The profits of PORN (video)

Editors, Wisdom Quarterly; Rory Carroll (theguardian.com) in Los Angeles 

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Burlesque satisfaction?

The number of permits issued for "adult" films plunges in the Valley and North Hollywood (both areas of greater L.A.) as the sex industry says producers have moved to Las Vegas and Eastern Europe.

The  number of permits issued for adult films fell 90% last year to just 40  permits compared with 2012, when the law was introduced, the Los Angeles Times reported on Wednesday.

Hard Summer rave 2014

“We’ve  seen a dramatic drop in permits,” Paul Audley, president of FilmLA,  told the paper. “It is a cause for concern that people who are manning  the cameras, lights and other things on those sets are not working  anymore.”

Voters in LA County backed the ban after the Aids Healthcare Foundation, an advocacy group, argued that unsafe sex on sets  spread HIV and other diseases.

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The industry protested in vain that it conducted regular health screenings and that audiences and performers tended to prefer porn without condoms.

The state senate is due to vote this month on whether to widen the ban to all of California.
 

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Most porn production takes place without permits -- a film can be shot in a  few days in a private house -- so it was unclear to what extent the 90%  fall in permits represented a wider flight.

Several porn producers said they had moved production to other parts of southern California, as well as Nevada, Florida, and Eastern Europe, where there is less  regulation. More 

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4,000-year-old PORN found in Bible (video)

Ashley Wells, Pat Macpherson, Seven, Wisdom Quarterly; Jamstamanify; History Channel

Sisterly centerfold and the Mormon pool boys of The New Electric Sound (Lime Ricki)

Eve as temptress, seductress little better than the succubus and demoness Lilith as represented by sexy British actor Elizabeth Hurley in the remake of "Bedazzled" (salon.com)

WARNING: Cussing! Reference to sex and deviant acts from Hebrew and Christian biblical sources including bestiality recounted by giggling dummies reading from the Bible Reloaded!

Due to the popularity of the Wisdom Quarterly ancient Egyptian post, 3,000-year-old PORN discovered, we continue our archeological investigations -- this time to the perverted (pandaka) world of Biblical sex. As if Israeli Patriarch Lot, a hero of the Christian Bible (Genesis and Isaiah), offering his two daughters up to be raped by the bisexual rapists of Sodom weren't enough, or his having incestuous sex with them later (religioustolerance.org), the perversions actually came much earlier. Buddhist texts make reference to sex, but Buddhism is not nearly so uptight about it nor does it use it as the basis of blaming an entire group.

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Lilith (Jewish Midrash) is nothing but trouble!

During the time of the Garden of Eden, before Eve and everything she has been blamed for, there was Lilith and another woman Naamah. Lilith's great crime was that she was a feminist who did not want to constantly make love missionary style, which she felt made her feel submissive. But the god YHWH and the man ADAM think she should be. So they coerce her, she refuses, and they convert her in his-story into a demon who makes love to demon, a baby killer, and a wet dream maker molesting poor young boys in their sleep. It's not your fault, men; it's women who tempt and seduce you; you should totally make them wear face veils and body-length coverings like your non-Judeo-Christian brethren.

(History Channel/Morningstar Entertainment) Who would ever have thought that such a simplistic creation myth could be connected to so much in our culture: sex, sexism, sin, Sumer (Sumerian history and the Epic of Gilgamesh), Jewish Chris Columbus, obsession with youth (thanks, Ponce), the real sources of "God," the "Gods," and other Bible stories?

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Can one love one's penis too much? (video)

Pat Macpherson, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; LiveScience.com; TheFinalMember.com

This optical illusion is caused by our brain's top down processing rather than being mindful of what's there or what psychologists refer to as bottom up processing -- perceiving based on data rather than interpretation. Instead, our minds constantly "construct" our reality. Send complaints care of CC Liu. Then fish your mind out of the gutter and look below:

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Female penis structure of cave insect (CB)

Females with penislike genitals and males with vaginalike organs are cases of a new extreme reversal of sex roles researchers have discovered in little-known cave insects.

 

These are the first examples of animals with genitalia that reverse the traditional sex roles, and the discovery could shed light on the conflict between the sexes in the animal kingdom, investigators said.

 

Scientists analyzed four species of insects from extremely dry caves in Brazil. All four species belong to the genus Neotrogla, just as dogs, wolves, coyotes, and jackals belong to genus Canis. The first Neotrogla was discovered 18 years ago; adult Neotrogla range from about 2.7 to 3.7 millimeters (0.11 to 0.15 inches) long. More

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Sex on the screen: No longer taboo?

Amber Larson, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Nicholas Barber (Culture/BBC.co.uk, Jan. 8, 2014)

"Blue is the Warmest Colour," a French coming-of-age-story (Sundance Selects)

 

Sex on screen: No longer taboo?

The recent cinema movies "Blue is the Warmest Colour" and "Nymphomaniac" have attracted attention for their graphic sexual content. Is this explicit trend more than skin deep?

 

Troubled, sure, but smarter than us.

The most talked-about eight minutes in cinema last year [2013] were in the French film, "Blue is the Warmest Colour." The movie’s graphic lesbian sex scene was so explicit and prolonged -- frankly, it looked exhausting -- that Abdellatif Kechiche’s three-hour coming-of-age drama could have been dismissed as pornography.

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And yet, while there was much debate concerning the morality of a 52-year-old male director telling two naked young actresses [Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos] to contort themselves into human reef knots, the film won the Palme d’Or ["Golden Palm"] at the Cannes Film Festival and went onto garner rave reviews. Most critics accepted that "Blue is the Warmest Colour" wasn’t a blue movie -- but an honest, unflinching portrayal of first love.

It wasn’t a one-off, either. When you scan the list of 2013’s films, you could be forgiven for thinking that today’s directors have sex on the brain....

Lust is a terrible thing ("Mondo Amore" Williams/laluzdejesus.com).

  

Gwyneth Paltrow [America's most hated celebrity] and Mark Ruffalo...appeared in "Thanks for Sharing," a drama about a support group for sex addicts. 

 

Michael Winterbottom and Steve Coogan made "The Look of Love," a biopic of Paul Raymond, one of Britain’s wealthiest strip-club proprietors and pornographers.

  

Outrageous celebrity sex quotes

Another biopic, "Lovelace," featured Amanda Seyfried as the star of the revolutionary 1970s hardcore hit, "Deep Throat." And Joseph Gordon-Levitt, last seen in "Looper"... chose a different kind of film for his debut as a writer-director. In "Don Jon," he played a New Jersey bartender who watched porn on his computer several times a day, despite having Scarlett Johansson (another Avengers star) as his girlfriend. More

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NSA spying on American's PORN habits

Maya, Wisdom Quarterly; OnTheMedia.org

The NSA Spies on People's Porn Habits: Whistle blowing journalist Glenn Greenwald, formerly of Britain's The Guardian, pops up in The Huffington Post today with a new Edward Snowden leak story. This one is about how the NSA has spied on the porn viewing habits of six unidentified Muslim targets [and one can bet countless nominally-Christian Americans who could be transcending by crossing their legs].

2012 review (thismodernworld.com)