A, children don’t have breasts. Adults have breasts.
B, if an adult looks at a small-breasted woman and equals her to a child, that says a whole lot more about the viewer than the subject.
C, but never mind all that, because not only are we body-shaming large-breasted women who look terribly slutty in too tight tops, but we’ll bring more equality by being equally shaming to more body types.

Australia’s govt needs to get itself a hobby, is all I can say.

I have been a cyclist most of my life (including triathlon and amateur road racing), so I share your enthusiasm.

Looking forward to hearing more about your movie plans.

John.

Frankly I am astounded that the independents have gotten so organised so fast and are sticking the boot in so hard. It’s really forcing the major parties to show their true colours.

All quite a breath of fresh air really.

John.

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August 13, 2010

Re: Certified Letter Shut out of Facebook Account (see attached Page Two)

Dear Administrator,

I am quite familiar with the places from where I choose to access my accounts (such as Facebook). Your test, which asks me to verify myself, is a set-up for failure. (See Page Two). I have been shown pictures from you that have a circle around dogs, around gates. Yet, you ask me to give these items a human name. In addition, the humans you do ask me to verify are friends of my fb Friends, and there is, of course, no possible way that I know who these people are.

In addition, I find it personally offensive you would use random individuals as a method of account ID verification. I truly hope you are not showing pictures of me and my friends to random individuals who do not know me personally.

At this point, I have been locked out of my Facebook account for three weeks. Now, I want to delete my account, which I also cannot do, due to this ridiculous and very prejudicial verification system you have implemented recently.

I demand that you either restore me access to my Facebook account, or that you delete it and all its contents today, and notify me of what you have done immediately in writing to my address listed above. My lawyer is copied this letter. I refuse to have my name and my information on a site that I cannot access; to be clear, I mean your site, Facebook. In addition, I refuse to have my image displayed to unknown people as a cheap and convenient verification process for your corporation, so you must take down my site and all its contents completely and never use any words or images from my site for your purposes now or at any time in the future.

In my opinion, you have stolen my property. Be assured, I will sue you if I do not hear form you within ten days, and my account – and everything in it – is either restored to me to access easily, or it and its contents are completely deleted by you.

Best regards,
Deborah Sundahl
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Santa Fe, NM 87501

Cc: Benjamin W. Allison, Sutin, Thayer & Browne, Santa Fe, NM 87501

The guy mountain biking in his mankini takes the bravery award for me. Being a cyclist, I know how little protection Lycra offers, but at least it’s something between you, your arse cheeks and the gravel!

For style, I think that the guy in the waterfall pulls it off nicely and the “tux” mankini actually looks pretty good. Perhaps that fact that he wears it wide on the shoulders echoing the “V” shape of his body is what makes it work (as well as the bow-tie and perhaps the shoulders …).

Sadly, I don’t own a mankini, but if anyone wants to send me one and I’ll send you the photos!

John.

Still, well done for even asking the question.

These days I much rather get news and information from independent sources (like you Ms Naughty) than from main stream media. The fascinating little nuggets that get turned up are far more interesting than the bland pap from Fairfax and the like.

John.

I am really sorry to hear this. I have been helping out a friend to make a submission for the competition, but we hit a problem. The camera that we were going to use for the final shoot died and the one that we used to do test shots isn’t high enough resolution for the competition, so things ground to a halt.

I will have to see if we can find an alternative camera. The idea is fully storyboarded and ready to shoot, so it would be nice to actually complete it.

John.

It seems to me that some people make the assumption that “sexuality” is like a light switch and that as long as it’s not flipped (by seeing the image of a woman’s breast for instance) then everything is fine until we reach 18 or some other arbitrary age where suddenly we become fully fledged sexual beings able to handle the emotional roller-coaster of young adult sexuality and romance (without any education, or support).

The reality is that growing sexual awareness happens even in an environment that is free of sexual (or even Hot Gossip “suggestive”) imagery. It’s a bit like the “whack a mole” game. Push sexuality down in one place and it pops up in another (such as a foot fetish, because that was the only naked part of a woman’s body that a boy ever saw – true story from a friend of mine).

Alternet recently ran an article about firearms education in US states like Texas. The NRA (National Rifle Association) are big supporters of _everyone_ being educated in how to safely handle firearms from a very young age (which makes sense in a state where 50% of homes have guns in them) and they even provide free education material.

Texas coincidentally has the least sex education for children (compared to other US states). But as the article concluded, 100% of households have genitals in them. So why isn’t education in their “safe handling and use” equally important?

John.

You ask whether producers are making it for “women” as a whole… but this is an old conversation. You can’t please every woman; there’s a whole bunch of different tastes out there. Sure, there are some women who like gonzo. Lucky them: 99% of porn looks like that. But the “subset” of women who aren’t into mainstream porn is significant. And as someone who has made a living for 10 years offering erotica to this “subset”, I certainly think it’s viable.

In 2003 I wrote an article for AVN Online about marketing to women. Nobody paid any attention. This year I’m starting to see pieces in AVN that finally acknowledge the female market – but only because the mainstream gold mine has dried up and companies are desperate for new revenue. And they’re still calling it “couples” porn because they still don’t really believe women enjoy porn by themselves. There’s a reason why the women in your porn survey only owned 4 DVDs… and I honestly don’t think it’s because they didn’t like or want to buy porn. The truth is they just didn’t like or want to buy the porn that was available to them.