Delicious Links (Catching Up)

Today's Delicious Links

Links for 2008-08-21 [del.icio.us] Posted: 22 Aug 2008 12:00 AM CDT Silent-Porn-Star: Women As Stocking Victims We women aren't only fools for fashion, willing to prostitute ourselves for material goods, but we are such delicate things that we can be exploited for them even without intending to be. Silent-Porn-Star: The Offensive Breast because nipples cannot be seen even in medical books. They must only be found in men's mags and National Geographic; a rule that still applies today, no matter how antiquated and foolish. Good Girl's Don't - Sex~Kitten.net Silent Porn Star has The Knack for getting personal. Soft Skull News: BusinessWeek nails it I don't know what it says that BusinessWeek just generated one of the best summaries of what trade book publishing can be doing. Links for 2008-08-22 [del.icio.us] Posted: 23 Aug 2008 12:00 AM CDT Sex,Life & Frilly Bits: On Abortion & Bloggers That Write About Abortion Before you discuss abortion, please make it clear whether you're male or female and if you have experienced an abortion because if your information is based on third party assumptions, I really don't want to waste my time reading hypotheticals – because it insults my intelligence (as a woman who has had an abortion). Links for 2008-08-25 [del.icio.us] Posted: 26 Aug 2008 12:00 AM CDT Radical Vixen » Blog Archive » Sex Work And Compassion: Panty Tree Seeing Panty Tree's vulnerability made me realize the value of my work. I was there to fulfill his fantasy yes. But I was also there to validate him as a person and to validate his desires. Italian priest to organize 'beauty contest' for nuns: 'Miss Sister 2008' "We are not going to parade nuns in bathing suits," Rungi said by telephone from his town of Mondragone. "But being ugly is not a requirement for becoming a nun. External beauty is gift from God, and we mustn't hide it." Links for 2008-08-26 [del.icio.us] Posted: 27 Aug 2008 12:00 AM CDT Anti-Relationship, Much? - Sex~Kitten.net Why are we, as a culture, so dismissive towards the concept of people deciding to become close and intimate with one another, and I'm not just talking about sex here, either. Dear Boyfriends I Had When I Was In My Twenties - Sex~Kitten.net And then I realized that this open letter of apology wasn't (only) for my past boyfriends; it was, or should be, directed to my body.