At $2.6 million per spot, you wouldn’t expect the folks at CBS to be too particular about whose commercials they air, as long as they pony up the big green. Turns out,
they’re a little pickier than we thought.
The folks at adult website Booble.com claim they recently got the cold shoulder from the network (probably has something to do with the Janet
Jackson “wardrobe malfunction” thing a few years back), even after they
offered to “obscenely overpay.”
“At one point I offered $50 million,” says Booble founder Bob Smart.
“The Eye never called us back.” One of the humorous spots, which is far tamer than the controversial GoDaddy Super Bowl ad from 2005, features a woman catching her husband trying to secretly check out a few adult sites.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - For producer/director John Stagliano, the music in porn films is as important as the in-your-face action on the screen. He stays on the cutting edge by using current original music in feature films, and by working directly with music supervisors.
His film "The Fashionistas," released in 2002, took home 11 Adult Video News Awards including best DVD. Earlier this month, "Fashionistas Safado" was awarded three tropies, including best group sex scene, at the annual AVN Awards ceremony in Las Vegas. "Safado: Berlin" is due later this year.
Stagliano -- known affectionately as "Buttman" in honour of his obsession with the derriere -- releases his films via his company Evil Angel, which he formed in the early '80s. These days Evil Angel has production deals with some of pornland's biggest director/producers, including John Leslie, Rocco Siffredi, Joey Silvera, Christoph Clark and Nacho Vidal. Read the full Billboard interview with Stagliano by following the link below.
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Japanese tech giant Sony is taking a big risk by refusing to collaborate with adult film makers to get porn on Blu-Ray discs out in the market.
Sony however would not stop third party companies to help these studios to release their content on this next generation storage media.
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You'd think that if someone went to all the trouble to cook up something as cynical and yet so deviously inspired as "My Bare Lady," they wouldn't muck it up so much with the sort of boringly familiar reality-show tropes that appear in virtually every other competition show.
"My Bare Lady" (a brassiere is tastefully slung over its logo) features porn stars competing for the opportunity to go to London and humiliate themselves in the world of legitimate theater, a wickedly sinister conceit that allows viewers to both ogle and laugh at essentially clueless young women.
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Scottish author Irvine Welsh is one of a dozen nominees whose allegedly inadequate sensual prose will be considered for the Bad Sex Award in London.
The author of "Trainspotting" and 11 of his fellow authors have been named as finalists for the Literary Review's annual award for awkward literary attempts at lovemaking, yet only one will finish first at the In and Out Club Dec. 1, the Daily Mail reported.
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The last time I was in New York, I was just arriving at a fancy dinner when I got a phone call from my senior editor at the Internationalist.
As I excused myself and stepped into the lobby, his voice, which gets high-pitched as he gets excited, shouted at me, "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU REQUEST? THIS IS DIRRRRTY!" He and a couple other editors had broken into the huge box from Top Shelf Productions that had arrived, expecting maybe some large, art coffee-table book. Instead, they had opened up the box to discover Alan Moore's newest graphic novel, complete with pages and pages of incredibly explicit fucking.
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CHANNEL 4 has an "obsession" with sex and bad behaviour, according to the broadcaster's founding chief executive.
Sir Jeremy Isaacs cited recent programmes Designer Vaginas and The World's Biggest Penis, along with a week that featured documentaries on the subject of masturbation, as evidence of the channel's decline. He also lambasted C4 for allowing Peaches Geldof, daughter of Sir Bob, to host a show about Islam.
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Beyoncé and Eva Longaria have revealed they are set to star in sexy Victorian lesbian drama ‘Tipping The Velvet’.
Eva, 31, said: “Yes it’s true. We are talking about doing the movie together. It’s such a wonderful novel, a beautiful love story.” Director Sofia Coppola is hoping to bring Sarah Water’s novel about sexual repression in Victorian England to the big screen and is desperate for Beyoncé and Eva to take the roles of a 1890s music hall star, Kitty Butler, and her lesbian lover Nan Astley.
Beyoncé, 25, thinks it is time the world was treated to a classic lesbian love story. The singer, who was speaking at a New York benefit for ovarian cancer, said: “We’ve had ‘Brokeback Mountain’ so the time is right for this divine novel to get the same treatment.” Beyoncé and Eva are said to be incredibly excited about the steamy love scenes and can’t wait for filming on the project to start.
A source revealed: “They weren’t at all coy about the sex scenes. In fact they both seemed to think it would be more fun than doing the same work with a man. It’s going to be very hot.” The BBC’s TV adaptation of ‘Tipping The Velvet’ caused outrage four years ago with its graphic sex scenes, which included cross-dressing and the use of sex toys.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Award-winning sex blogger turned successful author Abby Lee has just about had her fill of dating introverted British men -- so much so she is considering moving to New York to take a sabbatical from them.
Her book "Girl With a One-Track Mind: Confessions of the Seductress Next Door" has sold over 40,000 copies in Britain, and has been in the UK's top 20 non-fiction paperback chart for the last 12 weeks.
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Hours after Britney Spears’ libel lawsuit against US Weekly was thrown out of court, a video purporting to be the secret Spears / K-Fed sex tape has appeared on PornoTube.com.
The 19 second video clip shows a dark haired young women, allegedly Spears, performing oral sex on an unidentifiable man.
US Weekly claimed in it’s column, Hot Stuff, last December that the couple shot a tape in 2004.
Is it Britney Spears in the tape? Who knows, the women certainly does resemble the pop star. You be the judge, you can watch the video clip at http://pornotube.com/media.php?m=60928
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Kuala Lumpur - The editor of a Malaysian tabloid was suspended on Tuesday after being criticised by the government for publishing several pages filled with sex-related stories and pictures.
"The editor of the Malay Mail and Weekend Mail was served a suspension starting on Tuesday as part of the appropriate steps of an ongoing inquiry into this matter," the Malay Mail newspaper said.
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With the outing of Pastor Ted, this male escort doesn't think Mike Jones is a hero
Once upon a time, the first rule of being a high-priced male escort was that you didn’t talk about who’s sleeping with you, the high-priced male escort.
Simple enough, right? Since the dawn of time, when man no doubt used shells and sticks to acquire such services, the ability to “rent” your fantasy partner has worked well for the famous and for those who wanted an extra layer of anonymity.
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When it's broadcast later this year, it is likely to prompt a mass debate. Channel 4 confirmed yesterday that the network has commissioned a documentary about Britain's first "masturbate-a-thon", a charity self-pleasuring session due to be held in London next month.
"Following on from the success of 'Penis Week', we feel this is exactly the type of provocative and mischievous programming that Channel 4 should be covering in the 11pm slot."
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The Full story: The Guardian
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Madcap Jackass star Steve-O is determined to have sex on British reality TV show Celebrity Love Island as soon as he possibly can.
The 32 year-old American lunatic hopes to lay the first willing woman he can get his hands on. Female contestants on the show include model Sophie Anderton. Steve-O says,
“I’m going in with eight condoms and I hope to be asking for more. “I am into the first chick who wants me. “The show is all about sex for me. They need better ratings.”
Steve-O also want to show off a side rarely seen on his smash U.S. show:
“I’m a tough guy, so I can do some pretty mean things to myself. But I honestly want to approach this for what it is – the chance for people to see a side of me they haven’t seen”.
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Watch enough pornography, critics say, and ideas about sex and sexuality, and even relationships, will mirror pornography's sinister carnival, on display on television and computer screens everywhere.
"We need to do with pornography what we did with smoking and drunk driving," says James Weaver, a professor at George Mason University in Virginia who conducted some landmark research on pornography and its effects in the 1980s.
Douglas Brown at the Denver Post investigates.
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If you subscribe to the theory that sex sells in advertising, Terry Richardson is definitely your man.
Best known for louche imagery that blurs the lines between photography and pornography, the 41-year-old American coaxes models into his studio to strike poses that no doubt shock their parents.
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Actress Lindsay Lohan is currently creating a book of sexy images of herself in an attempt to transform her image from teenage star to Hollywood icon.
The 20-year-old 'Mean Girls' actresses' new book is titled 'Narcissist' and is aimed at dispelling the image of her as a simple teen heroine as she advances into Hollywood stardom.
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Sometimes I wonder how I would feel about pornography if I hadn't seen so much of it.
My involvement with porn -- both the product and the businesses that produce and provide it -- has shifted over time. Ten years ago, soft-core images held little interest for me, and I preferred double - and triple-penetration scenes to softly lit late-night TV.
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Media buzz surrounding the headbutt delivered to Italian player, Marco Materazzi - by Frenchman Zinedine Zidane, in the closing minutes of the World Cup Final last Sunday, apparently in retaliation to the Italian's attempt at impugning the sexuality of Zidane's mother - is reaching fever pitch.
Stuart Jeffries at the South African Mail And Guardian looks at the 'mother of all sexual insults' and it's varying effect around European culture and society.
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Almost Famous star Kate Hudson has said doesn’t feel threatened by her husband Chris Robinson watching porn movies and even encourages him to watch steamy adult movies.
The actress appeared on U.S. talk show The View yesterday and claims there is nothing wrong with watching porn when you’re in a healthy relationship.
“Men like sex. So I have absolutely no issues with pornography. People can do want they want to do. They can watch it if they want to watch it. I probably wouldn’t hold it against my husband if he wanted to enjoy it - well, actually he does enjoy it!”
The 27-year-old star insisted that she doesn’t feel intimidated by the sexy women that appear in adult films.
“Who cares? It doesn’t matter. Sex is sex is sex is sex no matter which way you like it. I don’t have any qualms”.
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