Kimberly Kane courtesy of Pornsaints.

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In Which Penny Enjoys Her Bath
“In the bathroom, I flipped on the heater and shed my clothes.”

Just passing through
“I twitched under her stare.”

Kegal exercises on wet Monday afternoon
“Do you know what it’s like, to be buggered?”

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More Traveling…

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All-Nekkid Thursday courtesy of Tara Tainton.

The best of this week’s sex-blogs by the bloggers who blog them.

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Filling Myself
“We too want, need, conversations in which someone listens to us and considers our needs, not just their own.”

Sex Worker Solidarity: Amanda Brooks
“There’s a lot of love among activists, even those who disagree with one another.”

Need
“These images that come from the artistic workings of your inner soul speak to me, as mine do to you.”

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10 Lies Pornographers Tell

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Though We’ve Never Met

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Vanessa courtesy of Badgirl’s Hotbox.

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Up Your Bum

“Now, every mainstream porn film seems to include anal sex as part of the sequence”

A Moment Captured
“Right now I am looking out down at the street from my window and my fingers have found their way to my soft wet labia.”

Things Every Man Should Own/Know/Hear
“You can also give the controller to her, or use it yourself, and play with the power of the vibrations.”

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The New York Times’ Best Porn Articles

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Feminist Carnival of Sexual Freedom and Autonomy #1

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Peaches courtesy of Badgirl’s Hotbox.

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My life as a Female

“His reply was instant: “You are a man”.”

Crisp
“I found my eyes unable to leave the curves of her ass, everything else out of focus.”

Ripping yourself a new one
“What’s the most ludicrous porn scene you ever saw?”

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How to Choose an Affiliate Program

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Cream and Sugar

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Sub lyn courtesy of Long-Distance Sub.

The best of this week’s blogs by the bloggers who blog them. Highlighting the top 3 posts as chosen by Sugasm participants. Want in Sugasm #129? Submit a link to your best post of the week using this form. Participants, repost the link list within a week and you’re all set.

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Fellatrices: C-u-n-n-i-l-i-n-g-u-s
“Yep, sounds like the boyfriend needs a lesson,” she affirmed. “You just need to show him where to lick.”

In Plain Sight
“She was laughing flirtatiously and he had a look of a cat that’s about to get the cream.”

Succor.
“The act of suspension removed me from my ego and placed me at the still point.”

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Ten Things to Thank Porn For

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Half-Nekkid Thursday: My Hustler Debut

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When you’re done browsing porn posters on Flickr–I know you–enjoy the refreshing visual lime of this vintage Soviet erotica.

I don’t know if this stuff was underground, produced in limited quantities for party officials, or held up as a proud example of soviet sexual technology. It was certainly well shot. Any Russian readers care to elucidate?

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New York Magazine’s current article-visment on foot-health and shoes contains (un?)intentional foot-fetish porn so hot that even I, who’s never put a toe in his mouth, recognize its potency.

Make-up artists don’t always deserve the appellation. John Maurad and Jenai Chin do.

Drink. It. In.

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“KINSHASA (Reuters) - Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men’s penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.”

I’ve posted a photo of my proposed solution to the shrinkage issue.

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Abby Winters is run by some smart people. They’ve worked out it’s easier to sell adult entertainment if you preserve the illusion the performers work for fun and not money. At this years AVN they got more attention with women in white panties making out than most companies did coordinating lines of fans desperate to meet a bored porn-star. They have a story (everything’s shot by women) which plays to the semi-true assumption most guys on porn sets are creeps.

That said, their new site design is fantastically horrible.

I’ve designed big adult websites myself and what Abby Winters have put in place hasn’t been state-of-the-art for almost a decade. Here’s why:

5. Good design is about how it works, not how it looks
When talking about design it’s easy to get distracted by colors, rounded corners, typefaces and buttons. A web design is working when it’s transparent. I.e. you notice it less than the material it’s tying to promote.

When you look at a webpage and your first impression is its color and the second is ‘which of this stuff is clickable and what’s just decoration?’ there’s something seriously wrong.

4. ‘Free Tour’ is a pointless cliche
Everyone knows ‘Free Tour’ is a mealy-mouthed way of saying ‘sales pitch’ and it’s not going to prompt contented grunting from anyone visiting your site. The prospect of going on a ‘tour’ which consists of five pages of old photos covered in ‘Join Now’ links besides breathless exhortations to open your wallet is not alluring. Think like a user and stop it. Now.

3. No-one cares about adult industry awards
However proud you are of the industry awards you’ve received, anything less than an Oscar (including a Palm d’Or) means nothing to most users. If you want to show people you’re legitimate quote good reviews from blogs and websites people can visit. Most people have no knowledge of the Australian Adult Industry awards and are wise enough not to care.

2. Static pages only work once
In 2008 when blogs and database driven sites are less exotic than Hilary Clinton’s family tree, Abby Winters is running static pages to greet visitors. Why? Once you’ve seen and rejected them there’s no reason to return. With no RSS feed delivering new content it’s not even worth bookmarking the page.

1. Show, don’t tell
Making a site devoted to selling content is a lot harder than just showing people what you’re trying to sell and letting them decide to buy it. When you have an affiliate program which gives away masses of freebies to anyone who can be bothered to fill in a form there’s really no reason to hold back. Where’s the beef Abby? (and I know you don’t shoot guys).

The New York Times took a look at the ‘boom’ in nude recreation today. Apparently the action’s at the high-end of the market, though $300 a night seems pretty cheap to me.

Favorite quote?

“It’s no longer just a grass-roots, nuts-and-sweets kind of thing…”

The photos are notable for the effort which has gone into making the nude pictures, not.

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