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Saturday, December 29th, 2018 -- by Bacchus
So what kind of good shit have my fellow bloggers been publishing since the last time I did a Share Our Shit Saturdays post? It’s my last chance in 2018 to round it all up:
- My good friend Dr. Faustus has been busy with his publishing empire. Since my last #SoSS post, he’s wrapped up all six chapters of The Adventures of Ashley Madder (part of the Tales of Gnosis College) and posted them to the Internet Archive. The Tales of Gnosis College are now moving on into Volume 13, Fruiting Bodies as written by Vinnie Tesla. There’s a new “sort-of sequel” to Bubbles called “More Bubbles” by Rafael Suzarte, in English or Portugese. Then there’s “Wheel of Misfortune” by Dark Vanessa, in English and Spanish. Faustus’s comic “Bait” has been reissued in various formats; there are the original long/HTML pages, a slider/carousel view, and zips at the Internet Archive. Moreover, “Bait” has now been translated into French (“Appât” — HTML / slider / Archive) and Spanish (“Carnada” — HTML / slider / Archive) and Italian (“Esca” — HTML / slider / Archive) and Portuguese (“A Isca” — HTML / slider / Archive. Future versions are projected for German, Russian, Japanese, Chinese (simplified), Korean, and Hindi, with hopes for Bahasa Indonesian and maybe even Esperanto. When Dr. Faustus gets rolling, he doesn’t stop! And just to round out the fun, four pieces of bespoke artwork, by artists Rafael Suzerte, Lucy Fidelis, Dark Vanessa, and Aleksandra Marchocka. Phew, that’s a lot, Brother Faustus!
- The Rialto Report has issued another set of otherwise inaccessible porn-history magazine scans. This batch is all the issues from 1980 and 1981 of the magazine called… well, it’s complicated: “The east-coast magazine Porn Stars first appeared in mid 1980. It only lasted for four issues before undergoing a name change and becoming Skin Flicks. Skin Flicks was even more short-lived and lasted only two months before it was renamed Starlet. Starlet lasted for four issues, before reverting to the magazine’s original name, Porn Stars, once again.” They sort this sort of curatorial mess out, once, so that nobody like me ever has to worry or wonder about it ever again!
- Paltego at Femdom Resource was “flipping rapidly through his Twitter” the other day when he “noticed a domme pitching her ‘selectively crafted artisinal pee'”. It seems he was prepared to mock this as a marketing overreach — and well he might! — but discovered it was a false alarm caused by reading too fast. As you were, torches down people.
- Susie Bright’s blog sadly sees little activity these days but she has a gig producing audiobooks for Audible as their Editor at Large. I’m linking to her Top 10 Audiobooks I Produced This Year because of one title described thereon: A Day In The Life Of Marlon Bundo, featuring Vice President Pence’s gay pet bunny. Royalties go to good causes that will piss off annoying people.
- STD testing is one of those sensible and virtuous best-practices that everyone always advises without pausing to consider the practicalities. It’s easy to breeze “Get tested, be safe!” but for a lot of people there are barriers. Money is an obvious one for which there aren’t easy answers, but even if you have money or insurance that will cover, there are often surprising obstacles, like doctors who will argue with you, not give you all the tests you need, or engage in sex-negative shaming and gatekeeping behavior that makes it all exquisitely humiliating if not outright impossible. In this post, Rain DeGrey positively reviews an STD testing service that sidesteps most of those problems by letting you go to a blood lab near you and then sending your test results by mail. It won’t solve everybody’s problems, but it’s an approach I hadn’t considered and it sure sounds less daunting than having “that conversation” with your regular provider when they aren’t up to speed on the necessary issues!
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Saturday, October 20th, 2018 -- by Bacchus
It has been far too long since I published a Share Our Shit Saturdays meme post, but I’ve got to at least touch some of the highlights of the best stuff that has been put out there by a few of my favorite bloggers since the last time:
- In his usual industrious way, Dr. Faustus has published two more full chapters (Chapter 4 and Chapter 5) in the Tales of Ashley Madder, and is currently chugging along through the daily page-by-page publication of Chapter 6 at his flagship Erotic Mad Science blog. He’s also published additional versions of his Rosetta Stone comic Bubbles in Punjabi, Turkish, and Farsi. And finally, he published three commissioned artworks in connection with his comic Bait: one called The Daughters Of Leos by Faustus Crow (no relation), and the more light-hearted damsel-in-distress artworks Deep Sea Lola and Bubble Tube Lola.
- The hardworking and discerning curators of pornographic history at The Rialto Report have released three more quality scan sets of vintage porn magazines since my last report on their curatorial efforts: the issues from the first year (1976) of High Society, the 1981 issues of Adult Cinema, and the issues from the first year (1976) of Cheri.
- Back in September Girl On The Net published this ridiculously-good post on what it takes (and, more importantly, doesn’t take) to be a sex blogger.
- From the Sensual Liberation Army, an ErosBlog friend going back to the very earliest of days, we learn that the magic of the crochet bikini does not care how many nipples you have.
- Franklin Veaux wrote at some length about the kinkiest sex toy he’s ever used. Considering that he’s the creator of the famous Map of Human Sexuality and that his answer involved a six-week campaign by the women in his life to make him more sexually suggestible and biddable, you might not have expected so much mathematics — or such a small piece of aluminum! — to figure in the tale.
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Saturday, 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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Saturday, 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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Saturday, 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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Saturday, 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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Saturday, 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.
Saturday, 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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Saturday, 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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Saturday, 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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Saturday, 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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Saturday, 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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Saturday, 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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