Porn Chic: Exploring the Contours of Raunch Eroticism

This engaging book draws from a diverse range of examples including film, popular tabloids, campus culture, mass media marketing campaigns, facebook profiles, and art exhibits to explore expressions and meanings of porn chic.

The book also contains thought-provoking artwork by Nicola Bockelmann which focuses on the permeable border between pornography and mainstream culture and urges viewers […]

2018-01-12T14:35:58+11:00March 12th, 2016|Recent posts, What I'm reading|0 Comments

“Being popular on Instagram is like being rich in Monopoly, isn’t it?” says Stéphanie Delpon

From the article: French Girls Do Everything Better, Even Instagram (And It’s Because They Don’t Care)

“I would say that the contemporary obsession with social networks is a fairly universal phenomenon, not necessarily linked to a country. We are all on them. Not being on one of them would almost be like living in […]

Recommended reading: Phallic Worship a History of Sex and Sexual Rites

From a review:

With so much history and religious -cultural reasoning underlying phallic symbolism and worship, I’m personally amazed, as the author appears to be, that Western civilization, for the most part, considers this such a forbidden subject. In the introduction, the Author extends the amazement with the following caveat:
“Contempt for this sacred emblem, as well […]

How far have we come? A quaint video from 1984 about connecting to the ‘internet’

 

Off topic? Hardly, when you consider how you are reading this post or watching the video.

Who would have believed all this back in 1984?

1984? Why do I keep thinking of something from another work by George Orwell?

“All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.”

Amanda

 

 

This had been a sad year for music…

George Martin, producer for The Beatles, dies aged 90,

Sir George Henry Martin CBE (3 January 1926 – 8 March 2016) was an English record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, audio engineer, and musician. He is sometimes referred to as “the Fifth Beatle” in reference to his extensive involvement on each of the Beatles’ original albums. He is […]

Lacking inspiration?

Visit my primary tumblr. Five years and over 40,000 images.

Really amazes me that people want to improve their photography,
yet think that solely taking their own pics is enough to stay on top of their game.

I invest time every day to study the work of others and use my tumblrs to share those pics that I […]

Article: “Pornography Addiction” – Science or Naked Rhetoric?

From the article in Psychology Today by Karen Franklin Ph.D:

No one really knows what percentage of Internet use is sexually oriented, or how much money the porn industry is making. Many commonly cited figures are widely exaggerated, and the true figures remain murky and highly contested. Yet it’s safe to say that for some portion […]

Article: Censorship and the Fear of Sexuality

From the thought provoking article by Dr Marty Klein:

Censorship is frequently discussed as a civil liberties issue. As the title of this talk suggests, I want to discuss it in another way, on a more psycho-social level.

Most Americans do not want to discuss sexual issues rationally. Their sexuality poisoned by the culture, they just want […]

What I’m listening to…. Mike Oldfield – ‘Tubular Bells’

 

I actually prefer listening to the 1973 release on vinyl.

Here is a pic of one version I must hunt down.

Embedded HQ audio from Youtube for those of you who haven’t listened to this in a while.

As for those of you who have never listened to this amazing work… I envy you.

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2018-01-12T14:35:59+11:00March 7th, 2016|Recent posts, What I'm listening to|0 Comments

Article: Inside China’s sexual revolution

China’s attitude to sex has gone through a “revolution.”

Across 20 years, Chinese citizens are almost five times more likely to have sexual relations before marriage than ever before.

According to Li Yinhe, China’s first female sexologist, this development is because of a “hooliganism law” that enabled women to be arrested for having sex with more than […]

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