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Web Log Archives: December 14, 2003 - December 20, 2003

Saturday, December 20, 2003

Bad first date story from Craig's List, Washington DC. (Link snagged from Gulfstream.)


Ask Metafilter addresses an important relationship question: "I just started dating this really awesome girl, and we spend the night together often, and I want to know how long I have to wait before I can fart in bed."


The city of Beijing is installing condom vending machines around the city. City authorities then plan to issue debit cards to married women good for twelve free packages of condoms per year. "The machines would help remove the awkwardness women felt when buying condoms from salespeople, [the Beijing Times] added." This article doesn't say how many condoms are in each package. (Link snagged from Attu Sees All.)


Friday, December 19, 2003

Ooooooowwwwwwwwww! Watch the demonstration video, if you dare. (Link snagged from Aberrant News.)


Thursday, December 18, 2003

The First Annual Pornblography Awards nominations have been announced.


China orgy trial update: two organizers of the three-day party between Japanese tourists and local prostitutes at a Zhuhai hotel have been sentenced to life in prison. Twelve other defendants received sentences ranging from 2 to 15 years.

Chinese police have also issued arrest warrants and Interpol alerts for three Japanese organizers, but Japan has refused a request to arrest the three men.


Another Pointless found unintentional dirty humor in Amazon's listing for Nabokov's Lolita.


Expatica reports that hardcore porn will soon be available on German TV. "While full-frontal nudity is a staple of prime-time TV, and soft-porn sexual situations abound on late-night television in Germany, no broadcaster has ever dared to air hard-core sex. But now, thanks to digital encryption devices, the authorities have given provisional approval to subscription pay TV to offer an adult 'media service' on a pay-per-view basis to subscribers who provide proof of age in advance of keying in two series of personal identification numbers."


Renée Zellweger before and after, discussed at Stereogum and Uffish Thoughts.


Qveere Eye for thye Medieval Man — created using the neato Flash toy Historic Tale Construction Kit. . . . Also, QE for Saddam. (Links snagged from Metafilter.)


The "Amorous Nature" series by photographer Yuri Dojc captures trees in compromising positions. (Link snagged from Geisha asobi.) And from the archives, Earth erotica photography by Heather Firth.


Wednesday, December 17, 2003

A Texas woman charged with selling dildos and vibrators to undercover police officers plans to challenge the state's obscenity laws as unconstitutional. The woman runs private, Tupperware-party-style gatherings, and the local police set up a sting operation to catch her in the act.

A sting operation to catch a dildo dealer. Unfuckingbelievable. More and more.


The Chinese Sexual Culture Museum, founded and curated by retired professor Liu Dalin, is shutting down and moving from Shanghai to the nearby, much smaller city of Tongli.

For Liu, the move is his second. He set up shop in 1999 in a prime location, the upscale shopping district of Nanjing Rd., but had to move two years later when local officials barred him from using the character for "sex" on a sign.

"They said the character for 'sex' was ugly," he said.

The sign at the current out-of-the-way location now includes "xing," (pronounced "sing") the word for "sex" in standard Chinese. It's an ideograph that combines the symbols for "heart" and for "life."

But only a few dozen visitors a day turn up. He can barely afford his monthly rent of close to $4,000, and he says officials thwarted his efforts to get the museum certified as a tourism site.

On a side note, I found this factoid fascinating. "The sex industry [in China] is thriving as never before. As with elsewhere in Asia, men say finding a barbershop that actually offers haircuts rather than more personal services can be a challenge."


Currently playing in the Daze Reader office: the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Californication.

Up to my ass in alligators
Let's get it on with the alligator haters

That's my motto for the day, whatever it means.


Variety has launched an in-house line of weblogs dealing with various aspects of the entertainment industry. One of the blogs, The Porning Report written by Adult Video News editor Frank Meyer, deals with the mainstreaming of pornography. AVN promoted The Porning Report last week.

Unfortunately, the Variety blogs are available only to magazine subscribers, and subscriptions to Variety run $250 per year. You can get a 30-day free trial subscription by giving them lots of personal information (as always, it's best to lie). When I first tried to access the site by copying and pasting the URL from an email tip, I was redirected to the subscribers-login page. Later I got through to the blog without subscribing by clicking the link in the AVN article.

The blog itself reads more like an occasional column. The prose is blandly professional. The links are unimaginative, mostly Variety articles (which you can't read unless you subscribe, even if you've managed to reach the blog without paying) or celebrity names linked to their official sites. The author is plainly knowledgeable about both the adult and mainstream entertainment industries, and covers some interesting stories I haven't seen elsewhere. If it were free I'd bookmark it as a news source.

Lots of established media outlets (newspapers, magazines, alt-weeklies) are adding blogs these days. The Variety model is just plain stupid. No one's gonna shell out $250 to read these blogs. Other blogs aren't gonna link to them, knowing that most of their readers will get redirected to Variety's subscription screen. Even a free blog with excessive internal links to subscriber-only articles would be annoying. If the intended readership is industry people who already subscribe to Variety, why not just call them "columns" instead of "blogs"?


Tuesday, December 16, 2003

Tolkien links galore . . .

The Very Secret Diaries of LOTR characters by notorious pervy hobbit fancier Cassandra Claire.

The Lay of Galadriel and Gimli, a geek classic posted anonymously to rec.arts.books.tolkien in 1996.

What Tolkien Officially Said About Elf Sex, a succinct and humorous survey by Tyellas, who's actually read The Silmarillion and all those notebooks edited by Tolkien's son. The same author has also written a longer, scholarly essay about sex and libido in Tolkien.

LOTR slash art galleries by the Theban Band: men, hobbits, elves, mixed. (Link from Fleshbot.)

Versaphile: Lord of the Rings recommendations, links to several hundred fanfics with assorted pairings.

Whore of the Rings, the inevitable porn parody. "Whore of the Rings is an all anal epic tail of sprawing proportions with a superstar cast!!" (sic, sic, sic) Followed by Whore of the Rings II, which includes a Gollum sex scene and a Treebeard sex scene.

Whore of the Rings - DVD at Gamelink Whore of the Rings II - DVD at Gamelink


Chinese newsmagazine Xinhua presents a gallery of amazing coloured paintings on human bodies. Link snagged from Bruce Sterling, who writes, "Holy macaroni. Why is the official news agency of the People's Republic of China posting a whole bunch of nude body-painting? Have they lost all their little gray Mao suits over at Xinhua? What gives? A couple of these pics are Veruschka Lehndorff art-shots from the mid-1980s. Some official Chinese web-guy has been collecting these things. What could this be about?"


Dame Judi Dench nude!!! That should send my search engine hits back into the Paris Hilton/Prince Charles stratosphere.

A quarter of a century ago BBC2 broadcast a one-off TV film in which she cavorted naked with her co-star Jeremy Irons. Now Dame Judi, 69, is furious over plans to release Langrishe, Go Down in cinemas, then issue it on video in Britain and the US.

The tale of a middle-aged virgin who has an affair with a young scholar includes a number of erotic scenes. In one, Dame Judi is shown running naked through the grounds of a mansion late at night.

The film's director, David Jones, said yesterday: "I think Langrishe, Go Down was Judi's best film performance ever – beautiful, sensual, passionate and very physical, as well as being wickedly funny. The scenes are not exploitative and do Dame Judi no harm. I'm sorry to hear she's distressed about it."

A Guardian article further describes the notorious Dame Judi Dench nude scenes.

Dench, who was then 43 and known mainly as a West End stage actress, is shown taking what her character calls 'air baths' — cavorting naked in the grounds at night. In one scene she persuades Irons to join her in the bath, and in another she playfully smears meringue on her breasts to lure him into bed.

Of course, everyone who has ever been nude anywhere at anytime ends up on the internet. The British actress nude scenes library has two screenshots from Langrishe, Go Down as well as two topless shots from a 1968 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. (Link snagged from World Sex News.)


Best sports photograph of the day. Especially recommended for soccer boosters trying to figure out how to make the sport more popular in the US.


Pay a visit to the spell-binding world of Yumiko Kayukawa.

Yumiko Kayukawa - Little Bunny

From her artist bio: "After graduating from Art school, she continued to paint, but struggled with truly expressing herself in her art. Fortunately, this frustration took a dramatic turn during a visit to Seattle where Yumi painted a picture at the request of an American friend. In comic-book style, two girls sit entwined atop a mushroom, Japanese symbols and American pop art styles melding together in lively color and bold lines. Yumi now realized her art persona — sagacious Japanese tradition in synergy with the jubilant irreverence of American pop culture." (Link snagged from Eye of the Goof.)


Monday, December 15, 2003

"An Opinion on the Question of Pornography" by Wislawa Szymborska.

There's nothing more debauched than thinking.
This sort of wantonness runs wild like a wind-borne weed
on a plot laid out for daisies.

Nothing's sacred for those who think.
Calling things brazenly by name,
risqué analyses, salacious syntheses,
frenzied, rakish chases after the bare facts,
the filthy fingering of touchy subjects,
discussion in heat--it's music to their ears.

In broad daylight or under cover of night
they form circles, triangles, or pairs.
The partners' age or sex is unimportant.
Their eyes glitter, their cheeks are flushed.
Friend leads friend astray.
Degenerate daughters corrupt their fathers.
A brother pimps for his little sister.

They prefer the fruits
from the forbidden tree of knowledge
to the pink buttocks found in glossy magazines--
all that ultimately simple-hearted smut.
The books they relish have no pictures.
What variety they have lies in certain phrases
msrked with a thumbnail or a crayon.

It's shocking, the positions,
the unchecked simplicity with which
one mind contrives to fertilize another!
Such positions the Kama Sutra itself doesn't know.

During these trysts of theirs, the only thing that's steamy is the tea.
People sit on their chairs and move their lips.
Everyone crosses only his own legs
so that one foot is resting on the floor
while the other dangles freely in midair.
Only now and then does somebody get up,
go to the window,
and through a crack in the curtains
take a peep out at the street.

I like this poem but still . . . why can't we have the the fruits from the forbidden tree of knowledge and the simple-hearted smut?


Sunday, December 14, 2003

The sex and mangos column made reference to a "recent exposé" about the sex life of West Indies cricket superstar Brian Lara. Out of curiosity I tracked down the story, which turned out to be less than shocking. A former girlfriend of Lara's kissed and told to British tabloid The People (presumably for cash), which the Barbados Nation later summarized.

She also gave salacious and graphic details of their many escapades including sex on a beach in Barbados, and making love on the front lawn of Lara’s house in Trinidad.

The lingerie model also “came clean” and spoke of marathon love-making sessions, how the ace left-hander used grapes, mangoes and ice cream on her body and how they had a romp in the back of a Mercedes Benz.

“We had fast and frantic sex all over the place for over an hour in all positions you can think of,” she said. “Three times a night was normal.”

Wow, a famous person who really likes sex! Vigorous, frequent, mildly adventurous vanilla sex with his girlfriend! The ex also revealed that she and Lara once videotaped themselves having sex.

She desperately wanted the footage as she feared it could be used on the Internet or viewed by a third party.

She said at the time the video was being made she thought nothing of it, but now she found it far from funny. She noted it would be hugely embarrassing if it were viewed by millions around the world.

Nothing in the article indicates that there's any danger of the tape going public. For what it's worth, the domain brianlarasextape.com is still available.


In the Barbados Nation, Peter Laurie evaluates the erotic possibilities of different fruits and declares "there's nothing like a little mango to spice up your sex life."


"Jean-Christian Bourcart is best known for several distinct photographic projects. One, 'Forbidden City', is a series of photographs taken with a concealed camera in S/M Clubs in New York and swinger clubs in Paris, while 'Infertile Madonnas' used a similar hidden camera in a Frankfurt brothel." This gallery at eyestorm has two photographs each from "Forbidden City" and "Infertile Maddonas". Also a short interview with Bourcart. (Thanks, Susannah.)

UPDATE: More Bourcart spycam photos at Kagan Martos Gallery.


New Scientist: Pretty women scramble men's ability to assess the future.

Both male and female students at McMaster University were shown pictures of the opposite sex of varying attractiveness taken from the website 'Hot or Not'. The 209 students were then offered the chance to win a reward. They could either accept a cheque for between $15 and $35 tomorrow or one for $50-$75 at a variable point in the future.

Wilson and Daly found that male students shown the pictures of averagely attractive women showed exponential discounting of the future value of the reward. This indicated that they had made a rational decision. When male students were shown pictures of pretty women, they discounted the future value of the reward in an "irrational" way - they would opt for the smaller amount of money available the next day rather than wait for a much bigger reward.

Women, by contrast, made equally rational decisions whether they had been shown pictures of handsome men or those of average attractiveness.


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