Before porn hit the mainstream in the late sixties people in search of their jollies had three choices.
Illegal underground hardcore
Pseudo ‘educational’ sex-ed films
Exploitation movies
While most educational films got away with including sexy content by telling you how bad it was to have a sex drive, exploitation movies just reveled in their own low budget craptitude and got on with pushing the boundaries of acceptability - considerably more fun. (Those boundaries were pretty tame, Betty Page was making ‘porn’ at the time and barely got past taking her top off.)
The Wild Women of Wongo’s about two islands, one of which contains a bunch of hot women, the other a group of men with conveniently ugly wives. Clearly, someone’s going to get wet.
Betty Page was making ‘porn’ at the time and barely got past taking her top off.
Apple is selling music without DRM via iTunes and Danni.com - one of the bigger adult websites online - has quietly removed DRM from the videos in its members section.
The effects of this could be significant. The adult market is notoriously fond of trends and will follow Danni.com’s lead as soon as enough time has passed to be sure it’s profitable.
It will be.
The DRM fantasy is that DRM prevents content from being copied and distributed without authorization. An argument slightly less convincing than a speech by Paris Hilton at a ‘True Love Waits’ event if you’ve ever visited a file sharing site. If DRM was transparent and unrestrictive it would be a curiosity, but in practice is stops users for enjoying what they buy. For example, I buy DRM’d magazines online and have great difficulty moving them between my various computers. If I was trying to pirate the content I could do so by taking screengrabs and then compiling them into PDF’s. Obviously I’m not going to spend the time doing that for my own convenience but a pirate will. Thus the DRM effectively restricts paying customers like me, and does nothing to dissuade copyright abusers.
Windows Media DRM, the flavor Danni.com and the rest of the jizz bizz most often use, is clunky and almost impossible to work with on a Mac, so while adopting it gave Danni.com a false sense of security, it cost them the thousands of members who canceled due to problems viewing video. The decision to remove DRM means Danni.com will lose fewer subscribers and that’s money straight to the bottom line. That’s why whatever happens with their free to copy content, they’ll still be richer without DRM than with it.
Danni.com’s lead will cause most of the other large adult sites who’ve made DRM part of their offering reconsider how much they’re prepared to spend on security measures which only foil the least capable downloaders. I suspect it won’t be much.
I’m running out of ways to insult Joe Francis. Kicking someone when their down is obviously no problem but this guys operating at Corky like levels of retardation and it’s beginning to seem unfair.
Amazingly, a guy who’s made his fortune drugging teenagers into making an inebriated porn debut is going to go down over taxes.
Everyone in porn knows the law offers them no protection other than the first amendment; you only know your porn is legal when you’ve been challenged in court which is a costly proposition for winners and losers alike. Thankfully groups like the ACLU will step up to protect the scummiest content if its continued existence is a free-speech issue. You’ll probably win your porn defense but you better make sure the rest of your house is in order.
Which is why everyone I know in porn considers paying their taxes on-time, as conservatively as is reasonable, the baseline for staying out of jail. When you cheat on your taxes there’s no sympathy (Willie Nelson excluded - that hippy’s got friends in high places), you will go to jail because taxes are the governments money and the feds will come down on you harder than a third street pimp if you don’t have their mother-fucking-money, you dig?
Francis has been cheating on his taxes, which is a gift to anyone who hates what he does because convicting him for tax evasion is a thousand times easier than shutting down his operation on the grounds of decency. Smuggling drugs into jail and trying to bribe guards only makes him the kind of genius who doesn’t realize you can break the law behind bars just as easily as you can in the back of your RV with a naked fifteen year old.
Joe ‘I’ll pay you not to fuck me in prision’ Francis is no ones hero but it’s sad to see such a high-profile smut peddler giving the Max Hardcores and Rob Blacks of the world a bad name. Stupidity’s unforgivable.
(I’ve got nothing against this guy. He must be pissed… Nice hair!)
Until last week UK drinkers who’d tired of peeling the label off their beer could scratch the plastic clothes off an eighties style pin-up on each bottle of Rubbel’s ‘Sexy Pils’.
Now the beer’s been pulled from shelves as UK law prevents alcohol manufacturers from equating their product with sexual success; Rubbels label maidens (I’m being generous) were a breast too far.
“…the Portman Group - the drinks industry watchdog, formed by the UK’s leading drinks producers - has blocked the sales of this lager under its current name and packaging.”
“David Poley, chief executive of The Portman Group, said: ‘Drinking excessively can affect people’s judgement and behaviour leading to them engaging in sexual activity which they later regret. Our Code disallows drinks marketing being linked to sexual success. The industry has set itself strict marketing rules and this drink has fallen short of those high standards.’”
He lost me at “sexual activity which they may regret later.” What on earth is he talking about?
Our very own Furry Girl, “America’s favorite hirsute hotty”, has landed a guest spot on Playboy Radio’s ‘Night Calls‘ this Friday 20th at 5:00 p.m. Pacific.
The show’s going to be a celebration of ‘Earth Day’ and focus on bringing green into the bedroom. I suspect there’ll also be a lot of questions regarding Furry’s fuzz, interest in menstrual sex and well documented tubal ligation.
I know what you’re thinking, totally wankable.
Furry’s not the first person you think of sitting down to bond with Christy Canyon and Ginger Lynn (who must both be still alive!?). Ironically they’re old enough to remember when the women in porn had pubes. Maybe they’ll find out where Kyla Cole’s gone and use her to spearhead a ‘Reasonable Pubes’ movement. Sign me up.
Jenna Jameson, who currently looks like Napoleon Dynamite dressed as Skeletor with tits, has decided to stop ignoring the increasingly obvious crisis of her physical condition and says she’s trying to gain weight.
“I got pretty skinny for a little bit. My lightest was about 92 pounds. I ate today!” Then on her way home, one of Jenna’s friends handed her a corndog, to which she announced, “I love hot dogs on a stick. So fucking sexy!”
(The accompanying picture shows Jenna about to take a bite out of her imaginary corndog. She spent the next half hour trying to puke it back up.)
That puts Jenna, sans implants, under 90lbs.
She sounds like a parent junkie who tells you they’re trying to kick the smack. Just ‘deciding’ to gain more weight almost certainly won’t do it. She can afford to get treatment and I hope she does. Eating disorders and drug addictions kill people.
He won’t even get you a shrimp plate from ‘Long John Silvers’ that costs… what? $2.99, but he’ll give you a mouth full of sperm, a rectum full of sperm…
Country fans will recognize the tune as ‘Jesus take the wheel’ which always sounded like a good idea to me. If you believe he’s up there let him drive and let’s settle this “God” debate once and for all.
‘Original Cast’ have paired a catchy, idiotic, song with a video in which all the instruments have been replaced with naked women painted as the instruments they’re replacing.
You might want to read that again.
The level of objectification (the women are never acknowledged as humans) makes most porn look pretty enlightened but once you’ve accepted these women would make any music which doesn’t sound like bacon dropped on tile, it’s a pretty amusing concept.
Taking a more subtle approach with less flesh and more direct language is “Hot Country Singer” who parodies those country songs which assert anyone who doesn’t like them is a communist child killer. Cunts Country fans will recognize the tune as ‘Jesus take the wheel’ which always sounded like a good idea to me. If you believe he’s up there let him drive and let’s settle this “God” debate once and for all.
The ‘Hot Country Singer’ misses our soldiers so much she wants to bang them and the song goes into useful detail about how, where and how hard. As you might guess from the ‘Daisy Dukes’ she’s partial to taking it in the loading bay.
If that’s hurt your head I suggest you cleanse your palette with Sophie Ellis-Bextor who has the best legs in pop, cheekbones you could cut yourself on and cavorts in the kind of dress women under 5′10″ shouldn’t wear. I’m talking to you Dita.
Sophie looks like the kind of pinup they used to paint on the front of planes and the video’s mixture of innocence and total awareness of her sexuality makes me want to paint her on the front of my plane.
(NB. By plane I mean ‘penis’, and by paint I mean ‘ask her to sit on’.)
“any domain whose name, content or advertising is lewd, graphic, or profane,”
Google have given adult webmasters until May 31st to remove such domains from the program.
Adsense for Domains has many fans in porn. Despite Google veiling the percentage of profits passed to sites promoting their advertisers, they provide better targeting, more honest reporting, and bigger checks than thousands of corrupt adult affiliate programs who seem to promise more.
The downside to Google’s efficiency has been their tacit promotion of domain speculation. Buying domains is cheap and placing ads on them costs nothing, allowing speculators to buy thousands of URI’s, fill them with ads and then sell the ones which don’t meet profit targets. It’s keeps good domains out of the hands of people trying to build sites and floods the web with advertising circle-jerks which encompass some of the most potent domains and sullies the reputation of digital pornographers. It’s a problem in the mainstream too.
Google’s decision won’t impact the speculators for long, but will likely result in similar bans at smaller ad networks and for ad types beyond those focused on domains. The days of porn sites being able to participate in mass-market advertising programs may be drawing to a close.
Putting aside the argument that when the T-Shirts are tight enough RocketBoom is porn, there can be few viewers of that stalwart podcast who haven’t wished to see its porn doppleganger, preferably with the same crew, humor and production values.
Well stop crying because ‘Daily Tang‘ is here and its… well… it’s rougher.
Presented by Veronika Raquel the show’s now been webcasting long enough to get a measure of its style, and it’s mix of production slick, lukewarm news and cornball humor make it exactly like ‘Entertainment Tonight’ and ‘Access Hollywood’ not the ‘Charlie “Brown” Rose’ show we might have wished for. With a guy who used to work at Fox in the driving seat that’s not altogether surprising.
It is a major step. There’s clearly money behind an effort like this, fueled by a belief that in the age of Fleshbot sex is interesting enough to be considered entertainment outside the bedroom as well as within it.
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