Britney topless? You decide
Nyx reports on a site that claims to have telephoto shots of pop music sexpot Briney Spears naked. I think it unlikely (but I’m very out of date in my awareness of Ms. Spears). You can check out Britney Topless if it’ll quench your fantasies.
Famous fucks: fake & real
Famous people fucking excite you? I’d ask why (voyeurism* being one of my many failings as a pervert) but being a decent fellow I’ll point you to this:
The Hilton tape is only the latest example in a long-flourishing underground trade in celebrity pornography, whose scope has increased dramatically with each innovation in motion picture technology. Even the Hilton fakes have many antecedents. As star-porn history shows, demand has always outstripped supply, creating a fantasy-driven environment filled with outright fakes, tantalizing come-ons that fail to deliver, mysterious artifacts of disputed provenance, and numerous curiosities that circulate due more to freak factor than any erotic frisson.
The distant seeds of celebrity porn took root in 19th-century literary erotica attributed to famous authors, such as the mock-epic Don Leon, claimed to have been penned by Lord Byron as a record of his notorious exploits, or the explicitly homosexual Victorian novel Teleny, long said to have been written by Oscar Wilde. After Hollywood invented the movie star in the early 20th century, Tijuana Bibles satisfied a new desire to see screen deities stripped bare. These crudely drawn comic-book leaflets depicted stars like Jean Harlow, Greta Garbo, and Clark Gable in various farcical trysts.
Ed Halter, Village Voice: A history of celebrity sex tapes, real and fake, from Joan Crawford to Paris Hilton
* (Closest I ever came was watching Blue Lagoon to catch a glimps of the male twink bimbo in a passable frontal. Talk about shameless confessions.)
Fuck the damned bandwidth thieves
I started to say bandwidth thieves take it up the ass but realized I’ve done that plenty of times myself. This rant doesn’t really belong here but I’m hoping one of the more able webmasters who read this weblog will kindly offer any advice he might have.
Gigabytes flash & die
My bandwidth counter flipped over yesterday 12:00 a.m. Monday morning. By mere chance I visited my Cpanel this afternoon. I’d already used over 6 Gigabytes of bandwidth. If I were really that popular I’d be charging.
Webalizer made it easier to ascertain who the bandwidth pirates were. I blocked a few IPs. Not having heard back from theplanet.com’s abuse department I blocked them completely.
In an earlier note I speculated that some webloggers were inadvertent content providers for lowball, scammish e-commerce sites. Doing a little WhoIs research clearly some of the bandwidth thieves were various OptIns, Marts, and Malls. I’ve noted a few of their names before. I’ve been plagued by a fair number of bottom-of-the-barrel porn sites. The last pisses me off mightily. Not because pornographers, per se, are bad people. One of my weblogs is fairly porn-friendly. That is why the bottom feeders in internet sex make me angry. These appear to be people who’ve been exploited by the insta-porn people who promise to make you a rich adult webmaster in your spare time. Sure, by showing the same barely appealing naked photos that all the guys other clients use.
Enough of that tangent.
It hasn’t been clear to me how the sites might benefit from my content but I didn’t look deeply. They rarely show up in my referral logs, some not at all so it isn’t referral spamming. On the surface they seem to grab common search engine key phrases to generate (often hilariously irrelevant) affiliate links to major e-commerce sites.
I’m deeply frustrated, angry. All of this is just a goddamned hobby. I need to get the on and off problem of bandwidth theft controlled. It isn’t as if I can’t read more, spend more time with Charles or work on the garden.
Earlier bandwidth and other thieves:
I will never use the word 'gay' in school again
One child explained to another that he has two mothers because his birth mother is gay.
A teacher overheard the conversation and told the boy to go see the principal who ordered to kid to write “I will never use the word ‘gay’ in school again.” several times. When the principal phoned the mother to inform her of the “problem” he said the 7 year old used such a dirty word that he couldn’t repeat it over the phone.
Friedkitten: Is Gay a Dirty Word?
Upskirting, deblousing & privacy
From part three of a series on moblogs and camera phones.
Meanwhile, a gray area in the law has clouded the issue with regard to uninvited photos taken in public places, including incidents of what are known as “upskirting” and “downblousing” that subsequently appear on cyberporn and fetish Web sites.
According to a recent story in the San Jose Mercury News, California law says that if a person can’t be identified, “there’s no harm,” and even if the person can be identified, the violation is a misdemeanor.
Last spring, Hawaii passed legislation outlawing “upskirt” snapshots and video, but a First Amendment expert says such laws may be unconstitutional, according to the newspaper article.
That position has been supported by the Washington state Supreme Court, which last year overturned the convictions of two men who, in separate incidents, took “upskirt” photos with plans to sell them on the Internet.
Larry M Edwards, Camera Phones: The Ultimate Invasion of Privacy?
Vintage straight & kinky paperbacks
Equal rights for straight people has always been my motto.
Aside from the vintage gay erotica I mentioned in the prior entry there’s plenty of heterosexual paperback porn converted to e-books. If you missed Turned on Librarian or The Night Shift Nurse when they came out you can download and read them now.
More people want the cover art than the books themselves. One site has a tremendous number of old paperback cover reproductions posted. There’s quite a bit of Femdom and BDSM paperback cover art. Haven’t you always wondered what the cover of The Best From Spanking City III looked like?
Old gay porn ebooks
In 1972 I worked for a short time in a bookstore in downtown Atlanta. Mostly it was your conventional big city mainstream store. But it was owned by the mob that ran the “XXX ADULT!” bookstores so there was a small section of porn. I read a few volumes of the GreenLeaf Classics, the only porn novels I’ve ever read.
I’ve sometimes wondered if they were typical gay porn. Or even typical Greenleaf Classics. There was lots of pumping and grinding but the plots all revolved around two boys in love. I liked the solicitous passion as much as the sucking and fucking. Weak, silly romantic that I was I probably liked it more and wouldn’t have actually read the books if there’d been nothing more than genital gymnastics.
Adoniz Boys gay Greenleaf Classics available as e-books. If you’re inclined toward 60s gay porn with titles like Glory Hole Junkie or Hungry for Seamen you might feel like giving them $5.95.
They aren’t the Greenleaf Classics I remember. I’ve later discovered that the publisher mostly published straight porn. And in my used bookshop I’ve seen some cheap editions of standard ‘classic’ fiction published under that name.
A bit more autobiography in my original entry: Greenleaf Classics
The Sounds of Pain and Pleasure . . .
This old vinyl LP is a nifty oddity of BDSM pop culture.
Features hilarious and bizarre staged S&M sessions, each about 60 seconds in length and all highly, um…visceral in their impact.
Tortura (link snagged from Pursed Lips).
Are you technosexual?
Neologism alert. Metrosexual mutates. Oddball attempt at marketing? Joke, satire?
technosexual
(TEK.noh.sek.shoo.ul) n. A dandyish narcissist in love with not only himself, but also his urban lifestyle & gadgets; a straight man who is in touch with his feminine side but has fondness for electronics such as cell phones, pda’s, computers, software, and the web.
—technosexuality n.
What Do Men Really Want?
You’ll see this story appearing all over the place. Most of the articles don’t say they are just reprinting a publisher’s press release. Studies conducted to sell a product, in this case a book, The Spirit Man, are usually framed in a way to elicit the desired results.
I don’t know if heterosexual males haven’t gotten a bad rap or not. I’m a silly, romantic queer. The sniggering men only want one thing and women want another seemed to become pervasive in popular culture some years back. I’ve often wondered if John Gray’s silly Mars & Venus books didn’t give this meme a big push. And sitcoms kept pushing.
History is full of romantic men and straightforward horny men. Probably the false perceptions began when foolish notions of feminine purity and propriety gained power in the 18th century.
According to the survey, 31 percent of adult Americans believe emotional intimacy is what men want most in a romantic relationship. Substantially fewer Americans — 23 percent — say sex is a man’s number one priority. ‘Good times’ ranked third, supported by 17 percent of respondents. Gold diggers beware. According to the survey, only 2 percent of Americans (1 percent of men; 3 percent of women) believe men are looking for a “trophy.”
A thousand respondents for a survey like this strikes me as really too small a sample universe.
PRNewswire: Emotional Intimacy More Important than Sex According to National Survey
Irving Klaw's bondage photography
I’ve always assumed the revival of interest in Betty Page started when Dave Stevens used her exterior for the basis of the young hero’s love interest in his Rocketeer comic book. Stevens was arguably the best ‘good girl’ artist work in comics for decades. The response to his first issue of the Rocketeer was “Wow!” indeed.
Maybe it was coincidence but Betty Page images starting appearing everywhere. Another comics fan, Greg Theakston, produced a tribute magazine, The Betty Pages (now, Tease, focusing on vintage glamour in general. I think the funniest thing we ever carried in my comics shop it was the Betty Page paperdoll complete with a little leather whip.
Her appeal has always escaped me. A friend who die happy if he could lick Betty’s boot once stuck one of her Irving Klaw movies on the end of a video of some odd old psychotronic video I’d been looking for. Gordon and I tried to watch it. Woman tied another up, untied her, got tied up herself - something like that. When Betty Page appeared it was more of the same. More than enough too.
I notice there’s a new Irving Klaw site complete with earlyKlaw bondage pictures and reproductions of some of his old catalogs. If 50s bondage cheesecake is your pleasure you should be delighted.
Mu Zimei: reviled, admired
China is officially an atheist nation but some of its actions are a good reminder of why we hope theocratic nincompoops come to power in America. Mu Zimei is a Chinese woman who wrote about her sex life in a magazine column and weblog.
Her celebrity, which exploded when she posted an explicit online account of her tryst with a Chinese rock star, first seemed to baffle government censors but now has drawn a familiar response. Her forthcoming book was banned last week. She has quit her magazine columnist job and halted her blog, or online diary. …
The Chinese equivalent of Hardshell Baptist speaks his mind:
“I despise Mu Zimei!” one critic countered. Another added, “This kind of diary will only serve as an excuse for more people who want to live a wild sexual life.”
Now what could be more terrifying than a wild sex life?
Jim Yardley, Sex writer’s tell-all online diary spurs debate in China
This Christmas buy her a stripper pole
Mom ‘n’ Sis are taking up stripping for fun, exercise and better sex lives.
Among the other lessons in Stauffer’s Art of Exotic Dancing for Everyday Women, based at her adult learning center in Malvern, Pa., but taught in more than 10 cities: How to run one’s fingers through one’s hair, how to position a feather boa, how to grind one’s hips while standing, kneeling, crawling and leaning against a wall, and how to remove an imaginary bra and twirl it around one’s head before chucking it across the room in devil-may-care fashion. Stauffer also has the women pair up and move toward each other while practicing the “step-drag,” an awkward saunter that among new students often looks like a step-limp. She encourages the pairs to stare deeply into each other’s eyes, honing their all-important eye contact skills, which she says helps some students “ask for a raise at work.”
Libby Copeland, Washington Post: The Stripper Aesthetic Sheds Some Sleaze, and a Few Pounds
Liquid virginity for Xmas?
If there is one single item that should never be given on Christmas, Nardone figures it’s something called “Liquid Virgin,” which uses alum to temporarily shrink the walls of a woman’s sex organ so that she can relive her first time all over again.
Dating-Industrial Complex
An article on dating fatigue and people who’ve decided not being part of a couple isn’t the worst fate in the world.
Ms. Cambridge’s tale is one small act of resistance against what might be called the Dating-Industrial Complex, a mighty fortress increasingly hard to ignore. To Match.com and Nerve.com, add DreamMates, The Right Stuff, eHarmony and eCrush (neither to be confused with Etrade, though the general concept is the same). TurboDate, HurryDate, 8minuteDating — or It’s Just Lunch. …
As Sari Siegal, who surrendered her love life to fate after a dating binge last spring, said, “This Internet stuff makes it seem like there’s no excuse for not having someone.”
“It trivializes it,” said Ms. Siegal, a 30-year-old graduate student in New York. “It’s like a math equation.”
Kate Zernike, The New York Times: Just Saying No to the Dating Industry
Designer vaginas
From a rather odd column on vagina size (no, I never thought about it either):
I tracked down Dr. David Matlock, who founded the Laser Vaginal Rejuvenation Institute of Los Angeles in Beverly Hills and who specializes in “designer vaginas” which, he said, would enhance sexual gratification. For about $7,000, a woman can get her vagina tightened; he told me that, starting in November, he’ll offer a five-minute procedure called “the G-Shot,” which “amplifies” the female G-spot so it’s easier to find.
George Gurley, New York Observer: My Vagina Monologue
Women & men's butts
I think male butts are mighty nice. An article suggests one reason women are portrayed as admiring them strongly is popular culture’s fear of admitting that women also enjoy what is up front. The assumption being that straight men are spooked by the idea of women thinking about their penis. Given the wealth accumulated by some penis spammers I guess there’s at least a little truth to that.
“The media just doesn’t know the true nature of women’s sexuality and, frankly, many women are still afraid to be up front about it,” says Helen Fisher an anthropologist and expert in human sexuality with Rutgers University.
Fisher says it is safer for society to see women as fixated on the male behind. But studies have shown it is the other side of the male anatomy, the penis, that many women are really interested in, she says.
“Women do think about what is up front. But it is not safe to says so (because women fear they will) look slutty,” she says.
Robin Harvey, Toronto Star: Men’s butts no big deal
URDX: browse erotica binaries
Adam Selene at Sexblogs points to a remarkably nice site for skimming through Usenet’s erotica binaries. Well structured, clean interface and free.
A newsreader is probably a better solution for the folks who download and collect hundreds to thousands of images a day (exactly what do you do with tens of thousands of scanned pages of Playboy and comma delimited indexes thereto?). But URDX is all the less obsessive need.
Download naked pictures & porn for free (really)
You’ve read that the web/internet is a vast pit of porn, filth and other good things. You’ve been to websites where thousands of photos of men and women with huge boobs and cocks can be had. You never join one because you don’t trust them or can’t afford the monthly fee.
Usenet was invented here in Durham, NC. Before Time Berners-Lee wrote the first line of HTML people were talking to each other and sharing things via the Usenet newsgroups. Many newsgroups went to hell. Others thrive, forcibly policed by their regular members.
Many newsgroups, mostly known as the binaries groups, have folks steadily posting pictures. In the erotica binaries they post naked pictures, movies and drawings. Some it seem spend all their free hours scanning Playgirl, Playboy and miscellaneous porno magazines and movies. And you can look at, download and save them all for free.
Unless your ISP is benighted scum the sex themed image newsgroups are included in the cost of your Internet connection just like email.
You’ll need to learn the name of your ISP’s news server. They’ll have it in their FAQ or on their customer support page. Or you can just call and ask. Most newsgroups are devoted to using Microsoft Word, singing the praises of the latest pop star, or pondering the deep truths of garbage like astrology. The tech support people at your ISP won’t think you a pervert for asking.
To get the sexy images you’ll have to get a program called a newsreader. Outlook Express has that built it but it isn’t worth the price you paid for it (nothing). You can check the newsreaders sections of Tucows and NoNags.
There’s also a freeware newsreader, Pan, which I’ve written up elsewhere.
Configuring the software is easy once you know your news server. Finding the erotic newsgroups isn’t hard. Almost everyone has the word binaries in its name (there are exceptions like alt.mag.playboy).
Have a good time.
Intersexual woman kept in solitary
An intersexual female, Miki Ann Dimarco, who was raised as a woman and undergone years of hormone therapy was placed in solitary confinement because the guards saw her penis. She was denied treatment for her multiple sclerosis and lupus, couldn’t go the library or have visitors.
An intersexed woman — generally called a hermaphrodite — is suing the Wyoming Department of Corrections in United States District Court for placing her in solitary confinement during a 14-month sentence at the Wyoming Women’s Center in Lusk.
Dimarco claims she was placed in solitary confinement because the Women’s Center does not have a policy for intersexual prisoners. She claims she repeatedly asked to be moved but officials denied her requests, and she was segregated for her 14-month sentence.
Matthew Van Dusen, Casper Star-Tribune: Intersexed woman sues DOC
