Posted in media on Mar 2nd, 2009
. . .Which isn’t to say there haven’t been noticeable changes, beginning in the late ’80s, when k.d. lang became an icon of lesbian chic. Nor is it to minimize the impact of ‘‘The L Word,’’ a tribute to the high testosterone level of gay babes, or to ignore hip same-sex Hollywood couples, like Lindsay [...]
Posted in media on Feb 25th, 2009
Posted at the request of Alana Lowe, who’s developing a documentary style, reality TV show for a major cable network about a group of friends, some of whom are part of the lifestyle:
Real swingers on TV?! The media portrays the lifestyle as a bunch of old, unattractive weirdos – but we all know the truth! [...]
Violet Blue says that if you think “sex sells” then you’re not paying attention.
VB (Violet Blue): Does sex really sell?
SH (Steve Hall): According to some studies, the “sex sells” adage in misleading if not wrong. Several studies have found ads laced with sexual imagery of women targeted to women actually turn women off to the [...]
1. Sex-slave conviction overturned
2. Murder-suicide autopsies: 3 died of gunshot wounds
3. ‘Booger Red’ Gets Life
4. This swinger feels persecuted
5. Study Suggests Polygamy May Lead To A Longer Life
6. For some, Gitmo interrogation techniques are a real turn-on
7. Court overturns conviction of NYC’s ‘S&M Svengali’
National Coalition for Sexual Freedom — Media Update
media@ncsfreedom.org
August 22, 2008
NCSF Media [...]
According to OutSports.com, of the 10,708 athletes at the Olympics this year, just 10 have identified themselves publicly as being gay. Of the 10, Australian diver Matthew Mitcham is the only male gay athlete.
Yesterday, Mitcham won the gold in the in the 10m platform diving event, scoring an upset over the Chinese team, which was [...]
A British take on the world’s oldest profession.
. . .when a number of high-profile memoirs have turned out to be, to some degree or in their entirety, not what they professed to be. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find them in the Ho section of my local Barnes & Noble (the subtitle of the American edition, earnest [...]
Aren’t we past this, yet? Is this even a question? Are journalists so incompetent, so incapable of carrying out the most basic research, that they can only assume that sex, for us, is intolerable? Or are these journalists really just uninterested in sex themselves and can’t resist transferring their sex-is-gross attitudes to the women who [...]
That’s what a New York Post spokesperson, Howard Rubenstein, told Jeff Bercovici at Portfolio.com. Bercovici called the Post—and me—after the New York City tabloid ran a story in which they named the 67 year-old that almost choked to death in a bondage-scene-gone-wrong at the famous Nutcracker Suite last week. Not only did the Post name [...]
[via Fleshbot]
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InDiggnation: New Fox News Porn Parody Banned By Online Community
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Posted in media on Oct 27th, 2007
THIS is the story of how a silly-sounding word reached the ear of a powerful television producer, and in only seconds of air time, expanded the vocabularies — for better or worse — of legions of women.
It began on Feb. 12, 2006, when viewers of the ABC series “Grey’s Anatomy” heard the character Miranda Bailey, [...]
There is a noticeable shift in emphasis this season, a darkening of mood away from the premarital frolics of blind dates, Manolo Blahniks and Central Perk hookups to closely watched midmarriage malaise. Almost any television drama touches on connubial tension and sexual miscues; it crops up all over, in family melodramas like “Brothers and Sisters” [...]
Posted in Jefferson, media, pornography on Jun 2nd, 2007
The Internet was supposed to be a tremendous boon for the pornography industry, creating a global market of images and videos accessible from the privacy of a home computer. For a time, it worked, with wider distribution and social acceptance driving a steady increase in sales.
But now the established pornography business is in decline – [...]
Apparently some Hampton Roads, Virginia parents are not too thrilled with their high school age kids penning a sex section of the school newspaper:
…Several said they were especially offended by a photograph of two women kissing under the headline, “Why men love women who love women,” a quiz question about anal sex, and an interview [...]
Posted in MSM, Village Voice, media on Mar 14th, 2007
…is dead, dead, dead!
That is all.
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Posted in ann coulter, john edwards, media, politics, speech on Mar 6th, 2007
Are straight people allowed to say “faggot”? Are white people allowed to say “nigger”? Generally no. Our unwritten speech codes require that those words be used only by gays and blacks, respectively (black gays can say both). Which is just as it should be: minorities can reappropriate slurs if it empowers them or even [...]
Posted in abstinence, media, news, politics, roundup on Mar 5th, 2007
Sex-saturated media arrives in China (Dallas Morning News)
Doyle turns down $600,000 in federal abstinence money (TwinCities.com)
Angry Ex Distributes Explicit DVDs Using Old-Fashioned Windows (Sex Drive Daily)
Weekly Feminist Reader (Feministing)
Attack of the Red-Carpet-Munchers! (Simon Doonan; NYO)
My Date with Ann (Steven Weber; HuffPo)
The Age of Mesploitation (Sugarbank)
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Posted in media, publishing, sex on Mar 4th, 2007
…It wasn’t so long ago that the male collegians of America hid their copies of Playboy deep inside their sock drawers, and the naked women tucked therein were glamorous, unknowable princesses from a media empire far, far away. These days, when anyone can run a virtual media empire out of a dorm room, student-generated sex [...]
Posted in harassment, media, violence, women on Mar 1st, 2007
By Elizabeth Nash
Dolce & Gabbana are wowing the fashion world on the catwalks of Milan, but feminists in Spain have condemned their latest advertising campaign as sexist and violent, throwing the flamboyant duo into a hissy fit and prompting withdrawal of the images.
The ads, which appeared in Spain on Monday, show a half-naked man holding [...]
Posted in feminism, media, movies, news, roundup, sex on Feb 26th, 2007
Sorority Evictions Raise Messy Issue of Looks and Bias (NYT)
Weekly Feminist Reader (Feministing)
What a Bad Museum Exhibit Can Teach You About Blogging (ProBlogger)
MARIE AND JACK: A Hardcore Love Story receives an NC-17 rating from the MPAA (Comstock Films)
RKB Need interviewees – “straight” women who’ve slept with women
Uncircumcised pupils sent home (BBC News)
This advert isn’t sexist. [...]
Posted in media, sex, violet blue on Feb 16th, 2007
Steam is coming out of violet’s ears, with good reason:
When I write my column for the Chronicle/SFGate, I don’t expect to get too fucked with as writer, though after the years of seeing how typically slanted and sex-negative the mainstream media is about sex and porn, I knowingly *hope* for fair treatment.
Last week I wrote [...]
Posted in anna nicole smith, media on Feb 13th, 2007
The famous, or perhaps notorious, model Anna Nicole Smith died last week, prompting a tsunami of media coverage. Here’s a look at the reasons for all the hoopla. One shouldn’t be embarrassed about finding her story fascinating. (more…)
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Posted in Dateline, ethics, law, legal, media, pedophiles on Feb 11th, 2007
By Douglas McCollam
It was just before 3 p.m. on a Sunday afternoon last November when a contingent of police gathered outside the home of Louis Conradt Jr., a longtime county prosecutor living in the small community of Terrell, Texas, just east of Dallas. Though the fifty-six-year-old Conradt was a colleague of some of the officers, [...]
Posted in internet, maylingsu, media, sex, sexbloggers, sexblogs, video on Feb 4th, 2007
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Posted in advice, feminism, media, mollyivins, news, relationships, reporting, women on Feb 1st, 2007
Feisty, take-no-prisoners columnist (she nicknamed President Bush ‘Shrub’) and author Molly Ivins, passed away yesterday, after a long battle with breast cancer:
The 62-year-old writer was a rare commodity in Texas – a liberal – who wrote a twice-weekly column that appeared in at least 300 newspapers. Based in Austin, her commentary appeared in national magazines [...]
