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1970s Paperback Oddity: What Makes a Woman G.I.B.? 31 Jul 2013 | 02:37 am
Alan Scherstuhl at the Village Voice shares an amazing used bookstore find: a 1977 paperback of What Makes a Woman G.I.B., in which journalist Wendy Leigh posed the title question (G.I.B. stands for “...
Virginia Governor Candidate Wants to Ban Oral and Anal Sex 20 Jul 2013 | 01:05 am
Ken Cuccinelli, the current Attorney General of Virginia and Republican candidate for Governor in the 2013 election, wants to reinstate the state’s “Crimes Against Nature” law. Whether he thinks it’s ...
World War G at Funny or Die 3 Jul 2013 | 02:46 am
Most Funny or Die videos leave me thinking, “meh, die I suppose”, but this was pretty good. The new Almodovar movie looks great, but here in flyover land we have to wait another month to see it.
Bands Who Posed Topless Together for Album Covers 29 Jun 2013 | 02:40 am
At the risk of sounding like a nostalgic old fart — but seriously, it’s an objective fact that this crap the kids listen to nowadays isn’t even music, it’s just noise — I miss album covers. I don’t mi...
Spiegel series on failure of legal prostitution in Germany 27 Jun 2013 | 09:53 pm
Daze Reader has long supported legalizing prostitution. My reasoning: there’s nothing inherently wrong with exchanging money for sex; most of the evils associated with vice industries come from the cr...
Mixed Reviews of Katherine Angel’s Unmastered 27 Jun 2013 | 10:57 am
Katherine Angel, a Belgian-British academic, recently published Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell. The reviews have been mixed. Bookforum ran a hilariously scathing review by Crist...
Battle Over Porn Studies Academic Journal 19 Jun 2013 | 10:41 pm
Academic publishing house Routledge has launched a new journal called Porn Studies, first issue due out sometime next year. Outraged anti-porn activists have started an online petition drive, claiming...
Marie Calloway 14 Jun 2013 | 09:28 pm
Here’s how out of the loop I’ve been lately: I had never heard of “Marie Calloway” until this week. She became an It Girl in the literary perv world two years ago after publishing some explicit erotic...
Friday Reads 24 May 2013 | 10:39 pm
Found around the web: At Forbes: Susannah Breslin takes a pole dancing class at an all-female gym. “We were like a tribe of Amazons, but with more spandex.” Insane lesbian orgy ensues. Not really. A...
Scandalized Twits in Stuy Town and Star Trek 23 May 2013 | 11:25 pm
From the New York Post: Stuy Town tenants fume over bikini beauties sunbathing in children’s playground. Busybodies at the Stuyvesant Town apartment complex in Manhattan are outraged that young women ...