Here’s a thing about me: sometimes I feel like I offend people because I don’t want to hold or hug or kiss their kids – babies, toddlers, all of it. I can remember being a kid myself and watching any one of my younger cousins go from neutral baby mode
Shine Louise Houston, Pink & White Productions, and Contemporary Queer Porn
The following piece was slated to appear on UPROXX/FilmDrunk during the month of October, 2014. Unfortunately, however, it ended up not being published. The original text is printed in full. * * * Imagine… It’s circa 2000, and you’ve just graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute with some kinda avant
Good news: a broad scope of sex is acceptable, according to God (read: people)!
I recently came across two bits of news (“news”)… First, “Jill and Jessa Duggar Tell UsWeekly Their Mom And Dad’s Rules For Dating And Sex Stuff” (9/25/14), an intentionally sarcastic bit wherein the comedic genius behind Dlisted.com runs down some of the Duggar clan’s courting dos-and-don’ts. Things like parents of
Feminism & Porn: Can they Coexist? – live debate Sept. 30 on Mindbrowse
I’m super excited to be moderating another live event for Mindbrowse and Sssh! Here is some press about it: CYBERSPACE (September 25, 2014) – MindBrowse.com has announced that sociologist Dr. Chauntelle Tibbals will again serve as moderator for the discussion portal’s next panel discussion, “Feminism & Porn: Can they Coexist?,”
What’s your *real* name, Facebook?
By now, we’ve all (hopefully) heard about this: The world’s largest social network has decided to move forward with deleting all LGBT Facebook profiles who do not change their personal profile names to their legal names during a two week grace period. (from The Gaily Grind here, 9/18/14) Many discussions
Permission, Piracy, and Me (also)
I’ve been traveling for the past week or so, thus I haven’t been able to sit down and write anything that requires more than ten minutes of directed attention. But this Songs of Innocence thing. Ever since I was old enough to know U2 existed, which was actually pretty darn young,
What is an “embedded public sociologist”?
What is an “embedded public sociologist”? I recently posted up my monthly “Adult Film Minute” column for FilmDrunk/UPROXX – “Jessa Rhodes Explains The In and Outs Of Porn Stardom In 2014” (9/12/14) — and someone asked me a version of that very question… …and it’s a good question! One that, oddly,
In defense of the *real* Lana Del Rey..?
I recently came across this article, which was actually kinda old: “The 15 most hated bands of the last 30 years” (Salon, 8/10/13). Total clickbait, sure. But I agree that Nickelback, Creed, and Phish are among the worst things EVER. And I also hotly disagree that Dave Matthews, ICP, and
Things that do not pair: “toddler” and “sexy”
Recently, I came across this horrifying news story: “Photographer Accused of Posting ‘Pornographic’ Photos of His 2-Year-Old, Here’s How He Responded” (8/22/14). Here’s the gist: Wyatt Neumann is a photographer and father who last year took his two-year-old daughter Stella on a road trip across the country, documenting their travels as
Trolls are everywhere…
Trolls – those keyboard warriors who do everything from offering “helpful” suggestions and advice about endeavors they’ve never actually engaged to threatening and berating people who, for better or for worse, are out in the world actually doing stuff – they’re everywhere. Wikipedia describes trolls thusly: In Internet slang, a troll