Smashing piece about eating out in rap.

Eat It Up and Lay Wit It: Hip-Hop, Cunnilingus, and Morality in Entertainment.

I gotta find out more who this Madeline Holden is.

1. Why is lamb so freaking expensive in the US?



2. Does anyone copy edit online articles anymore?  I'm not talking blogs--I'm talking content put out by seemingly reputable entities.  Your average online typist may have issues with apostrophe-possessive mistakes, but if you're writing for CNN or Rolling Stone or what have you, shouldn't you have your ( Read more... )

Doing research on sex work so far is a little tricky. There is a mountain of prejudice against sex work, so much baggage people have, that objectivity is a little difficult ( Read more... )

The use of the word vagina when one means vulva drives me right up a fucking tree.  It isn't just me being pedantic (I got a whole 'nother room for that), it's me being pedantic in the service of sexual fricking knowledge.  Know the terms, please.  Not bothering to educate yourself, not bothering to use that education serves to show others that no ( Read more... )

So I'm researching erotica, and I stumbled across a sort of thumbnail sketch on erotica &. pornography with an emphasis on the history of male homosexual porn through history.

What made me chuckle was this sentence: "Within the nether world, homosexual experiences had a surprising openness."

I am so very tired of vampires being TEH SEX.

And now apparently zombies have entered the "Supernaturals we wanna date" list.

What, do Americans not spend enough time around dead bodies?  Dead bodies are not sexy, people.  You want an encounter with the undead?  Go clean out your fridge.  Set some mousetraps.  Take what you find and play with it for ( Read more... )

Prostitution--how to write about it ( Read more... )

So nice to know I am safe from being hit on when I'm wearing a baseball cap.  I'll ask my husband to pick me up a few!

http://www.totalbeauty.com/content/gallery/looks-he-hates/p93332/page4


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Here's a thought-provoking essay on violence, and poetry, and being Irish.

One might say these are concurrent states.

Poetry and Violence - Brendan Kennelly

Excerpt:

Most of us do find violence frightening and disgusting; but this doesn’t mean, of course, that a poem successfully presenting that same violence is disgusting and/or frightening. But, long ( Read more... )

Feminist Porn
by Yana Tallon-Hicks

This is one time the comments are interesting (and occasionally awesome).  For example:

Yana,

Thank you for a beautiful article opening up others to pornography that values it's participants and engages with cast, crew and audiences in a way that is ethical. We're honored to be included in your post, and proud of ( Read more... )