May all beings be free from suffering
Uh, is it just me, or is the girl in the Facebook ad pictured at left a bit under-dressed? I get that the ad is about “working from home”, but is that really the best picture to get the message across? It seems senselessly exploitative to me. I mean, when the photographer was choosing the …
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Porn Coiner Maybe you got here searching for the Porn Coiner (i.e. maybe the coiner of the word porn?). Well I, Jer Clarke, am not the coiner of the word porn, though I like to think I’ve added to outlining various uses of the word over the years. See all posts I’ve written on the …
And to anyone arriving here after searching for Animal Porn.. What!? It seems my use of the words ‘animal porn’ in the title of this post has placed me on the third page of google results for that search term. In terms of search it’s the biggest reason people come to my site. They arrive …
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Maybe it’s just my frame of mind lately, but I can’t help interpreting most forms of excess as some or other kind of niche pornography. Case in point is this Bravia ad (bravia is some kind of TV made by Sony). It was publicised a year or so ago when Sony pulled the stunt of …
I mean, what makes a man and a woman different? What is it that makes people like Dr. Verge wrong about the family, about homosexuality, if it isn’t the fact that we’re all the same person with different masks on? How can one mask be better than another? This XXX shit burns going down, but …
I’d like to take this moment to point out that Joey‘s new novella, Lockpick Pornography, is good in all the ways that a genderqueer activist humor novel always should and must be. It’s thoughtful, heartwarming, excessively funny and above all challenging in that special way that makes me want to wear dresses and kiss boys …
It’s weird to think how much we take the way we feel when we do things for granted. How we create a kind of emotional soundtrack to accompany all of our routines and actions and activities, a kind of energy that surrounds that thing. Sometimes it’s music, which, for a lot of us, never leaves …
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Gary Sanders, one of the original founders of the Refuge Recovery program, sits down with me to discuss how the Refuge Recovery book was written collectively based on the meetings that were already happening in LA. We discuss the program itself, the early days when the program was being developed by a group at Against …
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Today marks the one year anniversary of my quitting pot completely and hopefully forever. On November 22 last year I packed up what I had left of it, gave it away, and haven’t looked back once with regret. Since then I also got sober from a bunch of other other things that were dragging me …
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My brother Chris bought Argo Bookshop here in Montreal last year. It is a tiny store with a very limited selection that gets by because every book on the shelves has a reason for being there. They don’t have Twilight and they don’t have the Da Vinci code. Instead they have the best selection of …
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