live for the next ten or so years of their lives.
o In their first three or four years in this house, mature men start teaching them men's ritual secrets, threatening them with death if they tell these secrets to women......

What is this key act by which their maturation is insured?

o Regular fellatio ‚ putting the penis of another male in their mouth ‚ regular fellatio of an older youth, physically and sexually mature, aged roughly 14-18 [we'll come to their point of view when we get to later stages of this] ‚

o the younger boys are taught to fellate the older teenagers, and -- all important, to bring them to orgasm and to ingest (swallow) the semen or sexual fluid the older boys' penises produce.

For this is the whole point of Sambian initiation ‚ or one of its main points ‚ to build up the poor little dry baby tingus of the young boys by feeding them the semen of older, stronger, late-teenage young men.

March 22, 2008 in Sex and Culture | Permalink | Comments (2)

via Creative Loafing

Link: Atlanta tornado scored direct hit on at least one bedside drawer

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

Daddies certainly still give little girls horse-back rides (at least I hope they do!), but somehow I don't think too many of them are ready to stick flowers in their hair and wear a bit to entertain their young daughters. At least I hope they don't. Save that stuff for your dominatrix, boys!

March 20, 2008 in Sex and Culture | Permalink | Comments (1)

Mainstream media's trying ever so hard to milk the Spitzer scandal for all it's worth, which naturally means exploiting the good-looking sex-worker in the mix. First it was interviews with her mother, then it was the endless drone of her mediocre music, then it was her deal to make money off the former Governor's shame by posing naked in a video and today it's the story of said deal falling to pieces because she's appeared nude on video before. I'm sure you're as shocked as I am to discover that a woman who's been a sex-worker for four years has naked images of herself floating around.

Wow. Who'd'a thunk it? Alert the media! Oh, wait, someone already did.

Spitzer call girl loses $1 mln offer over videos

"Girls Gone Wild" had offered to pay Dupre $1 million to pose nude in a magazine it plans to launch but, after discovering the old footage, the company withdrew its offer.

Personally, I don't care if Ms. Dupre makes money. Good for her if she can cut a multi-million dollar deal before the public's attention drifts back to Britney's latest psychotic break. May she enroll in the Joey Buttafuoco/John Bobbet School of Media Exploitation and prosper.

Meanwhile, though no one's discussing it, prostitution is still illegal in this country. Which means that sooner or later, Ms. Dupre is going to be arrested. Perhaps her lawyer's already cut a deal for her cooperation but the real future for Ms. Dupre is lots of legal bills and time spent talking to lawyers and judges. It will be most interesting to see just what the Feds really do with the information, and who - if any - of the clients, owners, and call-girls, will end up in jail. To me, these are the only interesting questions in this scandal. Will the Feds enforce existing sex laws and, if so, to what degree and against whom? Will all the call-girls and all the clients come up on charges along with the owners and operators of the business? Are plea-deals already in the making? And by the way, what were the Feds REALLY looking for when they wired Spitzer up tighter than a tweaker's nut sac?

I'm not hearing those questions. Instead I'm getting tabloid-style fake dribble. PR spins. Prurient interest disguised as news. The transmutation of a whore from one man's dirty secret to a nation's public sex kitten.

A few short weeks ago, she was just another young woman who worked in the sex industry. Hard-working and ambitious, with dreams of moving on some day to more spiritually meaningful pursuits. In other words, pretty much your typical call-girl/stripper/happy-ender. In my experience, sex-workers tend to be pretty nice people. Also IMX, their biggest problem is not they have sex for money but that they are so desperately misunderstood, mistreated and maligned by the general public. The stress of operating a sex business in a society which both rewards you for it financially, while punishing and insulting you publicly, is killing.

Consider this irony: as a sex-worker, you don't just hear about vigilant anti-sex prosecutors and family-values-touting pastors -- you suck their cocks.

It would be refreshing to see media use this opportunity to re-examine our country's ludicrous heritage of draconian sex laws. It would be fascinating to learn what political hijinks caused NY's governor to be wired, or to speculate on the legal repercussions. It would be nice, also, to see someone, somewhere, treat sex-workers as the socially oppressed minority they are, and to change public perception of their work to something considerably more humane and forgiving.

It's really hard to be a sex-worker. It's stressful, difficult work and the most stressful thing about it is the social hypocrisy that surrounds it. I hope Ms. Dupre can emotionally insulate herself before this collective media gang-bang unravels her young life.

March 19, 2008 in Sex and Culture | Permalink | Comments (2)

A study was splashed all over the media a few weeks ago, claiming that spanking could lead to sexual problems in later life, and lots of you emailed me links (thanks!), hoping I'd blog about it. Frankly, I found the study's conclusions (or at least those reported in media) so fallacious that I wasn't even sure what to say. It felt like I'd be stooping even to raise such preposterous notions to the level of serious debate.

I've decided to come at it another way by pondering a larger problem: the way sex-related science is reported in the press and how sex-related issues are sensationalized and misrepresented. I've blogged a bunch about how the U.S. government, for example, is pimping circumcision in Africa as a great way to reduce AIDS (when the only great way is to use condoms). Any time there is any kind of seemingly pro-circumcision study done anywhere, you will notice that -- surprise, surprise -- it's all over AP and Reuters. You will also note that less popular studies don't get reported -- at least not until there is something in the details that makes a sexy story. For example, the CDC has issued reports for over four years now about how STDs are at epidemic levels and rising at an alarming rate among teens: but it's only been in the last week or two that the "news" made headlines, to wit, "one in four teen girls has an STD."

I doubt there was a sex researcher anywhere in the world who was surprised by that headline. Because it wasn't news, really. The CDC just found a new angle on the epidemic-in-progress that suddenly made it sexy to reporters. Infected teen age girls. Cha-ching! That means at least one in four teen girls is sexually active! Cha-ching, cha-ching. That's right, parents. Your daughters are whores. JACKPOT! One wonders if CNN has produced graphics yet for a special about the heavy price of teenage lust, in preparation for another scintillating spectacle of sexual hysteria brought to you by American media whores.

Anyway, the funny thing - as in tragically funny - is that you can't even hold the researchers responsible for the "conclusions" they allegedly came to because half the time, those weren't the conclusions they came to at all. Often, their conclusions were more complex and intricate, their research goals more subtle and high-minded. But because there is a wild and woolly game of "telephone" that gets played as news of studies filters through media portals, the story gets dumbed down until it reaches some state of perfect simplicity that even a child could understand.

Before scientific conclusions reach public consciousness, you have (a) the people who speak for scientists (usually bosses or bureaucrats) and (b) the people who take scientific results and translate them (i.e., science reporters and sometimes reporters who know nothing about science but got stuck with the assignment) to laymen (i.e., news-gobblers with the attention spans of fleas).

It's part of a reporter's job to explain complicated ideas in a few short, dramatic paragraphs that will grip the reader's attention. Whereas the process of discovering scientific evidence is long and difficult, and builds in small, slow steps and relies on other studies and is, well, fundamentally boring to people who aren't scientists. So time and again, large-scale and complex studies end up being a handful of distorted sound-bytes. Black and white answers make for compelling reading, while scientific accuracy gets left behind in the lab.

Now sometimes, you can rely on the news about studies. You can usually rely on it, for example, if it is published in JAMA or Lancet, or other scientific journals with qualified review committees. Still, I say usually because even in the loftiest of publications, politics and corporate influences often play a role in what gets published and how things are edited.

So I'm going to try and be charitable to all the scientists who undoubtedly worked hard on their studies and assume that they view their results with a good deal more ambiguity and subtlety than the media reports suggest. Because if I believed the media reports and actually thought that these people had set out to prove these conclusions I'd regrettably have to see them all as fuckwits and that would make me sad.

Here are three studies that hit the headlines in the last couple of weeks, with some dyspeptic observations on the conclusions. I'll start with the one on spanking.

Study: Spanking may lead to sexual problems later

Gershoff says that though many children have been spanked (85% in one 2007 survey), problems may depend on how they process the spanking.

Wow. Really? Violence against children could make them unhappy or wounded adults? No shit! Do you suppose the tongue-lashing, verbal abuse, accusations, intimidation, face-slaps, and lock-downs had any effect on them too? Or was it JUST spankings?

The study's reported conclusions are ridiculous because they singled out only one behavior - whereas development (sexual and otherwise) is always a result of complex forces, including genetic predisposition, social influences and family values/attitudes. To isolate one behavior out of a vast universe of variables is not just ignorant, it reeks of pre-existing bias.

Can spanking fuck some kids up? Sure. So can toilet training. So too can hearing your clergyman tell you that you'll go to hell if you masturbate. Why don't they study the effects of authoritarian figures telling kids that sex is bad? As a therapist, I see a lot more sexual dysfunction resulting from religious dogma than from ass-whuppings.

This next story is so stupid I couldn't even bear to clip from it.

Doing dull chores could improve sex life, US experts say.

Oh dear God. A story which claims that the more husbands vacuum and dust, the more they get laid. Isn't it ridiculously obvious that they've missed the forest for the trees on this one? Is it really housework that turns women on? Or could it just be that it has something to do with the fact that the guy gives a shit?

What makes women inclined to have sex with their partners is pretty simple: love and happiness. When a man makes you happy, you're happy to throw him a fuck. Am I right, women? No one wants to fuck a guy who makes her feel like crap. Not even a self-respecting masochist wants that. But it's easy to be generous with someone who treats you right.

Men who pay attention to their wives' needs, who work at her side or relieve her tedium, are the men who demonstrate through DEED and not bullshit that they actually love, honor and respect her. IOW, it isn't because the guy is doing a chore: it's because the guy cares enough to want to do it. And to do it for HER.

But, I guess a headline screaming "Caring, Loving Men get laid more often" wouldn't cut it.

And, finally, my favorite stupid study, for personal reasons.

(Disclaimer: I am of the little people.)

Short people are most prone to jealousy, say scientists

.... The more vertically challenged the man, the greater his feelings of jealousy.

You mean short guys feel insecure about their height! I guess late is better than never when it comes to proving the existence of a Napoleanic Complex.

Meanwhile, how is this different from saying "people who feel out of the norm feel threatened by people who fit the norm?" And what other physical variables were factored into this study? For example, what if you're a short guy but you're gorgeous. Are you insecure standing next to tall horse-faced goofy-looking motherfucker, or do you secretly count your blessings? Or what if you're a short guy but you have a 10 inch dick. Would you be more intimidated or less intimidated by a tall guy with a 5 incher?

The article goes on to say how tall woman are more dominant and better fighters than short ones.

All I can say is that whomever wrote that obviously never met up with a short girl from Brooklyn.

March 18, 2008 in Sex and Culture | Permalink | Comments (3)

Interesting (and, I think, very smart) speculation from WaPo about why men like Spitzer will pay redonkulous rates for a call-girl:

Harold Meyerson - What $5,500 an Hour Buys

Of all the details in the transcript of the back-and-forth between Spitzer and the Emperors Club's traffic manager, the one I find most mind-boggling is when Spitzer, just before he hooks up with his hooker, asks to be reminded of what the lady looks like.

He's paying $4,300 for this experience and he needs a refresher on her looks? Four grand and change and he can't remember whether he booked tall or short, blond or brunette? We're not talking obsession here. We're talking positional goods.

Positional goods are those commodities that are more valuable than their run-of-the-mill counterparts because a special status attaches to them, since only a select few can have them. Since the Web sites on which prostitutes advertise indicate that the average hourly rate is around $300, the Emperors Club maximum rate, which is roughly 18 times higher, could be justified by the particular appeals and skills of its hookers. I haven't conducted empirical research on this one, but let me just say: I doubt it.

I suspect that what makes a prostitute worth $5,500 an hour is that she costs $5,500 an hour. The value here doesn't dictate the price. The price, rather, dictates the value. These women are available only to the wealthy; the ability to hire them, like the ability to live on Fifth Avenue overlooking Central Park, means that you've made it. And even if your hour turns out to be a bit disappointing, that's okay, because $5,500 doesn't really mean anything to you -- which just means you've really made it.

And there, I suppose, is the thrill. The power of being able to command the world's priciest hooker, like the power of owning the world's priciest real estate, could be a turn-on in itself. The power of dropping thousands and not even remembering what type of woman you've booked: Boy, are you ever something! Whether or not you're getting one terrific woman, the transaction alone confirms that you're one terrific dude.

March 12, 2008 in Sex and Culture | Permalink | Comments (2)

We're such a classy culture, aren't we?

"Client 9" T-shirts hit the Web

The New York Times says it's the code name for New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer in court papers that link him to a prostitution ring, but now anyone can be "Client 9" with T-shirts available online just a day after the scandal broke.

From simply "Client 9" with a large lipstick smooch over the top to "Just Call Me CLIENT 9," designers on Web sites like www.cafepress.com and www.zazzle.com are cashing in on reports that Spitzer had hired a high-priced prostitute.

"Look like a governor in this stylish CLIENT 9 design," one designer advertises

March 11, 2008 in Sex and Culture | Permalink | Comments (0)

Obviously there is a market for everything - including women who want to wear the same dress to church and to swing clubs. Handy!

The Winkee | The Ultimate Solution For Plunging Necklines!

March 9, 2008 in Sex and Culture | Permalink | Comments (3)

Another great B-movie find.

Just one question. If they're sisters in leather, why are they wearing bathing suits?

March 6, 2008 in Sex and Culture | Permalink | Comments (0)

For you hardcore sadists.... A Japanese movie that was marketed in Germany (poster and still below). The entry for Tokugawa on IMDB says it was released in the 1968 (!), under different names. In English, as "The Joy of Torture." Lots of B-movie sites have commentary (along with academic sites talking about the real and historical Tokugawa.) Apparently a vivid and vicious depiction of female life in a Tokugawa Shogunate (before modern Japan). Anyone ever come across this before? Seems to be one of a number of Japanese sexploitation films about this shogunate's treatment of women.

March 5, 2008 in Sex and Culture | Permalink |