Archive for the ‘erotophobia’ Category
Two Guys Kissin’ Ruined My Life
Friday, April 13th, 2007IMDb says they’re just trying to protect their more sensitive viewers from stumbling across their listing for DAMON AND HUNTER: DOING IT TOGETHER by accident. These sort of explanations always leave me scratching me head. Protecting them from what?
Two Guys Kissin’ Ruined My Life
Thanks to Tom Smith, now I know!
Google Fails When Language Fails, Part Four
Thursday, March 15th, 2007
We’ve had our share of problems with Google and Adwords and the erotophobic bias of the English language. Now it’s someone else’s turn to go through the rinse cycle.
Don’t Be Evil (Or A Dyke, Or Trans), Violet Blue’s Open Source Sex
Of course you can just do what Elora’s Cave does and make sure not to use any of the Google-verborten words that are the meat and potatos of your books anywhere on your website.
It can be hard not to be ashamed when nearly everywhere you turn, if you want to reap the benefits of particpating in the larger culture, you’re told you have to act like you are ashamed; substituting coded language and knowing looks for real ideas and authentic emotions.
(I don’t know what our favorite Hells Kitchen lumber yard is going to do if they ever feel they need to do some Google Ad words.)
Remembering Oregon’s Ballot Measure Nine
Friday, February 16th, 2007Watching the sodomy debate on the floor of the Texas legislature in Molly Ivans’ DILDO DIARIES reminded of me of something I wrote back in 1994, shortly after the defeat of Oregon’s Ballot Measure Nine. At the time it was intended as parody:
Dear Friends,
First I’d like to tell you how proud I am of all of us for the work we did in support of Measure Nine. Many of you may be feeling discouraged that the Measure was not passed, but there is much to be proud of. The Measure was carried by a majority of Oregon’s counties, and the over all margin of defeat shows that we are not that far from putting Oregon back on the road to moral sanity. Still, there is much work ahead of us. Opponents of Measure Nine have shown they can muster a great deal of out-of-state support and money from areas such as New York and San Francisco. Our efforts in the future will have to be ready to match that money with the determination that comes from moral righteousness. We must not fall back. Both momentum and God are on our side.
Many who voted against Measure Nine did so because they mistakenly perceived it as an attack on homosexuals, rather than on behavior. We must blame ourselves for this. For in an effort to conform to some standard of decency, we failed to graphically address the acts that a Judeo-Christian society must find objectionable, regardless of the gender of the people involved. With that in mind, I’d like to put forward what I believe should be our next measure placed on the ballot in Oregon.
The Constitution of the State of Oregon shall be amended so as to declare that all sexual acts other than coitus (penile-vaginal sex) between married couples are immoral, unnatural, and perverse and in so doing, bar the use of state funds or facilities to support any persons or organizations that promote, condone, encourage, or participate in said acts. Said perverse acts shall include, but not be limited to:
I. Oral-Genital Contact:
Defined as contact with the mouth or face of one person with genital region of another person, including the abdomen below the navel, thighs, hips, buttocks, penis and vagina.
II. Anal Contact.
Defined as: All contact between the anus of one person with any part of the body of another person, with the exception of contact between a wife’s anus and her husband’s scrotum during coitus in the missionary or woman-superior position.
III. Excessive Manual-Genital Contact. Defined as:
A. All manual-genital contact between persons of the same sex.
B. All manual-genital contact between unmarried persons of different sexes
C. All manual-genital contact between married persons in excess of that which is necessary to facilitate coitus:
1. A wife may manually stimulate her husband’s penis until an erection of sufficient firmness for penetration is achieved.
2. A husband may manually stimulate his wife’s vagina until sufficient lubrication to allow penetration is achieved.
3. A woman who is unable to achieve orgasm though coitus alone may, with a notarized letter from her physician, receive a waiver allowing her husband to manually stimulate her clitoris during coitus.
IV. The use of other body areas, such as the crook of the knee and elbow or the space between a woman’s breasts for stimulation of the penis.
V. Oral contact with the areola and nipple of a man, or with the areola or nipple of a woman except by her own infant (a child under eighteen months of age) while she is lactating.
I believe that this will do much to undermine the argument that our intention is to discriminate against homosexuals while at the same time putting forth a moral agenda consistent with the principles on which this country was founded.
Free Shipping to Alabama on Sex Toys and other Sex Products
Friday, February 16th, 2007Until further notice Comstock Films will offer free shipping to Alabama on all items in the Comstock Films DVD Shop.
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Yours in struggle,
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Things ain’t so sweet in Sweet Home Alabama
Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Last Summer, in response to having my film, DAMON AND HUNTER: DOING IT TOGETHER banned from being shown at a gay and lesbian documentary film festival in Sydney, Austrailia, I wrote the following:
Six months later, to no one’s surprise, the question of just how much of a role the state can and should have in the sex lives of its citizens remains a topic of contentious debate, and today the news is not good.
Today, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the state of Alabama’s ban on the distribution of “any obscene material or any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs.”
In other words, today in Alabama, it’s illegal to sell sex toys. Today in Alabama the state has the final say in what a woman can put in her twat.
What’s next Alabama? Lube? Tampons? Birth-control?
Effective 9AM tomorrow morning, and until further notice, Comstock Films will offer free shipping on all orders to Alabama.
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Clear Play Filter Stick?
Thursday, February 15th, 2007
I’ve just finished reading THE CONVERSATIONS: WALTER MURCH AND THE ART OF FILM EDITING. Murch is wonderfully eloquent in explaining the role that chance or serendipity can play in making films, without coming off as some sort of flake who leaves things to chance because he’s not creative enough or craftsmanly enough to control his projects.
Well thanks to the serendipitous combination of Violet Blue’s writing, The Chronical’s mainstream status, and the ever mysterious Googlebot, I’ve learned about things today that I never would have imagined.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Filtering DVD Player
The combination of Violet’s copy, mainstream placement, and the Googlebot is some sort of idiot savant uber algorythm for data-mining for everything that is wrong with how our culture thinks about sex. I just called Purity Solutions to ask how I could submit my films to become a part of their filtered films database.
No one was there, so I left a message.
Google Fails When Language Fails, Part Three
Thursday, February 15th, 2007Scroll down to out the ads Google generated for Violet Blue’s latest Chronical column:
Some things are so beautiful they shimmer!
Speaking of Pubes and Pussies…
Thursday, January 25th, 2007And to think that I sometimes worry I spend too much time thinking about beavers, shaved and otherwise:
PL Pubic Hair/Pubic Region Detectors.
(Don’t even ask me what I was googling for when I found this.)
“No one got a hard-on watching this film”
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007“The erotically charged plot is not meant to arouse the audience-No one got a hard-on watching this film.” — Film Director John Cameron Mitchell after the Cannes premiere of SHORTBUS
Well maybe not at Cannes, but it looks like maybe someone over imdb.com got a boner.
