Adult toy-maker Doc Johnson has a new line of superhero-themed dildos, Super Hung Heroes.
The lineup includes The Caped Cock (Batman: "GoodHead City needs a hero and Bruce Wang is just the man for the job!"), The Amazing Web Shooter (Spider-Man: "Peter Pecker has a sexy secret…he’s the Amazing Web Shooter!"), The Incredible Hunk (The Incredible Hulk: "After a lab experiment gone sexy, Dr. Bruce Boner can transform into a big green monster cock known as The Incredible Hunk"), and Rock Hard Man (Iron Man: "Ladies’ man? Check. Genius? Check. The man that has it all? Check!").
They're selling on Adam & Eve for $59.95 to $109.95.
Do you believe in virtuous investing? I don't. The intention of investing is to make money; the intention of capitalism is not to do good.
For those who embrace vice, like me, there's the Vice Fund. For those who prefer something more pure, there's Ave Maria Mutual Funds.
Four practices that will get a company banned from the Ave Maria funds: Supporting abortion; supporting embryonic stem cell research (because it "is closely linked to abortion"); contributing to Planned Parenthood; and involvement with pornography.
While the philosophy no doubt will rankle progressive sensibilities, it's hard to argue with the results.
Ave Maria's flagship Rising Dividend fund carries Morningstar's top five-star designation and is up 26.8 percent in 2013. That puts it in front of the S&P 500, which has gained 25.3 percent on a total-return basis. The fund has $642.2 million under management as part of Ave Maria's $1.4 billion total handle.
[CNBC]
Here's your first sneak peek look at Kate Moss, who will cover Playboy's 60th anniversary January/February 2014 issue. The photographers are Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott.
I worked for Playboy, in their TV division, for five years and loved it. You know you're with a killer brand when you travel all over the world, and no matter where you are, people recognize the logo.
Moss will be 40 on January 16, 2014.
[Huffington Post]
Hi Susannah,
Thanks again for the pitch. As proposals go, it's well-done, and you make a good case. [Redacted]'s feeling is that, given all that's been done on porn, the topic doesn't seem novel. Before arriving here more than a decade ago, [redacted] was at the [Redacted] and the [Redacted] and has seen [redacted] share of porn pieces. I know the novelty is in the details, but the bar for porn stories is especially high. That said, I'll be happy to read other ideas that come to you.
Till then…
[redacted]
Model Ricki Hall shot by photographer Darren Black. [Eddy-Eddy]
The holidays are all about spending time together, exchanging gifts, and watching the Victoria's Secret Runway Show. Recently, supermodel Karlie Kloss, who is 21 and 6'1", got fitted for a pair of psychedelic wings. The Cut has the behind-the scenes video.
Breaking news out of Hamilton, Ohio, care of the local newspaper's police blotter:
A man walked into CVS, 820 S. Breiel Blvd., and walked out with a box of condoms, bottle of lubricant, five Slim Jims and an A&W Root Beer, valued at $65.71. The suspect left the store and rode off on a bike.
[Journal-News]
Ariel Levy has written the most terrifying reproduction story since "Rosemary's Baby" for the New Yorker. As a journalist, she travels the globe, and she finds herself far from home when her pregnancy goes off the rails. The result is an eviscerating tale: "Thanksgiving in Mongolia."
I got pregnant quickly, to my surprise and delight, shortly before my
thirty-eighth birthday. It felt like making it onto a plane the moment
before the gate closes—you can’t help but thrill. After only two months,
I could hear the heartbeat of the creature inside me at the doctor’s
office. It seemed like magic: a little eye of newt in my cauldron and
suddenly I was a witch with the power to brew life into being. Even if
you are not Robinson Crusoe in a solitary fort, as a human being you
walk this world by yourself. But when you are pregnant you are never
alone.
[The New Yorker]
The coverage of Lars von Trier's "Nymphomaniac" journey from can to screen is a boggler. Take, for example, the latest reports that the controversial director has surrendered his final cut. It's a matter of hardcore and softcore.
Jensen says the cuts were purely for commercial reasons and not to
eliminate any of the films' many explicit sex scenes. There were
initially plans to release both a hard-core and soft-core version of Nymphomaniac
but those plans have now been abandoned. Instead there will be just the
hard-core version but distributors in individual countries can decide
to blur whichever elements they find unacceptable. The Danish version
will go out with all the explicit sex intact and in focus.
[The Hollywood Reporter]
A model sports a "Suck My Cervix" T-shirt at Fashion Week Australia earlier this year. [Man Repeller]
Meet Roja Dove, the man who makes bespoke fragrances for women who can afford to spend $40,350 to smell like no one else. His nose is so sensitive that international flights are nearly unbearable, and he compares creating his personalized perfumes to having sex.
For example, Mr. Dove had three clients smell tuberose. One gave a
horrified shudder, while the other two described the scent as,
respectively, “quiche with cabbage” and “young girls in tank tops
running around a mall.”
[NYT]
Jenna Jameson was on Oprah Winfrey's "Where Are They Now?" last night. She discussed her DUI arrest, her custody battle with her ex, MMA fighter Tito Ortiz, over her kids, and her current problems. It was very sad.
The first time I met Jenna was in 1997. I believe it was August. I visited the set of her movie, "Flashpoint." She showed up at some point and disappeared quickly into a trailer. The girl who went in the door was young, messy-haired, fresh-faced. The person who emerged after dark was wearing towering thigh-high boots, kabuki makeup, and a spiked collar. We paraded into a building behind her like some sort of demented wedding procession. In the cavernous room of an industrial building, she had sex with T.T. Boy while flames shot up all around them.
At the end of last night's episode, she indicated that she has no idea who Jenna Massoli (her real name) is.
[Oprah]
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."
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]
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]
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]
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?
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.
