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ErosBlog posts containing "pornocalypse"
February 3rd, 2018 -- by Bacchus
Hey, hey, hey, it’s Saturday! Let’s Share Our Shit!
- I’ll start with a special shout-out to Paltego at Femdom Resource, who rightly bemoans the accelerating trend of the disappearing blogroll: “One unfortunate trend I spotted when refreshing my blogroll was the number of sites that don’t have a blogroll at all. I’m not sure if that’s a new trend, or an ongoing thing that I’ve just not noticed before. Either way, I’m not a fan. A blogroll (or a links page) is the original version of Share Our Shit. In many ways, it’s a human version (in a very hand wavy way) of the classic Google PageRank alogrithm. If I like the writing of this blogger, there’s a good chance I’ll also like the stuff they read. Ironically, search engines themselves tend to suck at queries like “Femdom Blog”. I’d say 80% of the blogs I find come via links on other people’s blogs, with the other 20% from social media, comments or email. So if you’ve got a blog, please put up links to other blogs you like and read. It can be a traditional blogroll or a separate page or whatever. Just show a little love to your fellow bloggers and gives your readers some interesting people to explore.”
- Here’s the home page of Melissa Gira Grant, whose Twitter coverage about the ongoing purge of strippers from Bourbon Street in New Orleans under the guise of a fake human trafficking panic have been my only access to the story (it hasn’t appeared in any of my other regular news channels or feeds). Grant does good work.
- My good friend Dr. Faustus has added an index page at Erotic Mad Science for his Fabulae Atroces Fausti — the darker tales that were released recently and including the currently-being-released with daily pages tentacle-monster spectacular Bait.
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January 13th, 2018 -- by Bacchus
Coming in just under the Saturday wire, my first Share Our Shit Saturday post of 2018 with a focus on sex workers and products:
- Liara Roux (“Professional bisexual cutie & indie porn director/producer” says her Twitter profile, “Your Travel Sized Sweetheart” says her website) is someone that I knew I owed a favor, because of her tweets at the right time that got me up to speed on the slow-rolling Patreon #pornocalypse stuff. In that moment she was just a Twitter handle to me; I didn’t know her from Adam’s off ox, and could not have picked her out of a photo lineup at a drunk tank. Eventually I discovered that she was posting catch-your-breath cute photos on Twitter. Her breaks-all-the rules, video-animated, music-playing website is the most persuasive example of a professional woman’s anchoring web presence I have encountered, but be warned: it’s mesmerizing. It’s lucky I’m not a rich man, else I might soon be a rather poorer one.
- In case you have somehow missed it, one of my oldest blogfriends Mistress Matisse has masterminded and is marketing an intimacy-enhancing cannabis-based sensual lube called Velvet Swing. Currently only available at select legal cannabis retailers in the state of Washington, so I don’t in-person know anybody with experience of the product. But Mistress Matisse has just about the lowest bullshit-quotient of any sex worker I’ve ever encountered on social media, and she’s convinced me that she poured her heart into creating and getting this stuff onto the market. I believe in her and she believes in Velvet Swing, and that’s good enough for me.
- Adroitly multitasking camgirl Haylee Love manages two dildos, a buttplug, and a vibrator, while rocking a collar and cat ears. Sheerest talent, gentlemen, on display at Sensual Liberation Army.
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January 2nd, 2018 -- by Bacchus
This Medium essay by A.V. Flox is entitled Internet Sex Panics Hurt LGBTQ Communities and it begins:
Instagram’s recent removal of a lesbian couple’s photo isn’t an accident, though the image has now been restored and friends at Facebook (which acquired Instagram in 2012) are telling me it really was a just terrible mistake. I love all my friends in tech – both the ones who still believe that they can do something good and the ones who look like cancer patients, whose souls have been hollowed out by the truth of trying to do good under capitalism.
But the truth is that in tech everything always is a mistake or an accident, unless it’s a silence.
Here’s another truth: Removing or limiting hashtags – as Instagram, Tumblr, and Twitter have done – is a policy decision. Withdrawing advertising from specific verticals is a policy decision. Limiting search for specific terms is a policy decision. Not doing a goddamn thing about transwomen whose profiles are repeatedly flagged in harassment campaigns is a policy decision.
Silicon Valley is not full of prudes committed to a heteronormative agenda. Execs don’t often care – and even when they do, they still make decisions factoring cost, gains, and how best to evade a regulatory backlash. That’s it.
When you see platforms changing their terms one after the other like we’ve been seeing all year, hiding or restricting or demonetizing queer content under the guise of targeting pornography or tightening up “community guidelines” or some other nonsense, it’s regulatory pressure at work.
Flox focuses on that phrase “regulatory pressure” for the rest of the article, which is a focus with which I have some minor issues; my own #pornocalypse theory explains much of the same behavior in terms of pressure from financial actors, which may or may not be responding to their own regulatory pressures. Be that as it may, I’m not saying Flox is wrong in any particular; if we disagree, it’s a matter of focus and framing. The whole essay it thoughtful and worth your time, and the many links (which I did not reproduce, even in the intro material quoted above) also very worthy.
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December 30th, 2017 -- by Bacchus
A day and a half short of a new year, it’s time for one last 2017 Share Our Shit Saturday:
- Girl On The Net nails down “ironic sexism” and why it’s not as funny as you think. Dude, that moment when you get the irresistible urge to say the exact same thing as some asshole, only because it’s you saying it and you’re not an asshole, it will totally be funny? Flash news: It won’t be funny. You’ll just sound like an asshole. As far as anybody else could tell, you’ll BE an asshole. I feel your pain; this is a daily struggle for me, and not always a winning one.
- Paltego at Femdom Resource has some thoughts and links about the public image of femdom professionals and the damage done to their image and profession as a class by a minority of humiliation, abuse, and findom dommes who seem confused (this is my editorializing, not Paltego’s) about the distinction between domination within a negotiated scene context and abusive online treatment of random strangers as a social media marketing strategy.
- Congratulations to Richard Windsor, who has been blogging vintage spanking photos for eleven years and intends to keep doing so for at least another eleven. That sort of dogged curatorial devotion should win a Drunken Bacchus award, if indeed there were any such thing.
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December 16th, 2017 -- by Bacchus
Is it Share Our Shit Saturday already, again? It is!
- From the department of “when they do these things, I’m relieved that I don’t have to”, Michael Samadhi has extensively debunked a stupid anti-porn article in The Atlantic, from whom we usually expect better. (I’m so old I remember when bloggers called this sort of thing “a fisking“.)
- I am dazed with professional awe at how Girl On The Net managed to handle the always-tricky situation in this post where a sponsor/supporter of the post requested a very specific but kinda obnoxious link anchor text. She managed to at once disclose and accommodate the less-than-awesome request while (a) to all external appearances completely satisfying the sponsor, and (b) not compromising any of the stuff that makes the post good and fun (which it totally is; it’s a do-it-yourself guide to turning a motorized Fleshlight into a hands-free dick-milking machine).
- The third share this week is a two-parter from Not Just Bitchy on vetting potential submissive men for boyfriends or play partners, although honestly I can’t see anything in here that wouldn’t be just as applicable to vetting men as dominant or vanilla date/playtime material. (Part One, Part Two.) This sentence hooked me: “While vetting isn’t a magic cure-all, people mostly suck at lying about who they are and they extra suck at it when they don’t realize they’re kind of terrible and probably should lie about who they are.” And then this paragraph set the hook: “Whether you want a long-term romantic relationship with a submissive boyfriend or you just want a play partner who will treat you like a human being, guys who can’t clear that bar are usually super obvious about it. Seriously, it is not hard to catch them. At all.”
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December 9th, 2017 -- by Bacchus
I have missed making Share Our Shit Saturday posts two weeks in a row due to circumstances that were, more or less, beyond my control, so here’s to avoiding the trifecta:
- A post about bad sex — sex you don’t want but consented to anyway — by Ella Dawson.
- The most frequently-seen recurring feature at Violet Blue’s venerable blog Tiny Nibbles: Open Source Sex is her Sex News compilation. (Luckily for me, it’s also usually my favorite.)
- My good friend Doctor Faustus at Erotic Mad Science is steadily posting the pages of his first bilingual webcomic “In the Kitchen with Dolcetta / En la cocina con Dolcetta.” The first page is here; this tag link will get you all the pages currently available.
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November 18th, 2017 -- by Bacchus
It’s Share Our Shit Saturday time again:
- From BJ’s Gay Porno-Crazed Ramblings, a motorcycle post that includes this surprisingly tasteful photo of a motorcycle cop with his pants down to his knees doing some, ah, community policing.
- Paltego at Femdom Resource has some advice for taking Pacific-Northwest bushy pubes to the dommes of Los Angeles: Don’t. “Nobody likes a 70s style bush in SoCal.”
- A deep dive by Pandora/Blake into the privacy and antitrust implications of the age verification requirements for British porn sites (as well as for international porn sites that prove to be subject in practice to the uncertain reach of British law) coming in 2018. It’s been evident for a long time that the age-verification requirements are ill-considered and look set to create a series of rolling disasters for the British porn industry and its customers; whether anybody in British politics will notice or care, among the greater political chaos there, is a whole ‘nother question.
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