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Music peoples are all abuzz this week over the cover of UK rag NME, which features Beth Ditto, the lead singer of indie-punk stalwarts The Gossip, completely starkers. Why all the fuss? Let’s just say she doesn’t exactly fit the mold of your Britneys, Avrils, Duffs, Stefanis, Beyoncés, or basically any other female artist that you’ll see flaunting it on the cover of any music magazine … ever. Long time fans of the group know that Beth is not exactly shy about showing off her body, so while it has certainly gotten people talking, there seems to be a decided lack of outrage and/or shock about seeing quite that much skin on the cover a popular magazine. Perhaps it’s because nothing rock stars do anymore is surprising, or maybe one publicity stunt is just as good as another? Or as one blogger puts it: "Is it because she is a ‘larger than life’ kind of character, making it fine to use her to sell magazines … Or is it because there is a market for fat, nude women in pornographic positions?" Um … can’t it be both?

· The Gossip’s Beth Ditto poses nude for mag (thehollywoodnews.com; more @ Idolator + brooklynvegan.com)
· “The Gossip’s Beth Ditto on the cover of NME” (Flickr)
· NME Magazine (nme.com)

Previously: Corn-Fed Porn Of The Moment: “Waist Watchers”, Porn Valley (Adjacent) Dispatch: Golf for Skylar Neil, Sexy(ish) Music Video Watch: Marilyn Manson Rubs It In Our Face, Sunblock Rubs You The Right Way, Queen’s Naked "Bicycle Race", Cock Rock: Rockers With Their Pants Down, Son Of Still More Sexy Music Videos: Meet DVJ Bazuka, Lene Alexandra’s Boobs Are (More Than Just) OK

Original post by Fleshbot

Like the classic "Betty or Veronica" and "Ginger or Mary Ann" debates, how you answer the question "Kirk or Spock?" says a lot about you as a person. (Either way you’re a geek, but bear with us.) Even in retirement their alter-egos carry on the battle of "passion vs. logic," only now they do it in the final frontier of nude photography. While William Shatner chooses to get up close (and maybe a little too personal) with Playboy models, Leonard Nimoy has created a nice second career for himself shooting artistic portraits of women you generally won’t find in one of his movies.

We’ve mentioned his "Full Body Project" before, but (two years later) The New York Times has gotten on board with a thoughtful look at this ongoing work, which is currently featured in galleries across the country and will culminate in a book to be released later this year. Naturally, the discussion focuses on his fascination with large women and the paper discovers that for the most part, people don’t seem to mind that much. His message of body acceptance hasn’t exactly reached the pages of Vogue, but maybe the fact that people might actually want to see pictures of full-sized naked women isn’t so shocking these days, even if some of the kids can’t seem to wrap their heads around the idea. Enduring all the fat jokes with a Vulcan-like patience is no problem for Nimoy, who clearly sees his work as more than just a hobby (or a one-time lark, like the old captain.) He’s out to change minds, one planet at a time.

· "Girth and Nudity, a Pictorial Mission" (nytimes.com)
· Leonard Nimoy Photography (leonardnimoyphotography.com)

Previously: Nudes by Leonard Nimoy, Leonard Nimoy: Full Body Project, William Shatner Does Playboy

Original post by Fleshbot

Remember, like, six months ago, when all naked ladies were the same? When you didn’t care if they were tall or short, black, Asian, with a bone through their nose, pregnant, lactating, tied up, or kicked off “American Idol” as long as they were naked and, perhaps, blowing you? The hyper-nichification of porn is responsible for “Waist Watchers”, in which more-than-size-zero women do on film what more-than-size-zero women have been doing in real life for eons, except this time with high heels on.

Some of the women in this collection are merely “healthy”, whereas others are chunky by any international standard. Join us after the gap for a preview. - GP

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I am a big fan of the sturdy, but I am assured this title is not in the even more rarefied plumpers niche, in which (in its ultra-orthodox definition - and we’re not blasphemers around here) women get larger over the course of the movie. These ladies showed up at the studio this way. Kirstyn, above, is the bounciest of them all.

The extra Spanish language track was very helpful (as was the tape measure on the boxcover), so I could watch ladies who looked my sassy aunts. I really do think that “Ay Papi” was invented in a lab somewhere; I never heard anyone outside of porn using it.

By the time Lucky came around, though, we were not any longer in the Realm of the Fat, which goes against the unambiguous product description:

Real women have curves! Grab their love handles, pull their greasy hair, shove their fat face in the pillow, and tell ‘em Dominoes is on the way! For all you chubby chasers and heavy hitters, we present big clits, fat tits, big hips, and fat lips! These scale-bustin’ sluts are sex-starved and hungry for some skinny dude cock! They’re a ton of fun and in desperate need of some cardio–give them a workout they’ll never forget and punish their meaty moist pussies ’til they sweat! Bang these fat fucks ’til they stop eating and start feeding on your sausage instead! Enjoy the finest fat twat ever lensed–It’s more cushion for the pushin’!

Ditto Lucy Love. “Keeps her meals down” doesn’t equal “fat”.

There are many delightful terms for women who don’t break apart upon entering: corn-fed, zaftig, voluptuous, and (my favorite) Landmädel. I think Vanessa Lee has the right idea here.

· Zero Tolerance (ztvideo.com)
· Buy “Waist Watchers” (gamelink.com)

Previously: Porn Valley Dispatch Archive

Original post by Fleshbot