Fetishes and Paraphilias

Real-time porn searches.

From Jezebel (and PornMD):

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Here Is a Very Illuminating Feed of Real-Time Porn Searches

Ever wonder what kind of porn people are searching for right now? Wonder no more.

Here is a list of real-time porn searches on PornHub's network. It is a daunting and enlightening look into the human psyche and the very nature of desire. Also, if you are open-minded, it kind of reads like a provocative band name generator that's unusually plagued by spelling errors.

Some of the searches are very oddly specific; some are baffling; some are fairly predictable. Our favorites are as follows:

  • naughty bookworms
  • too drunk to orgy
  • mom tired (this is possibly the best because I imagine it's a weary suburban mom being like, "Not tonight, I just want to put my feet up and watch some Sex and the City.")
  • show one breast
  • farts
  • lucky girl
  • asian perfekt (so close on the spelling!)
  • anal vergine (keep trying!)
  • masculinity fail
  • pokemon hentai
  • son loser
  • feet caned
  • handjob outdoor (sounds very idyllic)
  • bug tits (less idyllic)

Masculinity Fail is clearly the best band name, followed by Bug Tits. Please feel free to share your own PornHub search feed findings in the comments!

Go check it out here. And see the comments, including the best-ofs, here.

Winning bidder pays $42,000 for an hour-long cam session with dominatrix.

 

From Kinky.com:

The Art of the $42,000 Webcam Show

If webcams are the future of porn, they may just have had their moon landing. While the tech world hovers over the Consumer Electronic Show in Vegas, Maitresse Madeline, San Francisco-based domme and Kink.com porn director, has auctioned off a private hour-long webcam show for an astounding $42,000. Beat that, Bitcoin.

The bidding in the two-week long auction began in the hundreds of dollars, but quickly escalated to thousands — and then tens of thousands of dollars. The winner, who wishes to remain anonymous, will get a one-on-one webcam session with the femdom director.

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A lot of people will think $42K is an incredible amount of money for an hour’s work — it puts you on par with Lady Gaga and Oprah in terms of earning power. What do you tell people who wonder how it can be worth it? Again, people are paying for something they don’t get in their normal life whether that’s a fetish that they are afraid to live out in real life or maybe their partner won’t give them what they desire and they look to cams to fulfill that missing part of their sexuality. People want to remain anonymous and they pay for anonymity. Some men are looking for financial domination and that’s what gets them off. Often it’s a chance to get to know your favorite performer. Whatever your reason is, it’s a custom made experience just for you in real time with no strings attached, whenever you want.

Read the rest here.

Recent research: People who practice BDSM.

From LiveScience:

Bondage Benefits: BDSM Practitioners Healthier Than 'Vanilla' People By Stephanie Pappas

Despite the fact that their sexual preferences are listed in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as potentially problematic, people who play with whips and chains in the bedroom may actually be more psychologically healthy than those who don't.

A new study finds that practitioners of bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism, or BDSM, score better on a variety of personality and psychological measures than "vanilla" people who don't engage in unusual sex acts. BDSM is a sexual practice that revolves around those four fetishes.

BDSM is listed in the DSM-5, the newest edition of the definitive psychiatrist's manual, as a paraphilia, or unusual sexual fixation — a label that has caused controversy between kinky communities and psychiatrists, who themselves are mixed on whether sexual predilections belong in the catalog of mental disorders. As written, the DSM-5 does not label BDSM a disorder unless it causes harm to the practitioner or to others.

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Healthy fixation?

None of the participants knew what the surveys were about, other than they were on "human behavior." All told, 902 BDSM practitioners and 434 vanilla (non-BDSM) participants filled out questionnaires on personality, sensitivity to rejection, style of attachment in relationships and well-being.

The researchers chose these baseline measures because previous research on those in the BDSM community has focused on dire outcomes — whether they're more likely to have mental disorders or report rape and abuse compared with the general public. (They aren't, studies have found.)

The new results reveal that on a basic level, BDSM practitioners don't appear to be more troubled than the general population. They were more extroverted, more open to new experiences and more conscientious than vanilla participants; they were also less neurotic, a personality trait marked by anxiety. BDSM aficionados also scored lower than the general public on rejection sensitivity, a measure of how paranoid people are about others disliking them.

People in the BDSM scene reported higher levels of well-being in the past two weeks than people outside it, and they reported more secure feelings of attachment in their relationships, the researchers found.

Of the BDSM practitioners, 33 percent of the men reported being submissive, 48 percent dominant and 18 percent "switch," or willing to switch between submissive and dominant roles in bed. About 75 percent of the female BDSM respondents were submissive, 8 percent dominant and 16 percent switch.

These roles showed some links to psychological health, such that dominants tended to score highest in all quarters, submissives lowest and switches in the middle. However, submissives never scored lower than vanilla participants on mental health, and frequently scored higher, Wismeijer told LiveScience.

"Within the BDSM community, [submissives] were always perceived as the most vulnerable, but still, there was not one finding in which the submissives scored less favorable than the controls," he said.

Read the rest here.

Perverts.

A great read from Aeon:

Perversions

Atheists and homosexuals were called perverts once. Why do we still see perversion where no harm is done?

by Jesse Bering

Perverts weren’t always the libidinous bogeymen we imagine when we think of the term today. Sexual mores have certainly shifted dramatically over the course of history and across societies, but the very word ‘pervert’ once literally meant something else entirely to what it does now. For example, the peculiar discovery that some peasant during the reign of Charles II used conch shells for anal gratification or inhaled a stolen batch of ladies’ corsets while touching himself in the town square would have been merely coincidental to any accusations of his being perverted (though it wouldn’t have helped his case). Seventeenth-century terms such as ‘skellum’ (scoundrel) or reference to his ‘mundungus’ (smelly entrails) might have applied, but calling this man a ‘pervert’ for his peccadilloes would have made little sense at the time.

Linguistically, the sexual connotation feels natural. The ring of it — purrrvert — is at once melodious and cloying, producing a noticeable snarl on the speaker’s face, while the image of a lecherous child molester, a trench-coated flasher in a park, a drooling pornographer, or perhaps a serial rapist pops into one’s head. Yet as Shakespeare might remind us, a pervert by any other name would smell as foul. For the longest time, in fact, to be a pervert wasn’t to be a sexual deviant; it was to be an atheist.

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One key reason for this shift can be found in the work of the British scholar Havelock Ellis, who back in 1897 popularised the term ‘pervert’ in his descriptions of patients with atypical sexual desires. Earlier scholars, among them Richard von Krafft-Ebing, the Austro-German psychiatrist regarded by many as the father of studies in deviant sexuality, had already sexualised the term, but Ellis’s accessible writing found a wider general audience and ultimately led to this meaning of ‘pervert’ becoming solidified in the common vernacular.

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Today, the word pervert just sounds silly, or at least provincial, when used to refer to gays and lesbians. In a growing number of societies, homosexuals are slowly, begrudgingly, being allowed entry into the ranks of the culturally tolerated. But plenty of other sexual minorities remain firmly entrenched in the orientation blacklist. Although, happily, we’re increasingly using science to defend gays and lesbians, deep down most of us (religious or not) still appear to be suffering from the illusion of a creator who set moral limits on the acceptable sexual orientations. Our knee-jerk perception of individuals who similarly have no choice whatsoever over what arouses them sexually (be they paedophiles, exhibitionists, transvestites, or fetishists, to name but a few) is that they’ve wilfully, deliberately, and arrogantly strayed from the right course. In other words, we see them as ‘true perverts’. Whereas gays and lesbians are perceived by more and more people as ‘like normal heterosexuals’ because they didn’t choose to be the way they are, we assume that these others somehow did.

Read the rest here.

Objectum-Sexuality.

Despite Tyra being completely insufferable, it's worth watching. Skip to 1:00.

Part I: Tyra Banks features Erika Eiffel and asks a variety of questions pertaining to her objectum sexual relationships with the Eiffel Tower and Berlin Wall. Also, Dr. Amy Marsh fields questions about the roots of OS.

Part II: Tyra Banks features Erika Eiffel and asks a variety of questions pertaining to her objectum sexual relationships with the Eiffel Tower and Berlin Wall. Also, Dr. Amy Marsh fields questions about the roots of OS.

Formicophilia and beastiality porn, Japanese style: Genki Genki.

Genki Genki is a style of erotic art/pornography that features women with various creatures, many from the ocean. At the forefront of the scene is a man named Daikichi Amano, who has been recognized worldwide for his work. His images and movies are like nothing you've ever seen before, really. He describes himself as both an artist and a pornographer. You can see samples of his work at his pay-for-access website: link here (extremely NSFW!). He also has an artist website featuring his other work: link here.

Below is a clip of some of his work:

Daikichi Amano

A feminist's take on BDSM.

Over at Jezebel, from an interview with Jessica Wakeman:

The argument that women who enjoy BDSM are "taught" they should be submissive in bed is insulting to me as a feminist: I'm not a little girl who needs other people to tell me what's best for me. I choose to trust the men I "play" with." I know what kind of pornography and erotica turns me on. I know what kind of touch turns me on. I know what kind of words and tone of voice turn me on. In fact, there's sort of a joke in BDSM that submissives are actually the dominant ones because they have ultimate control (like with a safe word). As far as spanking play goes, I've always been the ones telling men to do this to me, to do it harder, to do it softer, and when to stop. I guess you could argue that I've been brainwashed into being kinky, but that would be a reach.

The full interview can be found here.

Lift and carry.

Macrophilia and sthenolagnia are two atypical sexual preferences that feature, as the objects of desire, tall and strong women, respectively. Some women, especially body builders or ex-body builders, provide sex work-like services related to sthenolagnia, or muscle worship. These services typically involve displays of strength used on the client (i.e., lift and carry). To give you an idea of how this plays out, here are two videos that feature such behaviour: 

LIFT AND CARRY Lift & Carry is a session mainly performed by our strongest wrestlers, for example competitive weight trainers, fitness models and experienced wrestlers. A style that includes lifting of the client and carrying them. PLEASE NOTE: MAX WEIGHT RESTRICTIONS APPLY FOR PARTICULAR MODELS. PLEASE CHECK BEFORE BOOKING.

She is a real beauty with strength. Woman is 35 years old and guy is 23 years old. How easily she carries him.

Twighlight Sparkle and the man who loves her.

From A.V. Club:

The Internet finally reaches its apex as man marrying My Little Pony character writes angry email to erotic pony artist

The Internet—the global system of interconnected networks that’s become an increasingly central means of commerce and communication capable of bringing far-flung civilizations together—reached its apex this week, after a man claiming to be the fiancé of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic character Twilight Sparkle contacted a user of online community DeviantArt to demand he stop drawing sexual pictures of his imaginary pony-bride. The request was made in a letter that was then published in full on the Internet, which no longer has any reason to exist, having achieved everything it has ever set out to do.

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“I would really appreciate it if the next time your birthday comes around you would request that your clop artist friends (who like to give you sexually oriented pony art as gifts) draw some pony other than Twilight Sparkle for you,” one grown man typed to another, using the system developed through decades of work by British scientists and military contractors. Their dedication paid off in their descendants’ easy access to forums where other, similarly pioneering men could discuss their love for a cartoon pony show, even forging bold new identities as “bronies,” as well as explore virtual art galleries in which those ponies are drawn engaging in erotic acts—all without ever leaving their homes. This, after all, may have led to social situations where caring so intensely about cartoon ponies might have been discouraged.

Instead, the system was in place for a man to not only develop such feelings, but to have “actually found a wedding chapel that will let me marry someone that most people would consider a fictional character” but at least isn’t the same sex as him. The innovations of the Internet also enabled him to share that love—not only with the family and friends who will attend that wedding while staring with a vaguely pained expression into space, but with everyone in the digital world, so that they too may know its very detailed depths.

Read the rest here.

And just because it's amazing - BRONIES, the documentary:

Trailer for the documentary film. Full film available at http://www.bronydoc.com/ This trailer features the following music: Alex S. - Party With Pinkie (The Living Tombstone's Remix) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBYGTEj7s0w A Long Way from Equestria -- Original MLP music by MandoPony & AcousticBrony http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH8Ri2VULHo Eurobeat Brony - Discord (The Living Tombstone's Remix) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPfMb50dsOk ©2012 BronyDoc, LLC Neither this film, nor any view or opinion expressed in it, is approved or endorsed by, or is in any way associated with Hasbro.

The Fifty Shades Generator.

Someone very clever has created the Fifty Shades Generator, mocking the horrible writing that characterizes the books. From the website:

The Fifty Shades Generator is a breakthrough in erotic fiction. At the click of a button, it generates world-class literature based on a pre-defined vocabulary.

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Fledgling authors! Spice up your otherwise lacklustre novel with graphic sex scenes guaranteed to get your readers hot under the collar, and slightly sick in their mouths. If you end up winning a big literary award, we'll split the prize money 50/50, yeah? Wire transfer is fine.

When you visit and refresh the homepage (link), it produces an epic new paragraph. This is what I was provided when I visited the site:

I can't wait to chow down on the creamy load from his ocean's 11 inches. Hours of pounding like this would leave any girl's vertical smile looking like a rabid baboon's arse, and I was no different! It was bliss having his master of ceremonies stuffed inside me again; stuffing my tampon tunnel with a squash just didn't get my pink velvet sausage wallet squirting like it used to. The mixture of Mr. Hanky and cock snot in my shit winker created the delicious sphincter sauce that he was so fond of. With his ample cock slamming deep into my meat purse, the sensation of his chorizo howitzer smashing my cervix made me quake like Muhammad Ali on a tumble dryer.

Fans of the site have started submitting their readings of the generated text. Here is a compilation that was posted on the main page (NSFW!):

Reading fiftyshadesgenerator.com at work. If you like this please subscribe! More to come!


Documentary: Graphic Sexual Horror.

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Regarding paraphilias (i.e., kinks), basically, what it boils down to is that as long as sex (or play) is consensual in the true sense (i.e., all people involved are able to freely give consent, absent of any major power imbalance, soft coercion, desperation, etc.), it's really nobody's business what the participants choose to do. Of course, there will always be exceptions, but generally speaking, this rule seems to be well-supported.

The notion of consent and manipulation is one of the main themes explored in the documentary Graphic Sexual Horror, which delves into the world of Insex, a BDSM content website that featured live online shows.

After a few years of great financial success, Insex eventually was forced to shut its doors after being pursued by US federal prosecutors. Rather than fight a lengthy and expensive legal battle, the owner PD (who was coincidentally a former Carnegie Mellon professor) sold the company. You can read more about Insexhere.

Before the company was sold, Synapse Films spent some time at Insex, which culminated in this documentary. The entire documentary is interesting, but what's perhaps most fascinating are the interviews with the women who were featured in the content.

The documentary homepage is here.

The following is from a review of Graphic Sexual Horror posted at Twitch:

The phrase "Graphic Sexual Horror" actually derives from the all-caps warning that would greet visitors at the threshold to the Insex.Com Web site during its heyday roughly a decade ago. But one can't be blamed for thinking that the title pairs well with the somewhat sensationalistic marketing copy from releaser Synapse. No, the fact that this is a documentary is never concealed, but that doesn't really diminish the lurid appeal--in fact, the promise that everything is real only adds to the titillation.

Of course that's the same lure of realism that attracted some 35,000 subscribers to "PD" Brent Scott's unique BDSM online community and interactive gallery. Shooting on stark sets sporting a "rundown, industrial look" and featuring a grim, deadpan aesthetic that gave some the impression that PD "really had captured the girls," the Insex team specialized in creative live feed sessions that allowed customers to provide real-time input and feedback. The young models would frequently plead for mercy from all sorts of gnarly acts of sadism (one that stays with you: red pepper flakes applied to the genitalia), but per S/M protocol there was always a "safe word" in reserve that they could invoke if things became too unbearable.

One might expect a doc covering such subject matter to be fairly predictable in its exploitational leanings. Yet by showing the motivations of each model to test her own psychological/physical limits--and PD's tendency to manipulate such motivating factors--Graphic Sexual Horror begins to address all sorts of intriguing and totally unexpected questions. Is there such a thing as self-exploitation? And what's to distinguish simple exhibitionism, and those who would leverage it for profit, from a legitimate, artistic, and maybe spiritual exploration of the body's limits? (I'm including "spiritual" because ecstatic states similar to those depicted in the horror flick Martyrs are briefly, but convincingly, touched upon.)

You can read the rest of the review here.

Download Graphic Sexual Horrorhere (for academic purposes only!).

WARNING: the documentary features hardcore sex, BDSM, simulated and real sexual violence. There's one scene, in particular, in which PD tries to convince a performer to continue when she clearly does not want to - it's extremely upsetting and difficult to watch. If you choose to watch the documentary, please proceed with great caution. It is a trigger for sexual violence.

50 Shade of Grey cited as cause of divorce.

From the Daily Mail:

50 Shades of Divorce: Wife 'inspired' by erotic book says husband failed to meet her expectations
It's had a major impact on the publishing world – and in quite a few bedrooms.
But now Fifty Shades Of Grey is at the centre of an unusual court case.
A man is being divorced by his wife after he refused to spice up their love life by reliving scenes from the erotic bestseller.
The wife, a 41-year-old banker earning more than £400,000 a year, claims her husband’s ‘boring attitude’ to sex is evidence of ‘unreasonable behaviour’.
In her grounds for divorce, filed at the High Court, she refers to the novel, which tells of the sadomasochistic affair between billionaire Christian Grey and naive student Anastasia Steele. The woman in the court case bought the raunchy book almost as soon as it was published last year and hoped it would encourage her husband to be more adventurous in bed.
She bought some sexy underwear but her husband failed to respond to her advances and he even blamed her behaviour on ‘that bloody book’.
Now she has petitioned for divorce citing his alleged low libido as evidence of ‘unreasonable behaviour’, one of the five grounds for divorce under English law. The wife’s solicitor, Amanda McAlister, a family law expert, believes the case is the first where the new phenomenon of ‘mummy porn’ has triggered a divorce.
She said: ‘The woman had been reading the book and wanted to spice up her love life.
‘She thought their sex life had hit a rut – he never remembered Valentine’s Day and he never complimented her on her appearance. So she bought sexy underwear in an attempt to get her husband more involved. She said, “Let’s make things more interesting”.
‘But when he still didn’t take any notice she told him he had a boring attitude to sex and she was fed up.
‘He went ballistic when he found out the name of the book she was reading and told her, “It’s all because you have been reading that bloody book”.’
The husband is admitting ‘unreasonable behaviour’ so the divorce can be granted quickly without a contested hearing in which his alleged low libido would be discussed in court.
Miss McAlister, of Russell Jones and Walker, claims the case is evidence of a social change where women have been encouraged to become more adventurous in the bedroom.
She said: ‘There has been a real shift in sexual attitudes.
‘It used to be the men who complained they weren’t getting enough nookie in the bedroom.
‘But now it’s the women who are calling their husbands boring after reading books like Fifty Shades.’
The novel is the first in a trilogy by British author EL James which have sold more than 60million copies worldwide. James – real name Erika Mitchell – describes her books as ‘romantic fantasy’ stories that offer women a ‘holiday from their husbands’.
The 49-year-old mother of two is said to be worth almost £4million after signing book deals on both sides of the Atlantic and a Hollywood movie contract.
The books have sparked a ‘mummy porn’ genre with publishers rushing to bring out more similar erotic fiction. One academic has even claimed the success of Fifty Shades has led to a baby boom after revitalising the sex lives of married couples.

Autoandrophilia.

Autogynephilia is a "man’s paraphilic tendency to be sexually aroused by the thought or image of himself as a woman" (Blanchard, 2004). Someone asked if the same phenomenon exists in women. A student from class did some poking around on the CrossDreamers website and found some case studies of autoandrophiliacs, or women who are turned on by thinking of themselves as men. Here is one of the cases:

She enjoyed having sex as a woman with men but also particularly enjoyed living out her sexual fantasy of being male with a penis. She was a self-declared bisexual who, apart from having sex with Robert [her husband] and other couples, would also go off to visit female sex workers herself. She particularly enjoyed the fantasy of raping someone else. This was generally played out with female sex workers who would be accommodating and compliant with the fantasy to her satisfaction. The only male she carried out this sex fantasy with was her husband Robert and at the time of penetrating him she said she clearly envisioned herself as a man with a penis, dominant, powerful and aggressive. Clair was quite clear that although she might run these fantasies in her mind they were just sexual fantasies.

There are several others, all worth reading. You can find them here.