Quote of the Day – May 27 2016
“Promiscuity is not sexual freedom– it’s just slavery to a different master.”
Ashleen O’Gaia – Family Wicca
Article: Seeking a connection to the earth… A look at modern paganism
From ‘Seeking a connection to the earth… A look at modern paganism‘:
Paganism is a broad umbrella term for earth-based polytheistic religions — anything from Greek traditions to Nordic, Celtic and beyond. Unlike Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam), pagans are devoted to many gods and goddesses and select their own paths of worship […]
Quote of the Day – May 25 2016
“The point for me is to create relationships based on deeper and more real notions of trust. So that love becomes defined not by sexual exclusivity, but by actual respect, concern, commitment to act with kind intentions, accountability for our actions, and a desire for mutual growth.”
Dean Spade
Jawdroppingly beautiful footage of a RC drone flying through a firework display will leave you breathless!
The spectacular display is filmed by actually flying the drone through the middle of the display – the results are staggering.
Mind you… were they just lucky?
Flying A Drone Through Fireworks May Land You In Prison
There’s no doubt that the HD video is beautifully done.
It’s also dangerous and likely unlawful (at […]
What I’m Watching… ‘Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht’
Nosferatu the Vampyre is a 1979 West German art house vampire film written and directed by Werner Herzog. Its original German title is Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (“Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night”).
The film is set primarily in 19th-century Wismar, Germany and Transylvania, and was conceived as a stylistic remake of the 1922 German Dracula adaptation, […]
Quote of the Day – May 24 2016
“Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.”
Alan Moore, 25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom
What I’m reading… Sexuality in Western Art
The book covers art from the so-called “prehistoric Venuses,” cave paintings and carvings and takes the reader on a fascinating tour of the whole of western art (with a few diversions to eastern art such as the Japanese Shunga woodblock painting “The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife”) and arrives safely in the present time.
Edward Lucie-Smith’s […]
The secrets of filming sex scenes and why I prefer real in my art
To hear most actors tell it, filming sex scenes is no turn-on. There are big cameras, of course, and big crew members that come with them. It’s a performance with a stranger-turned-scene-partner, for a director who’s judging every caress and whimper. It’s the antithesis of hot, stars assure us on […]
When Sex Ed Goes Wrong – by Evan Cooper at HOP
From HOP:
Talking to teenagers about sex is difficult – no one wants to do it but everyone agrees it is necessary. But for millions of teens, both in the US and elsewhere, sex education is taught in a wholly counterproductive way.
The problem is abstinence-only sex ed. There are still many public schools that […]
Article – The Lies We Tell Ourselves About Sex by Pamela Madsen
From the blog post by Pamela Madsen
What we are is fragmented and that is what we are conditioned to be. We are conditioned from the earliest of ages to successfully sever the core of our sexuality, that most basic of human behaviors, from the rest of our lives. As a result, many of […]
