In a deflated condom market that has dropped from 730 million units shipped in 1980 to just 420 million units by 2004, a surprising skin is actually seeing its sales ballooning.
Okamoto Inc., Japan's biggest producer of condoms, normally boasts of having unsheathed a thinner-than-ever-before birth control device.
"Standard condoms come in a thickness of around 0.05 to 0.06 millimeters, but Skinless, our company's main product, is a sheer 0.02 millimeters -- a measurement that stands as proof of our prowess," Okamoto's Takeshi Saito tells Spa!
But now the maker of membranes has revealed that its Goku-Atsu brand is also an amazing success despite a thickness of a whopping 0.1 millimeters, which in condom terms literally makes it a Great Barrier Sheath!
"We had a product planning meeting where somebody mentioned that a thick condom would be good for premature ejaculation sufferers because it would dull the sensation felt by the penis," Saito says, noting the Goku-Atsu ranks highly on most online sales sites. "Considering the industry is built around competition to come up with the thinnest possible product, and suspecting that whoever thought of that must know what premature ejaculation is like, it must have taken a lot of guts to make a proposal like that."
Okamoto's development of the thickest possible condom was unprecedented. And producing the Goku-Atsu was a lot more difficult than simply lopping the finger off a rubber glove. In fact, it took just as much technical development to get the thick condom just right as it did to come up with a dong sarong that barely feels like it's on.
"If 0.02 millimeters is the thinnest a condom can get, then 0.1 millimeters is the thickest," Saito says. "Just as it's difficult to blow up balloons where the rubber is thickest, so we found the thicker the rubber we used, the less elasticity we got and the more likelihood it was that the condom would break. Of course, there's always the matter that there's hardly great demand for thick condoms, but another reason why no other companies jack glascock produce them is that they don't have the technical capability to do so."
Okamoto has found it's not just the users of Goku-Atsu who are quick off the mark. The condom maker has found fans in areas not initially targeted, especially the gay community, where many are delighted that the thick throbber thermos is not as susceptible to breaking when large amounts of lubricant are applied, as regular rubbers are.
"Goku-Atsu is a product that meets the diversifying sex lives of today's society. But the fundamental concept behind its production was the creation of a condom that guarantees safety," Saito tells Spa! "To make sure we're doing that, we constantly monitor the market, carry out research and think of what we need to do to get people to use it. You've got to dig a little deeper to find out what the market's core needs really are." (By Ryann Connell)
Adult Theater is a cinema where XXX (usually R-18) films are shown to an adult audience. Rules are generally less strict regarding partial- or full-nudity and public masturbation or sex, and such behaviour may be condoned explicitly or otherwise by the management. Certain theaters may also include a strip- or sex-show between films.
Most commonly, an adult movie theater shows heterosexual XXX films but attacts straight, bi and gay male patrons, most of whom are not there for the film but are instead looking for casual and anonymous sex with other patrons. Although women do go to adult theaters, their presence remains a rare occurrence. The over-whelming majority (in many theaters, that can be upwards of 99%) of theater-goers is male.
Before the VCR and, later, the Internet, a movie theater or cinema house was often the only location where the average person could see a hardcore adult film. The two primary activities within any adult theater have always been to view a XXX film and to engage in sex with other movie-goers whether in the seats, balcony, aisles, behind the screen or in the men's rooms.
There is a famously cliche line which is, "Straight flicks, gay licks", referring to adult movie theaters. Its meaning, that the films shown on screen may be heterosexual pornography but the activity among the men in the theater is almost guaranteed to be decidely of a homosexual nature, especially oral sex.
Today, as always, men of any sexual orientation go to an adult theater primarily to have sexual encounters. Heterosexual men go knowing they will receive oral sex if they so desire. Gay men go for the same reason, or more usually to provide oral sex to other men.
As a protection against prostitution being plied on premises, most adult movie theaters do not permit single or solo females to enter. Women are allowed to enter most usually only with a male escort jack glascock.
Most commonly, one sits in the back rows if one is interested in sexual encounters with other patrons, although this can vary depending upon the design of the specific movie theater. Often, one may enter an adult theater and no matter how many seats are available throughout the space, the back rows will be packed with a crowd.
No discussion is necessary in an adult theater. If one is interested in receiving oral sex, one sits in a seat, spreads one's legs and makes one's crotch available. Shortly, someone, a stranger will sit beside you. If interested, show your interest.
The films shown in an adult theater are not always of first rate quality but they are no longer the main draw for men going to such places.
[edit] As private clubs
An adult theater is typically considered to be a public venue as any other legitimate movie theater. It is therefore subject to police raids on the grounds of public indecency when sexual activity occurs on premises between and among patrons.
An adult theater which designates itself as a private or membership club is not subject to those same laws. An adult theater which charges an admission fee along with an additional membership fee (as little as $1 US more) is a private membership club. The activities on premises regarding sex therefore are not subject to raid due to sex. Police can still raid a private membership adult theater on the grounds of looking for drugs, illegal alcohol sales, suspected prostitution and other crimes relative to any other business.
Carnography (from latin "carnis" meaning "meat" and Greek ????? (grafi) "writing") is a neologism for writing, films, images, or other material that contains gratuitous amounts of bloodshed, violence and/or weaponry. It is named by analogy to pornography (although it is often mistaken for a portmanteau of "carnage" and "pornography", this is not strictly the case), and is sometimes referred to as "violence porn".
The mere depiction of violent acts, or of their results, does not necessarily qualify a film as carnography, just as the mere depiction of sex acts does not necessarily qualify a film as pornography.
Cartoon pornography is the portrayal of illustrated or animated fictional characters in erotic or sexual situations. This includes but is not limited to parody renditions of famous cartoons and comics.
The advent of the Internet and the emergence of personal computers have given artists more freedom to explore and exchange ideas and techniques, resulting in a wide variety of work, which can range from beautiful artistic renditions to very lewd images. The freedom of the Internet and the use of the personal computer as a rendering tool have allowed many artists who would not have had an audience to freely distribute and promote their works. Some artists have found such success creating original erotic parodies of well-known jack glascock animated characters, they have spawned various e-commerce websites, and many enjoy a loyal following.
[edit] Styles of cartoon pornography
Due to the greater freedom given to the artists, cartoon pornography allows greater diversity than regular pornography. Many pornographic cartoons depict sexual behavior that involves bestiality, bisexuality, homosexuality, group sex, incest, pedophilia, and other forms taboo sexual behavior.
Some artists use parodies of pre-existing cartoon or comics characters, drawing for example Walt Disney's famous princesses, television characters, or comic book characters in various states of undress and possibly engaged in sexual activity. Other favorite sources of pornographic cartoon parodies include Warner Brothers cartoon characters such as Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, and Pepe LePew; newspaper comic strip characters such as Dennis the Menace, the Family Circus, and Luann; and such television or movie characters as those of The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Pok?mon, Sailor Moon, Family Guy, The Simpsons, Star Trek, Star Wars and lately Naruto. Other artists, such as Jab, use their own characters and create erotic comics. Artists who draw pre-existing characters do not generally have any special notability among the cartoon pornography community, in contrast, some of the artists who draw their own characters, such as Alazar, Bill Ward, Kevin J. Taylor, or John Willie, have gained a cult fan base. The animation duo Sven & Angus (Rum Runners, creators of Brickhouse Betty), have gained such a huge fan base that they have even won an AVN Award, the "Oscars" of the adult film industry.
The artistic style of cartoon pornography can vary wildly, as it can in mainstream cartoons. Artists who parody pre-existing characters usually mimic the style of the characters' creators, although some draw in different styles. Realistic drawings are very common, as they stimulate many viewers, though the style may vary from highly realistic to extremely simple.
As cartoon pornography does not have to use real-life humans as models, the characters depicted do not have jack glascock to represent normal adult women or men. Furry characters, especially females, are very common. The types of renditions found vary from human to animal to extraterrestrial.
Since web-authoring tools like Adobe Flash has become popular over recent years, some have made cartoon pornography in forms of Flash animations. Others may make interactive cartoons, often in the form of "dress-up games". These are often found on entertainment sites aimed at mature audiences, such as Newgrounds.
Erotic art
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Fragonard's The Swing is rather tame for modern standards, but in the 18th century depicting a lady with a man able to look up her skirts was considered highly erotic.
Fragonard's The Swing is rather tame for modern standards, but in the 18th century depicting a lady with a man able to look up her skirts was considered highly erotic.
Erotic art covers any artistic work including paintings, sculptures, photographs, music and writings that is intended to evoke erotic arousal or that depicts scenes of love-making jack glascock.
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