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[News] Pink and White Wins Best of Bay!

We’d like to congratulate Pink and White Productions for winning the SF Weekly’s Best of the Bay for Best Dyke Porn Studio! Of course, we’re proud to be the exclusive distributor of Pink and White’s DVDs.

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Argentine Bank Ad

Amazing and moving.

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[News] Massachusetts Attempts to Criminalize Being Sexy and 60+

The State of Massachusetts is attempting to make it illegal to take or have photographs or movies of someone over 60, nude.

No, really, that’s what they are trying to do. Literally. This is not a slippery-slope argument, not a “well, you know what an unexpected and unintended consequence of this will be” argument.

This is exactly and precisely what they are trying to do: If a man takes a nude picture of his 60 year old lover, that would be a crime punishable by 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Really. The indepensible Volokh Conspiracy has the details.

It’s almost impossible to categorize all of the ways this is wrong. Setting aside that it would criminalize the exquisite Bill and Desiree: Love is Timeless. Setting aside the “punishment in search of a crime” angle and the civil rights angle, what is the most offensive to us about this is that it implies that everyone 60 years of age or older is somehow incompetent to give consent to sexual activities.

That’s almost impossible to avoid as the real reason behind this, since the other category of person that it would criminalize nude photos of are those who have “a permanent or long-term physical or mental impairment that prevents or restricts the individual’s ability to provide for his or her own care or protection.” This law only makes any sense if you assume that anyone over 60 is automatically in that category.

If you live in Massachusetts, we strongly encourage you to contact your State Representatives to protest this inane bill.

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130,000 boobs lost at sea

We have absolutely no idea what to make of this story, but, well: 130,000 boobs lost at sea.

More than 130,000 inflatable breasts have been lost at sea en route to Australia.

Men’s magazine Ralph was planning to include the boobs as a free gift with its January issue.

We mean, what can do you do with them? Is there an after-market for inflatable boobs?

via Boing Boing

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Neil Gaiman on Freedom of Speech

Excellent essay by Neil Gaiman: Why defend freedom of icky speech?

[Y]ou seem to want lolicon banned, and people prosecuted for owning it, and I don’t. You ask, What makes it worth defending? and the only answer I can give is this: Freedom to write, freedom to read, freedom to own material that you believe is worth defending means you’re going to have to stand up for stuff you don’t believe is worth defending, even stuff you find actively distasteful, because laws are big blunt instruments that do not differentiate between what you like and what you don’t, because prosecutors are humans and bear grudges and fight for re-election, because one person’s obscenity is another person’s art.

Because if you don’t stand up for the stuff you don’t like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you’ve already lost.

via ErosBlog

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PayPal is not our friend

Speaking of the Sex Blogger’s Calendar, we sometimes get questions about why we don’t take PayPal. In short, PayPal doesn’t want anything to do with anything to do with sex, as the good people at the Sex Bloggers Calendar found out.

Boo, hiss, PayPal.

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The 2009 Sex Bloggers Calendar

Of course, you should do the vast majority of your holiday shopping with us here at Blowfish, but we’d also encourage you to get those special people on your list a copy of the 2009 New York City Sex Bloggers Calendar, featuring many of the hottest (intellectually, of course) bloggers in the world, and all in support of a very good cause.

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For $780, We’d Expect Some Pretty Good Porn

As film producers, we’re not wild about piracy. But we also hate the pointless and draconian restrictions that modern DRM imposes on consumers. In short, the pirates have nothing to worry about, while paying customers are screwed. And it leads to absurdities like this, from the Guardian:

A Hertfordshire couple in their 60s were horrified to receive a letter last week from a London firm of lawyers accusing them of dowloading a hardcore gay porn movie. It demanded they pay £503 for “copyright infringement” or face a high court action. The 20-page “pre-settlement letter” from lawyers Davenport Lyons, acting on behalf of German pornogaphers, insisted they pay £503 (about $780) to their clients for the 115 minute film Army Fuckers which features “Gestapo” officers and “Czech” farmers.

For the record, none of our releases have any DRM, including CSS or Macrovision.

via Ars Technica

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Amanda Palmer Too Gorgeous For Her Own Record Label

Via The F Word, we discover stupid judgments about women’s bodies is not just confined to bad porn:

Incredibly cool and beautiful singer Amanda Palmer (of Dresden Dolls fame) has been forced to search for a new record label after Roadrunner refused to promote her latest single, video and album. Why? Because she refused to let them remove shots of her “fat” belly from the video for Leeds United (see above), and is therefore “uncommercial”.

Check out the video. She’s insanely hot.

Her fans have started The Rebellyon, in which they are posting pictures of their own bellies in protest. Brilliant.

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