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Amateur Porn @ HUMP-O-Ween 2008: Be Afraid

Violet Blue — Thu, 22 May 2008 09:00:13 EDT

Those crazy porn-lovin' kids at Seattle's Stranger are at it again! No, it has nothing to do with their embarrassing get-off-my-leg-in-public habit (well, mostly): turns out they're having another amateur porn festival. Every year HUMP! has been a showcase of superlative indie porn that's shown only during the festival and destroyed afterward—prizes are awarded and everyone comes away with plenty of happy memories and wank material that lives on in their minds (and squishy bits) for years to come. This year they've moved the festivities to the end of October and are promising to scare the pants off all comers with HUMP-O-Ween. The deadline (heh) is October first and all details are on their website. We just hope that the clown porn thing isn't too much of a trend this year. Eek!

· HUMP! 4: HUMP-O-Ween (thestranger.com)

Previously: Dan Savage's Porn Problem, Their Humps: HUMP! Amateur Porn Contest 2007

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)

Remembering Recycling Anna Nicole

Fleshbot — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:45:44 EST

Perhaps anxious to get the best seat on the Anna Nicole Smith memorial bandwagon before the folks at E! trot out the entire run of the "Anna Nicole Show" as a fourteen volume special edition with an exclusive commentary track by Dame Judi Dench, Playboy is wasting no time hawking a three-DVD collection of every video in which she appeared as the "Anna Nicole Smith Collection"—because really, nothing says "We Remember" like a $22.49 shrinkwrapped collection of recycled material everyone's seen before. Still, it may be of interest for completist types out there, if not celebrity necrophiliacs—after all, no less an eminent sex authority as Dan Savage reminds everyone that it's really, really creepy to jerk off to naked dead people: "So long as she lived ... you lived—and whacked off—in hope. But masturbating to the dead inspires only feelings of hopelessness and despair. Which is why no one beats off to James Dean or River Phoenix or Marilyn Monroe or Mary Todd Lincoln without feeling a little creepy, a little hopeless, and a little closer to the grave himself." (Wait a second—who says no one jerks off to Mary Todd Lincoln? Speak for yourself, Dan!)

· "Bundle of Joy" (dvddossier.com - thanks Judy)
· "The Anna Nicole Smith Collection" (Amazon)
· Dan Savage: Savage Love, 2/27/07 (villagevoice.com)

Previously: Remembering Anna Nicole