Melissa Gira

writer, reporter, sex futurist
May 13
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What also bothers me about this is that the media tends to only focus and be comfortable talking about women bloggers if they’re a Mommy Blogger, or, if they’ve been involved in prostitution or are sex writers. There is a huge, diverse community of women bloggers, but as far as people the mainstream media outlets are concerned - we’re either whores, ex whores, or mothers.
DollyMix: How in the world is the concept of Mommy Bloggers still blowing people’s minds? (I’m not digging it up, but there was a rather strange interview I did in 2006 on the same — how mommybloggers and sex bloggers are comrades)
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Actually, this too has been up for debate. Some believe the blog and book on which this series is based are pure fiction, written by someone with no experience in the sex industry. [Belle de Jour] writes pointy-headed prose about “the explicit commodification of sex” being “preferable to the hawthorn thicket of modern relationships”, and discusses the works of Germaine Greer, Goethe and Pablo Neruda with clients before disrobing for a spot of hectic how’s your father.(via)
Actually, this too has been up for debate. Some believe the blog and book on which this series is based are pure fiction, written by someone with no experience in the sex industry. [Belle de Jour] writes pointy-headed prose about “the explicit commodification of sex” being “preferable to the hawthorn thicket of modern relationships”, and discusses the works of Germaine Greer, Goethe and Pablo Neruda with clients before disrobing for a spot of hectic how’s your father.(via)
May 12
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If you can watch the amount of sex Carrie, Charlotte and Miranda have without shouting ‘harlot’ at the screen; if you’re not horrified by the idea of women having professional jobs, living alone, talking about sex, drinking alcohol, having children out of wedlock, experimenting with lesbianism, owning vibrators and all the other stuff they do, then you support a level of freedom for women that is a very long way off for a majority of women in today’s world.
Kate Smurthwaite - quoted in this article (via gauntlet)
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Ask and ye shall — details via letsmeetinsf.
Ask and ye shall — details via letsmeetinsf.
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An Experiment!

syntheticpubes:

Excursions planned for the coming week which could provide material

  • launch party for much-hyped search engine startup
  • SF Tumblr meetup
  • shameful acts of inebriation at SF’s Bay to Breakers
  • and I recently returned from New Zealand and Thailand

So let’s talk, or please feel free to reblog this. My Gmail address is extremely straightforward, and questions are welcome.

SF Tumblr meetup, you say?
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Fake Track List From A Band

funblr:

ASSIGNMENT: Make a fake track list from a fake album from a recording artist you like.

Cocteau Twins, Oooph a twitty litty lip
01: Magenta M.F.
02: Strike the wing
03: Like boys like tiny anthills
04: For momma’s suck
05: (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
06: Bright blue bursts bleeding
07: Unnameable track only available on a 7” packaged in paper made from lightly goat-sniffed oak trees, out now on 4AD

May 11
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The Bird and The Bee, of that fucking boyfriend song, but now even more piercingly hot what with the whole self-referential camgirlishness, which is, seriously-guys cute (via datn, livejamie)
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by Sebastian Szwajczak (via, via syntheticpubes)
by Sebastian Szwajczak (via, via syntheticpubes)
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Elliot writes, “I’m what my (legally mandatory) psychologist would call a transsexual. I got an official diagnosis and everything — gender identity disorder! Certificate of disorder in hand, Dr. ***** was convinced I was a real transsexual. Little did he know I’m actually a bisexual-tranny-fag-dyke genderfucked kid! And now I’ve got my own little fuck-you-gender/sex-binary body!” (via ModBlog - Before and After)
Elliot writes, “I’m what my (legally mandatory) psychologist would call a transsexual. I got an official diagnosis and everything — gender identity disorder! Certificate of disorder in hand, Dr. ***** was convinced I was a real transsexual. Little did he know I’m actually a bisexual-tranny-fag-dyke genderfucked kid! And now I’ve got my own little fuck-you-gender/sex-binary body!” (via ModBlog - Before and After)