Brand Whores

"I found the tech conference I went to really depressing. Everyone there was a brand whore. Is this what we are: brand whores?"

[Forbes]

What Girls Are Made Of

This Girl is Made of Gunpowder and Lead. Women's Second Amendment Pink T-Shirt. BUY HERE--> http://t.co/y52JMhOQfi pic.twitter.com/jkj0b8Qbdq

— Sons of Liberty Tees (@sonslibertytees) February 7, 2014

All The News That's Unfit to Print: 2.8.14

What's your password. [This Isn't Happiness]

Give us money, we are pretty. [Clayton Cubitt]

Dick fetish. [Roxie Vizcarra]

It's almost Valentine's Day. [Nerve]

"'It's really nerve-racking,' she said, clutching her see-through lace dress." [LAT]

Tattoo you. [Maxime Ballesteros]

A day in the life of a porn star. [iHeartRadio]

The secret history of Las Vegas. [NYT]

She's larger than life. [My Modern Metropolis]

He's a very bad man. [EW]

"It was the beginning of the end of the monster sex ride." [Salon]

She makes music when she walks. [Style]

Thomas Jefferson goes to a porno. [Swierczy]

Porn stars are real. [Slixa]

She's not like other girls. [Kotaku]

Knee pads are in. [Style]

Beware illegal ass enhancements. [Vice]

Let's go for a swim. [Tumblr via Clayton Cubitt]

Do what the fembot says. [The Cut]

Meeting in the ladies room. [Fashion Copious]

Art, Nailed

"A video taken using a handheld camera and posted online moments later shows tourists gawping as he sits on the ground. A police car arrives, and an officer orders the man to get up. But the man cannot get up – because he is attached to the icy cobbles with a single, long nail that is driven through his scrotum and into the stones below."

[Guardian]

I Get Email

Photo credit: Steven Meisel

"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]