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kickstarting the future of queer cinema

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queer cinema has always been an academic passion for me. in
addition to presenting a paper i wrote on cinematic legend john waters, i
had the honor of being invited to contribute an essay to coming out to the mainstream: new queer cinema in the 21st century,
which, among other things, examines both the advantages and drawbacks
of marketing and presenting queer cinema to a mainstream
audience. one of the larger problems with mainstreamed queer cinema
is that the hollywood process generally leaves narratives diluted and
watered down, or lost in a sea of ang-lee-budget production values.
 the power of queer cinema and new queer cinema until the
mid-nineties had existed in its raw grittiness, its ability to make
people feel something they had never felt before watching film, because
these were stories previously untold on the big screen.

independent queer cinema, glorious as it may be, is not without its
problems either, mostly cash-related, which is why i was delighted when hollis brought to my attention this article from out magazine that looks at the role kickstarter is playing in the future of independent queer cinema. for those of you not familiar with kickstarter,
it is “the world’s largest funding platform for creative projects.”
 kickstarter supports any sort of creative endeavor, from food to
dance to fashion,  however,  ”with $40 million spent on 4,700
successful projects, the film sector of kickstarter has garnered the
largest percentage of the over $125 million raised since its inception
in 2009.”

in fall of 2011,  michael stabile’s documentary seed money, which
presents the story of late falcon studios founder and political
philanthropist chuck holmes, had run out of steam after 4 unfunded
years of crafting together interviews of porn stars, politicians, and
celebrities, such as one of my personal heroes, john waters.   by
the end of december and six weeks after launching his fundraising
campaign on kickstarter, stabile had $28,430 and a new private investor
to help him take on the post-production costs that were previously
insurmountable for him.  after watching the trailer, i am
absolutely psyched for this documentary to be released.  not only
are porn and censorship topics near and dear to my heart, but chuck
holmes is a fascinating figure. and in an age where rick santorum, a man
who, among other things, wants to ban all pornography (but especially
gay porn),  was a frontrunner for presidential candidacy, i feel
like it couldn’t be coming out at a better time.

having capital to get films made is one problem, but there is also the
separate issue of getting films distributed to the audience.  for
filmmakers, kickstarter has been a solution for this as well.  pariah, dee
rees’ semi-autobiographical story of a young black lesbian grappling
with identity and struggling to come out in brooklyn, was turned into a
feature film after it screened at 40 film festivals as a short film and
won over 25 “best short” awards.  rees was ecstatic about being
accepted into 2011 sundance film festival in competition, but did not
have the means to get all the way there. using kickstarter, rees was
able to raise the $10,000 she needed to cover the post-production costs
and amount it would take to get her crew to the festival.  getting
indie queer films like pariah to the festival circuit is
crucial, as that level of exposure is usually what helps films get into
independent theaters and the hearts and minds of audiences across the
world.

if you are a fan of independent queer cinema, i urge you to check out
kickstarter to see if you could be the patron of your next favorite
film.

true tales of teenage lust and the incontrovertible lure of leonardo dicaprio and james deen

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i stumbled upon this article, “what women want: porn and the frontier of female sexuality,” which
came out a couple of weeks ago and profiles my personal porn favorite,
james deen.  the first half of the article discusses his entry into
the business and how exceptional he is as a straight male porn star, something i’ve been trying to get the word out about myself.

a lot of the information about the realities of the adult industry
were not surprising to me, as i have made it a point in my life to have
an in-depth understanding of what goes on there.  what i was
surprised to learn, however, is the existence of a network of teen james deen fans on tumblr:

the young women trade deen videos, post candid photographs, and
pluck out all the minute details that turn them on: the way he looks at a
woman, touches her, stares into her eyes, whispers in her ear. “there
was just something about the way he moved,” emily says of her first
exposure to deen. he seemed to be “speaking to the girl, but not with
his mouth, with his hand over the girl’s throat, and with his
eyes.” 

deen’s young fans gush over the sight of him thrusting into a
woman while holding her hand. they sigh over a private photo of a
clothed deen commuting by plane. they create animated gifs of deen’s
greatest moves so they can watch him execute them again and again and
again without rewinding. they pepper their deen fantasies with “harry
potter” jokes and circulate them to other girls. several propose
marriage.

reading about this community and their obsession with james resonated
not only with my 26-year-old self who also loves james, but with my
12-year-old self who was over-the-top obsessed with leonardo dicaprio.

the effect of watching leonardo dicaprio in romeo in juliet
is, in many ways, similar to that of watching james deen.  his
incredible looks, coupled with his ability to stare deep into claire
danes’ soul, was about as hot as hot could get in ’96.  then in ’97
you have him sketching a gorgeous nude kate winslet (can’t wait for that in 3d)
and the legendary
hand-swiping-the-condensation-on-the-inside-of-the-old-timey-car-in-the-depths-of
the-titanic scene and, well,  let’s just say there was no other
guy worth thinking about as far as i was concerned.

unlike a lot of my peers who never really went beyond watching romeo and juliet and titanic, i spent good chunks of time watching his earlier, lesser-known works like this boy’s life, basketball diaries, and even suffered through growing pains
reruns in hopes of seeing him as luke brower (these kids with netflix
today don’t even know how good they have it).  i also watched him
in total eclipse, where he plays french poet arthur rimbaud
and, most importantly to me at the time, has an incredibly brief nude
scene (we’re talking the blink of an eye here).

remembering myself in my bedroom unsuccessfully trying to pause a
rented vhs tape on that insanely short nude scene is completely
hilarious. vhs? my god. if only i had had a dvd i could have gone frame
by frame.  but this was a different time, and i had to resort to my
next best option: dial-up internet.  armed with my
middle-school-issued internet research training and my best friend at
the time (who was a fellow leo fan and, also of a unitarian upbringing,
sex-positive), i proceeded to find that naked leo still on the internet
and then printed it out for the both of us on the inkjet printer in my
dad’s home office.

the quality of the picture, both in terms of its eroticism (he’s just
standing with a flaccid penis) and how it looked printed, was marginal
at best.  however, i was 12 and had no standards to speak of for
naked pictures, so printing off something material that was
representative of my budding sexuality was cool enough for me.  the
two of us stealthily hid our low-quality “porn” inside of the jewel
cases of our respective cds.  for some reason, i can remember that
my friend hid hers in a 4 non blondes case, but i can’t remember what i
hid mine in.  probably letters to cleo or, perhaps, fiona apple.

in the weeks to come, i felt sufficiently like a badass. this lasted
until i learned that there was such a thing as a browser history, which
happened when my brother asked me one day out of the blue, “were you
looking at naked pictures of leonardo dicaprio on the internet?” i don’t
remember exactly what i said, but i do remember denying it, even though
i was the only one in the house with a veritable leonardo dicaprio
shrine, not to mention my parents and older sister pretty much never
used the internet. despite the fact that it was obviously me, it was
left at that and was not brought up again.

when i look at the animated gifs of james deen doing some
spanking/licking/hard fucking that these teenagers are posting on
tumblr, my story of printing off leonardo’s junk seems almost innocent
or quaint by comparison.  it’s strange to think of the changes and
impact that 14 years of technological development can have on teen
sexuality.  i’m sure if i was a teen now, i would be all over that
james deen tumblr and would probably be super unimpressed by that still
shot of leonardo dicaprio.  be that as it may, i would not trade my
experience for anything, because it is so awesomely and thoroughly
’90s, and it’s a hilarious anecdote that i’ve enjoyed telling friends
for years.

dads, lock up your daughters and your dvd collections. bachmann is coming for you.

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michele bachmann wants your porn.  or to be more specific, she
wants to take your porn away from you, all in the name of protecting us
poor, innocent, logic-lackin’ women who can’t figure out sexuality for
ourselves.  we need men to decide how that shit’s gonna go down.

i’ll back up a minute and explain the details of the latest bachmann lunacy.  at the end of last week, conservative iowa group the family leader put forth a 14 bullet point pledge that any republican candidate that wants their support must sign by august 1.

the bulk of the bullet points are along the lines of “i believe gay
people are a threat and ruining society.”  it’s some pretty ugly,
hateful language going on there, but i guess what else would you expect
from that type of organization.

the 9th bullet point of the pledge is written as follows:

pornography  should be banned: vow 9
stipulates that the candidate must “support human protection of women
and the innocent fruit of conjugal intimacy” and protect them from
“seduction into promiscuity and all forms of pornography…and other types
of coercion or stolen innocence.”

i just love it when conservatives use flowery language when talking
about women’s sexuality.  innocent fruit of conjugal
intimacy?  i feel like any woman who finds that phrase appealing is
the same type of woman who fantasizes about doing it in the overly
styled and unimaginative rooms they see in a pottery barn catalog. or in
other words, the type of women who actually like porn for women.

it’s this kind of shit that really makes you wonder exactly how far
conservatives would go with banning and censoring material were they not
restricted by the constitution they claim to love so much.  would
all racy romance novels vanish from bookstores and airports?  would
sexy, high-end fashion shows and advertisements get shut down? 
the problem with censoring “porn” is that because overt and commodified
sexuality has worked its way so far into the mainstream, censoring
becomes a very slippery and steep terrain to navigate.  oh, and
also because censorship is fascism. that’s another big problem with
censoring porn.

i don’t know what some conservatives think happens exactly when us
lady folk watch porn.  if by “seduced into promiscuity and
pornography in all forms,” i don’t know if they’re trying to say that
women who are single are going to try and have a fulfilling sex life by
sleeping with the (potentially numerous) people she thinks are going to
satisfy her needs, and/or maybe throw on a porn and (gasp!) masturbate,
or if what they’re really talking about here is fears of a married,
straight, christian woman getting one glimpse of evan stone in who’s nailin’ paylin?, (a personal favorite of mine) and heading off to san fernando valley
to let loose.   the first scenario sounds like a lot of girls
i know.  the second sounds like a highly preposterous, though very
funny, paranoid conservative fantasy.

preposterous? paranoid? who does that remind me of? oh, yes. michele.  on thursday, bachmann became the first presidential candidate to sign this ridiculous, insulting pledge.  i guess i shouldn’t be surprised whatsoever that she’s pandering to iowa.  after the gacy gaffe, 
she’ll give iowa whatever they want.  oh, except gay
marriage.  i’m pretty sure she’d try to take that away from them
given the rest of the pledge she agreed to.

on a gay marriage and paranoid conservative fantasy note, 
archbishop timothy dolan has now officially stated that since new york
has emerged victorious in a hard-won fight to secure equal rights for
gay people to marry, polygamy is next.   i have written here before about dolan and his bigotry about anything that isn’t totally heteronormative.

it’s funny and not at all surprising that what got dolan all riled up
is the exact same article that made me incredibly happy to read 
two weeks ago in the new york times magazine.  mark oppenheimer’s article, “married, with infidelities,”
is a fantastic, even handed look at how our culture is shifting towards
the acceptance of nonmonogamy in its many forms, and how this will
improve our lives and save marriages and families, rather than destroy
them.  my only complaint about it was that they did not mention
such great resources as opening up and the ethical slut.   it’s a long article, so i won’t get into it in this post, but i encourage everyone to read it when they get a chance.

listen up, michele.  if you’re not giving up your guns, i am not
giving up my porn.  sex not violence. love not hate.  don’t
tread on my fucking porn.

 


 

 

 

 

3 Things to Read and Watch This Spring

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1. Susie Bright’s Big Sex, Little Death:
I checked this book out of the library after reading a number of
amazing reviews and I have not been disappointed. Read this book less
for the titillating details of her sexy career and more for the
fascinating details of how she got there.

2. If you’ve been looking for new queer porn to watch, I would highly recommend heavenly spire.com.
This is Shine Louise Houston’s new endeavor into masculinity porn.
There is a beautiful diversity in how masculinity is defined on the site
and Shine really knows how to shoot porn in a simple elegant way that
allows you to enjoy the action. It’s artsy, but you don’t forget what
you’re watching it for.

3. If you’re looking to forget about your problems for a bit, I must emphatically recommend Randall’s youtube video entitled: The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger. I don’t see how you can watch this video without laughing. Remember, “honey badger don’t care.”

Tristan Taormino, Sex-Positive Porn Hero

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A picture of Tristan from one of her Vivid Ed videos.

Tristan Taormino recently was uninvited to speak at Oregon State University’s Modern Sex Conference.
This was the first time Tristan has had a contract revoked in a long
career of speaking to audiences in venues ranging from Yale to local
feminist sex shops.

According to the Portland Mercury,
“The school decided it wasn’t financially prudent to “use taxpayer
funds to bring in a speaker who is a self-described pornographer and has
a significant online business selling pornography.””

I couldn’t disagree with the school’s opinion more, so I thought this
would be an excellent time to briefly outline why the world needs
Tristan Taormino to make porn. Tristan does so much more than make porn,
but since porn is the problem according to OSU, I thought I’d focus on
why her porn specifically is important to society and individuals.

Tristan’s explicit sex education videos are the best I’ve seen. They’re direct, well written, well shot, and all the models seem like they’re having a great time.

Why would you need an explicit video about sex education? For most
people, if you’re trying to learn a new skill, it’s easier to learn by
watching someone else do it with step-by-step instructions than from
reading descriptive instructions.

There is a myth out there that people are born good at sex or they’re
not, but I am firmly of the belief that practice and commitment to your
partner(s) is what makes good sex. (By commitment, I don’t mean
marriage or even dating, I just mean that for the duration of the sex
you’ve committed to focusing on who you’re with without much distraction
or wandering thought.) Tristan’s videos help people have more
fulfilling sex lives through education.

Tristan’s videos also help people have more fulfilling sex through
entertainment. In the world of porn it’s common for models to be asked
for a list of what they won’t do on camera, but it’s still rare in
mainstream porn for models to be asked what they do want and who they
want to have sex with. Tristan’s Chemistry
series changed that. Those videos humanize porn, and make it clear that
the people who are working on the project want to be there and love
what they’re doing. Not only are the performers having more satisfying
sex, but the people watching those performers are enjoying getting
turned on by something that feels real and is clearly not exploitative.

Porn is not one thing. There is some porn I find so disturbing that I
can barely handle it and what makes it disturbing to me is its lack of
true consent. I believe that when people panic about porn and make rash
decisions to censor people, they have images in their mind that have
nothing to do with what Tristan is doing. Or they have such deep
feelings of shame about the issue that they can no longer think
rationally.

Regardless, for the rest of us selective porn viewers, we need
Tristan Taormino. There are other people who do an excellent job
portraying real sex, but few who have managed to do it through a major
mainstream producer of porn, Vivid.
Additionally, she is working to change the standard of how models are
treated in adult films, which is crucial to bettering the adult industry
and the lives of the individuals who work in it.

If you want to support Tristan, buy one of her videos
or books. You will enjoy it and it will help to make up a small part of
the income she lost by being denied her invitation to speak.

queering virginity: jeers to you nicki blue

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by the time i had read on jezebel that bdsm website kink.com was going to stream the deflowering of bondage/fetish model nicki blue via “hymen cam”,
there had already been a blogospheric uproar over the controversial way
the event was being marketed, protests from members of kink.com, and a
subsequent, thorough apology from kink.com.

sex work is often complicated, and i think that there was some really
interesting discussion that occurred in light of this event about what
it means to be a virgin.  what i was most interested in personally
was the interview
with nicki about why she wanted to lose her “virginity” to one of three
men that members of kink.com votes upon.  it almost sounds like
it’s pointing to the next avenue of reality tv. “so you think you’re a
virgin?!?”

during the first part of the interview, i thought blue seemed like a
sweet girl who is refreshingly open and comfortable with her
sexuality.  she claims, “i’m everything but innocent. i’m just
like, i’m totally just kinky, i’ve done so many different things.” blue
grew up in tennessee, and even though she did some sexual exploration
manually, she didn’t learn about sex toys until she was 18 and then “oh
my god, my world exploded.” she describes the surprising process of
becoming a bondage/fetish model, and how fulfilling her career has been
for her.

it’s at this point in the interview where just about everything she says makes me want to hit myself over the head with my njoy pure wand. whoever edited the interview tried to make it as dramatic as possible when blue reveals:

i’m a virgin. i can’t fuck myself in the pussy, but i can fuck myself in the ass.

blue describes the process of “realizing” she was a virgin, after she
got her period and was unable to insert a tampon.  after trying
repeatedly with much discomfort she said, “screw this.”  however,
as she got older, blue “started to realize that oh, there’s a hymen
there, and that means i’m a virgin and it’s pretty cool.”

blue then goes on to explain what a hymen is, and how it can only be
broken through “repeatedly using tampons,” “fingers,” or “the first time
you have sex.”  cut to a shot from one of her live cam sessions
where she then contradicts herself:

i have a dildo in my ass, and it feels really good. and i can
answer you, sing to you, do a bunch of things for you, but if i put a
dildo in my pussy it will break my hymen, and then i’ll lose my
virginity to a toy, which would be really kinda not good, cause i’m
saving my virginity for something special.

it’s hard for me to even know where to begin ranting because there’s
so many things that piss me off about what she’s saying.  for one
thing, as a part of the generation that grew up during the
clinton-lewinsky debate over “oral sex is not sexual relations,” it’s
hard to believe that someone who also grew up during that same period
(albeit in the south), who has been “fucked in the ass,” and gave former
boyfriends blow jobs, has such a puritanical view about losing one’s
virginity.

secondly, where does this leave cisgendered men, transmen,
genderqueers, people with queer sexuality or people who don’t enjoy
intercourse?  are they virgins forever? were they never virgins
because they don’t have a thick hymen like you?

i too was born with an obnoxiously thick hymen, which prevented my ability to use tampons (although now i am in the diva cup cult)
or to have a phenomenal orgasm for years.  at a certain point in
high school, i realized that this was not only frustrating at the time,
but that if i didn’t take matters into my own hands, the first time that
i did have sexual intercourse was going to be unpleasant and unsexy as
hell.  so i bought a gigolo II, and slowly and painlessly stretched my hymen troubles away.

according to nicki, i lost my virginity to a piece of medical grade
silicone, “which would be really kinda not good.” so articulate,
nicki.  according to me, i lost my virginity a couple years later
to my second serious boyfriend, who we’ll call george.  i’ll never
forget when i was helping a group of teenagers pick out their first
vibrators, and they asked me if using a sex toy meant they were losing
their virginities.  i told them the story i just told you, and
assured them that they get to decide what counts as losing their
virginity, and how much weight (if any) that carries for them.  i
hope they took that to heart.

at the end of the interview, blue talks about how she’s seen all of
the toys at kink.com, and how she often wonders what her pussy has been
missing out on.  knowing what high quality g-spot toys exist out
there, i can say with confidence, a lot.  and for what?  she
talks about how she can’t wait to lose her virginity so she can use
those toys.  so why wait so long to lose it then? i can’t shake the
feeling it’s so she can make shit tons of cash from all the virgin
fetishists out there.  to be sure, i’m not opposed to anyone
engaging in sex, privately or publicly, to make their living.  but
it pisses me off that someone with such muddled motives is so judgmental
about other people’s conceptions of virginity, and how they don’t live
up to her own.

shit we’d be better off without: “porn for women”

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i love porn.  i think porn is pretty darn great. 
however i realize that with porn, just like with music, art, literature,
television, film, or just about anything, there is awesome porn, and
there is shitty porn.   and just like those other categories,
the amount of awesome porn that is out there generally pales in
comparison to the amount of shitty porn.  one type of “porn”
however that drives me crazy is so-called “porn for women.”

first of all, their definition of “women” discounts queer women of
any kind, so really it should be “porn for painfully heteronormative
women.”  secondly, they seem to confuse my desire to watch naked
people fucking in order to aid some sort of sexual gratification, with
my desire to be in an egalitarian, functional relationship:

What really turns women on?

The Cambridge Women’s Pornography Cooperative traveled far and wide,
surveying women across the land, to find out. They asked young women,
old women, rich and poor, “what really, really, gets you hot?”

The result is so provocative, so incendiary, so dangerously addictive…
it’s unlike any porn you’ve ever seen before.

Prepare to enter a fantasy world. A world where clothes get folded just
so, men insist on changing diapers, delicious dinners await,
and flatulence is just not that funny.

in my own household, my boyfriend and i have our own talents, and
divide household labor accordingly.  while i can technically cook,
he is a genius in the kitchen. i do our laundry, and use my flair for
organization and anal-retentive cleaning to keep our apartment tip top.
together, we make a great team. and in no way do either of our abilities
to accomplish these tasks count as some sort of domestic dance or
foreplay. i also have a hard time believing that when the cambridge
women’s pornography collective asked poor women what turns them on, that
a man in designer jeans vacuuming plush white carpeting with a high end
vacuum cleaner is the response that they got.

additionally, while i love the emotional support and intellectual
stimulation that we provide to each other, i do not want that at the
expense of our own personal, individual interests.  for example,
one of the e-postcards
you can send to your boring heterosexual friends is a picture of a man
reading a paper who says to you: “oh, look. the nfl playoffs are today, i
bet we’ll have no trouble parking at the crafts fair.” now, as
someone who has a boyfriend who watches football and would attend a
crafts fair (depending on who put it on), i think it’s ludicrous to
assume that i would get off on him putting his own interests and
happiness aside for my own.  i can take myself to the damn crafts
fair, thank you very much, cambridge women’s pornography collective.

it pisses me off that cwpc tries to infiltrate porn, one of the most
exciting and potentially creative fields on earth, with their sick, good
housekeeping, gender normative, uber-heteronormative schlock
fantasies.  i hate it.  and i hate that one of my favorite tv shows actually uses this concept in one episode, and that cwpc takes that as validation of their stupid brainchild.

“women” of america, i beg of you not to buy “porn for women.” 
and please, if you are interested in actual porn, take the time to find
the good shit.  recommended reading for doing so includes violet
blue’s wonderful the smart girl’s guide to porn.
i also recommend visiting your local feminist owned sex toy store (or
visiting one online), because they will likely have some kick-ass shit.

boooooooooooooo!

things i missed while living abroad: the birth of lesbian hugh hefner

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i knew that when i decided to leave the business of selling
upscale sex toys and awesome pornography to try my hand at teaching
english in korea, that ultimately there would be certain things that
happened in the adult industry that would no longer pass through my
radar.  in addition to no longer regularly perusing industry
magazines and catalogs, i was so exhausted from working 45 hours a week
teaching 80 minute classes to children ranging from 4 to 14 years old,
that i could hardly do much after work besides consume cheese crust
pizza and the entire series of how i met your mother online.  so
needless to say, while i was gone some things passed me by, like a new collection from my favorite vibrator company, and the emergence of “lesbian hugh hefner” jincey lumpkin.

when i read “lesbian hugh hefner” i was pretty skeptical, if anything
because i couldn’t really put together in my mind what that would even
mean.  as i read more about lumpkin, and visited the website of her
burgeoning company, juicy pink box, i forgot about the hefner comparison and instead became really excited.

one thing i read that i liked is that lumpkin, after creating a
successful lesbian sex blog, left her law career to pursue a path in
pornography.   if only more people went into high quality porn
instead of high priced law, maybe people would be less concerned about
getting theirs and more concerned about getting off.

but when i got really excited was when i saw the list of stars:
jiz lee, syd blakovich, madison young, dylan ryan, and lots of other
smoking hot queers.  i was also thrilled to learn that juicy pink
box is switching from web-only to dvd sales.  i myself do not have
the cash for a subscription site, but would gladly save up for a top
notch dvd.

i’m happy to see the success of queer porn expanding, and i’m super happy to be back in america for 2011.

salacious magazine

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i want to let everyone know about a great new publication called salacious magazine. 
salacious is a magazine about queer feminist art and literature. 
as a life long art and smut lover, i was tickled that there is a
magazine working to meld pornography with high art.  and as a huge
comics fan i’m delighted that comics will be central to their
focus.  when i first learned about salacious and was perusing their
website, i was blown away by how awesome their content mission is,
check this shit out!

Our Content Mission

  1. SALACIOUS is queer. We’re not going to tell you what queer should mean to you, please keep this in mind as you peruse our magazine.
  2. SALACIOUS is feminist. We consider reproductions
    of typically sexist, misogynist sex and sexuality offensive,
    unimportant, and not worthy of printing.
  3. SALACIOUS is anti-racist. We reject racist
    representations, insist on a multi-racial editorial board and
    contributor base, and seek to understand racism, like sexism, in
    relation to local and international inequities of power.
  4. SALACIOUS is aimed at titillation, as much as it is aimed at high art. Just because it’s naughty doesn’t mean it has to be poorly done.

how fucking awesome is that. their first issue (coming out january) is available for pre-order here, and i personally can’t wait to get my copy.

if you are an artist, photographer, writer, and this all sounds really great to you, consider submitting some of your work to salacious.  their second issue is on voyeurism, and the deadline for submission is march 10th.

if you are from minneapolis and this all sounds really great to you, consider going to the salacious launch party february 26th.

cheers queers!

So Many Reasons To Love Buck Angel

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Having worked for a store that sells porn, I was acquainted with a
fair amount of it. Sporadically I’ll post about the porn I like on the
blog because as much as I don’t think of myself as a “porn person” I
have quite a few heroes in the porn industry. I figured I should start
with Buck Angel, a man who definitely is worthy of the porn hero title. Here’s my thoughts on why:

1. Starting with the obvious, Buck was the first person to do porn
that showed a man who had a vagina.  Even in the face of all kinds
of initial rejection, he believed in his videos and stuck with what he
was doing.

2. The porn he makes has evolved over time but all his videos feel genuine and show people enjoying the sex they’re having.

3. His movies have great titles like UFC (Ultimate Fucking Club), Buckback Mountain and V is For Vagina.

4. Sometimes he posts the horrible things people say about him or his
gender, etc. on twitter or facebook. As hard as this stuff is to read, I
think it’s productive to post because it increases awareness of the
kind of hate that’s out there and allows for people with opposing views
to reject that narrative publicly.

5. He has awesome body building videos like this one in which I
learned that I am unintentionally eating “great body-building foods”:

6. On the note of YouTube, he has great non-porn videos on YouTube on topics ranging from working out to behind the scenes footage at photo shoots to video of his dogs playing.

7. He still takes the time to personally answer email, facebook, and twitter messages from his fans.

8. He rescues dogs! This is unrelated to his porn career obviously but very related to his integrity as person.

I could go on, but you get the point. Check out his films and his video on demand site for more. Maybe you’ll fall in love too.