Yoncé
Kiss
Subway Ride
Luv Guv No More
On Christmas Eve, former New York governor Eliot Spitzer and his long-suffering wife Silda announced they're divorcing. The couple had been living apart for months, and days earlier the NYC tabloids had revealed Spitzer was "shacking up with" Lis Smith. Smith had worked as communications director on Spitzer's failed comptroller bid and is currently New York City mayor-elect Bill de Blasio's spokesperson. The new couple spent Christmas together.
[NYP]
Teledildonics Is Here
The New York Times has a piece on what's next in high-tech sex: "Sex Toys and Cybersex Are Enhanced by New Technology."
"Some of that has already begun to happen. Love Plus, a dating-simulation game developed for the portable Nintendo DS console, allows a player to caress another’s hair using a touch pad or to go on a flirtatious study date. Much like how Samantha is programmed to be adaptive to Theodore’s personality in 'Her,' these virtual sweethearts modify their personas in real time based on the player’s likes and dislikes. The game is popular among otaku, Japanese slang for reclusive computer nerds, who often post screen shots of their Samanthas online or go on real-life dates with their video-game console."
[NYT]
The Italian Stallion
Don't Sweat the Technique
American Family
(Credit: Steve Cukrov via Shutterstock/Salon)
"As a boy on Christmas morning I would rush downstairs, rip open my stocking, and discover among the toys and knick-knacks a bright, glossy, end-of-the-year special edition pornographic magazine.
Yes. My parents gave me pornography. In my stocking."
[Salon]
Stripper Santa
Playboy Doodle
Drink Me
Photo credit: Susannah Breslin
Happy Holidays
From Susan Elizabeth Shepard's "For Black Sheep on Christmas Eve":
"My uncle handed me their present, and I opened it to find a pair of purple-gold-green tasseled, sequined pasties. Nobody else found it funny but the three of us laughed like crazy. It was ballsy of them to make a joke of the family shame that was my topless dancing career and made me feel understood and not utterly alone that morning. Thank god, someone can have a sense of humor, is what it felt like. It was one of the best Christmas presents I’ve ever gotten, and I hang pasties on my tree now because that’s part of what makes it Christmas for me."
In the Mirror
The Porn Convention
Porn convention, Rosemont, IL / Photo credit: Susannah Breslin
"In the bathroom, it smells like porn stars and strippers: peaches and apricots, sticky body glitter and platform heels with slits for tips, humping unicorns and money shot stardust."
[Forbes]
Gary Player @ 77
Upside Down
I Get Rejections
"Hi Susannah!
I think it's a little too graphic for us to run, but thanks for letting us have a look! We're always open to pitches."
Yes
"O that awful deepdown torrent O and the sea the sea crimson sometimes like fire and the glorious sunsets and the figtrees in the Alameda gardens yes and all the queer little streets and the pink and blue and yellow houses and the rosegardens and the jessamine and geraniums and cactuses and Gibraltar as a girl where I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes."
[Ulysses]
Sexy & Disgusting
