- Live@HOPE, Monochrom’s Grenzfuthner: "The future is like the Jetsons, plus rape" | Gizmodo – Arse Elektronika, a conference about technology and sex, came screaming into the world. "It was true," says Grenzfuthner. Everything he's seen in three years has confirmed that we do use sex to drive tech. "Mankind is a tool-using species and a sexual species and we can't forget that," he says, "Innovation has always been tied to porn." He went on to say that Gutenberg supported his bible printing habit with the next thing he printed—pornographic texts.
- Orgasm Just by Thinking: Is it Medically Possible? – Health Blog – CBS News – Carrellas is featured in a new "Strange Sex" series on TLC, but her brand of sexual pleasure may not be as strange as one might think. Researchers at Rutgers University have been studying the mind-body-sex connection, and have found that there seems to be documented evidence of Carrellas' claims. They put her in an MRI, had her "think off" and found that the parts of her brain that should light up when she climaxes did just that.
- Child sex abuse and women’s ordination: the Vatican’s immoral equivalency | Washington post – You can now be defrocked for raping a child or for conferring Holy Orders on a woman.
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Midori by Steve Diet Goedde
Midori is seeking submissions for a special writing project:
I turn to you, dear readers, for some juicy material needed for a very special project. I am collecting women’s accounts of the physical experience their orgasms. I’m really hoping that some of you can help me out with this. Feel free to pass it on to any women or lists with women who might be interested.
Details –
I am seeking first person descriptions from women about their orgasms.
• Who: You are a woman, 18 years or older, who have experienced one or more variety of orgasms. (Transwomen! I want your unique perspectives too!)
• What: Essay of clear and detailed description of your orgasm, from start to finish, focusing on the physical experience, expressed in your own words. When does it start? What’s the hint of it? Where does it start? How does it move through your body? What sort of sensations? Imagine trying to illustrate your orgasm to a person who’s never had it.
• If you have more than one type of orgasm, each variety would be written in a separate essay piece. (The get-to-sleep quickie, the deep one, the surprise one, the long building one, solo-sex one, when getting oral sex, etc…)
• How Long? As long as it takes for you to describe it. It may be a couple of paragraphs or couple of pages.
• Credit line: How would you like your essay to be credited? You’ll have one or two lines.
• Editing: At most I will edit for grammar, spelling and simple readability. I want to keep it as true to your original narrative and tone as possible.
• When: No later than end of August
• Send to midori AT fhp-inc DOT com
• Please make sure that there’s an e mail I can reliable reach you at. I may have some questions around editing or some other detail.
I’m happy to answer any questions on this.
Thank you!
Midori
- Can a Pill Help Women Reach Orgasm? – Barbara Kantrowitz – Newsweek.com – Canner hit on the topic after years of doing documentaries on subjects like human-rights abuses, police brutality, and poverty. Looking for something more upbeat, she was researching female sexuality when she got a call from the pharmaceutical company Vivus, which wanted her to create erotic videos to use in their clinical study of an “orgasm cream” for women.
- Good Vibrations And The Clitoris Saving Alien Cult: News: SFAppeal – The furor boiled to the rim when in late March, Good Vibes got angrily and publicly called out by a feminist Facebook group, a professor of African politics at USF, feminist email lists and a significant number of sexual health professionals and sex educators in multiple countries. Why? It seems that the venerable retailer, with its reputation and history for championing empowered female sexuality, had publicly aligned its brand with, and intended to raise money for an organization called Clitoraid.
- Protecting Your Privacy Online | The Beautiful Kind – It’s one thing to be far too public on the web and voluntarily offer more information than necessary, but it’s another when other sources are the culprits. Even the most smug of people who refuse to use Facebook, Twitter or even the internet itself are just as much at risk of having their personal information and identity leaked via the web. Knowledge is power when being proactive about protecting your personal privacy, and I’d like to go over a few of those areas.
- Swinger Tests China’s Sexual Morals – NYTimes.com – On Thursday, a court sentenced the randy Mr. Ma to three and a half years in prison, a severe penalty for a crime that the Chinese government calls “crowd licentiousness.†Mr. Ma, now China’s most famous swinger, remains defiant and plans to appeal, saying his sex life is his own business, not subject to the law as long as he causes no social disturbance, according to his lawyer, Yao Yong’an.
- Getting Down and Turned On: Pornography and Society Today | StealingKitty – We are here, we are horny, and our perversions are pushing the envelope of sexual boundaries. Better get used to it. The best place to start the discussion is defining what is porn, erotica, or obscenity in our culture today.
Annie Sprinkle has been exploring sexuality and orgasm for over thirty six years, from her early years as a porn star and prostitute, to her current incarnation as a sex activist, filmmaker, performance artist, AIDS educator, and Ph.D. sexologist. One of the first women to inspire the term “sex positive feminist”, Annie describes herself as “metamorphosexual”, and brings her years of sensuous experience and knowledge of the pleasures and diversity of orgasm to this film.
In Annie Sprinkles Amazing World of Orgasm, Annie plays host to 26 “sexperts” on the topic of orgasm, inviting them to share their experiences and theories on orgasm as an introduction to this vast topic with the viewer. There is one type of orgasm that most people encounter, the tension/release type, but, according to these sexperts, there are, in fact, multiple (if not hundreds) of ways to experience orgasm. For women, these include clitoral and inter-vaginal orgasms, dream-gasms, microgasms, breath and energy orgasms, and Annie’s favorite megagasm (she experiences her famous 5 minute orgasm on screen). Other sexperts describe laugh-gasms, fake orgasms, outer-body experiences, orgasms that are experienced giving birth and upon death, spiritual orgasm, fusion orgasms, full body orgasms that run through the charkas, g-spot orgasms, tantra orgasms, multiple orgasms, hour long expanded orgasms that take one to different levels of consciousness, cosmic orgasms, orga-bumps orgasms that transfer orgasm energy all over the body, and fear-gasms. The film shows a diverse range of people experiencing orgasm through masturbation, GLBT and hetero sex, sadomasochism, and disability. Other experts talk about the physiology of orgasm and the stages of arousal.
The film is structured into segmented interviews with the various sexperts describing their experience as they talk to the camera, montaged and super-imposed over archival footage of orgasm (often their own) with swirling new-age backgrounds. These special effects are sometime dizzying and distracting, and often kitschy, and although it was the filmmaker’s intent to make the subject playful and less clinical, it also serves to show the sexperts in a less credible light. Still, this film is an amazing and fascinating introduction into the world of orgasm and a must see for sex educators and orgasm enthusiasts.
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Annie Sprinkle’s Amazing World of Orgasm
