Showing posts with label James Franco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James Franco. Show all posts

Monday, January 28, 2013

A Week of Sex: January 20-27


This was a big week. I tried for two days to narrow this down, and I have finally given up. On the plus side, there should be something of interest to pretty much everyone here - even if cartoon-spoof porn is your thing. No, I'm not joking. 
As if there weren't already 50,000 reasons to love Susie Bright - now the sexpert is donating her archives (she's been writing about sexuality and feminist issues since the 1970s) to Cornell University. The archives 'document the “historical shifts in the social construction of sexuality, with a focus on U.S. lesbian and gay history and the politics of pornography.”' If you don't know who Susie Bright is, go introduce yourself to her work immediately. 
Ever wonder what goes through the minds of sex workers while they're dancing/stripping/etc.? Take a peek.
And if you ever wondered if the lofty heels of the dominatrix were the perfect fit for your dainty tootsies, here's a primer.
Because of the nature of sex work, sex workers not only work outside the law in a private, often secluded and uncontrolled environment, but are socially stigmatized. This is a bit like a Bermuda triangle of risk, making them targets for all sorts of abuse and violence if they're not careful and lucky. UBC students are proposing a pilot program to provide 100 sex workers in Vancouver's Downtown East Side (DTES) with panic buttons with GPS that only activate when triggered, thus removing the "big brother" concern associated with similar devices.
Spoiler alert: No.
Another perspective on porn deals with what today's hypersexualized culture (sexting, slut-shaming, porn - even advertising and mainstream media) is doing to children growing up with it. 
Yeah, you read that right. An orgy that enables students to explore an "adult playground," including public nudity and sex, is not only being tolerated but being backed by the University. I totally picked the wrong post-secondary institution.
I'm all for a good parody. Some of my favourite pornos are parodies. But is XXXing Spongebob taking it just a little far?
It's nice to see a lady admitting to loving having sex with her partner this much. It tugs at the heartstrings. Really. I may have even said "Aw."
I'm so proud of Sundance this year. Also really wishing I coulda been there.
A wee interview about a little film called Kink (that I talked about in this post) and the trailer for the film itself. Best quote? "If pornography was high school, we would be the goth table."
  • The War of the Jameses
Turns out two of my favourite Jameses - James Franco, blockbuster star turned porn aficionado, and James Deen, porn star turned The Canyons leading man - want to bring the now legendary character from 50 Shades of Grey, Christian Grey, to life on the big screen. I'd watch either of them so I'm having trouble picking sides. I like to picture them mud wrestling for the honours - but that might just be me.

Phew. Toldya. And with that I'm dragging my exhausted ass to bed. Hope my hard work gave you some entertainment!

Saturday, January 12, 2013

James Franco's New Project Is Pretty Knotty


You gotta love James Franco. Not only did he rock it in drag on the cover of Candy Magazine (the first transgender style magazine) two years ago, which confirmed me as a lifelong fan, but he is in the process of directing a movie about kink.com (completely NSFW, btw) - an adult bondage porn site.

Apparently the project was inspired by Franco's own forrays into on-camera sex with a girlfriend. When they later watched the tape, he discovered what many of us have - that having hot sex on camera isn't as easy as the pros make it look. It's awkward, the angles are tricky, and it can be pretty unforgiving of any minor physical defect. Not that Franco has any of those, of course.

So he decided to make a proper movie about pornography - with the help of none other than bondage porn star and kink.com native, Princess Donna Dolore.


Apparently the film is called Public Sex, Private Lives (according to Wikipedia's page on PDD, but I can't find the title of it anywhere else or any reference to its title in credible news sources). 

Franco said about the project: "I'm making a documentary about pornography. There's this amazing facility in San Francisco. It's at this old armory and they do everything in house, they build their props in house, so I'm making a documentary about that." (source)

Trust Franco to not only decide to do a movie about a porn site - but to choose a kinky one! Love.

**Update: The film is actually called Kink (though feel free to check out Public Sex, Private Lives - it looks interesting too!) and if you want to see the trailer and hear a little interview with James Franco and the film's director, click here.