August 28th, 2013 -- by Bacchus
Nursing: The Extra Mile
I’m not sure what medical mishap Our Hero has suffered, but he seems to be making a rapid and vigorous recovery:
From Lust Comics.
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August 27th, 2013 -- by Bacchus
Beach Ball
August 26th, 2013 -- by Bacchus
Dominating Justice
There’s a certain resonance with current affairs in this bit of internet art, at least the way I’m interpreting it:
Found here, and the artist appears to be “fleatrollus”, about whom I could discover little.
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August 25th, 2013 -- by Bacchus
LOVEINT
Our NSA watchers earnestly desire for us to believe that their vast and secretive surveillance apparatus is only for use against foreign terrorists and enemies of the United States. And yet it emerges that abuse of their surveillance machine for purely personal and prurient interest is so common and so widespread, they’ve got in-house spy jargon for it. You know how they use those nifty telegram-era all-caps acronyms? Like “SIGINT” for “signals intelligence”? Well, according to the Wall Street Journal the term for using the tools of your NSA job for spying on your spouse, sexual partners, and potential sexual partners is LOVEINT:
National Security Agency officers on several occasions have channeled their agency’s enormous eavesdropping power to spy on love interests, U.S. officials said.
The practice isn’t frequent – one official estimated a handful of cases in the last decade – but it’s common enough to garner its own spycraft label: LOVEINT.
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The “LOVEINT” examples constitute most episodes of willful misconduct by NSA employees, officials said.
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The LOVEINT violations involved overseas communications, officials said, such as spying on a partner or spouse. In each instance, the employee was punished either with an administrative action or termination.
Most of the incidents, officials said, were self-reported. Such admissions can arise, for example, when an employee takes a polygraph tests as part of a renewal of a security clearance.
There’s a ton of log-rolling in the article as various officials attempt to emphasize just how terribly rare these LOVEINT abuses are. But then we get to the admission that the NSA never actually catches anybody who abuses their systems in this way; they only know about the ones who are so naive about the bogosity of polygraphs that they confess to this behavior voluntarily. Which is another way of saying, NSA has literally no idea how much LOVEINT collection actually goes on. But it seems unlikely they’d have slang and jargon for a rare activity.
Notice, also, how NSA has never prosecuted anybody for LOVEINT abuses? “Administrative action or termination” is the punishment. If there was real official condemnation of the behavior, they’d have put somebody in prison for it. They don’t really mind.
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August 24th, 2013 -- by Bacchus
Sock Puppeted By “Abby Winters”
It was big news back in 2009 when Australian porn “but don’t call it porn” producer Abbywinters.com got caught up in that special flavor of down-under anti-porn hysteria and ran into legal difficulties. The boss was arrested and multiply charged, but he subsequently beat most of the charges, although he did have to pay a fine in connection with a female ejaculation movie that the authorities thought featured urination, an illegal “fetish” in Australia. And then, quite famously, he upped and relocated his entire business to Amsterdam.
I was reminded about all of this when I stumbled upon a detailed story from late last year in an Australian newspaper. What particularly caught my eye was this detail about a controversy over whether there ever was an “Abby Winters” or whether “she” was a fiction propounded by the site’s current owner, one Garion Hall:
Hall claims that, in the late ’90s, he met a woman called Abby Winters at the Corner Hotel in Richmond who was interested in making a female-friendly porn site using non-professional models, and that he slowly became more and more involved in the venture as the site attracted customers. He maintains that Winters sold her share of the business to him in 2003, by which time it was run from a converted church in hipster Fitzroy, just off Brunswick Street.
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And just who was this person whose name adorned the site? Where was she? Doubt began to circulate widely about the semi-mythical Abby Winters. Hall had always claimed she was the co-founder and the one who came up with the idea of depicting “wholesome” girls in the first place. But when the porn weblog Fleshbot.com ran a photograph of Hall at work with a name tag saying “Abby” and revealed that whoever wrote the site’s forum posts as “Abby” sometimes signed them off as “G”, it seemed the ruse was up. Critics say Hall concocted the name to make the site appear more female-friendly and “safe”.
“She’s the namesake,” Hall tells me, “and I’m the business guy. We met and had the idea in 1999. She’s a photographer who went to uni and did arts and wanted to make something different to mainstream porn. Then, around 2003, she didn’t want to be involved any more, so I basically bought her out. It suits me that people don’t think she’s real. It suits her, too. She’s not interested in speaking to journalists.”
So it appears that there are two possibilities here:
1) Abby Winters never existed, and was always a fictional character that Garion Hall operated as a sock puppet over the internet for purposes of better branding his female-friendly erotica;
2) Abby existed as Hall claims, but he operated her identity as a sock puppet for some years after buying her out in 2003.
Neither of these alternatives is particularly scandalous; in the colorful annals of porn marketing, a bit of marketing sock-puppetry barely trips the Deceit-O-Meter. But nobody likes to be misled by a sock puppet, and no publisher likes to be duped into unknowingly publishing sock puppetry. Thus it was mostly (but not entirely) with amusement that I realized ErosBlog had dealings with Hall’s “Abby Winters” sock puppet back in the early days.
When Abbywinters.com was, briefly, an advertiser at ErosBlog back in 2007, all of my dealings were with marketing professionals. But in 2004, I ran a photo that was (falsely, and the falsity was so obvious I called it out in the post title) being circulated as a “topless Chelsea Clinton” image: Fake Celebrity Nude Photos. In response to that I got an email from Jonno at Fleshbot, telling me “nope, it’s Abbey Winters”. Which (wrong) info I duly added to the post.
And that’s when the sock puppet appeared! Someone using the name Abby Winters posted (in 2004, after Hall says the real Abby Winters had been bought out) the following comment, with links not reproduced here:
Er, that ain’t Chelsea, and nor is it me! It’s Samantha, a model I photographed in late 200, in Sydney, Australia. As someone has seen fit to remove my copyright from the image, check the whole set of her. Her solo shoto is here, and her shoot which that image is from (wither her mate, Tully) is here.
By now the identity/deception meta is so deep you almost need a shovel. Somebody, perhaps Garion Hall, posts as Abby Winters, who may or may not have ever existed, to explain that a photo of somebody probably not actually named Samantha is certainly not a photograph of Chelsea Clinton, which nobody ever thought it was was in the first place. It’s a rum old internet we’ve got going on, yes indeed.
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August 24th, 2013 -- by Bacchus
Blowjob Animation
I’m pretty sure this is the sexy-maid character known as Ucogi:
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August 23rd, 2013 -- by Bacchus
Amazon eBook SEO Spam?
I’m always alert for new ways to get web traffic, but I have to admit, putting up ErosBlog eBooks on Amazon never occurred to me:
Sure, a quick longtail search on Google for “Busty lactating MILFs doing the Balinese Monkey Chant with dildos” will still hit the first listing (if such a site exists!), but the more generic words people use for adult entertainment now lead to squeaky clean sites, with hard working pornographers thrown under the bus. Tumblr, Huffpo, Pinterest, blogger.com and so many other SFW outlets for adult entertainment producers have now piled on, resulting in a pressing need for anyone trying to attract surfers to either a steamy sex site, blog or just about anything else to have to explore new options to come into “the back door”, as it were.
Now, I’m certainly no SEO expert, but a quick Google search tells me that to spread an adult message, the top two places that get listing are Wikipedia and Amazon. As everyone else probably figured this out even faster than I did, the marketing focus obviously needs to be getting listed on those websites. Wikipedia, also knowing this, is now sealed up tighter than a drum of toxic radioactive waste for new pages that have even a hint of ways new pages might lead to porn… Leaving eBooks as a low-hanging fruit for spreading your message and adult company branding by releasing SFW content for mainstream eyballs.
Talk about the “Law Of Unintended Consequences”! In what traditionally was a well-run, ethical industry of primarily female authors making a decent living from writing steamy erotica for pulp and eBooks, is now being inundated by frustrated website operators that suspect if they compile some erotic stories buried in there member area since 2001 and publish as an eBook, the traffic will flow back in from the bi-line branding. Sure. Why not? Most of that is going to be crap anyway, and the savvy romantic and erotic reader shoppers at Amazon and B&N know how to spot a real author and avoid the obvious link bait compilations of recycled blog junk.
Of course by the time a tactic like that gets noticed and talked about, whatever data silo is getting SEO-targeted is already taking countermeasures. So, too late for you and me I’m sure.
The above quote is from Amazon, B&N Dragged Into The Corporate Porn Censorship Wave. That article also contains updated news about Amazon’s handling of erotic eBooks (remember when a story about that first got me up onto my Pornocalypse hobbyhorse?) to the effect that Amazon has joined Barnes & Noble and Apple in removing best-selling erotica titles from its best-seller lists. It looks and sounds like cutting off your nose to spite your face, but it’s the new corporate done thing when it comes to smut.
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