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Three reasons not to ban rape porn

by Ian Dunt / 12th June 2013

Britain's rape support groups are composed of some of the most decent, compassionate and hard-working people in our society. The work they do – amid disastrously low conviction rates, an occasionally unhelpful police response and the continued misogyny of some parts of society – should be widely celebrated. They are the best of us. However, on this issue, they are wrong. A ban on rape porn would be unworkable, undesirable, unethical and highly authoritarian. Here's why:

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News

Join the Commentariat!

31st May 2013

Enter the discussion! Now you can can comment on new articles, news and fiction as they appear. We look forward to them, so don't be shy! Your first post has to be moderated so that we can that see you're a real human being and not an evil bot. You can even make a threaded comment by clicking the 'Reply' button under a comment. But hey, play nice, please. Playground bullies will be given the old heave-ho.

MISTAKEN BELIEFS OF TODAY

29th May 2013

Common fallacy No. 23   A career as a phone sex hostess will lead to bigger and better things, will help you to meet interesting new men, who are not only charming, prosperous and in the habit of sending munificent gifts, but will also expand your weltanschauung by sharing with you the intelligent and cogent views they hold.

Great Flying Phalluses!

21st May 2013

We are thrilled to have been awarded the Order of the Golden Flying Phallus for Best Website by those lovely Erotic Awards people! Now… where to put it?

This is Upminster, not Sunset Boulevard

21st May 2013

I’ve never been to a hot tub party club, unless you count that time way back then, when Hef, Warren, Jack and I talked long into the night, getting slowly even more wrinkly under the warm, starry skies of Southern California in what the owner called ‘his little piece of paradise’. Click on image to read further

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Fiction

WAYBACK

by Richard O'Brien / 7th June 2013

'I don't really remember anything about her body, even when I was inside it. That's probably my fault more than hers. What I mostly remember was her clothes, and how long it took to get them off; every garment she was wearing seemed to have some kind of devious secret mechanism embedded within it. Even the T-shirt. It was as if Topshop had commissioned a range designed by abstinence campaigners without either of us knowing. I kept dodging elbows and armpits, and the time it took to pull her tights over her hips and down made me feel like I was the nurse, undressing an elderly patient for one last cold check-up. She probably thought the same on my account. She spent so long fiddling with the buckle on my belt that I thought she was making a half-hearted attempt to tease me. It had never really occurred to me before that there's probably a reason most people put on and remove their own clothes.'

HIGH FLYERS

by Danielle Schloss / 25th May 2013

At the front of the plane, the curtain was drawn across the galley as the crew chatted comfortably in the small space. Or so the passengers thought. In fact, flight attendants Carl and Andrea were having quick, quiet and furious sex in the corner, oblivious of the other attendants at the back of the plane. Occasionally Andrea reached up to turn a lock, and open a microwave door, slamming it shut, so that passengers thought the flight attendants were busy working.

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Galleries

FROM THE PURPLE BOOK

4th June 2013

Visit our gallery for a slideshow of images from the recently published The Purple Book

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Podcasts

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Articles

Why not blame Jennifer?

by Bruce Abrahams / 3rd June 2013

Amid the grisly stories of murdered children and girls, the Jennifer Lopez furore made news as an opportunity to show the star’s body in an ostensibly provocative costume that she wore for ‘family programme’ Britain’s Got Talent. Over 100 complaints were received about what the BBC website showed (but stopped short of fully revealing) to be a high-cut, groin hugging and glittery item of sartorial body armour.

Gatsby: let's talk about sex

by Zoe Apostolides / 31st May 2013

Even if you’ve not read it, or seen the new film, chances are you’ve got some opinions on it. Gatsby has trickled into mainstream culture by osmosis, infiltrating aspects of life we didn’t even realise it had entered. And Gatsby, incredibly for a 50,000 word novella, has so much to say to us.

All Fired Up

by John D. Michaelis / 28th May 2013

Jennifer is having a dream about shagging David Cameron, but then wakes up to another nightmare: her house is on fire. Thanks to Bob, her nice next-door neighbour (with whom she is having a long-term affair), the fire brigade has been alerted and is on its way. Recently, her husband found out about Bob and now he’s staying with his sister. But it’s more complicated than that.

Exposing myself in public: life as an erotic publisher

by Emma Wright / 18th April 2013

Setting oneself up as an erotic publisher is not without its pitfalls. One thing I didn't anticipate a couple of months ago is the extent to which I would end up having to share details about my intimate preferences with complete strangers. My decision to publish an erotic anthology was prompted by a number of factors, none of which was 'wanting to broadcast my turn-ons to the general public and my mum and dad'.

No Fun in Sex Anymore?

by Bruce Abrahams / 8th April 2013

We carry around a personal sexual consciousness. While this remains in a semi-dormant state, we are constantly alert to cues that could indicate the prospects for, or dangers of, engagement with the opposite sex at any appropriate level. Much the same way as animals are with food or potential enemies.

What’s it like to sleep in the world’s most expensive bed?

by Helen Croydon / 2nd April 2013

Underneath our excited bottoms as we anticipate our most expensive sleep to date, is a mattress-topper combination to match no other on the planet. What we are about to go horizontal on is made from a unique cocktail of cashmere, carded virgin lambs wool, cotton and curled Latin American horse tail. Horse tail apparently wicks away moisture, helps maintain body temperature and provides natural spring. Why it works better when it’s curled and comes from Latin American equine descent, who knows – but it does.

MASTURBATION AND MISANDRY

by Andy Nowicki / 20th March 2013

The popularity of Fifty Shades of Grey, for example, scandalizes mainstream feminists and left-liberal cultural commissars not because the book is so poorly written (E.L. James is hardly the first author of dubious talents to become rich and famous), but because its hero Christian Grey embodies all of the old-fashioned attributes of the sexy romance novel hunk: he’s ambitious, cocky, powerful, and dominant: a true alpha male, whose kinky tastes only heighten his appeal to women.

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Reviews

WAM BAM at the Bloomsbury Ballroom

by Zoe Apostolides / 7th June 2013

For someone who spends most of her non-working life in a onesie, burlesque nights are fascinating, glitzy affairs: they're How The Other Half Live. Wam Bam's the longest-running supper club in the country, and has spread its wings to include a new Friday night show...

The Purple Book: symbolism and sensuality in contemporary art and illustration

by Edward Field / 4th June 2013

There is a huge amount to admire in the exquisitely designed and printed The Purple Book, and what little there is not to like really depends on the vicissitudes of a reader’s personal taste. What might easily have been an exercise in ‘preciousness’ turns out to be a robust examination of a sometimes notoriously fey and whimsical – yet brilliant – period in literature, art and illustration: the Decadent, Symbolist and Surrealist movements.

What the Pompeiians really, really liked…

by Richard O'Brien / 17th May 2013

Whatever your own views on the human penis – join the debate! – it seems a little, well, cock-eyed to assume that every time it appeared in the Pompeiian home it did so in an erotic context. Some of these representations are comic; some stand for good luck, health and prosperity; some apparently exist because the eye of the glans struck someone as apt to make a damn fine candle-holder. It's our own post-Christian prurience that wants Graeco-Roman genitalia to signify in the same way ours do.

Between Miss Polly Rae's Sheets

by Jamie Maclean / 9th May 2013

The Hippodrome Casino is definitely not the Casino de Monte Carlo; nor is it, somehow, the most felicitous venue for a burlesque revue. Its over-long and shallow stage and its general Holiday Inn atmosphere did nothing to help this show, despite forays among the tables by the performers.

The iGino One has (almost) landed

7th May 2013

We heard about the iGino One, the clever little sex toy that was crowd-funded, and wrote a news piece about it back in February (when it wasn’t quite ready for actual review) because we loved the ideas behind it. Since then, we’ve been lucky enough to get our hands on one: the experience was worth waiting for and we weren’t disappointed.

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