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Hi there. I’m a woman. I enjoy watching porn on a regular basis.

I know, shocking right? Did you just fall right out of your chair?

It’s not something you hear everyday. Not because it’s uncommon for women to watch porn, but because for some reason its just another one of those “taboo” subjects that go unspoken. WHY? Why is it so culturally acceptable and expected for men to watch porn but not women? Is it just me? Maybe it’s just the friends I’ve made in life, but it really seems to me that for women, watching porn is a very private, secret thing. I also feel like maybe men are a little bit in the dark. Do men really not know women watch porn? And if they do, why is porn such a taboo subject? Are people ashamed? Let me ask you something – do any of you readers think worse of me because I watch porn? The answer should be no. If you answered yes, we need to talk…

Before I get any further into this, I would like to clarify that I am talking about consensual, adult porn only. I do not in any way endorse child pornography or videos filmed without the participants knowledge and consent. (Although I really hope you already knew that).

No one should be ashamed to watch porn! My film nerd side is going to slip out here and throw some film terminology at you. In the “biz” there’s a little concept called voyeurism, which is the idea that we as humans enjoy and gain pleasure from watching other humans, specifically in intimate situations. This is a natural phenomenon. It is completely normal to be aroused by watching other people. That is the basis of the porn industry. And guess what? This fact of life isn’t affected by sex, gender, sexual orientation or sexual experience.

There are so many benefits to watching porn. First of all, it is extremely low risk. It is physically impossible for you to become pregnant or to catch an STD by watching porn. It allows you to become more comfortable with yourself and your sexuality on your own terms. Watching porn can help you discover what you are most attracted to, but also what you are uncomfortable with. Another plus is that it is so easily accessible. You are all reading this on the internet right now, you are only one Google search away from endless free pornography. In my opinion, watching porn is a completely normal, safe part of any healthy sex life.

Ok, let’s talk about some common “downsides” of watching porn my female friends have asked me about:

Q. Does porn provide people with unrealistic expectations about sex and relationships?

Sure. But so does Twilight. So does just about every romantic comedy ever made, books, magazines, television, movies, etc. Unrealistic expectations about sex are everywhere.

Q. Will I get addicted?

Are you addicted to any other form of entertainment/type of internet use? Well then chances are you won’t get addicted to porn. I’m not saying it’s impossible. If watching porn begins to negatively affect areas of your life such as school or work, or relationships, then yes, you should be concerned.

If you are struggling with something in your life right now then perhaps your chance of addiction is higher because watching porn can be used as a coping method (just like any other escapist behavior). Otherwise, fear of addiction shouldn’t prevent you from watching.

Q. Will watching porn make me feel awful about the way I look?

Maybe. But again, if that’s the case you probably have a lot of trouble with T.V., movies, magazines and any and all other forms of media. Besides, none of you should feel awful about the way you look because you are all BEAUTIFUL! You just need to remember that porn stars are no different than actresses or models – they are made up to look a specific way on film and don’t look like that in everyday life.

Q: Is all porn geared towards men?

Ladies. I hate to break this to you, but watching porn can be a little harder for us because it is very targeted to men. I mean, I’m sorry, but I personally don’t want to watch a skinny blonde girl with balloon sized tits give a blow job for half an hour. Doesn’t do it for me. Totally cool if that’s what you like to watch, but there is a segment of us women who won’t enjoy it. And often on porn sites “female friendly” porn usually means lesbians. Which is totally hot, but I typically prefer men. So what’s a girl to do?! You have to go hunting for it. There is some really beautiful erotic work out there and once you find it, it will be worth it.

And if you’re reading this, I want to hear YOUR opinions on the subject!

Jacques Pépin debones a Chicken Galantine Ballotine. (SLYT)

Bonus: Before you debone it, you have to pluck it

It's Friday! Time for a game: how many languages can you distinguish and identify?

Stats from around the globe. A list of the 78 languages included.

Hannah Gregg constructed a map of the United States with a cocktail for each state. At Buzzfeed, you'll find a list under the map with each state's drink, it's ingredients, and a little history behind it. Kentucky is the mint julep, which I wold have guessed. It supposedly contains Bourbon, sugar and water… hey, what about MINT? I don't know about Louisville, but the rest of the state only hears about mint juleps in May. Otherwise, you'll run into moonshine a lot more often. But then, moonshine is not a cocktail. Did she select the drink recipe for your state well?

Redditor Put_It_All_On_Red made this modification of The Great Wave off Kanagawa, a watercolor woodblock print by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). Cookie Monster, an unstoppable force of nature, crashes over and devours all that comes in his path. It is a beautiful but impersonal movement toward cookies.

-via Tor

En The Burden of Disease and the Changing Task of Medicine se ham comparado las causas por las que morimos en los últimos 200 años.

Las enfermedades hereditarias son las responsables de la mayor parte de muertes en el mundo, entre las que cabe destacar las enfermedades cardiovasculares, el cáncer, la diabetes (de nueva incorporación a la lista) y las enfermedades pulmonares crónicas. Sin embargo, a principios del siglo XX la gente moría mayormente de neumonía, gripe, tuberculosis e infecciones gastrointestinales.

Si os apetece, también podéis contemplar en tiempo real el número de nacimientos y defunciones gracias a este programa creado por el doctor en Matemáticas Brad Lyon. La simulación sigue una serie de patrones de nacimientos y muertes, basándose en tasas actuales.

Vía | Microsiervos

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La noticia De qué moríamos antes, y de qué morimos ahora fue publicada originalmente en Xatakaciencia por Sergio Parra.

Deep Dark Fears. Comic strips of people's lurking fears by Fran Krause. [Via]

About fifty years ago, the governor of Indiana received a letter complaining about obscenity in the lyrics of a rock'n'roll song, and passed that letter on to the FBI. For the following two years, FBI agents examined potential lyrics of the song (which were incomprehensible on the recording, partly due to the singer's braces) to find grounds for an obscenity prosecution. They ultimately failed, but produced a 140-page report, listing numerous possible obscene readings of what the lyrics could be, and in doing so, turned Louie Louie by The Kingsmen from a footnote into a bona fide rock'n'roll rebel anthem.

Louie Louie was based on a song written in 1957 by a R&B singer named Richard Berry (of no relation to either Chuck Berry or what is now known as R&B), which in turn was based on a calypso song titled El Loco Cha Cha, written by a bandleader from pre-revolutionary Cuba. Berry had toured the Pacific Northwest, where his songs had inspired covers and imitations by local bands, a game of Telephone which eventually resulted in the Kingsmen's song of the same name.

The FBI investigation of Louie Louie, which occurred in an era of moral panic, coming in the wake of the McCarthy Red Scare and the early days of the parent-scaring phenomenon known as rock'n'roll, ironically, catapulted the song from imminent obscurity (soon after it came out, its sound would have been rendered obsolete by the tide of Beatlemania and the British Invasion) and had turned it into a bona fide rebel anthem. Over the years, interpreters such as Iggy Pop, Henry Rollins and The Clash would pick up this ditty from a more innocent age and record their own versions, filling in the blanks with mundane vulgarities of their own devising (and a few cribbed from the FBI report), to varying effects.

I’m writing this in response to the article “The 4 Worst Things About Being an Only Child” on Thought Catalog.  Everybody who has ever been a child has had their own experiences that shape them up into who they are today. If you are the 5th child out of 10 or the only, it really all comes down to how your parents raised you.  But the issue of being an only child arises from the one thing we have that’s different from other kids: we have no siblings.

Here is my take on the 4 good things about not having siblings:

1. Since I grew up without kids like myself around, I learned to blend in with the grown ups earlier. Sure I had tons of toys to play with to compensate for not having siblings, but this didn’t stop me from seeking actual human interaction.  Grown ups can only try and stoop to my level for a given amount of time, so when they couldn’t spend all their free time with me, I would follow them around and see what they were up to.  Even when I had my cousins around, I found that when the grown ups started to gather on the table and have their little chit chats, I found it more interesting than having mini concerts with my cousins.  I guess because when all you hear all the time is grown up talk, you begin to identify with it better and it becomes comfortable, even soothing.

When I finally graduated from college and spent a good amount of time with people my age in the real world, I couldn’t get why they shriek over cute guys and place so much importance on petty things like clothes and pop culture. In lieu of that, I found myself enjoying talking to the elderly about their lives and how they survived it.  I don’t know how to make a lot of friends my age and the best evidence of this was when I found myself and my boyfriend on double dates with my co-workers who are both over 60 years old. And it’s not so surprising how much I enjoyed those dates.

2. I learned to be very cautious about the things I did at a very young age. Not having siblings meant that if I made a mistake, my parent’s attentions will be drawn to me automatically.  There is no splitting the blame.  It will be just me in the spotlight, ready to be praised or admonished.

3. You know how siblings trash talk each other effortlessly?  And it seems okay to each party that they are called all those ugly names? I never got comfortable with that. Even if I’m just listening in on conversations of siblings, I cringe at how they berate each other about non-issues. I never learned to hate someone on default.  I never had someone to compete with, so I never had the need to shoot someone down by making them look bad just because.  If I ever hate someone, it has to really stem from something, not just for the mere reason that they exist and I somehow need to outshine them.

4. I am too responsible for my own sanity…most of the time anyway.  I don’t know a lot of only children in the family but the few people that I know seem to all be very put together.  I guess this comes from two things. One, because we were around grown ups so much we picked up on all their grown-up-y habits. And two, because we never had siblings, we never learned how to let loose with other kids at home and not care if we slept with chocolate on our faces because the other kid has more.

I have shared a couple of apartments with different groups of friends and I always end up thinking about everything. How many pairs of curtains do we need? Is our dish soap gonna last one more day? Are we using too much electricity? I always find myself cleaning up right after a party, because I feel like there is no one else to do it—even when I know my room mates will eventually pick up the pace.

Growing up as an only child had it’s perks and disadvantages.  The things I mentioned above were my experiences specifically resulting from not having siblings, not from how people treated me because I was an only child. Whether I grew up to be insecure or confident couldn’t be pinned down on being an only child. How I turned out because of and in spite of not having siblings was a result of how my parents used the luxury of their time and attention on me.

 

Driven By Boredom nos ofrece un recorrido por ese ansiado paraíso anual de la silicona y la deshinibición. La gala de los premios del porno, los AVN. Una gala como la de los Oscars de Hollywood pero en la que las actrices acuden sin bragas y con las tetas al aire a recoger los premios.
La verdad es que viendo las fotos y las caras de alegría de todos los asistentes nos quedamos con aquella máxima de lo importante no es ganar sino participar. Pero claro, participar en la orgía que se celebra después de la entrega de premios.

Enhorabuena a los premiados!

Fred Armisen will be releasing a series of 7-inches of a few fake SNL bands, via Drag City, targeting that lucrative market of vinyl collectors who love SNL novelty bands. The first two releases are from The Blue Jean Committee (think ’70s bands like Steely Dan and BTO) and The Fingerlings (an ’80s British post-disco band similar to Wire and Gang of Four).

The press release for the records is actually pretty hilarious:

H/t Splitsider

Hoy se cumple el 25 aniversario de la muerte de Salvador Dalí, un genio que continúa atrayendo masas. Lo hizo el pasado año con sus retrospectivas en el Reina Sofía, exposición que alcanzó el récord de visitantes en la historia del museo, o en el Centro Pompidou de París.

En este 23 de enero de 2014, 25 años después, Dalí sigue asombrándonos, su arte se mantiene vigente y su personalidad sobrevive inabarcable. Un magnético carácter que también quedó inmortalizado por obra y gracia de la televisión, así:

Pope Francis offered some thoughts about the internet Thursday as part of his World Communication Day message. And he seems to love it—though not to necessarily understand it all that well.

“The internet…offers immense possibilities for encounter and solidarity. This is something truly good, a gift from God,” the Pope said.

He continued in this vein, seeming to think that the internet is a place for things other than inanity and rampant narcissism:

As I have frequently observed, if a choice has to be made between a bruised church which goes out to the streets and a Church suffering from self-absorption, I certainly prefer the first. Those ‘streets’ are the world where people live and where they can be reached, both effectively and affectively. The digital highway is one of them, a street teeming with people who are often hurting, men and women looking for salvation or hope.

Oooookay, Pope—whatever you say. Sure, every once in a blue moon we’ll get a bullied school bus monitor whose life is literally changed by the benevolence of internet denizens. But let’s face it—99% of the time we’re just trying to sucker each other into clicking on utter frivolity.

“It is not enough to be passersby on the digital highways, simply ’connected,’” the Pope says. “Connections need to grow into true encounters.” Obviously the Pope hasn’t spent much time on OK Cupid.

Anyway, behold the bounty of God:

An abandoned cruise ship has been floating in international waters for months, since it came loose in a storm while being towed off the coast of Newfoundland. The company that intended to sell the Lyubov Orlova for scrap, Transport Canada, wrote the ship off after it determined that the ship “no longer poses a threat to the safety of [Canadian] offshore oil installations, their personnel or the marine environment.” But now it is feared that the drifting ship may be nearing the UK.

Two signals were picked up on the 12 and 23 March last year, presumably from lifeboats which fell away and hit the water, showing the vessel had made it two-thirds of the way across the Atlantic and was heading east.

A week later, an unidentified object of about the right size was spotted on radar just off the coast of Scotland – but search planes never verified the find.

Pim de Rhoodes, a Belgian salvage hunter who is among a number looking for the Lyubov Orlova off the UK coastline, told The Sun: “She is floating around out there somewhere.

“There will be a lot of rats and they eat each other. If I get aboard I'll have to lace everywhere with poison.”

The head of the Irish coastguard, Chris Reynolds, said the ship was more likely than not to still pose a threat.

Rats eating each other? The most reasonable response I can think of is KILL IT WITH FIRE! Or nuke it from space -it's the only way to be sure. Read about the Lyubov Orlova at The Independent. -via Metafilter

(Image credit: Lilpop,Rau&Loewenstein)

 
Italian film composer Riziero “Riz” Ortolani died in Rome today at the age of 87. Sadly, Ortolani—who worked with directors like Vittorio De Sica, Dino Risi, Damiano Damiani, Lucio Fulchi, Gualtiero Jacopetti and Pupi Avati—would have celebrated his 50th wedding anniversary of marriage to his wife Katyna in just a few days time.

Ortolani’s music first gained worldwide exposure with his score for the infamous Mondo Cane. The film’s title theme “More” won him a Grammy and an Oscar nomination. It’s been covered by Frank Sinatra and Count Basie, Judy Garland, Andy WIlliams, Herb Alpert and many others.

In a career that spanned decades, Ortolani wrote the music for around three hundred bloody giallo films, “Mondo” documentaries, zombie flicks, exploitation films and spaghetti westerns. In recent years his work has been heard in the films of Quentin Tarantino and in Drive.
 

 
The gorgeous theme music to Cannibal Holocaust:

 
Mondo Cane’s theme tune, “More” sung by Judy Garland in 1963:

"I always wondered what happened to Thora Birch. So I went to LA to find out."

Polka dots originally appeared on My[confined]Space NSFW on January 22, 2014.

A few years ago, Fred Seibert, executive producer of Pendleton Ward's Adventure Time, posted some guidelines from the series for drawing the characters Finn and Jake. For instance, how the characters' elbows bend is important, but where they bend is not. This should help you produce some awesome fan fiction, or else give you some insight into the characters. -via Boing Boing

Most pop bands at a promotional event where a recording of their hit is being played, make some effort to look as if they're actually performing live . A few disdain such artifice and take full advantage of such rare freedom from their instruments.

That was one of the members of The Trashmen*, doing an dance interpretation of their hit, "Surfin' Bird", on Dick Clark's American Bandstand. The Trashmen claimed to have conceived of the song on their own (interview starts at around 2:52), but since the two songs they had based it on had been hits for The Rivingtons only a few years earlier - "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow" & "The Bird's The Word" - the appropriation was quickly noticed and some legal pressure was applied so that The Rivingtons were given proper credit.
In the 1977 The Cramps recorded a cover of Surfin' Bird, but until I saw the Trashmen performance I had never thought to search for the Cramps do Surfin' Bird live (NSFW).
[* Note: a bit more research reveals that the second part of the Trashmen video is actually comedian Andre van Duin]

We've already seen what happens when Harry defeats Voldemort, but what happens in the parallel universe where that's not the case? Thanks to Imgur user deathbystapler, now we know a little more of the tale...at least, what crimes the resistance is guilty of and the bounties on them and which positions some of Voldemort's loyal Death Eaters are awarded when they win the war.

If you like Harry Potter, you definitely won't want to miss the entire series, even if only to celebrate that Harry and the others won.

by Bradford Evans

Parks and Recreation's writers have always been good about keeping their characters moving and constantly having major changes occur in their lives, and Aubrey Plaza wants a big change for her character. When asked what will happen to her character in the show's recently-announced seventh season, Plaza tells Vulture:

"I’ve been saying this for two seasons now: If they don’t put a baby inside of me, I’m going to put one in myself, literally, so that they’re forced to write it on to the show! I declare. I just think the idea of her and Andy having quintuplets or something would be pretty hilarious. But I have no idea. I don’t know what they are going to do with her character."

So, there you have it: April Ludgate-Dwyer and Andy Dwyer will be having a child (or children) as long as Plaza stays true to that threat.

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Disco Sucks. Éste fue uno de los lemas más importantes de la década de los 80 en USA.

¿Qué fue lo que pasó para que la Disco Music, uno de los mejores estilos de música del mundo, desapareciera durante nuestra década favorita?

Sencillamente fue la revolución del A.O.R. (Adult Oriented Rock), el movimiento musical más denostado por la gente moderna y/o marica. Puede que esta etiqueta no les suene, pero seguro que si les hablo de Survivor, Toto, Bon Jovi , Guns´n´Roses o la eterna canción del anuncio de la Mahou ya se van poniendo en situación…

El A.O.R. es un tipo de rock que entra muy fácilmente y que causó sensación entre los jóvenes del mundo entero que al escucharlo se sentían unos machotes, a pesar de que las estrellas de este subgénero llevaran los pelos largos y/o cardados, foulares, pieles de leopardo y fueran más maquillados que La Prohibida.

Se trata de rock comercial, para entendernos. Fusionado con el pop, lo importante son las melodías y los estribillos, que se te quedaban a la primera. Los sintetizadores convivían con las guitarras (no demasiado distorsionadas), bajos y baterías. Las armonías vocales también eran importantes. Las letras hablaban de amores no correspondidos pero sobre todo de superación personal. Todos estos ingredientes formaban un género que va más allá de lo musical…

Village People, los grandes perjudicados de esta historia

El origen del curioso nombre de A.O.R. viene de las emisoras que, a finales de los setenta comenzaron a programar insistentemente este tipo de rock melódico. Había que hacer la guerra a la música disco, que además de estar realizada por extranjeros, más concretamente por europeos, (incluso algunos negros) era muchísimo más costosa de realizar que cualquier canción de estos rockeros blandos. Así pues la industria discográfica se alió con las emisoras de radio para enfrentarse al mismo enemigo. Se organizaron eventos de todo tipo para promocionar el A.O.R., incluso los exaltados fans se reunían en estadios de football donde quemaban pilas de discos de Village People, Donna Summer e Imagination, entre otros… (La Disco Demolition Night)

Más testosterona, imposible

Llegados a los ochenta, el A,OR. se convirtió en un símbolo del estilo de vida norteamericano. Y consiguieron contagiar esa actitud “antidisco” al resto del mundo. Si querías molar te tenía que gustar Bruce Springsteen. Las discotecas eran cosa de provincianos.

El mismísimo Michael Jackson tuvo que meter un punteo de guitarra en su canción “Beat it” para poder salir en las emisoras A.O.R., convirtiéndose en el primer artista negro que cruzó la frontera. Y el último.

A finales de los ochenta surgido el Hair Rock, un derivado de este género con sonidos más duros y una estética más ambigua, entre glam y rockera.

En España el género se introdujo rápidamente, hasta el punto que la gente compraba los discos de Modern Talking a escondidas, y, ya metidos en los noventa, pudimos disfrutar de aportaciones made in Spain como Sangre Azul, La Trampa o Revolver.

Una vez pasado de moda el género, a mediados de los noventa, el A.O.R. ha seguido condenado al ostracismo, y los pocos intentos de reactivarlo, como el disco Born this  way de Lady Gaga o el musical Rock of Ages, apenas han tenido el respaldo masivo que hubiesen merecido.

Cher se apunta al estilo musical que se lleve en cada momento

Artistas A.O.R. /Hair rock favoritos de Teenage Thunder

Aerosmith Uno de tantos grupos setenteros que se reconvirtió y cosechó sus mejores éxitos en los noventa, los años del A.O.R. tardío.

Alice Cooper Otro señor que se reblandeció con el tiempo y que llegó a meter sintetizadores en algunas de sus canciones.

Bryan Adams Un cantante que en los primeros noventa aparecía en todos los recopilatorios de canciones de amor, aquellos cuyas portadas eran fotografías en blanco y negro de unos enamorados rodeados de hojas secas del otoño…

Cher Esta mujer ha probado todos los estilos de música posibles, y siempre ha estado a la altura de las circunstancias. A través del A.O.R. tuvo lugar la resurrección artística anterior a “Believe”, y como testimonio nos quedaron tres de los mejores discos de esta señora eterna: “Heart of stone”, “Love hurts” y “It´s a man´s World”.

Def Lepard El grupo paso tristemente a la posteridad por ser el primero que tenían un batería al que le faltaba un brazo… Más allá de esto hay poco más que saber sobre ellos.

Europe. Como su mismo nombre indica, la aportación europea a este género. Imagina lo heavy que tiene que ser vivir en Suecia y que no te guste la música que se hace en tu país…Estos muchachos fueron unos incomprendidos en la tierra de ABBA , Alcazar y Roxette.

Guns’n Roses Otro de los mejores grupos de todos los tiempos, se escapa a la comprensión humana que pueda existir personas a las que no les guste esta banda.

 

Lita Ford, calentando al personal

 

Pat Benatar Una de las pocas mujeres que se atrevió a invadir esta escena tan machista. Ella siempre fue mucho más discreta que el resto de sus compañeros.

Poison Cuatro rockeros maquillados más allá de lo permitido que hicieron un montón de buenas canciones.

Survivor Los del “Burning Heart” y “Eye of the tiger” ¿hace falta decir más?

Toto La cerveza Mahou no sería lo mismo si no hubieran existido estos chicos.

Lita Ford La miembra de las Runaways que también lo intentó en solitario además de Joan Jett.

Van Halen Realmente míticos, los auténticos padres del género.

Vixen Un grupo formado solamente por chicas… demasiado bueno para ser verdad…

Whitesnake Ellos son los responsables del tópico de que “las tías más buenas salen en los vídeos heavys”

 

Más pluma, imposible

Como ya hemos dicho, el A.O.R. es un fenómeno que rompió las barreras de la música. He aquí una pequeña lista de conceptos relativos al tema que estamos tratando:

Películas A.O.R.

Rocky III y IV
El secreto de mi éxito
Commando
Terminator 2
Viernes 13 , parte VI

Y la que más: Top Gun

Gente A.O.R.

Schwarzenegger
Ronald Reagan
Jackie Collins
Kirk Cameron
Apollonia Kotero

La persona más A.O.R. es Michael J. Fox

Objetos A.O.R.

Chupas de cuero
Fast food
Cintas en el pelo
Terciopelo
Humo en el suelo

Pero, sobre todo, las casetes de audio

Top 13 canciones A.O.R.

1. “Eye of the tiger” Survivor

 

2. “Livin’ on a prayer” Bon Jovi

 

3. “Burning Heart” Survivor

 

4. “Does anybody really fall in love anymore” Cher

 

5. “November rain” Guns’n Roses

 

6. “Is this love” Whitesnake

 

7. “Dreams” Van Halen

 

8. “Kiss me deadly” Lita Ford

 

9. “Hold the line” Toto

 

10. “The secret of my success” Night Ranger

 

11. “Cryin’ ” Vixen

 

12. “Danger zone” Kenny Loggins

 

13. “Every rose has its thorn” Poison

 

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