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Monday, February 26, 2007

HOW TO: Dress Modestly

filed under: Jet Sex, HOW TO: by Lux Nightmare | Leave a Comment

From 2/18 to 2/25, Lux traveled through India, hitting up Delhi, Agra, and Varanasi.  This week she reports back on her experiences.

When we started talking about my trip to India, the first thing my family members said was that I needed to get some appropriate attire.

My style of dress is – well, not conservative, let’s say. Left to my own devices, I am most comfortable in a short skirt and a t-shirt – usually with a hoodie and Doc Martens. I do not dress this way to be provocative – I dress this way because it feels comfortable (it actually took me an embarrassingly long amount of time to fully understand just how short my skirts were).

When I am in New York, I get harassed for the way that I dress, from time to time. It’s nothing major – certainly nothing I can’t put up with – but I am no stranger to the “Hey, Mami”s. In New York, I tolerate this, because I would rather be harassed while dressing how I want than cave and compromise because of some asshole on the street (especially given that, even when dressed more “conservatively,” I still get harassed. Damned either way, I suppose).

But this is in New York.

In India, it would be a different story.

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Saturday, February 24, 2007

Saturday Morning Video: Yoko Ono’s “Cut” Piece

filed under: We Make Art Not Sex by Melissa Gira | Leave a Comment

Beautiful: mod dresses, shiny scissors, and her. (much thx, ana) + update (as jo weldon, who used to do a “cut piece”-inspired act in the early 90’s as a feature dancer in strip clubs, and is currently blogging from the sex workers’ art show tour points out that the comments @ youtube are straying tantalizingly close to a very intellectual exchange on the nature of violence and women’s sexuality.)

Friday, February 23, 2007

Weekly Wrapup: More Alt Than Thou Edition

filed under: Weekly Wrapup by Melissa Gira | 2 Comments

In case you missed Lux’s series on the History of Alt Porn (faithfully filed before she jetted off to Delhi and Varanasi), one-handed links below:

HOW TO: Be An Alt Porn Star

The Sexerati History of Alt Porn

The Sexerati History of Boys in Alt Porn

The Sexerati History of Alt Porn Crossover

We leave you with this moment of alt porn zen from Felt Up TV:

Have a weekend, all.

Thursday, February 22, 2007

The Sexerati History of Altporn Crossover

filed under: Erotic Elite by Lux Nightmare | 5 Comments

Here’s a dirty little secret: altporn doesn’t pay well.

Or rather: altporn pays fine, if you consider it on the basis of an hourly wage (likely a minimum of $100 for about an hour’s worth of modeling — though the hourly wage decreases if you’re on a site that requires community participation. You’ll be putting in hours and hours of work, and that $100 will still be all you see). However, if you’re trying to make a living, and you’re on a site that’s only paying you for one set a month — well, that $100 isn’t going to go very far.

So what’s a working girl to do?

Model for more than one site, of course. And more than a few models have made use of this trick of the trade, moving from site to site (and sometimes pissing off site owners who claim “exclusivity.”). Oftentimes, a model would get her feet wet by modeling for one of the better known sites (say, Suicide Girls), then move through the ranks, selling sets to any site that would buy them.

On the plus side, this meant more work for models, and more available sets for the perusal of their fans.

On the minus side, this meant that many an altporn site featured a pretty familiar stable of faces (and bodies), with only the different layouts and logos to remind you that you’d left, say, Manic Jane in favor of EroticBPM.