30 March 06 in Roundup
It’s been “things that make you go hmmm…” week here at ethnorotica:
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22 March 06 in Commentary
- Remember Japan Week? Neither do I. In case you missed it, you can catch up on four centuries of Japanese perversity at New York’s Museum of Sex. [Museum of Sex]
- News Flash! Spencer Tunick takes pictures of hundreds of nude Venezuelans. It’s different this time, really. [Yahoo News]
- I’m not sure why anyone cares whether Adriana Lima is a virgin—your chances of bagging her are about the same either way—but the GQ pictures do make one wonder: virgin or gangbang girl? [Hollywood Tuna]
- Apparently, mixed-race superbabies are all the rage these days. Cause, y’know, they’re just like dogs. [Mixed Media Watch]
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13 March 06 in Commentary
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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10 March 06 in Found
Figleaf of Real Adult Sex sends along a list of some of his favorite ethnorotic bloggers:
The picture above is of the lovely and sharp-witted Hiromi, whom I remember from her time at the now-defunct Panties Panties Panties. She just posted an interesting essay about racism. Looks like I have some reading to catch up on over the weekend.
[Props to Figleaf]
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