I have been linking to The Rectal Foreign Bodies page since 2004. The problem they cover has not gone away in that time, but the quality of radiological imaging has dramatically improved:

Another thing that hasn’t changed changed is the fundamental safety rule that anything that goes up your butt should have a wider base, no matter how big it is to start with.

Image via @gretchenscience on Twitter.

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There’s a whole suite of reasons why I haven’t been posting at all about the rolling disaster for sex workers and online adult speech that is the FOSTA-SESTA bill signed into law by President Trump last week. For one thing, I was waiting to make sure His Vicious Randomness actually did sign it; for another, I’ve been busy with an exhausting rescue dog ongoing mini-crisis on the home front. Third reason: despite this being rather like the #pornocalypse on steroids from an adult free speech perspective, the primary negative impact is to sex workers, who are losing their livelihoods and are in many cases at risk of losing their safety and perhaps their lives. I’m not qualified enough or knowledgeable enough about sex worker issues to write about that, but writing about free speech issues while ignoring sex worker carnage is clearly shallow and wrong. Balanced against that, I’ve had multiple actual sex workers dropping into my Twitter DMs going “Hey, when are you going to write about FOSTA-SESTA? Do you need more info? How can we help?” Which is flattering — apparently they have more faith in my ability to write about their issues than I do — but also highlights the desperation that’s out there, as too many sex workers feel like they are being “vanished” from the internet with nobody much noticing or caring or speaking up.

On top of all this, in the last few days we had the likely final frost for the year in my part of the world, which means that a sensible person of constrained financial means who mostly eats vegetables really ought to be spending every waking minute in the garden putting seeds in soil, not pounding a keyboard about a problem that’s not going to go away before the midterm elections at the absolute earliest. So, yeah. There are lots of reasons for my sense of paralysis, even helplessness, when it comes to writing about SESTA-FOSTA just now.

But I do have a lot to say. Sex workers aside (and I’m not putting you aside!) this is an enormous threat to online adult speech; it offers, and is already being used as, an excuse to justify the blue-nosed pornocalypsing tendencies of every online community and platform out there. I am on this. I am with you. But I am also just insanely busy trying to survive and keep my critters alive.

For today, I can offer this roundup of helpful links, the mere titles of which are informative, and the reading of which should be eye-opening and instructive to anybody who has gotten this far without having previously been aware of the FOSTA-SESTA disaster:

1. FOSTA-SESTA’s real aim is to silence sex workers online: Under the cover of trafficking, sex workers are being silenced (Engadget article by Daniel Cooper, April 11)
2. Congress just legalized sex censorship: what to know — “sex work” is not another word for trafficking (Engadget article by Violet Blue, May 30)
3. New Legislation Forces Sex Workers Back to Streets and Strips Away Internet Freedoms in One Swoop: The SESTA-forced end of a Craigslist personal ads era means big problems for sex workers (Alternet article by Rick Riley, April 15)
4. The lies about sex trafficking that brought down Backpage: Powerful myths about sex work are behind the war against Backpage (Salon article by Noah Berlatsky, April 15)
5. Strange Fruit: How Sex Trafficking Laws Affect Consensual Sex Workers (Louisville public radio broadcast on WPFL interviewing trans activist and writer Londyn De Richelieu, April 15)
6. No One Wants To Listen To Sex Workers (Washington Post opinion column by Molly Roberts, April 10)
7. Sex News: FOSTA-SESTA damage continues (Tiny Nibbles link roundup by Violet Blue, April 14)

More soon!

Back in 2010 when my good friend Dr. Faustus was still co-blogging here at ErosBlog, he posted an image of the great philosopher Aristotle being ridden by Phyllis. Here’s a twentieth-century and rather more erotic variation on that classic theme:

The artist is Louis Berthommé-Saint-André.

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Meet Sandy! In 1975, when this full-color French-language Terrificolor: Les pions maudits horror comic was published by Elvifrance, an impetuously-naked blonde like her could only have one fate. And thus, or “inévitablement” as the comic lettering has it, she does in the end get her head cut off by a haunted set of empty armor. But not before we get to enjoy her nakedness in several more perky panels:

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Several years ago, I had occasion to write that the best of the venerable internet porn link lists originally served as start pages for horny surfers, presenting an array of excellent dirty links in handy categories. It’s still true today. Although the site I was writing about at the time has undergone a rebranding and moved to a new domain, it continues to catalog the top porn sites at its new PornsiteStars.com address:

Under its new name and slogan, Porn Sites & Stars: The Best Porn Sites And Porn Stars retains its impressive porn star index, now grown from 11,000 to almost 17,000 performers. Models are searchable by their various working names plus gender, age, ethnicity, hair and eye color, and breast size. Successful searches return impressively-comprehensive profiles based on social media, news feeds, and other public sources, along with links (where available) to promotional material and/or sites where their work can be purchased/viewed.

Porn Sites And Stars also includes link category pages that feature capsule reviews and front-page thumbnails of most of its listed sites, which makes it much less of a blind click-and-guess festival for the curious surfer than an old-school link list used to be. The reviews, being numerous and brief, don’t brim with nuance and detail, which in any case you wouldn’t expect; but they are very handy for knowing more-or-less what you’re clicking into before you get there. And they clearly represent years of effort!

Among the recent features added to Porn Sites And Stars that make it truly a link list for the 21st century: a category of streaming porn video-on-demand (VOD) sites and services. What? You don’t have a porn channel on your Roku yet? They can fix you up! Another new feature: a well-populated category of free virtual reality (VR) porn clips. VR porn is something that first started crossing my radar back in 2016. While cheap headsets are now showing up in my local Mega-Lo-Mart, I don’t think we are yet seeing them hit the market in genuinely compelling configurations of quality and pricing. I expect to see high-quality headsets at consumer-friendly price points with mass-market penetration of those headsets in combination with must-have consumer applications (probably games and mega-hit non-porn media from big West Coast and Japanese studios) pretty soon, but I haven’t seen it yet. Once we do, all the porn companies that have been beavering away (see what I did there?) making VR porn and getting it into distribution will be sitting pretty. And the free VR porn clips category at Porn Sites And Stars is a very nice summary of what’s available now, if you’re lucky enough to have one of the existing headsets.

Bottom line: Porn Sites And Stars combines the useful features of an old-fashioned link list with porn site reviews and a porn stars directory, plus modern twists like streaming VOD and VR porn. Very handy and useful!

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In this vision of the future, there is no carnival or amusement park so bizarre that a warthog-faced alien festooned with biological eye-shaped cam-orbs won’t stop, do a double-take, and stay to goggle at a beautiful blonde human woman pleasuring herself on the fairway:

From the cover of Ultimissime Proibite #2.

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We must assume, from her posture, from the proud look on her face, from the title of the book where this illustration appears, and most especially from the fact that the illustration is by Louis Malteste, that the young woman on the chair is attempting to show off some spanking welts under all those bustled-up petticoats:

The artwork is from Quinze Ans — Roman sur la discipline familiale suivi de quelques lettres sur les châtiments corporels dans l’éducation des jeunes filles et de Sonia ou la Belle Etudiante (1927). (Google Translate renders that title “Fifteen Years – Novel on family discipline followed by some letters on corporal punishment in the education of young girls and Sonia or the Beautiful Student”.)

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