March 15th, 2010 -- by Bacchus
According to this blog post at Psychology Today (which has not yet discovered the typographical wonder that is paragraphs, so I’m helping them out with that) even anti-porn researchers are discovering that if their “porn wrecks lives” theory is true, it’s true in ways so subtle that the people with wrecked lives somehow fail to notice. Not only do people think porn is good for them, but the more they see, the better off they think they are:
What about at the individual level? Are women who view pornography terrorized beyond redemption? Do they descend into a well of despair and self-doubt about their sexuality? Do men become misogynist monsters upon viewing pornographic material? Do they develop debilitating penis insecurities at the sight of well-endowed male porn actors?
Let’s see what Gert Martin Hald and Neil M. Malamuth found in their 2008 paper titled Self-Perceived Effects of Pornographic Consumption. I should mention that Neil Malamuth is a highly regarded scholar of pornography who has often argued for its supposed ill effects. Hence, if there exists a possibility of an a priori bias here, it would be in hoping to find that pornography yields negative consequences.
In their survey of 688 young Danish adults (men = 316; women = 372), Hald and Malamuth found that respondents construed the viewing of hardcore pornography as beneficial to their sex lives, their attitudes towards sex, their perceptions and attitudes towards members of the opposite sex, toward life in general, and over all. The obtained beneficial effects were statistically significant for all but one measure across both sexes. Now here is the kicker: A positive correlation was obtained between the amount of hardcore pornography that was viewed and the impact of the benefits reaped. This positive correlation was found for both sexes. In other words, the more that one watched porn, the stronger the benefits (for both sexes)! There you have it.
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March 14th, 2010 -- by Dr. Faustus
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I’ve blogged before about the erotic connection between women and water, so it was with some delight today that I came across a site by Russian photographer Valery Anzilov who has a specialty of making striking pictures of models under water:
Definitely worth a visit if this sort of photography appeals to you.
Anzilov’s pages are graced with the legend “20 years under water with the camera and nice naked girls.”
I wonder how you get jobs like that.
March 12th, 2010 -- by Bacchus
Remember the Jessica Alba In Trouble post from ten days ago? She made a great “damsel in distress” in Sin City, true. But not everyone wants to be the hero who rescues the damsel; nay, in these 21st-century internets, you’re just as likely to meet somebody who’d like to step for a while into the shoes of the villain.
If a thing exists, there is porn of it. In this case, Bondage Blog has found it. There’s a cartoon girl. Her name is Jessica. Her pose? Familiar:
And boy-oh-boy, is she in trouble:
Artwork courtesy of Dofantasy.com.
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March 12th, 2010 -- by Bacchus
Did you know that picking locks is sexy?
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March 12th, 2010 -- by Bacchus
After last year’s hilarity involving the education of a substantial fraction of our culture in the finer points of teabagging, it’s time to share a “nothing-new-under-the-sun” moment that surprised even me. I refer, of course, to an artwork called Calvary. It’s by Felicien Rops, dates from 1882, and it features, among other disturbing imagery, the devil’s own ball sack, squarely planted (ok, not quite square, her head is tilted) on a sacrificial forehead:
Click the image for a larger size.
March 11th, 2010 -- by Bacchus
To those of you still locked in winter’s icy grip, or for whom March remains more lion than lamb, I offer Susie from Action Girls:
“Travel agent? Oh, travel agent! I need a flight to wherever SHE is.”
March 10th, 2010 -- by Bacchus
Sorry, I’m not enough classical scholor to translate the caption on this. But I thought it would make a more attractive title than “Eleven Farts”:
March 9th, 2010 -- by Bacchus
The demure clothing makes this Vintage Lust pussy flash all the more enticing:
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March 8th, 2010 -- by Bacchus
Poor thing! She wants taking in and comforting…
From alt. binaries. pictures. erotica. vintage.
March 8th, 2010 -- by Bacchus
“He won’t keep his hands off my boobs!” is a complaint that many a man has earned, true enough. But it’s one of those complaints a wise man doesn’t take entirely at face value. Often, when applied to a lover, the complaint is more about timing or venue or level of applied enthusiasm; it’s a rare woman who wants them left 100% the hell alone. And if you think rough treatment is never appreciated by any woman, here’s a photographic counter argument:
That’s from Sex and Submission via Kinky Delight.
March 7th, 2010 -- by Dr. Faustus
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Historic Rahway, New Jersey may bear the distinction of being the boyhood home of Milton Friedman, but the libertarian principles that eminent economist spent his life espousing might be a little wan these days in his hometown.
It seems that Eliza Gonzalez and family decided to take advantage of recent snowy weather in the Northeast United States to make a Venus de Milo-esque snow sculpture on their front yard, which apparently most of the neighbors liked, at least according to this TV news report. But someone, of course, had to ruin the fun by making an anonymous complaint to the police, who in turn complained to Ms. Gonzalez, who responded by covering the sculpture up with a bikini top and a sarong.
The irony of the situation, as Ms. Gonzalez told the BBC (oh, grand, now the Brits and the whole world get to snicker at us prudish Americans again) is that the sculpture looked “more objectified and sexualized” than before the cops showed up.
I’m afraid I agree. Hat tip to Jerry Coyne.
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March 6th, 2010 -- by Bacchus
So I stumbled on this image (click it for a very large version) and liked it on sight:
Let’s zoom in on some details, shall we?
Next I learned that the painting is called The Vision of Faust, by artist Luis Falero. This made me think at once of my co-blogger Dr. Faustus and his own febrile visions; so you can imagine my delight, upon reading the fine print, at learning that the painting once hung in the same hotel bar as the Nymphs And Satyr painting that has played such an important part of the ErosBlog iconography over the years:
Some years ago the management of a large and popular hotel in this city, having added an elaborate public room to the house, hit upon the idea of attracting attention to it by filling it up with pictures and objects of art. Among the former the most prominent was a world-famous, large canvas by Bouguereau, the “Nymphs Teasing a Satyr,” as the artist christened it, or “Nymphs and Satyr” as it is most generally known, and the painting by which Luis Falero effectively established his reputation, “The Vision of Faust.”
These pictures alone, and they were but part of a number more, cost many thousands of dollars. It has been estimated, by one of the heads of the house, that they alone have paid some ten times their cost in the amount of custom they have attracted, and relatively to the advance in market value of modern paintings of the first class, they could now be sold for double what was paid for them.
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