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July 10th, 2013 -- by Bacchus
Did you ever see a woman look so happy at being spanked with the flat of a sabre?
This scene never actually was “on” television; like so many provocative promotional stills, it’s not a scene from the actual show. This photo shows two characters (Captain Parmenter and Betty Lou MacDonald) from the 1966 TV show “F Troop”. The actors (Ken Berry and Jackie Joseph) were married in real life. Readers are therefore free to speculate as to how far to extrapolate from happy facial expressions the actors’ opinions on that ancient pulp/tabloid wife-spanking question: should wives be spanked?
It strikes me as bitterly ironic that a scene like this couldn’t even be shown in avowed pornography these days, due to billing policies.
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July 8th, 2013 -- by Bacchus
Some little while ago Dr. Faustus commissioned one of my comprehensive Rule 34 reports (the $25 special with all the extras) on the subject of “forced washing”, especially of the mechanical sort, as exemplified by the powerful robotic girl-washing machine known as the Lav-O-Matic X5000 in his Tales of Gnosis College: Dreamscapes comic.
Recently he has spent no small effort converting that research report into a blog post, in the process adding considerable polish and visual appeal. I commend it to you (and you to it):
A Rule 34 Search: Forced Washing
Here’s a sample paragraph from one of the porn stories I found for Dr. Faustus; it’s from Catherine Gets Cleaned by Julien Sorel:
A special storage robot, looking something like a tank with arms, wheeled up to her and pulled her tennis shoes off her feet. The tall robot reengineered the system of plastic ties, reattaching Catherine’s wrists to the ceiling and her ankles to the floor immediately beneath her. Then it pulled the horrified girl up by her wrists so that she was suspended in mid-air in an upright diving position. With Catherine positioned for removal of her dust covers, the storage robot moved in again and deftly yanked the sweat pants down Catherine’s legs and over the plastic ties. Catherine hadn’t put on underwear that night – her red bush, untrimmed for a long time, was suddenly exposed to the unfazed trio of robots. A moment later, she was helplessly waving her C-cup boobs in the air. The tall robot detached the suction cups long enough to retrieve Catherine’s coverings and turn them over to the storage robot, who swallowed them in a front hatch and exited.
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July 8th, 2013 -- by Bacchus
Hey, everybody. This is a public service announcement for anybody whose Firefox recently updated (this is often automatic depending on your settings, you may not have known it happened) and is now wondering why all the text and images on ErosBlog (and other websites you visit) suddenly started looking too large, and messing up page layouts.
First of all, the easy fix: any time you’re looking at a web page and the content is too large or too small, you can adjust it by holding down the control key (I think it’s the “command” key on Apples, the one with this symbol: ⌘) and hitting your plus (+) or minus (-) keys. If you get hopelessly screwed up, cntrl-0 will reset you to the default size, and then a single plus or minus will usually get you to where you want to go.
So, what in the hell happened?
This thread has all the bloody gory details. Bottom line is, it’s your typical case of open-source developer “damn the users” hubris, potentially affecting anybody running Firefox who recently got auto-updated to version 22. Apparently the developers wanted to better support high-pixel-density screens. So they put in “support” for that. Which means that if you’ve got a larger screen of normal pixel density and (like many people) you’ve got it set in Windows to display everything at 125% of normal (so that windows icons and other user interface stuff are not hopelessly tiny) FireFox is now “respecting” that setting by displaying web content 125% larger than it did before the update. Which, of course, can break the crap out of the layout of the web pages you read. Even if the pages are well-coded and don’t break, everything will now appear larger than before. Firefox developers? They don’t care, it works great on the newest niftiest Retina displays so it’s “operation success” for them!
Of course there are lots of ways for users to fix this on a computer-by-computer and website-by-website basis, starting with the “cntrl -/+” trick I highlighted above. The linked thread tells you how to dig “under the hood” in FireFox to set it back the way it was. But of course that’s useless for the vast majority who will never understand why the FireFox update broke their web experience in the first place. Yes, I’m sure there’s some beautiful ivory-tower explanation about how this is more standards-compliant and better for everybody in the long run, but meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people around the world with legacy monitors and setups labor on, with no idea why their their web experience just got broken and no clue how to fix it. It really bothers me, sometimes, the extent to which the people who build the internet are devoid of sympathy for the masses who use it but have no conceptual toolbox for fixing it when techies callously break it for them in the name of progress.
Here’s another Mozilla support thread that has more detail on the problem and some of the potential workarounds. The takeaway for me: “Unfortunately, there’s no single setting … that will make everything look like Firefox 21 if your Windows DPI is anything other than 100%.”
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July 7th, 2013 -- by Bacchus
This post is fan-service for Goreans. Yes, they’re still out there; if you don’t believe me, just search! And among their many obsessions, they number an interest in defining, and detailing, slave positions.
As it happens, most of the photo shoots for Sex and Submission that you get access to as a member include a preliminary “modelling” section where you see the models fully clothed and in a variety of nude and semi-nude “glamor” poses. These shots rarely make it into the free samples from any given shoot that are all over the web, but there are often fun or silly gems that are well worth looking at. The most recent shoot, starring Veruca James, included the sequence of kneeling poses (reminding me strongly of the Gorean “slave positions” game) that illustrates this post.
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July 5th, 2013 -- by Bacchus
I’ve always been contemptuous of objections to objectification. We all do it to each other, men and women alike; I think it’s part of the human condition and to rail against is akin to railing against lust itself. What matters, it seems to me, is to pay sufficient attention to how much and especially how you do it. Hence I was amused to see this paragraph from the frighteningly-brilliant Ta-Nehisi Coates in The Atlantic:
A few weeks ago my wife asked me if I would ever engage in cat-calling. I told her that as I am now–respected writer with a son in private school, a wife studying at an Ivy, and latte at the ready–I would not. But had things gone some other way (as they easily could have) I can’t say what I’d do. Street harassment is a kind of implied violence, a tool most embraced by those who lack the power to set laws, men who are in doubt of themselves. Real men objectify women with dignity and decorum.
July 3rd, 2013 -- by Bacchus
Here’s a fascinating article on an eccentric Czech creeper and voyeur who took beautiful candid photos with deliberately-bad home-made cameras:
Charming eccentric or tolerated local boogyman? The townspeople of Kyjov in Czech Republic could never quite decide. Miroslav Tichý took nearly a hundred photographs a day with his homemade camera, wandering around the streets of his hometown, often spotted at bus stops, the main square, the park and the swimming pool, although he was frequently arrested for lingering around the local pool taking pictures of unsuspecting women.
The arrests prompted him to start fashioning makeshift telephoto lenses:
When he was banned from the local pool, he made telephoto lenses with cardboard tubes to snap his clandestine photographs from a distance, which is why a wire fence can sometimes be seen in his pictures… He ground lenses out of plastic with toothpaste and ash, putting them together with cardboard toilet paper tubes, dressmaker’s elastic and old camera parts he found.
I will confess, I am at something of a loss in knowing what to think about these photos. They are unquestionably gorgeous works of art. And yet the process of their production has a substantial creep factor. Should that matter? Is it possible to simultaneously condemn the artistic method and celebrate the resulting art?
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July 2nd, 2013 -- by Bacchus
Have you ever wondered about the legally-ridiculous disclaimers that you see on the packaging of most sex toys? You know the ones: “sold as an adult novelty”, “not a medical device”, “for external use only”, and so on. Why are they there? What good are they?
Well, Dangerous Lilly has expended an astonishing amount of investigative effort in putting together a pair of blog posts in which she attempted to answer that question by contacting numerous sex toy companies and asking them (along with anybody else in industry) what they were hoping to accomplish. She got a lot of silence and inadequate answers, a lot of hand-waving about old habits and “everybody’s always done this” thinking, and a few solid speculations relating to the avoidance of regulations and tariffs that might apply to a thing that that was labeled as a toy or misidentified by some bureaucrat as a medical device. It’s interesting reading if you’re interested in sex and business:
“For Novelty Use Only” Part 1
“For Novelty Use Only” Part 2
The anecdote that most engaged my dark sense of humor, though, involved a catastrophic sex toy injury from early in the industry’s history, involving a brand name (Doc Johnson) that’s always been synonymous (at least in my mind) with shoddy materials, pedestrian designs, and garish packaging. Lilly got this anecdote from Metis Black of Tantus:
When the industry was a baby Ted Marche made toys in his garage and he sold them very prolifically. This was the first US large manufacturer. He made a toy that had a wire inside the soft latex which rotated, much like the modern rabbits do. On one toy the interior wire was not capped, the edge of the wire as it was being used inside a man’s rectum chewed through the toy and did severe internal damage to his body. I think this was the mid 70’s. He (Marche) was sued and lost. The judge gave the victim a $14 mil settlement- which of course Mr. Marche couldn’t pay. That is how Ruben Sturman, and later Ron Braverman, got Doc Johnson. He took it off Mr. Marche’s hands.
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