photo by Stark Arts

If you were one of the 300 who people attended last year’s calendar release party you know already what an amazing evening it was. With the fantastic raffle prizes, 200 gift bags and our very talented burlesque performers it is hard to not only throw a party equal to last year’s but to surpass it? I think we just might have done that.

This year the party will be held on November 5th once again at Fontana’s. We have two very special guests who will be attending this year in support of both the calendar and Woodhull Freedom Foundation.

I am thrilled to announce that both Carol Queen and Nina Hartley will be in NYC for the 2011 calendar release party.

While it may seem slightly early to be posting this we wanted to give everyone as much time as possible to make plans to be in NYC on November 5th for the party.

We have more fantastic plans in the works for the party that we will be announcing in the future so stay tuned.

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I missed you… – I could smell your cologne as I reached past you, key in my hand to unlock the door. That smell always set me off and you knew it. Your eyes told me what you wanted. You saw in mine what I couldn’t say out loud.

See also: Pleasurists #62 and #63 for all your sex toy review needs.

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Kink & Fetish

A hand in the…
Celery
Breaking Down
Buckling
Drop and Aftercare, A Discussion
Erotic Hypnosis
Erotic Zen: Masturbation Fantasies
Fantasy Vs Reality in M/s
Four kinksters, a wealth of toys
Spanking Story: Head of House
The Kink Club Dinner
The Devil Is In The Details
The Last Chip

Erotic Writing

A Surfer’s Story
Across a Crowded Room, Part 3
Cookie
Her Pleasure
Saturday with my Sweetheart
Sex Behind the Wheel (#5)
SexxxConfessions: Jumping the Fence with My Best Boy
sex sex sexx
Sold
Surprise
Taboo
The Slut Chronicles #12 ~ The Bar
Uninvited

Sex News, Interviews, Politics & Humor

“All men are potential rapists” breeds fear and mistrust. Not caution
JM Darling
NYC Sex Bloggers Calendar is Going National in 2011!
Sex Addiction
S&M video producer in Hungary raided by police
Tauntaun Porn

Thoughts & Advice on Sex & Relationship

A Non Scene that went to a Bad Place
Blow Jobbing. Confession #413
Divorce
Hard Time Getting Wet
Hindsight
I Can’t Get No Contraception. Part 5
Innocent and Clueless? I Think Not!
Kegel Magic – For Men As Well As Women
Kyle’s Visit – Collaring My boy
One Year: The Story of My Rape
Swing Shift Volume 29- Maintaining Balance
Swallowing is overrated
The Tiger Way to Sex Rehab

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HotMoviesForHer.com is part of the larger HotMovies.com family and we offer nearly their entire 130,000+ movie catalog to our viewers. While we don’t actively promote some of the movies on the site, including the movies in question, we don’t take issue with them being searchable on HM4Her. We think it’s important that women have a safe place to search out porn, no matter what kind of consensual porn they are interested in finding. Who are we to say that a certain kind of porn is not ok for women to watch. Adults can decide what they prefer to watch. There are many things out in the world that offend people, and while we understand that they are offensive to some, we don’t judge that it turns some people on. No matter what the movie is called, there are still consenting adults who decide to participate in it.

As for “crack whore” movies specifically. We don’t promote those movies to our readers, nor do we encourage people to watch them. If the term “crack whore” ever comes up in anything we are watching or promoting, we do the same thing that we do for anything we find personally offensive, we call it out and talk about it being offensive.

In the end, everyone might not approve of everything we have, but when it comes to changing our library, we can’t go on the opinions of what is offensive. We’d have nothing left.

We’d like to thank JD for her prompt and intelligent reply and as always  the comments are open to anyone who wants to intelligently support or debate this position.

Amazing artwork, Map of Canada and the US,  by Oupelay on DeviantArt, please check out the rest of his fantastic gallery.

You’ve just flipped the January  page on your 2010 Sex Blogger Calendar, whispered a fond farewell to the lovely Mia Martina, and greeted the awesome Abiola Abrams, who graces February’s page, and here I am about to talk to you about 2011.  If it seems early to you, you’re not alone; it seems early to me too.  But 2011 is going to be a bigger and better year, hopefully for all of us, and certainly for this amazing project that started as a whim, a fun project with friends that would benefit our sex positive community, one balmy summer night.

Many of you, after seeing our fabulous calendar or coming to our kick-ass launch party, expressed an interest in being a model.  We heard you and we want to give you the opportunity to be even more involved.  So for 2011, we’re going NATIONAL!  Yes, you heard it right, the NYC SexBlogger Calendar wants to be even more inclusive in 2011.  We want any sex positive blogger/internet personality - male, female, gay, straight, queer, trans, any race, any orientation, any size - who writes/podcasts/video blogs about sex or sexuality to feel free to submit a photo.  While our 2010 models are free to submit a photo, we’d like nothing better than to get thirteen brand new faces and their accompanying hot bods. I’ll get into those details in a moment, but that’s not the only change we’ve made.

For the last two years, the calendar proceeds have gone to Sex Work Awareness and allowed them to fund Speak Up!, a one day seminar in 2009 that expanded to a weekend in 2010.  We are so proud to have provided the funding for those events.  Megan Andelloux, in her fight with the town of Pawtucket, RI to open her adult sex education facility, The Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health, used the training she received last year which helped her win battle and CSPH is now open for business. This year, we’re thrilled to announce that the funds raised by the calendar will go to Woodhull Freedom Foundation. Woodhull Freedom Foundation Affirms SexualFreedom as a Fundamental Human Right!

We’ve known of and been supportive of WFF but when we met and talked with the board members and advisory committee of WFF at their fundraiser, a diverse group including the fabulous Carol Queen, we were really impressed with them, their professionalism and their goals.  WFF has a broader focus than SWA and we want our little calendar to benefit all kinds of sexual freedom.  In changing core attitudes, defining sexual freedom as a basic human right, sex workers too will reap benefits.

Now, how do you submit a photo and what is expected if we pick you to be in the 2011 calendar?

First, you email us one or more professional quality photo that represents what sexual freedom means to you or how you express your sexual freedom.  The photo is to be 12 x 12 (this is SQUARE, people, be sure to let the photographer know this in advance of shooting, most photos are rectangular, so the photographer has to look with a different eye in order to shoot for square artwork).   The format will be CMYK, 12 x 12 full bleed, 300 DPIx 12 full bleed image. If you’d like to discuss concepts before working with a photographer, please email me at Tess@tiedupevents.com

Along with your photo, please send a short bio and a short (or long, if you’re feeling particularly verbose on the topic) post talking about how your photo represents your sexual freedom.  We would like all entrants to be able to attend our launch party on November 5, 201o in NYC, this is one reason we’re giving you all so much notice, so that plans can be hatched and funds reserved.  You’ll be required to post a button on your site that links to the calendar blog and once chosen, we’ll provide a special button for models.

Because we want to also support our economy as well as our fundamental right to sexual freedom, despite our difficulties last year, we are committed to printing the calendar in the US of A, we’re not sure how much nudity we can get away with.  If you feel like baring it all, we’re right there with you but we also need to be realistic about what we can get printed, so please give us some softer options.  Last year, the mere sight of nipples in two photos caused a printer, even in this economy, to turn down the job.

Please include in your email any suggestions you have for promoting the calendar and WFF on your site -contests, etc. Working with us in promoting the calendar is an important component of being a part of this project.

Submissions must be received by May 1, 2010.

More details will follow and we’ll post the Photo Submission Guidelines on a separate page so you can review them easily.

In the meantime, if you’d be so kind as to repost this far and wide, from sea to shining sea, we’d be most appreciative.  Let’s get everyone who believes that sexual freedom is a fundamental human right talking and participating in this project and sharing in the fun with us.

We will be accepting applications until February 17, 2010. Accepted applicants will be informed no later than March 1.

Our inaugural training in 2009 yielded:

• A video public service announcement, I Am A Sex Worker, which has been viewed 30,000 times online and has screened at events and film festivals in San Francisco, Amsterdam, and other cities;
• Workshop participant Megan Andelloux has used her training to assist her in many media appearances debating her right to open her Center for Sexual Health and Pleasure in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Watch her on ABC News;
• Read What Speak Up Did For Me by participant Calico Lane

The impetus for developing Speak Up is based on a real need expressed by members of our community for more resources and skills training on how to (a) respond to media requests effectively and safely, (b) engage with the mainstream media in order to get a particular message out, and (c) create our own media products. Sex workers, like many other marginalized communities, find the mainstream media a crucial site of resistance due to the harmful misrepresentations and stereotypes that it promulgates. This is especially true when the job the sex worker does is illegal and becomes further compounded by factors such as race, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, relative poverty, drug use, family status, immigration status, and age. All too often, sex workers simply choose not to engage with the media due to potential social and legal repercussions or sex workers get in over their heads and are unwittingly exploited by the media without getting anything out of it.

Our seminar teaches sex workers how to evaluate media requests and to formulate strategic responses to the media in a variety of formats. Sex worker participants learn to write press releases, op-ed pieces, and letters to the editor, build a press list, pitch a story to a reporter, and pitch their own freelance journalism to an editor. Attendees also get a crash course on how to start their own podcast, blog, or video podcast. Additionally, seminars will contain practical hands-on activities and role plays (like video taping a simulated interview with a television reporter). We will also have participants look to already existing nationally-focused sex worker media and talk about how sex workers can contribute to these and other national efforts.

In addition to the training and skills, workshop participants will get:

• A $50 stipend
• Dinner on April 9th, breakfast and lunch on April 10 & 11th
• The opportunity to apply for a $500 grant to continue their media advocacy work

The workshop is limited to ten participants on the basis of a submitted application (below). Only self-identified current and former sex workers are invited to apply, to ensure that all feel comfortable during the seminar. The workshop is lead by two English speakers, so participants must be fluent in English. Our current budget does not include funds for travel stipends and housing for those coming from out of town, however, we will do our best to accommodate the travel/housing needs of all successful applicants.

Speak Up is funded by sponsorships and sales from the 2010 Sex Blogger Calendar.

Questions? Email us at info [at] sexworkawareness.org

Please click here to apply or email us to request the application as a word document.

cross-posted from Sex Work Awareness

Join The Woodhull Freedom Foundation on Saturday, Jan 23rd for a celebration of sexual freedom as a fundamental human right, with Carol Queen and Nina Hartley.

You won’t want to miss this fabulous evening –  the champagne reception that begins at 6:30pm (donation, $100)

After the reception, doors open at 7:30 for the 8:00 performance of scenes from PEEP SHOW, performed by Carol Queen – her solo spoken word piece about working at San Francisco’s famed Lusty Lady theater as a professional Real Life Nude Girl.

Then hold onto your seats for Nina Hartley – currently in rehearsals for The Vagina Monologues – sharing a private performance from the show!

Cost: $100 for the private champagne reception where you will be able to enjoy some one-on-one time with the performers and other Woodhull board and staff members, as well as some local candidates and elected officials.

or

$20 suggested donation for the performance that begins at 8 (doors open at 7:30) – but give as you’re able for this fun event!

Your donation is completely tax-deductible and will be used to help advance our movement for the affimration of sexual freedom as a fundamental human right.

Tickets are limited.  Click here to purchase yours.

LOCATION WILL BE EMAILED UPON RECEIPT OF RSVP OR DONATION.

CAN’T ATTEND: YOU CAN STILL SUPPORT US BY DONATING HERE

PS:  Please note that a portion of donations received for this event will be donated to Partners for Health to benefit the Haitian Relief Effort

There goes my career in public radio.

My Ira fetish knows no bounds. Especially when a camera, an opportunity to do boy drag, and a good cause are involved. You are the kind of people who would already give twenty big ones to a media advocacy organization by and for sex workers. But why not make that awesome investment and get a pinup calendar “girl” photo of me that you can hang over your bed or desk or wherever you want your gaze to fall when you hear the magic words, “…and now, act two….”

Now imagine it in my voice.

And with over a dozen other highly adorable, writerly New Yorkers in even more sexually compromised positions, all in the name of sexual freedom, etc., all in one calendar?

Go. Give now. Sex Work Awareness. $20. Sexy photos. Smart, savvy activism. And even more next year, thanks to your support, our program continues…

Lucy Vonne by JM Darling

What’s an awesome holiday gift?  ME HALF NAKED IN A CALENDAR! Ok yes I still have clothes on but it is a small pair of panties with a wet wife beater on that’s cut so you can see my bra. Don’t believe me, look below.

I’m hot right? Well so are all the other ladies in the calendar which makes it an awesome holiday buy. You know you need one. I happen to be the month of June. Summer months are always more fun and I felt I fit nicely there.

The theme of the calendar was sexual freedom and we were supposed to represent that in our photo. When it comes down to it sexual freedom to me is doing whatever the hell you want and being proud and not ashamed as you are doing it. I am God damn proud of where I have gotten myself and what I do with my life. I don’t care what people say about me or if they judge me or won’t talk to me because of what I do. Sucks for them because I’m pretty awesome person. Yes I’m still a person. Just because sex is my job does not make me any less of one. I’m just a litter more perverted then most. It’s ok, my mom knows.

So basically by being who I am and living my life a certain way is my sexual freedom. And you can see that in my picture. I’m wearing a vibrator which is something that is very normal for me. I’m surrounded with porn and toys, pretty much how I spend my day. I would also like to mention my all time favorite porn is in the photo. Can you guess which one it is? But most of all I am happy, giant smile on my face. Sex makes me happy, my life makes me happy. I like being the one not afraid to talk about sex and turns things dirty. Let’s face it, I will always be a pervert. But one you can still take home to meet your mom.

No need to click read more, BUY THE CALENDAR!

Nikol Hasler by Paulie & Pauline Photography

For me, the freedom of being able to do what I want has always been important.  The teens that I talk to today go through the same things we all went through.  It’s about our hair, our clothes, who we want to hang out with.  But with sexuality there is so much more that we have to fight for.
Everything about this setting expresses that freedom to me.

The freedom to be comfortable about sex toys as I proudly hold my very own Hitachi is something I did not have until recently.  I am free to be in a “male” setting, eying up the engine of that car the very same way I am free to exist in the predominantly male world of technology.  I am free to wear coveralls and still feel sexy.

I had a wonderful experience on this shoot and I hope we can do some small part in raising awareness that there is still much to be done to make sure that everyone has the same freedoms available to them.