July 29th, 2016 -- by Bacchus
Futanari Swordfight
En garde!
Artist is MadKaiser.
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July 28th, 2016 -- by Bacchus
Patreon’s New Stance On Adult Content
There is news today that Patreon has liberalized (a little bit) its stance on what it used to call “NSFW” and now calls “Adult Content”. An article by Lux Alptraum on Motherboard somewhat oversells the news with the misleading headline “Patreon Ends Payments Discrimination Against Adult Content”. Unfortunately the headline doesn’t mean what you’d think it means, because “Adult Content” in this context is a Patreon term of art that (a) Patreon refuses to or is unable to define; and that (b) explicitly excludes “porn” (again not defined). Nonetheless; there is actual good news in the story, and what appears to be real progress on the payments front for adult creators.
Last week [Patreon] sent out an email announcing a couple of changes for its more risque creators. Most notably, creators operating under the “adult content” banner on Patreon can now accept payments through PayPal (or, more accurately, its subsidiary Braintree).
There are a lot of reasons to feel excited about this. For one thing, it straight up makes things easier for Patreon’s Adult Content creators. Until now, Adult Content creators could only accept payments through credit cards, while other types of creators have had PayPal as an additional option for backers. Now, there’s no difference between Adult Content creators and other creators when it comes to payment processing options (though Patreon does distinguish between the two camps in other ways; Adult Content accounts aren’t discoverable through the site’s search function).
According to the Patreon email, the company went aggressively to the mat with the PayPal people, and succussfully argued that these transactions are not any higher-risk than Patreon’s other business:
For creators that have been with us for a while, you may remember that we used to allow this functionality in the past, and we only removed it after PayPal threatened to stop all payments to Patreon. Unfortunately, this is a common issue in the payments industry, both because payments for adult content are subject to a higher rate of chargebacks, and because of an aversion to the content itself among some payment processors.
After many long discussions we were able to convince PayPal, or more specifically their subsidiary Braintree, that Adult Content creators on Patreon are not a serious risk. Our content policy, and the nature of subscription payments, means that Adult Content creators on Patreon are less risky than most creators making adult content. We also have a very diverse mix of content types, so even if our Adult Content creators are higher risk than other types of creators, Patreon as a whole is less risky.
That’s good news. But as I wrote back in May:
I am reluctant to use a crowdfunding platform that’s openly hostile to porn. There seems to be a crowdfunding-industry consensus around allowing adult projects (sort of) as long as they are not “pornography” or “sexually explicit”, leaving those terms undefined. The rules on all platforms currently seem to boil down to some version of “We’ll allow your adult project, but if it becomes contentious or attracts any sort of negative attention, we’re reserving the right to redefine whatever you’re doing as ‘porn’ and blow you off our platform while pretending you were never welcome in the first place.”
At that time, Patreon’s policy was worded like this:
Patreon is not for pornography, but some of the world’s most beautiful and historically significant art often depicts nudity and sexual expression. Because of that, we allow nudity and suggestive imagery, as long as it is marked NSFW. If your work contains nudity or any material that could potentially be offensive to users, make absolutely sure to mark the page as NSFW in the creator description when creating your page. Think of the policy as allowing “R Rated” movies… but not porn.
Their email from last week says:
We are also continuing to clarify what content is acceptable when flagged as Adult Content and what content is not allowed on Patreon.
However, Patreon’s new clarity has not reached the policy, which is word-for-word identical to the old policy except for the change from “NSFW” to “Adult Content”:
Patreon is not for pornography, but some of the world’s most beautiful and historically significant art often depicts nudity and sexual expression. Because of that, we allow nudity and suggestive imagery, as long as it is marked as Adult Content. If your work contains nudity or any material that could potentially be offensive to users, make absolutely sure to mark the page as Adult Content in the creator description when creating your page. Think of the policy as allowing “R Rated” movies… but not porn.
So where does that leave people with adult projects who want to use Patreon? Pretty much in the same place they were before: don’t call it porn, and hope nobody complains. Or as Lux Alptraum puts it:
So where does this all leave indie smut creators? Only time will tell, but for now a bit of cautious optimism seems in order. Adult themed comics like Erika Moen’s Oh Joy Sex Toy would seem to be completely in the clear; as are art nudes and dirty minded podcasts. But people who want to photo and video document actual people fucking? Well, that might come down to the age old question of “art” versus “porn.”
Back in May I wrote that I was reluctant to use a platform that makes me lie about what I do, which I conceptuallize as “porn, or I’m doing it wrong.”
I’m proud of the fact that everything I do is porn, even if it’s also erotic art curation or forensic photoarcheology or deep-dive provenance research into viral photographs or reluctant investigative journalism and cynical commentary about platforms used by pornography enthusiasts. So I’m looking for a crowdfunding platform that won’t make me lie about what I love to do. I don’t doubt that with a bit of careful fancy-dancing I could use one of the porn-squeamish platforms, at least for awhile. But I would hate to get invested (or to get my patrons invested) in a platform where the official policy is to prohibit porn officially while tolerating it on a case-by-case basis as long as it doesn’t get too uppity.
And that’s why I’m torn about the news from Patreon. On the one hand, they still prohibit porn while refusing to say what they mean by that. On the other hand, they have promised greater clarity to come, and it’s clear that they actually went to bat with the payment providers in order to improve their platform for adult content creaters. Is it still fair for cynical me (who sees #pornocalypse under every rock) to call Patreon a “porn-squeamish” platform? Or should we credit them for taking this fight to the payment processors, and give them a free pass (until they abuse it) about maintaining a squishy “no porn” policy, especially if that squishy policy may have helped them in winning some very real progress with PayPal/Braintree?
I’ll admit I’m of two minds. I’m so offended by undefined “no porn” policies that I want to piss on the toes of every company that trots one out. But I also find myself tempted to give Patreon the benefit of the doubt just now. It’s possible they’re doing the best they can for adult content creators, in the context of a business/financial environment that is implacably hostile to us.
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July 26th, 2016 -- by Bacchus
Paying To Be “Forced” To Suck Dick
When the social taboos against a thing are strong enough, it’s not so easy to just ignore them. But we are clever apes; ways and means can always be found. How can you suck a dick and yet not have to be gay? Well, in the mid-20th century, maybe that’s not so easy. But what if somebody stood over you with a whip and made you suck a dick? Totally not gay then, right? OK, cool, now how do you make that happen? Well, you could totally hire a dominatrix and pay her to stand over you with her whip…
Art is by Bill Ward.
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July 25th, 2016 -- by Bacchus
White Rubber Swim Cap Bondage
The white rubber or latex swimming/bathing cap (designed to keep a woman’s hair dry in the swimming pool) is an iconic fetish object from the 1950s that’s rarely seen in modern porn. It used to show up in a lot of bondage and rubber fetish photoshoots, and it still has its fans! The beloved white swimwear has just been featured in a recent Insex “Ultra4K” bondage movie release from Infernal Restraints. Sierra Cirque stars in Creep Meet and she’s wearing the white rubber cap throughout most of the show:
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July 24th, 2016 -- by Bacchus
Lineup At A Small Brothel
I’m not going to go so far as to call this a fancy brothel, precisely; but I am willing to cheerfully concede that the ladies are making quite an effort:
Via Vintage Cuties.
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July 23rd, 2016 -- by Bacchus
Properly Pulling Kate McKinnon’s Hair
Now that literally everyone is in love and/or lust with Kate McKinnon after her portrayal of the Ghostbusters character Jillian Holtzmann, this 2008 video is making the rounds in which McKinnon serves as a cheerfully enthusiastic demo bottom while porn legend Nina Hartley demonstrates the properly sexy way to pull hair. McKinnon appears incandescently joyful during the first part of the demonstration, and it only gets better from there. When Hartley pulls her close (by her hair, natch) and adds what is either an earlobe nibble or perhaps something something sexy whispered in her ear — or both — McKinnon gets so hot-and-bothered she might as well have melted down right there on camera. She blushes, sweats, gets up, tries to pace it off, knocks over the stage dressing, and in her authentic pleasure is cute and sexy beyond all measure:
(Thanks to commenter Adrian for finding an updated youtube link when the first one broke.)
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July 22nd, 2016 -- by Bacchus
Proper Attention To The Tip
It’s a fashion in modern blowjob porn to fetishize “deep throat” or, at least, the fullest possible mouthful of dick. But for many men, the glans and tip are the most sensitive spots, and lips have more strength and dexterity than an uvula does. This fellatio artwork by Loic Dubigeon seems to recognize that:
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