Category Archives: Design

Wreck & Salvage v. 50 Cent: Of Fembots, Voyeurism, & The Future

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)

“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 [...]

Retrosexual: Mystery Date, Now! With Bears!

The classic Mystery Date girls’ game gets remade as a bear matchmaking service in this retrosexed video:

Bears so rarely are celebrated in such a charming way, let alone available on the internet teevee. Plus, isn’t there just something so safe & sweet about mashing up outsider sexuality with nostalgia?

(via a shockingly, increasingly hotter Yahoo)

Sissy Boy Slap Party Says, Happy Gay Pride, All

Is it too much to hope that someday Pride will shed its rainbow chain aesthetic and return to its more licentious roots? No better way to celebrate being Old School Gay (this is my thirteenth Pride) than this beauty, Sissy Boy Slap Party, from Guy Maddin. Enjoy, queerlets.

Design for Jet Sex: Jimmyjane + Tank Girl Artist

Envisaged as haut pervere for the globetrotting club set, Jimmyjane’s beautiful but improbably lithe classic has been given a cartoony facelift by Tank Girl and Gorillaz concept artist Jamie Hewlett in their new ULTIMATE MEMBERS line.

Yes, it’s stunning, and a fashion-forward concept, very international media convergence, to merge jet set + jet sex. [...]

Marital Aid Through The Ages

To think there was once a time when just scanning past an advertisement for the euphemistically-named “videos for married couples” would evoke a tingle of curiosity. What, then, does it say for Designing for Sex at the turn of the last century to get a rise out of readers with the following:

(from Lucifer the [...]

And the Sexerati Secretarial Pool Allows A Camera In This Morning

(The Virtual Typewriter Museum, where smut is categorized by Underwood and Royal, via Strange Ink)

From the Awkward Sex Files

Special to the “Awkward Safer Sex Activism” Department:

(thx, mister.)

Jet Sex: Condoms in Taipei

Changing planes in Taipei, I fell in design love with this condom display in the very front entrance of the airport pharmacy. I selected a box (of twelve, thanks for asking) to bring home for field testing.
After a brief moment of consumer panic — that I had unwittingly chosen some lubricated with nonoxynol-9 [...]

Lazysexweb: What Is The History of NSFW?

Apropos of Susie Bright’s questioning of the overuse of NSFW…
NSFW is unmandated, unlegislated censorship — there’s no ballot to punch, no senator to harangue.
The great majority of NSFW warnings are the result of unconscious class bias, with the conceit of American ethnocentrism. It’s made a mockery of out of journalism and the First Amendment.
NSFW and [...]