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Love this Periodic Table of Sexual Terminology via This Isn't Happiness.
"There's even a useful guide to alternative words for his 'n her bits 'n bobs just incase you're struggling to locate the 'panty hamster' or the 'swizzle stick.'"
[Dorothy]
Bra Shark. #art pic.twitter.com/Tlr2vlptSa
— Mark Duffy (@copyranter) February 7, 2015
John Holmes via Zazou Fans
I get emails practically every day from men who want to be porn stars because I wrote a post for my (former) Forbes blog called "The Hardest Thing About Being a Male Porn Star."
To date, I have received 355 of these emails.
(And that post has nearly 1.7M views.)
I posted some of the emails here, but I need to update that.
Can someone please explain to me why large numbers of the men who email me wanting to become porn stars are from India and Pakistan?
I would be very interested in knowing the answer to this question.
You can illuminate me here.
Here's a recent one (I used the subject header of the email as the title of this post):
"What on earth do i neef,i know no one no contacts nothing,whete fo i start,
Pls,pks help me i will be indebt to you,
Yours faithfully
.... .[redacted]"
Image via @ellestanger
Salon has an interview with Elle Stanger, a stripper who advocates on behalf of her fellow dancer's rights as workers.
Stanger shares:
"Currently, we exist in a loophole. It leans more towards the independent contractor side. I don’t have all the answers as to how we can reconcile or find what our true status is. I don’t think we’re there yet. Certainly, the vast majority of strippers that I’ve spoken with and club operators and owners, we pretty much only understand that we don’t want to be considered employees and there are several reasons why. First of all, there are so many venues in town. If you enact minimum wage and force these venues to pay us minimum wage, it’s going to put a lot of them out of business. Economically, I don’t want to put people out of work. The second reason is a lot of people working in entertainment or the adult environment, we do have other hobbies, education, and we have other jobs. But due to discriminatory hiring, if Susie Stripper with her PhD in literature wants to go back to school and continue being a college professor — and I’ve met women who are college professors and strip in secret — if she’s subject to a background check and it shows up as entertainer on her work background because she had to list it, since she was considered an employee, she may or may not be hired, whether or not she’s qualified, simply because of discrimination. A lot of entertainers really don’t want to have to be forced to list this work because we know that it could affect our future conventional work choices."
[Salon]
Image credit: Harper's Bazaar
That's Rihanna hanging around in a shark's mouth for Harper's Bazaar. The side-by-side homage to "Jaws" is here. Video of Rihanna swimming with sharks is here.
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I'm embarrassed to report that not only did I do the "Can You Guess Who Dated Who on 'Sex and the City'?" quiz, but I only got 11 out of 15 right.
[BuzzFeed]
She likes her coffee like she likes her men...strong and with a stick of butter shoved in them
— Clayton Cubitt (@claytoncubitt) February 7, 2015
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If you were thinking about becoming an astronaut so you could have sex in space, think again. BuzzFeed has a listicle featuring "9 Reasons Why Having Sex in Space Is a Horrible Idea."
"In microgravity, sweat doesn’t drip down your body. Instead it clings to your skin and forms pools, Millis said. If you were engaging in some heavy, vigorous sex, then blobs of liquid would be flying all over the place."
[BuzzFeed]
Image via Kim Kardashian
Image via Untapped Cities
Jason Reitman, gross, tells the Huffington Post, gag, that he created a real porn site for his movie about the internet and the people who patronize it.
"'We had a guy whose job, full-time, was to look at porn ... and find thumbnails so we could create Pornhub pages so that it looked as though someone was searching things and things were coming up,' Reitman told HuffPost Live's Roy Sekoff. 'So that guy, for weeks, he just watched porn and came up with thumbnails and titles to clips.'"
Congratulations, dickhead.
[HuffPo]
Too disco for you https://t.co/wlLKNDueVy cc @eslauraabad
— Peteski (@nevverdaily) February 6, 2015
Image credit: Trojan Brand Condoms
The Facebook Whisperer says this status update should have wryly informed consumers not to use Trojan condoms past their expiration date.
[Facebook]
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Oh, hey, it's Jennifer Lawrence naked in Vanity Fair. Well, not entirely naked because her outfit is a big snake.
Patrick Demarchelier snapped the pic which is an homage to this pic by Richard Avedon.
So it's OK for you to see her naked if she says it's OK to see her naked, but it's not OK for you to see her naked if she says it's not OK to see her naked.
Glad we cleared that up.
VF reports:
"Last July 29, on a Patrick Demarchelier shoot at a private residence in the Hollywood Hills, a giant Colombian red-tailed boa constrictor spent most of the day cooped up in a perforated, extra-large storage container managed by two very capable handlers. When it came time for the snake to take his star turn, there was frightfully little between him and Jennifer Lawrence—only a long metal rod with a hook at the end. The actress proved to be very brave and nonchalant about having a serpent wrapped around her body—an homage to the 1981 Richard Avedon Vogue portrait of Nastassja Kinski that launched a million dorm-room posters—and coolly focused her eyes on the camera."
One can assume they take pains to point out the date of the shoot in order to make clear the photo was done prior to her nude photo leaks last August.
[Vanity Fair via Fashion Copious]
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Betabrand is deciding whether or not to make a poop-emoji dress for women to follow their poop-emoji shirt for men.
Adweek's David Griner coos: "This is truly a golden age for the poo emoji, that fecund swirl who's become the messaging embodiment of all things odious."
The company is crowdfunding this shit. It's an exciting time for coprophagiacs.
Looks like they're also doing poop-emoji shoes.
[Adweek via Rob Walker]
Behold the trailer for David Cronenberg's latest, "Maps to the Stars." It is rated R and contains STRONG DISTURBING VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL CONTENT, GRAPHIC NUDITY, LANGUAGE AND SOME DRUG MATERIAL. So, the usual Cronenberg.
Variety reports:
"But the film’s most au courant and inflammatory conceit is no doubt the portrait of the 13-year-old mega-star, Benjie Weiss (Evan Bird), a kid just out of rehab whose longtime success on TV and $780 million gross for his latest film allow him to call his agent stuff like 'Jew faggot' and get away with it. He also thinks it’s funny when he labels people 'vabinas' and, on a would-be goodwill visit, asks a hospitalized young girl how her AIDS is doing."
[iTunes]
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A New York theater troupe interviewed porn stars in Porn Valley about their business and turned their research into a musical: "Pretty Filthy."
"The Civilians are laying bare the lives of porn stars in their newest production, 'Pretty Filthy.' A behind-the-scenes musical about the adult entertainment industry, drawn as always from extensive interviews with players in the business itself, the new show features songs by the company’s go-to composer-lyricist, the supremely gifted Michael Friedman (known for 'Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,' among others); a book by Bess Wohl; and direction by Steve Cosson, the troupe’s founding artistic director."
[NYT]
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Hey, it's Julie. She's ready for Pantytime. So says American Apparel. This would be a great candidate for litvertising.
[AA]
[via This Isn't Happiness]
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"Should 'Slut' Be Retired?" Anna North wants to know. History: slut was bad, then it was good, now it's bad again. Apparently. Fucking tiresome!
Some asshat wrote a book called I Am Not a Slut. (Congrats on that.) The author, polysyllabic, claims: the word slut "is too dangerous to be reclaimed." Fucking A.
I need a trigger warning for this op-ed. I need a trigger warning for women who need trigger warnings. I need a trigger warning for trigger warnings. I need a trigger warning for women who think the word slut is "dangerous."
Thankfully, some women are still sluts and proud. "Just Fucked Edelman No Lie" is this week's slut hero. Slutty and proud! Slutty and uploading it! Sluttiness maximized! You go, slut! That chick wins the XLIX Superbowl of sluts, in my book.
There are many following paragraphs in which intensely dull people share convoluted ideas regarding sluthood ad infinitum.
As I noted on my Twitter, in Porn Valley, one director used to refer to his stars on his box covers (remember those?!) as cum dumpsters. So take your "slut," and shut up.
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Look, a plus-sized model, Ashley Graham, is featured in an ad in Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue. Everyone is excited.
"'I know my curves are sexy and I want everyone else to know that theirs are too. There is no reason to hide and every reason to flaunt,' Graham says in a statement," reports everybody.
Girl looks good. Thick is the new thin.
[ET]