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Web Log Archives: April 13, 2003 - April 19, 2003

Saturday, April 19, 2003

Assorted silliness:

Links snagged from cool kids like Uffish Thoughts, Eros Blog, Spanking Blog, Six Different Ways, Presurfer, Geisha asobi.


Slate looks at the fake Puma ad affair.


The ShanMonster reviews The Keeper, "the newest weapon in my bee-killing arsenal."


Saddam Hussein's favorite painter speaks!

The artist known as Rowena admits her fantasy-art paintings — filled with snarling dragons, Fabio lookalikes and buxom damsels — can attract an offbeat clientele. But Saddam Hussein? The upstate New York painter was stunned to learn two of her campy, sexually charged artworks wound up at the tyrant's love shack in Baghdad.

And now she wants her ’80s-vintage paintings back — taloned serpents, bare-breasted babes and all. "I would give anything to get them back," said Rowena, whose last name is Morrill but prefers using only her first name. "I am so upset that they are there."

The painting from earlier this week, with the "busty blond . . . conjuring up a forked-tongued serpent to wrap itself around the body of a hunky bare-chested warrior," was originally done for the cover of Shadows Out of Hell, a 1980 fantasy novel by Andrew Offutt. Saddam also had this Rowena painting entitled "King Dragon" in the same house.

Rowena King Dragon

More Rowena art here and here and here and here.


Friday, April 18, 2003

Last year, Visa/MasterCard imposed new regulations and fees on adult webmasters using third-party billing companies. Now the credit card company wants to impose the same regulations and fees on adult webmasters using adult verification systems (AVS).


Several years ago, the British Medical Journal published "Magnetic resonance imaging of male and female genitals during coitus and female sexual arousal", illustrated by explicit hardcore pics of history's first recorded sex act in an MRI tube. The paper's four authors received the Ig Nobel Prize for their efforts. In her Ig Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Ida Sabelis gave a humorous personal account of the historic but very cramped romp. Now French researcher Antoine Faix is continuing their work.

In 1999, researchers in Holland published the first MRI pictures of couples copulating, but they observed just one position: the man-on-top, or "missionary" position. Faix went a step further. He got images of two couples having sex in the missionary position and in the rear-entry position. . . . "You can really very clearly see that it's different, anatomically speaking, between the missionary and rear-entry position," Faix says.

Hey, not everyone can work on that genome thing.


Rose at Sex Geek recently posted a list of disturbing search requests used to find her site, which reads like kinky nonsense poetry.

american tongue sex gallery
accidental cleavage
how do i get fucked by someone?
how to seduce ladies in my gym
the incredible feeling of being
        bum fucked
ass sex behind beyond
blog fucked in ass
sex by finger
sex with garbage bags
sex with trees
where do i go to get some one
        to have sex with me
hopeless despair and hot sex
really sad poems about sex
2
i want sex on the train
www.save a lot sex
sex -hoo
guinea pigs humping
sex while sleeping
my favorite sex
having sex in france
sex sex sex sex sex
fucked bicycle
amateur women having sex in
        public places
sexual fucking yoga
sex and avant go
sex on the beach with old woman
do women like to look at naked men?
i love my vulva
sex and sweaters
why do men like pussy so much
sex with giants
all sites which starts from
        sex in the world
concept of hot wild sex
i do not love you" salt-rose topaz
i love you without knowing
my two favorite persian girls
hot tub will not fit downstairs
sex sex sex sex
        happening right
        now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Better than anything Billy Collins or Jewel have ever written.


A bankrupt German sex shop owner faces charges of "polluting an area of natural beauty" for dumping his unsold stock in the woods.


Jonno has the Penis Blog Project up and running. Match the penis to the blogger and win fabulous penis-themed prizes.


The Yahoo directory now has a sex blogs category. (I assume this is very recent since I've never seen it in my referrer logs before this morning.)


Washington Post: "The Federal Trade Commission is suing one of the country's most active purveyors of pornographic junk e-mail, part of a stepped-up push by the agency to combat spam. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in federal court in Illinois, alleges Brian D. Westby of Missouri violated federal laws by sending e-mail whose deceptive subject lines, such as 'What is wrong?' and 'Fwd: You may want to reboot your computer,' camouflaged the actual content: images of scantily clad women and links to 20 porn Web sites Westby operated, many of them featuring 'married but lonely' women." Go FTC, shut the bastards down.


Thursday, April 17, 2003

Metafilter steers us to this wonderful site devoted to French photographer Guy Bourdin, best known for his work in French Vogue from the 1950s through 1980s. "A disconcerting surrealism pervaded his work. They were always graphically strong with a weird sense of alienation."

Guy Bourdin

Lots more good Bourdin stuff in the Metafilter post by Miguel Cardoso.


Painted zodiac signs by Ani Black.


An awesome dick — a neat little animated penis game, and it's for a good cause!


A Manhattan dominatrix turned fitness instructor offers "Slavercise" workout classes. Mistress Victoria has gotten media attention from Salon (not premium), ABC News and Playboy.

Slavercise Slavercise

"Clad in face masks, dog collars, rubber suits and other sartorial S&M paraphernalia, Mistress Victoria's students run through the exercise regimen, knowing any slacking off will bring her wrath down upon them. 'Anybody is going to pay more attention to their fitness instructor if she's got a riding crop in her hand and is wearing leather and stilettos.'" She also sells a workout video shot at the New York S&M club Hellfire.

UPDATE: Yahoo has a Slavercise slideshow. (Link snagged from Geisha asobi.)


Wednesday, April 16, 2003

Spencer Tunick staged a group nude photo in London for the opening of the new Saatchi BritArt Gallery.


Eugene Volokh poses a question about vibrators, then talks about his own and readers' answers.


Yesterday was your typical tax procrastinator's nightmare here at the Daze Reader home office. And you'd think a city the size of Austin would have more than one post office open til midnight, bitch, moan, bitch, moan. The highlight of the day was hearing "Humpty Dance" for the first time in ages, which includes one of the all-time great pop music couplets:

I'm a freak, I like the girls with the boom
I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom

And that made it all better. (Interesting sidenote: some guy reports that Beck covered part of "Humpty Dance" in concert at least once.)


Tuesday, April 15, 2003

Roger Pilon of the Cato Institute argues that government shouldn't police morals -- or sexual practices. The Cato Institute filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in the Texas sodomy law case.


Ladies of Star Trek collects pictures of all those sexy female yeomen and aliens from the original series. Yeoman Rand and Lieutenant Uhura get their own pages. (Link snagged from Presurfer.)


Easter Monday (ie, the day after Easter) features the traditional public beating of women in the Czech Republic, an old fertility rite that dates back to the Middle Ages. "The symbolism is pretty clear: the whipping, say Czechs, ensures the woman stays fertile and beautiful. No woman escapes: women of all ages get a whipping, from children to grandmothers. In fact, it's considered rude to leave one of the women in a gathering out, even if she's 70 years old. The whipping is supposed to be symbolic, more a gentle tap." This article notes that "a lot of Czech women complain that men are abusing the tradition" but that "many Czech women defend the tradition." The last paragraph looks at domestic violence laws and the social status of women in the Czech Republic. (Thanks, Cowboy.)

Spanking Blog found this photo of the whips used, known as "pomlazka."


Visit the Museum of Porn in Art, currently featuring online exhibitions by Charles Jaffé, Steven Johnson Leyba and Gudmundur Gudmundsson Erró. Oddly enough, there's no gift shop. (Thanks, Cowgirl.)


Ananova: "Ten priests have been suspended from the Orthodox Church in Romania for blessing brothels and sex shops. A TV documentary showed priests receiving thongs and sex toys in return for giving their blessings." (Thanks, Vann.)


Monday, April 14, 2003

Among his many crimes against humanity, Saddam Hussein was apparently really tacky.

Saddam safehouse fantasy painting Painting detail


Lest anyone consider Daze Reader's naked war coverage biased after all the links to naked war protesters, check out these naked British soldiers in Iraq.


Rachel Cooke reviews a new addition to the stripper/call girl memoirs genre, with a twist. "As a teenager, David Henry Sterry worked as a prostitute, servicing rich, lonely women in the Hollywood hills. Now aged 45, the former sex addict tells all in his no-holds-barred memoir." His book is called Chicken, apparently a play on both "slang for a teenager who engages in sex for money" and Sterry's job at a fried chicken restaurant. Once the book promotion winds down, Sterry is planning "his own one-man show" later this year.


Julie Burchill savagely mocks a wave of lesbian chic posturing by Dannii Minogue, Geri Halliwell and Liz Hurley.

Mind you, irritating though this sophistry - sapphistication? - is, I've got to thank Liz "No Photos Please" Hurley for giving me the best laugh this year; the image of two glamazons as groomed and augmented as Posh'n'Keks and their ilk attempting lesbian sex. "No, don't touch me there - you'll burst my breast implant!" "Don't kiss me - my mouth's still sore from the collagen injection!" "Don't stroke my hair - your false nails will snag in my extensions!" "Yes, of course I came - but I had my Botox this morning, that's why I'm looking so blank!"

If Queen Victoria had gone to this sort of set-up looking to understand what lesbians do in bed, she'd have come away convinced that all they do is dress up in La Perla underwear and smirk at each other. I know Tatu do it - but Tatu are teenagers, and teenagers make anything look cool, including acne and self-pity. But when a woman of Hurley's age - 37 - reveals a previously unspoken loyalty to the Muffia, you've got to admit that the thing is very, very tired.

I love Julie Burchill.


Playboy settled out of court and payed off the owner of the "Sex Court" website at sexcourt.com. Newsday reports, "Jurors said they likely would have ruled against Playboy and for Mario Cavalluzzo, 31, who was seeking $8.9 million in a countersuit."


Sunday, April 13, 2003

Porn video studio Extreme Associates was raided by FBI agents, postal inspectors and Los Angeles police officers on Tuesday. Agents seized records, videocassettes and model releases for five titles: Extreme Teen 24, Cocktails 2, Ass Clowns 3, 1001 Ways to Eat My Jizz and Forced Entry. The search warrant was issued in Pennsylvania, and the Justice Department will likely pursue obscenity charges there soon.

(This pro wrestling fan site covered the raid because Rob Black, owner of Extreme Associates, has recently branched out with a wrestling tour called XPW. This is the only news item mentioning Extreme Associates available via Google News, which would indicate no Los Angeles area newspapers covered the raid.)

Industry journal Adult Video News has a long, detailed story about the raid, why Extreme Associates was targeted and what other porn industry figures are thinking. For several years, Extreme Associates has built a niche with material that most other studios shun, notably violent rape scenarios and over-18 performers portraying underage characters. One attorney quoted says, "Because Extreme Associates has positioned itself to be literally at the extreme end of all production, their prosecution was highly likely if not inevitable. That is, their content goes so far beyond that which any production that I'm aware of has undertaken in terms of depictions of non-consensual material, the purportedly HIV-positive gangbang, the depiction of incest, rape or rape of adult actresses portraying extremely young people, it was as predictable as anything in the world that they were going to get busted."

The AVN article describes the contents of three seized titles:

"In [Ass Clowns 3], I kill Osama bin Laden by cutting his head off with a knife, and we shoot everybody else that's with his little group of murdering cutthroats," recalled veteran performer Dick Nasty. "There's lots of blood, and there's lots of, basically, rape; they all rape the American journalist before we go in and save her. I play a British Special Forces guy going in with and American Special Forces guy, and then we d.p. her, but when we do it, she's [consenting]."

But as inflammatory as blood and rape in a sexually-explicit movie may be, the "director's cut" has material almost guaranteed to upset any mainstream audience — especially if they sit in a jury box.

"To the best of my knowledge," said a knowledgeable source, "the difference in the director's cut of Ass Clowns 3 is, Brian Surewood plays a Christ-like figure who is nailed to a cross and crucified, and ther's an angel present, and he comes down off the cross and has anal sex with her. He essentially rapes the angel. In the non-director's cut version, the scene begins with it being blacked out, and [text] saying, 'To see the full version of this scene, ask for the director's cut,' and it begins with him just sort of walking; he's come down from the cross and is walking."

Extreme Teen 24 has at least one scene featuring an adult actress (Kiwi) playing what appears to be a pre-teen who lives in a crude tent in her parents' living room, wears pajamas with feet and constantly sucks on a lollipop. Valentino enters, and tells her he's a friend of Pokemon, and that Pokemon would want her to suck his cock, which she proceeds to do. The scene continues explicitly from there.

Forced Entry, of course, was the feature showcased in last year's [PBS] Frontline episode, where various Frontline personnel claimed to have been sickened by the tape's depictions of forcible rape.

Rob Black, owner of Extreme Associates, issued a defiant public statement after the raid. "There were no arrest warrants. Nobody was arrested. And, Extreme Associates doors are now and will remain open for business selling the fine quality Extreme product that you have grown to love. This will INCLUDE all of the videos which are part of this obscenity investigation as we stand by our product and feel that nothing we have ever produced is obscene. The only thing we may be guilty of is bad taste."

People in the porn industry — video, publishing and internet — are wondering if the Extreme Associates raid was an isolated incident or the beginning of a broader crackdown. At The Adult Webmaster, Connor Young makes the case that the "long-promised assault on adult pornography" has begun.


Porn Sites

Kara's Adult Playground

Broadband XXX Movies

Coeds Need Cash

Totally Teens

Internet Hookups

MILF Searcher

Horny Traveler

Lesbian Pink

Deep Oral Girls

Asian Pleasures

8th Street Latinas

Chicks Got Dicks

Grannies

Big Naturals

Bang Bus

Gay Porn

Bad Puppy

Nightcharm

Absolutely Male

Cruise Patrol

Deep Oral Guys

Nasty Boys

Soldier of Cock

Guys In The City

Bisexual Porn

Three Pillows

Bi Curiosity

I Go Both Ways

Porn for Women

Ladies Only Porn

Just for Ladies

Women's Porno

Alt Porn

Nakkid Nerds

Ralf Vulis

Gothic Amateur

Punk Erotic

Odd Porn

Beyond Bizarre

Food Fetishes

Stoner Babes

X Rated Midgets

Plushie Sex

Musical Sex Toys