The December issue of Japanese Popeye Magazine has produced a nice spread on the Fall/Winter 2009 Burberry Black Label Collection. The UK brand produced a sleek, yet classic inspired new collection this season, that especially impresses with a strong line-up of coats.

Listen to the episode HERE.

They say sex sells. In a recent study, the improbably named academic Anenome Cerridwen says it doesn’t. At least not at the box office. Reading the article about the study (I did not read the study), got me thinking about my own box office habits. It dawned on me, it’s true, I do tend to shy away from films with overt sexuality.

Is it because amped-up sexuality is often the earmark of a low-grade b-movie cheesefest (in which case it might actually be a selling point). Or are we, as a society, more prudish than we’re lead to believe?

I don’t consider myself particularly prudish , but my viewing habits seem to be. Perhaps it’s because we’re so bombarded with sexual images these days, sex in films simply isn’t the draw it traditionally was. We don’t need to look to an R-rated movie for softcore titillation anymore, we just need to stand in line at the grocery store and look at the covers of the gossip mags. Is it a case of familiarity breeding contempt?

It just may be the case I actually am a bit prudish. I’m a big fan of the Hard Case Crime publishing imprint. They’ve been reprinting classic pulp and noir novels, alongside new works by the old masters, for a few years now. They’re delightful but there’s one thing that turns me off about them—the sordid cover art faithfully rendered in lurid pulp fiction style.

The one you see here is titled The Corpse Wore Pasties. If found this on the shelf at the library, where I get my Hard Case fix, my first thought would be “hilarious” but my second would be “too bad I can’t read this one on the subway.”

Sometimes I hurdle the embarrassment of reading what essentially looks like a porn novel in public, but I’m always aware of the eyes of my fellow commuters judging me. Of course, that’s all in my head. Commuters generally don’t look at anything other than their own book. Jesus. I am a prude.

But prudishness aside, there seems to be a formula that the more skin on the cover of one of these things, the worse the writing found inside. Not always, but I’ve noticed a trend. So I tend to go for the Hard Case books featuring fully clothed people. The Wounded and The Slain was particularly excellent. And not a navel to be seen on the cover. Though I think there may have been some cleavage. Fair enough. These books harken back to a day when you couldn’t get your fill of sex by simply breathing, you needed to go out and buy a trashy pulp novel and they wouldn’t be quite the same without the sensational covers, would they?

So, does sex still sell? Am I the only person who avoids sexy books and movies with an averted eye? I suspect , despite Anenome’s claims, that sex does still sell. But in a different way that it used to. I also suspect I’m not entirely alone in my box office prudishness.

Seth and his girlfriend are cute. Mandi’s an asshole.

Fashion in the Mirror is an exhibition in London that questions the typical look on beauty,and celebrates the talented photographers behind each fabulous editorial. The exhibition presents the outside viewer a rare chance to see the photographer behind the scenes showcasing images from the 1940’s to the present day.

The photographers are shown in an extremely alien manner, that we don’t normally see in our usual editorials. We see the actual photographer in the work space, where their gaze is mirrored and we really get a feel of the humor and poetry within each shot.  In reality, the fashion industry is nothing but smoke and mirrors…apparent within the exhibit where all the secrets and glamor unravles and comes to the surface.

I found this cool line 80/20 and thought I should share this with people since I am currently living in Canada and this goes perfectly with the first snow fall today. Thanks for the warm boots 80/20.

Currently available at select retailers, here ia an extensive look at the 80%20Footwear collection, for the holiday’09 season.Filled with fun comfortable shoes and boots that fit perfectly into the cold weather season. A closer look on the next page, stockists here.

I hope everyone enjoys Turkey day as you know in America all they do is sit on the couch and watch NFL so I thought this post would be absolutley perfect for today.

Most of the time, when we’re talking about Jersey girls, we’re probably talking about the obnoxious bridge-and-tunnel bimbos that invade our city ever Thursday-Sunday morning. But not this time! No, this time we’re bringing in a whole new breed: hot girls wearing NFL jerseys! OK, so there’s a good chance the the majority of these girls are actually from New Jersey, but we’ll just let that one slide (for now).

In the 90s, the thong was queen of women’s underwear. Nobody could get enough. There was a freakin’ Top 10 song about it, for f**k’s sake! But today, the boy shorts are king. These simple, non-wedgie-giving panties somehow magically transform any butt into a world-class ass. So to show our support of this fantastic undergarment, we’ve compiled the hottest pictures of boy shorts we could find. Gentlemen, we present to you Booty-ful Boy Short Babes!

Hier haben wir einen interessanten Fall vor uns, der aufschlussreicher ist als manche Studie über das User-Verhalten in YouTube. Wir haben das Musikvideo „My little Boy“ (animated by Günther Auer) zum gleichnamigen Song von Rosivita & Klaus Karlbauer (Album Nachtblau 2006) auf 2 YouTube-Kanälen ins Netz gestellt. Nicht mal strategisch, sondern einfach so, weil wir uns diesbezüglich nicht akkordierten. Auf beiden Kanälen wurden von uns nach dem Hochladen keinerlei Aktivitäten mehr gesetzt.

Das Video, eine Animation haut-und fleischartiger pulsierender Landschaften zusammen mit dem Song „My little Boy“ ist schlicht und einfach GENIAL:

Bescheidenheit ist eine Zühr
Doch weiter kommt man ohne ühr

Auf Kanal 1 wurde es am 24.08.2006 hochgeladen und hatte seither 895 Aufrufe
Auf Kanal 2 wurde es am 26.04.2008 hochgeladen und hatte seither 9.671 Aufrufe.

Worin liegt nun der Unterschied? Sie haben es erraten: Im Tagging!

Die Tags für Kanal 1 lauten: Animation Dream Nightmare Musicvideo

Die Tags für Kanal 2 lauten: flesh Guenther Auer GTT Rosivita Mylittleboy body organism organic life animation www.guentherauer.net.tf penis cock

Interessant ist auch, welche Kommentare auf Kanal 2 zu finden sind, welch inspirierende Auswirkung vor allem, so wie es mir scheint, die letzten beiden Tags auf diverse User haben!

Nothing quite like a sexed up island as a way to sell the Jarangwa experience.  After-all, it’s the proven formula, right? If you have sex, people want to hear about it. Want to experience it.

Mimi commented on that today. She hinted at Jarangwa becoming a brothel.  If she ran this place it might very well have legalized prostitution and lots of free sex (okay, maybe not free).  She might do the ‘all inclusive deal’. Pay one price and get your room, your drinks, meals and yes, sex. As much as you want, whenever you want.

Jarangwa would be packed. We’d need a bigger boat.

So there it is, a proven formula to get those cash registers ringing. Excuse me, I’ve got some sex to promote. I am, of course, the guest relations manager. Attending to all the guests’ needs. 

Did I mention the free mini-bar? Goes great with free sex.

Well that is what they say, and Brown Bag Party seems to be the new Tupperware of the 21st century!  Women across the country are learning that the oldest profession may have a new twist!

With the flexible schedule us moms need it’s a great way to make some extra cash!

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or www.sexydomesticdiva.com

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Selling sexual liberation: Woman-owned sex toy business and the business of social change.
Consider the history and cultural specificity of a women-owned sex business and in particular sexual retailing that has evolved alongside these businesses—

Much thought goes into branding and the evolution of a business. Especially a sex business. Especially when it is woman owned and run. Women and SEX are historically a hushed, secret and not discussed if one is considered a “Lady”.

After much consideration, brainstorming, and manipulation ensued, we decided on trying the approach of a “tasteful,” humor based, and quasi-therapeutic approach to selling sex toys designed to appeal “especially but not exclusively” to women. In addition to both of us being mothers we therefore decided to brand our baby with a mothers approval and send her out into the big, wide world of e.commerce.

Drawing upon extensive personal observation research, in-depth girlfriend interviews, and archival materials, we examine how discourses of sexual liberation, education, feminism, and consumer-capitalism coalesce within these retail environments, helping to establish the “alternative sex vending movement.”

Tracing the emergence of public discourses about female masturbation and orgasm in the early fifties, and explore how these ideas were eventually incorporated into sexual consciousness-raising groups, sex therapy programs and, low and behold, women-run vibrator businesses.
Considering how ideas about gender, class, and sexual taste are mobilized in an effort to cultivate “respectable” retail and online environments that stand in contrast to the stereotype of sex stores as inherently “sleazy” we have made a move shifting the business model.

We argue that for many women-owned sex toy businesses, the marketplace doubles as a platform for sex activism and education, which has enabled these businesses to carve out a distinct and profitable niche in the sexual marketplace. Despite the growth and commercial success of women’s sex businesses over the past thirty years, there is nothing straightforward about practicing sexual politics through the market; indeed, it is a project fraught with challenges and contradictions as we as women attempt to negotiate the shifting terrain of identity politics on the one hand, and the tensions between feminism, consumer-capitalism, profitability, and social change on the other.

We are here to capitalize on the business of social change. We believe in the power to contradict what is ladylike and what is thought of as “dirty”. Our adult novelty market includes mothers, daughters, wives, divorcees, heterosexual, bi-sexual, and lesbian. We target single, married, shy and adventurous, kinky and sweet.

Before you judge our choice to sell sex, remember that social change is on the horizon. Sexual liberation is a double positive. It does good, and it feels good.

Welcome to our new online baby.
Go Back To Bed!

“Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.” –attributed to Aristotle

More evidence of how gelded conservatives are:
http://www.cassyfiano.com/2009/03/abc-shocked-to-find-that-americans-are-actually-tolerant

Instead of bemoaning the fact that no one had the cojones to throw those obnoxious fudgepackers out on their disease-ridden keesters, she takes pride in how “tolerant” (tolerant meaning cowardly) the middle-American patrons of the bar were. Is it any wonder conservatives have been unable to stop the disintegration of white societies when they accept all the tacit ground rules laid down by their supposed adversaries, in this case the assumption that public displays of homosexuality should be tolerated?

The only thing she gets halfway right is that, yes, the mainstream media does have an agenda to normalize and promote homosexuality, though she avoids going into exactly why the media has been pursuing this agenda for the last few decades.

But hey, at least she’s cute and fills out a bikini real nice…

A photo of Cassy Fiano in a bikini which is prominently displayed on her blog

You have to wonder if conservatism isn’t so washed-up at this point that it’s resorting to sex appeal (bikinis, former beauty queens) to keep men on board.

Now this is how you use a celebrity. Julie Newmar will leave you breathless.

Oh. And look … there’s vodka.

The new Britney song seems a little to put on really.  If the saying ’sex sells’ then this is extremely true because her new song will probably be a smash with the Britney fans and others who think she looks amazing in the video.

For some reason, I don’t think she looks that great in it…… “booooo” I hear you all saying but what gets me is the song is not all that.  They only thing that is going to interest people is to see how much clothes she is NOT wearing!

Rihanna’s image has changed drastically in short period of time.

The singer entered the murky world of music when she was 16 years old and now at the ripe old age of 21 the industry has succeeded in convincing her to go down this road……

Via PunchBowl Blog

Well it was bound to happen at some point!

You know AshleyMadison.com

Ashley Madison.com is a website where two people meet for casual sex. Unlike most sites however, AshleyMadison.com has a specific clause. It is for men and women who are married.

Basically an online personals destination for casual encounters for those in committed relationships. The site currently boasts more than 4.5 million aspiring cheaters and philanderers.

Ashley Madison owner Noel Biderman will appear on Sunny Side Up with Adam and Kim to dish the dirty details about affairs and come clean about his own marriage.

Is he married? Does he cheat?

Does his service break up marriages? Does he care?

Is it in our genes to cheat?

If you have questions for Noel, please write us at sunnysideupcjlo@gmail.com

Listen to the drama unfold  on Sunny Side Up with Adam and Kim on Tuesday Nov. 10 on CJLO 1690 am or cjlo.com

I had an argument today….. OK, call it a slight disagreement with a family member about what was most important to me.  I told them, family is definitely very important, love, health, then from there it went all wrong……… money, shoes, bags, fashion magazines (especially my Vogue and Elle mags) but I read them all Grazia, Look, Tatler, Harper’s Bazaar, the list goes on….. then I said jewellery, lipstick, my hair oh yea I’m a black woman for goodness sake, imagine all the weaves, perms, cuts, more weaves and more weaves in different colours and lengths! fabulous

I stopped and realised that I’m actually quiet materialistic to some degree but which girl isn’t?? and if they say their not they at least have one form of materialistic indulgence.  Don’t get me wrong, I also love reading books from crime, fiction & romance, to true stories, biographies and history books.  I love learning new things and being open-minded about society and life.  I’m very good at being serious and causing controversial debates where I go but I do love being a bit girly at times.

I love being pampered, how I wish I could wear all of Rihanna’s clothes, actually there are a lot of people’s wardrobe’s that I would love to just live in.

I mean can you imagine the amount of clothes on the Sex and the City movie set? ‘heaven’!

As I was writing this post, I was listening to Lady Gaga and I happened to come across this video on YouTube…… I thinks it’s so ‘gaga’ (mad) but she is one artist that represents ‘material’ and eccentricity to a ‘T’ but in her case to a ‘G’!

and this track…..

I’m a sucker for the popular music culture! Don’t hate it, embrace it!

So we’ve touched on the old phrase “Sex Sells” a few times here on wwwwY.  A company who you wouldn’t think of as sexy employed this technique in a new commercial this weekend.  Reebok came out with a new commercial for their new Easy Tone Shoes.  These shoes are supposed to tone your lower body more than regular shoes.  They employed a attractive, in-shape, young female with some “interpretive” camerawork to get their message across.

Now this commercial doesn’t garner a full mY Ad Report Card but lets point out something after watching this.  Who is this commercial targeting?  By targeting, I mean; who can’t take their eyes off the TV and are drooling for 30 seconds straight while watching this commercial?

A: Men

But, what is the commercial selling

A: Women’s shoes

Any interesting messaging strategy used by Reebok.  There are 3 ways how you could rationalize this strategy:

1. They made it for men to buy the shoes for the women in their lives
2. They made it for women in an “aspirational” tone
3. They just wanted to raise general awareness and decided pushing the envelope to start discussion.

Not quite sure which one they actually used, but my guess it’s a combo of lots of #3 and a little of #1.  They probably hope that the waves that the commercial will make will boost sales (plus if they used #2, Reebook would probably be burned to the ground).

Post in the comments what you thought of the commerical, and what you think their strategy was.

Excuse me when I go buy some shoes.

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Like all good bondage wear, this garment “firmly persuades the body.” How did women get through the day in these contraptions? Nice deco layout, though.

Is it pure coincidence that my “Thailand Ikea Table Ad” post is day-in and day-out the most clicked post? ….or total proof that sex sells?

Do have any idea how much porn has changed the world?  What kind of control and effect it has had on the modern world, consumer products and a million other things?

What really decided who won between Betamax and VHS?  Why did Blue Ray win that contest?  Why do all DVD players have a multi-angle viewing button?  Why can we send and receive pictures on our phones? Why is suddenly so important to have 3G phones?  Camcorders… digital cameras, payper view, satellite and cable tv, the internet.. the list goes on and on.

Porn.. porn (and sex) is one of the leading driving forces behind a lot of technological advances.  Now this won’t come as much of a surprise to some people, but I think a lot of people will be at least a little surprised.

Did you know that the reason VHS became the primary technology was NOT actually because Sony wouldn’t let anyone else use the technology.  It was due to the porn industry choosing VHS as the platform on which to produce their films because it was cheaper for them to produce.. and suddenly.. loe all kinds of people had a VHS player (why buy the expensive one that won’t play your sexy films on it??)

Don’t believe me?  Do you own a DVD player?  Go check the remote.  Does it have ‘change viewing angle button’ on it?  They all do, I have never seen one that doesn’t (anywhere in the world).  But what ever for?  Have you ever watched a movie that you could change the angle in?  Just recently they have released some sports videos with that feature (very recently).  So if no one uses it, and it’s not a feature that is on any DVD’s how did it get included in every single player?  I’ll give you a hint.. sexy naked movies have multiple angles (and until this year they were the only thing that did).

Blue ray… HDVD.. who’s coming out on top..  you didn’t actually think that it mattered who disney picked did you?  Or whether people like the PS3 more or less than the XBOX360.. oh gosh you did.  It all came down to the porn industry.  Like it or not, sex is in demand.  It’s the only consumer product that there is always, ALWAYS a market for.  Everyone in the know always said, which ever platform the porn industry decided on would come out on top (boom shackalacka.. blue ray it is).

There are so many things, apparently the big pushes in phone technologies, turning them into hand held computers is being driven by the money that producers realize is in sex.  You might enjoy all the great features that allow you to check your email, send your mom a picture, and watch a youtube video but they didn’t make it for you.  They made it for the horney hunnies with the moneys.

Did you really think that people wanting to film their kids soccer game, or people wanting to take picture with out having to go to printing shop was really driven by our consumerism?  Sorry to ruin your fantasies kiddos.

So how far does it all reach?  Who the hell knows, most of us don’t even know about the things I just mentioned.  Hell I didn’t know about most of them until somewhat recently (the last 5 years or so anyway).

Well I just though of another one.  (Now keep in mind this is just my theory but I think it makes a HELL of a lot of sense).  Our current social desire for hairlessness.  Think about it, humans have been around for eons and this hairless thing has only become a real fashion in the past 20-30 years.  I was thikning about it, wondering if the fashion would ever go back to having hairy arm pits, and un trimmed un waxed bits and places. (aka your crotch).  Who knows…

But I do know that it was the norm, not all that long ago.  So why did it change?  What drove that change?  My money is on porn.  I suspect that they started ‘cleaning up’ the fuzzy bits in porn to give folks a better look at what they were doing.  I mean you can hardly get a good view of what someone is doing to a girl with full bush, or what’s happening on the guy behind his own personal tundra.  If they are both sporting little crotch lions, you’re not going to see NUTHIN’.

I bet that some director was filming and said oh for Christ’s sake.. someone shave this check so I can get some good angles.  BOOM  a trend is born.  Next thing you know, the bikini wax/shave gets higher and higher.  Voila, a few years/generations later, not only are almost all people sporting virtually no pubic hair, it’s considered EXTREMELY bad form to not tidy, trim and clean the area up.  For both men and women.

More and more women shave it all, or almost all,  a lot of men are getting into it too.  Waxing is more popular than ever, not only does it get everything out of the way, it lets you avoid stubble and keeps you clean and smooth much longer.  The porn star wax (as I like to call it) is become more popular and common.

I’m telling you… if porn got interested in the environment Tracey would probably do a little jig in pure excitement at all the changes and innovation it would bring.

Anyway that was what crossed my mind earlier today (damn I stayed up late scribbling this all out.. oops)

Another article that someone else wrote on a similar subject.

Uns wird ein gewisser Fußfetisch nachgesagt. Denn Füße gibt es bei uns häufig zu sehen. Fast schon überproportional oft. Aber in den meisten, oder eigentlich allen, Fällen sind sie nicht nackt sondern angezogen. Socken oder Schuhe. Zuweilen auch beides. Beim Sex trägt man generell weder das eine oder andere. Das hat sich gesellschaftlich einfach so durchgesetzt.  Füße sind ja nicht unbedingt sonderlich ansehnlich. Trotzdem versuchen Hände sie zu imitieren und tragen ebenso Schuhe. Eigentlich sind Handschuhe vom Aussehen her eher mit Socken zu vergleichen. Aber der Terminus Handsocken konnte sich nie durchsetzen. Klingt auch seltsam.

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Homajon

hi.

1,2,3 peter paul and mary and im caught in between

god u gotta love britney spears. especially her new songs.

lets take a look at some raunchy lines. hey?

‘we can get down like theres no one around’ – gimme more

‘i get the tingle i wanna mingle’ -radar

‘and dont break my heart, lets make out’ -mmm papi

SEX SELLS

still love britney though, shes not the only one, madonna does it, prince and prince had some of the best songs

i recommend listening to darling nikki by prince if u want some really …how can i put it?.. interesting lyrics.

christinabowe,

Two brief comments this morning about the Sunday news agenda.

Firstly, why is stuff.co.nz featuring two stories designed to get a rise out of Sunday morning male readers?

One is an inadvertent advert for Penthouse magazine and the other an advertisment for the Gold Coast SuperGP motor racing dressed up as a soft(core) news story.

The news value in these items is miniscule to non-existent. Only one has a local angle (the woman is a Kiwi, but appeared in the “Aussie Babes” pages of the magazine), but the “wow” factor is high — both feature prominent images of scantily-clad young women.

Don’t believe me that they’re adverts? Gentlemen start your engines; ladies, I’m sorry, but trust me, this is for research purposes only:

Topless teacher on Penthouse website
Miss SuperGP Gold Coast golden girl

EM tries to be a family-friendly blog (sometimes), so I’m not linking to the images, anyone over the age of 10 can imagine them from the suggestive headlines.

But this one from nzherald.co.nz is perhaps the most tittylating: Dominatrix tells of ‘bad feelings’

Phhhwhhhoaaaarrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Alas, it too is no more than an advertisment – this time for Metro magazine.

Second point: After all the fuss about British Nationalist Party goon Nick Griffith’s appearance on the BBC, why is stuff.co.nz giving space to our local Nazis?

Far-right leader Kyle Chapman returns

Go figure, it must a slow news day [Labour day long-weekend in Aotearoa]  and sex sells.

Take your pick of editor’s cliched responses; I’m going back to bed.

Actually, I’m not: I’m going whale watching on Hauraki Gulf.

In the meantime, “no platform for fascists”