Inside Gloria's Mind

Pat Robertson on cheating in marriage

the world according to Pat Robertson: men were born to cheat and women were born to be submissive.  (isn't it a pity that people don't have to know what they're talking about to talk about it to other people who don't know?)

Televangelist Claims It's The Wife's Job To Keep Men Faithful

www.huffingtonpost.com

Pat Robertson has many opinions on subjects including homosexuality, politics and the coming of the Mark of the Beast, but it was the famous televangelist's opinion on marriage that took center stage during Wednesday's episode of his daily television program, "The 700 Club."

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Why a Nice Jewish Girl Like Me Is Totally Cool with Being a Sadomasochist

Because I read this poem in my youth, and agreed completely. Like so many of the themes in CP Cavafy's poems, the message that it is a poet's duty never to fear the realities of sex became a guidestone for my intellectual life.

 

 

 

And I Lounged and Lay on Their Beds

When I went to that house of pleasure
I didn't stay in the front rooms where they celebrate,
with some decorum, the accepted modes of love.

I went into the secret rooms
and lounged and lay on their beds.

I went into the secret rooms
considered shameful even to name.
But not shameful to me -because if they were,
what kind of poet, what kind of artist would I be?
I'd rather be an ascetic. That would be more in keeping,
much more in keeping with my poetry,
than for me to find pleasure in the commonplace rooms.

Constantine P. Cavafy

 

via cavafis.compupress.gr

 

A Shout-Out To Our Sex-Positive Friends at the Vatican

Yeah, baby, that's what I want to see -- Catholic priests jerking off instead of molesting people or dying young.   For this, they should be forgiven and embraced, not ridiculed or isolated.

So from me to you, welcome to our world, where sex is beautiful, people are friendly, and life is made to be lived to the fullest. Hope more clergy follow your lead so that one day everyone understands more about the importance of sex -- even for priests.

 

Someone in Vatican City had better get to confession.

Torrent Freak has unearthed the download history from an IP address in the Pope's place of residence and some of the movies are of the porn persuasion.

For a full list of the dirty downloads, go to Torrent Freak.

Rev. Debra Haffner of the Religious Institute told The Huffington Post she's "not surprised" at the Vatican City findings...[and] pointed to the Religious Institute's survey which found that "one in five clergy reported intentionally visiting a sexually explicit website in the past six months."

The 2012 study also found that "an additional 16 percent replied that they preferred not to answer the question about their personal use of these sites."

via Porn Downloaded From IP Address In Vatican City

The Vatican Drag and Rag

 

 

And if you'd like a little music to accompany the image, let Tom Lehrer sing you a song.

 

Beauty that is Big, Ripe, Vivid, of the Spirit and of the Flesh

One of the more accomplished performers I found.  More like a pagan spirit dance than striptease.  Beautiful.

 

via www.youtube.com

The Death Spooge of Uranus

Go on-- say it three times fast.  

As I wind down on volume 2 of "The Truth About Sex" trilogy, I'll be coughing up random bits of the research that's wandered through my consciousness these last 4-5 years of planning the books.

For volume 1, Sex and the Self,  I turned up some wonderful creation myths.  This one didn't make it into the book (I went with a kinder, gentler ejaculating  god whose semen spurts created rivers) .   Still,  I thought you just might want to have the "spooge of Uranus" in your lexicon.   I believe "foam" is their euphemism for big creamy gushes of cum.  ;)

 

via Cosmogonies@ancienthistory.about.com

The next time Uranus came to make love to Gaia, which he did by stretching out all over the Earth, Cronus sprang up from his hiding place, brandished his sickle, and attacked and castrated father Uranus. Additional offspring sprang from the spilled blood and organ of Uranus: Giants, Erinyes (Furies), Meliae -- and most spectacularly, Aphrodite, who was born from the foam.

 

Annie Sprinkle: Post-Porn Modernist, Love Artist, Ecosexual,

I'll be exploring each of these, plus Annie's concept of metamorphosexuality, in depth on tonight's show but if you'd like to do some reading up, here are links (and excerpts) from Annie's current sex art projects.

Annie Sprinkle, Post-Porn Modernist

"We embrace our genitals as part, not separate from our spirits. We utilize sexually explicit words, pictures, performances to communicate our ideas and emotions.  We denounce sexual censorship as anti-art and inhuman.  We empower ourselves by this attitude of sex-positivism.  And with this love of our sexual selves we have fun, heal the world and endure."

from the Post-Porn Modernist Manifesto, written by Veronica Vera, performed by Annie Sprinkle

 

Love Art Laboratory

"We, Elizabeth M. Stephens and Annie M. Sprinkle, are an artist couple committed to doing projects that explore, generate, and celebrate love. We utilize visual art, installation, theater pieces, interventions, live-art, exhibitions, lectures, printed matter and activism. Each year we orchestrate one or more interactive performance art weddings in collaboration with various national and international communities, then display the ephemera in art galleries. Our projects incorporate the colors and themes of the chakras, a structure inspired by Linda M. Montano’s 14 Years of Living Art. The Love Art Laboratory grew out of our response to the violence of war, the anti-gay marriage movement, and our prevailing culture of greed. Our projects are symbolic gestures intended to help make the world a more tolerant, sustainable, and peaceful place. This site is the Love Art Lab’s virtual home where we share our progress, documentation and findings. We are ecosexuals who have vowed to love, honor, and cherish the Earth, Sky and Sea until death brings us closer together forever."  -- Love Art Laboratory

Ecosexuality

"The Earth is our lover. We are madly, passionately, and fiercely in love, and we are grateful for this relationship each and every day. In order to create a more mutual and sustainable relationship with the Earth, we collaborate with nature. We treat the Earth with kindness, respect and affection." -- Ecosexuality

you seek the light of desire

Does anti-choice = anti-Bible? (abortion politics)

Nowadays, you can't swing an IUD around without it smacking a pro-life evangelical Christian right in the bloody fetus protest sign. But did you know that all of these eternal Biblical truths religious conservatives trot out in making their argument that life begins at conception are actually at odds with much more reasonable, pro choice stuff in the Bible? And did you know that until until about 30 years ago, many prominent American evangelicals believed that life didn't begin until birth?

 

via Conservative Christians Conveniently Ignore All the Pro-Choice Passages in the Bible/Jezebel.com

 

Let's Dance like Buddhists

Entertainers dance in front of statues of Chuchok, a greedy Brahmin who died in a story from the Buddhist Vessantara Jataka from gluttony due to his new found wealth, at Baan Chuchok in Bangkok August... more  via news.yahoo.com

Fornicating Fundies (vintage tabloid)

I want you to look through a sharper lens

when you think about the world of sex.

 

photographer, Bettina Rheims via squarewhiteworld.com

Do you like to look at sex? I know I do

Just saw this and thinking right now that if Romney wins in November,  my sexually free blog -- and possibly yours, if you run any kind of sexual content -- will be toast.  

Mitt Romney has a bit of a disclosure problem. While he refuses to release his tax returns, the Republican nominee has been privately promising right wing culture warriors he will crack down on pornography.

via www.politicususa.com

 

I have no illusions about how truly mentally screwed up most vehemently anti-sex people really are, nor that repressed people invariably fear candid sexual discussion and openly erotic imagery.   They may say, and even believe, it's all about their religious or moral beliefs, but take it from a sex therapist,  it isn't. It is really all about their own internal conflicts with sex and sexual identity.  

In my observation, when adults  persecute and censor sexually progressive or free people,  you can almost count on it that they, on the inside, are a complete mess about sex.   I worry about that mess.  It a mess filled with rage, frustration, self-loathing, self-pity and more of humanity's least attractive traits.  It also has a way of spilling into hatred and violence against those of us who love sex.

 

Daisy Chain of Oral Sex: 1950s foursome

Nothing makes me happier than to use the blog to show that sex has always been a matter of pleasure for adults, and that all the variations we explore today have been explored before. Yes, boys and girls, think of yourselves as part of the Great Daisy Chain of Sexual Love, as eternal as love itself

 

When in doubt, meditate on Nature

The garden is a sea of sex and other rambling thoughts

The garden is a sea of sex.   I am at home in the garden because, concealed within its infinity of microcosmic worlds, everything is sexual.

I was explaining to Will the other night my view of showy flowers.  Showy flowers are the strumpets of the garden. They're the ones who stick out their internal reproductive organs as if screaming "fuck me, you bee, you butterfly, I can't get it soon enough!"  Too strident, too desperate, which makes them pathetic, and for that I love them and keep some around.   Red poppies are the wildest sluts, the streetwalkers of the garden.  Asiatic lilies, the  femmes fatales, heavily perfumed and exotically dressed, remind me we are all in the gutter but some of us stare at the stars.

Then their are the flowers which go to extreme to hide their tiny tender bits.  Roses and camellias are Victorian prudes, putting out so many ruffles that bugs fall asleep in the folds drunk on their juice.

I love them all.

Gardens are nature's own orgies.  Every flower is sex incarnate. Every flower is life.

The sacred heart of sensuality

 is to be naked and in awe.

Home Ties: bondage and chastity

The chastity device and seamed nylons she's wearing makes me think this was 1940s,  but not sure that kind of radiator was in use that far back.  Your guess may be better than mine.

The Glamour Process (#busty #nudes)

The girl comes to work...

 

 

and the goddess emerges...

 

(two shots of model Terry Nova)

it is only human to find pleasure in terror (#explicit)

The Yin and Yang of the Yoni (#lesbian #bondage)

sex is what turns you on (#bondage)

...judging by that luscious hard-on in his pants, he'd probably agree...

 

 

 

(Crap quality photo, I admit.  This started as a tiny blurry movie still from a ca. 1950s bondage porn shoot and sadly this is the best I could do with it.  I have several more, equally bad, that I will be posting -- just too unique and interesting to toss.)

man's suffering is a window to the divine (#gay #nude)

the ties that bind transport

let's surrender to eroticism without taboo

Nipple Piercing in 1972 (#piercing history!)

 

 

Heavenly shades of night are falling, it's twilight time (#nude)

(model:  Rosina Revelle)

 

Extra points to all you brainiacs who identified the lyrics that were my subject heads today.  How did it work out for you?  Like?

See you tomorrow with something new and wonderful. 

BTW:  I have felt so FREE and so RELIEVED today, I can't help but look forward to the future with joy.  I hope you too will always choose to follow your own truths, wherever they lead.  Lovie kissies, y'all.

 

 

The Three Graces X Three (#nudes)

Three different, late 19th century (ca. 1870s - 1890s) portraits of groups of three nude woman, echoing the  Victorian fascination in Greco-Roman culture and The Three Graces..

 

 

 

 

 

Looking for a Sign by Ancient Waters (#erotic #nude)

An image filled with subtle mysteries.

Bridal Fantasies (#erotica)

In the sexy long ago,  brides were perfectly chaste....

 

 

 

Totally seductive...

 

and blatantly sexual.

 

I guess it hasn't really changed, has it?