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I also read that “Max Hardcore” got shut down. this is the guy who does all of those gag-on-my-cock-until-you-puke, slightly creepy daddy/daughter roleplays, and generally awful hardcore porn. Apparently, his work was too obscene for the judges. This charge of obscenity was largely based on the fact that his actresses are often dressed like underage girls, although the actual ages of the actresses were legal, and 2257-compliant. So, it’s all based on the fantasy. I did some research on his work and I honestly feel like there is no WAY these actresses look under 18. They definatly look like adults. Plastic bracelets and fake ponytails do not make you a little girl. I will also point out that although I think it’s a little unconstitutional to shut him down for what he’s doing… I’m actually quite glad he’s done making work like this. I’m on the fence about it because  the legal precidence it implies (i.e. What other fantastical portrayals/sexual role-plays are illegal? BDSM? Furry Sex? Gay Sex?) but I am also kind of glad that this guy wont be making any more gag films.

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Suicide Girls and the SG model Apnea (well, actually, the man behind her never-launched site “Lithium Picnic”) have settled thier lawsuit in favor of Suicide Girls. Or maybe, they just gave up fighting. The website now says “We want to make it clear that we 100% have no hostilities towards SuicideGirls in anyway anymore, we all came to a really fair agreement over this dispute, and there were no bad people here, just mistakes and misunderstandings. If you’ve boycotted SG on our behalf, you helped us come to this agreement, so thank you but the battle is over, and we’re all friends again.”

 The wierdest part of this story to me is the second paragraph, where they actually send you to Suicide Girls with a promotional affiliates code. How did SG win free advertising in this lawsuit?!?!?!?

While the bill’s supporters compared it to such past civil-rights victories as the effort to end slavery, opponents repeatedly brought up the vote five years ago to approve Proposition 22, which prohibits California from recognizing same-sex marriages performed in other states or countries.

Vermont began offering civil unions in 2000 and Massachusetts’ highest court ruled in 2003 that the state constitution guarantees same-sex couples the right to marry, paving the way for the country’s first state-sanctioned, same-sex weddings, which began taking place in May 2004.

TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) — A woman convicted two weeks ago of running a Washington call-girl ring that catered to the capital’s power elite was found dead here Thursday, and the authorities said she had apparently hanged herself.

The body of the woman, Deborah Jeane Palfrey, 52, was found in a shed at her mother’s home here about 20 miles northwest of Tampa. The police said Ms. Palfrey had left a notebook containing at least two suicide notes and other messages to her family, but they did not give additional details.

Ms. Palfrey, who had quickly become known as the D.C. Madam when the case against her began unfolding, apparently hanged herself from the shed’s ceiling with nylon rope, the police said. Her mother, Blanche Palfrey, discovered the body.

Blanche Palfrey had no sign that her daughter was suicidal, and there was no immediate indication that alcohol or drugs were involved, Capt. Jeffrey Young of the Tarpon Springs Police Department said.

A man who answered a phone listed for the elder Ms. Palfrey declined to comment.

Preston Burton, a lawyer who represented Deborah Jeane Palfrey at her trial, said, “This is tragic news, and my heart goes out to her mother.”

A federal jury in Washington found Ms. Palfrey guilty on April 15 of running a prostitution service that catered to powerful figures including Senator David Vitter, Republican of Louisiana. She was convicted of money laundering, using the mail for illegal purposes and racketeering.

Ms. Palfrey had denied that her escort service had been involved in prostitution, saying that if any of the women had engaged in sexual acts for money, they had done so without her knowledge.

In the aftermath of her conviction, she remained free while awaiting sentencing on July 24. Under sentencing guidelines, she faced about five or six years in prison, Channing Phillips, the spokesman for the United States attorney in the District of Columbia, said Thursday.

But Ms. Palfrey had vowed that she would never go to prison. When she disclosed telephone records last year that revealed the identity of some of her clients, she told ABC: “I’m sure as heck not going to be going to federal prison for one day, let alone four to eight years, because I’m shy about bringing in the deputy secretary of whatever. Not for a second. I’ll bring every last one of them in if necessary.”

Despite that threat, Ms. Palfrey’s trial concluded without the testimony of either Mr. Vitter or another particularly prominent client, Randall L. Tobias. Mr. Tobias resigned as a senior State Department official last year after he had been linked to the escort service, though he said he had used it only for massages. Mr. Vitter, who is married and has four children, remains a first-term member of the Senate.

Dan Moldea, a Washington writer who befriended Ms. Palfrey while considering writing a book about her, said she had been cautiously optimistic about her trial.

After the conviction, however, Mr. Moldea sent her two messages but did not hear back, he said.

After hearing of her death Thursday, he recalled a conversation over dinner last year when the subject of prison came up.

“I will commit suicide first,” he remembered her saying.

One of the escort service’s employees was Brandy Britton, a former professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, who was arrested on prostitution charges in 2006. Ms. Britton committed suicide in January before she could go to trial.

(from the associated press)

 Either way, the new anthology, “Working Sex” is sure to be part of the movement, wherever it may be moving. 

The anthology is a collection of writings by a wide variety of sex workers, and each piece is very different from the rest in experience, perception, and narrative.  it includes writing from Amber Dawn, Bruce La Bruce, Michelle Tea, Eileen Myles, Emi Koyama, Nomy Lamm, Kirk Read, Jennifer Blowdryer, Ana Voog, Vaginal Davis, and so many more.  they are pornographers, escorts, peepshow performers, fetish workers, etc as well as artists, activists, and dare I say *exceptionally* good writers.

 ”Working Sex” was edited by Annie Oakley, the creator and director of the 10-years-running Sex Worker’s Art Show, a cabaret set out to showcase the creative geniuses, political activists, and sexy superstars of the sex-working community.

Here’s a quick quote from Annie Oakley’s incredible indtroduction:

“How would we represent ourselves if given the opportunity? In ten years of working in the business and meeting other whores, the one thing that’s become apparent is that none of us can agree on a take on any aspect of the work….

Experienced or experimental, poetic or pornogrpahic, angry or academic, the pieces compliment each other, and through thier differences begin to articulate a fuller picture of the amazing humans who populate the mysterious landscape of the business.”

 Good Vibrations is currently carrying this book, although I don’t see it on the website yet. Give us a call at 1-800-BUY-VIBE or stop by one of our stores to get your copy now!

 xo CJ

And, of course, Good Vibrations carries some of these titles!

Here are this year’s winners!

Boundary Breaker of the Year
Buck Angel

Smutty Schoolteacher of the Year (Educational Title)
Tristan Taormino: Expert Guide to Oral Sex Part 1 Cunnilingus and Part 2 Fellatio | Tristan Taormino; Vivid Ed

Hottest Dyke Film
Crash Pad Series Volume 1 | Shine Louise Houston; Pink and White Productions Blowfish Video

Sexiest Straight Film
My Sex Therapist.com: The First Sessions | Kelly Holland; Chick Media

Golden Beaver Award for Canadian Content
Bren Ryder | www.gooddykeporn.com

Best Bi Scene
Female Fantasies | Petra Joy; Strawberry Seductress Productions

Most Tantalizing Trans Film
Trans Entities: The Nasty Love of Papi’ and Wil | Morty Diamond; Morty Diamond Productions

Hottest Kink Film
Bondage Boob Tube | Madison Young; Blowfish Video

Deliciously Diverse Cast
Trans Entities: The Nasty Love of Papi’ and Wil | Morty Diamond; Morty Diamond Productions

Sexiest Short
Want | Loree Erickson; Femmegimp Productions

Indie Porn Pioneer
Estelle Joseph; Stella Films Productions

Movie of the Year
Five Hot Stories for Her | Erika Lust; Lust Films

xo CJ

p.s. I can now say, “Look Mom, I won an award!” I wont say which feature I’m in, but boy would she be proud! *giggle*

OH MY GOD!

I ‘ve had lots and lots of “inventive” sex play, but nothing as successful as this experiment.  So, I’d like to share a little of my joy with you, and tell you how it works. And girl, does it work!

Put the G-Spotter on the Hitachi. Easy enough.  Now, instead of turning towards yourself, turn it towards your partner! This could definitely work for any gender, and for vaginal or anal sex. Lube up the G-Spotter attachment and slide it in, curving towards the G Spot or P Spot.

I found this worked best with my partner on her back, and me sitting on my knees between her legs, since the curve of the G-Spotter can only go the same way that the handle of the Hitachi does. It also works really, really, really well with the receiver on top!!! Plus, I soon realised that I did *not* want to miss the look on her face when I turned that Hitachi on!

Now, turn it on. Talk to your partner and make sure the the curve’s curving the right way and all of that, and then go ahead and “mount” the Hitachi so your up against the ribbed/bumpy part of the attachment.

 Well! Don’t just sit there! The best part about this whole ordeal is bumping and grinding, so that you’re penetrating your sex partner at the same time and rhythm that you’re bumping into the Hitachi.  Sort of like you have a strap on on, but with a little more freedom and with Hitachi-sized waves coursing through both of you.

If you’re someone who, like me, wants to penetrate your partner *and* have a super-strong vibration on your “zones” – look no further!

 +   =

In conclusion, I reccommend looking at all of your toys (or future purchases) and seeing how you can use them in new and exciting ways. Alter your strap ons to accomodate double dildos? Put your nipple clamps on your outer lips or scrotum? Flip the Rabbit around on your Rabbit Habit? Use your Nea or Laya to tickle torture your friends? The possibilites are endless.

Sex Worker Rights Music Video by
Scarlot Harlot and Courtney Trouble: The Burnout

http://www.sexworkerfest.com/Trouble

The San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival premieres this sex worker anthem, Courtney Trouble’s “The Burnout,” a music video by Scarlot Harlot and Courtney Trouble in English, Chinese and Thai.

The makers wish to thank and acknowledge the sex worker activists around the world for their work and inspiration. Also visit Sex Workers Present (http://sexworkerspresent.blip.tv/) from APNSW, to view many sex worker videos including “Taking The Pledge” from the Network of Sex Work Projects.
In this video, a ‘day in Courtney’s life’ parallels her journey from phone sex to sexual representation/pornography as well as her political journey, interwoven with sex worker demonstrations, clips and photos from organizations listed here.

This music video reflects a personal and local story, and a political story that reaches out to individuals and organizations which resist discrimination and work towards social justice and human rights for sex workers. Many find a common voice in Courtney Trouble’s frustration, pride and defiance.

“How soon I got over, waiting alone at home for the telephone. Why do you care…you can’t see me…don’t wanna know me at all but I know you wanna get off.”

Trouble’s frustration evolves into a recognition of her mission to ’seize the means of production.’

“It’s just like anything else, it’s just a job, but we’ve got the guts to profit off our own skin. They won’t acknowledge us until we own enough to control it. They won’t respect us until we give them no other choice.”

Courtney Trouble has also been an artist, singer, designer, and photographer for many years. Her work can be viewed at www.courtneytrouble.com.

Filmmaker Carol Leigh AKA Scarlot Harlot has been a sex worker and activist since the late seventies. A poet and performance artist, she coined the term “sex worker” in 1979. She was recently awarded a Creative Work Fund Award to compile her sex worker documentaries as part of the library at the Center for Sex and Culture (www.sexandculture.org). “Unrepentant Whore: The Collected Work of Scarlot Harlot” was published by Last Gasp. For more info, visit her websites at www.bayswan.org/penet.html and www.unrepentantwhore.com

Sex Worker Outreach Project-USA is sponsoring celebrations across the U.S. for March 3rd. Visit www.swopusa.org/March3 for information about events celebrating March 3rd.

In a few words: It’s a rock show with bonus erotic performances that benefits the filming of an underground, independantly produced, sex-positive porn film.

Monday, March 31st

El Rio, San Francisco.

9pm

$4-8 sliding scale, benefit.

“No Fauxxx Filming Benefit”
w/ Thunder Thighs (SF)

Chinese Bookie (SF)

Hellokoptor (LA)

 & special appearances by local erotic stars.

Plus: Resident DJ Jenny Hoyston, DJ Purricane, and DJ Jerry Lee

$4-8, sliding scale, to benefit the upcoming film by C. Trouble, owner of NoFauxxx.Com

This is a benefit to help fund a film project for www.NoFauxxx.Com, the only queer underground porn site in existance. The film will be a queer underground hardcore porn flick, featuring models of all genders, races, and sizes, as well as underground music, live performance footage, and extras unheard of in the porn industry.

The goal of the film is to create steaming hot sex scenes that support the existance of the queer underground, with “queer-hetero”, lesbian, gay, and trans sex scenes that uphold feminist and queer political beliefs (focus on female pleasure, the eroticization of sefer sex methods, sex-positive, and non-generalising) WITHOUT sacrificing the explicitness of the scene or distracting the viewer from the sole purpose of porn: arousal!

www.nofauxxx.com

Porn has a hard time with this concept for some reason. Either it’s a long, droning ambient hum made on Garage Band, a slimey post-funk electric bass line, or nothing at all.

Some Alt porn releases have tried to incorporate music, but seem to fall short. 30 second clips of Pop Punk between scenes just doesn’t do it for me.

I want it to sound like something I would actually listen to while getting it on.

So, here’s the porn soundtrack of my dreams.

1. The Gossip – I Want It

2. Gravy Train!!! – Club Situation

3. PJ Harvey – 50 Foot Queenie

4. T.I.T.S. – Mystery

5. the Need – Pony 4 Honey

6. Prince – Erotic City

7. Jenna Riot – Girl You Look Expensive

8. Uh Huh Her – Say So

9. Bratmobile – The Real Janelle

10. Cobra Killer – L. A. Shaker

11. Cool Kids – I Rock

12. The Pack – Candy

13. M.I.A. – Paper Planes

14. The Ramones – I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend

15. Glass Candy – Beatific

16. Subtonix – Into the Fire

17. Hey Willpower – Double Fantasy

18. Huggy Bear – Herjazz

Here’s some clips:

Go Annie!