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–Laura Agustín, the Naked Anthropologist
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Sex on Sunday: Sexy hanging out
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Sex on Sunday: Chicago’s Leather Museum, Portland’s trafficking myth and Barcelona escort interviewed
16 January 2011 in sundaysex by | 3 comments | print
The Leather Archives & Museum, a cultural center in Chicago devoted to preserving the history of alternative sexuality, wants your help documenting sexual practices that are not widely discussed. Do you enjoy giving or receiving a little pain during sex, such as spanking, biting, or scratching? Do you fantasize about being overpowered or overpowering your partner, including using ropes, handcuffs, or other restraints? Do you role-play during sex? We want to learn about your experiences through an interview. Contact Clarisse Thorn: clarisse [at] leatherarchives.org
Despite reputation, no proof Portland is a hub for child sex trafficking
The Oregonian
In the span of two short years, the city known as one of the nation’s most livable has become a magnet for national media reporting on child sex trafficking. With cameras rolling on 82nd Avenue last year, Dan Rather dubbed the city “Pornland” in a documentary. “Nightline” declared Portland the “epicenter for child prostitution,” and “World News With Diane Sawyer” called the city a “hotbed of sex trafficking.” But as hundreds gather in Portland this weekend for the third-annual Northwest Conference Against Trafficking, with talks by U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden and actress Daryl Hannah, an examination by The Oregonian reveals that no one really knows if the problem in Portland is any worse than anywhere else.
Montse Neira Galiciaconfidencial.com
Youtube video donde una escort de Barcelona habla sobre las diferentes modalidades de la industria del sexo en España.
Sex on Sunday: Porn, horror, brutishness, sex and law, damned law
9 January 2011 in sundaysex by | 3 comments | print
In January 2009 it became an offence in England and Wales to possess images which depict in an explicit or realistic way acts which threaten a person’s life or acts likely to result in serious injury to anus, genitals or breast. This past week a case was tried testing that legislation. The prosecutor said:
This defendant accepts he viewed and downloaded and saved those images. We know the images were fake, we know it isn’t a knife in someone’s breast. The question is whether it is realistic or portrayed in that way. You have to be satisfied the people in those images are real. Plainly they are. The intentions of the persons within those images, the actors and actresses, are irrelevant. It is what is depicted in those images which is material.
So here is another nearly impossible standard to prove in sex law. And the government lost, thanks in part to testimony from two friends, Clarissa Smith and Feona Attwood (the three of us did a panel in Budapest last year at an event called Good Sex, Bad Sex). On the realism point, the experts compared the downloaded images to Hammer horror films and actresses ‘playing dead’. What larks.
Pornography, Public Acceptance and Sex Related Crime: A Review
Milton Diamond, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 32 (2009) 304-314.
Abstract: A vocal segment of the population has serious concerns about the effect of pornography in society and challenges its public use and acceptance. This manuscript reviews the major issues associated with the availability of sexually explicit material. It has been found everywhere scientifically investigated that as pornography has increased in availability, sex crimes have either decreased or not increased. It is further been found that sexual erotica has not only wide spread personal acceptance and use but general tolerance for its availability to adults. This attitude is seen by both men and women and not only in urban communities but also in reputed conservative ones as well. Further this finding holds nationally in the United States and in widely different countries around the world. Indeed, no country where this matter has been scientifically studied has yet been found to think pornography ought be restricted from adults. The only consistent finding is that adults prefer to have the material restricted from children’s production or use.
Brutish Male Sexuality, by the Sexacademic
The tired trope of aggressive male sexuality is a pervasive one. The story goes like this: because men are full of testosterone and sperm as well as unhindered by the consequence of pregnancy, their sexuality is naturally brutish and promiscuous. Testosterone fuels aggression, billions of sperm want hundreds of outlets and nature failed to offset these desires with physical dangers associated with reproduction. The compliment to this heterocentric sex story is that women, with their limited eggs, lack of testosterone and pregnancy burden are naturally chaste and self protective. Any sexual adventurousness or licentiousness is only done to please men and keep them around so they will help with the child rearing. A simple and neatly packaged explanation of human sexuality. But it’s wrong. Let’s do some debunking.
Sex on Sunday: Taxi queens, English teachers in Korea and Picasso’s soliciting prostitute
2 January 2011 in sundaysex by | No comments | print
On Sundays I stray outside the usual focus of this website into all sorts of sexual, sexy and gender themes I have run across and consider specially interesting. Welcome!
The taxi queens of South Africa, by Iva Skoch at Global Post
In some of the roughest neighborhoods of Cape Town, as minivan taxis line up to pick up kids and take them to school in the morning, drivers or their assistants routinely select a pretty school girl — some as young as 12 years old — who would be their “queen” for the day. She’ll sit in the passenger seat, act as eye candy and be in charge of the stereo, which is widely considered to be a high-status gig. Once declared taxi queen material, the girl is allowed to ride the minibus for free, saving the equivalent of about $1 a day, not an insignificant amount of money for children from impoverished urban neighborhoods.
South Korea: Should Foreign Teachers Be Tested for HIV?, by Emily Rauhala at Time
This summer, a Korean newspaper, the New Daily, ran an exposé on Itaewon, a Seoul nightclub district popular with teachers and tourists. The headline called the area a “loser’s paradise” where Korean women are “ruined.” “Among foreigners in Itaewon clubs, you’ll see that there are almost no decent ones,” said the story’s lone source, Lee Eun-ung, a prominent anti-teacher campaigner. “Black people or southwest Asians especially like to lie about their nationality and approach women saying they’ll teach them English,” he said. But, he warned, they’re only after one thing: “perverted sex.”
–Laura Agustín, the Naked Anthropologist
Tags: children, hiv, rescue industry
Sex on Sunday: 17th-century Japanese prostitute wear, red-light fight in Taiwan and Saudis ban Moroccan women from pilgrimage
19 December 2010 in sundaysex by | No comments | print
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The Front-Tied Obi Myth, at Wodeford Hall
Women tied their obi in front until the mid- to late 17th century, when obi got signficantly wider. From a simple sash only a couple of inches wide, suddenly one had this decorative yet inconvenient knot getting in one’s way. That’s when back-tied obi became fashionable, and when front tied obi became the mark of a courtesan or prostitute. [17th century painting above shows a ‘red light district’ with a caged window of a brothel and a woman with back-tied obi sitting on the porch.
Red light fight: sex work in Taiwan
Jonathan Adams at Global Post
Part of the problem in Taiwan is that the laws don’t make much sense. For decades prostitution was legal here. But since the 1990s, prostitutes have been punished under the Social Order Maintenance Act, COSWAS says. Pimps, middlemen and traffickers are dealt with under the criminal code, slapped with up to five years in jail or $3,300 fines. Johns aren’t penalized at all. That means it’s perfectly legal to pay for sex, but illegal to sell it. Taiwan’s courts found that arrangement unconstitutional in 2009, and demanded a change by November next year. Slide show.
Saudi ban on Moroccan women is a stereotype too far
Nesrine Malik for The Guardian
. . . Saudi Arabia banned Moroccan women “of a certain age” from umra (the lesser pilgrimage), for fear they would abuse theirs visas “for other purposes” even when they are accompanied by male relatives. This is a reference to an underground sex industry that is believed to be staffed by Arab women smuggled in from the Maghreb and north Africa. Short of calling all Moroccan women prostitutes and their men pimps, there is little more that could have been done to summarily insult the nation. The implication that Moroccans will exploit a visa for a sacred religious ritual to trade and facilitate sexual favours only serves to rub more salt into the wound.
– Laura Agustín, the Naked Anthropologist
Sex on Sunday: Shoes
12 December 2010 in sundaysex by | 3 comments | print
Shoes for posing, shoes as sculpture, shoes as fetish . . . the only shoes here that look possible to walk in any distance are the last classic pair. Adding a chunk underneath the toe of the shoe makes a higher heel possible.
– Laura Agustín, the Naked Anthropologist
History professor wins national award for article on sex trade workers, Victoria Island University
His most surprising discovery was to find so many brothels in Victoria in the census years 1891 and 1901. “Previously, I had thought that the provincial capital was a rather prudish and ‘Victorian’ kind of place, but in fact it was the sexual emporium of the Pacific Northwest. I was also surprised to find the longevity of some of the brothels, which operated continuously in the same location for two decades or more.” . . . “Of course, not every dressmaker was a sex trade worker,” he added. “ For example, the 1891 census might identify a middle-aged widow who lived alone with her children in a respectable part of Victoria as a ‘dressmaker’. That woman likely made a living with needle and thread. “But the census also revealed groups of young women living together in less-respectable parts of the city who identified themselves as dressmakers. I suspected, correctly, that these census households were brothels.”
19th-century New Orleans brothels revisited, at Missourian
. . . a parade that took place in 1897, when city leaders passed a law creating the Storyville district. “Apparently, when prostitutes got word they had won, they got horse and carriages and wore these outlandish costumes. Some of them were nude, some wore tight sailor pants. Some wore Egyptian costumes, and one of them had bare legs and was waving a foot at people in the street from the carriage. Some were grabbing male bystanders and improvising sexual displays. . . . They went down Canal Street and turned into the Quarter. There were hundreds of prostitutes in the parade, and dozens of carriages. And they were all laughing and probably drinking and very bawdy. But of course, it was the landlords who won.”
Crime on the Lower East Side, from the Tenement Museum
Prostitution was a pervasive part of immigrant life on the Lower East Side. Located one-block west of Orchard Street, Allen Street stood as the neighborhood’s most notorious thoroughfare of commercial sex. There, most prostitution took place in tenements. During the 1890s, for example, one observer remarked that in “broad day light you can see them [prostitutes] at their windows and calling to passers by at night. They are so vulgar in front of their houses that any respectable person cannot pass without being insulted by them.” Another resident lamented that neighborhood women could not walk the street after dark “without becoming a victim to them because of the paramours who hang around corners awaiting the proceeds of their concubines.” For most, there was little recourse. “It is useless to appeal to the police,” decried another resident, “as the very men who are sent out in citizen clothes stand and talk with them and go in saloons and drink with them.”
– Laura Agustín, the Naked Anthropologist
Sworn to virginity and living as men in Albania, The New York Times
The sworn virgin was born of social necessity in an agrarian region plagued by war and death. If the patriarch of the family died with no male heirs, unmarried women in the family could find themselves alone and powerless. By taking an oath of virginity, women could take on the role of men as head of the family, carry a weapon, own property and move freely. They dress like men, adopt a male swagger and spend their lives in the company of other men.
Why Venetian nunneries were once hotbeds of passion, by Tony Perrottet at The Smart Set
Historians have established that Venetian nunneries were the most liberated in Europe. In the 1400s, the skyrocketing cost of dowries meant that many of the city’s noblest families were obliged to place their teenage daughters, regardless of their wishes, in convents. Few of these developed a spiritual calling. It was openly accepted that the top convents were a “safety valve” for Venice’s surplus of well-born single women, who could go on to enjoy a level of sexual freedom unique for the time.
The Virtues of Promiscuity, by Sally Lehrman at Alternet
“Slutty” behavior is good for the species. That is the conclusion of a new wave of research on the evolutionary drives behind sexuality and parenting. Women everywhere have been selflessly engaging in trysts outside of matrimony. And they have been doing it for a good long time and for excellent reasons. Anthropologists say female promiscuity binds communities closer together and improves the gene pool.
Les signes exterieurs du sexe, from A Journey Round My Skull
Kiss-in planned during Pope’s Barcelona visit
Gays, lesbians and gay-rights sympathisers are to organise a massive kiss-in outside Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia, timing it to coincide with Pope Benedict XVI departure from the basilica at 10 am on November 7.
Psych Ops of the Sexual Kind in an Army Barracks, by Arvan Reese at sexgenderbody
. . . It is very common for men to hang a pin-up girl on the inside of their lockers. That tiny wall space is all that most of us have to display anything. It’s always milquetoast and usually consists of a famous swimsuit model in a wet bikini. Mass produced and mass consumed, these images are the elevator music of erotica. The world is full of billions of individual people, unique, special and beautiful. To look at the lockers around me, you would think that the planet has less than 10 women – each wearing all-american-girl outfits or a bathing suit. . .
One of Europe’s largest brothels opens in Spain, AFP
The Paradise brothel opened Thursday night in La Jonquera with 80 rooms and two showrooms, catering for up to 150 prostitutes each paying 70 euros (100 dollars) a day for room and meals.
‘The epitome of hopeless nannying‘, By Joshua Errett, nowtoronto.com
Next thing you know, the Ontario government will want to ban sidewalks because that’s where prostitutes work. That modest proposal is a lot like shutting Craigslist’s adult services section, which the province is presently demanding. Craigslist is merely a portal, a platform in which to advertise. It is essentially a sidewalk.
The heart goes pitter, Peter Malherbe, Timeslive.co.za
After the soldiers left [Pattaya] and the sex tourists started arriving, it degenerated into a seedy seaside resort, with polluted seawater, sordid nightlife and rundown hotels. Beach-seekers deserted it for new destinations such as Phuket and Koh Samui. But over the past 15 years, the government and local tourism officials have waged a determined battle to restore its reputation and turn it into a family-friendly resort.
– Laura Agustín, the Naked Anthropologist
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