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FOUND: Does This Penis Have a Point?
Found this jaunty fellow for sale on eBay recently, attributed to artist Gary Grayson. Looks so sweetly, innocently plump, doesn't it? I could see growing a penis patch in my garden, and watching them blow in the wind.....
I'm of two minds when it comes to artistic depictions of the penis. But it has nothing to do with the prude's favorite lament that genitalia aren't appropriate subjects for art. As far as I'm concerned, the penis is a perfectly suitable subject for art. If hands and feet are apt subjects, certainly the penis should have an equally important place in representational art. Same same for the vagina. So I always welcome a good penis portrait.
But my problem with penis art is this: is this penis saying something new? Or could we find the exact same penis message in a thousand other penis paintings? And if, in art, a penis is a penis is a penis, then do we need more penises?
Now, the penis above does seem to be striving for a new vision. It's a monolith rising up in a a surrealistic garden. OK. Not so special. Indeed, feels derivative somehow. Nothing original about the notion of pubes being flowers and grasses, either. Still, I feel that this penis is trying to say something unique. I just can't quite figure out what it is. Can you?
Category: FOUND
Posted on 10/31/2008 2:39:12 AM by Gloria Brame
Save the Penis
via Wired, the latest and greatest in bike seats that don't punish male genitals the way we dominatrices like to.
(just saying....)
MoonSaddle's latest crescent-shaped bicycle seat design promises to improve your riding comfort and up your sperm count. If you're a man and that didn't just make you sit straight up in your seat, you may need to get checked out
Bike Seat Cuts Off the Nose to Save the Penis.
Seriously, guys, save the compression and pain play for the dungeon, and consider swapping out uncomfortable seats for ones that are better for your sexual health.
Category: Sexual Health
Posted on 10/31/2008 2:38:17 AM by Gloria Brame
Our Nation's Shame: soldier-on-soldier sexual violence
The idea that 15% of women in the military have been raped may come as a shock to those unfamiliar with the silent tragedy going on in our military. To folks who've kept an eye on that story, however, it seems like a low estimate because most incidents of sexual harassment, abuse, and, yes, even rape, are unreported by military victims.
The military certainly does not encourage soldiers to report when they've been raped; indeed, I've known more than one female soldier who was treated like the criminal instead of the victim by military authorities.
This number also does not reflect the plight of gay men in the military. The government probably will never publish statistics on it, but many of our gay soldiers are dealing with sexual violence as well. The "don't ask, don't tell" policy may explain why so few gay soldiers report these incidents. When a male soldier reports that he's been raped, he can pretty much kiss his military career goodbye.
Nearly 15 percent of female US veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan experienced sexual trauma during their military service, the Department of Veterans Affairs said in a study.
The study, based on data from 100,000 veterans of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom who used VA health care, found that more than one in seven women reported having experienced "military sexual trauma".
The study, covering a six year period, also found that 0.7 percent of men returning from duty reported military sexual trauma.
Individuals, both female and male, who experienced sexual trauma in the service had a greater probability of being diagnosed with a mental illness upon return than those who did not report such trauma, researchers found.
Female US veterans suffer sexual trauma: study
Categories: Post-Modern Pop Culture
Sex and History
Sex Laws and Crimes
Sexual Health
Sexual Politics
Posted on 10/31/2008 2:37:18 AM by Gloria Brame
I So Doubt It
Sometimes you really cannot blame the researchers for the way their studies are reported.
Scientists don't "know why" love and hate are linked -- they just found a clue that may, ultimately, lead to firmer conclusions about the brain's role in emotions. Makes good headlines to dumb it down though, I guess.
It often seems a thin line between love and hate, and now scientists think they know why.
Brain scans of people shown images of individuals they hated revealed a pattern of brain activity that partly occurs in areas also activated by romantic love, Semir Zeki and John Paul Romaya of University College London reported on Wednesday.
"This linkage may account for why love and hate are so closely linked to each other in life," the researchers wrote in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS One.
Thin line between love and hate? - science knows why
Category: Sexual Science and Medicine
Posted on 10/31/2008 2:36:20 AM by Gloria Brame
What I'm doing today
Hanging out on the live, all day (1-9 pm, est) letter-reading marathon by and for women against Sarah Palin.
Category: Autobiographical Urges
Posted on 10/31/2008 2:35:21 AM by Gloria Brame
Dressing Light
Exhibitionists who love the limelight, this is for you. Specialty clothier Enlighted designs and sells unique light-up clothing. Sure to catch everyone's eyes on a dance floor -- or in a dungeon.
Here's one of their esoteric designs, which they've nicknamed the Nerve Bra.

My favorite is their light-up body suit.

Check out Enlighted's full catalogue.
Categories: Post-Modern Pop Culture
Sex and Technology
Posted on 10/30/2008 6:33:08 AM by Gloria Brame
Girl, you so hot when you got your baboon ass on
I'm all about new-wave evolutionary biology and how primate behaviors are deeply encoded in our brains and/or DNA. We are primates, after all, and no matter how civilized we may be, you still can't civilize that fundamental biology out of us. God knows organized religions and governments have tried.
As a sexologist, the subject is particularly fascinating because it raises so many questions about whether it's possible (or ever will be possible) to ascertain how much human sexual response is biological, how much a result of social conditioning, how much is individualistic response to variable stimuli, and how much of our sexual behavior is free will and conscious choice.
Still, I cracked up when I read this report. In light of all the other research coming down the pike, it's not out of the box to assert that men have a deeply rooted biological response to women who wear red. Perhaps it's true that when women put on red dresses they are, as one researcher suggests, giving male counterparts a vague visual facsimile of a baboon's swollen genitalia during estrus.
But...I don't know. If they're going to assert that all it takes is the sight of red on a woman to drive men's reptile brains into raptures of primate lust, I want to know if they tested the red dress=baboon ass=schwing theory by showing men pix of women who smeared menstrual blood on their behinds? Did they show women in different styles of red dress -- for example, do men find mumus as hot as minis?
I'm thinking it's got to be more than a baboon-ass type thing happening here. Though, ok, I confess, I love the concept that men really are that simple.
(*now considering replacing my black leathers for red ones*)
Men rated a woman shown in photographs as more sexually attractive if she was wearing red clothing or if she was shown in an image framed by a red border rather than some other color, U.S. researchers said Tuesday.
The study led by psychology professor Andrew Elliot of the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, seemed to confirm red as the color of romance -- as so many Valentine's Day card makers and lipstick sellers have believed for years.
Although this "red alert" may be a product of human society associating red with love for eons, it also may arise from more primitive biological roots, Elliot said.
Noting the genetic similarity of humans to higher primates, he said scientists have shown that certain male primates are especially attracted to females of their species displaying red. For example, female baboons and chimpanzees show red coloring when nearing ovulation, sending a sexual signal that the males apparently find irresistible.
The woman in red drives the men crazy, study finds
Category: Sexual Science and Medicine
Posted on 10/30/2008 6:32:20 AM by Gloria Brame
FOUND: Vintage girl-on-girl spanking
Categories: Sex and History
Sex and Sadomasochism
Posted on 10/30/2008 6:31:22 AM by Gloria Brame
RIP Gerard Damiano
Gerard Damiano, director of the pioneering pornographic film that lent its name to the Watergate whistleblower known as "Deep Throat," has died. He was 80.
Damiano died Saturday at a Fort Myers hospital, his son, Gerard Damiano Jr., said Monday. He had suffered a stroke in September.
'Deep Throat' Director Dead at 80
Category: Sex and Culture
Posted on 10/29/2008 10:05:41 AM by Gloria Brame
Fighting Fish Paint
Thanks to Mike for finding this awesome example of body-paint. It's one in a surrealistic series of creative shots.
See the whole series of Fish body/face-art.
Category: Post-Modern Pop Culture
Posted on 10/29/2008 10:04:44 AM by Gloria Brame
If the condom fits, vote it
..or something like that :)
Categories: Sexual Humor
Sexual Politics
Posted on 10/29/2008 10:03:45 AM by Gloria Brame
Lara Flynn Boyle's Unholy Big Toe
I saw a pic of these naked feet fly across a news reader. My goodness. That's a big toe.

When the copy said that elongated digit belonged to Lara Flynn Boyle, I thought for sure someone had photoshopped it. In other shots, from other angles, it looks much more proportional.
But then I found this older shot.
Close up:
Hmmm. Think of all the things you could do with a toe like that!
Categories: Sexual Beauty
Sexual Strangeness
Posted on 10/29/2008 10:02:46 AM by Gloria Brame
Halloween Special: Cross-Dressed Pets 2008
Do you take a secret guilty pleasure when you see animals turned into objects of mockery? Does a part of you scream "no, that's so wrong!" while another part of you squeals "OMG, LOLOL!" at the sight of animals duded up in unfortunate costumes?
If so, REJOICE! With Halloween just days away, it's time for that fabulous Oversexed feature so many of you know and love....the ritual humiliation of other-species babies aka Cross-Dressed Pets. I've put together a sweet collection of cats, dogs and other beasties whose parents (or owners, for you literal types) stop at nothing to make us laugh.
Images plucked from various on-line pet shops, blogs and (of course) cuteoverload.com -- mecca for all that is redonkulous.
Funny Felines
I'll start with my favorite minimalist look for the season. It's a cat. In a hat.

'course, this cat's hat makes a certain statement (which the Friskies can drives home)
This femme fatale took a Page from Bettie's book.

Why someone would dress their cat to look like Phil Spector, I cannot say.
But I think we all know why cats and devil costumes are a natural fit.

Pumpkin? Plant? Cat O'Lantern?
OK, this is so wrong, so terribly wrong...it could be my other favorite.
Is this the world's most pissed-off rice krispie or what?
And let's not forget painted cats. I mean, how could we, even if tried?

Delightfully Silly Dogs
Again, in the category of minimalism that still makes an impact, I bring you cow-dog.
And his rustler:

O sole mio, I think this gondolier must sing for his supper.
Sure, he looks tough, but does he know how to use those handcuffs?
Johnny Depp, eat your heart out.
You Zee me? Of course you Zee me! Zorro demands to be Zeen!
If I only had a brain, I would never be in this predicament.
"Pssst, I heard we get to chew the pigskins after the game!"
Can you figure out where we want to go for Halloween dinner?
I feel pretty. Oh so pretty.
Dysfunctional romance is in the air this year!
"They keep telling me that size doesn't matter, but I have my doubts, Mister."
Unfortunately, Mini-Bridezilla had to learn the hard way that it takes more than a wedding dress and submissive wetting to get a husband.

Finally, dress-up isn't just for cats and dogs...

Even if you can't dress 'em up, they can still enjoy a bit of Halloween fun.
Happy Halloween!!!
And don't forget: be good to your pets and they will reward you with unbearable cuteness for years to come.
Category: Pets and Animal Love
Posted on 10/28/2008 1:05:00 PM by Gloria Brame
Voyeurs' Delight
via Gizmodo, the ultimate toy for voyeurs. (Though, of course, the machine doesn't REALLY give you X-ray vision....)
Have you ever wondered what somebody looks like under their clothes? I'm guessing you have! Well, so have researchers at Brown University. That's why they've developed some fancy software that creates models of what people look like naked based only on pictures of them in their clothes.
Ultimate Perv Tech Creates Model of Your Naked Body Using Photo of You Fully Clothed.
Category: Sex and Technology
Posted on 10/28/2008 1:04:10 PM by Gloria Brame
TS gene found
Fascinating news from Australia, where scientists have discovered more evidence to support the theory that transgenderism has a genetic basis.
Australian researchers have identified a significant link between a gene involved in testosterone action and male-to-female transsexualism.
DNA analysis from 112 male-to-female transsexual volunteers showed they were more likely to have a longer version of the androgen receptor gene.
The genetic difference may cause weaker testosterone signals, the team reported in Biological Psychiatry.
Link
Category: Sexual Science and Medicine
Posted on 10/27/2008 3:52:40 PM by Gloria Brame
High on my political soapbox for Barry O
Since the last presidential election, I've hesitated to make too many political posts here. I know some of my readers prefer it that way, particularly the ones who disagree with my politics. I've always had a wide mix of friends, from Fundamentalists who only vote Republican to Commies who refuse to vote at all, and I like it that way. I don't think politics should come between people, particularly when they have other interests in common -- like BDSM, for example. Your mileage, however, may vary.
So consider this my introductory apologia for the election rant to come. It's the only one I'm permitting myself this time around, so it's going to be a doozy. If you don't want to read political screeds, surf away now. If hearing me talk glowingly about Barack Obama and disparagingly of John McCain will make you sick, start drinking the Pepto now. If you think my opinion about the elections is meaningless, you're right. My opinions don't mean anything to anyone but me. But to me, they mean quite a lot. So I am using my personal blog to voice those feelings. If you don't like it, please come back after election day and spare yourself the aggravation. I'm going to keep this post at the top of my blog until then, and then it'll be gone forever.
That was your final warning. :)
To start, this image pretty much sums up my take on the Republican candidates this year:
The first and biggest problem I have with McCain is that I think he'll die in office, making Palin our president. If the job doesn't actually kill him, he will at least be down for the count time and again, as doctors desperately work to keep him alive. The fact is that being a US president is, more than ever, an exhausting, demoralizing, mind-fuckingly stressful job. Look at Bill Clinton's before and after pix, then look at George W. Bush's. Does anyone really believe a 72 year old man can take all the kicks to the stomach that go with the job and come out alive? McCain could live to 100 as a Senator, but as President, the stress will take an already physically and mentally fragile old guy and put him in an early grave. (Note: no need to explain why Sarah Palin in the Oval Office is a nightmare none of us can face, right?)
The next problem with McCain is that he is a sociopath. When the devoted wife who stood by him during his time in a POW camp got into a terrible car wreck that destroyed her figure, put her in a wheelchair, and caused her to gain weight, McCain promptly dumped her and his kids cold and ran off with a rich, young woman who he married only one month later. That's why none of his grown kids show up at rallies or speak out in support of him: they hate his guts for what he did to their mother. I can't help wondering why his new kids don't show up at rallies either. The GOP has made a point of dragging Palin's kids on stage, even the baby who shouldn't be passed around like a political prop in the first place. But where is McCain's little adopted daughter? Is he afraid he'll lose the support of his racist constituents if they were frequently reminded that his wife adopted a darling little girl of color?
Leading to another thing that makes me hate McCain. I've read thousands of anti-Obama rants by McCain supporters. And I'm afraid I can only draw one conclusion from the gobbledy-gook of their addled arguments. They're damn racists. I don't care how vociferously McCain supporters may deny it, but his camp's political fortunes rest on the shoulders of hate-mongers and ideologues. McCain's most fanatical supporters believe in white supremacy and in keeping women in their place. A good number believe the Rapture's right around the corner, so we might as well blow up the world now, because they're floaters and the rest of us can go to hell.
As I see it, there's room for everyone in America, even the ignorant and deluded; but I am certain that if the ignorant and deluded run America, they won't make room for me or anyone else who doesn't think like them.
I still can't believe that the female lobbyist McCain philandered with (and no doubt made illegal deals with) has not even been an issue in this campaign. I can't believe anyone thinks that McCain, who played a role in the S&L fiasco, could possibly do shit about Wall St., except fuck it up even more. I can't believe that anyone could see McCain as a man of the people when he married a filthy-rich, Mafia-connected heiress who puts up with verbal abuse and worse from him, while he uses her money to buy office. McCain called her a cunt in public and yet no one links this with his character. WTF. Everything about McCain screams sociopath.
I'm not madly in love with Obama, but I respect him. More than that, I think he will be a great president. If he can live up to his potential, well, I think he could be the greatest president of my lifetime, maybe even the greatest American president since FDR. But he is a politician, and I am incapable of ever fully trusting any politician, no matter how much I love what he stands for. To be a politician is to compromise: if you don't compromise, you don't win. And those compromises inevitably disappoint. When Obama caves to oil interests, when he goes along with bills that infringe on our Constitutional rights to privacy, well, it is what it is: a politician trying to please too many camps, listening to too many advisors, and trying to make the most politically advantageous compromise.
But I believe Obama can be a great president. He is the only presidential candidate in my lifetime thus far who has demonstrated the same qualities as the best presidents in American history. He is that wondrous, mythical creature: a liberal Christian. He has shown himself to be rational, generous, kind, respectful and considerate in the face of adversity, even when he's been viciously attacked. Obama has overcome incredible odds in this campaign, and in his life as well. He was the disenfranchised, underprivileged outsider who, through hard work and more hard work, has risen to lead a nation. He combines the charisma of Bill Clinton with the affability of Ronald Reagan, the social concern of Franklin Roosevelt with the towering intelligence of Abraham Lincoln.
His political enemies have done everything in their power to discredit and humiliate him. He's survived dirty tricks (like the Obama "food stamps"), hoaxes (like the campaign worker who scratched a B on her face and blamed it on an Obama supporter), lies (such as the claim that he's a Muslim terrorist) and McCarthyism (e.g., re-heating Cold War hysteria and calling Obama a Commie for wanting to restore social equality to America). More amazingly, he's done so without resorting to the GOP's favorite ploy: whining like babies about media bias. ( Which is really fucking hilarious, btw, since nearly all major media outlets and talk-radio stations in the US are owned by right-wingers.) Obama has weathered every possible political storm with courage and elan.
Obama seems to be a man who always valued his family, and particularly the women in his life: his mother, his grandmother, his wife. Unlike Cindy McCain, Michelle doesn't seem to freeze up in terror next to her husband. Mrs. Obama is beautiful and strong and acts like her husband's equal and friend, unlike Mrs. McCain, who looks like she's hiding domestic abuse and drug addiction under three compacted inches of make-up. That Obama appears to have such warm and progressive relationships with his female relatives probably explains why he has a progressive attitude about women's issues. That McCain looks like the poster-child for tyrannical males may explain why he doesn't think women have a right to choose what to do with their bodies.
Obama doesn't have to engage in name-calling to win points. Whether or not you thought he won the debates, Obama certainly classed them up. He exudes leadership qualities. McCain looked and acted like a creepy old Wal-Mart greeter. Obama is articulate. McCain is loud. Obama looks like he smells of good cologne. McCain looks like he smells of Ben Gay. Obama gets personally informed on issues and makes original, interesting statements. McCain gets memos from staff telling him what to say. You can "listen" to McCain simply by turning on Fox News where talking heads read off the same notes that McCain was given.
But perhaps the most important reason I support Obama is because I believe that he is uniquely capable of getting America out of the horrible shit-hole we've sunk into over the past eight years. Obama has the character, the intelligence and, most importantly, the will to get us out of Iraq. Obama understands social inequality and financial hardship, and can make the right choices to restore financial stability to the country, just as he made good choices in his own life and lifted himself up by the bootstraps. McCain's greatest personal financial accomplishment was to marry a rich woman. McCain's innate sense of entitlement, coupled with his greed, spell doom to our economy. If McCain's a friend of the working class, I'm the tooth fairy.
I took advantage of early voting this year. I don't know if, in the end, Obama will prove to be the man I think he is. Who can say? But I'm kind of hoping that he will prove that he is even better than we can yet imagine. Kind of like Lincoln, who stepped into office equipped with little more than an insanely bright mind and a passionate commitment to serving his country. Lincoln's resources were tested and stretched beyond all human limits once in office, yet he managed, despite his personal agony and despair, to rise above and lead this nation towards truth and justice. I see that potential in Obama. I see that same strength, and clarity, and sense of honor and duty to a cause larger than himself.
McCain and his minions are the same old boys who created the mess America is in now, and they're still living in the past. Obama has a vision for a better future and the talent to make it happen. He is our only hope for change, and we need change badly. I pray to God that you, and yours, and most Americans this election year will vote for Barack Obama.
Category: Autobiographical Urges
Posted on 10/27/2008 3:51:45 PM by Gloria Brame
A few good (naked) men
Is it still a man's world? Fuck yes. Especially when it comes to juicy free images that appeal to a het female. Most straight porn is, of course, produced for men, and focuses more on women and the things they do with men. Most femdom porn includes...a femdom! I love seeing guys being put through their paces but frankly, the presence of another FemDom kills the buzz for me. My favorite kind of male porn is just images of naked men. Bonus if they look submissive but not required -- my mind can always find a way to get them into humiliation situations. But I want to see naked men! Naked as blue-jays.
Which is why gay porn is only a partial solution to this dearth of dirty images of penis-people for women. Problems are (a) you usually have to join a gay porn site to see anything worthwhile and don't know IF there's anything worthwhile until you join, and (b) gay porn caters to gay fantasies, not the stuff a het woman necessarily finds hot. While there is plenty of overlap between the stuff I fantasize about and the stuff gay men fantasize about, there are qualitative differences in porn tastes. For example, I don't want to see hairless twinks pouting provocatively. I am so bored with shaved balls I could scream. Perhaps it's my age speaking -- or more likely a mild hair fetish -- but I've always found pubic hair on men to be SEXY. Similarly, as cute as men may be in their early 20s, I want adult men -- hairy, wrinkled, imperfect and real-looking adult males. And while it's super-hot to imagine coercing two men into a hot scene (yum), gay men who can't wait to dive into each others' orifices are just not the same kind of thrill. Especially when you know they'd probably rather not have a woman anywhere in the vicinity.
I decided to do a little search on eBay this week to see what kind of naked male images I might find for sale in the form of posters, paintings, postcards, etc. Not surprisingly, most were by/for gay males. Nonetheless, because these were all more artistic and creative efforts, they definitely held more interest for me than most of what I see on porn sites. (Even the 20-something guy on the plate at least has a real bush of pubes.) Any other women agree? I'll list artist names where they were available.
The oldest image I found dates from the 19th century and is credited to Henry Bosdet.
My kind of dinner plate, by artist Jack Pierson.
No attribution, but a nice painting of a leather man.
Interesting and strange, artists in China are feeding endless numbers of erotic portraits to eBay consumers, including ones specifically geared to gay tastes. Here are two really sweet paintings by Chinese artists.
Finally, though this is about as gay as it gets, oh, well, these men just look so pretty and so hot, and doing their thing on a beach like that....well, they surely couldn't mind TOO much of a woman stopped to admire. Painting by Troy Caperton.
Categories: Sex and Culture
Sex On-Line
Sexual Beauty
Posted on 10/25/2008 9:39:56 PM by Gloria Brame
Make Swingtown your town
If you haven't seen it, you might want to watch (on Netflix) or get the DVD (coming in December) of the CBS series "Swingtown." A summer replacement show, the series is set in mid-70s Chicago, and focuses on a group of married couples who get involved in the swing scene. It's not as glam as Sex in the City or as addictive as House, but it's one of the few network shows aimed at a sexually liberal adult audience. Naturally, the show's sensitive exploration of swinging in America has freaked out conservative Christian viewers who immediately launched protests and demanded that the show be canceled. The usual suspects -- the American Family Association and the Parents Television -- have been spearheading this effort. With ratings mixed and a couple of big advertisers chickening out in response to pressure from Wildmon's followers, the fate of the show is now up in the air, as CBS tries to decide whether or not to cave. (You can read more about it on Wiki.)
Fans of the show have organized a drive to get CBS to put the show back on the air. Even if you aren't a fan of the show, please consider lending support to this drive in the interest of free speech and sign the Swingtown Petition.
Category: Sex and Culture
Posted on 10/25/2008 9:39:00 PM by Gloria Brame
Strange history: The Navy v. Dorothy
Heard my husband chortling the other day -- he'd found this little gem on Wiki.
In the early 1980s, the Naval Investigative Service was investigating homosexuality in the Chicago area. Agents discovered that gay men sometimes referred to themselves as "friends of Dorothy." Unaware of the historical meaning of the term, the NIS believed that a woman named Dorothy was at the center of a massive ring of homosexual military personnel. The NIS launched an enormous hunt for Dorothy, hoping to find her and convince her to reveal the names of gay servicemembers.
from "Friend of Dorothy" on Wikipedia
Well, gee. They should've looked somewhere over the rainbow.
Category: Sex and History
Posted on 10/25/2008 9:38:01 PM by Gloria Brame
FOUND: Absolut cut
Don't know how I missed this ad, which I suppose is a few years old (?). Assuming it's body paint, and not just some digital trickery...WOW! Anyone know more about the ad or model? Needless to say, I wouldn't mind showing him some Gloria Restraint....
Categories: Post-Modern Pop Culture
Sexual Beauty
Posted on 10/25/2008 1:30:12 AM by Gloria Brame