Humour Etc.

Wanda Sykes: I'm a Be Me - Gay vs. Black.

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Very poignant:

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Dirty (and fun) emojis.

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From The Verge:

These are NSFW emoji for sexting We talked to Flirtmoji artist Katy McCarthy about designing tiny, sexy icons By Arielle Duhaime-Ross

Emoji aren’t sexy. They’re simple, tame, and accessible icons that work wonders if you want convey basic emotions. But when it comes to sexting, they're pretty inadequate. Winky faces, eggplants, and bananas have their uses, of course, but if you want to be a little sexier, you’re going to have to use your words.

Fortunately, four designers in California have come up with a solution, and they're calling it "Flirtmoji" — sexy stickers designed to look like emoji that you can paste into messaging apps as needed. The project launched on Tuesday, so The Verge contactedKaty McCarthy, one of two artists attached to the project, to talk about the design process.

This interview has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity.

How did Flirtmoji come to be?

It’s been many months in the making. All four of us had experience with jokingly and poorly substituting the existing emojis into text conversations to try to communicate sex, and it never worked. But the game-changer came because one of the guys in the group was having really elaborate texting engagement back and forth with a long distance girlfriend. We realized that we needed to do this, to draw up sex as icons, and make it completely comprehensive, funny, and diverse.

I showed some of the Flirtmoji to a friend, and she wasn’t surprised when I told her that you’re a woman.  She said that men don’t tend to draw breasts like that. What do you think of that reaction?

Well, I did draw them! And that’s so beautiful, coming from another woman, that she saw that. We had so much dialogue about [the drawings]. The boobs, in particular, were really hashed out. Everyone looked at them, everyone talked about them, everyone had their two cents, and then being the only woman in a group of guys discussing body parts, obviously there are moments that are a little hairy, but…

…That’s an interesting choice of words.

Well yea that’s a whole other conversation, because how do you make hair in simple line strokes?

Read the rest here.

The Condom Song.

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More gold from India:

This video was created by India HIV/AIDS Alliance's Andhra Pradesh office for the Frontiers Prevention Project (FPP). This programme was implemented from 2002-2008 with the support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. FPP's main aim was to strengthen HIV prevention efforts with key populations at risk, and the programme was based on two principles designed to increase the effectiveness of intervention strategies.

Vajazzling.

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The interview that made it famous. Take it away Ms. Hewitt...

J-Love getting naughty on the January 12, 2010 episode of Lopez Tonight on TBS.

And a more recent clip from Conan:

Jennifer Love Hewitt talks about the art of vajazzling.

Check the reply section for a student's account of the vajazzling experience.

Swedish sex ed video.

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This video was produced to help educate kids about genitals. Translation below.

ENGLISH VERSION: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd22--XZ31c Bacillbandet sjunger "Snoppen och Snippan" från Bacillakuten på Barnkanalen. Text och musik: Johan Holmström. Animation och grafik: Johannes Barte. Hitta mer skoj från Bacillakuten här: http://www.svt.se/barnkanalen/bacillakuten/ Text: Popi-dopp-pop snippedi snopp! Här kommer snoppen i full galopp. Han som inga brallor har dinglar med snoppen och rumpan bar.

 

“Jumpedy jump jump, prickely prick, here comes the dick in full speed He with no pants on, he dangles his gear and rear Snippety snipp snipp, the vagina is way more awesome though Even on and old lady, the vagina there is so elegant located So unlike, but it’s almost the same thing You piss the piss through the prick, or from the vagina if youre a girl The prick and the vagina, what a lovely crew! The prick and the vagina dig along The prick and the vagina belong to our body The prick hangs and dangles on a small body The vagina is awesome, baby I love you”

Apparently, though, the translation of vagina is difficult, the Swedish word for it being used is more of a childish nickname for vagina (“snippa”)

Play Doh's Christmas surprise.

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From Global News (and pretty much everywhere else):

Hasbro plans to replace penis-shaped Play-Doh tool By Michelle R. Smith
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – It was an embarrassing Christmas for Nivea Cabrera after she was accused by her fiance’s mother of letting her 5-year-old granddaughter play with a sex toy. A mortified Carbrera asked the child where she got the penis-shaped plastic cylinder.
“It’s from my Play-Doh,” the girl replied.
Hasbro, the Pawtucket-based toy company, is now doing damage control over the extruder tool in its Play-Doh Cake Mountain toy. The two-piece syringe-like tool, which includes a tube with corkscrew-type ridges around the outside and a dome-shaped top with a hole at the tip, can be used to squeeze Play-Doh to look like decorative cake frosting.
Complaints have been surfacing since at least November, when Tulsa, Oklahoma, TV station KTUL showed the tool to parents and asked them what they thought. The station blurred the image of the tool during the piece, saying it was due to parents’ reactions. One woman told the station it was “a pretty phallic cake-decorating piece.”
After Christmas, comments started pouring in to Play-Doh’s Facebook page, including from Cabrera, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She said Hasbro called her after she posted a photo of the tool and asked about the shape on Christmas Day. She said the company offered to send her a replacement tool in a different shape, which she has not received.
Erin Rivers, a mother of two from Melbourne, Florida, thought it was hilarious when she helped her 6-year-old daughter open the box.
“I pulled out this extruder tool, and I just started cracking up at it, I couldn’t help it. Then I immediately put the Play-Doh in it and took a picture of,” she said.
Then, she posted it on Facebook.
“My friends have just as dirty minds as I do,” she said. “It was hysterical to me. And then I gave it my daughter to play with.”
She said her daughter and 4-year-old son don’t notice anything strange about the toy.
Hasbro Inc. has received thousands of comments on the Play-Doh Facebook page pointing out the obvious.
“We are in the process of updating all future Play-Doh products with a different tool,” it said in a statement posted on the page Tuesday.
It also offered to replace the tool for anyone who has complaints.
Rivers, who works in a pediatric dental office, says she’s not upset at all. But she is flabbergasted that the toy slipped past so many layers of people at Hasbro.
“They have to have someone who creates it, someone who makes the plastic mould, someone who plays with it,” she said. “I can’t imagine that as many people that probably saw the toy, not one person said, ‘Does anyone else think this looks like a penis?”‘

Nominations for the 22nd Bad Sex in Fiction Award.

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From The Telegraph:

The shortlist for the 22nd Bad Sex in Fiction Award has been announced.

According to Literary Review, which has run the prize every year since 1993, its purpose "is to draw attention to poorly written, perfunctory or redundant passages of sexual description in modern fiction, and to discourage them".

The 2014 shortlist contains some illustrious books, including The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan, recipient of this year's Man Booker Prize, The Snow Queen by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham, and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami. Also featured is BBC broadcaster Kirsty Wark for her debut novel, The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle.

The Bad Sex panel also considered Andrew Marr's questionable prose in his political thriller Head of State – "they bucked like deer and squirmed like eels", reads one sexual description – but ultimately was not selected.

Past winners include Melvyn Bragg for A Time to Dance (1993), Sebastian Faulks for Charlotte Gray (1998), and Norman Mailer for A Castle in the Forest (2007). A Lifetime Achievement Award for Bad Sex in Fiction was given to John Updike in 2008. Last year's winner, The City of Devi by Manil Suri, described a sexual episode through a metaphor of exploding supernovas.

So far, the 2014 shortlist includes:

The Snow Queen by Michael Cunningham

The Narrow Road to the Deep Northby Richard Flanagan

The Hormone Factory by Saskia Goldschmidt

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami

The Age of Magic by Ben Okri

The Affairs of Others by Amy Grace Loyd

Desert God by Wilbur Smith

Things to Make and Break by May-Lan Tan

The Lemon Grove by Helen Walsh

The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle by Kirsty Wark

Below is a selection of quotations from this year's nominees:

"Her body was hairless. Her pudenda were also entirely devoid of hair. The tips of her inner lips protruded shyly from the vertical cleft. The sweet dew of feminine arousal glistened upon them." Wilbur Smith, Desert God

"Her mouth is clean in an herbal way, no herb in particular but that sense of green rampancy." Michael Cunningham, The Snow Queen

"He kissed the slight, rose-coloured trench that remained from her knicker elastic, running around her belly like the equator line." Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

"When his hand brushed her nipple it tripped a switch & she came alight. He touched her belly & his hand seemed to burn through her." Ben Okri, The Age of Magic

"I unbuttoned my pants, pushing them down past my hips, and my beast, finally released from its cage, sprang up wildly. I started inching my way back up, continuing to stimulate her manually, until the beast found its way in." Saskia Goldshmidt, The Hormone Factory

"I arched my body against him and taking his hand I guided it down over my navel and placed it between my legs, my hand on top of his, holding it there, gasping as his fingers circled me softly. I had never imagined that I was capable of wanton behaviour, but it was as if a dam within me had burst and we made love that day and night like two people starved, slowly suffused with more and more pleasure, exploring and devouring every inch of each other, so as not to miss one single possibility of passion. It was as if I were drinking in life itself." Kirsty Wark, The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle

"She became aware of him gliding into her. He loved her with gentleness & strength, stroking her neck, praising her face with his hands, till she was broken up & began a low rhythmic wail." Ben Okri, The Age of Magic

"Her throat as open as her body, wet everywhere from tears and the coming, and I did hear it, a long high twisting cry and a twisting in my arms as my fingers dove up and up into the full expressive wetness of her." Amy Grace Loyd, The Affairs of Others

"She comes and comes, waves of hot silk – I grit my teeth and push her off. I bend her over and really give it to her." May-Lan Tan, Things to Make and Break

"He feared losing himself, his freedom, his future. What had a moment before aroused him so intensely now seemed charmless" Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

"The girls entwined themselves lithely around Tsukuru. Kuro’s breasts were full and soft. Shiro’s were small, but her nipples were as hard as tiny round pebbles. Their pubic hair was as wet as a rain forest." Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

"His mouth is on hers; his tongue is jabbing around her gums, the wrinkled roof of her mouth." Helen Walsh, The Lemon Grove

The winner will be announced on December 3.