Acts banned in UK porn

Pornography produced in the UK was quietly censored today through an amendment to the 2003 Communications Act, and the measures appear to take aim at female pleasure.

The Audiovisual Media Services Regulations 2014 requires that video-on-demand (VoD) online porn now adhere to the same guidelines laid out for DVD sex shop-type porn by the British Board of Film Censors (BBFC).

Seemingly arbitrarily deciding what is nice sex and what is not nice sex, the board’s ruling on ‘content that is not acceptable’ (p.23) effectively bans the following acts from being depicted by British pornography producers:

  • Spanking
  • Caning
  • Aggressive whipping
  • Penetration by any object “associated with violence”
  • Physical or verbal abuse (regardless of if consensual)
  • Urolagnia (known as “water sports”)
  • Role-playing as non-adults
  • Physical restraint
  • Humiliation
  • Female ejaculation
  • Strangulation
  • Facesitting
  • Fisting

The final three listed fall under acts the BBFC views as potentially… CONTINUE

A long list of sex acts just got banned in UK porn

Bitcoin donation welcome

bitcoin, the cryptocurrency

Bitcoin is a consensus network that enables a new payment system and a completely digital money. It is the first decentralized peer-to-peer payment network that is powered by its users with no central authority or middlemen. From a user perspective, Bitcoin is pretty much like cash for the Internet. Nobody owns the Bitcoin network much like no one owns the technology behind email. Bitcoin is an open source project. That means it’s code is available for perusal by anyone. It has already been defined as the Napster of the currency and it is probably going to completely change the concept of money in the next decade.

To support this innovative project I decided accept donation in Bitcoin. The widget to donate is visible at the top right corner of the screen. I’m also supporting the Litecoin network, which is another potentially very interesting technology.

For those who are already familiar with the technology, these are the addresses where, if you want, you can send your donation:

  • For donation in BTC: 1AzNH4rJUFT5bcZp3V4aDTqBBrhc659Bd5
  • For donation in LTC: Lc23T9JhkkUspNoHJHfBKuU2ema2nQ6ssw

For those who are not, I suggest you to start understand this technology now, because, first or later you’ll have to deal with it. Then, the faster you start, the better is for you. Here is a list of sites to begin:

Get a social front page

rebel mouse social aggregator

Rebel Mouse is a new personal publishing service that aims to be your main hangout online by offering a free aggregation service that pulls together your social media feeds into a single, unified view. If you’re a very social kinkster you can’t miss it. Setup is fast and easy. In two minutes I’ve put online the Rebel Mouse page for Fetish Bank. I love it.

You can use their service to automatically generate a personalized page of content pulled from various social media sources (Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Instagram, Linkedin, Thumblr, etc.) and then use that page as a home page or embed it into your existing blog, microblog or website. The finished product looks a little like Pinterest in design, with a basic grid layout that rolls down a single page and keeps on going, showing more and more stuff as you scroll down.

The Great Wall of Vagina

Great wall of vagina

As part of his latest exhibition, artist Jamie McCartney presents a large-scale wall sculpture entitled “The Great Wall of Vagina” which consists of an entire wall taken over by sculptural casts of female genitalia.

Female genitalia have long been a source of fascination, recently of celebration but generally of confusion. Today it seems that creating images of the vagina is the sole preserve of pornographers, erotic artists and feminists. Step in British artist Jamie McCartney who has grasped the nettle to create a monumental wall sculpture all about this most intimate of places. For 400 women their privates have gone public… Half a decade since its humble beginnings, The Great Wall of Vagina has enticed women from many different countries and all walks of life to volunteer to be cast by McCartney in an overwhelmingly positive reaction to the project.

The 9 metre long polyptych consists of four hundred plaster casts of vulvas, all of them unique, arranged into ten large panels. McCartney set out to make this project as broad and inclusive as possible. The age range of the women is from 18 to 76. Included are mothers and daughters, identical twins, transgendered men and women as well as a woman pre and post natal and another one pre and post labiaplasty.

CBT on the Red Square

Self CBT in public ? Yes ! A couple of days ago, on November 10, 2013, Petr Andreevich Pavlensky, a Russian conceptual artist and political activist hammered a nail through his scrotum into cobblestones outside Lenin’s Mausoleum, on the day Russia marked its Police Day national holiday. The artist said in a statement that he was trying to draw attention to Russian society’s inaction in the face of the development of a police state.

Pyotr Pavlensky self cbt on Red Plaza in Moscow

Media reported the episode has happened in font of “hundreds of horrified tourists”. I’m wondering if there were instead some kinksters who greatly appreciate the show. : D

Needless to say the authorities did not appreciate the show as well. Policemen on Red Square quickly responded by first covering the naked artist with a blanket. The artist was then taken into custody and hospitalized after being removed from the pavement.

Third gender in Germany

male and female logo cover

Finally, a new law in Germany creates a third sex category on birth records. It could seem like an obvious solution to some problems of intersex: if some babies are born with bodies that are neither clearly male nor female, then it seems there should be some category beside male or female. So, parents will be allowed to chose an X option instead of the typical M or F.

The legislation, which went into effect on Friday Nov. 1, 2013, was enacted in order to give parents and children more time before making life-changing sex reassignment decisions. Germany is the first European nation to offer the third gender designation.

In the past, by contrast, parents have generally relied on physicians to fix intersex children through the use of surgical and hormonal sex normalizations. Instead of individuals deciding for themselves at maturity, decisions concerning sex assignment were made in infancy by physicians and parents. Now, with the new category introduced by German law, the ambiguity presented by infants with atypical sex anatomies can be managed simply with a new label. A very good news.

Opening images .jpg-large

opening jpg-large cover

If you’re a Twitter user you may have tried to save some images and noticed they come out with a weird file file extension (.jpg-large) that make them hard to handle. If you double click on it, in a Microsoft Windows environment, you’ll get a message saying there are no programs able to open it.

Technically, that file is a normal jpeg image, so if you rename the file with a .jpg extension you can handle it as you do for all the other image files. You may find it annoying, I do, so there’s a workaround that allow to open that kind of file with a double click. The key is identifying a software able to manage it. Most picture viewers or editors can’t open it. I tried many with no luck (Psp, Abobe Photoshop, Phoxo), but Microsoft Paint can. Lol. So you can use it to view your Twitter images quickly. Unfortunately, you won’t get the image preview in the file manager. Other software able to open it are the most common Internet Browsers; Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Internet Explorer can read it. All you have to do is associate the .jpg-large file extension with your favorite software and you’re done.

Not very difficult, however, understanding this article and the workaround require you to have a little bit of confidence with the operative system. If you feel a little bit in trouble with this stuff, but want to learn more, there’s a small guide that explain how to change the default program for a specific file extension in windows.

The pussy photo booth

Kussomaten cover of post

Have you ever heard the word Kussomaten ? Probably not, unless you’re Danish, so let me tell you the whole story. Since 1975, K. Vinders Fond, a Danish association committed to raising awareness of and the dissemination of women’s issues, has regularly published a book called Kvinne, kjenn din kropp (Woman, Know Your Body). 200,000 copies, republished in 1983, 1992 and 2001. A kink of feminist bible, at the time it was first published.

In the year 2010, a research published by the Danish family planning association revealed that 29% of the young women in the sample analysis did not feel comfortable with their own bodies and especially with their private parts. According to the research, many young women believe they are ugly or abnormal because their points of reference, found on the Internet for example, are often retouched photos or photos of women who have already undergone plastic surgery.

So they, instead of simply promoting more the “amateur” niche on the Internet, decided to go bring something extra to the book and came up with the idea of having a photo booth for feminine private parts. Through this photographic collection they intend to awaken women to the knowledge of their own bodies.

On the occasion of the Women´s International Day the 8th of March, year 2011, at the Goethe Institute in Copenhagen the Kussomat took the first 70 photos. The following seventy photos were taken while the booth was installed in the faculty of medicine in Copenhagen. Other photos came from the Roskilde Festival, in June 2011.

Kussomaten see it working

Cool and who did the device ? The Kussomat was created by four enthusiastic female students at the faculty of engineering, Copenhagen university, who threw themselves into the project and finished the product in only three weeks. Just in case you’re wondering, “kusse” means “pussy”, so Kussmat could be translated something like Cuntomat.

Kussomaten photo booth

Now all those photos have been uploaded to the official website. Navigation is not easy, cause the site is in Danish only, but clicking on the right link you’ll get a mosaic of 9 random pussies, that changes every time you realod the page. This feature is intended for women to to compare their pussy with other women, completely anonymously, and maybe find out, that they are not at all as abnormal looking as they may think… oh, well… but we pervs already knew…

Kussomaten pussy gallery

Kinky service: ask.fm

Ask.fm is a question asking and answering service that gives people the opportunity to ask and answer controversial questions totally anonymously. The answers can be either in text or video format, and users can also browse other people’s profiles with the option of submitting questions directly to them.

ask.fm service banner

Can this service be useful for the kinky user ? Sure it can ! Useful and even funny. For example you can roleplay having indecent questions asked. I’m much more into this kind of things, In fact I opened my own profile there. Got and nasty/perverted/inopportune question for me ? Shoot it at http://ask.fm/fetishbank ! I’m sure there are a lot of things you may want to ask me… Alternatively you can browse other member profiles, ask questions and maybe meet some new kinky friends that share similar interests.

This service is highly integrated with popular social networking sites like Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter. Users can invite their friends and followers to ask them questions by posting links on their timelines or twitter feeds. Worth a try !

Pastebin applications

A pastebin is a type of web application where anyone can store text for a certain period of time. This type of website is mainly used by programmers to store pieces of source code or configuration information, but anyone can basically share any type of text. If you want to see how it works, have a look at the Fetish Bank Paste Bay. I made it for demonstration purpose only, so feel free to play with it, but keep in mind that text posted there cannot deleted or modified.

The idea behind pastebins is to make it more convenient for people to share large amounts of text online. A vast number of pastebin related websites exist on the Internet, suiting a number of different needs and providing features tailored towards the crowd they focus on most. One of those providers is called Pastebay and their slogan makes it perfect for us: free uncensored text hosting. Ahahahahaha !

So, if you need a place for your dirty annotations, here it is…

2015.04.01 UPDATE: Pastebay Service Died. Links Removed : (