Is it really already time for another Sugasm?

Well then, here's #129...the best of this week’s blogs by the bloggers who blog them. Highlighting the top 3 posts as chosen by Sugasm participants. Want in Sugasm #130? Submit a link to your best post of the week using this form. Participants, repost the link list within a week and you’re all set.

This Week’s Picks
April Showers Bring May Flowers: Part II“As mentioned earlier, this is one of the biggest hurdles to overcome; this is also where mind over matter comes into play.”
Au revoir
“In the life of an eclectic slut, however, these are all warning signs.”
Ode to Anal: Why?
“Really, for me, it was the first, and one of my foremost, all encompassing sexual acts.”

Mr. Sugasm Himself
Soviet Erotica

Editor’s Choice
Catalina loves Real Women

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Thoughts on Sex and Relationships
A Damaged Girl
Decoding More Dominant Personal Ads
Half-Nekkid on Sunday Morning
Inconvenient
“You’ve Gotta Be a Dude”: Sorry?

Sex Advice
7 Tips for Swallowing Semen
The E-Spot: No Picnic

Erotic Writing and Experiences
Black and White
Dreaming of Sleep
Epicurean
Glitter Is The Herpes Of Craft Supplies
Guest Posting - Franka
Last Night’s Swinger Party
Missed Moments
Rules Of Play
Sucking the cowboy
Temptation
V and the Red Shoes

Sex Work
Crossdressing Session 1
Of Working Girls, Working Together & Weekends Away

NSFW Pics, Videos & Audio
Camila | Table top (Hegre Art)
Its Spring!
Luba - sagittarius
Paradise Hotel 2 hottie Stephanie in sexy bikini pics
Physique
Playboy College Girls - Rebecca Matheson
Spanked HNT!

Sex News, Reviews & Interviews
Cult of Gracie Radio
DC Madam Found Guilty On Four Counts
Drive-thru Strip Club
Impertinent Question: Would You Participate in an Orgy?
Interview with Donna George Storey on erotica and Sally Rand
Just Released on DVD: Tara & Code Vol. 3!
Millian Blue HotMovies Interview
Now I Am Three
Post-Show Gossip
Safer Sex t-shirt design contest!
Too hot for Dallas!

BDSM & Fetish
Brought to Tears
Discipline…
Evil playground
Fantasy (Part 1)
My Dominant Submissive
On the bottom (part 2)
One of My Fave Ways to Cocktease…
Other World Kingdom visit - Part 1
Standing orgasm
The sum of her parts
Torture Consultant
Writers’s Conference

Holy seemingly gratuitous YouTube post, Batman!

We're still feeling a little jet-laggy and discombulated from our trip west and subsequent weather flip-flops. But our recent time back at home sorting through the family archives (aka clutter in the basement) triggered the recollection that one of our very first television idols was Batman. And for a time, we even had his picture tacked to the wall above our bed.

What this might mean in terms of early fetish imprints, we can only begin to speculate - see also The Sound of Music - but the thought did provide impetus to spend a good chunk of a rainy Monday morning procrastinating amongst the nostalgic offerings on YouTube.

Herewith, our early girl-crush, Batgirl, in her introduction to the series - along with the bemused wondering why our childhood Halloween rendition of her didn't somehow incorporate purple latex.

That, in itself, might explain a few things!

Too hot for Dallas!

The perennial crowd-pleaser and CineKink award winner, Filthy Food, has run into another flap of controversy, this time at the AFI Dallas International Film Festival.

According to director T. Arthur Cottam, the trailer for the film was prevented from being posted to the event's website for fear of offending AFI Dallas sponsors and the already printed cover for Day 3 of the festival's newspaper was ordered destroyed and replaced because it prominently featured an image (above!) from the film. (A bootleg copy of the original cover has been posted to the Dirty Little Shorts Yahoo Group.)

But an interview with T. - and a red carpet photo with a giant banana - did make its way into Day 11 of the AFI Dallas Daily News and touches upon controversies past and present. From the intro:

A nectarine, a banana, cookie dough – all banned. All forbidden to be shown onscreen at a film festival in Italy because they apparently would end civil society as we know it (or at least, as the Italians know it). That is the talent of T. Arthur Cottam and his film, FILTHY FOOD, in a nutshell. By the sheer weight of his presentation, he made some fruit and some dough naughty. More than naughty – disgusting, even.

Judge for yourself. You can watch the trailer, below. Or visit Atom Films to watch the smutty masterpiece in its glorious entirety!

Mom would be so proud ... 2008

Last year when we reported on these awards, it was our mother's birthday. And this year, appropriately enough, we're actually home visiting her - in our mind, the proto-uber feminist.

So, while we're still working on making the world a place where a woman’s right to determine and enjoy her own sexual pleasure is a taken-for-granted aspect of daily life, we take a few more big steps forward with the recently announced "2008 Feminist Porn Awards" presented by the folks at Good for Her:

Smutty Schoolteacher of the Year:
Tristan Taormino’s Expert Guide to Oral Sex Part 1 Cunnilingus and Part 2 Fellatio | Tristan Taormino; Vivid Ed

Hottest Dyke Film:
Crash Pad Series Volume 1 | Shine Louise Houston; Pink and White Productions Blowfish Video
(Alum CineKink 2008)

Sexiest Straight Film:
My Sex Therapist.com: The First Sessions | Kelly Holland; Chick Media

Golden Beaver Award for Canadian Content:
Bren Ryder | www.gooddykeporn.com

Best Bi Scene:
Female Fantasies | Petra Joy; Strawberry Seductress Productions
(Alum CineKink 2008)

Most Tantalizing Trans Film:
Trans Entities: The Nasty Love of Papi' and Wil | Morty Diamond; Morty Diamond Productions

Hottest Kink Film:
Bondage Boob Tube | Madison Young; Blowfish Video
(Alum CineKink 2008)

Deliciously Diverse Cast:
Trans Entities: The Nasty Love of Papi' and Wil | Morty Diamond; Morty Diamond Productions

Sexiest Short:
Want | Loree Erickson; Femmegimp Productions
(Winner/Best Documentary Short CineKink 2006)

Indie Porn Pioneer:
Estelle Joseph; Stella Films Productions

Movie of the Year(!!):
Five Hot Stories for Her | Erika Lust; Lust Films
(Winner/Honorable Best Mention CineKink 2008 for Something About Nadia)



From what Erika recounts, upon bestowing the final award, the presenters said:
“Every so often, a film comes along that reinvents what is possible within porn. This year’s winner has taken stock subjects and turned them on their head, making women and their desires the focus of the film..."

We couldn't have said it better ourselves - though we wish we had!

Congratulations to Erika and all of this year's winners, with many thanks for forging ahead.

Tanged and sugasmed!

Welcome Daily Tangers! More info on what you're likely looking for - Viva! - can be found here, but do feel free to linger and, er, poke around a bit.

For everyone else... while it looks like we've gone a bit blog-AWOL the past week, we've at least been busy, hob-nobbing out in San Francisco with some of our favorite kink-wonks at the Leather Leadership Conference. And getting an introduction to both local cuisine and to Kink.com's new facilities at the SF Armory from the delightful Thomas Roche.

At journey's end - this particular journey anyway - we're excited to find that CineKink made the latest episode of the Daily Tang vlog, where you can also learn about a crackdown on porn in Indonesia and the latest talent at Fuckingmachines.com.

And, of course, we've been sugasmed again:

Sugasm #127
The best of this week’s blogs by the bloggers who blog them. Highlighting the top 3 posts as chosen by Sugasm participants. Want in Sugasm #128? Submit a link to your best post of the week using this form. Participants, repost the link list within a week and you’re all set.

This Week’s Picks

My life as a Female
“His reply was instant: “You are a man”.”

Crisp
“I found my eyes unable to leave the curves of her ass, everything else out of focus.”

Ripping yourself a new one
“What’s the most ludicrous porn scene you ever saw?”

Mr. Sugasm Himself (one from the vaults)
How to Choose an Affiliate Program

Editor’s Choice
Cream and Sugar

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See also: Fleshbot’s Sex Blog Roundup each Tuesday and Friday.

Thoughts on Sex and Relationships
Feeling safe
How Butch is Butch and how Femme is Femme?
Of Art Nouveau & Sublime Curves
Say Hello to Nanna, Nonno.
The Secret of Polyamory
Why Flirting Doesn’t Work

Sex Work
New At Nuts4chic - The Story Of Justin, A Male Escort
No Tact

Erotic Writing and Experiences
Blow by blow (1)
Door Number Two
Fellatrices: Phantom Blowjob
Flight of Fantasy
Fun at glory hole
Gay Threesome
Good Friday
Is there a polite way to ask a girl…
Reawakening the Temptress…It Must Be Spring
So long
Sometimes it pays to love the one your with
Teasing…
Therapy
To Avoid Waste, One Must Be Profligate
An Unnecessary Journey

Sex Advice
Impertinent Question: Do You Role-Play in the Bedroom?

NSFW Pics, Videos & Audio
Half-Nekkid with New Pumps
Hardcore double penetration in gangbang
Hot Blonde from Petter Hegre
MC Nudes: Luciana, Nina, Susana Spears & Zoe
Peaches in lingerie
Spanked Naked in Semi-Public
Sum Myself Up in Six Words?

Sex Humor
Discovery of Coital “Safe House” Debunks Sex Research Findings

BDSM & Fetish
Catalina loves Kinky Tea Parties
Hypnosis, spanking and sex
My first master
Object of His Attention

Sex News, Reviews & Interviews
Of Ilsa and her ilk
Sabrina Fox Bound And Forced To Cum On Sex And Submission
The Whole Chicken’s Blatantly Self-Promoting Anniversary Contest

Of Ilsa and her ilk

A new documentary, Stalags, examines the pornographic paperbacks, featuring colorful depictions of buxom SS officers bending captives to their will, that cropped up in Israel around the time of the Holocaust trials in the early 1960s.

Claims by Max Mosley to the contrary notwithstanding - and as a subsequent slew of sexploitative titles will attest - Nazi iconography can pack a huge libidinous wollop. In a comprehensive review of the film, Lauren Wissot discusses the film's powerful dissecting of the phenomenon:

Simply put, this film is a revelation. Like the best investigative journalists, Libsker patiently sifts through each and every contradiction to discover that something that would seem so horrifically paradoxical on its face proves ultimately inevitable beneath the surface. How could Israeli Nazi pornography even exist, let alone be a widespread phenomenon? Stalags answers, “How could it not?”

Stalags open tonight at NYC's Film Forum and runs through 4/22.

Just 7,999,999 stories to go...

Many congratulations to CineKink alum Audacia Ray, whose new sexuality blog, Naked City, debuted this week at The Village Voice. While Audacia predicts that the blog will evolve over time, one feature that's already up and running is Naked City TV, a weekly video show intended to "document and explore the personal and professional lives of people for whom sexuality is central."

This week's episode, a profile of Porno Jim (CineKink '08/Hookin' Up) and his live, porn-clip show, manages to capture both the engaging frenetics of Jim's evangelistic presentations - and a few graphic moments of live-action Smurf-on-Smurf pornography:

That and a stiff upper lip!

Snagged from Viviane's Sex Carnival, a jolly and forthright presentation on the benefits and how-to of regularly checking for testicular cancer, as demonstrated by the host of the UK programme Embarrasing Illnesses and a freshly scrubbed rugby team. (Yes, there are naughty bits!)

And this, recently forwarded by CineKinkster's mum, just one selection from an email entitled "What's Under Those Kilts?"



Color us anglophilic!

A fight to the finish

The fifteenth and final New York Underground Film Festival kicked off last night and continues through April 8th at Anthology Film Archives.

In a comprehensive profile on indieWire about the changing landscape of underground festivals in the US, organizers point to new distribution technologies that make many of the works they showcase more readily accessible - a consideration also looming for kinky film festivals, no doubt. But they also question the nebulous definition of the genre itself:

"What is 'underground' film anyway?" wondered Ed Halter, the former director of NYUFF and one of this year's special curators. "The term 'underground' is problematic because most people are under the misconception that 'underground, is synonymous with 'shock' cinema."

In the comments to the article, filmmaker Ralph Ackerman puts the query in to some historical perspective:

I started making experimental films in 1963 and at that time we called it underground cinema because if we showed our films in the public we were always arrested for being obscene etc... Things are so mild now. Kenneth Anger with his trangressive films faced the coops (sic) often."

With that, our best wishes to NYUFF organizers in their new venture, Migrating Forms - and just one of the NYUFF '08 trailers, a retro-flavored, hair-pulling rendition commissioned from Peggy Ahwesh.

Sugasming #125

The best of this week’s blogs by the bloggers who blog them. Highlighting the top 3 posts as chosen by Sugasm participants. Want in Sugasm #126? Submit a link to your best post of the week using this form. Participants, repost the link list within a week and you’re all set.

This Week’s Picks

Filling Myself
“We too want, need, conversations in which someone listens to us and considers our needs, not just their own.”

Sex Worker Solidarity: Amanda Brooks
“There’s a lot of love among activists, even those who disagree with one another.”

Need
“These images that come from the artistic workings of your inner soul speak to me, as mine do to you.”

Mr. Sugasm Himself (one from the vaults)
10 Lies Pornographers Tell

Editor’s Choice
Though We’ve Never Met


Erotic Writing and Experiences
Everything we said the last time we had sex.
Exposed
A game of seduction
A glorious Tuesday evening…
I can suck a few more cocks
IOU
The Kiss
A Long Awaited Meeting
Lust and Laundry
Quiet Quickie
Soaked- BBG’s first ejaculation
(You’re only) the best I ever had

NSFW Pics, Videos & Audio
Blonde MILF tastes her pussy in gangbang
Half-Nekkid Thursday: All Nude
Kasandra K from Models Are Us
Spanky The Clown

Sex Work
For The Love Of Gawd, Don’t Be An Adult Marketer

Sex News, Reviews & Interviews
Bondage Strap-On Movie: Double Trouble
Anna Rose Is A Beautiful Pony Girl At Naked Gord
The Deviant List
Having Your Cake & Eating It Too
My night at Torture Garden plus review
Yay, um… Fox?

BDSM & Fetish
Cheet’n the Limits
Extremes on a Friday afternoon
Half-Nekkid Chick with a Dick
How to Become a Slut In Three Easy Days
Need
No Talking
Riding the edge play…
Surrender?
Ode to Anal: Daniel and Franklin
Ownership
The Science of Submission
Tie me up tie me down-A bi-girl shares her first SM experience
“You hold on to our kisses with your breath…”

Sex Humor
Did We?
LOL Spank - Rulez She Haz Dem

Thoughts on Sex and Relationships
“And Now A Saucy Word From The Sponsor…” 1967
Down to the Sexy Letter (Part 1)
Joy of Butt Plugs
Male Intimacy: In a Non Sexual Manner

See also: Fleshbot’s Sex Blog Roundup each Tuesday and Friday.

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