Uncle Sugar

I swear I was in porn film once with Uncle Sugar

— Susie Bright (@susiebright) January 25, 2014

The Shrink Convention

My friend Chris Horne interviewed me about my writing career for an upcoming podcast. During the interview, we discussed writing fiction, and I confessed I hadn't written much fiction lately. I challenged myself to write a short story. He challenged himself to do the same.

You can read my story here.

"The man picked up the colander and placed it on her head. Under the colander, she could hear a low humming that seemed to be coming from the box. Her skull began tingling with what felt like electric shocks. Her eyelids lowered; her hands relaxed on her thighs."

[The Shrink Convention]

Shhhh

a glory hole for listening

— Charlene deGuzman (@charstarlene) January 24, 2014

Weird Trends

Weird sex trends at a porn convention? I've got 'em.

"Behind him, foam core boards balanced on easels displayed artistic renderings of a planned 200-room, gated, private, members-only hotel and spa for those who come to Orlando in search of more adult activities than those found at Disney World. One, labeled 'TYPICAL SUITE VIEW,' included two nude women making out on a bed."

[Forbes]

All The News That's Unfit To Print: 1.25.14

Happy Valentine's Day. [Fashion Copious]

Cate Blanchett is all tied up. [This Isn't Happiness]

Girls on poles. [Vice]

Face tattoos. [Mark Leaver via Needles and Sins]

The pornographer's daughter speaks. [San Jose Mercury News]

I like the way you stand. [Clayton Cubitt]

Her boyfriend was real -- or was he? [Salon]

The anti-porn star. [Refinery29]

Miley Cyrus unplugged. [Miley Cyrus]

"I'm on the porn diet!" [People]

Fuck me shoes. [Flickr]

Sarah's uncertain path. [NYT]

The story behind "SpongeKnob SquareNuts." [Esquire]

How robot sex will save humanity. [Telegraph]

Your erection explained. [io9]

She's levitating. [Jeff Robb via Indie Nudes]

Hey, fuck you. [Sports Illustrated]

The brothel king. [Reason]

Naughty, naughty boy. [Iain Claridge]

Girl fight club. [Apple Trailers]

Silicone Valley

For my second report on the porn convention and porn awards earlier this month in Vegas, I take a look at some of the ways technology can disrupt the adult movie industry: "Can Silicon Valley Save Porn Valley?"

"In the press room, Mike Kulich — I’d last heard from him when he was trying to get a guy with diphallia to appear in one of his porn movies — was launching Skweezme.com."

[Forbes]

Being Trans

Photo credit: William T. Vollmann

"That is not how Vollmann views Dolores. In some ways, Dolores—a woman whom Vollmann controls by virtue of having created her—seems like the logical extension of the sex workers in his previous fiction and nonfiction, who are offered, or offer themselves, for male control. (He has often patronized the hookers he writes about, and once bought—to save her from street life—a Thai teen girl.) 'Dolores belonged entirely to me—was in fact my construct,' he writes, and so he drew her, painted her, dressed her up and did her makeup, and photographed her."

[The New Yorker]

I Get Tweets

@susannahbreslin I doubt you are painting your passion 4 dirty porn with a veil of politically correct. I wonder: why don't you make outing?

— Victor Blade (@VictorBlade1) January 23, 2014

Stripper Advice

Photo credit: AmuseBewbs

"As a stripper, I have scads of finicky little costume pieces that are forever getting lost, natch. I live in a shithole with inadequate closet space, and all my drawers are spoken for. Do you all have any creative ideas for keeping my two pieces in one piece, and my skimpy little pseudo-dresses unwrinkled?"

[Tits and Sass]

No Privates

This week, I'm doing a series of posts on my Forbes blog on the porn convention and porn awards that I went to last week in Vegas. The first one is: "For Women in Porn, The Personal Is Political and Profitable."

"'I’m not entirely comfortable with the label "feminist porn,"' Stormy announces mid-discussion. 'What does my vagina have to do with it?' she asks the crowd rhetorically. 'Why can’t I just be a great director?'"

[Forbes]

Pony Play Time

[This Isn't Happiness]

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]