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ErosBlog posts containing "pornocalypse"
May 5th, 2018 -- by Bacchus
Sometimes my most compelling motivation to put up a Share Our Shit Saturday post is the amazing stuff my friend Dr. Faustus publishes with such regularity, so this week I’m going to start with him:
- Faustus’s Rosetta Stone of a free mad science comic Bubbles is now available in Japanese and in Arabic. I doubt the Japanese will bat an eyelash, but if it doesn’t tweak the beards of some self-appointed guardians of Arab culture and morality somewhere, it will disappoint me. (Plus the first 20 pages of The Adventures of Ashley Madder — being the latest book in the long-running Tales of Gnosis College free comic book series — are now available for reading at this link.)
- Girl On The Net squirted for the first time, and just possibly may have added a tip to the sexual literature on how that can be accomplished, for folks who find it tricky or elusive.
- In Rain DeGrey’s latest advice column, she fields several questions about orgasms from a perspective of plenty — whether there can be too many, how to handle squirting anxiety, and what a fellow can do with his “tease and deny” fantasy when his wife enjoys the ability to orgasm easily and effortlessly.
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April 21st, 2018 -- by Bacchus
I like to Share Our Shit of a Saturday, and this is a Saturday, so:
- I link fairly often to Paltego at Femdom-Resource, so I was thrilled to see him mention that he’d given this detailed interview to Miss Ava Zhang. The chance to learn more about him while also linking to and providing visibility to a woman in her line of work that I otherwise would not have known about, at a her own site — which is what these #SoSS posts are all about! — that I normally would not have had an excuse to visit, is a bonus in these trying times.
- Since last we checked in with my good friend Dr. Faustus, he’s been busy; his empire of projects and commissions has been churning right along. Notable releases include The Sacrifice Of Gigi, which is an even-darker re-imagining by the artist Faustus Crow (no relation) of one of the scenes from Dr. Faustus’s comic In The Kitchen With Dolcetta. Dr. Faustus also completed publication of his sexy Star Trek parody The Needs Of The Many in both English and Spanish languages. I’m also pleased to announce that Faustus has got me doing image research for him again, and blogging the results at Erotic Mad Science; the first of these commissions appeared yesterday. Finally, a casual image forward on my part has become rather more; after sending him a vintage tube-girl illustration from a Japanese source, Faustus commissioned a paid translation of the accompanying text to provide context for a blog post about the image. Never let it be said that the man is not dedicated to his art!
- The History of BDSM blog puts out a monthly roundup of deep-dive and/or thoughtful kink and BDSM links. It’s a pretty impressive effort that’s worth some time if you’re interested in these subjects.
April 16th, 2018 -- by Bacchus
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:
- 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)
- Congress just legalized sex censorship: what to know — “sex work” is not another word for trafficking (Engadget article by Violet Blue, May 30)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- No One Wants To Listen To Sex Workers (Washington Post opinion column by Molly Roberts, April 10)
- Sex News: FOSTA-SESTA damage continues (Tiny Nibbles link roundup by Violet Blue, April 14)
More soon!
March 31st, 2018 -- by Bacchus
My spies and spiders and little sparrows tell me that this is an excellent Saturday for Sharing Our Shit:
- Since tomorrow is Easter, let’s start with an obsessively detailed post called The Rites of Spring from the Vanilla Spanking blog, documenting in great photographic detail the chasing of pretty young ladies and the spanking of them with woven willow rods called pomlazka. (It’s a Czech fertility ritual of spring associated these days with Easter, but probably rather older.)
- The Rialto Report has published another one of its ridiculously detailed interviews with one of the little-known pioneers of adult film, this time being Jack Bravman.
- My good friend Dr. Faustus has been even busier than usual these past two weeks! In addition to the final publication of his graphic novella Bait that I already blogged about, he’s posted four additional supplement hi-res color illustrations for that story commissioned from the artist Dark Vanessa. He’s also added the Russian and Indonesian language versions of Bubbles, the comic I blogged about here.
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March 17th, 2018 -- by Bacchus
Once again, a Share Our Shit Saturday:
- As the towering dumpster inferno that is our national political situation blazes ever higher, I’ve been wondering when and whether the Jeff Sessions justice department won’t launch some sort of spectacular obscenity prosecution against a porn or social media company target. It’s a natural Republican election-year maneuver and there’s solid precedent, which the Rialto Report recently documented in this set of careful interviews documenting how the Nixon administration tasked reluctant prosecutors with launching a round of obscenity prosecutions against porn movie distributors to distract attention away from the Watergate scandal.
- I am mildly squicked by age play, so the rise of “Daddy Dom”/”Little Girl” kink play (and its gender variants) has gotten short shrift here at ErosBlog. Fortunately it’s a big internet, and Kate Sloan has just published a detailed FAQ about what she cheerfully calls her “foremost perversion”.
- I saw Epiphora tweeting about her review of a bad sex game last week and I didn’t click through or read. I thought, meh, I’ve seen bad sex games and I’ve seen bad reviews. Her bad reviews are good, but I’m busy… It was a mistake. Those dudebros crammed more fail onto one failboat than you would think could possibly fit.
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March 3rd, 2018 -- by Bacchus
Not every Saturday can be a Share Our Shit Saturday, but this one is:
- Stolen (borrowed, ganked, call it how you like) from Girl On The Net’s link roundup today, a might-actually-help post at Domme Chronicles to share with men who ask that difficult question about how to get their wives interested in femdom.
- Rain DeGrey has a podcast! Two episodes ( EP-001 EP-002 ) so far. And a Patreon to keep it going. Now, I know a few of you assholes can’t deal with a woman who has sex and opinions at the same time, or even alternately; this might not be for you. But the rest of y’all are probably in for a treat.
- Author Peter Tupper issues a truly excellent link roundup monthly at his History Of BDSM blog, with a focus on BDSM/kink/leather. The most recent one is here.
- Not only is my good friend Dr. Faustus blowing new posts up onto his image blogs Hedonix and Infernal Wonders today at a prodigious rate, but the day before yesterday he released his mad-science comic Bubbles (बà¥à¤²à¤¬à¥à¤²à¥‡) in Hindi, adding by his estimate another quarter of a billion potential readers at a minimum. (If you have wondered why Faustus’s projects are so often included in my #SoSS roundups, it’s because — as if our friendship and his prodigious creative output were not sufficient reasons — he’s a stalwart supporter of the ErosBlog Patreon. Many rewards for patrons include a specific formal promise to help promote them in some way, but I don’t rules-lawyer my patrons; if you’re a patron and you ask me, I’ll find some commensurate way to help promote your stuff!)
Image credit: The #SoSS banner at the top of this post features English actresses Gertrude Glynne and Gaynor Rolands sharing a book.
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February 17th, 2018 -- by Bacchus
Hey, hey, hey, it’s Saturday! Let’s Share Our Shit!
- There’s an ancient and high-quality link list that has been very kind to ErosBlog over the years. It’s called Indie Nudes and I literally know nothing about who runs it; they publish an email address but communicate never, at least not with me. Still, they linked to ErosBlog very early and sent good traffic when I needed it, and their other links are high quality (if sometimes dated, though I cast no stones nor aspersions on that score). I just noticed they link to a sex blog not familiar to me called Slutever that’s clearly run by people who play the marketing game at a much higher level than I do; the three women who blog at Slutever have a business representative at a talent agency, and a book, and a television show, and 33k Twitter followers, and a Facebook page with 19k likes (the which, I don’t even comprehend given the #pornocalypse). But anyway, what caught my eye was their Week In Sex link roundup. I love a good sex news link roundup; after many many years of quality product, I know for example that Violet Blue’s is always worth retweeting (and saving to read later) before I ever read it. The one at Slutever? Maybe not so much. One sentence, or two short ones, per link; the stories all pretty high-profile, the sort of thing you already saw if you use Twitter and follow sex stuff at all. If you work in insurance and Slutever is the raciest web page you read, probably useful.
- A few days ago I posted a Twitter-musing about an oddity of the financial-domination professionals, namely that I haven’t observed any of them to exist on Twitter without attempting to perform their professional hustle on Twitter, which is a highly toxic experience for random bystanders. This is in sharp contrast to other kinds of sex workers; for example, a great many “normal” dominatrixes exist and even market themselves on Twitter without (for example) performing histrionic misandry at high volume, even if some amount of that might happen in a session or in DMs with clients. Anyway, I’m sure it all reflects my continued failure to understand something fundamental about the financial domination kink and the profession of satisfying it. If you are like me, you may find this blog post and linked article by Susannah Breslin at least a little bit helpful, although even she forthrightly admits she’s not sure she understands it even after she wrote her article about it.
- My friend Dr. Faustus has, as promised, continued building out his mad-science comic Bubbles with a Chinese-language edition, as announced here.
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