Edited by Audacia Ray

Barcelona Sex Project: Six portraits of true intimacy, personal interviews and real orgasms

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Every Thursday, Naked City expands your pornographic worldview with tales from the far reaches of the earth. Four international pornographers share this space to tell all about the experiences of being porny and making porn outside of the United States. This week it's Erika Lust's turn.

Today I want to introduce you to Barcelona Sex Project, my latest work. It’s an intimate and independent erotic documentary, which explores the real lives of three men and three women as we get to know them extremely personally, including their real orgasms. Through candid interviews they reveal their thoughts and passions, while letting us into their lives by sharing their every day experiences with their own video cameras, and finally inviting us to look in on their most private and intimate pleasure.

The project is based on my conviction that women desire to truly know a person (their beliefs, character, feelings, fears and passions) to become drawn to them on a sexually intimate level.

With this notion, Barcelona Sex Project portrays each man and woman in three situations:
• An in-depth interview about their lives and sexuality.
• A hidden moment from their private lives filmed with their own camera (cooking, skiing, assisting at a rock concert, working…)
• A tasteful and intimate masturbation scene, where the men and the women achieve real orgasms.

This production is accompanied by an artistic photographic project. The photographer has captured the personal and natural style of each of the six protagonists at first in their day-to-day clothes and then completely naked. The photos have been created by JALIF, one of the most prestigious and successful erotic photographers in Barcelona.

The six people in Barcelona Sex Project:

David was born in Galicia and is Galician through and through. He has worked as a crew member on luxury yachts and also deactivated mines when he was a scuba diver for the Spanish navy. He loves the sea, good cooking and his dog, Kron.

Dunia is a bisexual, Brazilian, working mother. She likes to dance, (above all, the samba), and also architecture, traveling and meeting with friends to talk about everything imaginable: wine, love, politics…and sex.

Joni is a young electrician working in Barcelona airport and dedicates his free time to his principle passion in life: snowboarding. He is only 21 but in ten years he expects to be married with children.

Silvia wants to be a rock star. She has just received a drum set for her 21st birthday which she plays with her friends in their band and with whom she wants to conquer the world. Her passions are music, tattoos, the rain and her city: Barcelona.

Joel has been working as a stripper and model for ten years but is studying in his free time to become a broker and financial assessor. He confesses: “Even though I take good care of myself, I go to the gym and eat well; I won’t be able to live on my body and my looks forever.”

Irina is a young woman, quite reserved and a little shy. She is passionate about technology, an avid blogger and professional webmaster. She loves role videogames, the internet and the cinema. We noticed that when it comes to sex Irina has a more daring and exhibitionist side.

More information about the movie is available on its website: Barcelona Sex Project.

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Sequoia Redd on the Beach

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Cam girl and model Sequoia Redd describes herself as a "hippie chick, slut, witch, heathen, hedonist, orgasm addict, chocolate whore, pansexual, tom boy, pixie, tree huggin, pornostar temptress." That about covers it. She's doing some nice self-portraiture too.

--Audacia Ray

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if I had a gf, would I be as turned on by her pussy as I am with my own?

10.00am: here's a tip: don't relay your bareback sex with Jack Nicholson to your massage therapist while her elbow is pressing into the side of your ass. I did, hilarity ensued, and now my ass hurts.

3.30pm: in the supermarket window I see what my ass looks like when I wear this stretchy skirt. Shazam, I'm working this bitch.

6.15pm: suddenly I'm seeing all these girls with behind-the-ear tattoos, which I love. Are they more popular lately, or is it just ponytails and exposed necks weather?

9.00pm: I seriously just stood outside talking to cute neighbor guy for half an hour while he rambled about nothing and didn't get up the nerve to ask me out. Probably good, since I'm not sure what I'd say.

11.20pm: if I had a gf, would I be as turned on by her pussy as I am with my own? B/c I'm totally getting off on sniffing my knickers. I am a bad FT lesbian, but girls are welcome to sniff my panties and give it a shot.

Madeline Glass whiles away her time on the internet delving into her and others' sex lives, while offline she juggles several, um, intimate relationships and an acute case of the roving horny eyeballs. Read her blog.

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Metallic Spandex Mini Dress

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I can't quite decide whether a metallic spandex mini dress is a don't or a must have. I guess it depends on your sense of humor and your social plans. I'll say this - if you must, metallic spandex with a little shape to it is a good idea. This dress has underwire, molded cups (sadly not pointy like rockets), and a "slimming panel body" (which might be like a girdle but might also be something completely different).

--Audacia Ray

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Cunning Minx: Adventures in Polyamory and Podcasting

Cunning Minx is the hostess of Poly Weekly, a podcast that explores the issues around polyamory and kink in non-traditional relationships. She's an incredibly friendly, enthusiastic host who tackles lots of interesting topics - many that have been issues in her own relationships.

Naked City editor Audacia Ray had some questions for her about her "greatest hits" of her podcast, the pitfalls of poly, and being an internet personality.

Audacia Ray: You've done an impressive 154 episodes of your podcast Poly Weekly. What are some of the most memorable shows? Which ones have gotten the most response from your listeners?
Cunning Minx: My favorite show so far is #114 on introverts and extroverts, mostly for totally selfish reasons--it was fascinating to consider the bias our culture has in favor of extroverts and how very difficult it is for introverts to get ahead in jobs, relationships and other aspects of life. We're really pretty introvert-intolerant in this culture, and it was fascinating to explore that. Listeners seemed to really enjoy it, too; there was a lot of "yes, that's me!" feedback on that episode! Apart from that, I loved the interview with Franklin/Tacit, #117, in which he gives my favorite quote, "life rewards those who move in the direction of greatest courage." Yeah, being in open, poly or otherwise nonmonogamous relationships can be damn hard. The level of honesty required to pull it off is *brutally* painful. But I love how he points out that the rewards of having the courage to be that honest are tremendous.

Um... hmmm... I should probably say something sexy here, shouldn't I? Well, the old favorite is still #53, during which I'm still glowing from a weekend of threesomes with Graydancer and FencerT, and I can't stop murmuring the word "cock" over and over again. That was a classic of "we did the communication; now let's have the FUN!"

As far as the most downloaded shows, yes, the threesome one by far, but also, interestingly, episode 103 on being poly and single and, more recently, episode 150 on five places to meet poly people. This tells me that there are a lot of individuals out there who are philosophically ready to embrace polyamory and are now in a position to go out there and give it a whirl in the real world. This is really exciting to me because it means that people aren't just listening to Polyamory Weekly for fun (although that's nice, too!); they're actually using it to figure out how they want to shape their own poly lifestyles. That's pretty fucking cool.

Two more questions and their answers after the jump!

...read on

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Porn goes LOL

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Inspired, no doubt, by Fleshbot and their recent LOL Pron contest, Justin Treynor has launched I Can Has LOL Pron.

It was bound to happen at some point. It should be interesting to see if people jump on the bandwagon and make/submit LOL Prons to the site, or if the site gets dusty.

--Audacia Ray

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Defend Our Porn vs Free Speech Coalition

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The adult industry serves as one big test case for that whole "obscenity" thing. There are plenty of people in the industry who have become champions of the First Amendment - Larry Flynt is essentially a household name these days, especially since he got a major hollywood movie about his story. And every year at the Adult Video News awards, someone gives a grandiose speech about free speech, and how everyone in the biz is fighting this important fight. While certainly there are people in porn who are passionate about free speech, the vast majority of people in the industry couldn't give a shit about it unless it jeopardizes their bottom line.

The Free Speech Coalition was founded in 1991 to stand up for the free speech rights of people in the adult industry. But the organization's relationship to the population it serves is a rocky one: they seem to do lots of fundraising drives and make plenty of promises, but many industry players are less than pleased with their delivery. People involved closely with the organization have also complained about it's lack of efficiency - and in fact, it's inability to do anything useful. Longtime porn maker and talker of shit Mike South has a category on his blog dedicated to the Free Speech Coalition - it goes back several years and the posts detail many a grievance with the organization.

When John "Buttman" Stagliano was brought up on obscenity charges a month ago, he didn't turn to the FSC. He created his own organization, Defend Our Porn, because the FSC didn't step up - and from the looks of it, he probably didn't want them to anyway.

Here's what Stagliano has to say, from his editorial in Buttman Magazine, which he reposted on Defend Our Porn:

I have been called by our country to defend the rights of those who dare to love their lives here on earth, and I so love my life, and my freedom. They are trying to take that precious freedom away from me, and from you.

It is fitting that this issue is the one where I renew my own artistic impressions of ass. I have the stills here from the three scenes of my new release Buttman‘s Beautiful Brazilian Ass. I have been away for awhile from making Buttman movies. The pictures in this magazine have been from my other directors at the Evil Empire. But I recently went to Brazil, to make a Buttman movie for the first time in 3 years, just before I was indicted by the feds. So as a tribute to all those who would take our ass art away I’m glad I can present what I think is my best work, my new stuff, on a journey back to what I love.

In this new chapter in the story of American porn, the battle isn't "just" The United States vs. John Stagliano, but also Defend Our Porn vs Free Speech Coalition. It'll be interesting to see who comes out on top.

--Audacia Ray

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Hello Sailor! It's Fleet Week

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It's quite possible that my brain is addled by many years of porn watching, but sailors disembarking in Manhattan in the springtime just screams sex to me.

Starting today, our fine city will be overrun by thousands of Sailors, Marines and Coast Guardsmen from U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard ships.

If you're willing and able, I think it's probably your patriotic duty to give those guys something to remember Fleet Week by. If you know what I mean. And I think you do.

The official Fleet Week website will let you know where to find them during scheduled events.

--Audacia Ray

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Pink Kitt's Pretty Parts

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Whenever one of Pink Kitt's photos pops up in my Flickr stream, I get happy.

--Audacia Ray

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undressed, changed batteries and set a new orgasm record

9.45am: going to go wank before my mom comes over to take me to lunch.

9.50am: undressed, changed batteries and set a new orgasm record. Yay, new batteries, I thought my clit would shoot out my nose.

12.15pm: seems like I always get seated in the cute dyke waitress' section at the Olive Garden. Okay, last time I was at an OG was 2001, but dang, girl with a fauxhawk, so cute!

8.30pm: I think Kristi Yamaguchi looks like a scary Japanese monster. There. I said it. Imagine her in Geisha kimono and makeup. With her turned-down mouth. Scary! Sorry, I like Asian girls a lot. But not that one.

11.00pm: fell asleep on the couch. A. called and woke me up. I can't remember what we talked about, but I distinctly remember him saying he'd like to tuck me in. Aww.

Madeline Glass whiles away her time on the internet delving into her and others' sex lives, while offline she juggles several, um, intimate relationships and an acute case of the roving horny eyeballs. Read her blog.

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