All-inclusive Randomness

I was working pretty much diligently, NOT reading amusing blogs or directories of wonderful things, and yet, I still found an amusing porn story — this time about a porn flick made in the Yale library. Will it ever stop? I mean, I don’t really want it to stop, but this blog was not intended to be about porn. Was it?

Excerpt:

Porn ‘N Chicken, considered by its members to be a “counterculture group” at Yale University, has produced the first pornographic movie in the school’s 300-year history. The group congregates weekly to watch a video and eat fried chicken, biscuits and beer.

The group’s film, “The Staxxx,” takes place in the dusty corridors of Yale’s library. Cast member Andi Young, a Yale junior, told the Yale Daily News that the film intends to portray “the stuff college students actually do.”

Well, to keep with the recent theme (hint: dear fellow contributors, get off your lazy butts because i can’t keep writing about porn forever…), you might want to know that the term pornography was invented by a German archaeologist:

(from a book by John Clarke called Roman Sex, via a friend who reads this stuff for a living)

“It is hard to believe that it was a German archaeologist, C.O. Mueller, who invented the word pornography in 1850. Writing a scientific handbook on archaeology, Mueller searched for a word to describe the many objects found at Pompeii and elsewhere that he and other archaeologists considered ‘obscene’. Like any good academician, he delved into his Greek dictionary and found a likely word, ‘pornographein’, meaning ‘to write about prostitutes’. Ancient Greek literature had passed down this term to describe men who wrote about famous ‘pornai’ - highly skilled women, who, somewhat like the Japanese geisha, entertained men at drinking parties with music, dance and sex.”

Interesting, non?

I read a mention of an interview with a Christian porn star somewhere. It piqued my curiosity and I googled. I highly recommend reading the whole interview, regardless of whether it’s real or not.

Douglas: Speaking of autobiographies, can you tell me your testimony-how you came to Christ.

CP: That’s a really great story. We were filming a love scene in a church, and I overheard the pastor telling the director all about Jesus. The director blew him off, but I wanted to hear more. So after the love scene was over, I found the pastor and asked to hear more. He told me how Jesus died for my sins and that accepting him would let me have a personal, one on one, relationship with God.

Douglas: Did the minister tell you, after you accepted Christ, that you needed to stop living your current life and start living for Christ?

CP: He’s the one who encouraged me to be a Christian porn star.

Douglas: What kind of minister was this?

CP: Methodist.

After reading the interview I decided to do some more research on Christian porn. I just couldn’t resist, I was hoping to seen an example (haven’t found one yet, any recommendations?). What I found instead was a proposal for establishment of Christian porn according to the Bible. Interesting indeed: (more…)

Okay, in honor of Gohar, who refuses to read our blog, I am starting a separate category for boobs. I just couldn’t help it and had to share this story from BoingBoing:

A Dutch designer has come up with an ingenious way to help goofy, bra-shopping men accurately report on their significant others’ boob-size — by giving them a wall of variously-sized boobs to squeeze until they find a pair that seems about right:
“When trying to buy a sexy bra for their wife or girlfriend, usually they point to other women in the shop or, when asked about size, they say a ‘handful’.”
The wall consists of rows of silicon breasts in all sizes. By look and touch, male shoppers can work out the right size, she says.

I love that you can have a picture of boobs on the home page of a well respected newspaper website in Slovakia. Granted, it’s a Helmut Newton print that just sold for 264,000 euros… But still, what’s wrong with boobs? Why couldn’t CNN report on this story? Just look at them…