May 2010
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From the ‘Fallen’ series by Australian photographer Toby Burrows. ( F/lthy Georgeous Th/ngs)
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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
- Oscar Wilde
Photo by James Christopher ( F/lthy Georgeous Th/ngs)
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noerlodka: Two Chairs
Noah Kalina and Eric Lyle Lodwick have set up a site for their collaboration on various projects. Video with Nettie Harris.
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12th Annual Masturbate-a-thon. Initially started by San Francisco’s Good Vibrations as a response to Bill Clinton firing US Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders in 1994 for advocating masturbation. All are welcome as participants or voyeurs and anyone can sponsor by the minute or the orgasm (it’s also a fundraiser). Last year’s record for the most orgasms was 6 for men and 49 in women. The best masturbator award went to Japan’s Masanobu Sato who spent a dizzying…
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Exhibition at London’s Greengrassi Gallery featuring new work by Lisa Yuskavage. When asked about the provocative, sometimes grotesque nature of her work, Yuskavage replies: “But what’s wrong with being uncomfortable? I’m not interested in backing off from what’s difficult…I think the repulsive and beautiful are both worthy of being seen.”
Lisa Yuskavage ‘Nap’, 2009. ( F/lthy Georgeous Th/ngs)
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A Brief History of Nakedness. From ancient Greece and Rome to Spencer Tunick and Dolly Parton (“Sometimes I like to run naked in the moonlight and the wind, on a little trail behind our house, when the honeysuckle blooms. It’s a feeling of freedom, so close to God and nature.”), a look at the the idea of nudity from then until now. Fascinating.
More on the book in an interview with the author, Philip Carr-Gomm, in The New Yorker.
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Chinese Prof Gets Prison for Orgies:
Chinese Prof Gets Prison for Orgies:
A Chinese college professor was sentenced to three and a half years in prison yesterday for holding private orgies and running a swingers’ club.
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Interested in learning from Betony Vernon? Cindy Gallop is hosting a small, private gathering in her spectacular space tomorrow night, where Betony will give a workshop on bettering your sexual skills. If you’re interested, get your ticket here.
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Sasha Grey is to play Adrian Grenier’s herself as Adrian Grenier’s love interest in the new season of Entourage. ( F/lthy Georgeous Th/ngs)
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In case you were wondering whether sex sells, Flirt Vodka’s seems to promise that if you drink their beverage, you will give head. (via)(FilthyGorgeousThings)
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Taboo is up!
Kirsty Logan writes about her early discovery of sex chats, Chelsea writes powerfully about her own experience with taboo, debauchette remembers when porn was taboo. There are banned books we’d like you to read, and some bizarre sex laws worth breaking (plus a bevy of corsets worth buying), and Jessie Shen wins with her lush taboo notes. Reto Caduff gives us Nettie, drenched and lovely, and the Dirty Story touches…