Shout Outs
13 March 06
The primary reason ethnorotica exists is to facilitate an ongoing conversation. As much as I might enjoy standing on my soap box or else ferreting out hot wank material, what really gets my juices flowing are people’s opinions and perspectives. For better or worse, we internet people live in an attention economy governed by power-law dynamics, so perpectives that fall outside the mainstream (even within this little sexbloggy world) often get overlooked.
Technorati is falling woefully behind the curve so I’m hand-curating a list of people who’ve posted about ethnorotica in recent days:
- “All those schupid arguments with sexually conservative bloggers calling themselves feminists, academics, lefties, THINKERS and I got a sex blogger who didn’t even need to come to me with any schupid conversation about how they’re trying to understand what the site is about and how they’re just worried that folks are going to open the site at work and get slapped on the wrist.” [Dark Daughta]
- “I do feel qualified to say that in both gender and ethnicity the mechanisms that let us stereotype each other and ourselves blind us over and over to our far broader and deeper similarities.” [Figleaf]
- “So to be fair, I’m sorry ethnorotica, this site isn’t that erotic…. unless you consider me talking about how I’ve been SO BUSY these days to clean my room that now I have absolutely NO CLUE where my “toy” is, to be erotic material! The site is ethnic though. But to make up for it, I will present you, what I think is my most erotic pic on public – my Halloween pic…” [Indian Girl Dating – Thanks!]
- “This very pretty site endeavors to present women of color in ways that transgress the fetishistic and thought-free formats of conventional mainstream porn. Come for the gorgeous women, stay for the clever and sly writing. It’s good-humored, intelligent and hott.” [Chelsea Girl]
- “Recently inspired by ‘Ethnorotica’ a wonderful blog by ‘Laughing Man’ (odd name eh?) I decided to seek out more galleries and sites that feature women of color in a postive manner. In particular I am going to work to find postive example of interracial lesbians. Unfortunely most ‘adult’ porn perpetuates negative stereo types of people of color.” [Lori]
- “Usually the only things we like to have challenged when we visit a porn site are our wrist muscles—but if you stick around long enough after visiting the introductory babe galleries at the newish Ethnorotica, you’ll be treated to some well-written and thoughtful musings on race, sex, porn, and popular culture.” [Fleshbot]
Oh, and FYI, you’ll all find out soon enough what the deal is with the name ‘Laughing Man.’
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