How to Be a Man

"He participated in several arctic journeys (including a 1000-mile dogsled trip across Greenland), starred in an Oscar-winning film, wrote more than a dozen books (novels and nonfiction, including his Famous Book of the Eskimos), had a peg leg (he lost his leg to frostbite in 1926; he amputated his gangrenous toes himself), was involved in the Danish resistance against Germany, was imprisoned and sentenced to death by the Nazis before escaping to Sweden, studied to be a doctor at university, his first wife was Inuit and his second was a Danish margarine heiress, became friends with Jean Harlow and Mae West, once escaped from a blizzard shelter by cutting his way out of it with a knife fashioned from his own feces, and, last but certainly not least, won $64,000 on The $64,000 Question."

[Kottke]

Wild Things

[Indie Nudes]

Mr. Fleshlight

"Between the airport and his office, he began to redesign the product in his mind. 'I knew that it would have to be portable; it had to be small; it had to be able to fit easily into the hand so that it could facilitate the use of the product. I thought, Guys are into tools. And what I had settled on was a flashlight, so I decided to call it Fleshlight.'"

[Vice]

O HAI

here's the back view of my one-of-a-kind @adam_saaks creation - need more pics of this one! #scissorgenius ✂✨✂ pic.twitter.com/2VGPweU9Q3

— jessica drake (@thejessicadrake) January 22, 2014

The Future of Porn

This is interesting. A gay porn production company digitally removes condoms in post-production.

"'With this movie I really wanted to capture the essence of that time, when life seemed more carefree and spontaneous. In keeping with this concept, I felt that condoms need to be addressed. I wanted to give the impression of a pre-condom movie, but use condoms as we do in every scene we film. I found a way to film the movie safely and effectively, while giving the experience that I had intended and using the hottest modern stars.'"

[NewNowNext]

Sacred Spaces

In car last night with @snpsnpsnp we were talking about one reason we loved strip clubs was they were a space where we could be invisible

— Molly Crabapple (@mollycrabapple) January 20, 2014

That's Forniphilia

"The interview is in Russian, but you don’t need Google Translate to see what everyone’s so offended by. It’s the accompanying photograph of Zhukova sitting atop a black woman chair by provocative ’60s pop artist Allen Jones. Jones’ forniphilic chairs were a source of controversy during the height of their popularity in the ’60s, though it’s Buro who have amped up the cringe factor by selecting one of the few pieces that uses a woman of color."

[Styleite]

Tiny Idea

I'm intrigued by Kevin Rose's Tiny, an in-development blogging platform that would enable readers to see what the writer was doing as they were writing the piece you're reading.

In particular, it prompted me to consider how sex bloggers, erotic authors, or other producers of perverted text-based content might use the platform. For example, what if the female author of an erotic blog was nude while writing?

You would see her blurred naked form in the background, in real-time, as she worked to create her piece. So much for the gap between words and that which they seek to represent. In this case, the text and its author would coexist.

[The Next Web]

Musical Guest

Machine Gun Kelly opened the 2014 AVN Awards Show last weekend. He made his entrance as a dead body on a stretcher. His posse was led by a little person in a white coat, and he was surrounded a dozen gyrating girls in g-strings.

The Woodsman's Dilemma

Day 9 of celibacy and I'm starting to hear colors.

— Logan Pierce (@WhoisLogan) January 9, 2014