Midnight Sex Talk

SEASONAL NUDITY

Well, it is always in season, is it not?

Above, a friend of mine. Below, from the old school, by Bougereau.

I have received a lovely book of 1000 photographic nudes from 1839-1939. You can always rely on Taschen. Thank you Kim. :-)

And check out what The Pleasure Project is doing. They've teamed up with Passiononline to promote safer sex around the world. Get your toys there and help a very important cause.

Hope you're loving all the lying around...

FESTIVE DEATH ROUNDUP / RESONANCE FM NEWS

First of all, great news! In case you didn't already know, Resonance FM has finally been given its five-year licence. This is a superb Christmas present for all of us, and we celebrated last night at Bar Kick in Shoreditch High Street. Big ups, shouts, etc, to the Resonance crew, who have been working extremely hard to keep everything going while we waited for Ofcom's decision. Tomorrow - the world!

I have had a somewhat cool present of my own, which I shall reveal in due course...

For the first time in Midnight Sex Talk's 32-show history, we issued a Disturbing Content Warning, but only because we were talking about dead bodies and stuff. Two of our favourite regulars, Dr Ben and Alex Fitch, became positively competitive as they vied to provide the most gruesome details. Above, the famous Necrocard. I was given a fistful of these many years ago by Stewart Home, during a book launch at an 'exclusive' private members club. (You know, the kind where they need bouncers to tell you not to do drugs in the loos, the main reason being that you did not buy the drugs from them.) The barman, a floppy-haired screenwriter-manque type who was probably being dry-humped by the resident fag-hag at the time, did not agree that his counter was a good place to distribute the cards, pronouncing them 'disgusting', or some such.

Useful links: Rob's Necrophilia Site, and Death online. Films we mentioned: Kissed, Dans Ma Peau, Nekromantik, Frankenhooker, and Mordum. And here's an interesting essay about snuff movies.

Kim has, very sensibly, left London for a bit, and I am holding the fort here. We're having a break on 1st January, and the next show will be on Sunday 15 January 2006.

More very soon, is my intention. But just in case I succumb to Christmas flop-out and do not post for a bit, we want to thank you all for listening and supporting the show. And another big thank you to all our guests and contributors over the past 12 months.

Festive hugs from both of us. :-)

SUNDAY 18th DECEMBER - LE PETIT MORT

Death. Sex and death. Snuff porn. Necrophilia.

A doctor will be in attendance.

11.30pm-12.30am UK time, on Resonance 104.4 FM in London, and on the internet at Resonancefm.com.

Text us during the allotted time on 07957 362 182. Email us using the 'Email me' link to the left. If you wish to address us live on air, send us your number and we may call you back.

Compliments of the season.

MEDIA MASSACRE ROUNDUP

OK, mea culpa, it's a bit of a dumb name but, for this show, it had the right self-referential vibe: eye-catching, overblown, and slightly inaccurate.

Are we getting the media we deserve? When advertisers are in charge, and opinions are left in the hands of focus groups and check boxes, and we accept it, this is what we're going to get. It's a shame, because there are some powerful brands out there that are in a perfect position to push boundaries and make people think, a lot more than they are now.

Here's Al, below, after the show.

Note: Al writes for Cosmo, as have I, among many other mags, so we are in this up to the elbow and bear some responsibility for the situation. Al also writes for Scarlet, as again have I, which is an honourable new exception to lot of what we've been going on about. Sadly, the editor, Sarah Hedley, couldn't make it, but we're sure to be having her on the show sometime in the new year.

We had to mention Zoo magazine's boob job prize. Check out the variety of comments. Perhaps this is the much younger generation talking, but the idea that your boyfriend entering a competition to win you a pair of bigger tits is somehow sweet, because 'at least he was thinking about you', beggars belief.

Back in the day, I got some of my earliest sex education from She magazine, which had acres of tasty problem pages. By now, however, there must have been approximately 18,672 Ways to Orgasm! documented in the women's glossies to date, but I just don't count whether that special cat-shaped satin cushion is supposed to be placed at 90 degrees to your bits, or 180, as a distinction. And a scented candle is not a position.

The podcast will be out very soon, and we'll be back on Sunday 18th December for the Christmas show. It's gonna be dark. I mean really this time. ;-)

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