Archive for April, 2009

If you join Deviant Nation you can view the whole set of Nessie and I, wherein I play Nessie’s sadistic boss who ensures that she never makes another mistake ever again.

This photoset was shot by the amazingly talented Marcos Rivera.

Did I mention that another perk of joining Deviant Nation, besides all the sexy tattooed girls, is that I write for the website as well! You can read my interview with acclaimed Alt-Porn director Eon McKai by clicking HERE

The Girlfriend Experience is one of many highly anticipated and soon to be controversial films being released this summer. The Girlfriend Experience is directed by Steven Soderbergh, who created the Ocean’s series, Sex Lies & Videotapes and my personal favorite Schizopolis. Now how could a film directed by the man who put such eye candy as George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Andy Garcia in THREE films be so controversial. Well for those of you “in the know,” Girlfriend Experience is code for a certain type of service offered by a sex worker to act as the John’s (the man who is paying for said service) girlfriend for the night. Such services can be a bit pricier than a hand job at a truck stop.

So what makes this film any different from, say, Pretty Woman? First off, this film features real life 21 year-old porn starlet Sasha Grey who has stared in well over one hundred adult feature films. Second, unlike Pretty Woman, I’d venture to say that The Girlfriend Experience is not a rags to riches story being that Sasha Grey’s character is no where near the rags, fiscally speaking. Personally, I am excited to see this film because I wonder if it will bring an honest portrayal of this type of sex worker who engages in Girlfriend Experiences, or will this film simply dramatize this lifestyle in order to bring in beau coup bucks.

Condom advertisements have been controversial since their inception, whether they incite fear, give wrong information or encourage a healthy sexual life (yes, those are controversial too). A while back I posted a blog on two French AIDS awareness campaigns, one was geared towards straight folk and the other was towards gay folk. These French ads were quite refreshing in that they promoted a healthy and happy sexual life, rather than using tired old scare tactics to frighten people into the use of condoms.

Recently an ad campaign by German company Doc Morris Pharmacies has raised quite the stir. Is it because of the
graphic imagery of sperm? Not really. Perhaps it’s the lack of information on how to use a condom? Not so much. Mainly this ad campaigns message is: “use a condom or create the next genocidal maniac.” As you can see below,
each of the three print ads portrays sperm that look like historical atrocity makers of our time. That is, Hitler, Mao Zedong, & Osama Bin Laden.

Hitler Sperm

Mao Sperm

Osama Sperm

What are your thoughts? Do these print ads make you rush to the pharmacy to purchase johnny hats? Do they make you laugh? Groan? Are the only use of condoms just for preventing pregnancy, a genocide and terror-inducing one at that?

Also, there is the fact that these ads only reach out to straight audiences. Should all safe sex ad campaigns reach out to all sexualities or is it okay to have specific ads geared towards specific sexualities?

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