Tag: violet blue
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A Lotta Links for Your Weekend: Playboy, MEL, and more!
Just in time for you to zone out at the end of your work-week, here’s a whole lotta links to enjoy! (Or rage out about, or be grossed out by, as may be appropriate in some cases. Hey, it’s a lotta links! I like to give options!) My new work at Playboy and MEL, and others’…
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I’ve Missed a Lot
Wow, I’ve been gone for just a week and a half-ish, but I feel like I’ve missed so much in the world of sex and porn in America! Cal-OSHA is stepping up efforts to impose barrier-only sex in porn, performers are going to Talent Testing for their panels, a gay teen was abducted and sent…
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Issues of Consent: Do Passers-by or Pornographers Deserve a Say?
I was perusing the interwebz this morning and came across a link on Violet Blue’s blog tiny nibbles to an article by Charlie Glickman, PhD, a sex educator and leading member of Good Vibrations. The article, called “Consent and Public Disgrace,” discusses the Kink.com site “Public Disgrace” and how, though he loves porn and kink,…
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Considering “Sex is Cheap” and the Outrage it Caused
When Slate published an article called “Sex is Cheap” by Mark Regnerus earlier this week, people went a little apeshit about it. Regnerus’s main point in the feature was that while young men these days seem to be falling behind the benchmarks made by their predecessors in the academic and professional arenas, they are still…
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Sex Noises, Brought to You By Cold, Calculating Women
Courtesy of the indomitable Violet Blue, I give you all a study that provides evidence of women using their “copulatory vocalizations” to influence their male partners’ behavior and ejaculation. No kidding? You mean women actually modulate the way they respond to their partners to get what they want out of them? Moan louder when they…
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Filament and Thigh Strength
First things first: Filament magazine is having an open erotic fiction contest! Filament magazine is THE BOMB–they’re a British “lady mag” that focuses on the female gaze in eroticizing and sexualizing the male form, with beautiful art and photography layered with intelligent and interesting articles. It’s magical, and now they’re offering all their readers a…