Bear boy band Bearforce1 sends some sexy holiday cheer this season! Via the Nerve Video Blog.
Jessica Gold Haralson
YouTube user Hot for Words sexes it up this Halloween, delving into the illustrious origin of the word “Halloween”. Check it out!
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I love me some book learnin’! I also love boobs. This clip has a bit of everything! I think that’s what business types would call “synergy.”
Happy Hallowe’en, everyone! Stay safe, stay sexy.
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Because I don’t. I know it’s hard to believe. People like to declare that they’re type-less and then they tack on the criteria of “as long as he’s not a Republican.†Me? I’ve dated a Republican.
Republicanism might as well be the Christianity of a foreign land named Coulterville.
You would think that it might be tougher to date someone of a different cultural or religious background. Well, not for me. Republicanism might as well be the Christianity of a foreign land named Coulterville. I spent my entire relationship with Summer Guy attempting to ignore the fact that I was sleeping with the enemy, but at the end of it all, I learned a lot about myself. My views on race, poverty, and gay rights came out stronger, because his (facetious) challenges to them made me think critically about why I believed the things I did.
(A year and a half later, it now looks like he’s on the verge of a conversion to my god. Can’t help but feel a little smug about that.)
I don’t merely claim to be an equal-opportunity bed partner. I actually am in practice.
I was fairly non-discriminatory even before the Republican, but I think I’m even more so now. Race, religion, profession, education, class, whatever: as long as the guy’s tolerant and intelligent, none of it really matters. Just about the only criteria of late is age and even that’s rather lax (within five years of my own — and obviously, no 15-year-olds). Further, I don’t merely claim to be an equal-opportunity bed partner. I actually am in practice. Thanks to public misconception and a ton of presumption, I get quite a bit of criticism for only dating or sleeping with white guys, which pisses me off because that’s indicative of major stereotyping of Asian women. The actual racial breakdown in my history between white vs. everything else? Probably closer to 70-30, which is within five percentage points of Harvard’s actual demographic makeup.
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Hat tip to Jezebel for alerting me of the existence of Mike Cherico, a self-described “Edgy English Teacher” who blogs sex/dating for Glamour. Jezebel does a great job writing up his ignoramousness, so I’ll just copy-paste the highlights:
- First off, he accepts and embraces the nickname “Edgy English Teacher,” which, ew. Also, he hints that it’s because he likes the non-vanilla sex- which, please, a little spanking and light bondage does not make you edgy, dude (because I think we all know that that’s the extent of the man’s kinks).
- He also considers it edgy that he’s a dick to people, including his girlfriends. Being a dick doesn’t make you “edgy,” it makes you immature. And probably insecure.
- Also, no one legitimately edgy puts on a Boba Fett costume and poses with a bunch of dudes for Halloween.
- He takes pictures of himself with women he just met, and then puts one in a post when he talks about the other 2 girls he went out with that night. Classy.
- He posts pictures (and again) of the clothes that women leave at his place after fucking him.
- His ex’s friends call him “jerk boy.” This is never a good sign.
- He told a woman he loved her when he didn’t mean it and than explicitly took it back. Is he 12?
- Also, a week later he blogged that he’d decided they made better friends. Who wants to bet on whether he told her before he wrote it?
Question for Glamour: why serve up these asshole guys as examples of “modern dating” just to make women feel more insecure? OR is this… *shudder* normal d-bag behavior in the world of men?
Seriously, how does M.Cherico get that much pussy?
What do you think?
Always wanted to test your pen at literotica?
Shay’s The S Spot has an erotica writing competition for you!
This endorphin-inducing sexuality site is offering a Sexy Short Story Competition (deadline September 20th, natch) that will be judged on three axes: (1) Arousability 2 Creativity and Charisma, and 3) Spelling and Grammar (In other words, don’t forget to stroke it to your Strunk and White).
Alongside Shay and Always Aroused Girl, The Carnival’s very own Mikey Mongol is judging, so you know you’re getting evaluated by the best.
What are you waiting for? Hop (or spank, or whip, or shimmy) to it!
Are you a college student?
Are you a dominatrix?
Would you be interested in getting profiled about your experience (totally non-exploitatively, of course) for a major national publication?
Hit me up and we’ll talk: jessica.haralson @ gmail DOT com.
Thanks!
I’m a straight girl, but drag kings turn me on. Does that make me bi?
It doesn’t make you bi. It makes you awesome.
How can I convince my girlfriend to try drag for me? She says she’d feel silly.
She shouldn’t feel silly — drag is a fantasy. I know kings that have been asked to go to bed with a couple because one of them wouldn’t try drag. Let her know if she won’t do it, someone else will.
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It’s great that my boyfriend can go for hours, but sometimes I get bored. How long is a reasonable amount of time to have sex before telling him time’s up?
My girlfriend and I usually make love for two hours, but that’s a lot to some people. You should talk about your boredom outside the bedroom. Tell him what would make it more interesting to you. Call it constructive criticism.
My boyfriend loves going down on me, but I can’t seem to orgasm from it. Is that normal? Can I change that?
Not everybody can come from oral, but your boyfriend has a duty to try. Tell him to add penetration, add vibration and hang in there. When you’re going down on someone, you have to be a soldier.
I have this one particular fetish that a lot of people consider weird. How many times should I sleep with a girl before telling her about it?
Wait at least two months before busting it out. By then, you’ll have a bond that will make her more likely to indulge your fetish. If you try it two weeks in, she’ll probably be like, “Peace.”
Are crotchless panties hot or unsanitary?
Unsanitary, yet hot. Put them on right before you take them off.
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Thousands of LiveJournal customers are rebelling against the company’s recent decision to censor hundreds of sex-themed discussion groups, a broad swath that has led to the removal of literary critiques and fan-written fiction about Harry Potter.
LiveJournal, which is owned by San Francisco-based Six Apart, confirmed Wednesday that it deleted around 500 journals this week in hopes of better “protecting children.” It said the deletion was prompted by activist groups, including one called Warriors for Innocence that claims to track sites promoting pedophilia, the sexual abuse of minors, and other illegal activities.
Legal experts say LiveJournal is clearly not liable for fictional stories and related discussions posted by its users. But despite customer outcry, Six Apart is standing firm in its position that the deleted journals violate company policy.
“We did a review of our policies related to how we review those sites, those journals, and came up with the fact that we actually did have a number of journals up that we didn’t think met our policies and didn’t think they were appropriate to have up,” Barak Berkowitz, chairman and chief executive of Six Apart, said in a telephone interview. The site boasts about 13 million journals.
Some deleted LiveJournal communities went by names like childlove and little_children (a community permits multiple LiveJournal users to post entries, while an individual account is limited to one user). Others, however, broadly fall into the category of science fiction, fantasy or user-written “fandom” stories–and it is those that have sparked the outcry.
“As a queer, feminist writer who explores the darker aspects of human nature, many of my stories deal with incest, rape and child molestation,” a LiveJournal member named “bitterfig” wrote. “As such, I belonged to and contributed to several of the communities which have been suspended and frankly I’m pretty offended. I don’t like being lumped in with rapists and pedophiles and other ‘monsters on the Web.’”
Practically any attempt to sort works of fiction into tidy piles of acceptable and unacceptable material, of course, is likely to invite controversy. Works by noted authors such as James Joyce, Henry Miller and William S. Burroughs have been lauded as masterpieces–and at other times prosecuted as obscene.
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AALL “A Day in the Life of the Law Library Community“)
Carnival-ettes,
Calling all librarians!
I am currently interning for the sex and pop culture magazine Nerve.com, and looking for the librarian folk amongst you who would be willing to be interviewed.
The interview would be for “Sex Advice From,” a popular series in which a select group of folks give their best advice about tricky sex questions. If you happen to blog, we’ll totally put up your links and publicize your projects in any way possible. If you don’t blog, that’s cool too!
Please e-mail jessica at nerve dot com ASAP if you are interested!
-Jessica
Some of Tony’s best friends are Jews. His most significant boyfriend was too, he says. So when his Jewish friend Jessica said, “You can date all the WASPs you want, but you’re not going to find someone who’ll talk about his feelings or be willing to analyze them,” Tony, a New Yorker of non-Jewish Italian descent, found himself posting a profile on JDate.com, “the premier Jewish singles community on the Net.”
No avid J-suitor will be shocked to find Tony’s profile (which makes clear that he’s not Jewish) among the “BlueeyedJew”s and “BagelBoy”s who are both members of the site and members of the tribe. Non-Jews in search of Jews — gay and straight, male and female — have become commonplace on JDate. The percentage of JDate’s 650,000 members identifying themselves as religiously “unaffiliated” is now 13% and rising. (Caveat: that designation also includes Jews who don’t align themselves with a particular Jewish movement, e.g. Reform or Conservative.) JDate has not gone so far as to add check-boxes for religions other than Jewish — it’d be philosophically tricky — but non-Jews have reached at least one measure of critical mass: the site has added the option of designating oneself “Willing to convert.” At this point, it’s entirely possible that JDate could bring together two Gentiles. (“It’s kismet! We’re both into film noir, snowboarding and Jews.”)
JDate spokesperson Gail Laguna says she’s heard no complaints about non-Jews using the site and that no serious thought has been given to excluding them. (More conservative Jewish dating sites do.) “The site is designed for Jewish singles — there’s no way to make that clearer,” she says. “We just want to make sure everyone has the tools they need to represent themselves openly and honestly.”
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Friends, fellow bloggers, countrymen: lend me your eyes.
For after writing over forty pages worth of material this week, I’ve renounced my junior year and am now free as a jaybird to blog away! I’m finished like Britney Spears’ career, Don Imus’ reputation, and Katie Holmes’ sanity. It’s good to be back to blogs.
But first, some unfinished business. You see, in the midst of paper writing and hand wringing, I had scheduled myself a stop on the fabulous Rachel Kramer Bussel‘s kinky book tour for her new releases, the erotica story compilations He’s On Top: Erotic Stories of Male Dominance and Female Submission. (This coincides with the release of She’s On Top: Erotic Stories of Female Dominance and Male Submission).
Um, oops.
April is far behind us, it’s true, but I think this He’s On Top review will serve as a deliciously erotic mea culpa.
“Dominant men get a bad rap in our society,” begins RKB in He’s On Top, and boy, is Kramer Bussel ever spot on! Although hot sex abounds between male tops and female bottoms, there is nary a good story out there that doesn’t equate male dominance with some antiquated spaghetti Western version of masculinity, or female submission with the Stepford-esque compliance of a brainless bimbo.
Thankfully, the artful stories in this compilation dispel any fears that He’s On Top will be some sort of misogyny fest before you can say “nipple clamps.” Consider this passage from “On The Twelfth Day,” a story in the compilation from Andrea Dale:
“For twelve days, I promised you gifts,” he said. “And for twelve days, you promised to accept them.”She put her hand to her throat. “Have I not…?”
“No,” he said quickly, taking both her hands in his. “You’ve been amazing. Perfect.”
He took a deep breath. “Our agreement was twelve days. On this, the twelfth day, this is the gift I give you: me. Everything I’ve shown you, everywhere I’ve tried to take you. Understand this — I will always love you, always be with you, no matter what you decide, no matter if you decide that what we’ve explored isn’t how you want to be.” …
“Her answer was simple. A sweet dazzling smile, before she bowed her head and held out her collar to him.”
Awww. Isn’t that sweet? Nora Ephron herself probably couldn’t make it sweeter.
Yet lest you think that Bussel’s put together some kind of Harlequin cheese fest, the depictions of loving, tender sex between considerate male tops and their female submissive is deeply intertwined with good ol’ raw sadomasochistic fucking. I particularly reveled at this cocksucking scene, which throws PC and propriety out the window:
“Your chest swells with the possibility of it, because you can do anything together. You can push her over the edge and catch her at the bottom, soft and safe in your arms. You can watch her dance and be inside her all at the same time, because you are the music she’s dancing to now, faster, and faster.
She cries out a response, but you know it’s the answer to another question, the one that matters more than anything. Because it’s the sweetest sound a man can hear, a woman you love coming around your cock, moaning, sobbing, sighing, and whispering that one magic word.
Yes.â€
In a societal landscape which fears making too much out of the male top, this literary foray into his mind is an all-too-sparse treat in the world of erotica. With her thoughtful selections and clear enthusiasm for the subject matter, Bussel’s paean to the man on the “D†side of the D/s divide delivers.
She is newly single, and keen to set the record straight. Dita Von Teese, the world’s most glamorous ‘demure stripper’, speaks frankly for the first time about the lessons she’s learnt from life with – and without – the shock-rocker Marilyn Manson
The world around Dita Von Teese may be on fire with speculation about her impending divorce from the ‘death rocker’ Marilyn Manson after just over a year of marriage – not to mention the feverish, vampire-themed courtship that Manson is rumoured to be having with a young actress – but you’d never know it to look at her.
Sitting on a sofa at the Chateau Marmont hotel in Los Angeles, with big diamond bracelets stacked up on her bird-like wrists and her long blue-black hair moulded carefully around her supernaturally white cleavage, Von Teese, 34, looks more like some rare collectable china doll than an actual person. It’s almost a surprise when she turns her head and speaks.
But speak she does. Demurely and cautiously at first, but later with raw, clear-eyed sadness and startling frankness about the demise of her five-year relationship with the absinthe-drinking ‘Anti-Christ Superstar’ and his party-hard lifestyle that she says drove them apart.
Up until now the wasp-waisted Von Teese has been almost as famous for her coy, ladylike discretion as she has for bathing on stage in a crystal-studded champagne glass. Indeed, Von Teese – who earned almost £500,000 last year and is recognised as the most celebrated burlesque dancer in the world – initially agreed to be interviewed on the condition that I not ask her about Manson or the divorce. But a week after our first meeting she calls me late at night from Seoul, Korea, and says she has changed her mind.
‘I want to set the record straight about some things,’ says Von Teese, who has just read the April issue of Rolling Stone magazine, in which Manson talks about both the ‘black hole of depression’ he experienced while married to her, and the new love who inspired his forthcoming album. Von Teese’s voice is high and quivering with emotion. ‘Some things have been said about my marriage that are not fair, and I want to respond.’
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WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court upheld the nationwide ban on a controversial abortion procedure Wednesday, handing abortion opponents the long-awaited victory they expected from a more conservative bench.
The 5-4 ruling said the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act that Congress passed and President Bush signed into law in 2003 does not violate a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion.
The opponents of the act “have not demonstrated that the Act would be unconstitutional in a large fraction of relevant cases,†Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the majority opinion.
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The decision pitted the court’s conservatives against its liberals, with President Bush’s two appointees, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, siding with the majority.
Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia also were in the majority.
It was the first time the court banned a specific procedure in a case over how — not whether — to perform an abortion.
Abortion rights groups have said the procedure sometimes is the safest for a woman. They also said that such a ruling could threaten most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy, although government lawyers and others who favor the ban said there are alternate, more widely used procedures that remain legal.
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Beyonce’s newest video for her single “Green Light” is a fetish dream, with latex, ballet boots, and corsetry, oh my!
It’s truly a fetish-tastic offering from Ms. Knowles.
Quips Jessica of Feministing.com: “My hymen gives me wings!”
The comments section is particularly hilarious.
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