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July 28th, 2018 -- by Bacchus
I’ll confess to not being as regular about Sharing Our Shit on Saturday as I would like to be, but here I am today on this particular Saturday with some excellent shit to share:
- That industrious patron of the arts and my good friend Dr. Faustus has been busy since the last time I shared his publications and productions. Recent output includes editions of his comic Bubbles in Hebrew (עברית), Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt), and Bengali (বাংলা). The third chapter is now available in The Adventures of Ashley Madder, and there has been a substantial revision/addition to the comic Bait, announced here. Four new pieces of commissioned art supplementary to Bait (or pendant to it, if you prefer the word that Dr. Faustus uses) have also been published: here and here and here and here. And finally, all the Bait goodies have a permanent secure home at the Internet Archive now. I swear I don’t know how Faustus does it!
- The Rialto Report continues its ambitious project of making high-quality scans of porn magazines from forty years ago. This time it’s a visit to 1980 with the issues from that year of Cinema-X Review and Adam Film World.
- Ten Things I’ve Learned From 10 Years Of Sex — a really smart bit of writing from Kate Sloan at Girly Juice. I sure as shit didn’t learn that much in my first ten years of having sex, and in a lot more than ten years I never learned to write paragraphs so nice and tight.
- I appreciate a good obsession as well as the next person, so I am in awe of this post at Vanilla Spanking that explores at 3,500-word length (plus extensive visual material) the question of whether there was ever a Tarzan movie in which Jane gets a spanking. One word answer: no. But every near-spanking and situation in which Tarzan threatens to spank somebody is lovingly detailed, and the one funny-papers comic-strip panel in which Tarzan does spank an abusive lady big game hunter is presented in both its as-originally-published and later-reprint spanking-censored-out versions. Obsessions, man, long may they wave!
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June 23rd, 2018 -- by Bacchus
The press of affairs in recent weeks has kept me from Sharing Any Saturday Shit, and I still haven’t had time to trip lazily through my links for undiscovered gems, but a few of the usual honorable suspects who reliably churn out things that need to be shared have, indeed, produced on schedule:
- The Rialto Report, which had formerly published online digital copies of the complete first eight issues of Flick magazine, has now added to its website the other twelve existing issues of this short-lived 1970s porn magazine.
- The June link roundup from History of BDSM is, again and typically, good. So much so that its appearance is another one of the strong motivators for doing this #SoSS today.
- My good friend Dr. Faustus has finished another Tales Of Gnosis College chapter: Chapter 2 in The Adventures of Ashley Madder. (Don’t miss the bonus Women Of Gnosis College Angelique Porpulac pinup on the last page.) Also now available in the ongoing march of Dr. Faustus releases: Bubbles in Polish.
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May 26th, 2018 -- by Bacchus
I may have missed a couple of Saturdays in a row but that’s just all the more reason to slide in another Share Our Shit Saturday post, isn’t it?
- For the last two months my venerable blogfriend BJ has been posting photos of bearded men from his inexhaustible collection of vintage gay porn. He was up to “beard058” by the time he posted this shot, which also typifies the reason that the phrase “assless chaps” gained the popularity it enjoys. (Not to mention the power it has to make linguistic pedants tear their dull and lifeless hair out in great double-fisted clumps.)
- The Rialto Report has reproduced for posterity the rare-as-hen’s-teeth first year’s run of Adult Video News issues from 1983/1984.
- It has become traditional to include the monthly BDSM link roundup from The History of BDSM in whichever of these #SOSS posts follows it. The roundup never disappoints.
- Finally and as usual, my good friend Dr. Faustus has been busy! Publication is complete on the first whole chapter of The Adventures of Ashley Madder (a Tales of Gnosis College comic and tribute to the Adventures of Phoebe Zeit-Geist). What’s more, there are three new pieces of commissioned supplementary art for the previously-published graphic novella Bait. And finally, for those of strong stomach, at Infernal Wonders there are two exercises in recovering deeply-lost fringe artists from the depths of the Internet Archive. Content on these is likely to squick most readers, but the demonstration of methods for retrieval of very old and very lost web content may have interest beyond the content itself: Atomica, Hekonix. And last but not least, Bubbles is now available in Tagalog!
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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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