First, a couple important points. I hate Kink, Inc.1 2 That does not mean I want them eradicated—they have been doing a shitty job of it, but I believe have made the world a (slightly) better place on balance—it means I have incredibly negative feelings for them that are far, far stronger than mere disapproval [...]
Archive for January, 2011
What porn companies can learn from the Giffords shooting
13 Jan 2011 at 02:49
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BDSM in the media, Community, Erotica and pornography, Fantasy, Politics of sex, Rant
Censorship is cultural terrorism, and other things I think about. (PredilectionAZ.com Interview)
When I was contacted by Nix Rodriguez, contributing writer to the online BDSM magazine PredilectionAZ.com, who said he’d been following my blog(s) and wanted to interview me, my first thought was, “Wait, Arizona—that Arizona—has a local BDSM magazine?” Feeling skeptical and using justifiable caution, I asked for details and consulted some friends to learn more. [...]
Brief (show)case study: How to include “vanillas” in your BDSM outreach
Clarisse Thorn, a volunteer for the Leather Archives and Museum and a personal inspiration for me, is working on a project I find extremely interesting. She’s trying to collect oral histories of people who enjoy what BDSM’ers would call kinky sex but she’s trying to collect them from people who do not consider themselves part [...]
Mainstream porn’s bedfellows are not a feminist pornographer’s friends
If you’ve any interest in technology or sex (or, like me, both), then you probably pay attention to the pornography industry. Or at least, you should. For a while now, there’s been a largely predictable lawsuit underway against peer-to-peer porn-sharers brought about by a mainstream (i.e., not even remotely feminist) porn studio called Corbin Fisher. [...]
Why Advocating Both Privacy and Transparency is not Hypocritical
Recently, I received the following question from an anonymous reader over on the Internet equivalent of my scratchpad, my Tumblr blog. While I believe that transparency is necessary…is it hypocritical to use the mask of a pseudonym and alternate persona to share sexually-explicit thoughts of a challenging nature? Should people who stand by transparency eschew [...]
