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Weblog Archive: August 8, 2004 to Aug 14, 2004 Friday, August 13, 2004
You're walking or biking or boarding down a street in summer. You look up, you see a house, an apartment, a business, a bar, a bush. Suddenly the memories flood back: "Hey, I got laid there once...." The longer you've lived in one city, the more places you've had sex there. The more places you've had sex, the larger your personal portfolio of sexual real estate. In this very special issue of The Stranger, staffers and freelancers share stories about our sexual real estate--the places we've lived, places our exes lived, sites of one-night stands, dorm rooms in which we were thwarted, dicks we did or did not suck (on), and rooming houses in which we spied on sexy neighbors.
The poster is in the form of a fake glossy magazine cover for the fictitious Trojan magazine and shows a close-up of a woman apparently at the "absolute height of pleasure". The poster carries headlines such as "Amazing! The secrets of sexual pleasure revealed..." and will be going up around the country this week. The company was also behind the earlier television advertisements, which prompted 209 complaints to Ofcom, the media watchdog, earlier this year. Viewers were upset that the TV advert showed what appeared to be a close-up of a woman's face while she was having an orgasm. Ofcom approved the advert but ordered Trojan to carefully target viewers and not to screen it during programmes with a wide audience, such as Coronation Street. But the new poster will appear on 3,500 sites nationwide and, by the very nature of outdoor advertising, people who complained about the TV advert will have no power to stop themselves seeing the poster at railway stations and bus stops.
Thursday, August 12, 2004
Linguist Amy Perfors of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted photos of men and women on the U.S. Web site "Hot or Not," which lets viewers rate pictures according to how attractive they find them. When she posted the same pictures with different names, she found that the attractiveness scores went up and down depending on the vowels, the London-based magazine New Scientist reported. Men with "front vowels" in their names -- sounds formed at the front of the mouth like the "a" in Matt -- were considered sexier than men with "back vowel" sounds like the "au" in Paul, she concluded. The opposite held for women, who were sexier with back vowels than front ones. Wednesday, August 11, 2004
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Will & Grace" passed the indecency test at the FCC on Monday as the agency rejected complaints against the popular TV shows filed by two conservative-leaning interest groups. The complaints filed by the Parent Television Council and Americans for Decency were dismissed in a 5-0 vote because the commission found the shows didn't violate its indecency regulations. Both shows were aired in primetime. The PTC, one of the more active groups on the indecency front run by L. Brent Bozell, complained to the commission about an episode of "Buffy" that aired April 22, 2003, on WDCA, a UPN affiliate in Washington. In the episode, the characters Spike and Buffy fight before having sex, according to the order. "The commission noted that there was no nudity and there was no evidence that the activity depicted was dwelled upon or was used to pander, titillate or shock the audience," the commission said in a release. Americans for Decency, a Phoenix-based group run by T.C. Bundy that claims as its mission statement that it wants to "reduce sexual violence and victimization" by "educating about the danger and harm of pornography," contends that a single episode of "Will & Grace" that aired March 31, 2003, on Fox Affiliate KSAZ in Phoenix was indecent. In the episode, a "woman photographer passionately kissed (a) woman author and then humped her (what she called a 'dry hump')," according to the order. While the commission did not say that a "dry hump" is always within the bounds of the commission's rules on broadcast propriety, the panel did note that "both characters are fully clothed, and there is no evidence that the activity depicted was dwelled upon, or was used to pander, titillate or shock the audience." Yes, the commission rejected both complaints. But why the fuck is a federal agency wasting time and tax dollars investigating every single TV episode that religious right yahoos don't like? If you ask me, TV needs more dwelling, pandering, titillating and shocking, not less. Daze Reader agrees with Declan McCullagh — it's time to abolish the FCC. Tuesday, August 10, 2004
Raising yet another controversy, Indian-born writer Salman Rushdie claims that porn is vital to freedom and supports his argument with statistics about the volume of porn traffic on the internet in Pakistan. Rushdie argues that a free and civilized society should be judged by its willingness to accept pornography. His views are to be published alongside images of American porn stars in a book called XXX:30 Porn star, The Sunday Times reported today. Rushdie, who faces an edict issued by Iran sentencing him to death for allegely insulting Islam in his controversial book 'Satanic Verses,' writes in an essay 'The East is Blue', "Pornography exists everywhere, of course, but when it comes into societies in which it's difficult for young men and women to get together and do what young men and women often like doing, it satisfies a more general need." He adds: "While doing so, it sometimes becomes a kind of standard-bearer for freedom, even civilization." More. And as if we needed an excuse, browse some pics of Rushdie's stunning wife, Padma Lakshmi here and here.
Monday, August 9, 2004
Catching up with the Nebraska sextuplets (latest Stuff fake — I'm catching on) Cue cards for pornstars (Mpeg video) Fried dick (Mpeg video) Pinky the cat (Quicktime video) (Links snagged from the cool kids at Geisha asobi, Wonkette, Coolios, Aberrant News.)
"It's revolutionary!" enthused Wu, the Shanghai sales manager for Wenzhou Lover Health Product Co Ltd, China's largest producer of what are known euphemistically in China as "adult health products". "China's changed so much since we started," he said at the show where dildos, vibrators, flavoured lubricants and condoms of every conceivable shape, size and colour were on display. Not to be outdone, official Communist Party organ (heh) People's Daily reports, Adult sex toy expo touches sensitive area. This is China's first adult products expo to be held in the country. The expo is expected to attract over 4,000 participants and over 80,000 spectators. Nearly all China's major manufacturers of adult products will be present. Chinese companies produce over half of the world's adult products. [...] The sex product industry has shown strong growth, driven by rising demand. Take sex toys for example. People begin to gain reproductive and sexual abilities in their mid-teens but they usually do not get married until 25. There is a long period when the unmet craving for sex is high. Sex toys provide one solution to this problem. Yahoo has a fabulous photo from the fair. Sunday, August 8, 2004
Fascinated by her incredible erotic powers, men are drawn to her like flies to honey. "Helen is over seven feet tall and covered with soft fur," says frequent patron Jacques Barbette. "She is more woman than most men can handle. When she wraps her paws around you it's like wearing a luxurious mink coat you never want to take off. "I fell in love with Helen our first time. The morning after, I bought a diamond ring and asked her to marry me. It broke my heart when Helen grunted 'no,' but it only made me admire her more." Another recent issue warned of aliens using email to seduce Earth women. The porn that's clogging your e-mail inbox isn't always sent by some lonely pervert getting his kicks in a shabby apartment, or by marketing companies trying to make a buck on X-rated merchandise. A top researcher says you could also be getting spammed by aliens on a distant planet! Astrophysicist Dr. Paul Winterhoof says aliens have "hijacked" the satellite transmissions that connect computers on the Internet, and are using them to contact Earth women with lurid claims about their sexual prowess -- or to entice Earth men with offers of miraculous performance-enhancing drugs and gadgets. The purpose, Dr. Winterhoof says, is to more efficiently initiate sexual contact for a planned breeding program that will mate humans and extraterrestrials. On the plus side, the alien penis enlargement pills actually work. |
The US condom manufacturer that was condemned for screening explicit adverts during Coronation Street last month is risking further censure with a provocative poster campaign showing a woman apparently having an orgasm.