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November 18th, 2018 -- by Bacchus
ViceUK has an article currently bringing in the hate-clicks under the title Why Straight Men Hate Astrology So Much. No link for them! Do they conclude that it’s because astrology is total bollocks, like homeopathy and Gwyneth Paltrow’s jade pussy eggs? Nope nope nope! Instead they claim that astrology has become a gendered belief structure, important disproportionately to women and gay people, so (they argue) straight men belittle it for reasons of masculinity. Nothing to do with astrology being empty nonsense!
A problem with this theory: the evidence they cite for the existence of a gendered disparity in the popularity of astrology suggests that the numbers only began to diverge along gender lines a few years ago. Whereas the people in the reality-based community that I know have disparaged astrology as being dumber than flat-Eartherism for much much longer than that.
Here, let me show you the only solid astrological chart and horoscope you are ever going to see:
The chart is not mine, but it’s been floating around the internet since forever and I don’t have an attribution for it.
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November 17th, 2018 -- by Bacchus
Although ErosBlog does not celebrate all that has resulted from the rise of the porn tubes, I want to highlight one useful thing that I’ve noticed about the large collection of porn video clips that proliferates on big specialized tubesites. I am utterly mad about porn provenance research, where often the hardest challenges are in video, because movies are much more ephemeral than images. Video hosting tends to go down faster and harder than image hosting, video is less likely to be archived anywhere, and video is much harder to search. The one place that video survives online after its producer goes out of business, and survives with some keywords and searchable tags, offering some prayer of tracking it down, is — you guessed it — tube sites.
Here are a couple of examples of ephemeral video that I recently found via tubes. By “ephemeral” I mean video from defunct producers or sources, no longer available anywhere, no longer an item of commerce. Are tubes arguably part of the reason this is so? Sure. But here, in this moment, they are also the only thing saving these bits from oblivion, which I find both interesting and useful.
This screenshot is from a Chinese rope bondage video, sourced (via its watermark) to a Chinese “rope art” (that’s the best that Google Translate can do) forum that no longer exists:
When it did exist, the forum prohibited “pornography, politics, advertising, and irrigation” — but that wasn’t enough to save it in today’s prurient China. We retain access to this video because of, love them or not, the tubes. I assume — I hope — that the bit about irrigation is a machine translation failure to communicate:
Here’s another example of tube curation for you. There was a hardcore BDSM site called Fucking Dungeon that went offline about five years ago. (The domain is currently advertising itself for sale). I’m not sure their videos aren’t in somebody else’s catalog now, but if so, Google isn’t admitting it. Here’s a screenshot of a BDSM sex scene from Fucking Dungeon with a pair of well-matched Russian girls who were marketed as the Russo twins:
As a curator and researcher, if I was starting with that screenshot, I’d have no prayer of finding the video source or identifying the clip without the “public clip library” function served by tubesites. Credit where credit is due!
November 16th, 2018 -- by Bacchus
You see a lot of pulp covers with rough men shaking whips at scantily clad women. But on this one, the women have all those men in a net, and it’s time for some Amazon femdom whip revenge:
Art is from the cover of Moschettieri #4.
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November 15th, 2018 -- by Bacchus
Sex education isn’t what it used to be. And neither, it seems, is a journalism degree:
I believe “first-hand job experience” would have delivered the desired visual impact here, but the headline as printed does raise an interesting question: when writing about a handsie, is the preferred orthography “hand job”, “handjob”, or “hand-job”?
My own preference is for the portmanteau word “handjob” but in all such matters, I like to go to Google, enclose the various candidates in quotation marks, and count how many returns Google says it has in its database. Here, the results in ascending order are:
Hand job: 33.9 million
Hand-job: 34.1 million
Handjob: 359 million (!!!)
So, by that measure, my preference is the winner ten times over. But, interestingly, Google’s on-page supplemental information varies across the three spellings. “Handjob” has a clinical Wikipedia entry with an on-page summary, but “hand job” gets an on-page dictionary definition, a cross-link to the search results for “handjob”, and a completely spurious book review box to a Google Books entry about hand-made typography. “Hand-job” gets the wikipedia link and the typography book, but not the cross-link or the definition.
Is my geek showing? Maybe, yeah.
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November 14th, 2018 -- by Bacchus
This image gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “private eye”, don’t you think?
The artwork is from the cover of Caccia Grossa #3.
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November 13th, 2018 -- by Bacchus
One of the oddities of modern porn that I am too old and staid to appreciate is, well, all the spitting. Usually in the porn I see it’s a man spitting on a woman’s pussy, or into her mouth; and it’s not usually a big thing, just a little note of humiliation in a rough sex scene (the kind we used to call “gonzo porn” but nowadays we just call “porn”). But some producers and directors seem determined to do this in every damned movie! And I don’t know why. It’s definitely not my kink, and I wouldn’t have known it was anyone’s if it didn’t keep happening in recently-made stuff.
Thus I was almost relieved to come across this 1970s Japanese femdom fetish illustration that proves it’s (a) not new and (b) not necessarily a gendered thing. Of course there never are any new things in sex, but it’s a point that can always stand to be remade with fresh evidence:
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November 12th, 2018 -- by Bacchus
These days, when most erotic camsites are places you go to enjoy a performance from an erotic entertainer, usually on an individual-transaction basis, it’s easy to forget (unless you are a web-oldster like me) that the early days of webcamming were not like that. The first sexy webcams were entirely voyeuristic: free (and very quickly, once their popularity overwhelmed their bandwidth) paid-subscription surveillance-type fixed cameras. Fans watched them for hours and days on end, hoping for a glimpse of titty as the women who ran them lived their normal lives. Sure, those women were likely to be free-spirited hedonistic exhibitionists who showed a lot of skin. If they weren’t at first, they quickly became so, once they started selling subscriptions and noticing what sort of behavior kept the subscribers coming back for more! But even so, many of these early surveillance-cam sites had just one or two cameras, and often they showed nothing but a dark room, or an empty one. Still they attracted hundreds of thousands of fans and customers, creating the entire camgirl industry that we know and love today.
Voyeur House recreates the voyeuristic charm of those early camsites, but by combining nine locations and more than seventy cameras with a subscription model and an archive of recorded footage of “the good stuff” for members, there’s nothing to fear from the dreaded “dark room camera” that used to plague those old sites. Sure, you may see a dim room with sleeping people from time to time, but it’s never the only thing to look at:
At the moment when the sleeping couple above was on the Voyeurhouse.com front page, I clicked to a different camera and found a woman elsewhere, getting dressed:
A few minutes later she was sitting fully clothed on that couch, working a wireless keyboard intensely; I watched her until I got bored, which didn’t take long. The point of that exercise was to convince myself that I wasn’t being suckered by bot/loop/non-live extra-salacious footage. I’m pretty sure there aren’t any marketers out there subtle enough to lure me in with a naked woman who gets dressed and then types furiously and at length, so I was fairly quickly convinced that this cam footage was both live and legit.
Indeed, the marketing stuck me as being rather straightforward and honest in appearance: lots of semi-blurred salacious-looking thumbnails labeled “MEMBERS” or with a “24” logo indicating rewind footage that’s for members only. The sexiest thumbs are from some popular archived sex scenes, but members also have access to some bedroom and bathroom cams that are typically not available for free, as well as to 24-hour-archives of every camera. So there’s plenty to see if you drop in for free, but you definitely need to be a member to get the most voyeuristic value from all these cams.
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