Eye | 'Immersion: Porn by Robbie Cooper' | Wallpaper June 2009

I see that Wallpaper's 'Immersion: Porn By Robbie Cooper' is traveling the Internet this morning. I stand by my original reaction from June 2009:

The real people's stories about porn are interesting and they sound authentic. As for calling it "a film of startling power and unsettling intimacy", I think Wallpaper is trying to seduce us with good copy. 

I agree that the film isn't "easy titillation"; I have no idea what footage you will find shocking, although Wallpaper warns you, so I should, too. 

The orgasms seem faked and stilted, compared to amateur websites all over the Internet. As a group, these are the least passionate orgams I've ever seen/heard in my life. Doesn't anybody scream and pant in this film?

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Eye | Madonna on Sexuality & Strong Women | Models 4 Water | Crazy Horse Film Criticized in Montreal

Heide Lindgren & Georgie Badiel with The Water Project Founder & President Peter ChasseHeide Lindgren & Georgie Badiel's Models 4 Water Fundraiser AOC Sensual Rebel

The reason I called out Heide Lindgren on AOC is because she raised some serious NSFW steam at Sensuality News in a Playboy France editorial last fall, lensed by Sasha Eisenman.

With all the blogger talk about Karlie Kloss' virtue recently, I seize every opportunity to promote the idea that good girls do take off their clothes on occasion -- and are better women for it. I argue that sensually comfortable women are generally less vain and more likely to be activists themselves.

More self-confident in their own sexual identity and physicality, Smart Sensuality women make the best activists, in terms of working the crowd and raising money for causes that matter. I call it Smart Sensuality financial everaging for issues that matter -- not getting some guy to buy you a pair of $500 stilettos. 

Buy me water wells in Africa and that will get my attention. Read on about Heidi and Georgie working for the global water supply.

Madonna may be promoting a retro fashion moment in her new film W.E, but she's as committed as ever to Smart Sensuality values, too. This is the essence of a 'fashion to flogging' mentality.

Madonna & Andrea Roseborough by Tom MunroMadonna & Andrea Roseborough | Tom Munro | Harper's Bazaar US December 2011 AOC Private Studio

Madonna delivers a smashing interview with Naomi Wolf in the current issue of Harper's Bazaar, addressing with her always laser-sharp sex & culture observations, the challenge of the Smart Sensuality woman.

Some of the critical hostility Madonna faces with this film, I (Naomi Wolf) am sure, is a reflex — our culture's resistance to women having power; directing a feature film is a powerful role, and women are central to this movie. I work with young women, I am the mother of a daughter, and I wanted to know, how did Madonna's sense of self emerge so intact? "I don't really know how," she replies. "I think it's just that as a creative person, in all the different things that I've done or ways that I've found to express myself, I've consistently come up against resistance in certain areas. I think that the world is not comfortable with female sexuality. It's always coming from a male point of view, and a woman is being objectified by a man — and even women are comfortable with that. But when a woman does it, ironically, women are uncomfortable with it. I think a lot of that has to do with conditioning."

Smart Sensuality people embrace eroticism and a positive physicality. Nudity doesn’t necessarily involve the objectification of women, although I’m the first person to agree that today’s world of saturated porn is messing up our minds big-time.

Porn Is Not Good Sex Ed

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PETA Debuts Elisabetta Canalis Campaign, Future XXX Website

At Anne of Carversville, we tell women's stories from fashion to flogging. If Sensuality News is sexy lite, AOC walks where angels dare not tread. (Note: many readers don't know that they move seamlessly between two different websites. Our cross traffic runs about 25%.)

Explaining this fashion to flogging duality -- a continuum that is a single intellectual perspective in our minds -- is difficult enough, as Anne found out in her recent application to a nonprofit fiscal arts sponsor in New York.  

AOCCares.org will rise in the coming days wth no fashion, no sensuality, and no celebrities, unless they are covered in dirt. PETA knows that sensuality and activism co-exist in the same mind.

PETA's coming plans to combine an adult website with videos on cruelty to animals should be interesting to watch. Let us translate more clearly: PETA is opening a porn website.

Spokesman Lindsay Rajt told the Huffington Post: 'It will have enough adult content to qualify for the XXX domain site but also some other graphic images of animals that viewers may not expect to see.

'We live in a 24 hour news cycle world and we learn the racy things we do are sometimes the most effective way that we can reach particular individuals.

In PETA's new print ad campaign, George Clooney ex Elisabetta Canalis joins the list of beautiful women who say "I'd rather go naked than wear fur".

"I decided to go nude because I think that nudity always creates a big reaction," Canalis says. "That is what is required to keep people's attention on such a brutal practice … These poor animals are electrocuted, skinned alive, drowned, and bludgeoned just for the sake of fashion."

"Don't buy fur," she adds. "Even a little trim—your gloves or your bag or your jackets … You must remember that animals don't have a voice; you must be their voice. Never be afraid to speak up."

Jo Stowell & Cat O'Nine Tails | 2 Pissed-Off Women Photographers

British photographer Jo Stowell shares a point of view with Cat O'Nine Tails, the sole photographer of 'Shot with Desire', an Australian erotic website featuring only her images.

'I try to create antidotes to the usual mainstream depictions, and I love presenting men in ways that women are usually presented in the media and vice versa,' Cat explained on the fourth anniversary of her website.

'I am repulsed by fake, plastic, sterile, nasty representations of sexuality and beauty, " she says. "I am repulsed by staid formulaic approaches. I am repulsed by porn that completely overlooks female sexuality and desire and bad representations of women. There is so much nasty, horrible, tacky bad porn and erotica out there. I am repulsed by uncreative and unimaginative portrayals of sexuality.'

Cat does enjoy photographing men in submissive positions. They are often the stars of her online shows where people are not actors but models.

Meeting Jo Stowell

British photographer Jo Stowell is a soulmate to Cat, a woman photographer equally pissed off -- not by pornography per se -- but by its portrayal of female sexuality.

What I found extremely distasteful was the look in the eye of model --  which was one of hope for the approval of men. She wants to be sexy, she wants to look nice, she wants to excite and be powerful. But the vision of her is one of hoping that she will be chosen. I believe this can be attributed to the photographer himself; his images often express his own ambivalence about women. The camera controls.

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Book | Human Sexality, Female Desire, Brain Scans, Internet

Human Sexual Desire

Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam have written a new book 'A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the World's Largest Experiment Reveals about Human Desire. 

Our Internet searches reveal much about us and so does neuroscience and brain scans. Understanding these facts gives us a much better understanding of sexuality and especially female sexuality where what we say and what we do are frequently at odds with each other.

One of the most interesting topics I've covered in my consulting work on female sexuality is that semantics mean everything. 

2006 Internet search stats confirm that women hate  the word porn, hitting the return key only 4% of the time in the 23 million searches for the word porn.

Having spent more time researching adult sites than I ever want to admit to, I understand totally why women detest the word porn. It’s gross out there.

The astute researcher digs deeper into women’s habits in the Internet’s erotic arena.  If I told you that in 2006 women executed 50% of the 75 million searches for the word sex and 56% of the 14 million searches for teen sex, are you surprised? Read on: Sexy Doublespeak | American Women & Sexual Honesty.

Pornography Websites Can Now Join .XXX Adresses

The .xxx suffix became a new address on the Internet, with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers authorizing an official red light district for pornography. Many industry members fear they will be segregated and suffer abritrary censorship, as well as the additional cost of maintaining their current dot com address while protecting their identity by buying the new .xxx for $60 a year.

Religious groups also opposed the new registry, saying that the decision will spread pornography beyond its current borders.

The NYTimes reports that the decision is a big win for ICM Registry, who first applied for the dot-xxx domain in 2004. Its chief executive Stuart Lawley dismisses his detractors, saying that websites in the dot-xxx domains will offer a safe haven for consumers by scanning the domains daily for viruses and offering a trusted payment system.

Sexy, Serious Reads | December 2010

Like Humans, Animals Have a Long History of Getting High AOC

Eli Meir Kaplan for WSJSaunas: The Home Improvement That's the Hottest of Them All WSJ

Sauna sales at Florida Hot Tub and Sauna, of Ft. Lauderdale are up as much as 40% over last year. Kalevi Ruuska, a Fishkill, N.Y., sauna dealer, says sales were up 50% this year.

One question is, writes WSJ, how many hot-tub afficiandos will go nude in America.

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