- Crimes of the Art? | Culture | Vanity Fair – Eight years after Larry Rivers’s death, both his pioneering art and his hypersexual private life are getting fresh attention. In the 70s, he filmed his adolescent daughters topless for a documentary, Growing, that the younger one, Emma Rivers Tamburlini, says is nothing less than child pornography. With battle lines drawn between Emma and those who guard Rivers’s legacy, the author asks whether the artist was shattering taboos or destroying innocence.
- Women Who Like to Be Dominated in Bed: Talking to BDSM Submissives | AlterNet – Outside of the BDSM scene, there are many misconceptions about submissive women. Non-kinky individuals might assume that submissive women are passive, indecisive or weak individuals who lack ambition—in other words, the anti-feminists. But spend some time around the BDSM community, and one encounters plenty of submissive women who describe themselves as card-carrying feminists. A female submissive might be a corporate lawyer or an emergency room physician, or she might be signing a major book deal. The fact that she is voluntarily submissive in the dungeon doesn’t mean that she is submissive outside of the dungeon.
- Out Of The Closet … In The Pulpit Of A Megachurch : NPR – "There are two things in my life that are an absolute," the megachurch pastor told his flock. "I did not ask for either one of them, both of them were imposed upon me, I had no control over either of them. One was the call of God on my life… and the other thing … was my sexual orientation."
- NYC swingers sex parties are feeling the pinch of the tough economy |NY Daily News – DDeviousDelights is one of many venues that blame the economy for its 30 to 40% event attendance drop this year. The high-end roaming party One Leg Up said it has had about 20 percent fewer event attendees a year since 2007. And one stationary club — the 14-year-old Carousel Couples Club — reported a 60% attendance plunge from 2007 to 2009.
- Young Women Chat About Porn, Sex Work, Blogging and the ‘F-Word’ With Beauty Myth Author Naomi Wolf – Speakeasy – WSJ – The panelists were Feministing.com blogger and author Courtney Martin, sex blogger and queer advocate Lena Chen, sex education activist Shelby Knox, and libertarian “free-market feminist” Allison Kasic.
- For Gays, New Songs of Survival- NYTimes.com – In the wake of the continued legal wrangling over the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy and same-sex marriage; harassment of gay youth in schools; and anger over the use of a gay joke in the trailer for the Vince Vaughn film “The Dilemma,” the top of the pop music charts has become a refuge of unambiguous support for gay rights.
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- I want you back, says Belle de Jour’s lover | News –
- Generation B – Anything He Can Do, She Can Do | NYTimes.com – IN September 1998, David Buechner, then 39, a prominent classical pianist, came out as a transgender woman, explaining that from then on, she would live and perform as Sara Davis Buechner. The pianist had been accustomed to rave reviews (at 24, David, in his New York City concert debut, was called “an extraordinary young artist” by a New York Times critic). But the debut as Sara, reported in a Times magazine article, was not so well received, even by loved ones.
- Depathologizing Porn | Psychotherapy Networker – Yet, despite the undeniable harm that porn can do, we therapists need to bear in mind a fundamental fact: the overwhelming majority of people exposed to it don't become addicts. Patrick Carnes's research shows that sexual addiction affects three to five percent of adults, suggesting that porn use isn't about to turn us into a country of addicts glued to their computer screens. Further, assuming that porn inevitably leads to addiction can blind us to understanding its nonpathological appeal to so many people—most of them men who are quite normal in every other way.
- Belle de Jour revealed as research scientist Dr Brooke Magnanti – Times Online – Magnanti is a respected specialist in developmental neurotoxicology and cancer epidemiology in a hospital research group in Bristol. Six years ago, in the final stages of her PhD thesis, she ran out of money and turned to prostitution through a London escort agency, charging £300 an hour. Already an experienced science blogger, she began writing about her experiences in a web diary that was adapted into books and a television drama starring Billie Piper.
- New York 2009 » I Wish I Was At WordCamp – If you couldn't make it to Wordcamp, you can follow what happened on this page.
- » yeah I might be cracking I am a poster girl with no poster. – Please help Ammre, who has been housebound since August from an injury that went untreated due to lack of insurance.
- hyper-fetish: Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” video | violet blue ® :: open source sex – The video is way more entertaining than the song itself (which is catchy, by the way), and it’s packed with sex, high-gloss fetish couture, surreal effects and some serious shoes worthy of worship. Can you count the fetishes? There are some pretty obscure ones here, mixed with more obvious ones, and it’s interlaced with current pop fetishes (such as the coffins resembling the [Anubis] travel coffins in “True Blood”).
- the top online sex management tools | violet blue ® :: open source sex – This week’s San Francisco Chronicle column is dedicated to everyone who wants to be organized, responsible, and truly deeply nerdy about their sex lives: it’s a guide to online sex management tools.
- Help Lift Sex Ed to a Higher Plane: Support Scarleteen! | Scarleteen – What you might not know is that Scarleteen is the highest ranked online young adult sexuality resource but also the least funded and that the youth who need us most are also the least able to donate. You might not know that we have done all we have with a budget lower than the median annual household income in the U.S. You might not know we have provided the services we have to millions without any federal, state or local funding and that we are fully independent media which depends on public support to survive and grow.
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Sex bomb sex bomb you’re a sex bomb
You can give it to me when I need to come along
Sex bomb sex bomb you’re my sex bomb
And baby you can turn me on turn me on darlin’
Sex bomb sex bomb you’re my sex bomb sex bomb
You can give it to me when I need to come along
Sex bomb sex bomb your’re my sex bomb
And baby you can turn me on
Out of the Blue, an all-male a cappella group at Oxford University, did this rendition of Tom Jones’ Sex Bomb at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Listen closely at the end for the bass solo: “Hey everybody have you seen my balls, they’re big and salty and brown.” Eek!
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A woman performs fellatio on a microphone during the opening of “Ain’t No Sorry” by Wojciech Kosma, at the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw.
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The Wet Spots are a fantastic duo from Canada. From their website:
Picture a husband and wife team from the golden age of comedy. Now picture them singing sweetly about threesomes and taking it in the ass.
Internationally acclaimed cabaret duo The Wet Spots (Cass King and John Woods) write the most elegant songs about sex that you will ever hear.
The duo will be doing their first full-length public performance in NYC at the Zipper Factory on Sunday, July 27th at 8 pm and they’ve joined forces with Naked City for a contest!
Starting today, creative types are invited to write a new verse to a Wet Spots song called Public Service Announcement, which is about things that you should not put in your ass – check out the YouTube video of the Wet Spots performing Public Service Announcement so you can study up on the rhyme pattern.
The winning verse and entertaining runners-up, as judged by me and the Wet Spots, will be published here on Naked City on July 24th, and the winning verse will be used in the song at the Zipper Factory show, plus immortalized in a Naked City TV video of the performance.
The winner also receives two tickets to the July 27th Wet Spots show plus a bag of swag – a copy of my book Naked on the Internet, a dvd of my porno directorial debut The Bi Apple, and a Sex Nerds Know How to Do It tee shirt, plus some other sexy goodies.
The deadline for all entries is 11.59 pm on Tuesday, July 22nd.
You can leave your verse in the comments on the contest post on Naked City, or email it to nakedcity@villagevoicemedia.com.
Have at it!
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