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FOUND: vintage girl-on-girl BDSM
Three random vintage images -- different periods, different countries-- but similar all-female BDSM scenes.

Category: FOUND
Posted on 12/17/2008 1:46:00 AM by Gloria Brame
Pick of the sex toy litter
Gizmodo published their choice of The Ten Best Sex Gadgets of 2008 (NSFW), and realized there was something awfully familiar-looking about one of the vibrators on their list....

Category: Sexual Humor
Posted on 12/17/2008 1:45:04 AM by Gloria Brame
Xmas for pervs: DIY Gas Mask
Far be it for me to suggest that some mainstream publications subtly pander to the pervs in their audience, but PopSci is currently running a step-by-step guide to making your own gas mask, based on a funky tutorial that first ran in their magazine in 1942.
Outfit your bomb shelter or...make an present for a pervert you love.
DYI Gas Mask @ PopSci
Category: Sex and Sadomasochism
Posted on 12/16/2008 5:28:07 AM by Gloria Brame
Monty Python lives!
Stranger than a Terry Gilliam cartoon. A prehistoric beast that opened its head to eat.
A peculiar amphibian that was clad in bony armor prowled warm lakes 210 million years ago, catching fish and other tasty snacks with one of the most unusual bites in the history of life on Earth.
The creature called Gerrothorax pulcherrimus, which lived alongside some of the early dinosaurs, opened its mouth not by dropping its lower jaw, as other vertebrate animals do.
Instead, it lifted back the top of its head in a way that looked a lot like lifting the lid of a toilet seat.
Ancient armored amphibian had world's oddest bite
Category: Pets and Animal Love
Posted on 12/16/2008 5:27:11 AM by Gloria Brame
Unreasonable punishments: sex crimes
Excellent blog bit by Jacob Sullum at Reason Magazine on the crazy disparity between punishments for armed robbers v. smut peddlars. Robber: a year of "home detention." Porn guy: 33 months in prison. One big difference: the robber was sorry he screwed over so many people; the porn guy wasn't sorry he distributed images of people screwing.
The Justice Department's Obscenity Prosecution Task Force proudly announces that it has obtained a 33-month prison sentence for Loren Jay Adams, an Indianapolis man who was found guilty of "transporting obscene matters through the U.S. mail" for "sale or distribution by means of interstate commerce"a.k.a. selling consenting adults videos featuring consenting adults having sex.
link
Category: Sex Laws and Crimes
Posted on 12/16/2008 5:26:11 AM by Gloria Brame
Internet sex better than real-life sex, study proves
Well, sort of: the study did not really prove the above, but then the study did not really prove what most newspaper headlines are heralding either.
The Intel survey in question wanted to find out how important the Internet has become in the daily lives of Americans. You know --would you rather watch tv or get on-line? As part of that survey, they also asked adults if they'd give up real-life experiences (i.e., sex) for the thrills of logging on. Naturally, that's the result that media outlets have jumped on. The NY Times writes:
According to the study, 46 percent of women and 30 percent of men would opt to forgo sex for two weeks instead of giving up access to their precious Internet for the same period.
Survey Asks: Internet Access or Sex?
What they're totally missing here is that for lots of Americans, the Internet IS their sex life. Or at least an important chunk of it. I'd love to know what kind of results we'd get if you asked people
if they would rather give up Internet sex for their real-life sex. I
bet that would shift some paradigms, by golly.
More people are having more sex of every variety on the Internet than anyone could ever hope to have in real life, including lots of people who, for one reason or another, find it difficult to impossible to get laid in r/l. Not to mention all the porn, hot chat, streaming vid, etc. etc. that many adults use as a kind of foreplay to their sex with r/l partners, much less the hook-ups you can set up via Craigs List inter alia.
So I'm thinking that most of the people who would rather be on-line than having sex are, in fact, really enjoying the sex they have on-line a bunch more than the sex they get at home, or at least using the Internet to get laid in the first place. The implication that people who prefer the Internet to sex actually prefer shopping on eBay or looking at puppy cam to sex is, IMHO, ridiculous. I think if people prefer the Internet to sex, the most likely explanation is that they're having better sex on-line than in r/l.
Another recent study may be an even greater indicator that Internet sex is the wave of the erotic future as a fixture of sexual intimacy. I'm guessing that today's teens using tech gadgets to sex it up with friends
will be tomorrow's "what? people can have sex without the Internet??!" adults.
Category: Sex On-Line
Posted on 12/16/2008 5:25:12 AM by Gloria Brame
Eight year old kills father over spankings
An incredible crime, with an incredible story behind it. If ever there was evidence that violence against children creates violent children, this is it.
What do you do with an 8-year-old boy charged with two counts of premeditated murder?
Prosecutors and a defense lawyer in rural eastern Arizona are struggling to come up with an answer in the shocking case of a child accused of shooting his father and his father's friend early last month....
Police say the boy planned and methodically carried out the shootings, using a .22-caliber rifle when his father, 29-year-old Vincent Romero, and 39-year-old Tim Romans returned home from work on Nov. 5.
In a police interview, the boy admitted firing at least two shots at each of the men, but the child's attorney has questioned the admissibility of the confession because no lawyer or parent was present.
The boy also told police in the interview that his stepmother had spanked him five times the night before the shootings because he did not bring home some papers from school. According to documents later released by prosecutors, the boy kept a tally of spankings, vowing the 1,000th would be his last.
Police: Ariz. killer, 8, vowed 1,000th spanking would be last
It's troubling on so many levels. How can there be justice in this case? And, really, who deserves the justice?
Category: Post-Modern Pop Culture
Posted on 12/15/2008 9:15:47 AM by Gloria Brame
Maybe everyone's shopping on-line
Had to run errands in town yesterday for aquarium supplies and the proverbial "this-n-that," and noticed that no matter where we went, it looked like a typical Saturday in Athens--no crowds, short lines, lots of parking spots. The salespeople who usually look like abuse victims around this time of the year, their nerves shattering when customers require price-checks, seemed cheery and relaxed. WTF? At one place they were happily munching fudge, clearly having a pleasant and relaxed day. No bags under their eyes. No white knuckles. No voices scratchy from explaining return policies for the millionth time. It felt so wrong.
Considering we're less than 2 weeks away from the annual Judeo-Christian gift-fest, it should've been a prime shopping day, and even in poky little Athens, GA that usually means heavy traffic and long lines. Instead we sailed through everything. The only place that was crazy busy was the supermarket, where so much food was on sale we ended up buying pantry staples that we didn't really need but couldn't really resist either, not at those prices. (If you ever run out of ketchup or pasta, come on over because we're good to go for a while now).
As I waited in line, I told Ketzl to get me some flowers (*sob* nothing's in bloom in our gardens right now) and she proudly returned with her arms full of impressive bouquets. I was going to make her put some back until I saw the prices. Wow. I've paid more for cut flowers when they were in season. When we got home and I arranged them in our biggest vase, they resembled one of those massive floral nightmares you see in funeral homes. COOL.
If a tad ghoulish.
Obviously, rampant unemployment and a general fear that the money we waste on stocking stuffers today will be sorely missed when the rent comes due is killing retailers. That's bad enough in a big city but in small local economies it could spell disaster. Rents may not be high here, but then neither are margins. Not sure how Athens will look if holiday sales 2008 crash on the shoals of the Bush economy. As it is, every local retailer with my email address has been bombarding me with ads and coupons, coming across as desperate as crack-heads trying to find cash for their next fix.
I'm expecting the next email blitz to announce going-out-of-business sales. Bummer.
On-line retailers don't seem to be doing a whole lot better, at least judging by all the wild deals I'm seeing all over the place. I'm about done with all my holiday shopping, and determined not to blow more cash on frivolous purchases but Amazon's big Sale on Jewelry
may just melt my resolve. I'm already beginning to rationalize that it could be a patriotic gesture to buy myself another pair of earrings. You know, that needless bauble isn't a needless bauble: it's my little contribution towards keeping the economy alive.
Category: Autobiographical Urges
Posted on 12/15/2008 9:14:53 AM by Gloria Brame
Today's horoscope
For LEO:
You are at your happiest when the people you love are happy, so work on making that happen today. Call up a blue friend and find out what they need to start smiling again. It might be just a shoulder to cry on, or it might be an errand that they can't get around to dealing with. Their stress levels have been on the rise, but you can help them see that this will pass. They need a sweet reminder about what is really important in life. And if anyone understands that, it's you.
Category: Autobiographical Urges
Posted on 12/14/2008 12:47:13 PM by Gloria Brame
The Running of the Balls
Category: Post-Traumatic Tabloid Disorder
Posted on 12/14/2008 12:46:18 PM by Gloria Brame
Smiles for a Saturday
(Thanks to Jill for this)
A cabbie picks up a nun....she gets into the cab and notices that the very
handsome cab driver won't stop staring at her. She asks him why he is staring.
He replies: "I have a question to ask you, but I don't want to offend you."
She
answers,"My son, you cannot offend me. When you're as old as I am and have been
a nun as long as I have, you get a chance to see and hear just about
everything. I'm sure that there's nothing you could say or ask that I would
find offensive."
"Well, I've always had a fantasy to have a nun kiss me."
She
responds, "Well, let's see what we can do about that: #1, you have to be single
and #2, you must be catholic."
The cab driver is very excited and says, "Yes,
I'm single and Catholic!"
"OK" the nun says, "Pull into the next alley.."
The
nun fulfills his fantasy with a kiss that would make a hooker blush. But when
they get back on the road the cab driver starts crying.
"My dear child," says
the nun, "why are you crying?"
"Forgive me but I've sinned. I lied and I must
confess, I'm married and I'm Jewish."
The nun says "That's OK. My name is
Kevin and I'm going to a Halloween party."
Category: Sexual Humor
Posted on 12/13/2008 4:26:52 PM by Gloria Brame
Object Lesson: use a key ring
If you love something, set it free. And if you can't, call the police. The Detroit Free Press reports police in suburban Detroit responded to a call Thursday by a man who handcuffed his wife to their bed but misplaced the key.
Dearborn police used a universal key to free the woman.
Sgt. Ray Patrick calls the situation "more of an intimate relationship than an unlawful imprisonment."
Michigan cops help couple break the chains of love
So, boys and girls, what have we learned?
Category: Sex and Sadomasochism
Posted on 12/12/2008 5:34:48 PM by Gloria Brame
Goodbye, Dear Bettie
1950s pinup model Bettie Page dies in LA at 85.
Bettie Page, the 1950s secretary-turned-model whose controversial photographs in skimpy attire or none at all helped set the stage for the 1960s sexual revolution, died Thursday. She was 85.
Category: Sex and Sadomasochism
Posted on 12/12/2008 5:33:52 PM by Gloria Brame
Found artist: Gigi Stoll
Just stumbled upon the exquisite photography of Gigi Stoll. Click on her nudes -- well worth the visit.
Category: FOUND
Posted on 12/11/2008 9:13:51 PM by Gloria Brame
Living with animals v studying animals

As a hardcore dog-lover, I think it's fantastic that researchers are delving deeper into the psychology and intelligence of canines (and wish there were more studies being reported about felines, since I'm a softcore cat-lover too).
Research has amply demonstrated that dogs are complex and sentient, that their companionship can extend lives and comfort the elderly and the ill, and that they possess some seemingly supernatural skills (like being able to sniff out cancer).
Though the data are hardly surprising to animal-lovers, it's still great to have the clinical evidence. It helps challenge popular assumptions that animals don't have feelings. Of course, anyone who lives with animals already knew that, but in a meat-eating culture, the idea that the animals we eat for dinner once had emotional lives we can identify with is too painful and awful for many people to contemplate.
On the other hand, some of these studies seem amusingly redundant to those of us who live with pets. Like the current news that dogs get envious when they feel they aren't being treated as well as other dogs.
Dogs can sniff out unfair situations and show a simple emotion similar to envy or jealousy, Austrian researchers reported Monday.
Dogs sulked and refused to "shake" paws if other dogs got treats for tricks and they did not, said Friederike Range, an animal psychologist at the University of Vienna, who led the study into canine emotions.
"It is a more complex feeling or emotion than what we would normally attribute to animals," said Range.
Envy is a dog's life, study finds
My first reaction was that they could've saved a lot of money by using a dog-owner's living room as their lab.
When you've got more than one dog, there are days you feel like you're constantly trying to ensure that no one feels disrespected because, God forbid if one dogs gets more or better treats
than the other. Or let's say you're absently petting whomever is currently occupying your lap: within minutes, a laser-like death-ray of reproach drills through your skull. You look up to see your other dog (or dogs) staring at you as if you've just killed its only child.
Without overly anthropomorphizing things, it's obvious to their owners that dogs have a wide range of feelings. They are alternately happy, depressed, ecstatic, anxious, melancholy, optimistic, mellow, frustrated, grumpy, affectionate, and angry (especially when UPS delivers a package). Nor are they shy with their opinions. They are pretty much ready, willing and able to inform you of their
needs and wishes every minute of the day, if you let them. And even though they are passionately loyal to their humans, most have a solid streak of self-interest which makes them more apt to figure out how to communicate what they want to you than to learn what you want from them. I'm thinking of all those people who pamper and indulge their precious pet's every whim while the dog poops wherever it likes, merrily ignoring the pleas and imprecations from its humans. Unless you're one of those fascistic dog-trainers who don't let their pets get away with any mischief, when you live with a lively dog, you're never entirely sure who's training who.
Of all the dogs we've owned, our border collie, Bobo, had the liveliest intelligence by far. At times, we joked that he was a person trapped in a dog costume. He was constantly communicating needs, opinions, demands: his sighs, huffs, whimpers and other vocalizations became a second language to us. OK, we couldn't discuss Cassirer with him. But when we took him out with us, we'd feel mildly shocked, almost giddy, to see him act like every other goofy dog, peeing inappropriately or sniffing every butt he could. It was like those tv shows, where the pet speaks perfect English when alone with its owner, but pretends to be a normal animal when other people are around.
I remember once, many years ago, driving Bobo to a local park only to discover to our chagrin, that we'd forgotten his collar and leash at home. Being a border collie, he'd naturally realized long before us that he was not appropriately dressed for the occasion. When I opened the car dog to let him out, he hesitated and gave me a look of "Are you sure about that?" Fortunately, we had a length of rope in the car and quickly fashioned it into a rough collar and lead. But I will never forget the look of disgust Bobo gave me as I secured it on him. He looked embarrassed for me, like the teenager whose mother does something clueless in public. I could tell Bobo was thinking that, if only he had the motor skills and that all-important opposable thumb, he would have put the collar on himself.
Category: Pets and Animal Love
Posted on 12/11/2008 9:12:56 PM by Gloria Brame
New York's finest sodomizers
In New York, fact is sometimes stranger than SM fiction.
A police officer warned a tattoo parlor worker that if he reported being sodomized with a baton during an arrest at a subway station, officers would lock him up for a felony, prosecutors said Tuesday....
In the most detailed narrative to date of the incident, prosecutors
said Kern and Morales spotted Mineo outside the subway station smoking
marijuana. When they sought to stop him, he fled into the station,
jumped a turnstile, ran toward the platform and hurdled another
turnstile before he was pinned down, handcuffed near a token booth and
searched for drugs, they said.
With
Mineo in a "helpless position" with his pants down, Kern took out a
retractable baton and shoved it into the victim's buttocks, said
Assistant District Attorney Charles Guria. The baton pierced Mineo's
underwear, tore his rectum and drew blood, the prosecutor said.
3 NYPD officers charged in subway sodomy case
Aside from the ghoulishly fascinating details, the most remarkable aspect of this case is that the victim has foresworn anonymity and allowed full media coverage in an effort to bring awareness to the plight of victims of police brutality. It's the rare sexually molested man who foregoes anonymity and publicly presses charges against his victimizer(s). Assuming his allegations are true (and the DNA evidence discovered on the baton suggests they are), I give Mineo huge props for having the courage to seek justice for a crime that many men would be too embarrassed to publicly acknowledge.
Category: Sex Laws and Crimes
Posted on 12/11/2008 1:28:25 AM by Gloria Brame
The power of voices
I've heard people talk sometimes about having sound fetishes -- getting turned on by a particular sound (a crash, a snap, a hiss). I've got one for certain male voices. I've only met maybe a dozen or two men in my whole life whose voices tickled my vagus nerve like that, and they didn't sound like each other, so I can't quite describe the phenomenon.
Last time it happened, I was at a local gardening center. I heard a soft, gravelly
voice and was warm all over. I looked, and it was an old gray-haired bubba in overalls. No matter. He had that VOICE. It's a sound that reaches into me, at an emotional level. Why? No idea!
Just reminded of this as I listened to Randy Travis singing "Down by the Riverside." OMG. When he hits a crescendo, I am ready to drop to my knees and convert.
Category: Autobiographical Urges
Posted on 12/10/2008 3:55:54 AM by Gloria Brame
Recommended Reading: The Best of Sexology
Give the gift of sexual humor when you buy some lucky friend a copy of this compilation, recommended to me by Karin Winslow. I think FOX has made reality shows on about half of these topics, but reading how sexologists explained these events almost 100 years ago is oh so much funnier.
Sexology, founded in 1933, was America's first sex magazine. Through its fifty-year run, Grandma and Grandpa got a rollicking taste of sexual exotica in articles such as...
Extra Breasts in Women
Sexual Vampirism
Pregnant Men
Priapism: Uncontrollable Erections
When Midgets Marry
Homosexual Chickens
Twin Beds or Single?
Humans With Tails
Do Women Marry each Other?
Sexual Tattooing
Can Humans and Animals Crossbreed?
From the looney to the libertine to the downright lecherous, Sexology covered it all . . . or should we say uncovered? Readers will laugh and learn in this hilarious book collecting the best of Sexologyit may even be better than sex itself!
Category: Sexual Humor
Posted on 12/10/2008 3:54:58 AM by Gloria Brame
Rooting for Bettie
In case you missed it, the eternally beautiful bondage model Bettie Page was recently hospitalized, and listed in critical condition (heart attack). Sure hope she makes a speedy and full recovery: lots of her fans out there are still hoping for autographs from her. Get well, Bettie!
(Thanks to Quill for the link.)
Here's a shot of the bondage diva taken in the last couple of years and still gorgeous in her 80s!
Category: Sex and Sadomasochism
Posted on 12/10/2008 3:53:59 AM by Gloria Brame
What to get your slaveboy for the holidays
Thinking of getting your favorite boytoy something truly memorable this year? How about a nice Brazilian wax job? For a mere $100, you can subject him to genital torture at the hands of an indifferent cosmetician, and he will be returned to you with testicles as smooth as bowling balls.
Here's a helpful guide from a female dermatologist to keep pain and discomfort to a minimum.
According to Newsweek magazine, straight men are getting the equivalent of the Brazilian bikini wax. some gay men have been waxing their genital area for years, it seems that heterosexual or metrosexual (as the case may be) men are paying about $100 to have waxists pour hot wax on their genital area, apply strips of cloth and then remove the hair all of it!. And no this isn't considered S & M, it's all in the name of vanity....
But as women know all too well, waxing, especially in the bikini area,
comes with certain problems including ingrown hairs and worse, wax
burns. Are men really ready?
1. Doubtfully, that's why we created Dermadoctor's 10 Commandments for men who opt for a Brazilian bikini wax.
Read the Commandments by DERMAdoctor
Gee, on second thought, a true sadist would hide these and send slaves forth to reap the rewards of the total pain experience. For their own good, of course.
BTW, you can read an interesting first-person of male genital waxing account by a guy who ejaculated during the experience. Bonus!
Categories: Sex and Culture
Sexual Beauty
Sexual Health
Posted on 12/10/2008 3:53:00 AM by Gloria Brame