But if we do stop to think about it, internet cafe computers (and any information you send or access from them) are clearly vulnerable. Fortunately, protecting yourself is not very difficult.
It earned the highest opening box office for a romantic comedy ever. The most stunning news is that it won the weekend by beating Indiana Jones, a feat not even the most optimistic observers predicted.
Forty-six percent of the 1,000 adults born between 1946 and 1964 who were questioned in the survey said they enjoyed sex more now than they did during their 20s and 30s. (Lavalife survey)
A small town druggist turned moral crusader, Comstock came to power after the end of the Civil War, when he was appointed by New York State and the U.S. Post office as the big-wig, anti-obscenity cop.
eminque Boutique, which has been open for three weeks, is an adult store catering to women, selling lingerie, lotions and adult novelties. Those are in a back room.
He used such a crass image to verbally smack me in the mouth. To shut me up. I suppose he referred to my other colleague’s private parts to prevent any possible accusation that he’d suggested sexual acts done on him. He changed the rules of engagement to
It contradicts all the cultural beliefs we have about the way men are and/or are supposed to be, but the dirty little secret is… American men are flagging in their desire for sex.
Bright referred to something that she called “slut-baiting,” and while I wasn’t sure exactly what she meant when she said it, what Gawker did with Chen is sure it.
Following our (Dan and my) return from ShibariCon we found that our Myspace page had been deleted. No warning, no notification, just gone (we had over 2000 friends). However, all is not lost. We started a new profile, and doing our best to re-build our nu
Fairness and fear of legal liability convinced New York Gov. David A. Paterson to direct all state agencies to immediately recognize as valid same-sex marriages solemnized outside of New York, the governor said Thursday.
I combed the panoply of reviews of and writings about film that have come online over the last week, in order to cull five different commonly-cited grounds for why this film is a toxic scourge on the entirety of the human race.
A Missouri woman who prosecutors say used a fake MySpace persona to “torment, harass, humiliate and embarrass” a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide was indicted on Thursday on federal charges.
Achieving orgasm, brain imaging studies show, involves more than heightened arousal. It requires a release of inhibitions engineered by shutdown of the brain’s center of vigilance in both sexes and a widespread neural power failure in females.
In a highly unusual use of a federal law generally employed in computer fraud cases, a federal grand jury here on Thursday indicted a Missouri woman accused of using a phony online identity to trick and taunt a 13-year-old girl, who committed suicide in response to the cyberbaiting.
The woman, Lori Drew, was charged with one count of conspiracy and three counts of accessing a computer without authorization and via interstate commerce to obtain information to inflict emotional distress. Each count carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison.
Ms. Drew lives in O’Fallon, Mo., where, according to the indictment, she created a MySpace account under the name Josh Evans in 2006. Prosecutors said she used the social networking account to contact a young girl named in the indictment as M.T.M. with sexually charged messages from “Josh.†The girl, who has been identified by her mother as Megan Meier, was a former friend of Ms. Drew’s daughter.
After a few weeks of chatting, “Josh Evans†began to send Megan nasty messages, via the MySpace account, ending with one that suggested “the world would be a better place†without her. Megan, believing she had been rejected by “Josh,†committed suicide in her home.
Missouri law enforcement officials said they had not found enough evidence to bring charges in the case, and Ms. Drew, who was 48 when Megan died, has repeatedly denied creating the account.
But because MySpace, a unit of Fox Interactive Media, is based in Beverly Hills, Calif., and its server is here, federal prosecutors decided to wield a federal statute that is generally used to prosecute fraud that occurs across state lines.
A night of fabulous female authors from across the sexual spectrum (and world). Let Honey B., author of Sexcapades, seduce you before memoirists Sarah Thyre (Dark at the Roots) and Suzanne Portnoy (The Not So Invisible Woman) share their real life sex stories. Marie Lyn Bernard andSofia Quintero, contributors to Dirty Girls: Erotica for Women, edited by In The Flesh host and curator Rachel Kramer Bussel, will read from their stories in this brand-new collection. Hosted and curated by Rachel Kramer Bussel (Dirty Girls, Yes, Sir, Yes, Ma’am). Celebrate the release of Rachel’s new book Dirty Girls: Erotica for Women, which will be available for sale and signing, along with work by other contributors from Mobile Libris. Free candy and cupcakes will be served.
In the Flesh is a monthly reading series hosted at the appropriately named Happy Ending Lounge, and features the city’s best erotic writers sharing stories to get you hot and bothered, hosted and curated by acclaimed erotic writer and editor Rachel Kramer Bussel.
Date: Thursday, April 17th At 8 PM
Location: Happy Ending Lounge, 302 Broome Street, NYC, 212-334-9676
(B/D to Grand, J/M/Z to Bowery, F to Delancey)
Admission: Free
More info at the In the Flesh Erotic Reading Series home page.
Put on your shiny finery and come help us kick off the fifth annual CineKink NYC in proper style! A pansexual celebration of epic proportions, in addition to music, performances, free cocktails and a kinky fundraising raffle, our opening night gala will feature screenings of these special cinematic wonders:
SCHWARZWALD(Trailer)
(Directed by Richard Kimmel, 2007, USA, 59 minutes.)
A rich, modern tapestry combining elements of Druidic ritual with the passionate, leather-clad goings-on that transpire at NYC’s annual Black Party, SCHWARZWALD follows the travails of the Black Prince as he is pursued through the woods and kidnapped by the nefarious underlings of the conniving Black Queen. Starring Buck Angel, the world famous female-to-male transsexual porn star, along with a cast of literal thousands, this is a sumptuous visual feast. And, featuring a continuous mix of music, truly the movie you can dance to!
plus!
TEAM QUEEN
The best of New York burlesque in a gender-bending, fire-breathing, tassel-twirling, post-punk rock ‘n roll prom! (Leah Meyerhoff, 2007, USA, 4 minutes.) (Watch on YouTube)
A DOG’S TALE
Sensuous and layered, a black-and-white reverie on control and submission, longing and desire. (Steven Speliotis, 2007, USA, 16 minutes.)
Among the prizes:
* An exclusive Schwarzald-edition ticket package to the Black Party!
* Complimentary weekend registration for Dark Odyssey’s upcoming WinterFire!
(We’ve been nominated. Yes, I’m pleased. – Viviane)
Friends of sex-positive journalism everywhere hailed the launch of the first ever Sex-Positive Journalism Awards last fall. Now, as the March 23rd deadline for entries approaches, the Sexies board would like to remind all you wonderful sex- positive readers and writers that we can’t do it alone. The awards need to raise another $5,000 to cover their budget and properly award the winners, and we need more entries from mainstream sources (www.sexies.org/submit.php: it’s free to submit entries, and readers can submit as well as writers).“The entries, the encouragement, and the enthusiasm we’ve received tells me that the time was ripe for this award,†says co-founder journalist Miriam Axel-Lute. “But the fact that sex-positive journalism is so rare means we need the help of all of you readers out there to help us turn up those gems of good, objective, sex-positive reporting–especially in mainstream sources–and then to help us be able to afford to get the word out about them.â€
The Sexies were launched by the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, the Center for Sex and Culture, Babeland, and Miriam Axel-Lute to promote fair, accurate, and non-sensationalized coverage of sexual topics. The awards are currently accepting entries that meet both high journalistic standards and the Sexies awards criteria.
Here are 10 ways to support sex-positive journalism and the Sexies:
Give money! The Sexies are a labor of love. But love doesn’t pay the bills. If you can give $100, $50, or $25, it will help us promote the awards, cover our expenses, and honor our winners properly. Donate at www.sexies.org/support.html.
Become a corporate sponsor of the Sexies – or connect us with your favorite sex- friendly business that might want to become one. E-mail info@sexies.org for more information.
Submit entries. Yes, readers as well as writers can submit to the Sexies. Articles have to have been published in 2007 and meet high journalistic standards as well as our sex-positive criteria. Full guidelines, criteria, and a submission form are on our website: www.sexies.org. We especially need submissions even ones that
were merely sex-neutral when everyone else was sex-negative – from mainstream daily newspapers!
Mention the Sexies as a resource in a letter to the editor, especially our sex- positive journalism criteria (www.sexies.org/criteria.html) and resources for journalists (www.sexies.org/resources.html). If you’ve always been meaning to write in to your local paper about their sex-related coverage, good or bad, now’s a great time to do it! (And while you’re at it, write a thank you letter to your favorite sex-pos writer- they’re a lonely bunch!)
Ask your favorite sex-positive publications, and your favorite mainstream ones as well, to cover the Sexies. We think we’re pretty unusual and would make a good story!
Tell everyone you know. Blog about the awards, bring us up at opportune (or inopportune) times with family and friends and your local newspaper editorb&
Sign up for our announcement list. If you don’t do LiveJournal or Myspace, sign up for our update mailing list, sexies_update@yahoogroups.com, to stay up to speed.
Link to us. Even if you don’t want to make a big fanfare, a link helps us in search-engine rankings.
Donate airline or Amtrak miles to get our winners to an awards ceremony, or to be raffled off for fundraising. You must have enough to redeem for a whole ticket. E- mail info@sexies.org if you’ve got a chunk to offer.
And whatever else you do, read skeptically, support sex-positive writers wherever they write, and stick up for your right to a sex-positive world!
In a few weeks’ time I am talking on a panel taking place at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, USA. I wasn’t going to mention this event until closer to the date, but something has just come up which relates to the subject matter we will b
I can take a woman, in the biggest trouble she has ever experienced in her life, and by performing a five-minute operation, in comfort and dignity, I can give her back her life’
ok – i actually thought when she contacted me from 1300 miles away, and said that she wanted to meet, that we would probably have a good time messing around – but i didn’t expect the OTHER side.
“Boys. A fishnet crotchless bodystocking. I still don’t get why you like this so much.” I tugged at the section on my shoulders to pull it back up into place. I smiled to let him know I didn’t really mind wearing it for him.
In a bid to discourage online sex predators, state officials proposed a law Tuesday mandating that registered sex offenders’ e-mail addresses and screen names be reported to social networking sites like MySpace.com.
Mostly it was a wonderful reminder that we can fix our broken sex education system and that there are hundreds of people across the country working hard to do just that.
LAist.com spoke with Dani Miura , who played the role of the bait in several episodes, to get her opinion on the program and to discuss the extent of her involvement.
Whether you have the winter blues, you’re suffering from a disappointment, or you’re just feeling a little down, we all have times when we could use a little lift. Here are 10 ideas to get you back on the upswing.
Wanted: rich older women interested in hot younger guys. Applicants must be over 35, earn at least $500,000 a year or have a minimum of $4 million in liquid assets, entrusted assets or divorce settlement.
There’s a high probability that people who are prone to herpes simplex virus (HSV) outbreaks can inherit that susceptibility through their genes, University of Utah researchers report in a new study.
While it might feel like you’re in a popularity contest–and need lots of friends to win–but you should be careful who you associate yourself with.
NYC Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr. announced that he will use the power of the NYC Pension Funds to pressure two dozen Fortune 1000 companies to offer sexual orientation and gender identity protections to their employees.
Kicked Out is an anthology, which chronicles the experiences of former queer youth and current queer youth who were forced to leave home as minors because of their sexuality and/or gender identity.
Kicked Out tells our collective stories of survival, weaving together descriptions of abuse, and homelessness with poignant accounts of the ways in which the queer community offered sanctuary, and the power and importance of creating our own chosen families etc.
Kicked Out offers advice and wisdom to the queer youth of today from former queer youth who have survived. Additionally, it provides the opportunity for readers to get a glimpse into the world of those queer youth who as a result of circumstance have had to leave home, while simultaneously shattering the stereotypes of who queer youth are, and what they have the potential to become.
Kicked Out showcases stories of overcoming obstacles, and not simply surviving but thriving in the face of seemingly insurmountable adversity. Kicked Out will explore the diversity of our experiences across lines of race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, and geographic region celebrating our differences, and showcases the ways in which they have contributed to our unique experiences.
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
• How being forced to leave home as a minor continues to impact your adult life
• What happened to you when you left home and how you survived
• Words of wisdom for today’s homeless queer youth—what you wished someone had told you
• Survival through the creation of “chosen familyâ€
• Challenges of dealing with CPS or other agencies
• Success through adversity- overcoming a troubled past
Submissions should be between 1,500 and 2,500 words in length and previously unpublished. Submit your piece via e-mail in .doc format to KickedOutAnthology@gmail.com. Multiple submissions per contributor are welcome. Please include a short biography and contact information with your submission. Submissions must be received no later than March 1, 2008; contributors are encouraged to submit early. Rights revert to the authors upon publication. Contributors whose work appears in the anthology will receive TBA free copy(ies) as well as ongoing royalties. for more information check us out online at: www.myspace.com/kickedoutanthology
**Sassafras Lowrey is a high femme writer, artist, and activist. Ze was forced to leave home as a teenager after suffering physical violence after coming out as queer. Sassafras found hir way to queer youth organizations and movements, which quite literally saved hir life. As an adult ze has never forgotten the impact those groups had on hir life and has volunteered regularly with the queer youth of today. Sassafras lives with hir partner, two cats and a dog in New York City. Hir first book “GSA to Marriage: Stories of a Life Lived Queerly†is scheduled for release Summer 2008.
Ace of Hearts and I decided to go to the Fetish Flea up in Providence, at the last minute. There were last minute cancellations at the Biltmore, so Rascal, Ace and I ended up there. 2 king beds, with a sitting area which had a sofa, an upholstered chair-and-a-half (which later got named the “Uncle chair”), coffee table and desk. The Biltmore is part of the Hotels of the World chain and the staff couldn’t have been more helpful. If and when I do this again, I’ll stay here again.
We went to the Fashion Show, which had great designs, but one spotlight wasn’t enough. Also the musical acts stopped the action cold for me. It’s a little different from the 20 minute shows in Bryant Park during Fashion Week.Saturday, I meant to spend more time in vending but ended up in both of Midori’s workshops. I never got to see pals Boymeat or Rita Seagrave present. I’m really sorry about that.
Midori is a huge draw! You had to be on line before the break was over to get a seat and there’s no standing room allowed. She certainly knows how to speak to a large group – slowly and clearly, pauses thoughtfully so words can sink in, repeats key concepts. In her “Asian Rituals” class, she doesn’t give you specific scenarios or blow by blow instructions but really wants you to think about the underlying intention, and to communicate with your partner. In her “Bondage Outside the Box” class, she demonstrated a whole bunch of pervertables from Home Depot (hay bale carrier, gutter guard, duct tape, toilet flapper ball, etc.). Hilarious. Not only was the Flea going on in the Convention Center, there was also a liquidation sale and on Sunday, a bridal expo. I’m not sure how appropriate it is when kinksters, although street legal, are wearing fetish wear and freaking out civilians pushing baby carriages. A real worlds collide scenario. But, I am stuffy in that way.
On Saturday night, Ace, Rascal, Zelda, Shibari Warrior, Jocasta and I went to Cassalina’s, an Italian restaurant in Federal Hill. Zelda and Jo came back to our room to hang out and we had a *very* instructional evening, with Zelda showing Rascal how to tie a tortoise shell harness on me, having him repeating it on her and then tying it on me again. She also taught Rascal how to tie a chest harness on themself. Then Jocasta wanted Crab Tie (from Chanta Rose’s Bondage for Sex) done on her, where her legs are back and spread and her forearms tied to her thighs. I’ll let Jocasta continue the story (hint: sex party of 5, runaway pony).
Sunday, I caught the end of Lolita’s caning class (Oh hi, you’re just in time! Do you want to see me cane DQ’s cock?) and Midori’s “Erotic Humiliation” class. Good humiliation play reinforces the bottom’s primary core values and kicks out the jams on the second and tertiary ones. Seraphin (who was demo bottoming) almost didn’t make it to Providence. Some idiot Amtrak conductor announced the station, but they got off in Warwick, an $80 cab ride. As Midori put it, Seraphin was subjected to a “screwed up, non consensual public transit humiliation play.”
It was different than a Dark Odyssey event because there was no public play space (although there were bondage and whip lounges) and no ice breaker activites. But for $20 ($15, if you’re a NELA Associate; or a related organization, like TES), it is an incredible value. I barely had time to to try and cover the vending, go to a few classes, eat a sandwich, say hello to friends (from DO, Twitter, and Livejournal).
I’d heard the vending at the Flea was the biggest. They weren’t kidding. All the leather and toys started to blur together after awhile. It was better Sunday to come back and chat at more leisure, when I got to talk to Greg of Njoy (Please, we want to review toys!) and introduce myself to Monk of Twisted Monk (I love your video blog!), Hilton of Purple Passion (I bought my corset from you) and say hello to Bo of De Tails. I did buy an anodized stainless steel ring from Locked in Steel, Bondage for Sex, and Lee Harrington’s Shibari You Can Use, and a Twisted Monk hoodie. But really, it was about the schmoozing, not the shopping. I haven’t been in shopping mode for a long time.
I met Xris of Smack. I told him his promo materials give me a headache. Then we beamed each other our information on our Treos (Treo and Palm users: have you set up your business card? I didn’t think so). Midori hadn’t seen Palm sex before, and proceeded to loudly fake an orgasm.
There was also a favorable article in the Providence Journal.
I received this in an e-mail recently, in a dummy account I keep for kinky mailing lists and things like that. Keep in mind I never heard from this person before this showed up in my inbox.
“I am inspired by the world of erotic pulp ficiton. naked damsels in distress and kinky sex stories populated the covers and pages of these early magazines. i put down my camera and picked up my hand tools in an effort to create my idea of vintage bondage
Seeking to have his guilty plea in a bathroom sex sting erased, the attorneys for Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho argue in a new court filing that the underlying act wasn’t criminal because it didn’t involve multiple victims.
A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has begun issuing subpoenas in the case of a Missouri teenager who hanged herself after being rejected by the person she thought was a 16-year-old boy she met on MySpace, sources told The Times.
It’s a good thing that I could make one good choice in the midst of that hurt, and that one good choice was to abort. I remain grateful, profoundly and unutterably thankful, that the choice to abort was legal, readily available, and relatively affordabl
U R dumped–one in seven say they have suffered the same fate as Britney Spears’ ex-husband and been told it’s all over via text message or e-mail, a survey said on Friday.
While hiding behind technology might appear a cowardly way of splitting up, it contrasts with the 4 percent who simply drop all communication with their lovers without notice.
“Most of us send e-mails and texts everyday, so it comes as no surprise they are now being used to ditch someone–however distasteful this is,” said Rob Barnes from Moneysupermarket.com, which carried out the survey.
“The results show 1 percent of the population would use a social-networking site to dump a partner. It would be interesting to see how this changes as sites such as Facebook and MySpace become more apparent in our everyday lives.”
One of the most high-profile victims of dumping by text was Kevin Federline, who reportedly received news that pop singer Spears was filing for divorce while being filmed for a television show.
The survey said 15 percent of the 2,194 people questioned had been dumped by text or e-mail, although a quarter of those in the most tech-savvy 18- to 24-year-old age group would choose the traditional method–a letter.
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