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Big Sister is an upscale brothel in Prague. After having signed a release form accepting the establishment's terms and conditions, the clients' sexual adventures are recorded and broadcast live for the website's tens of thousands subscribers. Guests are afforded the chance to become instant cyber porn stars.

Hana Jakrlova's series of photographs documents the exploits of mistresses turned actresses and their clients in search for their moment of internet glory.

A work by German photographer Thomas Ruff.

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Via conscientious.

Just one of the images picked up along Wired stroll at Japan's First Sex Show, the 3 day "Adult Treasure Expo" back in July 2007:

The Piston Robot is designed for one woman to use by herself, or a couple together. The topmost section with the two dildos moves back and forth in its groove.

The company claims the 33,600-yen device (about $300) has a "human feel. " The self-heating dildo takes 30 minutes to get to body temperature. You can also attach your own favorite dildo, the company said. The machine's multispeed controller runs from one to 150 strokes per minute.

The company also offers a 168,000-yen ($1,450) Robo-chair incorporating the Piston Robot.

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A couple of days ago, Italian activist and writer Tatiana Bazichelli was at City of Women, a festival running until October 13 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Tatiana gave a presentation of CUM2CUT, the Indie-Porn-Short-Movies-Festival that she organizes and curates together with and Gaia Novati in Berlin.

Participants are invited to a four day (October 20 to 24) marathon to release a short porn film, which will be shown during the Berlin Porn Film Festival. The idea is to apply DIY inside the world of pornography, and thus outside the usual power structures of porn. To reappropriate the genre.

Cum2cut is totally free and open. There are just a few rules. First, the videos produced must be licensed under the Creative Commons. Then some requirements: a "@" symbol has to be shown; the Berlin city map has to be shown; the sound of a slap has to be heard; and the sentence "I used to have such a good imagination" has to be said.

During the opening party on October 20, a category-lottery will decide which will be your porn genre, i.e. splatter porn, gothic porn, silent porn, western porn, superhero, dadaistic porn, futuristic porn, horror porn, new wave porn, etc.

This year CUM2CUT features also a Pr0n competition for people who cannot come to Berlin as they can upload the video in remote on the CUM2CUT server. Participants have to deal with pornography using media or creating digital codes or any other video projects.

Like the Porn Competition, the Pr0n marathon is 4 days long. You can choose to participate from 20 September to 20 October, registering yourself on the Pr0n form.

Why does pornography have such a bad reputation? Most profess not to like it and many claim to have never even seen any. Yet, beyond a simple or dictionary definition, the question "what is porn?" remains almost impossible to answer. Even a Supreme Court judge was stumped, saying of pornography: "I don't know what it is, but I recognize it when I see it".

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BODYPOLITICX is a group exhibition that does not seek to provide one simple response. Nor does it take sides in the for-or-against debate about pornography. Instead, BODYPOLITICX poses further questions: Does porn symbolize patriarchal structures and the oppression of women? Are porn films a reflection of existing socio-sexual relationships? What is taboo when everything around us is sexualized and yet sexual practices remain un-discussable? Is pornography to blame for the destruction of sexuality?

With a focus upon the 20th and 21st centuries, this exhibition takes a contemporary look at an age-old fascination, seeing sex through the eyes of over 70 artists, filmmakers, activists, photo-journalists, musicians and magazine editors. By means of visual juxtaposition, the exhibition sets out to examine the demarcation of the sex industry, subculture, pop, performance and art.

The exhibition runs 8 Sep - 16 Dec 2007 at Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Via e-flux.

More about that "ancient art of genital origami."

Via Hugo Strikes back!