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August 18, 2010
Free sample ebook, another Ota excerpt
Circlet has a new ebook out, Sweet Somethings, with juicy excerpts from twenty different stories from twenty different collections, including one of my favorite scenes from "Ota Discovers Fire." Pick your favorite format(s) and download for free, or just read it online.
@Scribd
@Smashwords
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Ebook call for discussion
Yeah, I know you're sick of the subject; I am too. However, since I seem to be drifting into that racket myself, I want to know how the readers of this journal, specifically, feel. I attempted to do this as a poll, but the number of permutations daunted me, so I'm gonna urge you to leave comments instead.
Presented with an e-book you want to read, would you rather acquire it formatted, or plain-text? Do you have a favored format?
Are you most likely to read it on your computer, a general portab...
Presented with an e-book you want to read, would you rather acquire it formatted, or plain-text? Do you have a favored format?
Are you most likely to read it on your computer, a general portab...
August 11, 2010
A plug
Apropos of porn and morality, this is a great week to mention that no writer on sexuality is more likely to make me not my head in agreement when reading than Greta Christina. My only real complaint about her sex writing (I confess that her equally-extensive writing about atheism bores me to tears) is that her essays are so substantive, so carefully reasoned, so meticulous that I'm often daunted by the prospect of absorbing them thoroughly enough to comment productively on them either here ...
Ooga Booga Porn!
Last week the Globe ran a teaser on their front page: THE HIDDEN COST OF PORN; articles about the evils of pornography are always a great way for news outlets to have their cake and eat it too, leaping at the flimsiest of excuses> for another piece about that nasty, dirty, endlessly fascinating filth flarn filth.
When I hunted down the article they were plugging (I guess you could say that their marketing worked pretty well on me), it turned out to be a puff piece on local academic Gail Dines,...
When I hunted down the article they were plugging (I guess you could say that their marketing worked pretty well on me), it turned out to be a puff piece on local academic Gail Dines,...
August 10, 2010
August 9, 2010
Orders of Magnitude
This is just a quick note to let you know that a Google Video search for "butch women porn" gets about 46 results, whereas a search for "dead monkey porn" gets about 223, and a search for "super mario brothers porn" gets about 2,870 results.
August 7, 2010
From the Sayings of Chairman Vinnie
"The victim was imprudent."
"The victim is not blameless here either."
"This was entirely the victim's fault."
"The victim deserved what they got."
These are not identical. This is the case whether we're talking about rape, traffic accidents, identity theft, or just housework. Treating the last of those as if it followed inevitably from any of the first three is always illogical, and often despicable.
"The victim is not blameless here either."
"This was entirely the victim's fault."
"The victim deserved what they got."
These are not identical. This is the case whether we're talking about rape, traffic accidents, identity theft, or just housework. Treating the last of those as if it followed inevitably from any of the first three is always illogical, and often despicable.
July 25, 2010
His Monster's Voice
This is just a quick note to let you know that, after a couple months of shopping-cart trouble, Circlet has the Ontological Engine audiobook back up for sale. Part 1 is free, the other three parts are a buck each. It's written and performed by Yours Truly, with production work by Hacksaw and bumper music by Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band.
July 7, 2010
A Modesty Proposal
I was thinking recently about the strange fact that the US, unusually among industrialized nations, still considers women's* chests to be obscene, such that exposing one to the public is a criminal act.
The fact that an exception is generally made for breast-feeding establishes pretty definitively that that is not that function that renders breasts obscene. Instead, the argument, as I understand it, is that women's breasts--and, in particular, the nipples--are sexual organs in a way men's nipp...
The fact that an exception is generally made for breast-feeding establishes pretty definitively that that is not that function that renders breasts obscene. Instead, the argument, as I understand it, is that women's breasts--and, in particular, the nipples--are sexual organs in a way men's nipp...
July 2, 2010
Parenthesis, paralysis
So, props to Dan Savage for including a link back to vinnietesla.com when he posted my letter. It was a gracious move.
The most interesting and surprising thing to me about his post, and the comments there, was the massive gravity well around ejaculation. Even after I'd explicitly said that that was absolutely not what I was discussing here, Dan seems to struggle to resist its pull, saying at one moment, '"I'm coming!" works for guys. But can a girl scream, "I'm wetting!" without sounding inco...
The most interesting and surprising thing to me about his post, and the comments there, was the massive gravity well around ejaculation. Even after I'd explicitly said that that was absolutely not what I was discussing here, Dan seems to struggle to resist its pull, saying at one moment, '"I'm coming!" works for guys. But can a girl scream, "I'm wetting!" without sounding inco...
