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Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Web Sex Index: “Where… (swell in the throat) The Smarts Are…!”

filed under: Do It for Science, Web Sex Index by Melissa Gira | Leave a Comment

A tidy roundup of where to find sex smart rippling the web right now:

Belladonna discloses that she’s got herpes and is retiring from porn with an announcement on her MySpace, handily deconstructed by the smartypants commenters at Jezebel.

Pandagon takes on Audacia Ray’s Naked on the Internet, in a review that starts (and in what’s become nearly obligatory to say of any sex worker’s book, sadly) “I’m usually not one to read the latest in the never-ending series of books all best described as ‘I Was A Sex Worker Despite The Fact That I’m An Educated, Middle Class White Woman’…”, sports comments come alive! with shredding of the “male gaze” and why women dig queer porn.

Lastly, be a dear, and take Susie Bright’s timely ‘Bathroom Sex’ survey, or, for the bonus win, the International Rectal Microbicide Working Group’s survey of what lube you use for anal sex.

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

“Philosophy in the Boudoir” Redux

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

Artist Tomer Hanuka has been commissioned to create the cover art for a new Penguin Classics edition of the Marquis de Sade’s Philosophy in the Boudoir, Or, The Immoral Mentors.

On his process:

Since the cover included a back cover and two flaps there was lots of space to build a rounded atmosphere. the back cover is essentially the ‘later’ of the front, the front flap showcases an evil looking chandelier and the back flap has an excited horse. hoping i could get away with something slightly outrages I had the back flap and back cover create a suggestive bestiality situation that was quickly cleaned up when the horse got circumcised to the client’s request…

A gorgeously huge version here.

(via the inimitable sexblo.gs)

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Hot Married (?) Senatorial Action

filed under: Strange Bedfellows by Melissa Gira | 1 Comment

The American Sexuality Blog points to this week’s Roll Call’s turn at queer public sex nonfiction smut:

“At 1216 hours, Craig tapped his right foot. I recognized this as a signal used by persons wishing to engage in lewd conduct. Craig tapped his toes several times and moves his foot closer to my foot. I moved my foot up and down slowly. While this was occurring, the male in the stall to my right was still present. I could hear several unknown persons in the restroom that appeared to use the restroom for its intended use. The presence of others did not seem to deter Craig as he moved his right foot so that it touched the side of my left foot which was within my stall area,” the report states.

Craig then proceeded to swipe his hand under the stall divider several times, and Karsnia noted in his report that “I could … see Craig had a gold ring on his ring finger as his hand was on my side of the stall divider.”

(img: Cowboy Rudy, posing with Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho), arrested June 11, 2007 and charged with “soliciting lewd conduct” in a public airport restroom, and was convicted August 8, 2007)

Monday, August 27, 2007

“Fille Publique”: Pole Dancing in the Financial District

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

Video artist Linda M. Ford confronts the “working girl” in her site-specific projections and performances, putting peep show girls on museums and pole dancers in front of Charles Schwab:

From her statement:

Fille Publique*
Dressed in a business suit, I performed “striptease” pole tricks almost directly underneath the Charles Schwab marquee that continually flashes the “market news”. At the end of this lunchtime hour, I sold Polaroid’s of the performance to passersby.

* defined by the 19th century discourse which positioned the femme, or private, family woman in opposition to the fille, any woman in the public sphere; available for sexual use (prostitute).