Nailing Your Wife - SPIKE

Nailing Your Wife - SPIKE

First in a series of “PG Porn” movies by James Gunn. This one stars Nathan Fillion and Aria Giovanni. The premise here is that the movies aren’t explicit at all, they’re just set in situations that make you think they’re going to be.

ABCNEWS.com : Porn Profits: Corporate America's Secret

ABCNEWS.com : Porn Profits: Corporate America’s Secret

Alan Moore on Smut

Arthur Magazine recently published online an essay by Alan Moore that appeared in its November issue. Titled “BOG VENUS VERSUS NAZI COCK-RING: Some Thoughts Concerning Pornography”, it discusses the place of erotica in society from cave paintings to today. There’s a lot to take in, but something I found particularly interesting:

Sexual etiquette and even to a certain extent sexual politics could not be mentioned or discussed within the confines of Victorian propriety, which meant that only in a field already banished far beyond those confines could such subjects safely be brought up. It’s by no means unusual to find participants in some chapter-length orgy of the period suddenly declaring half-time during which they will discuss such issues as the gentleman’s responsibility to make sure that his female partner has been fully satisfied by their exchange, or the importance of always acceding to the female partner’s wishes even when deranged by passion. These were matters that could not be raised in Home Hints and were certainly not taught at school or by one’s parents. It would seem that the only sexual education being circulated in the 19th century was within publications that were by their very definition deemed obscene.

This attitude of course continues to today. Society has banned, along with outward depictions of sexual activity, discussions of sexual activity. Schools are hardly allowed to mention condoms at all let alone instruct teenagers in how to use them properly so that they don’t break, and hardly anywhere can you find advice on the *etiquette *surrounding their use. Take a look at Wikipedia’s top 100 pages for any given month. Here’s April 2007’s, but the date parameters don’t really matter. People turn to Wikipedia of all places to find information about intimate activities. They’re not there looking for smut, just information that isn’t available in any other readily available place. I’m not advocating that all manner of topics become fair game for dinnertime discussion, and certainly there are letters columns and the Loveline that get into such matters but I think it’s interesting that while our society as certainly become more depraved, some things haven’t change all that much.

Moore’s piece of course accompanies his own literary contribution to the discussion, which is also worth the read. Some day I’ll write up my thoughts on it, but I need to read it again first. In the meantime, the Arthur piece is worth the read.

Alan Moore on Pornography

Alan Moore on Pornography

Long essay by Alan Moore about sexuality in culture.

sex.com -- a url worth dying for?

sex.com — a url worth dying for?

Man, this thing just keeps going and going.

Chris Staros on Lost Girls' Market Performance

Chris Staros on Lost Girls’ Market Performance

The book sold out its first printing immediately, as well as its second printing, and they’ve ordered a third.

Lying in the Gutters's Writes about Lost Girls

Lying in the Gutters’s Writes about Lost Girls

This concludes our linkfest of comic book pornography.

Chris Staros on Lost Girls

Chris Staros on Lost Girls

Melinda Gebbie on Lost Girls

Melinda Gebbie on Lost Girls

Alan Moore on Lost Girls, Part Two

Alan Moore on Lost Girls, Part Two

Alan Moore on Lost Girls, Part One

Alan Moore on Lost Girls, Part One

Little bit of a link bonanza on Lost Girls coming your way here. I have little intention to buy this book, but I think it’s interesting.

Boing Boing: Pornos rot slower than other magazines

Boing Boing: Pornos rot slower than other magazines

The need for lots of high gloss pages means that Playboy outlasts Newsweek in the landfill.

Two Companies to Release Porn Movies for PSP

Two Companies to Release Porn Movies for PSP

Two Japanese companies are going to release adult films in the UMD format used in the Playstation Portable.