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As the first ever NYC Pornographic Film Festival is set to begin Feb. 27, erotic creative artists from every corner of the industry are gearing up to show their work. Yet the unusual mix of artists has already raised questions about what actually constitutes porn. With submissions ranging from standard
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Sex is one of those things that no matter how much of it you’re having, you could always be having more.
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I spent a large portion of my youth with a pretty severe penis envy: I was obsessed with the idea that having a dick would make life so much easier, not to mention way more fun. I wanted to piss on shit with no regard for authority, to whip out my wang in the middle of a middle-school assembly like the psychotic kids I looked up to — I wanted to brag about my big balls in the locker room and woo the ladies with low-resolution dick pics from my Motorola RAZR.
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At San Francisco’s Magnet, a gay men’s health center in the Castro district, Peter Berlin spoke during the Oct. 3 reception for his photograph exhibition, “Photographer/Porn Star/Gay Icon.” He specifically referenced a Facebook post that advertised his art show, emphasizing that the post amassed about 32 comments — some with
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The worlds of comics and rock music have coincided many times in the past. Gene Simmons, Claudio Sanchez of Coheed and Cambria, Alice Cooper and My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way have either written comics or commissioned writers to produce a work based on their music, and Wavves has a comic
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You’ve been with your partner for a while now, and you’ve been looking for ways to spice things up. Handcuffs and blindfolds? Done it. Butt play? Blase. Y’all are even on the elusive mile-high club. Then, the fateful question: “Want to film a porno?” You chew your lip and worry
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I was relatively late to the sex game. It wasn’t until well after my first sexual romp that I had the desire or mental wherewithal to masturbate. This yearslong mental obstacle overcome, imagine my horror when after a little pleasurable digging I feel the equivalent of what I imagine it must
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I’m sitting in a restaurant in Lisbon waiting for lunch. I’m weary from wandering the city with a friend, and a Fado band is playing on the television by the door. In the corner of the screen, I notice a woman translating every lyric into sign language. Her hands move
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Porn is great. While many find pornography to be disgraceful, inappropriate and vile, I find porn to be an excellent means of sex talk and education. But not all porn is beneficial, as much of it is falsified and altered to fit a certain commodity framework. However, the porn I’m
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Sleeping with someone for the first time is so terrifying. There’s this unspoken expectation that everything should go perfectly. I’ll take your shirt off and you’ll have a chiseled six pack, and we’ll come together while fireworks explode in the background. Thanks, Hollywood. The only image floating in my head
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