Fleshbot: Journalism

2008 Sexies Honor The, Er, Sexy

Lux Alptraum — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:35:19 EDT

We're all used to coming across a fair amount of sex negative journalism in mainstream media—which makes this list of winners from this year's Sexies all the more deserving. We're especially excited to see that New York Times Magazine article on Kink.com we liked so much honored with a prize—though everyone who entered is still a winner in our book. Keep fighting the good fight, people! (sexies.org; also seen at aetoday.com)

Note to aspiring sex advice doler-outers: ...

Jonnobot — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:40:17 EST

Note to aspiring sex advice doler-outers: It's fine to want to be "edgy" by padding your brand new column with incest-themed questions or whatever, but don't go stealing questions from our man Dan Savage in order to do so. There's an awful lot of us here who are watching his back, you know. (Jezebel; update @ poynter.org)

The Sexies: Sex-Positive Journalism Awards

Violet Blue — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:00:13 EST

We're not sure what you call a group of sex-positive writers (A gaggle? A slippery fistful?), but it seems a cabal of the nation's most esteemed have convened in some secret fortress of sex-negative doom to create The Sexies: The 2008 Sex-Positive Journalism Awards. The superpower judges are heavy-hitters, ranging from sex educators like Carol Queen and Dan Savage to notorious pro-sex, pro-porn activists Marty Klein and Judith Levine, hopefully coming up with some sort of doomsday testes-shrink-ray to be used on the likes of Bill O'Reilly and his fundie fanboys. On the serious side, they're now taking submissions and donations, with 2007's winners to be announced next year. They explain "sex-positive journalism" in detail on their site, but we just want to know—do our random acts of sex-positive LiveJournalism count?

· The Sexies: Sex-Positive Journalism Awards (sexies.org, via Viviane)

Porn: America's Addiction!

Dashiell Bennett — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:02:14 EDT

"Lance Tracy is a porn addict, and it almost destroyed his marriage." Thus begins the latest media investigation of pornography and its vicious assault on innocent Americans. CNN Headline News is airing a four-part series on the porn menace starting tonight, and you can get a taste with this short video on CNN.com. The teaser clip has all the hallmarks of good old fashioned TV journalism: haunting music, frightening camera angles, disturbing tales of men spending "four to six hours a day online" (lightweights!), and scare quotes from doctors like "internet pornography is the crack cocaine of sexual addiction." Tune in to see totally objective reporter Glenn Beck provide a not-at-all sensational look at porn's evil, evil ways. Honestly, we have no idea who Glenn Beck is, but that big pointy finger and arched eyebrow do make us feel very naughty indeed. If only we had someway to release all that pent up energy without actually hurting ourselves or anyone else ...

· Glenn Beck - Porn: America's Addiction (video @ cnn.com)

Previously: This Week In Porn Hysteria, Congressional Porn Hearings, Internet Porn Hysteria on 20/20, War On Pornography, Kittenhate

Strippers of London

Jonnobot — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:15:38 EDT

Our globetrotting siblings over at Gridskipper point us in the direction of photographer Gail Orenstein's lucious photographs of the exotic dance scene in London, which are notable both for their anthropological value as well as for the copious amounts of boobage on display. Guess travel really does broaden the mind in more ways than one.

· "London Stripper Galleries" (Gridskipper)
· Strippers of London and London Strippers Part 2 (Flickr)
· GO Photos: The Naked Truth (project blog @ gophotosthenakedtruth.blogspot.com)

Previously: Stripped Daily, The Aphrodite Project, Sex Work Matters, Ten Striptease Pioneers, "Strippers: The Untold History of the Girlie Show", Danni's Virtual Lapdances, Naked Ambition, Meet Elle Wakefield, Slut Suzie: Diary of a UK Prostitute