This looks like it’s going to be hot, literarcy and smut-tastic. Hear local authors read queer erotica and the Little Sister’s staff reading smut that was stopped at the Boarder. Queerotica is part of the Pride in Art Festival.
WHEN:
7:30pm | Wednesday, July 30, 2008
WHERE:
The Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre (181 [...]
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The cover article in this week’s Georgia Straight is about this film. The review says it’s mostly about 4 couples and one threesome and their relationships. Young people fucking was mentioned a lot earlier this year because of it’s title, and because of the controversy around Bill C-10. Bill C-10 is [...]
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Posted in sex, tagged video games on May 29, 2008 | No Comments »
I found this 9-ish minute video lecture by Daniel Floyd, a professor at Savannah College of Art and Design, to be funny and interesting. Floyd looks at the history of sex in video games. He states “for as long as sex has existed in games it has been exploitive at worst and superficial [...]
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Posted in challenged books, sex on March 26, 2008 | No Comments »
I went to Portland for the long weekend. Portland is fantastic. There is Voodoo Donuts, a donut shop that doubles as a wedding venue and Swahili language school. There are also lots of fantastic independent bookstores like Powells and Reading Frenzy.
I am often puzzled by the United States. The American Booksellers [...]
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In the fall I went to the Metrotown branch of the Burnaby Public Library. I had heard rumors of a “purple dot” collection so I decided to find out more. The reference staff were lovely and explained that many of their instructional sex books and photography books were behind the circulation desk. [...]
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This is a fantastic and funny rant from author John Green about a high school that is requiring parental consent forms for students to read and study his first book Looking for Alaska. He describes the frank sex scene in this book as “alkward, unfun, disasterous and wholly unerotic.”
He argues:
Hank, it doesn’t take deeply [...]
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Canada Border Services Agency sent out their quarterly list (24 page PDF) of items (CDs, newspapers, records, books, calenders, CD-ROMs, comic books, DVDs, DVD-Rs, magazines, pocket books, and video cassettes) that have been seized and reviewed by the Prohibited Importations Unit.
For me the white supremacist stuff makes me really angry and is the most difficult [...]
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Posted in censorship, film, sex on January 16, 2008 | No Comments »
I watched a documentary on TV called Indie Sex: Censored. I thought it was going to be extremely trashy, but it turned out to be only somewhat trashy. I was slightly disappointed but it got me thinking about the bigger environment that Canadian libraries are situated in.
Indie Sex looked at the different actors [...]
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Posted in censorship, podcast, sex on October 25, 2007 | No Comments »
Check out a fantastic conversation between sex-positive writer and activist Susie Bright and librarian and rare book dealer Steve Harsin. Also, check out Steve’s site on censorship. They discuss the ethics of librarianship, the children’s book about the dog who got a snake bite on his scrotum (Higher Power of Lucky), Spike Lee’s [...]
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