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Web Log Archives: November 16, 2003 - November 22, 2003

Friday, November 21, 2003

Weekend TV alert: 60 Minutes will run a segment on the porn industry this Sunday.


People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) got Triumph the Insult Comic Dog to do an ad campaign promoting neutering pets. A good cause, not so controversial as the other causes PETA espouses. The ad shows Triumph wearing a conical plastic collar and a bandaid on his crotch. The tagline reads, "Get Neutered — It didn't hurt Clay Aiken."

Why Clay Aiken? In a Rolling Stone cover story (remember when Rolling Stone put rock musicians on the cover?), Aiken said, "I think cats are Satan. There's nothing worse to me than a house cat. When I was about 16, I had a kitten and ran over it. Seeing that cat die, I actually think that its spirit has haunted me. I wasn't afraid of cats before. But now they scare me to death." PETA took offense and wrote Aiken a letter requesting a public retraction asserting that cats are actually "deserving of kindness, respect and love, and that everybody should always be kind to animals." Aiken ignored them, thus the grudge.

Aiken's interview comments don't offend me, but neither does the PETA ad. Anyone who releases a CD entitled Measure of a Man deserves some genital ridicule. The ad hasn't run yet, and PETA is offering to nix the ad if Aiken agrees to make a statement urging pet owners to spay or neuter their animals and give PETA an interview. How asinine. The best response to this sort of blackmail is reverse blackmail: "If you run that ad, I'll buy a fur coat."

Meanwhile, Triumph himself sides with Aiken and belittles PETA in a hilarious statement on his website.

Recently I agreed to do an ad for PETA. Why? I'm not into animal rights. The only animal right I want is the right to hump Ashanti's leg. Look at your average animal lovers, like Moby and Bill Maher. Sure, Bill Maher love animals... that's because humans hate him! Moby? Nice guy, but not the best looking man. I hear Moby had sex with a poodle once, and the poodle was arrested for bestiality. Vegetarianism? Count me out. I ain't giving up cow, or bird, or pig. So why the hell should you? Hell, we'd eat you if someone dropped a slice on the floor. Oh, yes. We'll have the deep fried Moby with a side of glazed Mary Tyler Moore, please. Dessert? I'm torn between the Pam Anderson flambe and the flourless Alec Baldwin cake. Bottom line: animals are assholes. Delicious assholes.

Triumph says his first choice for tagline was "Chop 'Em Off — They Didn't Taste That Great Anyway," which is much funnier than the Aiken gag and not instantly dated. Triumph's website has plenty of cool audio and video downloads, plus links to articles and interviews. From his Playboy interview:

Do you have any fetishes?

I have multiple-boob fantasies. I mean, eight is great, but I get off on fake photos of poodles with 16 or 24.

Now that's kinky. Triumph is my idol.


Boston Globe: "Syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease once on the cusp of extinction in the United States, continues a dramatic and dangerous rebound both nationally and regionally, and disease trackers fear that the rise could herald an explosion of new HIV cases. Federal disease investigators reported yesterday that after a decade of steadily plummeting, syphilis cases rose in 2002 for the second straight year, climbing 12.4 percent, with much of that increase rooted among men who have sex with other men."


Thursday, November 20, 2003

Inspired Paris Hilton humor by investment banker blogger d-nasty.

The first piece has been widely linked, but the whole blog is very funny and worth checking out.


The legalize-pot advocacy group Change the Climate recently ran an ad campaign promoting marijuana's sex-enhancing properties on Washington DC buses and bus stop shelters. The ads are pretty cheesy and amateurish; that photo looks like a cross between a bad romance novel cover and a cruiseline commercial. These folks could take some marketing lessons from PETA.

The organization's information page acknowledges that sex and pot don't mix well for everyone.

Clearly, marijuana use during sex varies depending on the individual and intoxication levels. For example, some people report an increase in tactile sensation, visual stimulation, and fantasy production. While others report that marijuana decreased their interest in sex, especially when the marijuana high overwhelmed the sexual experience.

Conservatives are pissed on several levels: that Washington's transit authority accepted ads that "promote illegal behavior [and] violate standards of common decency," and that Change the Climate got the ad space free (the transit authority provides free space for public service announcements by non-profit organizations). The fiscal argument against the free PSA policy is legitimate, if selling that ad space instead could offset taxpayer funding for public transit. But as long as the Metro has the free PSA policy, demanding that they only accept ads for causes I support is not legitimate. (Link snagged from Flutterby.)


Wednesday, November 19, 2003

Scientists say falling in love is kind of like eating chocolate, kind of like obsessive compulsive disorder.


The Harvard Crimson covers a campus brouhaha over a student video project about masturbation after the videomakers sent a mass email soliciting onscreen participants.

Lucy F.V. Lindsey ’06 and Nicole A. Salazar ’06 e-mailed looking for students to relate personal experiences, be part of a group discussion and even appear in the act on camera.

“This cross-cultural, cross-generational study will aspire to open up what we perceive to be one of the final frontiers in sexual education and communication,” they wrote in their House list post.

One student responded to Leverett-Open [an email list for residents of Leverett House] with a terse, one-word, expression of disgust: “Gross.”

Another complained about the solicitation e-mail’s ambiguous subject line, which read “amazing opportunity.”

Who actually opens email with the subject header "amazing opportunity"?


After last year's Ben Affleck debacle, People gets it right this year and names Johnny Depp its Sexiest Man Alive. (For now the news is only on People's AOL-only site, which I refuse to link; wire stories later.) Feeling kinda blog-lazy today, so time for a goofy link-dump.

Links via Six Different Ways, Attu Sees All, things magazine and Cup of Chicha.


Monday, November 17, 2003

Yahoo back in X-rated business. "Yahoo Inc., which removed adult products and banner ads from its U.S. Web portal in 2001 after protests by conservative groups, is back in the pornography business. With the acquisition of Overture Services last month, Yahoo is now selling ads to a range of hard-core Web sites. Those ads appear on two search engines Yahoo acquired as part of the Overture deal -- AltaVista and AlltheWeb.com."


The Smoking Gun posts the contract between Marvad and Donald Thrasher for distribution rights to the Paris Hilton sex video. Marvad paid Thrasher $50,000 and promised him 30% of revenues generated from the tape, on the understanding that Thrasher was acting as Rick Solomon's legal representative.


Adrian Ryan at Nightcharm confesses his decidedly un-pc sexual fantasies about homeless guys.

With all that pressure, how could I not have noticed that the wandering tribes of unwashed human flotsam have taken a sharp aesthetic left turn somewhere, and from pitiable street drunks had sprung many younger, fresher, mostly cleaner and negotiably nubile spare-changing angels and studs (or "spangers" and "spuds"), gathering like moon dust in every crannied crook and corner -- hungrily locking eyes with mine, preventing my forward transgress, striking up conversations (sort of -- mostly they just ask for shit), and opening themselves up fully (wantonly!) to libidinous scrutiny? It's almost more than one can reasonably expect from most fag bars. On good nights. On great nights.


New York magazine runs letters to the editor responding to the recent Naomi Wolf and David Amsden anti-porn articles. Letter-writers include Rachel Kramer Bussel, Susie Bright and Rachel Venning (of Toys in Babeland).


Amateur porno and penis-touching rampage at Yale.

Custodians in William L. Harkness Hall opened the building on Oct. 28 to find nude pictures taped to the walls, Yale Police Department Lt. Michael Patten said. In the background of the pornography, custodians saw something very familiar: the rooms of WLH.

It seems that over the weekend, a woman and at least one man snuck into WLH and took pictures of themselves in various compromising positions.

[Custodian Greg] Simpson said he had an especially disturbing experience after he saw one photo in particular.

"After I drank out of the water fountain -- we found pictures where this guy put his stuff in the drinking fountain," Simpson said.

The men in the pictures also placed their penises on some of the building's doorknobs and telephones and used them to press the buttons on the elevator.

Those crazy kids today. (Link snagged from Aberrant News.)


Sunday, November 16, 2003

Reuters: "Singapore, where prostitution is legal and oral sex is a crime, is doing some soul searching over morality, sexuality and the law. In a country ranked last for two straight years in a global list of most sexually active nations, and where fertility rates are falling, debate over laws on sex is growing after a 27-year-old man was arrested for receiving oral sex. . . . Sustained public criticism of Singapore's semi-authoritarian Government, and its laws, is extremely rare. But calls for the Government to withdraw from the bedroom are filling web chat rooms, buzzing around cafes and stirring protests from lawyers."


Britney Spears has released a new single called "Touch of My Hand," an ode to female masturbation in the tradition of "She Bop", "I Touch Myself" and "Oops (Oh My)".

I’m not ashamed of the things that I dream
I find myself flirting with the verge of obscene
Into the unknown, I will be bold
I’m going to places I can be out of control

And I don’t want to explain tonight
All the things I’ve tried to hide
I shut myself out from the world so I
Can draw the blinds and I’ll teach myself to fly

I love myself
It’s not a sin
I can’t control what’s happening

Cuz I just discovered
Imagination’s taking over
Another day without a lover
The more I come to understand
The touch of my hand

From the small of my back and the arch of my feet
Lately I’ve been noticin’ the beautiful me
I’m all in my skin and I’m not gonna wait
I’m into myself in the most precious way

There’s a world undefined
And my body is mine
I won’t be left behind
I’m already here

And in a People interview, she encourages girls to jill off without embarrassment.

"It's a positive thing to indulge in yourself in a sexual way sometimes. It's life. Guys can talk about it. Why can't girls? It's a positive thing. I think if you say you don't do it, you're lying."

"Being alone you really start to figure out what makes you happy. And then you're able to give more to other people.

"When you turn yourself on, that really is what turns the guy on. So just make yourself happy and let them just kind of follow up after you."

Who says Britney isn't a positive role model?

UPDATE: More Britney masturbation talk at Amorous Propensities.


Taipei Times: "Police raided a gigolo training center in Panchiao and arrested nine of the school's operators for overcharging students. . . . During the raid on Wednesday night, police officers seized fancy clothes, earrings and lecture notes as evidence."


Not for sale on eBay: Paris Hilton action figure.


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

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Ralf Vulis

Gothic Amateur

Punk Erotic

Odd Porn

Beyond Bizarre

Food Fetishes

Stoner Babes

X Rated Midgets

Plushie Sex

Musical Sex Toys