Category Archives: We Make Art Not Sex

“Philosophy in the Boudoir” Redux

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 [...]

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“Fille Publique”: Pole Dancing in the Financial District

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:
Fille Publique*
Dressed in a business suit, I performed “striptease” pole tricks almost directly underneath the Charles Schwab marquee that continually flashes the “market news”. [...]

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The New “Lady Chatterley”: Francophilia + “Natural” Sex = Crazy Good Reviews

There’s a new Lady Chatterely in town, and this time, she’s translated:

The New York Times, in their Video Minute (which I can’t embed here, and yes, I’m registering complaint as I blog with the “relevant parties”) lavishes praise on how “remarkable” the film is just for having been translated into French from its English [...]

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We Make Art Not Sex: Rubber Lover

(by Janaina Tschäpe, via sexblo.gs)

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Sex Positive Art Comes to Main Street

Actually, Market Street, not Main, but in San Francisco, that is our main drag. So cheers to Tina Butcher (aka the bondage queen next door, Madison Young), owner and curator of the boundary-bursting feminist, sex-positive gallery Femina Potens, which has just signed a lease to take over a very prominent spot in San [...]

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Of Course MIT Hotties Do It For You

The Times has been hardcore sexing itself up over the last few days, and their readers are already breathlessly responding:
“There’s a little bit of adrenaline, a puffing of the chest, a bit of anticipatory tongue motion,” said a divorced lawyer in his late 40s.
“I feel relaxed, warm and comfortable,” said a designer in [...]

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Saturday Morning Video: Yoko Ono’s “Cut” Piece

Beautiful: mod dresses, shiny scissors, and her. (much thx, ana) + update (as jo weldon, who used to do a “cut piece”-inspired act in the early 90’s as a feature dancer in strip clubs, and is currently blogging from the sex workers’ art show tour points out that the comments @ youtube are straying [...]

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Sex for Moderns: The Lucite Robot Edition

It’s sultry in San Francisco this afternoon, and my brain is still ramping up. Please, to the web powers-that-be, let me wake up somewhere between these two images, a cool, mod place for a mid-day fantasy:

(Willy Rey)

(Katy Manning)
(both via Strange Ink, via Sexoteric)

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The Sublet Experiment: NSA Theatre Coming to a Fifth Floor Walkup Near You

The hunt for a good apartment in any major bustling metropolis is essentially a sexual crisis, and like sex, only by being honest about your wants can you get what you really need. You know you fuck too loud and so that requires finding roommates who also come at a similar or higher [...]

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As Promised, Berlin, From Sexerati with Love

Back when I relaunched Sexerati, I asked you where I ought to visit in Europe as a sex correspondant while I was overseas already for the Nordic Exceptional Trendshop (masterfully covered by we-make-money-not-art).

Berlin won out, not in small part due to the chance to visit the Helmut Newton Foundation, photographed from inside & secretly above. [...]

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