Girls Are Crazy
[via Danielle Greco]
The student-run paper of my alma mater, UC Berkeley, has a column about why you should pay for porn. The author's argument? Her friend works in porn and wants to get paid for her work.
Electra is a sweet, slightly nerdy Northwestern undergraduate student majoring in linguistics and physics, as well as a hopeful UC Berkeley transfer student. To her, working in porn is โsomething between performance and a really tedious office job.โ While the cameras are rolling, she plays up any pain or pleasure, and most of the time, sheโs already on the edge of her boundaries. At the same time, she keeps a mental tally of just how many minutes are left in the scene, how many spankings or shocks are left to go (she mostly works in bondage-themed porn), and how damn uncomfortable the hard floor feels on her knees.
I'm tuned in to day seven of Hulk Hogan vs Gawker Media, livestreamed on Gawker, of course. Currently, publisher Nick Denton is on the stand. Denton just opined of the sex tape post: "I believe it stands up to the test of time."
The NYT has a terrifying story on spiders and sexual cannibalism.
To wit:
The females may gobble up the male before, during or after mating, so males have evolved various ways to cheat death. In some species, they wait until the female is busy eating and rush in to copulate while her attention is elsewhere. In other species, they even bring an edible gift to distract their intended.
Male nursery web spiders have evolved a different kind of defense. They tie up the female before copulation, immobilizing her legs by wrapping them in strong spider silk so they can copulate and escape with their lives before the female gets free.
[NYT]
Monday Typornography. Avant Garde #8 (1969) pic.twitter.com/U5JH5Ij43b
โ Friends of Type (@friendsoftype) March 14, 2016
Alec Baldwin's wife is really into yoga.
I spent some time this morning watching a live feed of the Hulk Hogan vs Gawker Media sex tape trial of the moment. According to Reuters, one of the highlights was a debate over whether or not "Mr Bollea's penis had" any "news value." Watching the editor who wrote the post get sweated on the stand mostly made me just feel bad. Like, OMGSEX. On the one hand, I feel bad for the Hulk. On the other hand, the prosecution makes you feel like sexual curiosity is the most pathological thing possible. People are curious about others' sex lives. This is human nature. I keep flipflopping on who I think will win. Ideologically, I'm with Gawker, but they're not doing themselves any favors in the deposition department. I'm curious to see how this ends.
Apparently, a rugby player nearly lost his manhood in a tackle.
โThereโs a photo of me screaming in pain, and I finished out the half. The pain was alright and then at half-time I was like, Iโve got to have a look. I checked on it and the skin is half ripped off and I was like, โShit, whereโs the doctor? Whereโs the doctor?โ
โThey had to go and get the UTC doctor and he came in and checked it out and he was like, โOh man, youโre going to have to go and get stitches,โ so I had to go to the clinic that night and they had to put 11 stitches around it to put the skin back together.
โI showed all the boys and they were pissing themselves laughing. In all of my career Iโve never heard of anyone having anything like that happen โ 11 stitches in the dick."
This girl makes these jackets.
There's a mildly interesting NYT article about "The Facebook Breakup." And the company's Compassion Team. And what it's like to have your relationship denouement played out live online.
โItโs not to say that Facebook shouldnโt make it easy to click that button to avoid certain painful memories,โ she said. โBut the reason weโre looking through those old love letters is weโre trying to work through our past. I think we just have to acknowledge the humanness of that process and be compassionate with ourselves. Life is supposed to be complicated.โ
[NYT]
If you haven't seen Gaspar Noe's "Love," please do. I watched it on Netflix, I think. Not in 3D, unfortunately, which means I missed the extra impact of that shot where the guy moneys at the camera, but one does what one can. Sure, some uptight assholes thought it was gross, meaningless, and perverted, but they say that like it's a bad thing. I found it to be beautiful, brave, and unblinking. It's about a guy and two girls, and there's lots of sex. What's not to like?
Isolated Clothing | Optomistic Clothing | Samantha McEwen https://t.co/8Ze57VfO3o pic.twitter.com/XRswdRsO0N
โ Riley Dog (@roo370) March 14, 2016
An image from the "Caged Heat" editorial that Steven Klein shot for Interview magazine.
Retired porn star Jenna Jameson got a dog.
The New Yorker has a semi-intriguing profile of Mexican actress Kate del Castillo's involvement in the whole Sean Penn-Rolling Stone-El Chapo saga. Now that Mr. Chapo is back in the pokey, del Castillo claims to be bizarrely unaware that Penn was doing a profile on him, despite her personal involvement in their meeting.
The piece includes some love-ish texts that The Chapo sent del Castillo.
"Amiga, if you'll bring the wine, I'll also drink yours. . . . I'm not a drinker, but your presence will be a lovely thing and I very much want to get to know you and become very good friends. You are the best in this world. . . . I will take care of you more than I do my own eyes."
Or something like it. After several aborted attempts to refocus this blog, I'm trying here again. This time around, I'm taking another pass at sex blogging. We'll see how that goes. Thanks for your patience.