YOUR TATTOOS MATCH THE FURNITURE
Photo credit: Can Dagarslani
"Wear your heart on your skin in this life." -- Sylvia Plath [Photo by Can Dagarslani via This Isn't Happiness]
HOW TO FINANCIALLY DOMINATE A MAN
A writer for Vice took a class in how to financially dominate a man. "After years of getting screwed over by the Man, I was ready to screw the Man myself," she asserts. Fun facts: financial dominatrixes are called "fin-dommes," the men they dominate are called "fin-slaves," and there's a thing called a "pay-pig."
This is Seva.
She gave him the floor, and we got to pick his brain a little. Right away, the guy opened up with a Nietzsche quote. “The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.” I instantly knew I was not going to like anything else he had to say. He gave his perspective on being a slave, and spoke of the rush he gets when a woman tells him to do something. He said that his number one fantasy is to run errands for a woman, and even sign over the lease of his condo to a woman. He then went on a small rant telling us that women are great at manipulation, and humiliation. Being a woman's slave, “appeals to her vanity,” he said.
[VICE]
SEX-GORE-BIZARRE
"G.I. Jane (Fill Me Up)," Jackson and His Computerband
Behold, a totally insane video from Mrzyk & Moriceau for Jackson and His Computerband's "G.I. Jane (Fill Me Up)." If you like phallic armies, penis sharks, and female face-eaters, you will love this music video.
“We love Jackson’s song, so the ideas came very fast. We wanted something sex-gore-bizarre, so created this faceless girl fighting against penises that appear from everywhere.” The explosively charged narrative takes in Manga influences and the duo’s trademark pop eroticism, while also providing, as Moriceau opines, a comment on misogyny and female empowerment. “Of course you can see the power of feminism in the film,” he says. “But firstly, we want to entertain.”
[NOWNESS]
ALL THE NEWS THAT'S UNFIT TO PRINT: 11.10.13
Dear Sex Worker Customer: Don't do this. Love, Your Sex Worker. [Tits and Sass]
Photos from the heyday of New York's Area nightclub. There is a nudity. [New York]
Is HBO giving you the shaft? Let's check the boobs infographic. [HBO Watch]
Don't forget to wash your hands first. [The Onion]
Kate Upton wears body paint, frolics. [TMZ]
Banksy hit the Hustler Club. The subject is a "lovelorn loser." [New York Post]
Someone got randy with the loaves at Whole Foods. My report. [Twitter]
When paying an escort, Litecoins are the new Bitcoins. [Northern Jewels]
A gay-for-pay porn star murders a millionaire, and the American dream unravels. [Miami New Times]
The Gray Lady does not enjoy your Bob Guccione documentary. [New York Times]
WELCOME, SLATERS
Tori Black, Canoga Park, CA / Photo credit: Susannah Breslin
If you're here to read "They Shoot Porn Stars, Don't They?", which was chosen by Slate and Longform as one of "Seven Great Stories About Paying for Sex and Being Paid to Have It," you can find it here.
I wrote the piece in 2009 and self-published it. It is a 10,000-word investigation into the impact of the Great Recession on the adult movie industry.
You can read more about that project and other projects of mine here. You can learn more about me here. More of my photography is here.
An essay I wrote about the project, "The Numbers On Self-Publishing Long-Form Journalism," has been taught in Media, Politics & Power in the Digital Age at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the Studio 20 program at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University.
The original site where the piece was self-published is here. The logo and site were created and designed by Chris Bishop.
You can email me here.
From "They Shoot Porn Stars, Don't They?":
In this canon, the real subject is not human sexuality but humanity itself. The products that Jim produces are videotaped vivisections, studies in which homo sapiens lie upon the operating table, the director is the doctor, the camera is the scalpel, and the only question worth asking is, How far will we go if we are pushed to our limits?
#WTF
The Daily Beast has an interesting piece on the nonsensical rules governing hashtag censorship on Instagram. The issues involve sex, race, and bodily functions. From "Instagram's Sex Censorship Is Inconsistent and Hilarious":
Many of the single word tags like #fuck, #bitches, #porn remain on the blocked list, but many longer variations, like #fuckfriday and #mybitches are now searchable. #Dildo and #chink were once banned but can now be searched, though #wet, #shower, and #popular remain blocked. Users can search #faketits, #underboob and #boobz, but not #sideboob, #boob or #boobies.
STARS
Porn awards, Las Vegas, NV / Photo credit: Susannah Breslin
Kayden Kross and Manuel Ferrara at the AVN Awards in Las Vegas, Nevada, January 2013.
FOR ZUCK
From Supreme, the Piss Face Zip-Up in black, $138. Notes The New Yorker:
This season, Supreme is selling a zip-up hoodie with a quotation, attributed to the skateboarder Mark Gonzales, that reads, in bright letters across the back, “I’ve never wanted to piss on someones face more than I want to piss on yours.” Many of Supreme’s items sell out online within seconds of going on sale, but the “Piss Face Zip-Up” has not sold out in any color after weeks on the Web site. “I didn’t stock any,” Peter explained. (Perhaps Peter miscalculated—mysteriously, the Piss Face Zip-Up, which costs a hundred and thirty-eight dollars, is sold out in blue in Japan, where it costs two hundred and fifty-eight dollars and thirty cents.)
TODAY'S MUST READ
"I’d practically earned my doctorate in strip-club-going. I knew more porn acronyms than him. I watched smut on my own and never thought to review his Web history. I even enjoyed the rare strip club outing with him. But here was a line: no lap dances. I was getting married, I had found my person, I didn’t need to be OK with all things that a man, any man, could ever want. Men were no longer a generalized other, there was only this man that mattered."
-- "Why I Said No to Strippers," Tracy Clark-Flory
IT IS BEAUTIFUL
MANNEQUINS ARE BUSTING OUT
Porn convention, Rosemont, IL / Photo credit: Susannah Breslin
If you know my photography, you know I'm a fan of mannequins. Today's New York Times has a story on how mannequins in Venezuela are extra curvy. The ideal Venezuelan body shape is Jessica Rabbit-esque and influenced by a culture that is deeply into plastic surgery.
Each day, Yaritza Molina arranges several mannequins at the entrance to the small clothing shop she manages in Coro, a city in western Venezuela, always careful to place two ahead of the others. “These are the princesses,” she said, “because they have the best bust.”
“I have lots of clients that come here and say, ‘I want to look like that mannequin,’ ” Ms. Molina said. “I tell them, ‘O.K., then get an operation.’”
This trend is mirrored in America in the African-American community, where you see MediaTakeOut stars like Nicki Minaj and Blac Chyna sporting the same crazy shape.
GRACE UNDONE
Photo credit: Steven Klein / Interview
Steven Klein has an extremely cool and totally NSFW fashion spread in the November issue of Interview magazine. The model is Malgosia Bela, a Polish model and actress. In an interview with Into the Gloss, Bela says she is 36. She got married in Azzedine Alaïa and doesn't go the gym. The editorial is Helmut Newton-ish. I like the shots of her peeing like a man, just having strangled a man to death in the subway with a chain, after a terrible car wreck, fondling some meat, and doubling herself at the peep show. That's Steven Klein for you.
FUCK JOURNALISM
Columbia Journalism Review
Jim Romenesko reports that some journalists are up in arms because the Sep./Oct. issue of the Columbia Journalism Review features the word "fuck" on the cover. Actually, it's "fucking." As in "NOT FUCKING ROCKET SCIENCE." The phrase is from a quote by NPR's Ira Glass.
“How dare CJR include the F-bomb on its cover!” writes RAR president and former WGN-TV anchor Rick Rosenthal. “The F-bomb has no place anywhere in CJR! Putting it on the magazine cover was outrageously offensive!”
TO THE MAX
The other day, someone asked
about a post I wrote several years ago on another blog of mine. The post
is about Max Hardcore. The title is "To the Max." It was originally
published on October 6, 2008. Since people ask about it on occasion, I'm
reposting it here. It features a guest appearance by Glenn Greenwald of
Edward Snowden fame.
Last Friday, adult director Paul Little, aka Max Hardcore, was sentenced to 46 months in prison. Back in June, Little had been found guilty on 20 federal counts of distributing obscene material over the internet and through the US mail. At his sentencing in Tampa, Florida, where federal agents had bought the materials in question, Little asked Judge Susan C. Bucklew for what appeared to be mercy. "I didn't realize I'd made a mistake," he told the court. "My entire life I've been trying to do the right thing by people and by the law." A sentiment to which Judge Bucklew replied: "Mr. Little, I find this almost incredible."Read More
PARKS AND RECREATION AND STRIPPING
Actor Chris Pratt tells BuzzFeed that he used to be a male stripper. Part-time. And he danced for someone's grandma.
“I was always a very much naked person. I loved to always get naked. I was very free, so I thought, I may as well get paid,” Pratt, who stars in DreamWorks’ new comedy Delivery Man, admitted to BuzzFeed in a recent interview. He worked several gigs when he was 18, including a bachelorette party, but by far the most memorable job was taking it all off for his friend’s grandmother’s birthday party.
“It was a surprise,” he said, laughing. “I don’t know how it got around to them, but they paid me $40. I was never like Magic Mike, you know. I did go one time and audition on a stage for a club, but I don’t think I got the job. I don’t think I’m a very good dancer.”
TACTICAL GIRLS
Tactical Girls Calendar
Like girls? Like guns? Like girls with guns? Like sexy girls with big guns in the calendar format? Thankfully, the 2014 Tactical Girls Calendar has arrived. There are 13 months. Because that's how long the tactical girl year is.
Fill that 12" x 24" empty space on your Man Cave, garage, barracks or tent wall with 13 months of Girls With Guns. Calendar includes the whisper-quiet AWC Amphibian pistol, the innovative IWI Tavor battle rifle and the distance shattering .338 Lapua sniper rifle from Ashbury Precision Ordnance along with a variety of belt fed machine guns, battle rifles, AR platforms and pistols all with gorgeous models in realistic settings.
Bud likes his.
BADA BANG
Over on my Forbes blog, SIN INC, where I dwell in the valley of vice, I consider "Why There's No 'Sopranos' About the Porn Industry." Apparently, Owen Wilson is developing a series in which FBI agents go undercover in the mob-owned porn industry of the '80s. Will it see the light of day? Here's hoping they don't hire James Frey to write the pilot.
The problem is that any TV show that attempts to faithfully represent the adult business has to show exactly what happens in said industry, and that is inescapably graphic. One could argue that violence is the money shot of “The Sopranos,” but in a TV series about porn, the hardcore aspect of its labor is difficult to dramatize. How do you shoot “porn” without it looking like porn? Well, you can’t.
CHINA'S SEX TOY STARTUPS
Photo credit: Jason Lee / Reuters
"Demand is huge because most people prefer the privacy of shopping for sex toys online,” Li Chengze, another young entrepreneur, said. Starting her career as a journalist, Li eventually opened her own online store, Xiao Ye, after she realized the sex-toy market’s profitability while working in the advertising industry for a year. Li, 26, launched her store only last October, but says she is already receiving hundreds of orders every month.
[h/t: Tracy Clark-Flory]
BANKING ON PORN
On Twitter, Stoya reveals that Chase not only denied her a bank account due to her work in porn, they won't stop spamming her.
Molly Crabapple deems it: a "whole narrative of sex workers as contaminants, not to be allowed near 'normal' people."
Chase wants to know: "Is there anything I can help you with?"
SLUT STYLE
Photo credit: Michael Nagle / New York Times
The New York Times has a style-oriented profile of Slutever in today's paper: "Karley Sciortino: In Her Own Words":
LATEST PROJECT Ms. Sciortino has started a twice-a-month column for Vogue.com called “Breathless.” Her column, on dating and relationships, is more PG than she is known for. “American Vogue is actually pretty conservative,” she said. “I’ve already gotten in a long email exchange about not being able to say the word ‘sperm’ outside of a scientific context.”