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"Dear Ms. Breslin, I'm incredibly  upset about the info in these articles,  and the fact that I was unaware of it,  for well over a year!   But, my reaction is so much stronger now, than it would have been when you wrote it,  because of the  other extreme limits on personal privacy that have been enacted since then, ... NSA 'data gathering' ,  new laws requiring American's entire medical histories (including meds  taken, now or ever!) to be ENTERED INTO A NATIONWIDE GOV'T DATABASE!  (to be hacked/ leaked  easily and often,with potentially horrible consequences! ) .. and laws making 'the gov't , not your doctor,  the ultimate decision maker regarding which meds you can take....Basically, a ' Minority Report' scenario...

And, yet  even minimal  restrictions on ACTUAL deadly weapons have been  impossible to enact !  Why!?   Because doing so COULD POTENTIALLY CREATE A DATABASE OF INFO ON GUNOWNERS!!!  ?? (according to the NRA Dancers.)  Do they hear themselves???   Do they not know that  these new laws  are gathering more personal data on them than their WORST nightmare of what a  potential gun owner background check would have been??....

 They are throwing adult film producers and ' entrepeneurs'  (many of whom can't get any other work than maybe minimum wage job that no one can live on? ).. IN JAIL!.?   and Republicans want to put 'porn monitors' on all computers??!   BUT not monitor  any of the out-of control compulsive -gambling Wall St. 'adrenaline junkies' who destroyed the economy, the savings and lives of millions of  of hard working  Americans!? ...And who   outsourced most of the previously decent jobs!?...  Rather, we  REWARDED their destructive greed and malfeasance and gave them  billions to HELP THEM up after they blew all the money they were entrusted with!!.....But those who work in the Adult film business are the one's 'corrupting ' our' moral fiber!!    WoW!

I'm not  a porn consumer or 'enthusiast'  ..nor am I oblivious to abuses of THAT industry.....or the problems that some/many men are reportedly having with 'sex'  and /or relationships as a result of 'overindulgence' due to easy access'...or unaware that those issues are effecting some women... I know that the media should look into reports of such things....But, it  seems that we are having things  legislated  that shouldn't be...just so they look like they can do SOMETHING .....  when they are unable to legislate about anything important I...It's a  political 'hot button'....for which there appears to be little 'downside' ...except for those actually involved in it....and has tremendous 'political currency' for the conservatives!   But if you were reporting on this almost 2 yrs ago...this was the canary in the coal mine of a much bigger issue!   Thanks for the insight!"

Flattery Will Get You Everywhere

I know journalists (@susannahbreslin) who would pen a long-form think-piece on birthing a growler at #SochiOlympics pic.twitter.com/8gVpZrdPw9

— Mark Ebner (@MarkEbner59) February 5, 2014

Child of God

"'When I finished up talking to her for that hour and a half ... I asked [her] how [she] wanted to be described,' Arnade remembers. 'She said, "As who I am: a prostitute, a mother of six, and a child of God."'"

[NPR]

Here Comes Trouble

"State regulators cited a Bay Area-based adult film company over workplace safety violations, assessing fines of more than $78,000.

Cal-OSHA opened an investigation into San Francisco-based Kink Studios, which runs a network of sites, in August, in response to a complaint filed by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation.

The foundation's complaint related to a July 31 shoot involving actress Cameron Bay, who tested positive for HIV shortly thereafter, bringing filming in the adult industry briefly to a halt. The complaint said the production involved acts 'considered high-risk for the transmission of HIV.'"

[LA Times]

Dick Book

critique my dick pic is about to be a book but i'll still probably never tell dad

— ;( (@moscaddie) February 4, 2014

Sneak Peek

What I'm working on:

"I walk towards the gate, thinking about where I was a year ago: undergoing treatment for early-stage breast cancer. By last fall, I was cancer-free. I wasn't sure what to do next.

So, I went to a shooting range, and I picked up a gun, and I discovered when I pretended the target was a malignant tumor, my aim got better.

The gun made me feel powerful. The gun made me feel better. The gun made everything else fade."

Good Ideas

They should rename Party City to Porno City.

— Sovereign Syre (@Sovereign_Syre) February 3, 2014

Dirty Movies

"How do you feel then about your dad’s legacy?

They realized their dream and then some. But the dream took control after a while. At the end of my father’s life he was really tired of being in porn."

[Salon]

The Creep

"He often played creeps, but he rarely played them creepily. His metier was human loneliness — the terrible uncinematic kind that has very little to do with high-noon heroism and everything to do with everyday empathy — and the necessary curse of human self-knowledge. He held up a mirror to those who could barely stand to look at themselves and invited us not only to take a peek but to see someone we recognized. He played frauds who knew they were frauds, schemers who knew they were schemers, closeted men who could only groan with frustrated love, heavy breathers dignified by impeccable manners, and angels who could withstand the worst that life could hand out because they seemed to know the worst was just the beginning. And what united all his roles was the stoic calm he brought to them, the stately concentration that assured us that no matter whom Philip Seymour Hoffman played, Philip Seymour Hoffman himself was protected."

[Esquire]

Finger Job

via Copyranter

Mrs. Hef

Be sure to follow @CrystalHefner to get the inside scoop. pic.twitter.com/zy3ufNP7eS

— Playboy (@Playboy) February 3, 2014

The War on Women That Wasn't

Reason's Cathy Young interviewed me for a story she wrote on whether or not the internet is "safe" for women.

"Blogger and columnist Susannah Breslin often writes about sex-related matters and readily admits to getting her share of sexually abusive online comments. In an email exchange, she stated that she feels sympathy for feminist writers who have been harassed and threatened, but also believes feminist behavior is part of the problem. According to Breslin, 'Today's feminism by and large defines itself in relation to men. It's about obsessing over how men are keeping women down and about attacking men for all the wrong they do. This feminism promotes reverse sexism.' Moreover, she argues, 'Feminists are the new thought police online, self-appointed cops for what men can and can't say on the Internet. And when you establish that as your methodology, men are not going to respond well.'"

[Reason]