"Hawaii Speedo Student" Sought By School Security, Porn Companies @4:20 PM
"Since at least January, Tim, a gay 22-year-old senior at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa, has been recording himself masturbating, and uploading the videos to Xtube…. Among those photos is a series of him in University of Hawaii classrooms, snapped in January-February…. the University's Twitter account posted this campus warning: 'if you see 'Hawaii Speedo Student' on campus, do not approach him–-call Campus Security.' Now, he's an outlaw. Or at least a wild mountain lion roaming campus looking for prey." 21
The Squid And The Wail @3:40 PM
To Knifecrime Island, where… oh, just read it: "AN alleged pervert was caught with a picture of a man having sex with a dead SQUID, a court heard today. Andrew Dymond, 46, was netted when cops apparently found a haul of grossly offensive porn on his home computer. JPs heard the sea creature was clearly dead in the picture and a man was having sexual intercourse with it." You'll want to click through on this one for the accompanying photo. Also, there is this: "Four of the allegations state he had images showing acts likely to cause 'serious injury to a woman's breasts' and private parts." Can I get a "what a world"? Thank you. 26
How Much Does It Cost To Pay A Celebrity To Get To, Uh, Completion? @2:33 PM
In these times, one is tempted by all sorts of income streams. So it's useful, in comparing your value in the market, to know how much a porn publisher would pay a minor celebrity to "masturbate on camera to completion." (Prepositions are weird, right?) Above the Law provides the contracts from gay porn house Corbin Fisher. 24
Porn, Porn, It's Good For Your… @10:50 AM
More on that porn study we mentioned the other day: "According to his research, said [University of Montreal Professor Simon Louis] Lajeunesse, men search out pornography that relates to their earliest sexual fantasies, generally conceived at age 12 at the onset of puberty. They are not looking for new tricks to show off…. Lajeunesse also dismissed suggestions that avid pornography enthusiasts seek to imitate in life what they see on screens, or that they watch X-rated videos in an attempt to purge vile sexual impulses. 'Both arguments are worthless,' he said. Men make a distinction between their real lives and sexual fantasies, he argued." So maybe it's the women who are pushing all the facials you hear about these days. 13
"The objective of my work is to observe the impact of pornography on the sexuality of men, and how it shapes their perception of men and women. We started our research seeking men in their twenties who had never consumed pornography but we couldn't find any."
—University of Montreal Professor Simon Louis Lajeunesse, whose attempt to compare the lives of men who never view pornography with those who consume it regularly was thwarted by the fact that all dudes watch porn. @12:44 PM 10
'30 Rock' Porn Goes All Out On Quality Script, Acting @3:09 PM
The folks at Daily Intelligencer are right: This 30 Rock porn promo (safe for work sex-wise, but there are some bad words) is remarkably faithful to the tenor of the show. The "Jack Donaghy" character actually does a really good Alec Baldwin. I LOL'd several times, which, given that this godawful UTI of a week has me in the world's foulest mood, is a sign of remarkably high quality. Or terminal derangement. Anyway, enjoy! (There's apparently a "Cribs" porn parody at the beginning of the clip, but lord knows I'm not watching that. That would be truly disgusting.) 5
Free Content Is Destroying Everything Except Articles About Destructive Free Content @10:00 AM
Maybe it's August (now and forever the worst month of the year), maybe it's that I'm a voracious reader of news, maybe things really are terrible, but every article I've seen this morning (and over the last few, I dunno, years) is another variation on The Internet Is Killing X Industry piece. Newspapers, obviously, music for sure, and, once again, the porn business are all dying because everyone is giving it away for free or unwilling to pay. READ MORE 9
Porn Story Doesn't Include Logical Climax @9:01 AM
Everyone will titter over this Times front-pager about the current vogue for dramaturgical concision in the adult film industry, and rightly so. That's what it's there for: links and laughs. And I've kind of made my peace with that. If the Times, in this era of decline, needs to do these kinds of linkbaity articles to help subsidize less appealing but more important journalism, who am I to begrudge them? READ MORE 19
Sasha Grey: "Intellectual Seriousness"? @11:00 AM
A reader asks: "Can you translate this thing into English, please? 'Ms. Grey, whose career in pornography has been distinguished both by the extremity of what she is willing to do and an unusual degree of intellectual seriousness about doing it….'" That is A. O. Scott in today's Times, writing on The Girlfriend Experience. We think we know? READ MORE 22
Huge Swath Of Gay Porn Mags Shutter @2:32 PM
Mavety Media Group has shut down "Mandate, Torso, Honcho, Inches (and all of its ethnic permutations) and Playguy." 26
What is the deal with cum stains? @1:08 PM
Here is a tale about a group of artists who faced adversity because of a commitment to verisimilitude that made creative compromise an unimaginable option. Fortuitously, a solution to their problems presented itself in the most unlikely fashion, resulting in a heartwarming denouement. 5
San Francisco's Porn Archivist King @11:33 AM
The Magazine, a store and a historical treasure trove of gay pornography, has been in operation since 1973. 0
Flicked Off: The Girlfriend Experience @10:40 AM
Pornography star Sasha Grey's appeal to the younger man, and to the lecherous older man, is that she'll remind you of the cold-starin' hipster girls that you see on the street and yet can rarely fondle. And yet, if you're like me and prefer your porn to be of the knee sock variety, then you've most likely seen her money-makin' minge quite frequently. Born in 1988 (I KNOW!), she's the millennial generation's gal in porn-Havana. Whereas your typical adult starlet looks like a cut-rate Tara Reid impersonator, Grey is the scraggly, edgy, angel-headed hipster whose clothes and affection I'd want. Her hipster street cred was gold-plated because she has appeared in photographs, with her nipples blazing—and demurely cupping her teeny pube-garnished kitty-cage. (Lady-hair is the prime hipster aesthetic.) And though she already has 150 titles to her name (including the auspicious "Oral Supremacy" and "Bring'em Young"), still Grey plays the hip chick that just loves to bone—not the sickly blonde who is plowing her way through an insurmountable amount of daddy issues. READ MORE 20