Of course, one man's free peep show is another's indecent exposure, so don't expect the fun to go on forever (especially not since the NY Post seems determined to get everyone to cover up. Nuts to you, Rupert Murdoch!).

· High Line Is A Lust Cause (nypost.com)
· Thumbnail star: Brooke Marks (foxyflow.com)

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• "A Girl, Her Tongue and a Hotel Room" (YouTube; more @ extstay.com)

· German Saez Photo: Swiss Hotel (germansaezphoto.com, via afuckaday.blogspot.com)

Previously: German Saez: Fotos Privadas

The art of classic portraiture may be overlooked in these days of digitally enhanced amputee still lifes and high speed blowjobs. But if there's one thing that captures that timeless poignancy of the human condition on the opposite side of a camera lens, it's boobs—like the ones you'll see in Bay Area-based artist Todd Hido's intimate portraits. Not to say that Hido's portraits of streetwise-looking young women in anonymous hotel rooms aren't totally compelling and masterful in their own right, because they are. We just think all portraits would be nicer, and Sears would get a total shot in the arm from a business standpoint, if nips were as common in these types of pictures as blue department store backgrounds. We're just saying.-V. Blue

· Todd Hido: Portraits (toddhido.com, via Art Boobs)

Previously: Photos by Tony Stamolis, Misa Martin Photography, Nude Figures by Sita Mae Edwards, Matt Sharkey Photography, Fleeting Image: Art Nudes In The Wild

· Breaking: Kate Moss still has breasts. Nipples, too. (egotastic.com)

· GM tries to control its previously unbridled use of auto show booth babes. So their goal is to sell even fewer cars this year? (Jalopnik)

· This interactive map of Tokyo love hotels is totally awesome ... except for the fact that we don't know how to read Japanese. (lovehomap.com)

· Fleshbot Crush Object™ Molly Crabapple take her Dr. Sketchy's Rainy Day Coloring Book tour out to the Western states, starting tomorrow in Phoenix, Arizona. See, some New Yorkers do acknowledge that the rest of the country exists! (info @ drsketchy.com)

· Chicago mourns loss of "Weird" Harold Rubin, pornographer and (apparently) first-class weirdo. Sounds like our kind of people. (chicagotribune.com)

· Finally, be careful who you choose to interview for your "woman on the street" news segments. This is called biting off more than you can chew. (video @ omgblog.com)

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Previously: Morning Wood Archives/Wet Spots Archives

· Nuts Magazine unveils the "Hottest New Breasts of 2007," whatever that means. They're only new to you if you've fallen behind on your Best of Babelogs reading over the past six months. (latenightpictures.blogspot.com)

· Is the HD-DVD vs. Blue-Ray debate really about censorship, and not the quality of the competing technologies? Look, all we want to know is when can we see the hi-res boobies? (Gizmodo + highdefdigest.com)

· Ivanka Trump celebrates her Golden Globes. Does her father have anything to do with this latest high rise development? (savemanny.blogspot.com)

· Forget Spanktrovision. The new wave of hotel room entertainment is live sex shows broadcast right to your TV. How will we ever get any sleep? (nytimes.com)

· Chinese officials are getting more complaints about online crime and fewer complaints about online "porns." Which can only mean that the good stuff is finally getting through. (people.com.cn)

· Amsterdam is reportedly putting up a statue honoring the world's prostitutes. You can look all you want, but if you want to touch it, it's going to cost you. (breitbart.com)

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Previously: Morning Wood Archives/Wet Spots Archives

Every city has hotels that specialize in, er ... "limited time" stays, but they're usually disgusting flop houses that you wouldn't stay in for twenty minutes even if you were paying by the hour. Not in Japan, however, where love hotels are an art form in themselves. Many of the rooms at these places look like abstract art installations as they're lavishly decorated, often in some unique theme that will cater to just about every taste imaginable. (The Hello Kitty bondage room is always a popular choice.) Photographer Misty Keasler's new book "Love Hotels" document Japan's more interesting guest quarters, and her photos will also be featured in upcoming shows at several US art galleries. Some of these places look so nice that we could actually see ourselves staying in them for a couple of days, although even we might get sick of the noise coming from our neighbors. Eventually, you just gotta get some sleep.

· Misty Keasler Hotel Photos (pdnbgallery.com, via Boing Boing)
· Buy: "Love Hotels: The Hidden Fantasy Rooms of Japan" (Amazon)

Previously: Smut and Hotel Rooms 2007 Calendar, "Pink Box: Inside Japan's Sex Clubs", DVD Review: "Hotel Bliss", Hotel Room Nudes, Japanese Love Hotel Videos

What is it about hotel rooms that make them such popular fantasy locations for porn shoots? Is it the aura of all the sex that's happened on those beds in the past? The air of noontime quickies and after-work assignations in the lower-end establishments? The never-ending supply of towels and cute little bars of individually wrapped soap with which to wash up after the lovin'? Photographer Jeanette Thompson explores the link between smut and temporary living quarters in her new 2007 calendar, which features intrepid travelers like Julie Simone giving guest services another reason to change those sheets every morning. It's great to see one of our favorite sexy environments the subject of its own calendar; is it too much to hope Jeanette will create one featuring side alley dumpsters for next year? (Er, forget we mentioned it.)

· Smut and Hotel Rooms 2007 Calendar (ordering info @ lulu.com - thanks K.)
· Jeanette Thompson: Smut and Hotel Rooms Project (gallery @ moxiegraphix.com)
· Thumbnail stars: Kerri Taylor and Lisa Marie

Previously: DVD Review: "Hotel Bliss", Hotel Room Nudes, Porn Valley Dispatch: Hoteliers Against Porno, House Of Transgressions, Hotel Hannah, Japanese Love Hotel Videos, Bad Girls Hotel