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Entry: 2024-03-11 20:32:59.065604+01 the Lisan al-Gaib by Dan Lyke comments 0

RT gsuberland@chaos.social Graham Sutherland / Polynomial @gsuberland@chaos.social

lewd

OH: "porn should not have a plot. I don't wanna be trying to figure out who the Lisan al-Gaib is mid-wank"

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Entry: 2024-03-08 01:20:03.426586+01 Wanna thank @paul_e_cooley@vyrse by Dan Lyke comments 0

Wanna thank @paul_e_cooley@vyrse.social for his recommendation of Jo Firestone's Murder on Sex Island podcast. I'm giggling, and entranced.

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Entry: 2024-03-06 19:41:18.259027+01 Southern Baptist abuse by Dan Lyke comments 0

Baptist News: Southern Baptist theology set me up for sexual abuse

So, by participating in my abuse, I was choosing to engage in sexual sin. My prayer, then, was not for God to make my abuse stop; my prayer was for God to give me the strength to make it stop. Every time I “allowed” myself to be abused, I prayed for God’s forgiveness because I did not stop the abuse.

Via

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Entry: 2024-03-02 00:57:17.436169+01 Magic Dick Theory by Dan Lyke comments 0

Let’s Talk About Magic Dick Theory in ‘Dune’

Magic Dick Theory holds that chosen-one narratives are actually about adolescent boys’ relationships with their, um, sexuality. Spend enough time bumming around university libraries and you’ll eventually come across the argument that, essentially, the acquisition of magical powers in these stories is a metaphor for entering sexual maturity, and that one of the functions of these stories is to give readers a spectacularly dramatic framework for processing masturbation. And look, ugh, I know, but here’s the thing: The Freudian gymnastics required to arrive at this interpretation are actually … pretty reasonable?

Ending on the exploration of "cake narratives", as in having and eating, that both critique a trope while reveling in it.

Via MeFi

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Entry: 2024-02-09 18:53:11.303293+01 Free Sex by Dan Lyke comments 0

RT Zach Weinersmith @ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social

The Venn Diagram on this one may not be terribly encouraging, but *I* am giggling

[Image which reads: "Man yells out window:
Man: FREE SEX WITH AN ECONOMICS PROFESSOR! ABSOLUTELY FREE SEX WITH AN ECONOMICS PROFESSOR!

Caption:
Professor Rosen creatively demonstrates that the demand curve does not go to infinity at zero."]

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture Economics ]



Entry: 2024-02-05 18:44:22.771994+01 no VR Porn on the Apple headset by Dan Lyke comments 0

404 Media: A ‘$3,500 Chastity Belt’: Early Apple Vision Pro Adopters Alarmed to Learn VR Porn Doesn't Work

I'm sorry, citizen, are you not content with the family friendly content that Apple has carefully curated for you?

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Entry: 2024-01-31 20:05:02.494925+01 Ask MeFi question about terminology for by Dan Lyke comments 0

An Ask MeFi question about terminology for preserving food led me to search for "putting food by", and... uh... I knew Twitter had gone to shit, but Google is amplifying this weirdly...

Screenshot is of featured Tweets including someone calling Bill Gates a "Eugenicist and Evil Vaccine Pusher", same poster with video about Cruz's child porn assertions on FB and IG, and the House Energy & Commerce Committee on household finances.

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Entry: 2024-01-31 18:25:02.459217+01 Another GiftArticle Washington by Dan Lyke comments 0

Another #GiftArticle: Washington Post: The NFL ruins its players, and then looks the other way

https://wapo.st/3SEDwpK

I don't wanna get all up in the Taylor Swift thing, she's gonna date who she's gonna date, but I do worry about the normalization of gladiator sports among a generation of Swifties. We should be eliminating chronic traumatic encephalopathy as a spectator sport.

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Entry: 2024-01-10 01:06:57.749765+01 It’s not sex addiction, it’s my libido by Dan Lyke comments 0

Big Ed Magusson writing on the Girl on the Net blog: It’s not sex addiction, it’s my libido

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Entry: 2023-12-29 04:34:25.033665+01 Name one sex worker by Dan Lyke comments 0

RT Abe Riesman (girlmode) אבי ריסמן @abrahamjoseph

Oh, you think you follow in the path of Christ? Name one sex worker who would cry over your death

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Entry: 2023-12-20 18:56:29.705313+01 Delaware State Flag by Dan Lyke comments 0

Holy crap! Once you see the sexual tension between two guys making eye contact in the Delaware state flag, you can never unsee it. Via.

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Entry: 2023-12-20 18:21:08.063349+01 CSAM in Stable Diffusion by Dan Lyke comments 0

404 Media: Largest Dataset Powering AI Images Removed After Discovery of Child Sexual Abuse Material

The model is a massive part of the AI-ecosystem, used by Google and Stable Diffusion. The removal follows discoveries made by Stanford researchers, who found thousands instances of suspected child sexual abuse material in the dataset.

Washington Post: Exploitive, illegal photos of children found in the data that trains some AI

In a report released by Stanford University’s Internet Observatory, researchers said they found at least 1,008 images of child exploitation in a popular open source database of images, called LAION-5B, that AI image-generating models such as Stable Diffusion rely on to create hyper-realistic photos.

Stanford Internet Observatory Cyber Policy Center: Identifying and Eliminating CSAM in Generative ML Training Data and Models (PDF)

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Entry: 2023-12-12 18:55:02.313244+01 I've been thinking a lot about what by Dan Lyke comments 0

I've been thinking a lot about "what even is sex?" recently, and last night started reading Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma, and Consensual Nonmonogamy[Wiki], which quickly referenced "The Opposite of Rape Culture is Nurturance Culture", and even though I linked to it back in 2016 it's worth a re-read now.

https://norasamaran.com/2016/0...culture-is-nurturance-culture-2/

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Entry: 2023-12-11 19:16:41.135063+01 The art of Melrose Place by Dan Lyke comments 0

The Virus Inside Your TV — In the 1990s, a group of radical artists smuggled political messages into Melrose Place. Not everyone found it funny.

Two pieces from this period stand out, however. The first is called Safety Sheets, a set of linens for the bedroom of playboy doctor Peter Burns (Jack Wagner) made by students in the textiles department at the University of Georgia. The sheets can be seen in multiple episodes of the show, but they’re especially noticeable in an episode called “Run, Billy, Run.” During this episode, Burns and his current lover wake up one morning in his apartment. If you know what you’re looking for, you can identify the pattern on his bedsheets and pillowcases: unrolled condoms. At the time, the Federal Communications Commission wouldn’t allow unrolled condoms to be shown on TV. LaPointe still remembers how he felt when he saw the camera linger on the couple in bed, the sheets clearly visible. “That was the moon landing,” he said. “Oh my God, it’s actually happening.

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Entry: 2023-12-07 02:15:02.263969+01 OnlyFans creator Bryce Adams tried to by Dan Lyke comments 0

OnlyFans creator Bryce Adams tried to book the Miami Marlins stadium for a party. They canceled it on her. Wanna bet they'd be just fine with an MMA-focused event? Sex is scary... #GiftArticle

https://wapo.st/3NfCYns

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Entry: 2023-12-02 00:51:07.309309+01 If You Want Marriage, Compromise With Misogyny by Dan Lyke comments 0

FAIR: WaPo Tells Women: If You Want Marriage, Compromise With Misogyny

In fact, the right-wing Institute for Family Studies lurks throughout the editorial, along with its senior fellow Brad Wilcox, who was involved in discredited anti-same-sex marriage research that was influential in that political battle a decade ago. Together, the Post references or links to them three separate times in its editorial. (The IFS argument about marriage happiness is flawed too, by the way.)

Yeah. Young women: don't. While I'm very grateful to those who have tolerated some of my views over time, we should definitely not be encouraging anyone, let alone young women, to compromise with some of that shit.

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Entry: 2023-11-29 06:00:04.470301+01 And that last query about modern by Dan Lyke comments 0

And that last query about modern authors pondering the philosophy of sex reminded me to re-recommend Hot Blooded: a sexual resurrection[Wiki] by Karin Grace Wares. Part of what got me pondering more about the human connection, power exchange, attraction and whatnot that we tie up in the simplification off "sex".

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture Philosophy ]



Entry: 2023-11-29 05:55:04.16355+01 I've been thinking a lot recently about by Dan Lyke comments 0

I've been thinking a lot recently about "what even is sex, anyway?", which has me wondering: who's the current analogue of Susie Bright or Carol Queen, pondering those questions in the context of the pandemic and MeToo and trans rights and all of the other things we've gotten cultural awareness of in the last quarter century?

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture Sociology Civil Liberties Currency ]



Entry: 2023-11-28 23:09:13.900752+01 How do you feel about Marx? by Dan Lyke comments 0

RT arborelia @arborelia@computerfairi.es

sexual implications. the one good tweet from my old private twitter

[this actually happened to me, in 2019]

Cute girl: So. Before we proceed. How do you feel about Marx?
Me (nervous): Umm look I guess I'm a socialist but I don't really know enough about the political theory behind it
Her: ...
Me: I'm sorry
Her: ...
Her: Marks. Can I leave marks on your skin

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Entry: 2023-11-27 20:01:41.185327+01 SBC & sexual abuse by Dan Lyke comments 0

Vox: The sexual abuse scandal rocking the Southern Baptist Convention, explained:

Complementarianism’s centrality within the SBC led to a heavily patriarchal institution, which Stone said created an environment in which sexual abuse could happen and be covered up as extensively as the Guidepost report said it was. And as such, she said, simple systemic fixes ultimately won’t be enough to reform the SBC. Instead, theological changes will have to be made, and they will be ones the SBC won’t want to make.

Huh. Turns out that maybe a religious community founded because of support of the institution of slavery might have deeply entrenched power dynamics which lead to abuse. Go figure.

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Entry: 2023-11-25 18:02:12.227174+01 nothing practical by Dan Lyke comments 0

RT extreme organic gay @dysfun@treehouse.systems

so far i have achieved enlightenment.

but nothing practical.

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Entry: 2023-11-25 17:43:20.156175+01 Atlas Shrugged: Texas & Bumble edition by Dan Lyke comments 0

More on the "Red State" brain drain: Why Bumble Is Joining a Lawsuit That Challenges Texas Abortion Laws

At Bumble, the women-centered dating app that calls Austin home, executives say that about one third of their 150 Texas employees have left the state entirely, opting for remote work. Though the woman-led company went public during the pandemic and company executives remain eager to continue growing, plans to invest heavily in the company’s Austin hub and attract employees here are on hold. The reason: It’s not just hard to keep talented employees in Austin in a post-Roe world, where doctors might not perform even medically necessary abortions for fear of reprisal, it’s also hard to attract them to Texas in the first place. Company executives say that policies promoted by politicians under the guise of being “pro-family” are making it harder for families to form.

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Entry: 2023-11-20 19:30:18.148675+01 "Moms for Liberty" dude is a registered sex offender by Dan Lyke comments 0

Oh, hey, maybe there is something to this trans panic thing after all. Male pastor Phillip Fisher Jr. is presenting as a "mom for liberty"... The ‘faith-based’ leader for Philly’s Moms for Liberty chapter is a registered sex offender

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Entry: 2023-10-20 01:03:47.088554+02 A few public health links by Dan Lyke comments 0

Axios: America's highest gun death rates are in the South is a riff on Center for American Progress Action Fund: Cities in Blue States Experiencing Larger Declines in Gun Violence in 2023

Texas Observer: Study: More Infants Die in States that Restrict Abortion draws from American Journal of Preventive Medicine: Research Article: Abortion Restrictiveness and Infant Mortality: An Ecologic Study, 2014-2018.

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Entry: 2023-10-18 19:32:05.83011+02 Blown out speakers by Dan Lyke comments 0

RT SnoopJ@hachyderm.io SpookJ 👻 @SnoopJ@hachyderm.io

uspol, snarky, sexual abuse

Friend of mine points out that if elected, Jordan would also become the second Speaker who is both a former wrestling coach and party to sexual abuse

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Entry: 2023-10-11 19:50:02.191118+02 Sexual predators by Dan Lyke comments 0

Unsurprising: Tim Ballard, of ‘Sound of Freedom’ fame, accused of sexual misconduct (Gift article):

The lawsuit claims Ballard would ask each woman: “Is there anything you wouldn’t do to save a child?”

[ related topics: Erotic Privacy Sexual Culture Civil Liberties Government ]



Entry: 2023-10-01 21:26:37.53454+02 Dodging justice by Dan Lyke comments 0

Baltimore Archdiocese files for bankruptcy before law on abuse lawsuits takes effect

The step will allow the oldest diocese in the United States "to equitably compensate victim-survivors of child sexual abuse" while the local Catholic church continues its mission and ministries, Archbishop William E. Lori said in a statement posted on the archdiocese website.

Or "if we paid out to survivors of our abuse, we couldn't continue the institutions which enabled and covered up that abuse".

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Entry: 2023-09-23 19:22:59.288201+02 markers of character by Dan Lyke comments 0

RT Swiff @swiff@wizzzard.online

Remembering, once again, that Victor Hugo was well known to the sex worker community of Paris at the time and his death was so mourned by them, so beloved was he, that brothels were closed city wide so their workers could grieve.

Which, personally, i take as the single best marker of the man's character that I could imagine.

To not only treat sex workers well but be lionized by a city's worth of them, i cannot imagine that being the case without good reason

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Entry: 2023-09-07 18:44:18.325921+02 Pornocalypse redux again by Dan Lyke comments 0

Eros Blog: Pornocalypse Comes For Kink Education, talking about Pandora Blake getting kicked off of YouTube:

None of the videos on my channel included sex or nudity. I avoided posting links to any adult sites in the video descriptions, linking to Patreon and mxblake.com instead. Since the talky trailers were my most viewed videos, and opportunities to promote adult content are few and far between, I thought that keeping them up with an age-restriction label in place was a risk worth taking, and that by giving up the opportunity to monetise the channel I was reducing it to an acceptable level. The gamble didn't pay off.

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Entry: 2023-09-04 17:25:02.639678+02 Washington Post The endless battle to by Dan Lyke comments 0

Washington Post: "The endless battle to banish the world’s most notorious stalker website : The anonymous forum, known as Kiwi Farms, keeps popping back online despite a relentless campaign by transgender activists and a former insider"

https://www.washingtonpost.com...09/03/kiwifarms-website-offline/

https://wapo.st/3EqVLXO #GiftLink

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Entry: 2023-08-31 21:05:12.841427+02 macramé class by Dan Lyke comments 0

"I'm not saying you *have* to suck and fuck just that most sex parties these days are a macrame class with a dress code and bad techno music" — Another Angry Woman @stavvers@masto.ai

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Entry: 2023-08-26 00:53:21.476771+02 do not have a license by Dan Lyke comments 0

RT Erin Beatrix :heart_trans: @unworthyBeatrix@girlcock.club

🎶 I am the very model of a modern useless lesbian,
I've mastered not a single art from music to the thespian,
I can not for the life of me tell when I'm being flirted with,
The common refrain from our friends is "when will you two fucking kiss?"
I haven't learned to rust or C, can barely start a document,
I don't own swords or dogs, don't have a single lesbi-complement
and if we have a second date then most importantly of all,
I do not have a license so I can not drive our date U-haul. 🎶

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Entry: 2023-08-21 22:19:08.080564+02 Russian funding of the Anti-Woke by Dan Lyke comments 0

The Culture War Funded by Russian Roubles

Between 2009-18, anti-gender actors from within the European Union, Russia and the US have spent at least $707.2 million in Europe, with the Russian Federation making up 26.6% of that spend, according to research published by the European Parliamentary Forum on Sexual and Reproductive Rights.

Wikipedia on Byline Times, because I wondered about the source.

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Entry: 2023-08-21 06:25:03.491441+02 Listened to the recent episode of Your by Dan Lyke comments 0

Listened to the recent episode of Your Undivided Attention with Esther Perel on Artificial Intimacy, and...

I feel like I need to go find what Siouxsie Q or Tristan Taormino or Susie Bright have to say on this. I think there's a lot of interesting space to explore here that I'm not exposing myself to, and should be.

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Entry: 2023-08-14 23:46:33.921776+02 Anton Lazzaro sentenced by Dan Lyke comments 0

Prominent GOP donor who takes “offense” to being called a groomer gets 21 years for child sex abuse

From May to December of 2020, the then-30-year-old Lazzaro allegedly paid $50,000 to his then-19-year-old associate Gisela Castro Medina to arrange meetings with “broken” 14-, 15-, and 16-year-old girls that they found via social media and the “sugar daddy” website Seeking Arrangements.

DOJ: Anton “Tony” Lazzaro Sentenced to 21 Years in Prison for Child Sex Trafficking

In handing down the sentence, Chief Judge Schiltz commented on the “soulless, mechanical nature of Mr. Lazzaro’s crimes, like a sex trafficking assembly line,” adding that the only two people Mr. Lazzaro showed any remorse for were “himself and Jeffrey Epstein, who Mr. Lazzaro called ‘his brother.’”

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Entry: 2023-08-06 17:10:58.814106+02 Visitors by meuon comments 0

I have a distant family member and her boyfriend visiting for a week. Both very intelligent, PhD student (physics/astrophysics) types. Also rock climbers/boulder types and very outdoorsy healthy. Also vegan and chaste. He's sleeping in the RV while she's upstairs. They vibrate with pent up sexual energy. I'm not sure if it's religious, family values or just masochism.

I'm trying to respect their decisions, but the urge to leave "The Joy of Sex" or the "Kama Sutra" out with a tub of coconut oil or grill some salmon/steaks is strong. If they can resist, so can I.

All of a sudden I see intense veganism as symptom of self-denial masochism and it almost makes sense.

Side note: current me goes vegetarian for a few days at a time. Easier in the summer.

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Entry: 2023-07-10 19:24:00.519296+02 Facebook is not safe by Dan Lyke comments 0

Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges / A stark example of how digital footprints will be utilized in a post-Roe America

A 17-year-old from Nebraska and her mother are facing criminal charges including performing an illegal abortion and concealing a dead body after police obtained the pair’s private chat history from Facebook, court documents published by Motherboard show.

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Entry: 2023-07-03 17:48:04.957113+02 CIA domestic operations by Dan Lyke comments 0

'Operation Midnight Climax': The CIA mixed LSD and sex at this SF brothel

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Entry: 2023-06-26 18:24:40.937546+02 Surroundgamy by Dan Lyke comments 0

RT astrid@fedi.astrid.tech Astrid (Certified Server Maid)

monogamy implies the existence of stereogamy and 5.1gamy

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Entry: 2023-06-16 17:23:15.293209+02 West Virginia State Police sexual misconduct by Dan Lyke comments 0

West Virginia State Police Investigation: 10 more minors, 42 more women in total to sue West Virginia State Police over hidden cameras

According to a letter sent by Cpl. Joseph Comer, a member of the WV State Police, to state lawmakers, Governor Jim Justice, and the office of the Attorney General on February 16, a hidden camera or cameras were placed and operated inside the female locker room at the State Police Academy. Toriseva says her clients and other female Junior Trooper program attendees accessed and used the female locker room at the Academy during the time the anonymous letter states the cameras were in use. Toriseva also says the taping of the females in the Academy did not end until 2020, the same time the Junior Trooper Program was discontinued in 2020.

“Our ongoing investigation shows rampant sexual misconduct, including hidden videotaping, toward female cadets and others, while they attended the Academy,” Toriseva told 7News. “Much of the conduct is through witness provided evidence.”

Via

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