The death of advertising euphemism strikes again. Embarrassingly Victorian demure ads are still preferable to in-your-face vagina-throwing (in this context). The literal translation of these metaphors: “Cut Your Pussy Bush, With Schick.” [via Adfreak]
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Jesse Jane in "Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge"
The University of Maryland Student Union usually shows independent or foreign films. But this Saturday at midnight the facility will be screening the hardcore skin flick “Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge.” University officials agreed to run the movie on the grounds that it would provide students with an alternative to late-night drinking and other dangerous activities.
University chaplain Rev. Kyle Ingels disagrees, and argues that promoting porn “runs counter to our efforts to try to form people to be men and women who will go out and contribute to society.”
While it’s not like the students will be seeing anything that isn’t easily available in their dorm rooms, an explicit endorsement of porn by a university certainly is a bold move. Do you think porn is an acceptable extracurricular on a college campus?
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The gals over at Lemondrop featured a great move for a shy girl to initiate a conversation with a guy at a bar. It’s such a great technique that I’ve unwittingly been the victim of it without even knowing (be sure to check it out).
There are some guys who do the not talking thing pretty well, they’re called Silent Assassins and they’re usually very handsome, rich or somehow renowned (or some combo thereof). But other shy guys have employ a few great little moves to get the ball rolling, sometimes these moves are a little too subtle, so for your edification here are a few shy guy* techniques so you know when he’s hitting on you (from most to least obvious):
via Top 5 Shy Guy Pick-Up Moves – YourTango.
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YouTube – Sarah Silverman: The Porn Song.
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From the LA Times — For some reason, I’ve been knee deep in red-band trailers this week. First it was the new “Borat” trailer, which the MPAA labeled red-band (meaning that it is restricted from being shown in front of youth-oriented films). Now it’s a trailer for “Naked Ambition: An R-rated Look at an X-rated Industry,” a new documentary about the adult film business by Michael Grecco, a prominent celebrity photographer. The film, which opens in L.A. on May 1 at the Laemmle Sunset 5, offers a behind-the-scenes portrait of adult film stars, talking about their work and how they ended up in the business.The news here is the MPAA, which has always been astoundingly phobic about sex, has given the film’s trailer a restricted red-band rating despite the fact that it has zero — and I mean zero – sex or nudity.
As you can see for yourself — the trailer is here – it has no nudity, no bad language, not even anything especially suggestive. Some of the women have large breasts, but they’re all carefully covered by bikinis or tank tops. They’re not even “working,” if you know what I mean. Much of the footage in the film — and the trailer — is from backstage access to the Adult Video News Awards, as well as other appearances and photo shoots with the likes of Jenna Jameson, Ron Jeremy and Tera Patrick.
So what is the MPAA’s problem? According to Grecco, the ratings board had no objections to any specific scenes. They were simply uncomfortable with the entire subject of adult film. “I felt like I was on trial, by people who think their job is to protect America from sex,” he told me. “They’re not just prejudiced against sexual content. They’re prejudiced against an industry that deals with sex.”
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LATHAM, N.Y. — Pole dancing is “no small feat” — and it’s also art qualifying for a tax exemption.
That was the bottom line for an administrative law judge, who ruled in favor of Nite Moves, all-nude strip club in Latham, billed as “New York’s Premiere Adult Club in the Capital District.”
Judge Catherine M. Bennett, in a decision last month, determined that cover charges imposed by Nite Moves are not subject to state sales taxes because pole dancing qualifies for the “dramatic arts” sales tax exemption under a state tax law.
via Judge: Pole Dancing Is Art Qualifying for Sales Tax Exemption – XBIZ.com.
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Thomas Roche has a really good point in his Blowfish column this week: The Feminist Porn Awards, which is a really good thing, made a weird decision this year. Instead of categories, it’s just one big long lump of a list of really incredible indie porn films. This doesn’t help me, as either a reviewer or as a consumer. I *do* want to know which film has the “Hottest Dyke Scene” so I can tell you about it. I’m puzzled, and wish they hadn’t done that. I mean, part of what was cool about it, to me, was that they weren’t doing all those insulting categories like mainstream porn awards do, such as “Best Ethnic Scene”. Thomas writes,
(…) More importantly, from a consumer perspective, the Feminist Porn Awards have consistently honored quality work by independent artists who are changing the field. So don’t mistake my onrushing puzzlement as disregard for what the awards are doing: on the contrary, I think they’re among the most important developments in the porn industry in the last five years.
But this year they’ve both confused and invigorated me, because that big long list of 46 nominees is not divided by category. It’s all just . . . a big long list, one title after the other. Alphabetical, by director first name.
via violet blue ® :: open source sex | feminist porn awards: why no categories?.
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Men always want sex. That’s the message you hear from your friends, from talk-show experts, from TV sitcoms. Except when they don’t.
What if you find that you’re the one craving a deeper sexual connection, but he simply doesn’t want sex very often — or ever? How can you rescue your sex life? Read on for couple-tested solutions for bringing intimacy and heat back into your relationship, in this exclusive excerpt from the new book by REDBOOK Love Network expert Michele Weiner Davis.
Maybe your marriage started out on fire — you couldn’t keep your hands off each other. But somewhere along the line, your husband lost interest in sex. Or maybe the signs of his sexual sluggishness were there all along; you just assumed things would get better, but if anything, they’ve gotten worse.
via The Sex-Starved Wife.
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Levi Johnston and Bristol Palin may have split, but apparently he does not plan to cede the spotlight anytime soon. The proud redneck and hockey star that New York magazine once dubbed “sex on skates” sat down with Tyra Banks for an interview that will air on Monday. Johnston, sitting alongside his mother and sister, has traded in his trucker cap and Wranglers for some spiffy J. Crew duds. He looks different, as though he underwent a frat boy makeover.
Please avail yourself of the clip on Banks’ Web site, in which the talk show host grills him about whether Sarah Palin knew if he was having sex with her daughter (“I’m pretty sure she probably knew … moms are pretty smart”) and if the couple practiced safe sex.
“Yeah,” he responds, in a flat, utterly unconvincing way, like the kid who tells you he was not eating chocolate even as it is smeared all over his face.
via Levi Johnston on practicing safe sex – Broadsheet – Salon.com.
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April 4, 2009 | Charlotte Roche is a curious mix of old radicalism and new daring. A well-known music and talk show host in Germany, Roche has produced a minor literary scandal, not to mention a major commercial success, with her first novel, “Wetlands,” which is now being published in the United States. The first German book to make Amazon’s worldwide bestseller list, “Wetlands” is a savage, darkly humorous attempt to depict the contours of female anatomy and desire that has appalled as many as it has delighted with its graphic details.
Set in a hospital, it follows the thoughts and strange encounters of 18-year-old Helen Memel, the victim of an unfortunate attempt at intimate shaving. It is hard not to see Roche’s rebellion against the unwritten demand that women be shaven, constantly presentable and perpetually desirable as, in part, an attack on the television culture that made her name. Helen is everything a female TV host cannot be: ill, self-involved and obsessed with obscenity. But “Wetlands” is more than just a complaint against the sexual double standards of contemporary life. It points to an odd paradox: For all the hedonism of an apparently liberated culture in which women can drink and screw with the best of them (think “Sex and the City”), the language we use to describe this behavior and these unleashed desires is profoundly outdated or, more often, simply absent. For all the inventively silly and explicit ways to describe male masturbation, for example, it is hard to think of many euphemisms for the female equivalent. Choking the oyster, anyone?
Roche creates a world — a “Wetlands” indeed — in which there are new words to describe the weirdness of the female body and the ambivalence of sexual encounters. It’s a damp and claustrophobic universe, but one that reminds us of how far we have to go to overcome deep-seated embarrassments about basic biological facts. Roche is a strange poster girl for such a progressive operation, elfin and brazen in equal parts, but in person she neatly captures the contradictions of a contemporary femininity that can’t decide whether it wants to be low-down and dirty or prim and proper (or both at the same time).
via Books, Interview, Charlotte Roche, Wetlands, Nina Power, German | Salon Books.
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