In this corner, 50 Cent & (oh man) Justin Timberlake with the best of get-you-laid technology c. 2002:
And in this corner, Wreck & Salvage’s re-purposed, retrofit with pop geek robot lust, video remix:
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(big plastic love to Chuck Olsen for the tip)
(Hello, Nerve readers. I hope you enjoyed the only bit of sex advice I’ve ever given on the internet. Now I don’t usually do that. Or this, either. For you, just for today, an excerpt from my own journal.)
Triumphant, triumphant, joyous, raucous sex. Some virtue in it, to accept that [...]
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And I’ll never forget my first exposure to this video, “thanatos,” when it was screened at the American Film Institute as part of Pixelodeon, the first festival of online video. There’s nothing like watching video meant for the web in a theatre full of strangers. Even more so when it’s playing a game [...]
I spent the night in bed with Writer of O, which is a sort of triple narrative: the revelation of the novel’s author, Dominique Aury, as a prominent intellectual, of her affair with another member of the literary establishment, and of how a novel can — sometimes — be a love letter.
“The mystery of sex [...]
A tidy roundup of where to find sex smart rippling the web right now:
Belladonna discloses that she’s got herpes and is retiring from porn with an announcement on her MySpace, handily deconstructed by the smartypants commenters at Jezebel.
Pandagon takes on Audacia Ray’s Naked on the Internet, in a review that starts (and in what’s [...]
Artist Tomer Hanuka has been commissioned to create the cover art for a new Penguin Classics edition of the Marquis de Sade’s Philosophy in the Boudoir, Or, The Immoral Mentors.
On his process:
Since the cover included a back cover and two flaps there was lots of space to build a rounded atmosphere. the back cover is [...]
The American Sexuality Blog points to this week’s Roll Call’s turn at queer public sex nonfiction smut:
“At 1216 hours, Craig tapped his right foot. I recognized this as a signal used by persons wishing to engage in lewd conduct. Craig tapped his toes several times and moves his foot closer to my foot. I moved [...]
Video artist Linda M. Ford confronts the “working girl” in her site-specific projections and performances, putting peep show girls on museums and pole dancers in front of Charles Schwab:
From her statement:
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Dressed in a business suit, I performed “striptease” pole tricks almost directly underneath the Charles Schwab marquee that continually flashes the “market news”. [...]
“Want to watch some fetish this morning?”
“Mixed wrestling, that is rich. I wonder if am a monster, the people behind me who can see my screen are talking about Apartheid reconciliation.”
“Make that suggestion. More mixed wrestling.”
“Yes, Gandhi’s granddaughter, who I met, and was stewarding the effort in South Africa at the time, would, in [...]
Sexerati has been on summer vacation. Or, maybe, having a summer love affair. Since we aren’t Julia Allison, speculation of said possible affair won’t surface at Valleywag, though it’s not out of the question. For a few reasons. But actually, a Gawker property is partially to blame for our absence, though [...]