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| Non-Violence is a Learned Behavior |
| 2011-03-08 16:00:03 |
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’ve been transfixed with the Charlie Sheen debacle lately. If I had to pick which side I was on, I’d say that I was part of Team Sheen – even though his behavior achingly reminds me of somebody very close to me who struggles with mental health issues and substance abuse. One bucket of cold water thrown on the Team Sheen thing is Charlie’s history of violence towards women – which is unforgivable no matter how much ‘tigerblood’ is coursing through your system. I mean, he shot his ex-wife. He clonked another on the head when she refused to have sex with him. He threatened Denise Richards and held a knife to Brooke Mueller’s throat. Violence is not cool – and unlike the hypocrites at Jezabel, I don’t really differentiate violen...
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| Blaxploitation History Month |
| 2011-02-01 13:49:20 |
February is Black History Month – a celebration of all the amazing contributions African Americans have made to this great nation's history and culture.In a complete departure from political correctness, I'm going to bypass the more obvious things – the people who fought for the end of slavery, civil rights and the fight for equality and dignity – and instead look at one of the aspects of African American history that I have always found fascinating, sexy and cool – Blaxploitation.Get this CD here...Blaxploitation was a genre of movies and music that originated in the seventies, designed specifically to appeal to an urban black audience. Many people these days look back at them with a mixture of embarrassment and disdain – I personally think they're awesome.Get it here...What was...
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| Reinventing Champagne & Benzedrine |
| 2011-02-01 13:18:25 |
It's been a LONG time since I've blogged regularly on Champagne and Benzedrine, and I'm sorry.Or perhaps I'm not…The fact is, I think the blog had kind of lost direction – and what often stirred me into writing was picking fights with bloggers I disagreed with, or stirring up trouble by battling some of the more complacent and challenging concepts frittered about the sex blogging community. The result of this, though, was that my blog became dramatic, sensationalist and sometimes a bit shrill.That's not me.When I started Champagne and Benezedrine, I had a very specific vision about what I wanted the blog to be: Cool, calm, masculine and intelligent. I wanted to put up something that stood on it's own merit amidst the more frequently female-penned high quality sex blogs. A kind of liber...
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| The real crimes of the so-called Alexa Di Carlo |
| 2010-10-25 13:49:10 |
After getting fingers wagged at me by Always Aroused Girl and Debauched Domestic Diva over my last post, regarding the 'outing' of blogger Alexa Di Carlo, I've been trawling through the Intertubes to find out more information about the man behind the elaborate blogger alter-ego.I'll admit that I went off a bit half-cocked, based on what I'd learned from the 'exposure' site, exposeabro-alexa.blogspot.com. In my defense, Alexa Di Carlo wasn't even on my radar until people started twittering about her, and 100% of my initial impression of the scandal was gleaned from the Expose a Bro site - which is poorly organized and written.So while my nose was out of joint about AAG swooping in and tell me off with her trademark condescending snark (at least she didn't call me 'Buttercup' this time) she ...
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| Hypocrisy and the outing of Alexa Di Carlo |
| 2010-10-25 08:51:21 |
The hottie to the left is Debra LeFave. You might remember her from the news a couple of years ago. This teacher from Temple Terrace, Fla., was convicted of statutory rape in 2004 for having sex with one of her 14-year-old pupils.One of the most notable things about this news story was how the media reacted to it. If it had been a male teacher seducing a 14-year-old female student, there'd have been the regular outraged cries of 'sexual predator.'Instead, the media and the public were suspiciously soft on LeFave. They focused on the fact that she was an attractive young woman, and that somehow made her crime 'acceptable.'I'll admit, I thought that way myself. If I'd still been a horny 14-year-old, the thought of a willowy, blond teacher seducing me might have kept my personal 'spank bank' ...
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| The WRONG message |
| 2010-10-11 15:42:49 |
Today, as most you you know, is National Coming Out Day - which is described as "an internationally observed civil awareness day for coming out and discussion about gay, lesbian, bisexual, asexual and transgender (LGBT) issues."It's a day in which the LGBT community and their supports encourage each other to stand up and be counted - letting their friends, families and community know that they're lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. The aim of this is to help people understand that the LGBT community consists of regular people - our friends, our family members and people we interact with every single day. It takes a lot of courage to 'come out' to people you know - and I have huge admiration for the people who do.A great example of somebody doing this is Panda Dementia.However, today my ...
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| It's not always about homophobia |
| 2010-10-01 08:18:28 |
Today, knickers are in a grand twist about a tweet rapper 50 Cent wrote:In an epic journalistic fail, the gay magazine Fenuxe interpreted this with the headline: "50 Cent Tells Gays to Commit Suicide."Sorry to break it to you, Fenuxe, but you're way off the mark here.50 Cent - ludicrous, overpaid and undertalented as he is - was not making a homophobic statement. It had nothing to do with homosexuals at all - he was crudely insulting (straight) men who refuse to give oral sex to their (female) lovers.To insinuate that it was homophobic requires manipulating 50 Cents words and intentions grossly.It means making a transparently false assumption that the only men who don't perform cunnilingus are gay (and as many of my female friends will tell you, that's sadly far from true - their boyfriend...
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| Does ‘The Patriarchy’ really exist? |
| 2010-05-28 16:39:26 |
Ever since I joined Twitter, I’ve been railing against the concept of ‘patriarchy’ that so many feminist-minded people incessantly tweet about.Yet I have to admit, everything I know about the so-called ‘patriarchy’ is gleaned from my arguments with other people – never on what I bothered to research for myself. So, in the spirit of my new resolution, I thought I’d stop blathering and actually look up the subject – so I can base my opinion on facts and knowledge, rather than just reacting ignorantly to something somebody else said.It was quite an interesting journey – and while I eventually arrived very far from where some of my twitter nemeses might like, it certainly opened my eyes to a lot of where they come from.I started off the way everybody should – Wikipedia.[A l...
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| Putting the Positive back in Sex Positivity |
| 2010-05-22 09:48:17 |
Heeding the advice of the wonderful PandaDementia and grudgingly admitting that even Britni's last comment actually made a few pertinent points, I have decided to practice what I preach and am going to make a concerted effort to make this blog about sex positivity - which chiefly stems from actually being positive.So no more snark. No more drama. No more criticisms of other bloggers, even if they're being critical themselves. No more pointing out quite ridiculous examples of hypocrisy. No more criticizing the general atmosphere of negativity while simultaneously contributing to it.Just back to sex, and everything positive about it. Being positive.Just like losing weight or quitting drinking, it won't be easy to change my habits - and I may fall off the wagon once or twice - but I'm going t...
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| Flaming Bush |
| 2010-05-12 12:22:46 |
Since we've been talking about Body Image recently, I thought I'd reflect on an aspect of it that's very important to me.Although by no means as prevalent in America as it is in England, there's always been an undercurrent in the media that red-headed men simply aren't sexually attractive.According to magazines, television and movies, we're the antithesis of what's supposedly attractive to women - the cliche of being 'tall, dark and handsome' - with the emphasis on 'dark.'In America, Eric Stolz and David Caruso do a sterling job portraying red-headed men who actually do get laid, but in the British media, it's normally the opposite.From Ron Weasley in Harry Potter (portrayed as 'the funny guy,' the amusing coward and the generally incompetent sidekick) to lesser known characters (like Mart...
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