- Rules of Misbehavior – Benjamin J. Dueholm – Dan Savage, the brilliant and foul-mouthed sex columnist, has become one of the most important ethicists in America. Are we screwed?
- Trve West Coast Fiction: Spoiled (or why I sometimes feel like a rapist) | Danny Wylde – Having sex with beautiful women for a living is fun – except when it’s not.
- ‘Game of Thrones’: Making Sense of All the Sex – Atlantic – Ultimately, Game of Thrones is about power, and the consequences of sex—both immediately and years down the line—can mean the difference between gaining and losing it. Westeros is not a modern or progressive world, and sex and violence remain its primary trades. Viewers who find either untenable should steer clear.
- Getting Away with Murder on Long Island – Some of those 10 people might be alive today if it hadn’t been for the lackluster response of law enforcement and the press coverage of the case — much of it sensationalist and dehumanizing — all because of the first victims’ sex-worker status.
- The Perversions of Campus Sexual Culture – Brainstorm – The Chronicle of Higher Education – In other words, campus sexual culture in its dominant, heteronormative form is kinda f#%@ed up. Sexual desire is wrapped up in public humiliation, drunkenness, and yes, I’ll say the word, patriarchy. It’s not that I don’t get how such things can be sexy, how humiliation and domination in conditions of inequality can be turned into pleasure. But what is interesting is the very conflation of that pleasure with both profit and publicness, a visual pornification of power inequities so beautifully symbolized by the booty cam at Yale or the drunk college “chix” porn site.
April 2011
Friendly’s wants you to create your own Happy Ending. I think it’s hilarious that it’s actually trademarked. Thanks to Patricia for sending me this!
Do you admire a woman who enters a room with confidence? Would you like to be that woman?
Back by popular demand and just in time for the spring party and prom season is Miss Vera’s class in how to walk in high heels, sponsored by the world’s renowned crossdressing academy, Miss Vera’s Finishing School for Boys Who Want to Be Girls and Women Who Want to Be Femme-tastic. Experience has taught us that there is much to learn, so the current class is divided into two sessions.
Part One on April 18 will concentrate on walking. Part Two on April 25 focuses on sitting and posing and everyday challenges. Both sessions are required for completion.
Your instructors are Miss Maryanne Byington, the academy’s esteemed dean of high heels – a ballroom champion, and the delightful Miss Julia Kaye, Bolshoi trained dancer and model. High heels are not a strict requirement – flats and low heels are certainly permitted.This class is open to all serious students -gentleman may participate in heels and drab. These integrated group classes provide a unique social as well as educational opportunity for the participants who are united in a common purpose, the grace of feminine movement.
Particpants: Open to all serious students.
A Lesson in 2 Parts
Pt. One, Monday, April 18, Pt. Two, Monday April 25
Time: 7:15p-8:30 pm
Doors open at 7pm
Place: 250 W. 54 Street
Tuition: $79 total for both sessions. Credit cards accepted.
Advance registration required. Class size limited to 15.
Low Heels, permitted. Skirts, preferred.
Ph: 212-989-0906, email: register at missvera dot com
Would you like us to organize a special class for you and your friends? Group Inquiries invited. Private classes also available for individuals and couples.
Teens welcome with parental permission.
An evening of personal instruction with Midori
Three hours of concentrated private rope instructions to finesse your floor works skills with Midori. An evening designed for those tired of intro level rope classes … and seek more personalized instruction to get to the next level of ninja-like rope skills and scene creations.
Tops – Do you want to make your rope play more confident, smooth and intuitive? Have you encountered blocks in your play you want to over come? Do you want to learn cool and subtle tricks?
Bottoms – Want to work on going deeper and finding more pleasures?
Midori will work closely with each student to asses their needs and challenges. Based on each student’s needs she’ll provide the lessons, drills and exercises.
After the lesson there will be some fine Japanese refreshments and nosh to wind down the evening of rope pleasures and learning with socializing and conversations. Midori often ends up telling tales of adventure in Japan during these socials. (Sometimes lessons transition into play for some students during this social time. As long as you respect others’ space, Midori’s happy with that.)
WHO:
This experience will be limited to 5 pairs of students to create a environment of quality learning. Please come as a pair. While you do not have to be a couple, you do need to have your exercise partner with you. This Dojo Elective is open to those who play at one or both ends of the rope.
You do not have to be a Rope Bondage Dojo graduate to attend.
BRING:
– Ropes
– Safely scissors
– Desire to improve
– Yoga mat or beach towel (Optional)
WHEN:
Instruction starts at 7pm. Door opens 6:45pm.
Instruction ends 10pm and transitions to food and refreshments until midnight or so.
Where:
Private residence, West 30th Street, between 5th & 6th Ave. This will be in an elegant private loft that Midori rented for ForteFemme later in the week. Exact location will be given to the registered students.
Cost: $100
Dress code: Casual, be prepared to move
REGISTER / TICKET: http://planetmidori.ticketleap.com/nycapril132011/
The good news is, you don’t have to be a sex worker hater forever. You can choose to write something new, interesting, relevant, and original about what happened in this situation. You can choose to listen to this criticism and reframe your argument. You can choose to acknowledge that some of the people affected by the PornWiki might possibly be reading your column. You might even choose to apologize. At the very least you can acknowledge that you didn’t add anything to the argument by climbing up onto a moral high horse and wagging your finger at the whores down below to remind them that they shouldn’t expect the same kind of privacy that any other public figure expects. Don’t worry, including sex workers and talking about them ethically and honestly won’t turn you into one. It won’t even make you an ally. It just makes you less of a hating asshole. Anywhere you choose to go from there is up to you.
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