Your Sunday Zen
All the News That's Unfit to Print: 12.28.13
Photo credit: An Le
What did we get stuck in our rectums this year? [Deadspin]
IamA Ex Porn Photographer/Videographer AMA! [reddit]
Celebrity Close-Up: Cara Delevingne. [Celebrity Close-Up]
What really builds strong bones. [Instagram]
Ainu's women's tattooed lips. [Sang Bleu]
Get a sneak peek at HBO's upcoming "Sex//Now." [Vulture]
An afternoon in a Pakistani porn theater. [GMA News]
I guess she's a Blackhawks fan. [Ylva]
"I'm adult film actor/performer jackhammer." [Prison Pen Pals]
Fashion or porn? [Refinery29]
Erectile dysfunction exposed. [Forbes]
Salad-tossing explained. [Playboy]
Californication. [Anoush Abrar]
You're not using condoms. [The Cut]
Cybill Sheperd & Martin Scorsese = "Taxi Driver." [ThisIsNotPorn]
Either way, you're screwed. [Romenesko]
Her boobs are so big. [Instagram]
Malaysia's foodcentric "Sex and the City." [WSJ]
Obamacare heroin gets you high. [Forbes]
Massive attack of the pole dancer. [YouTube]
Nice Wallet
I Get Comments
A comment from "What Porn Stars Do When the Porn Industry Shuts Down":
"I have read several of your articles on the porn industry. In general, you have delved into an area that is fascinating from a social and business perspective. What I appreciate is that you do not write for the tittering shock value. You could as easily be writing about shipbuilding. This article I found particularly interesting."
[Forbes]
Bareback Boys
"It may seem that way, but in my experience, a much bigger factor for performers, HIV-positive or otherwise, in deciding to make bareback porn or not, is concern over their career. Many performers I have talked to that are HIV-positive have expressed that they would prefer to make bareback because they enjoy bareback more, they have bareback sex in their private lives, but won’t do it in porn because of their fear that they would be blacklisted by certain condom-only studios. Many of these same performers have returned in subsequent years telling me that they are no longer concerned about blacklisting and are now ready to make bareback."
[Queerty]
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]