Sasha Grey made my day — and I don’t just say that to rhyme, I swear. Apparently, the porn star appeared naked on last night’s "Entourage" and caused quite the commotion among the show’s dude-bro contingent. Not because she was naked on-camera (which is, mind you, a relatively common occurrence) but because she went naked with a full-on bush (which is also a relatively common occurrence for her, actually). Judging from the resulting hysteria on Twitter, it was the Pube-pocalypse. Behold, a few of the standout tweets:
via Sasha Grey sparks bush backlash – Broadsheet – Salon.com.
On his usual appearances alongside Megyn Kelly, John Stossel limits his libertarian leanings to debating feudalism, showing off his mustache, and taking rides on his government-funded go-cart. For better or worse, today’s conversation took a turn for the awkward, with Stossel as a passionate defender of bad Showtime pseudo-porn against big government overreach.
via Megyn Kelly | Internet Porn | John Stossel | Mediaite.
There’s one sector of the entertainment industry that has not been roiled by the Internet, the economy or ever-changing consumer tastes. Say hello to Hollywood’s most stable business: Soft-core pornography.
The oft-mocked genre, which has given the world such memorable fare as “Witches of Breastwick” and “Tarzeena: Jiggle in the Jungle,” is more visible — and valuable — than ever, even at a time when hard-core adult entertainment is easily accessible on every media device. Premium-cable TV networks such as HBO, Showtime and Cinemax — the channel nicknamed “Skin-emax” for its preponderance of sexy programming — continue to fill their late-night schedules with low-budget, nudity-filled films, and the adoption of video-on-demand and pay-per-view services has given soft-core content wider play. Several of the premium channels offer prominently displayed inventories of erotic entertainment via VOD, where there’s no shortage of choices in the “After Hours” or “Midnight Movies” sections.
Soft-core porn “just keeps going, like a cockroach — you can’t kill it,” says Marc Greenberg, the 63-year-old founder of MRG Entertainment, the Santa Monica company that’s one of the top producers of so-called “soft erotics,” the industry term for toned-down pornography. MRG supplies between seven and 15 films a year to Showtime and a handful of movies to Cinemax, for whom it also produces “Co-Ed Confidential,” a 13-episode, college-themed sex series that’s now in its fourth season. “You’re more likely to get your wife to watch my show — it’s not so in-your-face,” says Greenberg.
via Sex sells: Soft-core pornography still hot stuff on cable TV – latimes.com.
The first 3D TV sets are not set to hit stores until midyear but the porn industry is already shooting and selling immersive 3D films.
Adult movie makers are known for being technology pioneers, having helped drive the adoption of previous new technologies such as VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, the internet and high-definition.
BadGirls in 3D, an exhibitor at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas, is so early with its adoption of 3D that it is selling a $US3999 ($4320) kit that includes a Mitsubishi 60-inch 3DTV, two pairs of 3D glasses and a tiny PC that is used to stream the 3D films from the web.
via 3D TV | Porn studios lead the stampede.
It’s spawned a VH1 show and an excuse for Tiger Woods. But some experts balk at the idea of being hooked on nooky
By Tracy Clark-Flory
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After surrendering their vibrators and porno DVDs, the stars of VH1′s “Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew” have chain-smoked their way through three long, sexless weeks of treatment. The motley crew of pseudo-celebrities — including a porn star, a beauty queen and an obscure rock musician — have stripped their emotions bare in nationally broadcast group therapy, tearfully sharing stories of past abuse, anonymous sex, hours upon hours of smut surfing and, above all else, consuming shame. But here’s a question that the show, which ended its first season Sunday night, never bothered to ask: Are these people really addicts?
Since the term was coined in 1983, “sex addiction” has become so embroidered in our self-help vocabulary that most of us stopped questioning it. The term gets bandied about whenever Bill Clinton logs extracurricular time with an intern or Eliot Spitzer gets caught having sex in his socks or David Duchovny separates from his wife. Recently “Sex Rehab” host Dr. Drew Pinsky made headlines by suggesting that Tiger Woods has a sex addiction. It’s become the go-to defense for extramarital affairs (I’m not an asshole; I’m an addict!) and been sold to “Oprah” viewers eager to diagnose their porn-loving husbands as both addicts and assholes.
Patrick Carnes, the leading expert in sex addiction, defines it as “any sexually related, compulsive behavior which interferes with normal living and causes severe stress on family, friends, loved ones, and one’s work environment.” But here’s the tricky part: What’s the difference between the symptom of a compulsive disease and a disease itself? Repeatedly lathering up in the sink is a sign of OCD. We don’t call those people hand-washing addicts, now, do we? Unlike most addictive substances, sex can’t be smoked, snorted or mainlined. The term isn’t recognized in the DSM (the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), the bible of therapists everywhere (although along with other controversial diagnoses, like those relating to gender identity, sex addiction is being debated for a new version). But for many sex educators and sex-positive experts, hearing the term spoken about so casually, so frequently, is nothing short of maddening.
via Sex – Salon.com.
I’m an addiction addict. That means I’m addicted to watching other people struggle with their addictions. People say that’s not a real addiction, but they don’t know how my addiction to addictions has messed up my life! I spend every second of my day, from the minute I wake up in the morning until the time my head hits the pillow at night, obsessing about whether or not “Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew” alum Mary Carey will finally kick alcohol and break out of the porn business. My marriage is falling apart because my husband can’t watch another minute of heroin addicts stealing cash out of their grandmother’s purses on A&E’s “Intervention.” And if I urge one more of my co-workers to make a “fearless moral inventory” of themselves in an interoffice e-mail, I’m going to lose my job. I’m destroying my entire life by spending all of my time watching other people destroy their entire lives!
Even as an addiction addict, though, I find it tough to feel sorry for people whose big problem in life is that they’re having way too much sex. Yes, it’s easy enough to see that sex addiction is a real problem, that people who suffer from it have trouble with intimacy, that they find it impossible to make meaningful connections with other human beings, that they compulsively turn to sex and masturbation as a means of escape, that they can’t stop even when it’s tearing their lives apart.
But when Phil Varone, drummer for Skid Row, complains to the “Sex Rehab With Dr. Drew” cameras that he’s slept with more than 3,000 women, when he compares being surrounded by horny groupies to being a cocaine addict who’s offered coke every night, it’s tough to weep big, salty tears for him. When we learn that Kari Ann Peniche, former Miss Teen U.S.A., spends a lot of her time masturbating in her bathtub instead of facing reality, it’s not all that easy to generate empathy for her. When film director Duncan Roy tells us that he sits around in his lovely Malibu home and looks at online pornography from first thing in the morning until he goes to bed at night, it’s challenging to find a deep well of emotion for his plight. When we see the enormous pile of dildos and vibrators that a rehab counselor pulls out of porn star Jennifer Ketchum’s luggage, what we feel isn’t sympathy so much as awe.
via I Like to Watch – Salon.com.
What kind of breaking news is this? “Story highlights” include the singer‘s cup size
By Mary Elizabeth Williams
The headline reads “Jessica Simpson finds a bosom buddy.” It’s the day after an election; there’s a potentially deciding World Series match tonight, but in the world of entertainment, thank heaven for those Simpson hooters.
When Simpson replied to a Twitter update from the similarly endowed Dolly Parton on the subject of back pain (“You lug these around and see if your back don’t hurt!”) with an “Amen, sister!” CNN promptly posted the news, with a helpful charticle of salient factoids. “The singers’ cup size — double D — has been a hot topic throughout their careers.”
The story then went on to chronicle the history of both women’s breasts in popular entertainment, from Parton’s prior complaints about her assets to Simpson’s cleavage-flaunting appearance at the Grand Ole Opry earlier this year.
via Broadsheet – Salon.com.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A Saudi court on Saturday sentenced a female journalist to 60 lashes after she had been charged with involvement in a TV show in which a Saudi man publicly talked about sex.
Rozanna al-Yami, 22, is believed to be the first Saudi woman journalist to be given such a punishment, but there were conflicting accounts about how the court issued its verdict.
Al-Yami, who worked as a coordinator for the program but has denied working on the sex-show episode, told The Associated Press it was her understanding that the judge at the court in the western city of Jiddah dropped the charges against her. They included involvement in the preparation of the show and advertising the segment on the Internet.
via Female Journalist Sentenced To 60 Lashes For Sex Show On Saudi Arabia TV.
We’ve heard endless explanations for the “Twilight” series’ supreme popularity — from its romanticizing of retro gender roles to the creation of a new genre of “abstinence porn” — but it’s much simpler than all that, argues Stephen Marche in Esquire. The real reason for vampire mania? “Young straight women want to have sex with gay men,” says Marche. “Not all young straight women, of course, but many, if not most, of them.” Nice of him to assuredly explain women’s unconscious sexual desires, isn’t it?
The vampire metaphor isn’t one that’s easily reduced to “women want sex with gay guys”
In fairness, though, he’s right that Bella, “Twilight’s” protagonist, is attracted to Edward Cullen “because he is strange, beautiful, and seemingly repulsed by her.” He writes: “This exact scenario happened several times in my high school between straight girls and gay guys who either hadn’t figured out they were gay or were still in the closet.” Sure, a similar scenario can be found among the pinups of effeminate teen idols gracing young girls’ walls — but the fantasy isn’t about gay men so much as it’s about boys and men who represent true romance, as defined by fairytales.
After all, Edward does desire Bella — more so than he has ever desired anyone else, we’re told — but his everlasting love for her overrides his lust, at least temporarily, because he doesn’t want to get lost in the heat of the moment and hurt or kill her. He fights to keep his passion (for blood, for sex) at bay; he is, essentially, a guy who’s willing to wait for it. Now that’s a way to make teenage girls’ hearts flutter — just look at the Jonas Brothers and their, swoon, promise rings.
via Buffy the gay vampire lover – Broadsheet – Salon.com.
The girl, all tousled dark hair, casts a sultry glance over her nude shoulder. She grasps a bright red apple that bears one large bite mark. She has large eyes and full cheeks. She looks all of 12 years old.
Fans were quick to voice their discomfort. “Is poster #1 for ‘Mackenzie Phillips: The Series’?” asked one user, while another noted “She looks like she’s only eight years old!”
Great timing there, SyFy Network — leaking your provocative early poster for the hotly anticipated “Battlestar Galactica” prequel “Caprica” the very week that the entertainment community has gone out of its way to support a man who raped a young teenager.
The face and bare skin belong to Alessandra Torresani, a young veteran actress who is in fact a full 10 years older than that creepy ad would have you believe. She plays the series’ pivotal character Zoe, a rebellious, uniform-sporting 16-year old. It’s like Christmas came early, schoolgirl fans.
via She’s bare, and she “looks eight” – Broadsheet – Salon.com.
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