» Publishers, Monetize your RSS feeds with FeedShow: More infos (Show/Hide Ads)
Hi folks! I"m back after a rather long holiday hiatus. I chat a bit about some of the exciting policy decisions that have come out of our new President's policy decisions as well as throw in some random sexgeekiness that has struck my fancy recently.
Global Gag Rule: LIFTED!
UNFPA Funding: RESTORED!
I mention NARAL's Blog for Choice Day and the entry I made on that day which I was then happy to see start coming true the next day as mentioned above. :-)
Also, Condoms do help protect against HPV, Tonsils are not friendly to HIV and in Weird Sex News: Blow Up Doll Bandit.
Email: postmodern.sexgeek@gmail.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/PMSexgeek
Feed URL: http://marieb.libsyn.com/rss
Intro and Outro music is "We Carry On" by Portishead
audio/mpeg (31 436 ko)
Today's podcast is a quickie.
It's a brief blurb about the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. I mention it's origins as a brain child of Dr. Annie Sprinkle that the Sex Workers Outreach Project ran with and turned into an international event.
I discuss my reasons for supporting this day, namely, the human right not to be hurt or killed while working just because someone does not approve of your line of work or thinks you aren't really human.
Please give it some thought and definitely give some thought to the many people who have been hurt or killed simply because they were (or were thought to be) sex workers.
Annie Sprinkle offers Ten Things You Can Do to Participate(from the SWOP Web site)
Absolutely EVERYONE is invited to participate. Here’s how:
1. Organize (or attend) a memorial in your town. Simply choose a place and time to gather. Invite people to bring their stories, writings, thoughts, related news items, poems, lists of victims, performances, and memories. Take turns sharing.
2. Hold (or attend) a candlelight vigil in a public place.
3. Do something at home alone, which has personal meaning, such as a ritual memorial bath, or light a candle.
4. Call a friend and discuss the topic.
5. Send a donation to a group that helps sex workers stay safer. For example, some teach self-defense or host web sites that caution workers about bad Johns.
6. Go to the Sex Worker Outreach Project’s, www.swop-usa.org, read it, and add something to the site. Do let others know about any planned Dec. 17 events by listing them on the SWOP web site.
7. Spread the word about the Day to End Violence Towards Sex Workers and the issues it raises; or blog, email, call, send a press release, or forward this text to others.
8. Go to Washington DC. This December 17, 2008 there will be a National March for Sex Worker Rights. People will converge from all over to take a stand for justice and safety. Info at www.swop-usa.org
9. Organize a panel discussion about violence towards sex workers. Procure a community space and invite speakers like sex workers, police, and families of victims.
10. Create your own way to participate.
Intro and Outro music is Melody Gardot-Wicked Ride
Wanna talk to me outside of the podcast?
Email: postmodern.sexgeek@gmail.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/PMSexgeek
My Space: http://www.myspace.com/postmodernsexgeek
RSS Feed URL: http://marieb.libsyn.com/rss
audio/mpeg (26 50 ko) - International Human Rights Day, the anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Day without a Gay
- Proposition 8 (personal disclosure)
- Sexism on Obama's staff? And sorry folks I got the blog wrong on this one in the podcast, it was actually Shakespeare Sister not Feministing, although they did give me the link to the actual post.
- Control of Women through threats of violation/violence (more personal disclosure)
- One more example of society and the media trying to control women: Amanda Palmer's Belly is Too Fat???
- The resulting Rebellyon takes off right here
Wanna talk to me outside of this podcast?
Email: postmodern.sexgeek@gmail.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/PMSexgeek
My Space: http://www.myspace.com/postmodernsexgeek
RSS Feed URL: http://marieb.libsyn.com/rss
audio/mpeg (49 575 ko)
Yes, I know it's been a while. For the sake of making sure you all don't forget about me, I am recording a nice, neurotic brain dump for your listening pleasure. Please don't hurt me! Well OK, you can hurt me but we have to negotiate the terms first. *wink*
The topics, in no particular order:
- The Game, found thanks to Benchilada
- Knock out boobs in Uganda
- My Amazon Wishlist and their cool new Universal Wishlist Button
- YAY FOR PRESIDENT ELECT OBAMA!!!!!!!!
- The Eye-Fi: a Wi-Fi SD Card for your camera!
- Porn Hub: Because you can never have too much free pr0n
- Find me on Flickr
- Discussions about Polyamory and other non-traditional relationship configurations
Email: postmodern.sexgeek@gmail.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/PMSexgeek
My Space: http://www.myspace.com/postmodernsexgeek
RSS Feed URL: http://marieb.libsyn.com/rss
Intro and Outro music is Disturbia by Rihanna
audio/mpeg (54 514 ko)
So in an attempt to have some red meat for my podcast *nudge nudge* I googled "sex and politics" and here is what I found:
- Sexy Politics: Learn more about the issues and see nearly nakie people!
- Votergasm: Have sex for the cause!
I also rant about Sarah Palin, who has a very special place in hell waiting for her.
Wanna talk to me outside of the podcast?
Email: postmodern.sexgeek@gmail.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/PMSexgeek
My Space: http://www.myspace.com/postmodernsexgeek
audio/mpeg (36 599 ko)
Today I read a sexy, political flash fic piece done by erotica author and fellow podcaster and friend Nobilis.
Got comments? Suggestions? Complaints? Lemme hear them! postmodern.sexgeek@gmail.com
Direct Download of the MP3: CLICK HERE!
audio/mpeg (13 524 ko)
- More about the challenge
- Sex related reasons to vote including this Palin related issue about rape victims paying for their rape kits
- Corrections from yesterday's podcast regarding the case about sodomy in Texas and sextoys in Texas
- ZOMG! The Debate!
- VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!!
- *nudge nudge wink wink* at Nobilis about his political erotic short
Need to contact me? Send me lists??? postmodern.sexgeek@gmail.com
Direct download of the podcast is here!
audio/mpeg (30 415 ko)
New disclaimer: If you're not 18, you might want to go visit Scarleteen.com since this podcast can be a bit...adult. ;)
I mention that I am currently working on getting Crista to co-host a few podcasts with me. *nudge nudge* We shall see how that goes.
I mention the insanity that is currently the US economy. Check here, here and here for more info.
I mention the current fight over a draft of an proposed HHS rule that clinics, hospitals etc may not refuse to hire someone who believes that contraception is abortion and that that person may refuse to provide services if it is against their beliefs.
I also mention Jose B's newest podcast on Babalu Bistro: Desi Arnaz vs. Elvis
And the rest is a bit of babble. It's a shorty but then, one can only record one's own voice for so long without going a bit crazy!
Intro and outro music is Filthy Gorgeous by Scissor Sisters. Enjoy!
audio/mpeg (25 102 ko) - Why I've been gone so long and some changes I am planning to make
- The Presidential campaign (OBAMA 2008!)
- Paris Hilton Spanking McCain
- HIV Incidence is worse than the CDC thought
- 2008 Olympics
- Men pretending to be women in the Olympics? (I saw this first in VB's blog)
- Where to find me: My Blog, Twitter , email postmodern.sexgeek@gmail.com
audio/mpeg (45 737 ko) . Have fun and XOXO!
audio/mpeg ( 966 ko) - Zombie Pinups: http://www.zombiepinups.com/
- The Devil's Tramping Ground: http://darkartsmedia.com/DevilsTrampingGround.com.html
- The zombie Survival Test: http://www.nerdtests.com/mq/take.php?id=6516
- The Zombie Survival and Defense Wiki: http://www.zombiesurvivalwiki.com/?t=anon
- The Zombie Survical Guide by Max Brooks: http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/zombiesurvivalguide/
Click HERE to download the MP3
And don't forget....
FEEDBACK FEEDBACK FEEDBACK!
Voicemail: 206-339-3297
Email: postmodern.sexgeek@gmail.com
Blog addy: postmodernsexgeek.blogspot.com or marieb.libsyn.com
My RSS URL is marieb.libsyn.com/rss
My Freak Network Forum: Sexgeek Salad
Go vote for me at Podcast Alley!
Please???? With sugar on top?????
audio/mpeg (10 94 ko) - The brilliance of Bush appointing an anti-contraception lackey to the position that manages the funds for the nation's family planning programs
- To protest this appointment go here.
- Talk about the lovely Violet Blue's new DRM free audio book How to Kiss
FEEDBACK FEEDBACK FEEDBACK!
Voicemail: 206-339-3297
Email: postmodern.sexgeek@gmail.com
Blog addy: postmodernsexgeek.blogspot.com or marieb.libsyn.com
My RSS URL is marieb.libsyn.com/rss
My Freak Network Forum: Sexgeek Salad
Go vote for me at Podcast Alley!
Please???? With sugar on top?????
Click HERE to download the MP3
audio/mpeg (57 349 ko) - The only new and exciting thing going on in my life right now: puppies
- Many thanks to Ash B., my new producer and taskmaster who is kicking my ass and making me produce
- An inter view with Laura Agustin who wrote Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labor Market and the Rescue Industry. (Inter view done by Susie Bright and posted on Alternet).
- Sex workers who are planning a brothel in Vancouver during the 2010 Olympics
FEEDBACK FEEDBACK FEEDBACK!
Voicemail: 206-339-3297
Email: postmodern.sexgeek@gmail.com
Blog addy: postmodernsexgeek.blogspot.com or marieb.libsyn.com
My RSS URL is marieb.libsyn.com/rss
My Freak Network Forum: Sexgeek Salad
Go vote for me at Podcast Alley!
Please???? With sugar on top?????
Click HERE to download the MP3
audio/mpeg (65 512 ko)
The first topic I discuss is the trend towards the Medicalization of Sex i.e. everything is a disease and needs a drug rather than better communication and more sexual imagination. Go to this website and this article for a more reading on the subject.
The next topic I discuss is ENDA: The Employment Non Discrimination Act.
In order to get it passed through congress, proponents have decided that removing protection for trans gendered folks is necessary. WTF?
No music today but if i find good stuff, I will be bringing it to ya on my show.
Love you all!
And don't forget....
FEEDBACK FEEDBACK FEEDBACK!
Voicemail: 206-339-3297
Email: postmodern.sexgeek@gmail.com
Blog addy: postmodernsexgeek.blogspot.com or marieb.libsyn.com
My RSS URL is marieb.libsyn.com/rss
My Freak Network Forum: Sexgeek Salad
Go vote for me at Podcast Alley!
Please???? With sugar on top?????
Click HERE to download the MP3
audio/mpeg (34 464 ko) - What do women really want when it comes to sex? Hearts and Flowers? Down and dirty? All of the above?
- And of course, once again, communication is muy importante when it comes to sex
- Automatic tooth brush or vibrator waiting to happen?
- Proctor & Gamble says : "WE ARE NOT SEX OBJECTS!"
- Mom went in for a biopsy on a lump in her breast, which fortunately turned out to be benign!
- A sexgeek PSA about the importance of cancer screening. For more info please visit the American Cancer Society website.
- Pretty When You Cry by Vast
- Drive by Melissa Ferrick
audio/mpeg (32 959 ko)
Coffee is my fuel! Without it I would be a a Romero Zombie unless I've used my asthma inhaler in which case I'm a 28 Days Later zombie.
An article I found via mySage Feed about how Women's rights are the key to the AIDS Crisis in Africa
Mention some HIV Stats for the US from the Kaiser Family Foundation
And mention the CDC's updated recommendations on HIV Testing
On a much lighter note...
I tell you that May is National Masturbation month!!!
So engage in the safest sex there is (sex with yourself) and cum for a good cause.
And to help you along with that project, I read another of my own erotica shorts : Rough Trade
Intro and Outro music is Ici La Femme XXX Mix by Louise Vertigo from Wakka Chikka Wakka Chikka: Porn Music for the Masses Volume 1 on on Archive.org.
And don't forget....
FEEDBACK FEEDBACK FEEDBACK!
Voicemail: 206-339-3297
Email: postmodern.sexgeek@gmail.com
Blog addy: postmodernsexgeek.blogspot.com or marieb.libsyn.com
My RSS URL is marieb.libsyn.com/rss
My Freak Network Forum: Sexgeek Salad
Go vote for me at Podcast Alley!
Please???? With sugar on top?????
Click HERE to download the MP3
audio/mpeg (38 684 ko) Demonstrators for immigrants rights were at a rally in Macarthur park when the LA police went in and began firing rubber bullets and tear gas into crowds of men, women and children, knocking down people left and right and attacking news reporters.
What is this country coming to? Is this what our country's idea of immigration reform is? Beat up those who speak up and demonstrate for the rights of the people? Of the worker? I don't know how I never heard of this and I don't remember seeing it on the blogs of any of my friends but do me a favor and pass it on. We all need to see this and recognize that something is very wrong in this country.
- Pizzababe and Bob calling her out for not doing a podcast
- Work related stress
- Job searches
- NYT article about AIDS treatment medications
- Kaiser Family Foundation and Global AIDS Epidemic
- Nobilis' podcast
- Lousy Time Management
- Too many books, so little time
- Why she loves her job (Pardon the tears)
- Her SL business: The PMG Cafe
- Her most embarrassing sex moment
To download the MP3 directly, click here.
audio/mpeg (41 67 ko) Ward's endless stream of mandates, the source revealed, were a source of frustration to many US Attorneys. "There were countless child obscenity cases crying out to be prosecuted," the source told me, "but [Brent] Ward wanted to focus on cases involving consenting adults. That's just not a good way of dedicating resources. When you have so many children being harmed, why not allocate your resources towards that?" Ward's heedless prosecutions of legally available pornography reflected more than his ideology; they also defined his power within the Justice Department. Once Bush began his second term in the White House, Gonzales declared the prosecution of pornography portraying sex acts between consenting adults "one of the top priorities" of his department. He signed off on an FBI headquarters memo that recruited agents for an anti-porn task force. That memo stated that prosecutions would focus particularly on material depicting "bestiality, urination, defecation, as well as sadistic and masochistic behavior." These acts, according to the memo, were most likely to offend local juries. Christian right organizations, from the Family Research Council to Concerned Women for America, lavished praise on Gonzales's anti-porn initiative. "We will watch closely, though with a growing sense of confidence in our new Attorney General, to see who is appointed to direct the effort," said Family Research Council President Tony Perkins. When Gonzales met with Phil Burress, a self-described former porn addict who directs the anti-pornography group, Citizens for Community Values, Burress praised Ward for an aggressive and single-minded attack on sexually explicit material over nearly three decades, which had earned him the adulation of the Christian right. "He's one of my heroes," Burress said in describing Ward to the Salt Lake Tribune . As Utah's US Attorney during the 1980s, Ward prosecuted phone sex operators, shut down Utah's last two porn theaters by nailing their owner on tax charges, and tried unsuccessfully to force nude art-class models to wear bikinis. When Gonzales tapped Ward as his top porn cop in 2006, the Christian right's confidence soared. To support Ward's task force, Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller diverted ten FBI agents, four prosecutors and a postal inspector. Ward soon secured his biggest score, the successful prosecution of the Girls Gone Wild series producer Joseph Francis for knowingly including footage of two young women without receiving legible documentation, on paper, of their ages. Francis's company, Mantra Films, Inc., was slapped with a $500,000 fine--a drop in the bucket for an operation that rakes in at least $40 million a year. Many veterans of the FBI consider Ward's efforts a burden on their ability to fulfill serious departmental priorities. "I guess this means we've won the war on terror," an anonymous FBI agent sarcastically remarked to the Washington Post about agents diverted to Ward's task force. "We must not need any more resources for espionage." Though his anti-porn crusades rankled the FBI agents and US Attorneys compelled to participate in them, Ward produced an unintended benefit for the White House when it needed to fire politically "chafing" federal prosecutors. Ward's complaint against Charlton, filed by Sampson for use at a later date, was unsheathed by Rove and Gonzales to smear a competent professional prosecutor--and a Republican--for political purposes. The revelation of Ward's participation in the dismissals arrived as the Christian right clamored that more resources be funneled to him. "Give him some gas and he'll win the war," Burress told the Salt Lake Tribune. "I wish the Department of Justice was full of Brent Wards." The prosecutor purge may have backfired, but Burress and his allies can take heart that the Bush White House is devoted to their culture war, even at the expense of its "war on terror."
My thanks to Violet Blue (not the Porn Star) who blogged it first.
The sites I mention are:
Erotica Readers and Writers Association
Black Lace Books site
Extasy Books
I also mention Nobilis' erotica podcast which can be found at http://nobilis.libsyn.com
And as a treat I read Alison Tyler's short Story "Edit Me".
And don't forget....
FEEDBACK FEEDBACK FEEDBACK!
Voicemail: 206-339-3297
Email: postmodern.sexgeek@gmail.com
Blog addy: postmodernsexgeek.blogspot.com or marieb.libsyn.com
My RSS URL is marieb.libsyn.com/rss
My Freak Network Forum: Sexgeek Salad
Go vote for me at Podcast Alley!
Please???? With sugar on top?????
Click HERE to download the MP3
audio/mpeg (42 788 ko)