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ErosBlog posts containing "pornocalypse"
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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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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