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"Manhood" and lesbians

Sex is in the mainstream news, which for Americans means going beyond the drivel we’re fed in the U.S. and reading The Guardian and other U.K. papers. Last week, The Guardian featured a comprehensive review of a new book, Manhood—100 photos of penises and interviews with the men they’re attached to ("Me and my penis," https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandst..., May 27). Can you imagine a mainstream U.S. publication tackling a topic like this? With pictures, no less?

The book is a follow-up to author Laura Dodsworth’s 2014 book on breasts, Bare Reality, about women’s relationships to their boobs. For Manhood, she took photos of the dangly bits (no faces) of 100 men and interviewed them about what they think about their cocks. Turns out, most men are good interviews after you ask them to take off their clothes and pose their dicks for a picture. Her big takeaway?

“A lot more men feel a sense of shame or anxiety about their size, or an aspect of their performance, than I would have thought,” Dodsworth said. “What really moved me is how much that shame and inadequacy had bled into different parts of their life.”

Interesting, but no surprise, considering the dimensions of the cocks on display in mainstream porn (and they’re always hard!). Any man with a dick smaller than his forearm would feel inadequate compared to what you see on the internet.

So, again, hat’s off to the Brits for treating readers like adults. But…the article (and the book) could have gone further. Question: What’s a penis used for? Answer: Sex (and pissing your name in the snow). This reader would have found it a lot more interesting if Dodsworth had included pictures of erect cocks along side the same soft cocks (y’know, before and after). Frankly, 100 dangling flaps of skin ‘n’ scrotums did nothing for me.

More sex news: Pornhub, which boasts 75 million visitors a day (think about that), celebrated its 10th anniversary with some interesting statistics, reports RT ("Pornhub celebrates 10 years online with release of viewers’ dirty-minded habits," https://on.rt.com/8ctu, May 27). Nothing new here, but the number-one search item continues to be (drum roll) lesbian (followed by MILF, amateur, teen, mature…). I’ve commented before on why lesbian porn is so popular (and rued why lesbian erotica isn’t). Nice to see lesbians still rule (at least in porn).

Jerking off to be banned by Texas bill

Texas, long-time home of criminally stupid legislators (and an ex-president), is in the news again. This time, a sane member of the state legislature has introduced a bill that would fine men $100 for ejaculating “outside of a woman’s vagina” and not saved for future conception.

That’s not all. The proposed law, pointedly called the Man’s Right to Know Act, would mandate a “medically-unnecessary digital rectal exam and magnetic resonance [imaging] of the rectum” before any elective vasectomy, colonoscopy or Viagra prescription.

A joke? Sort of. It was actually reported on National Public Radio (Satirical Texas Bill Would Fine Men’s Masturbation, Set Viagra Waiting Period (http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-wa...), March 13). The bill’s sponsor, state Rep. Jessica Farrar, is clearly pissed about a similar anti-abortion law passed in Texas and turns its language against men. Alas, she knows it won’t pass, but at least she is doing something to salvage Texas’ miserable reputation as a state of full of women-hating Neanderthals.

In proposing a fine for masturbation, Farrar said that if a man’s semen is not used to create a pregnancy, “then it’s a waste…because that semen can be used — and is to be used — for creating more human life,” Farrar told the Texas Tribune (https://www.texastribune.org/2017/03/...).

Farrar is an outspoken opponent of anti-abortion efforts, which included recent bills that would require hospitals to bury or cremate fetal remains and would charge both abortion providers and women who get abortions with murder. Farrar is filling in for the late, great columnist Molly Ivins (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_I...), who would be having a ball with this (“Good thing we’ve still got politics in Texas – finest form of free entertainment ever invented”).

The lawmaker’s bill would take all the fun out of jerking off, to say the least (and I’m assuming men in Texas jerk off as much as men in other states). “Men have to answer for their actions and so forth,” Farrar said. “So if there’s going to be an emission, it would have to be done in a hospital where the semen could be preserved for future pregnancies or it would be directly deposited into the vagina of a woman.”

That would mean male Texans would have to leave the state to enjoy “emissions.” Just the way female Texans have to leave the state to get an abortion.

Only fair.

Reviewed: Sex Machine

E-Read Erotica Reviews (http://ereaderotica.com/?p=6196): Deliciously pervy, wonderfully raw, and blatantly sexual. A delight of strange smelling and sticky foreign food, if foreign food was the pleasures of unknown sex. A mindless romp down the corners of some dark alley, where strange grunting noises are heard, screams echo out, and the smell repulses you yet attracts you in the same whiff. The danger draws you in. The disconnected and animistic nature where sex is the only thing that matters, the only human action in which we find meaning, and the only interaction between people that matters nowadays.

Free erotica!

I'm pissed. Kobo, an e-book distributor you've probably never heard of, banned my pseudo-incest erotic short, Seeding the Brat. Why? Who the fuck knows? But I'm angry enough to share the joy of this funny, extremely graphic and loving short story. Subscribe to my monthly newsletter, K.C. Cave Reports (https://madmimi.com/signups/135437/join) before December 1 and I'll send you a free download of Seeding the Brat.

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Banned on Kobo

First, Amazon adult filtered/dungeoned Seeding the Brat (making it difficult to find unless you know where to look). Now Kobo, on a rampage to protect adult readers from debasing themselves by reading pseudo-incest, banned it. WTF? They threatened authors with banning all their books unless they removed incest/pseudo-incest titles. But…but…it’s fiction, right? Fantasy? The mind boggles.

Blurb: Hannah was wealthy after her rich parents drowned on their swingers cruise. All the money in the world, though, couldn’t do anything about the brat’s raging hormones and her overwhelming urge to procreate. So the 18-year-old beauty set her sights on Angus, the recent college grad she grew up with and who was now the man of the house, the sprawling Victorian mansion where they were raised. (And, no, they’re not related. But if they were, so what? It’s fiction.)

Deep South by Paul Theroux

Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads by Paul Theroux

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Fabulous reporting from a master. Not a travelog, or memoir of his travails, but a hard look at the underbelly of the south--poverty and racism. Sounds depressing, but it's a delightful read, with interesting asides about southern literature and other related topics as Theroux meanders around the south, meeting people, getting their stories, making keen observations. He writes so many things I agree with--commercial airplane travel is now a degrading experience best to be avoided, his views of Faulkner (an industry for college English professors and not much else), the beauty of the landscape. He's an incredible reporter and apparently not afraid to approach anyone and get the story of the their life. He likes gun shows (go figure) and cheap motels. He's not political, he doesn't argue (even with racists, of whom there are a lot; he just lets them talk, revealing what jerks they are). A great read, never dull, and wraps up with an interesting essay on aging (he's in his mid-70s and calls it "the prime of life"). I've read most of his books. Now I'm going to make sure I read them all.



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Reviewed: Cons, Scams and Grifts

Cons, Scams & Grifts by Joe Gores

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Very fun read. Intriguing insights to the gypsy (Romani) culture. As the book went on, I couldn't keep track of the characters and it didn't much matter. I'll be reading more by Gores.



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Reviewed: Sometimes a Great Notion

Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


At least the third time I've read this. It still stuns me, the way Kesey changes points of views inside paragraphs and other devices which shouldn't work but do. Some chapter breaks would've been nice, but that's a nitpick. Gets my vote for the Great American Novel.



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Reviewed: Mindless Lust

E-Read Erotica Reviews (http://ereaderotica.com/?p=5985): I love how this makes me feel. Drunk with the possibilities of random and wanton sex. Fucking the norms and the rules. Spitting back at those who would call this trashy smut. Because it is, and it says it with a smile and a middle finger held up proud and high. A book that makes me feel free again? Certainly so.

Excerpt:

They slid into the booth. Tommy made the introductions, and Alison spoke in a low voice, but clearly enunciating. “I know Tommy told you I’m an enthusiastic amateur, not like those professional ladies he had made arrangements with. I just want you to understand that since the last time I was in this bar for that gangbang Tommy told you about, my sexual relations have been exclusively with women. I’m saying that to let you know that I may be a little, you know, tight.”

Mindless Lust, new WTF erotica by K.C. Cave

No stupid plot. No boring character development. Just Mindless Lust, book 6 of Alison’s Erotic Adventures: Alison’s night of mindless lesbian lust with her girlfriend Moriah (in the same bar where she once “entertained” seven guys on a busted pool table) goes belly-up: Moriah’s plane is late, and Tommy (the old friend with benefits who played sheriff during her serial gangbang) walks in with four German auto execs. He had hired a mother/daughter duo of whores to entertain them on that pool table, but they’re no-shows. Alison, dressed in full-slut mode, owes him. She’ll help him close the deal of a lifetime—for a price. Alison doesn’t give it away anymore. Word count: 7,000. Price: $2.99