No shit. I will be among the first ever live sex performances at the legendary Masturbate-a-thon at the Center for Sex and Culture, tomorrow May 30th.
You can watch it live all day (me at 7) at the Masturbate-a-thon site!
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Thursday, May 27, 2010
my new Aslan Leather strap-on harness!
While in Toronto for the week of the Feminist Porn Awards, I had the great pleasure of meeting Carrie Gray, owner of Aslan Leather. Carey threw a magnificent play party called Switch at Renegade, an "open to interpretation" community space. It was my last night in Toronto and an excellent way to make sure I slept the entire plane ride home to San Francisco!
After a week of assisting Courtney Trouble, shooting five scenes in five days, attending countless FPA events, and taking sessions at Patricia Marsh's dungeon, the party
was the perfect hedonistic release. Virtually every sex positive person I'd met the preceding week was there, looking their leather best. If Switch was any indication, Canadians do it dirty, and they do it all night.
Madison Young, who is always looking out for my best interest, had introduced me to Gray at Dylan Ryan's birthday party, as "someone you'll like, because she LOVES to be spanked!" (Thanks, Madison!) Grey promised me a spanking at Switch and boy did I get it! After a week of hard work and sexual overstimulation, being beaten on a leather spanking bench was like a luxurious bath or a happy hour pint.
But Gray's generosity and hospitality didn't end there. I expressed an appreciation for Aslan's leather craftsmanship, and my desire for a new harness specifically for fucking girls.
Several years ago, my slave Dale (the rocknroll slave, aka "The Roadie"!) gifted me with a gorgeous black leather harness which has very much become my Mistress Tina strap on. It's a harness for punishing, emasculating, and training (occupations to which I devote considerable energy).... not, I have decided, for pleasing a beautiful woman, which is another thing I manage to get up to quite a lot of the time.
So, courtesy of Carrie Gray and Aslan Leather, a new ride has come into my life: The Chocolate Jag. Ain't she a beaut, ladies and gents?
When I got this in the mail, I couldn't resist trying my hand at dirty amateur self portraits...
Back to the harness...I can't wait for the chance to use this on camera. You can't imagine how soft the leather is. It holds my cock deliciously against my cunt so I get worked up and swollen from fucking. I love that the back straps can run up the middle of my backside or be pulled out to the side to cradle my ass.
Tell me what you think and peruse Aslan's incredible inventory of leather gear.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
On submission
some words on being a sexual and BDSM submissive (written for my petition for Training of O)
I came to BDSM (BDSM came to me?) through my work as a dom, sub, fetish and fantasy professional. I gravitated towards the work out of curiosity, but it didn't take long for me to realize that pain exchange, fantasy, and power play has always been an integral part of my sexuality and personality.
For me, the greatest integrity of being a submissive is surrendering my body, mind and erotic energy to the guidance and turn-ons of a top. As an artist and intellectual and athlete I look to folks I admire to set the bar higher and the pace faster. As a top I am always moved and impressed by a bottom whose genuine desire to serve ME becomes an inspiration for me to take things somewhere I didn't know I was capable of going. There i
s a lot of continuity in my switch identity, and I love to be
the ideal bottom for my top persona, the complementary sadist for the masochist in me, and vice versa.
While I enjoy topping and consider myself a sadist in some regards, I am at my most genuine as a submissive, bottom, and masochist. I have been lucky to have playing DS relationships with several women and men in the intervening years who are wonderful tops.
The Story of O (both the Pauline Réage novel and Guido Crepax comic) was an early teenage source of erotic fascination for me. Its appeal lies in the way the story explicitly plays out and literalizes a confrontation of my values and identities - inequality of the sexes to a feminist, supreme power to an anti-authoritarian, strict structure and etiquette to an anarchist punk. I have since developed an understanding that what is satisfying about DS play for me is the way it explores social anxieties - gender trouble, sexual inequality - or my own issues - beauty image, authority - in an erotic arena. In other words, it's satisfying to be called a slut/bitch/cunt, or t
o call a man "Sir" in play or bed because, not in spite of, the fact that I would not allow anyone to call me a slut on the street and loath to defer to power or control in my everyday life.
I get off earning the right to be the center of attention. Ultimately I live to entertain.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Sliquid Review
ON LUBE: I am a horny girl that just doesn't get that wet.
It's very difficult for a sexual extrovert to admit. Even among the sex positive there is an association of female arousal with gushing, juicy, squirting pussies. The truth is, even when I am turned on and ready for action, my equipment doesn't do much facilitating. I am a very healthy person, and my libido is doing just fine. But even when I am relaxed and hydrated I just don't produce that much juice. I never have, not as a teenager, not when jerking off, not when I'm with men, women, queers, getting spanked, nothing.
All of this is to say: lube is very important to me! When I was younger I definitely let the prevailing attitude win, allowing myself to believe that lube was for people who were physically unhealthy or had sexual issues. When I got into anal play in my mid-20's, I quickly got the picture that lube was not only recommended but utterly necessary for anal pleasure. Once I had the stuff around, it was only a hop skip and a jump to using it on things that were going into my pussy. Particularly when I use condoms when having penetrative sex with people that are not fluid bonded to me, or porous toys that are easier to keep clean by using a barrier, I find lube totally crucial to keeping me warm and keeping the condom intact. I am also frequently commended for having a very tight pussy for a slut - so lube helps things last longer - more pleasure for everyone involved.
Sliquid is an important product for a world that is doing its damndest to make green, sustainable products accessible and common-place. I'm reminded of kids I knew in Santa Cruz, California: die-hard vegans who lived in the woods, preached all sorts of radical and anarchist values, but swilled corporate beer from 7-11 every night. In other words: if you care about putting organic food in your mouth (as well you should, in my opinion), then shouldn't you care the products that go in your other, highly absorbent holes? And sex should be a sustainable activity!
I got to try out Sliquid organic botanically infused lube on behalf of Babeland. It's certified Organic, 100% Vegan and its ingredients read like a Kombucha bottle or one of those obscenely expensive dead sea moisturizers I can't live without (we're talking flax and green tea!).
The fact that it's water-based means it's compatible with latex condoms. It's glycerin free so it doesn't have that sickly, sticky, saccharine smell and feel of some lubes, and less prone to causing yeast infections. It's also free of paraben the controversial cosmetic preservative, and petroleum.
MY EXPERIENCE:
My big test for lube is; if I put a drop between my fingers and rub them together, does it create a second slick skin or make my fingers gooey? I'd give Sliquid a B on this count - I don't like it when lube makes my hands sticky. It smells like a cup of tea or an organic grocery store, which is wonderful. As for its function on my pussy, I found that it dries and need reapplying quite frequently, which is a minus.t
MY ONLY QUALM: with the liberal-friendly packaging, complete with lotus flower icon, is its emphasis on the product being "for women." Many transmen, genderqueer and intersex people have equipment that benefits from lube, and I can see them being turned off by a product being marketed to women. The implication that only women use lube, or that only women have vaginas, is one that I would hope an organic safer sex company would be working to help eliminate.
Furthermore, I would like to see progressive companies marketing products like lube as being something men and people who sleep with women should keep around as a sexual consideration, like condoms or chocolate. I once had a cisgendered male lover with a much larger than average sized cock; the first time we sleep together was at his place, and when he produced a bottle of lube to offer me my respect for him (to say nothing of my arousal!) was considerably increased.
That's all for now! Stay tuned for more reviews.... XOXOXO Tina Horn
Monday, May 3, 2010
more on the FPAs
Post FPA brunch with Jiz Lee and April Flores!
I had the immense pleasure of getting to know Parisian porn star Judy Minx during my trip to Toronto. Judy has a preternatural ability to be dead serious about her sexuality while relishing the humor in the shocked way most people react to her bluntness. We had lovely slumber parties at Drew Devaux's and illuminating cab conversations and filmed a very special scene involving pissing and fisting for a very exciting upcoming project. Behind us in this picture from the ceremony is Madison Young, the kinky who gave me my first big break in porn!
What follows is an article I wrote covering the awards:
The ceremony-cum-party of the 5th Annual Feminist Porn Awards transformed the Berkeley Church in Toronto, Canada, into a decadent underground club of sexual deviants. The cavernous church overflowed with fetish fashionistas, boys in skirts, girls in ties, glitter, leather, latex, heels, boots, and indie-smut luminaries from all over the globe. They gathered to worship the very best in last year's conscious, creative, progressive pornography.
The FPAs have become a Toronto institution thanks to local sex shop Good For Her, which this year honored 47 films and seven websites that, in their words, "expand the boundaries of sexual representation on film and challenge stereotypes that are often found in mainstream porn." Judging by the record-breaking crowd of 450 revelers at the 2010 event, and by the wild local sex celebrities who graced the stage, Toronto is emerging as a veritable mecca of sex positive, artistic, queer, feminist community.
The event itself played like a raunchy variety show. HostMorgan Brayton, a blowsy Mae West-type, ran the night like a dive bar cabaret MC. Indeed, the sincere award presenting and inspiring acceptance speeches were well balanced by a diverse group of burlesque and drag performers including Ill Nana, Masti Khor, and Coco La Creme. Playfully parodying award show culture, flamboyant "Special Correspondent" Ryan Hinds probed the night's guests for sex and fashion dishing.
The commemorative 5th-year anniversary FPA trophy, an honest-to-goodness detachable NJoystainless steel dildo, was decadent and functional but extremely difficult for American winners to explain at customs.
Not surprisingly, the event's special guests Shine Louise Houston, April Flores, Tristan Taormino, andNica Noelle were the night's big winners. The night preceding the awards, much of the same crowd had gathered at the Bloor Cinema for the Provocative.Public/Porn preview of some nominated scenes directed by or featuring these artists. An illuminating panel discussion rounded out the night.
BBW muse and starlet Flores accepted the Deliciously Diverse Cast award for her husband Carlos Batts's film Dangerous Curves. A crowd favorite for her sex appeal and effusive earnestness, she later returned to the stage with an exuberant, "This is fucking awesome!" to accept the Heartthrob of the Year honor.
Afterwards, Flores gushed, "Toronto was absolutely amazing! There was such a supportive, celebratory, electric energy flowing through the air. I have never been surrounded by such positivity at any other porn-related event—or any other event, for that matter. It was truly magical to have so many like-minded people come together from many different parts of the world and just celebrate our work, diversity, and message. I keep saying that I wish we could all live and work together. If that could happen, the world would shift from the power we would radiate together."
Houston took home the Viewer's Choice Award based on a screening of a scene from her websiteCrash Pad Series in which the cisgendered male Mickey Mod sucks the butch Sid Blakovich's strap-on cock. She was also honored with the Visionary Award for challenging notions of what constitutes queer sex and setting a high bar for quality and artistry. Over the years Houston has garnered a record total of eight FPAs, making her a sort of Feminist Porn Meryl Streep!
Noelle's The Deviant collected the award for Sexiest Straight movie, reminding us that heterosexual LA-produced films can be feminist too!
Winner of the Smutty Schoolteacher Award for her work on the Expert Guide to Anal Pleasure for Men, Taormino earned the mantle of Trailblazer for 10 years of sex educational filmmaking and advocacy.
Tobi Hill-Meyer accepted the first-ever Emerging Filmmaker Award, which honors and provides a scholarship to assist promising artists in getting their first projects off the ground. Before she even knew she had won the award, Hill-Meyer was making a name for herself at the Provocative.Public/Porn event, hawking her first DVD, Doing It Ourselves: The Trans Women Porn Project, out of her backpack.
There wasn't a dry eye in the house when Jiz Lee was named Boundary Breaker of the Year, tearfully proclaiming that porn was the first place she felt accepted for her genderqueer identity. A common thread among the night's celebrated filmmakers was a sense of urgency to create images that represented a part of their sexual identity that had been marginalized, whether it be female orgasms, trans identity, diverse bodies, or sexual health and technique. The night's atmosphere of bold celebration illustrated a growing force of pride in and recognition for their efforts.
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