I fondly remember the genuine quirkiness of the first episode of Malcolm In The Middle, mainly because of the opening scene when Malcolm’s mother Lois answers the door topless.
Caroline: I’m here because I think there is a tremendous opportunity for Malcolm. Could you maybe put a top on?
Lois: They’re just boobs, lady. You see ‘em [...]
Through the magic of Twitter I found myself perusing Amp Magazine and this article that has prompted me to post a quick rant.
You see, the author has gone out of her way to suggest that the character of John Bender (that’s the bad boy Judd Nelson one) in the Breakfast Club was actually gay. And [...]
I sometimes muse about the way that the nude male body is hidden from public view, but the female form is considered to be public property.
Apparently this is not the case in the gay community. MCV has a piece discussing the fact that advertisers targeting gay men almost always resort to using beefcake to sell [...]
I watched the final of the Eurovision song contest last night and all the songs I liked didn’t do very well. I was so relieved and happy to hear the UK’s Hot Chocolate disco song because it wasn’t yet another boy band… but it came last. Denmark had a happy-go-lucky song that was very likeable [...]
Just wanted to whack up a couple of quick links today.
The first is this Canadian article on the growth of Yaoi - Japanese gay erotica made for straight women. I’ve written about Yaoi before, this adds another perspective.
Secondly I found this board post from a woman who works in IT. She is making a point [...]
Over the weekend I watched all four Alien films plus AVP. It inspired me to get out my book of H.R. Giger’s amazing surreal artwork, some of which is amazingly explicit. Everything he creates has a lurking, dark sexual element to it, as if tapping into the vast and unvoiced fears of our sexual subconscious. [...]
Stumbling about today I found this post at the delightfully named Adventures of a Well Mannered Can-Can Dancer blog. The author has posted a bunch of beautiful photos of guys dressed in 19th century clothing, posing as they would for an official portrait. The pics originally appeared in the Fall/Winter 06 edition of Numero Homme [...]
The newspapers seem to have gone into a gurgling meltdown this week over the upcoming Sex and The City Movie. Which prompts me to rant.
Me and Sex and The City were not friends. It pissed me off. I think I only managed to watch a couple of episodes before I gave up in frustration.
Sure, it [...]
There’s something super post-post-modernist about my blog commenting on someone’s blog which is commenting on another blog… but anyway:
Idolator blog offers up a list of sexy album covers featuring naked men, as distilled from Gigwise’s 50 sexiest album covers list. They also point out that most male entries in the list are treated as a [...]
Apparently the upcoming spring/summer issue of Britain’s GQ Style features an essay by fashion guru Tom Ford and pictorial featuring naked men. Ford says he wants to look at the way Western society avoids serious study of the male body and the disparity between the treatment of men’s and women’s bodies.
NYMag has lifted whole paragraphs [...]
I love Ewan McGregor. And it’s not just because of his eagerness to get naked in almost every film he’s been in. He’s also very likeable. Proof: Long Way Round. Damn, that was great TV. Oh, and he was naked in it too.
Anyway, apparently his latest film was too much even for him. He’s told [...]
I told myself I wasn’t going to write about the Porn for Women book anymore because I’m sick of feeding their first page Google ranking while my blog languishes in purgatory for this particular term. But I can’t help it. Today I found the Chronicle Books blog which has a number of posts by the [...]
Violet Blue’s SF column this week, Ugly Violet, and her subsequent blog post has really struck a chord with me. She writes about the way comment trolls dismiss women because of their appearance and the body image issues women have in our culture. This is a conversation we need to be having and one I [...]
Every now and again I search Google news for the term “porn for women” just in case someone has mentioned women’s erotica in the news. It’s popping up rather heavily at the moment but, unfortunately, the subject isn’t about porn.
The cause of all the fuss is that damn Porn For Women book which features clothed [...]
I find it hard to believe that the babies born in 1990 are coming of age this year. To me, 1990 wasn’t long ago at all. It was only yesterday. And it was a bit of a golden year for me. I was 17, I was finishing school, I was freshly in love and life [...]
The Porn Report seems to be making waves at the moment, with most newspapers giving the story a relatively positive spin. The Courier Mail, for example, gives Alan McKee plenty of column space here, with only lip service paid to the conservatives who argue against porn, albeit without any proof, by the sounds of it. [...]
Last Friday on a whim I decided to attend Sexpo in Brisbane, hoping to maybe make some industry contacts and also just to check it all out. I last went to one of these mega sex exhibitions in Sydney ten years ago, back when I was a “civilian.” That expedition was part of the growing [...]
It’s almost 20 years ago that my brother bought Iron Maiden’s Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son and insisted that I listen to a song called Infinite Dreams, even though I swore that I hated heavy metal because it was all noise. It wasn’t long after that that I bought the extremely cool Seventh Son [...]
I’m going to see Sting and The Police tonight and I’m very much looking forward to it. I’ve been a fan since I was 14 and Sting’s last concert here was in 2000 so I’m very keen to “get in touch” again.
The tickets were the most expensive I’ve ever bought and the concert hasn’t [...]
Well, this could be a first.
Actress Jenna Fischer is promoting her new film to women by pointing out that it’s full of full frontal male nudity. The film, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, is a spoof of music bios like Walk The Line and, having watched the trailer, I think it looks pretty funny. [...]
British footballer David Beckham has caused a stir by appearing half-naked in an ad for Armani. The viewer just can’t help but notice that the bulge in those bright white undies is, well, fucking huge. The Daily Star has happily speculated on the various items that may be stuffed therin, including “Led Zeppelin, or at [...]
OK, so it’s The Sun, which means we have to take this report with a grain of salt. Even so, it’s rather a thrilling idea to think that current James Bond actor Daniel Craig is keen to get his kit off in the next Bond film.
“I’d go totally nude. I’ve got nothing to hide, [...]
It’s official. Greenpeace is naming the whale Mister Splashy Pants, after the name received 78% of the online poll votes.
They’ve now got an online petition to the Japanese government that says:
To the Japanese Fisheries Agency, I want you to promise that you will NOT kill Mister Splashy Pants and his friends.
That’s just too funny. But [...]
After yesterday’s post about that Abby Winters beat up, I thought I should post this.
Porn and sex in general often get a bad wrap in the mainsteam media. An awful lot of news stories and articles feature an anti-porn and sex-negative slant that help to create a “bad vibe” when it comes to sex in [...]
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