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Top 5: Stuff You Liked about Dating & Mating

I’ve had this blog for nearly more than 4 years, and I’ve written approximately 900 original posts. If you started reading me more recently, you might’ve missed some of the older stuff. So, for the remaining Saturdays of the year, I’ll throw up a post that simply links reader favorites by category. First one up: “Dating and Mating.” Posts about sexuality, my dates, gender relationships and other stuff are files in this group. Here are some of the posts you guys liked best in 2008:

• Guys and Dolls: A Real Documentary about Life-Size Sex Toys: “Guys and Dolls” is a British documentary about men who have sex with life-sized toys, real dolls. The full length post is embedded in the post. Worth watching.

• Are White Men Who Like Black Women More Attractive?: Peggy Brunache from Negroshire asks me, Do you think white men who marry black women are more attractive than white guys who marry white women. I answer her in this post.

• What IS today’s definition of a slut?!?! Pop the chilled champagne and bring out the Trojan condoms
  

• Manly Monday: Why Do Men Date GILFs, MILFs and Other Older Women?

• How To Kiss A Boy and/or a Girl This VideoJug clip shows you how to do it.

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September 20th, 2009 | Print This Post | link | Email This Post | [4] folks got down with the Funky Brown

The Museum of Sex

I figured I’d plug the Museum of Sex since I posted their poster in my previous blog post ( … and most of us disagreed with it). If you’d like to visit MoSex, go to 233 Fifth Avenue @ 27th Street. They’re usually open 11 – 6:30, Sun. through Fri., and 11 – 8 on Sat. with extended hours from 11 – 9 on Valentine’s Day and the day prior. I haven’t seen either of current exhibitions — The Sex Lives of Animals and ACTION: Sex and the Moving Image — but I saw Sex Lives of Robots and Kink. If you don’t live in NYC, you can view their online exhibitions: Mapping Sex in America and U.S. Patent Office Sex Inventions. The video below gives you a tour of the museum and comes courtesy Time Out New York. (Pssst! They talk about real sex dolls during the tour. If you wanna know more about them, you can watch a tiny mini-documentary by clicking here.)

Watch TONY’s video tour of MoSex here: http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/own-this-city/69689/sex-video-museum-of-sex

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January 25th, 2009 | Print This Post | link | Email This Post | [5] folks got down with the Funky Brown

Which Marriages Should Be Banned?

A man in Japan, Taichi Takashita, wants to marry a cartoon. “I am no longer interested in three dimensions,” he explains. “I would even like to become a resident of the two-dimensional world.” Read the full story. It’s easy to write off this “news” as nonsense, but I can totally see where this is headed. Follow me for second. Taichi doesn’t feel at home in the 3-D world, right? He’s not alone. The dudes with the real dolls, those lovely plastic fuckers, would probably like to marry their “chicks” too. Okay, so, remember how I said Kim Cattrall (Sex and the City’s Samantha Jones) was the original real doll because she was in that 1980s movie Mannequin? Apparently EVERYTHING comes from the 80s — even toon love.

Here’s a question for you: WHO should or should not be allowed to get married? Should the the dude in Japan be allowed to make his caricature caring official? Here’s my opinion if you care to know it: marriage is the (completely unnecessary) legal union of two (or more) consenting adults of sound mind. That 16-year-old British chick who wed in a “big ol’ white rhinestoned bra with flank-baring bodice“? I think she’s too young to be considered an adult. (Whether or not she’s of sound mind isn’t for me to judge.) Taichi and his cartoon? If he likes to get down with girls who are bad and drawn that way, that’s fine. But, the object of his desire can’t consent. So, no, I don’t think he should be allowed to marry. That’s my $0.02. Please us the comment section to share yours.

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October 31st, 2008 | Print This Post | link | Email This Post | [13] folks got down with the Funky Brown

Guys and Dolls: A Real Documentary about Life-Size Sex Toys

I’d never heard of “real dolls” until I saw the trailer and clips for the movie Lars and the Real Girl starring Ryan Gosling. I remember thinking, “What a stupid and 100% completely unbelievable movie. Who the hell would keep a life-size sex doll / mannequin girlfriend?” Besides, didn’t that shit go out of style way back in the 1980s when Andrew McCarthy and Kim Cattrall screwed around in the movie Mannequin. Yet, still, I was intrigued. Who am I if I’m not a woman who’s willing to learn new things? I dug around on the internet to do a bit of research, and I even checked out a real doll manfacturer’s site [NSFW]. And, then I forgot about real dolls for while. I tucked them away with the rest of the random trivial things that get injected in my brain throughout the days, weeks, years.

Thoughts of the plastic girls came charging back into my life when someone (can’t remember who) on my Twitter feed posted a link to a documentary called Guys and Dolls. It’s a documentary about, you guessed it, real dolls. I sat down in front of my laptop, clicked the link and watched the whole thing. Absolutely fascinating. If you can, I highly suggest you watch the whole thing too. It’s worth it. Here’s a film synopsis from The Documentary Blog (via The Current Outlook via The DigiGuide): “Documentary about the men who use sophisticated life-size dolls for sexual satisfaction and more – such as dates, affection and lifelong companionship. Featuring a young American man who gives his doll daily massages in the home he shares with his disapproving Mum and Dad; a British man who takes his doll out on day trips to the coast where she watches him hang- glide; and two Americans who live with multiple dolls, one of whom shares his eight synthetic lovers with his human girlfriend.”

See, I told you: fascinating. I started googling real dolls after I saw the flick above. It turns out the girls have been around since, well, roughly right after the movie Mannequin came out. Oooh, who’d a thunk it? Sex and the City’s Samantha Jones was the original real doll! Wanna know more about real dolls? Time magazine did an article about real dolls about six or so years ago. Salon, Boing Boing (a site with a editor who really likes black people at SXSW … sorry, inside joke!) and others have all written about the chicas plasitcas as well. And, of course, there’s a Wikipedia page. Whaddya think, dear readers? Feel free to express your views. Are real dolls totally normal sex toys for men who don’t have girlfriends, or are the collections crazy, fucked up creepy habits for sociopaths?

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April 2nd, 2008 | Print This Post | link | Email This Post | [55] folks got down with the Funky Brown