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Tonight at 11:10PM in NYC is a screening of "Graphic Sexual Horror" - a documentary by two women who worked on the insex.com web site. In case you don't know the background, insex.com was *THE* most intense female sub BDSM web site for a few years. They said that they had 35,000 members (and @60/month that's a nice stream of revenue...) yet, they got shut down by the misuse of the Patriot Act.Aarkeybabble : I have never been a criminal, but I am not close minded about it. In '05 the govt threatened the credit card companies that handled their transactions and that killed it.Tonight at 11:10PM in NYC is a screening of "Graphic Sexual Horror" - a... more
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I suppose I have to start this off by quoting Milton Berle, “Sex is only dirty when it’s done right.” Yes, San Francisco has been a city of sin long before there was a place called Las Vegas and let’s face it we do it right. My mother used to tell me about private gay clubs where the patrons would dress up as men and women irregardless of their sex to look like normal “straight” couples walking into a nightclub, but when the doors closed the rules where gone.I suppose I have to start this off by quoting Milton Berle, “Sex is only dirty... more
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In this scene from Vanguard's "Porn 2.0," Kink.com employees discuss whether their parents accept that they work in the adult film industry, the creativity involved in producing pornography, and how full-time employment with benefits makes their job more secure than other entertainment positions. Vanguard correspondent Christof Putzel takes a behind the scenes look at the adult entertainment industry, examining its history and impact on the ever-changing face of new media.
"Vanguard," airing weekly on Current TV Wednesdays at 10/9c, is a no-limits documentary series whose award-winning correspondents put themselves in extraordinary situations to immerse viewers in global issues that have a large social significance. Unlike sound-bite driven reporting, the show's correspondents, Adam Yamaguchi, Kaj Larsen, Christof Putzel and Mariana van Zeller, serve as trusted guides who take viewers on in-depth real life adventures in pursuit of some of the world's most important stories.
For more, go to http://current.com/vanguard.In this scene from Vanguard's "Porn 2.0," Kink.com employees discuss... more
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June 01, 2010 — Chicago, IL.
Self-proclaimed "Leather gimp" Tyler McCormick, a wheelerchair-reliant, female-to-male transgender man, breaks barriers to win the 2010 INTERNATIONAL MR. LEATHER contest - the first time in the competition's 32 year history.
Lance Holman, Mr San Francisco Leather, took first runner-up, and Jack Andrew Duke, Mr. Texas Leather, took second runner-up.
The IML competition was held Memorial weekend (May 27-31 2010) in Chicago.
Video by Mike Skiff for Third Rail Media - ThirdRailMedia.comJune 01, 2010 — Chicago, IL.
Self-proclaimed "Leather gimp" Tyler... more
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The story of the world’s oldest Kink/Fetish competition, the INTERNATIONAL MR. LEATHER contest. And after 30 years, it’s not just a “gay white male” event anymore!
Chicago’s first Leather bar’s opening in the 1950’s; Leathermen confronting the AIDS crisis of the 80’s; Religious intolerance and legal hostility; The difference between BDSM and Abu Ghriab - it’s all explored in a film that’s fascinating, sexy, provocative, funny and surprisingly moving.
The contestants are as extraordinary as they are common people. There’s Don SIR representing the embrace of gay Leather traditions by the straight world. Hunter, the senior who’s lost all his peers to AIDS. And Richard, who wins the crowd over from his wheelchair.
And behind it all is IML founder Chuck Renslow, a man who saw the need for a place where sexual outcasts could gather and celebrate among their kinky family.
Maybe there’s a little Kink Crusader inside all of us.
Coming 2011
Written & Directed by Micheal Skiff
Executive Produced by Third Rail Media
Visit: KinkCrusaders-themovie.comThe story of the world’s oldest Kink/Fetish competition, the INTERNATIONAL MR.... more
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Why do the excuses for homophobia in Africa and for anti-kink beliefs in feminism sound so similar?Why do the excuses for homophobia in Africa and for anti-kink beliefs in feminism... more
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From music to movies to newspapers, the media industries are struggling to figure out how to use the Internet without losing their shirts. With some combination of envy and disgust, they've watched from the sidelines as the pornography industry seized every opportunity to get before the wider audience all of them sought. But today, the technology that once pushed the adult industry forward is stripping away its profits.
The 14-billion-dollar-a-year industry is facing its most serious economic slump in decades. Porn producers led the way in technological innovation and media distribution in the '80s and '90s. They were often credited with ensuring the domination of VHS over Betamax in the costly war for control of the format used on home video tapes. They boosted cable subscriptions, popularized the DVD as the successor to tape and leapt onto the Internet as the obvious new vehicle to give people access to porn in the privacy offered by their personal computer screens. Secure online payment systems and streaming video, not to mention nuisances such as spyware and spam, advanced with the increasing popularity of porn and the public's apparently insatiable appetite for watching online sex.
When I proposed to my bosses at Current TV that I look at the porn industry for answers to the quandary of other popular media, eyebrows shot up around the office. Was this just an excuse to look at porn at the office and hang out with naked women all day? As I ventured behind the scenes, what I saw surprised me in ways I never expected. The business people and techies I met were young professionals with credentials as impressive as those from some of the hot Silicon Valley startups. And contrary to their image as Internet pioneers with an ever-increasing market, I found porn producers just as perplexed as other media as piracy and the plummeting costs of production sucked away the sizable profits they used to enjoy. Even the sex has changed in the race to keep a step ahead of copyright thieves and amateur porn pushers. It's never been clearer that if the industry wants to survive in this day of age, it needs to adapt to a changing marketplace.
Editing "Porn 2.0" for Vanguard's documentary series was a challenge because the subject matter we were covering could not be shown on television. At the same time, we couldn't just show the talking heads of industry executives bemoaning the downturn. On the first day of work for our new crop of interns, I handed out a boxful of hardcore adult DVDs and told them to look for some "tasteful" clips we could use on the air. I knew the assignment would either get me called on the carpet for offending the newbies or go down in Current history as the coolest internship assignment ever. Luckily, it was the latter.
Vanguard: Porn 2.0 (Video)
Recently on the Vanguard Blog:
- What world have we entered? - Mitch Koss
- Hey Electronic Arts, when you going to do a pirate video game? - Kaj Larsen
- Christof’s Doc, the Porn Community, and Obscenity… - Mitch Koss
- You Have a College Degree: So What? - Tracey Chang
- What Transformers 2 has to do with Japan's falling population - Adam Yamaguchi
- Why Should You Trust Us? - Mitch KossFrom music to movies to newspapers, the media industries are struggling to figure out... more
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EXCLUSIVE: American Idol’s Crystal Bowersox’s S & M Aunt Whipping-Up Support
RadarOnline.com
Mar 13, 2010
American Idol favorite Crystal Bowersox’s aunt is whipping-up support for her talented niece – on an alternative S&M website, RadarOnline.com can exclusively reveal.
Kink Alert! American Idol’s Crystal Bowersox’s S & M Aunt Whipping-Up Support On Website (Link)…Fetish VIDEO…http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2010/03/13/exclusive-american-idol%e2%80%99s-crystal-bowersoxs-kinky-s-m-aunt-whipping-up-support-fetish-video/
The single mom from Ohio has been wowing the judges with her Janis Joplin style vocals and on Tuesday night after she performed Tracy Chapman’s Give Me A Reason Simon Cowell told her: “You are the one everybody has to beat, I am telling you. It’s yours to lose.”EXCLUSIVE: American Idol’s Crystal Bowersox’s S & M Aunt Whipping-Up... more
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