The book “Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters” by Satoshi Kanazawa and Alan Miller is all over the tubes right now. Specifically that:
Until very recently, it was a mystery to evolutionary psychology why men prefer women with large breasts, since the size of a woman’s breasts has no relationship to her ability to lactate. But Harvard anthropologist Frank Marlowe contends that larger, and hence heavier, breasts sag more conspicuously with age than do smaller breasts. Thus they make it easier for men to judge a woman’s age (and her reproductive value) by sight—suggesting why men find women with large breasts more attractive.
I would think that, even during the Stone Age, if a man had to resort to judging a woman’s age by the relative sag of her breasts instead of a number of other signifiers, he probably wasn’t the kind of fellow who was going to successfully reproduce anyway.
I think it’s more likely to be:
Breasts identify women as a group making bigger breasts hyper-female. As evolutionary successful men favor women in general, the more exaggerated female traits are the more attractive their possessor seems.
Large breasts give easier visual clues to child-rearing than small ones. If men favor women who haven’t already reared children this is easier to see on breasts more likely to sag and/or wrinkle. I.e. Age is less important than history.
Besides if breasts are a clue to age and men are more attracted to more fertile (i.e. younger) women, the ideal breasts would be small and pert which indicate sexual maturity and youth simultaneously. The research says most men go for bigger though.
The most famous sexy poster of all time has just been reissued for, and this is not a typo, $300.
The new version is printed on canvas (because photos + fabric = art) and is a limited edition of 1,850 signed by Martin Elliot, the photographer behind the 1976 original. I remember seeing this growing up but was too young to know what the fuss was about. When you’re a kid this is just a picture of a woman walking away.
To put a couple of urban myths to bed, no it’s not a man and yes, she was his girlfriend.
The best of this week’s blogs by the bloggers who blog them. Highlighting the top 3 posts as chosen by Sugasm participants.
This Week’s Picks Kinky To Vanilla
“Now, each time we play with others, it’s a gift that further cements our closeness and shows us the value of our love.”
One For The Guys
“Get into the habit of building your sexual pleasure and indulging in it fully.”
When A Client Dies-Part 2
“As I drank my morning coffee I googled his name and “obit”. Up popped his obituary.”
The ‘pull-quotes’ in this template make scanning posts easier by drawing attention to pertinant pieces of text, just as magazines do.
Long-time SugarBank readers will know I have a tendency to redesign every time the temperature changes by three or more degrees. Most of what I’ve done thus far has been a mixture of learning from past mistakes and wild experimentation fueled by ad deals, boredom and exposure to some of the jaw-droppingly nice layouts other people have coaxed from Wordpress. This redesign goes deeper though and has a few new features so I’d I’ll talk you though it.
Feed-readers who think websites are too 20th century to care about - normal service will resume shortly.
So here’s a brief summary of the changes and improvements:
To encourage feedback the top 10 commenters over the last few months are now listed on every page.
You get to see your name (fun!) and if you have a site/blog your name is linked and you can use that list to get traffic from SugarBank. I figure the people who read the site will have read a lot of your comments and probably want to know who the hell you are.
The rankings will change over time. Right now the rankings go back six months, I may change that if it doesn’t seem right, gets boring or causes a shift in space-time continuity.
User editable comments
No more will you have to re-post corrections or feel dumb for making a mistake. Click on the box over your comment to launch an AJAX editing box you can use to put sense into your nonsense.
I’ve also added captions to images. So there.
I’ve limited the correction time to 15 minutes so conversations aren’t revised in ways that make later entries seem nonsensical. (plugin)
Related Posts
Lists of related posts beneath each entry makes finding similar posts easier. I don’t need an image for this, just scroll down.
Last modified dates
The ‘Last modified’ date will show on any post I’ve touched since publication. It makes spotting my revisionist history changes easy, useful if you’re coming back to comment as I might have made a correction, acknowledged a comment or removed an error since you read the original. You can see it workinghere, just beside the publish date at the top left of the page beneath the title.
An index
I’ve indexed SugarBank by name and tag, an idea I stole from the ‘Wall Street Journal’. You can quickly find every post which mentions an individual, vanity search for kicks, or view posts using any of the top 200 keywords in use.
Improved search
Searches now (finally!) return the number of results found, and include links to related searches. For example this search for ‘sexy video‘. Unlike the old site, the search box (top right of the page) works on every page. It should have before but… it just didn’t. Sorry. Fixed.
Post summaries
Post summaries condense the core of each post into a single sentence which makes skimming posts easier and adds richness to search results and other post listings. The summaries are always presented in italics below the main post title. See the top of this page, or the column of recent posts below and to the left for examples.
Faster page loads
Thanks to a one-full post per page limit you no longer have to load megabytes of redundant information. To keep the site easy to skim, 15 posts are presented on each page but only one in full, the others as title and summary only. As a bonus, larger images, the cause of the last design’s geologically slow load times, are now all shown in full. This design accommodates wide, tall and very large images with equal aplomb.
Bigger, better video
I’m now hosting all the video I can to prevent posts ‘rotting’ when clips are removed from other sites (like YouTube, bastards). I’m taking the opportunity to offer clips at larger sizes and in better quality than is common elsewhere because that’s what I’d like to see on the blogs I read. It’s expensive and time consuming but worth it. Check this out for an example:
Improved typography
Everything here should be easier to read than before. Post bodies have been shrunk into a column format aimed at optimizing line-lengths for legibility and I spent a lot of time thinking about colors, spacing and fonts too. It’s hard to make screen-text pretty, but this should be legible.
Better advertising
More of each page is given to content but more prominent ads are displayed on older posts. This should encourage people to link here - many of whom are put off by visible ads - and reward regular visitors by making their reading almost ad free. As most people are visiting old posts it shouldn’t hit income much at all (he said confidently).
This redesign has forced me to go through every post since the start of the blog to tweak, add fields and fix typos. It was educational, I have a clear idea of how the blogs evolved and what I’d like to do more and less of. As for design and layout changes, I doubt they’re over - this is a fundamental change I’m sure there’ll be more to do, but I can say the blog has never looked or read better. If you’ve been here a while thanks for your kindness, I can’t believe how many typos there were (are).
Let me know what you think. I’ll be back on Monday - I’m going to Paris for the weekend.
The ‘Copyranter‘ today posted that American Apparel appear to be out of ‘racy’ ideas in their new ad. I presume he has little understanding of the fetish world and doesn’t realize how many people think nylons over buns are as hot to look at as they are to jog in.
Kink.com’s explicit blooper reel provides proof even we-are-serious-lifestyle-fetish people smile when they fuck-up. It all goes on too long and the presenter is an unnecessary, unfunny addition who you’ll struggle to sit through before getting to the good stuff, but it’s high-resolution, X-rated and free so go easy on the complaining.
N.B. Female ejaculation fans, there’s an impromptu gush in here for you. Either be maddened by the young lady’s embarrassment - she runs off camera when she does it - or wonder what she’s so worried about.
Electro-genitorture in front of the Statue of Liberty. Oh the irony…
Unlike HBO they don’t shy away from penetration, yoghurt-shots or needle-play.
If you’re at all kinky you probably know about Kink.com and their raft of fetish sites but you may not realize that one of their paysites, Behind Kink, stopped charging for memberships back in March. I only realized myself when putting together this post on BDSM bloopers.
It’s a smart move, Behind Kink is filled with HBO style fuckumentaries designed to sell other Kink.com products. You shouldn’t pay for advertising even when, unlike HBO, Behind Kink doesn’t shy away from penetration, yoghurt-shots or needle-play. Their videos average 15 minutes plus and are available at better than DVD resolution (about 800px across), that’s better quality than the majority of paysites, and for porn production values are high (and by high I mean recognizable).
For some reason they require you to register before viewing, but as they only demand an email address keeping your checking account full enough to fund another Nigerian investment opportunity is easy. This is the best wank try before you buy opportunity I’ve seen in ages. Especially as you don’t have to buy.
Cyber-sex is safe, fun, and so easy even a child can do it…
Herb Zipper is not new but damn is he funny. I hadn’t seen this clip until Slashdong gave me the heads up so I’m guessing I’m not the only one too square to have caught this fresh (not you - you’re one of the hip kids). I could just pretend I’m revisiting a ‘classic’ but I don’t want to do that too often in case you guys catch on.
For anyone who doesn’t know what I look like, this is pretty much spot-on. Now where’s my martini…
“She performs astounding acts and swirls her perfect ass in circles, like the tassles on her tits.”
Nylon Whispers
“I run my fingers along every bit of my nylon covered flesh”
No Timeless Beauty To Conform To
“While fashions themselves come and go, so do the standards of beauty rise and fall like the heaving breasts of an excited woman.”
In 350 bi-annually published pages ‘S Magazine’ mixes models, fashion photographers and high production values to create a large slab of coffee-table porn which relies on the quality of its photos, not overblown articles or self-censorship, to justify its existence.
One of the joys of being in Europe an environment where nudity and sex and deviance are all still seen as separate things. It allows us to mix nudity, sex and deviance without any of the guilt or annoying “Check us out and how groovy we are!” vibes of the militant pro-sex crowd (we get it - calm down).
S Magazine, the ‘Play’ issue
In 350 bi-annually published pages ‘S Magazine‘ mixes models, fashion photographers and high production values to create a large slab of coffee-table porn which relies on the quality of its photos, not overblown articles or self-censorship, to justify its existence. Hard to find but worth it.
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