If you’ve ever wanted to see a Christopher Walken doppelgänger make sexy-talk… here’s your chance.

 
(via KMFW )

 
Nicola Formicetti, the stylist best known for his work with Lady Gaga, has launched his new Spring/Summer 2012 collection for the Paris fashion house Mugler through the do-it-yourself porn site Xtube.

The hugely popular Xtube is best described as the YouTube of porn, where thousands upon thousands of users upload home footage of themselves engaged in a mind boggling array of sex acts. Home made porn of this kind (generally free to watch and due to its nature very democratic and diverse in its content) has been exploding across the internet (fnar) in the last 5 years or so. As popular as it is however, it still retains the cultural stigma associated with mainstream pornography, where issues of exploitation and coercion are still rife. Having a brand like Mugler use a platform like Xtube to launch a collection is a major endorsement of this newer form of porn, and a further step towards it’s validation in the mainstream.

The video itself is mildly explicit (some dick and ass but no sex) but it’s not cheap. As you would expect from a world famous fashion house, it looks beautiful, and features some great music courtesy of Nomi Ruiz (ex-Hercules & Love Affair) with her new act Jessica Six. Formicietti, in his own description of the video, says this:

I was looking at Italian New-Realist cinema and then post-that, where Fellini and Pasolini became more about myth and fantasy. At the same time I loved the idea and accessibility of pornography and that everyday voyeurism on Xtube. Fashion is always referencing pornography, so there was an element in doing this film of “cutting out the middleman”, but it’s an erotic fashion film nonetheless.

I am always interested in technology and I was particularly interested in the way that pornography drives it. It is so user friendly on a porn site like Xtube, so instantly about something you would be interested in. When you are alone you can be as free as you want, watch what you want and be who you are - you are not having your taste dictated to you like you are elsewhere. I liked the idea of people watching this film in that way.

 

 
The “Brothers Of Arcadia” clip is available to view on Xtube here. NSFW obviously.

**EDIT**

Well, it looks like that may have just been a publicity stunt, to draw attention to the new range and Xtube itself - because the video is now availbe to view (uneditted) on the much more family friendly site YouTube. Which makes stories like this one a bit redundant. How much cooler would it have been to have to force people to a porn site if they wanted to watch it? Oh well, any excuse to get Xtube and do-it-yourself porn mentioned on Dangerous Minds is worth it, I reckon. Here is the offending “Brothers Of Arcadia” clip by Nicola Formicetti and Branislav Jankie, for Mugler, in full (though it’s STILL NSFW):
 

 
This news will no doubt be greeted by howls of protest across the Middle East that’s it’s nothing but American propaganda, but be honest, is there one—just one—man alive—I don’t care what religion or creed, who has a difficult time believing Osama bin Laden and his cronies had an “extensive” porn stash? It is perhaps “un-Islamic” that’s true, but gimme a break…

(Reuters) - A stash of pornography was found in the hideout of Osama bin Laden by the U.S. commandos who killed him, current and former U.S. officials said on Friday.

The pornography recovered in bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, consists of modern, electronically recorded video and is fairly extensive, according to the officials, who discussed the discovery with Reuters on condition of anonymity.

The officials said they were not yet sure precisely where in the compound the pornography was discovered or who had been viewing it. Specifically, the officials said they did not know if bin Laden himself had acquired or viewed the materials.

Reports from Abbottabad have said that bin Laden’s compound was cut off from the Internet or other hard-wired communications networks. It is unclear how compound residents would have acquired the pornography.

Where there is a will there is a way!

Three other U.S. officials familiar with evidence gathered during investigations of other Islamic militants said the discovery of pornography is not uncommon in such cases.

No shit, Sherlock(s), most terrorists are men, aren’t they? Unless they happen to share their laptops with their wives—unlikely, I think you’ll agree—therer’s about a 99.99999% chance they’ve got porn on their hard-drive (unless, of course, they’re YouPorn users). I’m just curious as to what porn actresses they were most into. Vivid girls? Were they Suicide Girls fans? Japanese bukakke stuff? Gonzo? I wanna know, don’t you? Since it’s hardly a matter of national security I hope the contents of this “extensive” terrorist porn stash gets released.

Thank you Douglas Hovey!

Souperman, 1976
 
Germany’s Der Spiegel posted a pretty good collection of porn posters from the 70s and 80s with a detailed breakdown of each film. To see more posters, go to Der Spiegel and use Google Translate.

Oh, and here are a few I found amusing:

Flesh Gordon, 1972
 
More posters after the jump…

 

 
 
 

 
More at Cinesex and X-Rated

 
As some of you reading this might recall, in the old Disinformation TV series, I devoted the next to last episode entirely to the topic of the potential for harm that easily available Internet porn, in particular the extreme variant called “gonzo porn,” might have in store for an entire generation of (mostly) young males. The piece left the question open ended, but it was clear that neither I, nor most of the people I interviewed (including porn actresses and producers) had any hope that much good would come of adolescent males spending their free time having images of violent sex seared onto their eyeballs at the point of orgasm. And besides that, what were they learning about human sexuality at the hands of twisted psychopaths like Max Hardcore and Rob Black? That their girlfriends would like them to invite 10 of their friends over for a session of tender love-making or perhaps that shoving a girl’s head in the toilet during sex was a suave move?

Well, the verdict is starting to come in that we’re—literally—raising a generation of… wankers. An entire generation has had their sexual fantasies hijacked by this stuff. This quite good 2007 BBC documentary Teens Hooked on Porn, is a disturbing look at what’s happening to Internet porn addicted kids. The pimple-faced young men portrayed in this documentary, sad to say, are going to have no idea what to do with a real girl when they have the chance. And frankly, what girl would want anything to do with them?

As you watch this, imagine their lives at 25, 40 and well beyond. It ain’t a pretty thought…
 

 
Thank you Paul Gallagher!

 
Anti-piracy public service announcement from a group of “all star” pornies, including “hedgehog” Ron Jeremy, a bunch of sluts I’ve never heard of and Sarah Palin porn-a-like, Lisa Ann (I’m no fan of Palin’s but this woman looks like Sarah Palin maybe after she’s been hit in the face with a shovel).

This PSA will have perhaps less of an effect even than anti-marijuana messages, which is to say next to none. How many horny guys dialing up LubeTube will have second thoughts about stealing their product after seeing this? I’d wager zero is the winning answer to that!

Thank you Marc Campbell!

 
I’m reminded of the scene with the two idiots in the video rental store in The League of Gentlemen where one of them suggests a film and the other one shoots it down by saying “I don’t like movies with Bradley Pitt. Too much acting.”