Whitney Irvin graduated with a BFA from the University of Georgia and recently graduated with an MFA from Mills College. Her Masters thesis was full of paper cutouts of naked ladies. She currently lives and works in Oakland, CA.

What are you working on right now? I have just moved in to my new! Studio and I am currently working on a product line of ceramic dinnerware, small sculptural items, and a few bits of clothing. I am interested in creating affordable daily use art wares. I am also continuing my exploration of pornography and hope to create a few video shorts from the found footage I have accrued.



Obama or McCain? Obama.



Hustler or Playboy? Pre-1980 versions of both, please (a time when women were still mostly natural). Playboy to warm up, Hustler to finish off.



Steinem or Freidan? Steinem, but I wonder why she was so afraid of trans-gendered folks?



Is Tilla Tequila the new face of feminism? Tilla might just be a 15-minute reality show train wreck setting the movement back. Thanks Tilla! for letting Middle America know that bisexuals exist and they can have their very own scripted-reality-tv-dating-game-show in a country that’s homophobic. Shame on you! for playing along and trivializing sexuality and maintaining a “girls gone wild” standard on television.



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From Marcus’ Flickr. Via ponyXpress

Marketing that is. If it weren’t for this oh-so-21st Century form of communication, Paris wouldn’t be covered in cartoon dicks right now. Actually the dicks aren’t cartoon, but..oh hell, just take a look at the pictures of the wheat pasting campaign conducted by Ogilvy/Paris for Etat Libre d’Orange’s new Tom of Finland fragrance. And click here to see the guerrillas in action.

*Note: I am not religious–not that there’s anything wrong with it–it’s just a figure of speech. Via The Sword.

Chilean stripper, Monserrat Morilles, was arrested for a protest outside of the presidential palace. Morilles, nicknamed “La Diosa del Metro” by the press, says she’s dancing to challenge the puritanical Chilean government. Did I mention her protest involved exotic dancing? Sometimes even using the pole on a subway train as a prop?

You know this wouldn’t go over in the good ol’ U.S. of A, either.

via BBC News

My new favorite thing in the world is this giant piece by photographer Chris Jordan made from 32,000 Barbie dolls (32,000 being the number of elective breast-augmentation surgeries performed in the US each month of 2006). Yeah, sure, it may be a little ‘political’ or whatever, but I always go crazy for these kind of things.

via Jezebel, World of Wonder

We live in an age where the craftsman (or -woman) is no longer valued. An article from Reuters explains that a couple from Portugal are the last vestiges of a rich culture of phallic art.

I tried to find their studio online only to come up empty handed. Phallic pottery may be a rich tradition over there, but it’s time to move into the new millennium. I wanted to buy one of those suckers.

1. Sex Positions for Singles. Via Sex-and-Blogs
2. NY Times on Nazi Sex Orgy. NY Times
3. Buy a Dildo, Get an African Orphan Free
4. The Biggest Tits in the World!
5. Lohan’s Sexuality Still a Topic of Conversation. Via The Sword

A friend of mine wrote to me recently about a dream she had where she hooked up with Ben Franklin. I sort of loved it, you know, and while I didn’t press her for details, I’m sure their lovemaking was explosive.

In any case, I’ve been thinking about old people and sex a ton lately. My grandmother, suffering through stage three Alzheimer’s, recently broke a few vertebrae and was taken to some sort of rehab unit, where — little tramp that she is — she quickly made a boyfriend, or as she calls him her ‘husband.’ I’m sure my grandfather isn’t so pleased, but whatever. I can’t even imagine what this much be doing to him, but I’m certain that losing his wife and best friend of seventy years is hard enough without the possibility of her ‘cheating.’

This is getting too dark, huh? Well, there is some light at the end of the tunnel.
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Online sex-toy superstore Adam and Eve is having a big sale. Woo-hoo! There goes my summer vacation.

This Fourth of July, unlike the 25 that came before, I committed myself to actually thinking about what it means to be American. Not just what it means to be American, but what is American. I spent one hour with images of American flags, apple pie and Ford trucks swimming around in my head. Every once in a while a glimpse of Tyra Banks or Nancy Grace would peek through, but for the most part, my quest to find what defines our fine country had fallen flat. That is, until I stopped thinking about it and picked up a book. Dian Hanson’s, The Big Penis Bookis an exploration of something that may not define us as a nation, but certainly occupies us as a people.


The size debate has raged on for years, and everyone has gotten in on the action. From talk show hosts, to housewives, to construction workers, just about everyone has an opinion on the subject. And whether your on the “motion in the ocean,” side of the fence, or prefer to believe that a ‘big ship’ is the key to a good time, we can all appreciate a nice big dick. It doesn’t hurt that this anthology de cock has been combed over with loving care by one of the foremost experts on the subject, Dian Hanson, the queen of the dirty men’s magazine.* The book is big and pink, with a revealing cover shot of Chad Hunt (peel off the dust cover for a surprise). It totals 338 pages and comes complete with an ‘Appendicks’ of the featured models.


Featured studios and photographers include David Hurles, Athletic Model Guild, Champion Studio, and dick manipulator Jay Myrdal. Pictured here, from left to right are photos by Chuck Pixxx, David Hurles, and Mike Arlen. For more information, or to buy your own copy of The Big Penis Book, visit Taschen online.





*For more on Dian Hanson, see her interview with Heather Riley in Box Issue 5: Work.