If you have known people who do clever things with needles and yarn and thread, you’ll have witnessed too their impressive powers of multitasking. The intricate conversations they can carry on, and the sheer mental work they can perform while the needles keep right on clicking — it’s a rather amazing testimony to the powers of muscle memory and physical experience.
Still, it would never have occurred to me that this facility for multitasking would extend to the delivery of a blowjob:
And yet, why not? How about it, knitters? Did you ever suck somebody off without dropping a stitch?
The art is from an Italian comic story entitled Pianeta Donna from issue #40 of A Porte Chiuse.
From the very earliest days of sex blogging (I’m talking maybe 2002, when ErosBlog first started using the term “sex blog”) some of the sites that were in a sort of not-quite-competition with the nascent sex blogs were the “babe blogs” or babe sites, many of which had been around for more than a few years already by then. Babe sites always traditionally had more to offer than the so-called “thumbnail gallery posts” or TGP sites did; those TGPs, of which there were tens of thousands in those days, usually linked small thumbnails to galleries featuring (maybe) some good pictures plus (certainly) lots of hard-sell affiliate marketing. By contrast, babe sites always offered full-sized pictures right up front, which you could view without following a lot of links if you didn’t want to. What you didn’t usually see back then at either type of site was the thing that gave sex blogs a niche: written prose, or much of any commentary on any of the pictures.
Since those days the babe sites have evolved, just like the sex blogs and everybody else too. So when Sexo18.net (whom I would consider to have been babe-blogging for a very long time even if they don’t themselves use that term in 2016) asked me to have a look at their Sexo Babes Videos offering, which I take to be a babe site’s evolution into video, I was curious to see where Sexo has gone with videos, in this era when most porns surfers head straight to some messy uncurated site full of user-uploaded clips of dubious quality and uncertain provenance.
What did I find? Well, babe sites have come a long way! Sexo’s babe videos section is pretty and appears well-curated, offering mostly trailers for full-length videos, presented with big clean hot-looking thumbnails. The clips are decent in length (the ones I checked were all about six minutes long) and (this is important for producers) are linked straight to the producer websites, making it possible and easy to purchase the whole movie, or to subscribe to that producer’s member site if you prefer. Because such provenance links aren’t usually so easy to find on some of the leading “everything free” sites these days, I appreciate that they are prominent at Sexo18.net. It’s definitely a comfortable place to browse high-quality short porn video clips and to find the full-length movies they come from.
It wouldn’t be a properly devilish ass-fucking if The Dark One didn’t have a crowd of enthusiastic minions and groupies to help him, ah, prepare the sacrifice:
Artist is Milo Manara, and the art is from Porte de Clichy, a limited edition portfolio apparently inspired by Henry Miller’s Quiet Days In Clichy.
Recently the Tom Of Finland Foundation teamed up with DJ Hell to make a music video where the visuals are Tom Of Finland artworks, animated minimally but effectively by animator Xaver Xylophon.
I’m delighted to announce that after months of hemming, hawing, and uncertain faffing about, I’ve set up a Patreon for ErosBlog:
That means it’s now possible for me to ask for your support. My goal? A community-and-fan-supported ErosBlog, with more in-depth writing and a lot more of my “deep dives” into erotica research and curation.
I’ll let you read the full pitch on Patreon. It’s long, because I’m a wordy bastard. If you still want more explanation after all that, you masochist, try reading this.)
I soft-launched the Patreon a couple days ago. I am all agog at the generous pledges already received — OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! Together we are already half the way to my first modest pledge goal. When we get there, I’ve promised to write up a detailed survey of the tools and methods I use for image provenance research.
Don’t worry, though! My Patreon initiative is all about using Patreon’s tools and your generosity to support ErosBlog, not vice-versa. I don’t plan to post very much Patrons-only content on the Patreon platform. I will post there a few things that make sense: some exclusive goodies to entice pledges, and some “extras” from the vintage erotica curation that the Patreon support will (I hope) enable. But I promise I won’t turn ErosBlog into a “I did some nifty stuff, you don’t get to see it unless you go somewhere else and make a pledge” platform. That’s totally not what this is for. The goal is to make ErosBlog stronger and better, with your support.
For the same reason, my pledge rewards are about service to the ErosBlog community: taking your requests for blog content and direction, writing you dirty limericks, doing porn provenance research for you, and helping you promote your own adult-community stuff.
So that’s the pitch. I want to do more of what makes ErosBlog great. I want to do it harder. If you — the ErosBlog community of fans, friends, and supporters — want that too, this is the way to make it happen. Thank you!
P.S. Even if you can’t pledge right now, letting people know about my Patreon also helps enormously. After 14 years ErosBlog must have many tens of thousands of readers and fans who no longer visit every day. If you’ve got an appropriate social media channel, please consider using it to mention this Patreon to them?
