Criticism

When it came out, I saw “Shame” in the theater. I wrote about it, somewhat incoherently (in retrospect). I’m watching it again, now, at home. Last night, I watched the first half of it. It yanked my heart out. Michael…

Yesterday, I wrote that I’ve been surfing for porn a bit more. One place I’ve been turning to is FTV Girls. This is a membership site that I join every so often, and then let my membership lapse. It features…

It hadn’t occurred to me, but even the name is smug, superior, self-satisfied. And wrong. It should be “make sex, not porn,” to be accurate, as much of the sex depicted is not “making love” – it’s between friends, or…

There’s a new porn web site in town, called “MLNP.TV“. It features user-provided porn – sort of like a higher-end “Youporn,” on which sexy (and some not-so-sexy) couples, and individuals, can post themselves having (gasp!) real sex. I wrote about…

Friends of T’s and mine bought me a bottle of Scotch. A really nice bottle of Scotch. Before I say much, know this about my whisky-drinking: I’m a boor. I know what I like, but am not a snob. I…

Just look at this. It’s a thing of beauty. Let’s just move, slowly, from left to right in the picture. First, her arms, hooked back behind her, holding on to the chair, holding her up, preventing her from sliding forward,…

When I was a teenager, I remember hearing “Suzanne,” by Leonard Cohen, for the first time. I was haunted – by the sound of Cohen’s voice, by the images in the song. I never became a HUGE fan – I…

There’s something about the image of a woman spreading her legs – clothed – for me that is about the most arousing thing I can imagine. This afternoon, I had some writing (not blog-related) to do. I got a fair…

I’ve posted a couple of Spotify song links recently. I was under the mistaken impression (I didn’t test the links) that they would, oh, you know, cause the songs to play. But they don’t. They cause Spotify to launch, and…

Mark O’Brien was a survivor of polio. In his late 30s, paralyzed from the neck down, but with sensation, nonetheless, he resolved to experience intercourse. “The Sessions” is the story of his sexual – and romantic – awakening, first with…