Sex in '69: The Sexual Revolution in America (2009)

Before 1969, very few people in American had sex. Those who did, only did so for procreation, not enjoyment, and knew nothing about what they were doing. They did do it often enough to produce a lot of kids who became hippies. The hippies started having sex a lot before 1969, but were pushed out of their sexing grounds in San Francisco. When they fled the oppressive San Franciscans, they migrated to many other parts of the country. By 1969, everyone else noticed them having sex, figured there might be something to this, and started having sex too. Feminists thought that all the sex was oppressing women, so they objected to the sex. Black People of Color had been having a lot of sex before 1969, but they were oppressed. Gay people were so oppressed from all the sex that they started rioting in 1969. But at least everyone, save Richard M. Nixon, was having sex. Then came disco music.
And that pretty much sums up the narrative to the documentary Sex in '69. Which also shows you the limits of arbitrarily designating a particular year for a paradigm shift. Got some news for you kids: Pops here was around back then and it wasn't much fun. At least from what I could see as a youngster. The union guys at the GM plants near my town were either chasing tail on Saturday or in church Sunday (from all the sex). And in some cases both.
Want a good history of the sex revolutions in America? Read the Gay Talese book. This History Channel two-hour special is way too superficial.

Bitch-"Be My Slave"

Once upon a time it was really, really hard to find any women in leather.

But thinks to the wonder of YouTube, you can now watch Betsy and her love slaves if you go here.

OK, This Thing Is Just Plain Evil

From the Prague Sex Machine Museum

Fetlife and spam

I've been spending a lot of time reading through the posts on fetlife.com as of late. I've got an account there and I highly recommend the site. Someone created a social network for kinksters and it's pretty good. As always, I judge a site like this by how much porn spam they can keep off the board. Surprisingly, there isn't a whole lot; must be the programming.
But every now and then you do run into something which makes you wonder why the male sex was ever created in the first place:

3SOME ANYBODY??? IM WAITIN SLAVES!!!!!

Or:

Any Sexyy Girlz From London That want to be Fuck Buddies add my Msn----@hotmail.com x

I swear to gawd, if I wanted to be evil all I would need to to would be to go on one of the major swinger sites and run a search engine for men looking for women age 20-30 and copy the results. I could have a book of humor which would rival anything produced in the past fifty years. And the real hysterical part of it: it's all REAL.

American Swing (2008)

The sexual revolution goes down in flames in this fascinating documentary from Magnolia Films.
It's the story of Larry Levenson and his swing club, Plato's Retreat. For a brief time, the late 1970's, Plato's Retreat, was the destination in New York City for people who wanted to dance, party, and fuck each others' spouses. From the film, which features numerous interviews by the people who frequented the place, Larry was a big-hearted Jewish guy who thought he was creating something unique in the history of American sexuality. And he was. But Larry was also a lousy businessman.
Around 1980 the IRS raided his club and busted Larry and friends for tax evasion. Larry ended up doing less than half of the 8 year sentence he received, but by the time he returned in full glory to his palace of orgasms, Plato's had turned sleazy. In 1985 the city of New York raided Plato's and closed it down for multiple unsafe sex practice violations. This was at the height of the AIDS epidemic and the city was cracking down on all kinds of sex establishments.
Larry would pass away years later, living in a basement, trying to make a living as a taxi driver. He was largely forgotten by his former friends and clientele. In American Swing, one lady who frequented Plato's remembers getting in his cab and being shocked to discover who was driving her to the next location.
Most of the documentary is filled with people talking about how great Plato's was in it's full glory. Larry had taken over the basement of a swank old hotel in NYC and turned it into a full service swing club. Lines would wind down the street. People from all walks of life would line up to get in on the action. A tight set of rules (couples only!) kept the gawkers and strokers to a minimum.
An excellent documentary about the rise and fall of one fortress in the sexual revolution with a somber reminder of responsibility.

The Masseuse (1990)

Sad and uneven film from the last hurrah of the adult film industry. Randy Spears plays a shy librarian who falls in love with a woman(Hypatia Lee) working at a massage parlor. This sort of story has been done countless times, but the director wanted to go a more serious route and create something memorable.
Unfortunately it doesn't really work since it's hard to believe superstud Spears would have the least bit of trouble getting some action (he plays a virgin in this movie). And Hypatia Lee just can't give it the needed performance.
A good script with plenty of surprises and an ending which leaves the viewer with a sense of hope.

The Most Hilarious Thing I Have Seen All Year

Go here to watch the most hysterically funny sex committed to film in the past decade. I won't reveal the subject matter, just that the guy has a gorgeous woman who wants to do him up the butt AND HE HAS A PROBLEM WITH THIS?
A 2007 movie from Canada which I caught one night on cable under the title YPF.