Like an adultress, pornographic media drips honey and promises nothing but good things. In the end, however, it does not lead to anything good. It only destroys. Slaying the Monster introduces you to six lines of attack for taking on this dreaded monster. The first chapter introduces all six strategies. Each chapter after that goes into more detail about how to start practicing these new habits. This dragon doesn't need to be fought alone - it shouldn't be. Build your army. Get equipped. Slay the monster.
An exploration of how and why social media content is tagged as “not safe for work” and an argument against conflating sexual content with risk. The hashtag #NSFW (not safe for work) acts as both a warning and an invitation. NSFW tells users, “We dare you to click on this link! And by the way, don't do it until after work!” Unlike the specificity of movie and television advisories (“suggestive dialogue,” “sexual content”), NSFW signals, nonspecifically, sexually explicit content that ranges from nude selfies to pornography. NSFW looks at how and why social media content is tagged “not safe” and shows how this serves to conflate sexual content and risk. The authors argue that the notion of “unsafety” extends beyond the risk of losing one's job or being embarrassed at work to an unspecified sense of risk attached to sexually explicit media content and sexual communication in general. The authors examine NSFW practices of tagging and flagging on a range of social media platforms; online pornography and its dependence on technology; user-generated NSFW content—in particular, the dick pic and associated issues of consent, desire, agency, and social power; the deployment of risqué humor in the workplace; and sexist and misogynist online harassment that functions as an enforcer of inequalities. They argue against the categorical effacement of sexual content by means of an all-purpose hashtag and urge us to shift considerations of safety from pictorial properties to issues of context and consent.
Mike and Dwain are Foley artists for the porn industry in the famed San Fernando Valley. After meeting an amputee porn star, the guys decide to make their own movies portraying a wide variety of "monsters." While Mike wants to make tastefully erotic films featuring abnormally shaped performers, Dwain sees greater profits on the horizon if they push "Freak Porn" to its nauseating extreme. "Monster Porn is beautifully written, descriptive to the Nth degree, with a shocking twist that will leave you gasping for air." - Brandon Wilkinson, Author of Memoirs of the Messed Up Minds
The magic of love is in the air… Violet When I arrived at Blackthorn Academy, I was hoping to find answers. Like how to control my chaotic magic, or where I came from. I certainly wasn’t expecting to find Bane Locke—a hot incubus who makes my virginal panties melt and my heart swoon. The fact that I’ve revived a legendary forest, I keep getting visions of castles, and all I can think about is Bane and I all tangled up together, has only given me more questions and fewer answers. Is the bond I feel between us just a product of Bane’s lustful magic, or is it something more? Something legendary? Bane The last thing I need is another companion to warm my bed after what happened last year, but the moment I run into Violet McCreanor—Blackthorn’s newest little ingénue—I know I’m doomed. Not just because she smells like heaven, or because I can’t stop thinking about her, but because the bond I feel with her is more than magic, more than lust. She is my Anam Cara, my soul’s mate. But with my cursed history, can I overcome my demons with the possibility of finding what I desire most? A mate? Or will history repeat itself and destroy the last bit of hope I have? Monster’s Spell is book three in the Blackthorn Academy for Supernaturals shared world, featuring a curious, curvy witch, a bad boy incubus, and swoon-worthy romance.
From pornographic videos of rape and incest to sexual predators around every corner; from online challenges teaching children how to commit suicide to resources teaching them how to conjure up demons; from social media trends praising abortion to completely redefining what it means to be human; these are the monsters in the closet which children and teenagers are being exposed to. America is facing a drastic moral decline, and we are only seeing the beginning of the avalanche. Narratives which directly attack God’s word are being fed to young people. These monsters are very real and may be much closer than you think. Learn about the harmful indoctrination and lies being spread through the internet, social media, and even the classroom, and how you can combat them.
The popularity of manga continues to row, inspiring interest in learning how to draw in this exciting style of comics. Estudio Joso creates the ultimate guide to illustration—384 pages of manga instruction. The Monster Book of Manga is divided into sections focusing on the most figures and themes—Girls, Boys, Samurais, Monsters, and more. Each illustration is broken down into six stages accompanied by step-by-step instructions, taking the artist from initial back-and-white sketches to the final color piece. They are all accompanied by practical suggestions, hints, and tips.
An exploration of the modalities, affective intensities, and disturbing qualities of online pornography. Digital production tools and online networks have dramatically increased the general visibility, accessibility, and diversity of pornography. Porn can be accessed for free, anonymously, and in a seemingly endless range of niches, styles, and formats. In Carnal Resonance, Susanna Paasonen moves beyond the usual debates over the legal, political, and moral aspects of pornography to address online porn in a media historical framework, investigating its modalities, its affect, and its visceral and disturbing qualities. Countering theorizations of pornography as emotionless, affectless, detached, and cold, Paasonen addresses experiences of porn largely through the notion of affect as gut reactions, intensities of experience, bodily sensations, resonances, and ambiguous feelings. She links these investigations to considerations of methodology (ways of theorizing and analyzing online porn and affect), questions of materiality (bodies, technologies, and inscriptions), and the evolution of online pornography. Paasonen dicusses the development of online porn, focusing on the figure of the porn consumer, and considers user-generated content and amateur porn. She maps out the modality of online porn as hyperbolic, excessive, stylized, and repetitive, arguing that literal readings of the genre misunderstand its dynamics and appeal. And she analyzes viral videos and extreme and shock pornogaphy, arguing for the centrality of disgust and shame in the affective dynamics of porn. Paasonen's analysis makes clear the crucial role of media technologies—digital production tools and networked communications in particular—in the forms that porn takes, the resonances it stirs, and the experiences it makes possible.
When no one in the small town of Merritt, Florida, believes that he was attacked by a monster, fifteen-year-old Virgil Knox fears the monster will return to finish him off, or worse--that he is becoming a monster himself.
Steve just married Chloe, the girl of his dreams. Together, they saved themselves for marriage. It was a long wait, but that wait is finally over. Now, up in that wedding suite, Steve can’t wait to get down to business… And then he realizes Chloe forgot to mention something… Or maybe she did mention it a long time ago, when he was too tipsy to remember what she said. Chloe has something other girls don’t—and it’s a lot bigger than the one he has. He can’t divorce her: divorce is against his religion and he wouldn’t be able to bear the shame. So now, he needs to figure out a way to salvage the relationship.
Honey, Does This Taste Like Poison to You? It's illegal to be anything other than happy, but when I get dumped by my fiance three days before our wedding, I'm not going to lie, it kinda sucks. So I get hammered - because drunk is a type of happy. I then try to kill him with a wasp, start a war with the fairies, and end up in jail about to be executed in public, but you know...staying happy. Even when I'm blackmailed into marrying the grumpy fairy king who's rumoured to eat children. And when I find out he's going to kill me. Okay, slight lie. I panic a little bit and try to kill him. Buuut it's with cake and cakes are for happy celebrations, so I'm pretty sure that's still legal... I Will Destroy Everything For Her. When the Court forced me to take a wife, I wasn't supposed to fall in love. Now I have a weakness I'm struggling to protect. My kingdom is at war. The Court wants to use her to take my throne. The rebels want to kill her to bring me to my knees. And our world, its customs and traditions, will destroy her very soul. Arienna Morningstar will not survive being queen. Unless... I destroy it all.
