I remember staying up late to watch ‘Flashdance’ on TV and fuel my ongoing crush on Jennifer Beals. At the time I was too young to know that I should have been masturbating to that ‘Welder/stripper becomes ballerina’ classic but thanks to this remix by ‘Hughes Corporation’ I’m glad to report I’ve avoided making the same mistake twice.
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“Then another tongue enters my mouth and i completely forget how to process thought.”
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“I want between his thighs without any hindrance.”
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“I stroked his long shaft with my other hand until I knew he couldn’t stand much more.”
In porn the only facets of race which are embraced as positives are stereotypes. The compliant Asian, the well-hung black guy, the ’spicy’ Latina and despite weak attempts to call those caricatures positive their negativity’s apparent in people’s efforts to distance themselves from them. Big names in the jizz-bizz with ethnically backgrounds and pale skin invariably fight to be identified as white and avoid the ghetto of race-porn.
It’s sad to see the mainstream being equally fucked-up.
I don’t expect James bond to be played by an English guy (Sean Connery’s Scottish), Abraham Lincoln by an American (Liam Neeson’s Irish) or Spiderman by a guy who can ‘do anything a spider can’ (Toby Maguire can’t). Why does anyone care Angelina Jolie’s not mixed-race and is playing a mixed-race person in a biopic? Bi-racial people are as white as they’re black. It’s patronizing and racist to say they’re just ‘black’ and insist they’re played by black actors and not white ones. Your identity isn’t determined by your skin-tone.
Of course you could hire a mixed-race actor, if you think ethnicity is more important than talent, but then it’d be fair for bi-racial people, who might be half-Kenyan and half-Scottish, to point out that a half-Black American and half Armenian person is as unlike them as a Swede.
If Angelina Jolie announced she was in fact half African and had pale skin would that make her portrayal more PC? It shouldn’t. Race shouldn’t be a factor and Jolie should be judged on her performance, not the composition of her DNA. Given that 30% of ‘pure white’ Americans have African ancestors it’s likely Angelina’s a little choco anyway.
It’s hard to know what’s worse, porn’s overt racism or the mainstream’s equally racist attempts to divide, categorize and separate people based on Victorian ideas of racial purity. Race is a myth.
Google now owns YouTube and is the new undisputed leader in the have-you-seen-this-clip market. Way to spend $1.65B - a ludicrous amount given YouTube’s inability to make any money.
Right?
As an advertising company Google has to see appending video ads to web video as a way of eating into the massive TV advertising market. Viral videos used to be found in a range of places and websites but now are almost exclusively on YouTube (and if not are quickly mirrored there). If Google can build a system to append ads to content automatically, and they can, and devise a way of paying content owners a share of any profit made on their clips with Google wallet, they can earn back their billions fast.
With millions of downloads a day, charging advertisers fractional amounts adds up fast. By tracking the most popular and enduring content - their ‘hit shows’ - they can increase prices for clips in the way they do for keywords and all that technology and experience is already in place.
Assuming I’m right, and I think we’ll all be more comfortable if we do, in a years time every guy-sticks-knob-in-blender funny will come stuck between ads for ‘Coors Lite’ and ‘Band Aids’. For the first time it’ll make more sense to upload your funny videos to the web than send them to a cheesy TV show for a 1 in 3 chance to win $500. Really popular videos will make hundreds of thousands of dollars for their authors and instead of using the web to launch a career in TV, podcasters can enjoy a career online funded by ads they rely on GooTube to sell.
In working out a way to sell more ads, Google will have inadvertently provided the web with the micro-payment system it’s long been crying out for. With each ad impression generating a few cents for each video publisher it’s precisely the payment model best suited to digital content. The clever bit is that consumers pay nothing themselves, which increases the reach of content and with it the profits to be earned. There’s no signing-up, no exchange of personal information and no barrier to entry. Consumers get ‘free’ content, advertisers get eyeballs and performers get paid. Smart.
So where does that leave porn? The short answer is nowhere. Mainstream advertisers are not going to embrace nudity and pay for ads on trailers for ‘Island Fever 27 - Milking It’, but who said sex had to be pornographic or, perhaps more accurately, that porn had to be explicit?
There’s more than one way to skin a mushroom (think about it, I’ll wait…) and Nuts/Maxim style softcore, which which can be shared via GooTube (Yougle? It’s for sale here), will be worth worth more than hardcore material which isn’t.
Could a new golden age of sexually stimulating, non-explicit naughtiness be around the corner? If Micro-payments via ads arrive as I predict, Maxim/Nuts style demi-porn may be the future.
It’s time for me to admit a mistake. On my list of ‘favorite releases’ ‘Press’ comes so farm below ‘Record’ and ‘Hand’ that I instinctually ignore them. It was only when checking my email in the presence of a friend that I realized jizz-bizz releases have a unique charm I’ve grown inured to. Where else is anyone ‘Proud to announce’ there’s a new 108lb teenager on scene ready for G/G, BJ, B/G, B/B/G, Anal, DP and Fetish work?
Kissy Kapri, who’s natural 32D’s contain just two of her five piercings, also has a tattoo on her lower back. Her entry into porn wasn’t entirely unpredictable then. Girls with back tattoos and MySpace pages like this are really giving off all the signs.
If you’d like to rent book her for some fucking work then click here for more explicit photos and her pimps number contact info.
Cuddleslut (real name? Leave your thoughts in the comments) has recently let me know she’s re-launched her blog, which was Cuddlesluts Den, with fewer words and more T&A as ‘Inside the Boudoir’. This is almost certainly a good thing.
She says ‘The Boudoir’ not ‘My Boudoir’ which makes me wonder if I’ve been missing out on some kind of mothership Boudoir and she’s the first person to tell me about it.
Love porn and like mediocre buffet food? Turned on by fake-tan and sequins? Ready to spend $240 on a ticket? Yes? You can now invest in tickets for this year’s AVN awards show.
Have fun predicting the winners based on the number of advertising pages bought in the past year’s AVN magazine. Wonder at the Jabba/Gorgon looks of the average porn magazine editor. Enjoy the wit and wisdom of host Jessica Drake as she makes in-references which make sense only to porn-hounds and bloggers. You’ll have the time of your life.
I might not be there (they might not let me in after this), but to be fair, this year may be different. If the Playboy deal’s been announced perhaps Hef’ll make an appearance and bring that layer of Octogenarian charm only he can. Even though that’d mark a serious turn-around from a guy who maintains Playboy’s not porn. Won’t stop them shooting the show for Playboy TV of course…
Let’s hope they redesign the gongs to look less like Belladonna’s tattoo. Or glass bricks. I suggest a remote control with a single massive ‘Fast Forward’ button. Am I jaded?
Otherwise expect a no-name rap/rock musical interlude, a comic who thinks ‘CUNT!’ is a universally applicable punchline and people who look like their photoshopped-boxshot versions parents. Good times.
Just over a year ago I published the first informal porn-site cross post, then titled the bloggasm, at this very blog. Since then following a name-change, an unscheduled hiatus, a handover to a pair of glamorous and capable assistants, and another forty-nine posts we’ve now reached Sugasm #50 which will publish this week.
Things have grown from a start with just six links to over 60 in #50. The blog now has a few hundred subscribers and getting featured as an ‘Editor’s Choice’ can provide the kind of attention normally reserved for Lindsey Lohan’s genitals on a gossip blog.
I’m sure you read Wired. It’s not as cool as it used to be and those articles about diving and spelunking aren’t really necessary, but lack of credible competition mean it’s still essential reading for the digeratti. Sorry about using the ‘d’ word, but it was either call you ‘geeks with money’ and I know you hate that.
You can afford to subscribe but I’m cheap smart enough to wait for the articles to appear free online so I’ve only recently read Kevin Poulsen’s article recounting his work to prove to MySpace that doing a better job of securing their system against pedophiles only took a thousand lines of PERL. He did what MySpace siad wasn’t possible, wrote code which compared their profiles to public ‘Megan’s Law’ databases in 46 states and found a number of registered sex-offenders using the system to contact minors.
Google has a similar problem. You’ve built the best tool yet devised for aggregating web content which has made you the biggest repository of free pornography on earth and anyone who uses Google to find erotic material knows how easy it is to find images which claim or appear to be child abuse.
Currently there’s nothing we can do, contacting the police about a single questionable link is difficult and time-consuming and will likely have us added to the weirdo list at the local cop-shop. I’ve reported child porn to the FBI but that also mean I’ve owned computers with those stumbled upon images in their cache somewhere. Many people are so scared of being falsely accused they’re scared to even admit they’ve accidentally seen questionable material. What’s needed is a way to anonymously raise a flag.
In a day a team of your brightest you could provide a ‘Report this link’ tag beside every search result you provide. The tool the public needs to collaboratively point at areas of the web which deserve a more thorough investigation. Looking only at the most reported items should provide the police with a rich vein of leads to stupid criminals who have sown the seeds of their own destruction in public. It doesn’t have to be perfect and it doesn’t have to be foolproof. If even one pedophile who’s publishing images of abuse to the web is caught the effort has been worthwhile.
One report from one person won’t mean much, but if fifty people report suspect images which all link to sites on the same server we might be able to do some of the donkeywork the police simply don’t have time for. Giving them the time to prosecute criminals instead of devising ways to find them.
Of course there’s no money in this idea, even I can’t imagine who might want to advertise beside a form for reporting kiddy-fiddlers (and by kiddy fiddlers I don’t mean the Irish Children’s Violin Orchestra) but aren’t you the ‘Don’t be evil’ guys? You can set a precedent for corporate responsibility online and make every user of your site a voluntary contributor to a global effort to stop commercial child abuse. If you work out a way to tie it into Adsense kudos - you’re better than I thought.
Waiting for your call - I’m expensive but worth every penny,
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