May 15, 2011
Porn Makeover #22 Cock a doodle doo
Cock a doodle do!
What is my dame to do?
Till master’s found his fiddlingstick,
She’ll dance without her shoe.
Cock a doodle do!
My dame has found her shoe,
And master’s found his fiddlingstick,
Sing cock a doodle do!
Cock a doodle do!
My dame will dance with you,
While master fiddles his fiddlingstick,
And knows not what to do.
Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), p. 128.
April 15, 2011
Gay Pornology; From Andy Warhol to X-Tube
Staples of life; food, air, water, coffee, cotton candy and PORN. My coffee table is getting full.
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The sumptuous, 260-page potpourri of hot photos and concisely presented history Porn from Andy Warhol to X-Tube (Bruno Gmuender, hardcover, $69.99) is both a celebration and a funeral. Its author tells us what there is to know about the development of the art, and then lets current filmmakers and producers tell us the state of the art. It’s not a rosy prognosis that they offer, most likely because it impacts their income. When asked, Where’s porn headed? they answer, It’s headed toward extinction. But that’s only in the current format of delivery. “DVDs are dead,” says one industry maven. “The Web is where things are happening.”
This lively chronicle is aptly subtitled A Photographic Journey, and it is more scrapbook than schoolbook. The photos are copious in amount and glamorously reproduced in large size on heavyweight stock. Author Kevin Clarke’s essay perceptively traces the origins of gay American erotica from an initial acceptance generated by the pop-porn of Warhol and the art-porn of Kenneth Anger, to the hardcore porn that flowered in their wake. Clarke is a 44-year-old German musicologist, whose specialty is operetta. Showtunes and porn? Most gay men don’t find them strange bedfellows at all. Clarke’s several books on operetta (unfortunately not translated from German) have looked at the form’s intersection with gay sexuality. A paper Clarke presented in 2009, “The Pornography of Operetta,” kicked off his interest in the general history of gay porn.
February 7, 2011
Dedication to My Readers:You make loving fun
Ahhh, you know it feels good! Readership from around the globe has skyrocketed. Thanks for all your support and comments. Keep a watchful eye on Accidental Bear Blog in 2011, mucho mas( for you illiterates, much more) to come. XOXO
January 7, 2011
Gay Porn Reality Show? Isn’t that Just Live Web Cams and Already Played Out?
Gay Porn Reality Show Is Definitely Not A-List: Los Angeles. But It Might As Well Be
Finally a reality show I’ll have no trouble NOT watching.
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