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by Candi Rose
Copyright 1995 by Sams Publishing
It wasn't until I went into Blockbuster the other day that I realized
that all libraries whether video, book, or even software file
seem to merge into a shapeless, generic, personality-free archival
spot. Think about it: What's the difference between your local
library, an Internet FTP archive, and Blockbuster? They're all
organized in confusing and barely comprehensible ways (who was
the Dewey of the Dewey Decimal System, anyway, and why is
it so darn pervasive?), and it's invariably a longer search than
it should be to find specific information.
As a result, when Dirk told me that I had to write the chapter
on picture and story archives, I chuckled uncomfortably and said,
"Uh, sure, I'll see what I can find, but I can't say that
I'll be able to find anything without years of exploration."
He shrugged, so here I am, and here you are, reading this.
The good news is that once I really started digging around and
comparing resources, I found a surprising amount of different
material and archives though they are, predictably, organized
in baffling ways and are subject to major changes without any
sort of notice. This will be frustrating, and for that, I apologize.
If I had the money, I'd just set up a real, permanent archival
computer that would serve as a central site for finding all sorts
of neat and interesting stuff.
You probably already know that there's a huge difference between
the various net services. A file accessible through electronic
mail might also be available through the World Wide Web at a
URL (geek shorthand for Universal Resource Locator,
a sort of master address), yet the way you access the two
is dramatically different. For this chapter, I decided that any
site that offered FTP, e-mail, Gopher, or Web access to data that
was likely to be there two weeks later qualified as an archive.
E-mail archives you can figure out: You send a specific e-mail
message to a specific address, and a program responds with certain
information, files, or stories. FTP is a simple file-transfer
protocol that allows you to get files directly from another system
on the Internet. When I talk about anonymous FTP, that
means you should log in to the remote server as user anonymous
. It'll let you in if it's not too busy. Mac and PC users
can find tons of software on the Net too!
Gopher is the next step up from FTP. Instead of having to worry
about what machine you're connecting to, what directory to search
in, and so on, you can focus on the material itself. I really
like Gopher a lot when I'm poking around, looking for information.
Finally, the top dog of them all is Mosaic, as well as other graphical
interfaces to what's called the World Wide Web. It's a huge set
of hypertext documents that point to each other and let you hop
around from Japan to India, Ireland to South Africa without your
even noticing, and with attractive graphics, multiple typefaces,
and more. It's way fun! You can find all sorts of neat stuff along
the way when you're searching for something!
Some of the coolest information available to us net folks is contained
in the frequently asked questions (FAQ) files, with information
ranging from a summary of sexually transmitted diseases, to how
to pick the right condom size, to what you can do with handcuffs.
In fact, we felt that the FAQ files were sufficiently important
that they have their own chapter (Chapter 11). I definitely recommend
that you check them out and read the ones that seem like they
might be of interest.
This is an interesting archive full of tons and tons of useful
stuff, though not too much in the way of pictures, and precious
little erotic graphics. You can poke around by using anonymous
FTP to connect to ftp.funet.fi.
If you want to download pictures, they ask that you use the login
pictures rather than the usual anonymous so
that they can manage the traffic a bit better.
Don't forget: This system is in Finland, so it uses a lot of long-distance
wire to get to your computer. In fact, it seems like just about
everywhere in the world is less repressive about sex and sexuality
than the U.S., so you'll find that lots of stuff is overseas in
Germany, England, France, Finland, or Norway. You can tell by
the last two letters of the computer name: .fi is
Finland, .uk is England, .de is Germany,
.fr is France, and .no is Norway.
Once you're in, move to the pub directory and then
to pics. Here I found some cool stuff in misc
. There were more neat pictures, some of which were pretty
sexy, and some of which were definitely in violation of copyright,
in the fantasy directory.
If there's a will, there's a way. Here's a prime example: Lots
of people buy or rent pornographic videotapes, so it's not too
surprising to find these films discussed on the Usenet. The newsgroup
alt.sex.movies is where you'd
find this, as we mention in Chapter 3. Since it's helpful to know
a bit about the plot (if any) before you buy one of these movies,
Rich Thompson has put together a site that contains all sorts
of interesting and valuable dirty movie information.
Here's just some of the dirt you can uncover by connecting with
your favorite Web browser to URL
http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/asm/asm.html:
WELCOME TO THE ALT.SEX.MOVIES HOME PAGE
This information has been culled from postings to alt.sex.movies, as well as
from contributions made directly to the maintainer of these pages. Much of the
original "seed" information comes courtesy of Dan Abend's "abserver" e-mail
server. Other notable contributors from alt.sex.movies are Peter van Aarle and
VideoSan from their massive film databases and Rick Christmas from his
"behind-the-scenes" contributions.
If you have any contributions, corrections, or updates of your own, mail them
to legalize@xmission.com.
Last updated September 14th, 1994.
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Table of Contents
* Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
* Adult movie guides
* List of fan club addresses
* List of birthdays
* List of mail-order sources
* List of online sources
* List of good, OK, and bad video companies
* Biographies and filmographies
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You may also want to take a look at the following:
* Sex, Censorship, and the Internet by Carl M. Kadie.
* Fake Science and Pornography Libertarian Alliance Pamphlet No. 20 by
Avedon Carol.
There's also an e-mail-based archive server, but if you can get
to the Web, you'll find that you can access a large superset of
the information available through e-mail at the abend mail server.
Dirk, however, tells me that he's sure this one won't last long
once we've published this book, since someone at Ohio State is
bound to notice that one of the computers in their computer science
department is being used for porn film star biographies. Maybe
so. All the more reason to try this one immediately before
it's removed, I figure!
Anyway, to work with the e-mail server, send a mail message to
abend@cis.ohio-state.edu
with the subject line abserver-request . Your
subject must be exactly like what I'm showing here or it
won't work. Within the message itself, you can include one of
a number of requests. I started with send index and
received the following:
From: ABServer@cis.ohio-state.edu
Subject: ABServer Index
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 1994 23:35:32 -0400
There is currently a limit of 5 files per e-mail message
help - ABServer help file
index - Index of all available files
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Directory: asm -- Alt.Sex.Movies archive
Information related to all aspects of adult films.
Update Directory/Filename Description
-------- ------------------- -------------------------------------------
06-06-94 asm/FAQ Frequently Asked Questions - Alt.Sex.Movies
11-03-93 asm/Guide2Guides List of Guides about Pornography
06-07-94 asm/Playmates Bio info about Playboy's Playmates
11-03-93 asm/Recommendations Adult video recommendations from Susie
Bright, Gene Ross, Jim Holliday
===============================================================================
Directory: bio -- Adult Film Star Biographies
Most services offering biographies charge for their service. Note the
biographies located on this server are free of charge and in return all that is
asked is that you add any information you can or contribute corrections. If
this service is abused or any of these biographies are found being distributed
for a fee, this service will be discontinued.
Update Directory/Filename
-------- ----------------------
A
04-29-94 bio/TraceyAdams
05-03-94 bio/Aja
05-25-94 bio/BrandyAlexandre
06-12-94 bio/LittleOralAnnie
04-11-94 bio/EbonyAyes
04-11-94 bio/LoisAyres
B
05-06-94 bio/AngelaBaron
12-11-93 bio/KristaraBarrington
04-12-94 bio/BunnyBleu
04-25-94 bio/EricaBoyer
C
04-16-94 bio/Cameo
04-21-94 bio/ChristyCanyon
12-11-93 bio/LaurylCanyon
01-01-94 bio/Celeste
06-12-94 bio/Champagne
12-14-93 bio/NikkiCharm
04-11-94 bio/CareenaCollins
04-19-94 bio/CarolCummings
D
05-05-94 bio/BarbaraDare
01-14-94 bio/RacquelDarrian
04-03-94 bio/BuffyDavis
05-30-94 bio/LisaDeleeuw
01-07-94 bio/VanessaDelRio
12-13-93 bio/NikkiDial
E
04-17-94 bio/CandiEvans
F
06-14-94 bio/JeannaFine
G
12-13-93 bio/AshlynGere
H
04-11-94 bio/HeatherHart
01-28-94 bio/NinaHartley
06-02-94 bio/AnnetteHaven
06-12-94 bio/DeidreHolland
05-29-94 bio/HeatherHunter
K
12-11-93 bio/Kascha
04-27-94 bio/Keisha
06-03-94 bio/NikkiKnights
L
06-14-94 bio/KristaLane
01-16-94 bio/HyapatiaLee
05-26-94 bio/TamaraLee
06-14-94 bio/LynnLeMay
05-21-94 bio/JanetteLittledove
01-07-94 bio/TamaraLongley
01-07-94 bio/TraciLords
12-12-93 bio/TrinityLoren
04-02-94 bio/AmberLynn
05-04-94 bio/GingerLynn
06-14-94 bio/PorscheLynn
M
06-14-94 bio/Madison
06-04-94 bio/KendallMarx
01-15-94 bio/ShannaMcCullough
06-14-94 bio/ArcieMiller
P
01-12-94 bio/VictoriaParis
06-04-94 bio/PattyPetite
12-11-93 bio/PaulaPrice
Q
01-07-94 bio/AlexandriaQuinn
R
06-13-94 bio/TaijaRae
06-05-94 bio/Raven
06-14-94 bio/KeliRichards
06-07-94 bio/DanielleRogers
05-22-94 bio/RachelRyan
04-20-94 bio/HollyRyder
S
04-29-94 bio/Savannah
06-14-94 bio/SandraScream
06-14-94 bio/Sierra
06-11-94 bio/PJSparx
06-13-94 bio/AliceSprings
01-07-94 bio/SheriStClair
05-26-94 bio/TabithaStevens
05-26-94 bio/JenniferStewart
06-14-94 bio/SamanthaStrong
12-11-93 bio/AngelaSummers
12-12-93 bio/JamieSummers
W
12-09-93 bio/TeriWeigel
05-24-94 bio/ToriWelles
12-12-93 bio/ZaraWhites
To actually receive one of these biographies, say one for Hyapatia
Lee, I would send another message that looks like this:
To: abend@cis.ohio-state.edu
Subject: abserver-request
send bio/HyapatiaLee
Here's a snippet of the information I then learn about this versatile
adult actress:
HYAPATIA LEE BIOGRAPHY Last Update: Thur April 14, 1994
=============================================================================
In the listing below, question marks indicate where the information shown has
not been confirmed. If you have any more information, please send it to me so
that I might keep the list updated and correct. If you wish to redistribute
this list, feel free to do so but please leave my name intact so that I might
be credited with all the hard work that has gone into it. Thanks to those who
have provided additional information.
Dan Abend (abend@cis.ohio-state.edu) "The Bio Keeper"
E-mail abend@cis.ohio-state.edu with the subject abserver-request
=============================================================================
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
=============================================================================
Stage Name : Hyapatia Lee
Real Name :
Birthdate : November 11, 1962
Background : American Indian
Height : 5'4"
Measurements: 38-24-36
Fan Club : Hyapatia Lee
15127 Califa Street
Van Nuys, CA 91344
Awards : FOXE 93 Best Female Performer
* dancer
* has a band (W4IK) that plays in the L.A. area
"This Indian maiden has been a fan favorite for well over five years, due to
her exceptional beauty, classy appearance, and knack for picking only the best
features to perform in. Hyapatia took some time off to have a baby and returned
to porn more unbridled than ever. The foxy young thing who starred in The Young
Like It Hot has turned into a sex bomb extraordinaire as can be seen in her
wild sexing in Bratgirl. Her raven hair, tanned and taut figure, combined with
that stunningly beautiful smile, make her special indeed." - Adam Film World
1990
There's a rather impressive list of the films she's starred in or otherwise appeared in too, including Get Off With Hyapatia Lee and Dirk's favorite, Naughty Girls Need Love Too.
Trying a different sort of approach to sex and dirty articles
(and pictures), I jumped over to the sexily-named Uncover Reveal
service, which indexes articles in thousands of magazines and
journals. I got there by typing
telnet database.carl.org,
then logged in with the default user profile. (Don't worry;
it's easy. Just try it!) I searched for articles that mention
"sex" in their title or summary and found over 10,000
matches! "Sex and fun" had seven matches:
1 Diamond, Jared (Playboy. 09/01/93)
Why is Sex Fun? - Guest opinion.
2 Gordon, Dianna. (State legislatures. 07/01/93)
It's not about sex - it's about power.
3 (Harper's bazaar. 06/01/92)
Sexpertise; The Definitive '90s Guidelines: America'...
4 Paglia, Camille (The New republic. ... 12/02/91)
The Joy of Presbyterian Sex. The chic liberalism of
5 Lessner, Jonathan I. (University of Miami law review.
09/01/90)
Masson v. New Yorker Magazine, Inc.: "Sex, Women, Fu...
6 Rose, Frank (Premiere. 02/01/90)
Mr. Big.
7 Westheimer, Ruth K. (Redbook : the magazine for young...
07/01/89)
The Joys Of (Quickie) Sex.
Article number one sounded interesting, so I requested more information:
AUTHOR(s): Diamond, Jared
TITLE(s): Why is Sex Fun? - Guest opinion.
In: Playboy.
SEP 01 1993 v 40 n 9
Page: 38
The publisher does not permit us to deliver this article.
Please ask for assistance at your library.
Alas. In any case, this is just a huge table of contents. To actually
read any of these articles, you either have to go to your
local library (though I just happen to have a subscription to
Playboy myself, which makes finding this article a bit
easier), or you can have them fax the article to you for a relatively
hefty fee ($8.50 per article).
Whether you want an article and are willing to pay or just want
to poke around and find stuff about a particular topic, this is
the place to go!
This is a serious erotica magazine that's published, printed,
and available at various newsstands. It's also one of the magazines
on the Electronic Newsstand, which means that you can peek at
the table of contents and sometimes even read a story or two for
free! Connect to
gopher.internet.com
with your Gopher program and choose Electronic Newsstand
, then Magazines by Title , and find Yellow
Silk. Within are the table of contents of a bunch of issues
and some articles. For the latter, look in the Current Issue directory.
Here's a snippet of the contents of issue 46:
STORIES
*Peter and the Wolf* by Angela Carter "Her lips opened
up as she howled so that
she offered him, without her own intention or volition, a view
of a set of
Chinese boxes of whorled flesh that seemed to open one upon another
into
herself, drawing him into an inner, secret place in which destination
perpetually receded before him, his first, devastating, vertiginous
intimation
of infinity."
*House Spirits* by Stephen Minot "The eating over,
Bojo pours sweet apple
brandy into a small glass, dips a finger in, and extends it to
Tony. She licks
it leisurely. Josh offers her the same. Then it is her turn, holding
out a
moist finger first to one of them and then to the other in turn.
They lick lips
and sigh."
*Yubi* by Mary Maddox "Yubi turned and pecked her other
fingers and knuckles,
her whole hand, not biting but kissing with such wild abandon
that his tail
feathers fanned open."
POETRY
*Butterfly Physics; & more* by Carolyn Lau "Blue
man white swan /sings me
inside the skin of white ginger petals"
*The Stretch for Sound; & more* by George Kalamaras
"But there is no /original,
she said, fingering the dark /parts of my ear. Below my navel,
/my infinite
ocean /might come out smoking"
*Equinox; & more* by Honor Moore "You have /removed
my clothes, and we shudder,
uncertainty in a climate of /faith. When you ask me to open: whales
at a
tranquil surface, /transparency, and movement."
*You Ask Me About Birds . . .; & more* by Samuel Green
"if sometimes, when a
heron /spread her great wings to dry /in whatever sun there was
I /thought of
you, the hidden strength /unfolding from your body"
Back when Dirk started showing me all the cool spots on the Internet
to find sexy stuff, he called me late one night, quite excited:
"Gopher to olt.et.tudelft.nl
and check it out!" So I did, and I was really amazed
at the wide variety of images available on what turned out to
be the Electronic Engineering group at Delft in the Netherlands.
Lots of XXX images, organized by whether it was guys, women, both,
animals, and lots of other stuff. It was very well done, and there
were lots of fun graphics to upload and enjoy.
The bad news is that just before we finished writing this book,
I checked again to make sure everything was still okay. I found
that the machine had changed, and that they'd had to remove all
traces of their adult graphics. Very sad. It's still a cool spot
to poke around, so I'd recommend that you check it out nonetheless.
Just remember that it used to be much, much more interesting.
Perhaps it will be again in the future.
Here's how it looks when you connect:
1. ...you're 1 777777 The fun and.
2. young, 11 7 leisure box.
3. sweet 1 7 on the 17th.
4. and 1 7 Electronic-.
5. 111 7 Engineering.
6. Digital picture archive of the 17th floor (gifs, etc.)/
7. Digital Sound Archive of the 17th floor/
8. On-line cooking recipes/
9. On-line 'groene boekje', lists of words/
10. On-line Bible/
11. Humor and fun archive/
12. On-line books (remote)/
The picture archive, which used to have an entry for "porno,"
now contains this:
7. Read this before you start peeping.
8. Additional information and gopher statistics/
9. automatic picture feed from usenet news/
10. art/
11. cars/
12. comic/
13. computer/
14. faces/
15. junk/
16. nature/
17. new/
18. other/
19. planes/
20. space/
21. src/
22. technology/
I poked around the graphics that they have available. Some of
them are still pretty nice, but there are so many graphics, it
can take a while to figure out what's what. I found some in comics
and faces to be kind of fun.
This rather amazingly comprehensive document is maintained by
the group at Casti Consulting, and you can obtain a copy of it
either through e-mail, FTP, or the Web. If you want to get the
doc through anonymous FTP, connect to vector.casti.com,
change directories to pub/QRD , and look at
the wide variety of files therein.
Getting the guide through e-mail is a tiny bit trickier, but not
too bad. I figured it out on the first try. Send a message to
ftpmail@vector.casti.com
that looks like this:
To: ftpmail@vector.casti.com
Subject: send QRD
open
cd pub/QRD
get 00README
get 0FREQUENTLY.ASKED.QUESTIONS
dir
quit
The database here is really quite comprehensive. Here's a small snippet of what's available, from the file called 0HIGHLIGHTS:
HIGHLIGHTS of the Queer Resources Directory [as of 06/15/94]:
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* Interested in marrying your same-sex partner? We have
the full text of the
recently passed Swedish and Norwegian marriage laws! Look in
/pub/QRD/world/europe/sweden/same.sex.partnership.law.txt
/pub/QRD/world/europe/norway/same.sex.registered.partnership.info.
* Amnesty International USA has been waging a six-month-long
campaign called
"Breaking the Silence" to highlight gay rights worldwide.
Look in
/pub/QRD/orgs/AIMLGC/breaking.the.silence.campaign.
* The Queer Resources Browse directory has been set up with
links to some of
the most interesting things in the Collection /pub/QRD/browse.
* Just what is the QRD? Who runs it? How can I access it?
These questions and
more are answered in David Casti's compilation of Frequently Asked
Questions
and Answers About the QRD:
/pub/QRD/0FREQUENTLY-ASKED-QUESTIONS
* Need an address for a media contact? It should be in one
of these files,
including addresses for all the networks and popular news shows,
major media
sources, print and electronic, straight and queer:
/pub/QRD/media/media.directory-94
/pub/QRD/browse/us.national.fax.directory
/pub/QRD/media/media.email.contact.list
/pub/QRD/media/contacts/queer.press.list
* The QRD is proud to announce that we have a number of
sample articles as well
as background information on DEB PRICE, the only out lesbian syndicated
columnist in the United States. For more info, look in
/pub/QRD/media/print/deb.price/.
* Did you know there is a weekly international gay and lesbian
radio magazine
airing on almost 90 radio stations in seven different countries?
To find out
when THIS WAY OUT airs on a radio station near you, look in
/pub/QRD/media/radio/this.way.out.station.list-06.04.94.
* The NGLTF has put together some great resources to use
against the Radical
Religious Right: the FIGHT THE RIGHT action kit, the Right Response
Report, a
Survey of Voters' Attitudes, and more!
/pub/QRD/orgs/NGLTF/ftr/action.kit
/pub/QRD/orgs/NGLTF/ftr/the.right.response-ngltf.report
/pub/QRD/orgs/NGLTF/survey.of.voters.attitudes
* What has U.S. Federal Judge Stephen Breyer said about
gay rights? There is a
list of gay-related cases he has ruled on in
/pub/QRD/usa/federal/judge.stephen.breyer.gay.cases.
* Having a hard time trying to get ahold of a queer organization?
Check this
list of phone numbers for national LGB organizations:
/pub/QRD/orgs/national.lgb.orgs.phone.list
* Are you in North America? Do you need someone to talk
to? Check out the list
of phone hotlines and community centers:
/pub/QRD/world/americas/north.american.glb.resources
* Does the company you are applying to give benefits to
your life partner? Do
they have a sexual orientation nondiscrimination policy? Check
these files to
find out:
/pub/QRD/dp/orgs.with.domestic.partner.benefits
/pub/QRD/workplace/sexual.orientation.nondiscrimination
* Check out the List of LGBT* Mailing Lists file, a comprehensive(?)
list of
"family" lists:
/pub/QRD/electronic/email/lgbt.lol
* A complete list of Senate and House fax/phone numbers
can be found in
/pub/QRD/usa/federal/congress-103.
* Over 400 queer computer BBSs found all over the world
are listed in the file
/pub/QRD/electronic/queer.bbs.list.
* A list of over 200 movies with same-sex themes and addresses
on how you can
order them is found in
/pub/QRD/media/film/glbo.films.list.
* Another list of mainstream movies with same-sex content
is found in
/pub/QRD/media/film/movies.with.motss.content.
* And much, much more! (A + indicates that the file was
added to the directory
recently)
As you can see, lots and lots of information is available at this
site. I don't know how they can afford this much disk space, but
it's sure invaluable!
Other files that you might want to check out in the Queer Resources Directory include:
browse/the.motss.video.list
browse/queer.bbs.list
browse/glbo.films.list
browse/organizations.for.women
There are tons of valuable files and information at this site.
I really recommend that if you're interested in this, spend some
time poking around and see what you can find.
It's not widespread to the entire Usenet (probably fortunately),
but if you're involved with any of the MOTSS newsgroups or mailing
lists and you find someone there pretty interesting (or annoying!),
you might just want to peek here to see if you can put a face
to the name. There are a couple of places you can find this archive,
but the best one I found was through anonymous FTP at vector.casti.com.
Connect and move to directory /pub/motss.pix .
Here's what the maintainer, Steve Dyer, says about what's inside
it:
This is a collection of photos of regular soc.motss
readers and contributors who have agreed to allow
their pictures to be redistributed here. This should help round
out your image of who is writing the articles you've been reading.
If you're looking for the salacious, look elsewhere. These are
photographs you could send to your mother mostly face shots. Some
are from the last several motss conventions. (Some of the recent
photos require that you have rather, er, bohemian parents, but
this is still not a porn archive.)
This archive is organized by the first letter of the filename,
of all weird things. For example, if you're looking for a picture
of me, you'd need to look under C in the index of pictures, seeking
a file like candi_rose.gif, which would be in graphics
interchange format, or candi_rose.jpeg. JPEG is a
higher-quality photo image format that's becoming more popular,
but it requires more memory on your computer to see it.
If this site doesn't work for you, for whatever reason, you can
also look for all the same pictures, in the same file organization,
at the site ursa-major.spdcc.com,
where you'll again want to connect through anonymous FTP.
Silly as they are, I know a lot of people who have taken one of
the many "purity tests" that are floating around. In
fact, according to the alt.sex FAQ, there are over
30 different versions, some HyperCard stacks for the Macintosh,
and even programs for the PC, all intending to show you just how
pure and innocent (or impure and guilty!) you are sexually.
If this kinda stuff is what you think of as fun, the Internet
is the place for you. We found two different Purity Test Archives
in our searches on the Net, both accessible through anonymous
FTP: ocf.berkeley.edu (look
in pub/purity) and quartz.rutgers.edu
(look in pub/purity ).
I looked at Rutgers to see what they had, and in the directory
pub/purity, I found the following index to purity
tests (file directory):
These are the tests I currently have (as of Tue Jun 14 17:29:53 EDT 1994)
(kudos and thanks to Arthur Bernard Byrne, Carl Boernecke, and Blair Seidler
for help in acquiring) -- hagmanti@student.msu.edu
70 --- Ronnie Geller Immorality Quiz
75 --- "this is for those with REALLY low Purity scores"
100MF --- Allegedly the original MIT Baker House versions; one male, one female
(see also 100i,j)
100a --- Rice Purity Test
100b --- Unknown origin; obtained via CMU
100c --- From a Penthouse column Sept. 1989
100d --- Ricket's House Purity Test
100e --- Unknown origin; obtained via UGa
100f --- Dabney House Purity Test from Cal Tech (in Eric Lechner's purity test
program format)
100g --- Official Lloyd House Women's/Men's Purity Tests; one male, one female)
(22-Aug-78)
100h --- The Ivory Snow (Job) Purity Test (almost the same as 100a, with
scoring categories)
100i --- The Baker House Purity tests; one male, one female
100j --- The Baker House Purity tests; one male, one female (supposedly
current, as of 14-Jun-94)
200a --- Condensation of the 500; obtained via JHU (5.0 -- 26-Sep-90)
200b --- Purity for the Impatient (by Dan Birchall) (1.0.0 -- 04-Sep-93)
225 --- The Unisex Experience Test
247 --- First CMU version (?2? -- spring-83)
350 --- For those with really low scores on everything else (5.02 -- 29-Mar-90)
400 --- Apparently, a differently formatted version of the 400a -- but, since
it is not formatted as well, I'm guessing it came out first.
400a --- Second CMU version (3.5A -- 13-Apr-85)
400b --- Anti-Celibacy League Version (4.0 -- Sep-88)
400c --- The Unisex, Omnisexual Purity Test -- PSU/sk, ct version
(4.01 -- 13-Oct-88)
425 --- Third CMU version (3.6 -- 18-Feb-86) (footnotes)
500 --- Yale/Dartmouth version (4.0 -- 23-Apr-88)
500a --- The 1,000,000 Question Purity Test, Part 1 (Questions 1 through 500)
600 --- SUNY Patsdam/Clarkson version (5.0 -- 8-Dec-90)
800 --- Purities and Improprieties Test -- from somewhere in the DC area
(1.3 -- 22-Jul-92)
1000 --- Pervert's Anonymous Qualification Form (Oregon State version)
(2.2.75 -- 14-Apr-90)
1000a--- Appears to be the above, minus some headers.
1000b--- The Unisex, Omnisexual Purity Test (the above, revised)
(5.1 -- 23-Nov-1990)
1000c--- The Omnisex Unisexual Purity Test (5.2 -- 15-Sep-1992)
1500 --- The Unisex Purity Test (6.6b -- 17-Aug-1992)
1500a--- The Unisex Purity Test (6.6c -- 25-Mar-1993) (received from author)
Tests that need (or with which you can use) software
100f -- Dabney House Purity Test from Cal Tech (in Eric Lechner's purity test
program format)
500.com -- VAX/VMS script (procedure?) that does the 500 question version for
you (tabulates scores automagically, not answering a question is the
same as answering yes)
500.el -- The 500 question version, converted to GNU emacs lisp (interactive)
(4.1A -- 5-Apr-89)
500.tex -- The above, converted to LaTeX by jkm and gwe from University of
Kentucky (4.1 -- 89)
500.hyper -- The 500 Question purity test for use with Macs (System 6 or 7) and
Hypercard -- needs BinHex 4.0 to decode
hacker.512a-- The hacker test -- (1.0 -- 6-16-89) readable by the purity test
program (written by Eric Lechner)
1000.hyper -- Same as above, but with 1000 questions.
1500.ps.hqx-- The 1500 question version, put in PostScript form by
Brian@scs.unr.edu, then BinHexed (with TOC)
Other related and not-so-related tests
bisexual -- The Bisexual Test designed to "be taken by Bisexuals to tickle
their fancy." (0.3 5/4/92)
brain.damaged -- The Hidden Brain Damage Scale
compatibility -- compatibility test for partners
decadence -- stolen straight from Cosmo, female oriented
field.eng -- Test for engineers in the field
hacker.128 -- Computer Purity Test (1.0 -- 05-17-90)
hacker.512a -- The hacker test -- (1.0 -- 6-16-89) written by Felix Lee, John
Hayes, and Angela Thomas, and in the form of a datafile readable
by the purity test program (written by Eric Lechner)
hacker.512b -- Same as above -- more readable by humans
jock.100 -- The Jock Test
math -- Math Purity Test (Harvard)
mundane.100 -- The Mundanity Test -- (as far as I know, credits go to
polgara@bucsf.bu.edu) (Rutgers)
mundane.200 -- (2.0 -- 12-01-1990)
nerd.100a -- The nerd test
nerd.100b -- The nerdity test -- Squid version
nerd.200 -- The nerdity test (2.1 -- 3-12-1992)
psych -- Tests for homosexuality and psycopathy
purity.net -- The Usenet Purity Test (CJ's Net.Purity Tests) from
cj@modernlvr.wpd.sgi.com
redneck -- application form to live in Festus, Missouri
roadkill.232 -- The Unisex, Roadkill Purity Test (1.0 - 07-08-1990)
A pretty astounding variety of tests, all in all. I'm starting
to think that people are really interested in this "sex"
stuff! Anyway, I figured out that you can also get to this information
through Gopher, which is a lot easier, since you don't have to
deal with their nonstandard "gz" compression format
directly. Use gopher quartz.rutgers.edu.
If you're stuck in FTP, you'll want to read the file /COMPRESS
to learn how to work with the archives there.
To whet your appetite for purity tests, here are the first 10
questions from the Ronnie Geller Immorality Quiz (known in the
archive as file purity.70):
TITLE: The Ronnie Geller Immorality Quiz
Back by popular demand:
WHAT'S YOUR IQ
-on the Ronnie Geller Memorial Immorality Quotient scale?
A: 1st, everybody's favorite: SEX
1. How many toys do you have?
a. dildo ___5 pts.
b. vibrator ___5 pts.
c. whip ___5 pts.
d. Vaseline on your bedstand ___5 pts.
e. Ben Wa balls ___5 pts.
f. garter belts ___5 pts.
g. strap-on dildo
1. if you are F ___10 pts.
2. if you are M ___-10 pts.
h. manacles or handcuffs ___5 pts. per set
i. waterbed ___5 pts.
j. mirrors on ceiling ___5 pts.
k. pulley on ceiling ___15 pts.
l. leather or rubber panties ___5 pts.
m. life-size rubber doll ___10 pts.
2. How many orgasms do you have in an average week? ___ pts.
3. Spent more than 8 hrs in one session? ___5 pts.
4. Sex with someone with
a. 10 yr. age difference? ___5 pts.
b. 20 or more age difference? ___20 pts.
5. Have you done it with:
a. a fruit or vegetable? ___5 pts.
b. a vacuum cleaner? ___10 pts.
c. an animal? ___25 pts.
d. a horse or larger? ___50 pts.
6. Have you ever been a prostitute? (M or F) ___50 pts.
7. Had sex with a prostitute? ___15 pts.
8. a. Sex with 2 people at once? ___15 pts.
Add 5 pts. for each additional person. ___
b. involving homosexual acts? ___5 pts.
9. More than 2 people in one day? ___10 pts.
10. a. Had more than 10 lovers? ___5 pts.
b. 20? ___add 5 more
c. 30? ___add 10 more
d. Who counts after 30? ___add 10 more
What scores did Dirk and I get on these tests? Are you kidding?
I'm not going to tell you and ruin our reputations as innocent
waifs! I'll just say that our scores are enough to have us thrown
in jail in certain Southern states.
So far, I've talked a lot about pictures and other stuff, but
I haven't mentioned any erotic stories. It's because there really
aren't that many available. Most sites seem to recognize that
they'll be innundated with requests and decide that it's just
not worth the heartache and computer traffic. Fortunately, not
everyplace is like that. Richard Shetron at Rochester Polytechnic
Institute has set up an e-mail-based erotica server for stories
from alt.sex.stories, rec.arts.erotica,
and alt.sex.bondage.
You can try it out for yourself by sending an e-mail message to
the address server@hermes.acm.rpi.edu.
The subject is ignored by the program at the other end --
rather rude, if you ask me. It only reads stuff in the message
body itself. I suggest that you start with the word index
in the message. Here's what you'll see:
From: HERMES archive service <server@hermes.acm.rpi.edu>
Subject: index, per your request
Index of top level from HERMES archive service (updated Mar 2 199)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
WARNING: The content of the asb and ass directories is erotic writings. Some of
these are stories, some are articles, and I'm not sure what to call some of
them :) If you are underage according to the local laws where you live, please
do not access the material in these directories.
How/why is something in the archive? It's there because I decided to put it
there. It may be there due to a generally expressed interest by people
e-mailing me or posting to a newsgroup. I've set up the archive as both a
Usenet service and as a learning experience for myself in setup, modifying,
maintaining, and running a service.
If someone has a story or other information they'd like placed in the
archive please e-mail me at server-admin@hermes.acm.rpi.edu or anonymously at
an75249@anon.penet.fi. I do require that any story or information have proper
attribution, even if it's an I don't know.
If an author or topic has several related items they are placed in their own
directory. Examples are:
freelore/bulletin for freelore bulletins.
asb/lemieux contains the Adventures in Rubber stories and other stories by the
same author.
asb/elf contains stories posted by elf, mostly the Journal Entry series.
asb/info contains general information posted to asb, things like the various
FAQs for asb and apb. Information on clubs, safety, mail order places, etc.
asb/nj contains the various articles and stories posted by Nurse Jones.
asb/pwdg contains the Perverts and Weirdos Digest.
asb/stories contains stories posted by various people on the net. If a poster
posts enough stories, I will place them in their own directory. Popular/
prolific/special interest/high demand authors will tend to have their own
subdirectory off asb. Some will be in subdirectories off asb/stories. There
are also subdirectories in asb/stories for either special topics and/or
prolific authors.
asb/stories/sms contains the seductive master series.
asb/scenes contains scenes people have posted to the net and who have
graciously granted me permission to place the article into the archive.
And what's in, say, The Perverts and Weirdos Digest archive? I
couldn't resist checking that one out, for Dirk if no one else.
To find out what's in that archive, I sent mail with the message
index asb/pwdg. Here's a bit of what came back:
From: HERMES archive service <server@hermes.acm.rpi.edu>
Subject: index, per your request
Index of asb/pwdg from HERMES archive service (updated Nov 30 199)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Perverts and Weirdos Digest Index
v1n28
1. Rope Tricks - j (Bondage Suggestions)
2. A Dream of Eagles - gnome (Female Submissive fantasy)
3. E-mail Slave Girls Wanted - Magician
4. The Gangs All Here - Laura (Group Sex - One woman multiple men)
v1n29
1. Last week... - Cobra (Fantasy - Female dominant, male submissive)
2. Chastity - pat (Chastity belts - Male submissive, female dominant)
v1n30
1. It Hurts So Good - Anonymous (Male Submissive, Female Dominant)
v1n31
1. Triple Sec - Anonymous (Incestuous Menage a Trois)
v1n32
1. French Lessons - Smurf (Female dominant, male submissive)
v1n33
0. Announcement - Final Issue of Perverts and Weirdos Digest
1. On the Beach - Kitten (Sexual Fantasy)
2. Deer and Wolf - A Martyr of Cher (Gay sex)
v2n1
1. Note from a Sissy (sissy)
2. Emily (jasper)
3. Bobby in Bondage, Part 1 (sissy)
4. Interesting Location (Jasper)
I was curious about this myself, so I asked some people who seemed
to be wizards in the alt.sex.pictures
newsgroups. One guy, who calls himself Gunfighter, was sweet
enough to answer in detail. Here's what he had to say:
You seem like a sincere young woman, Candi, so I'm going to
tell you how it works, both the good and the bad. I am not a group
member anymore, so don't get your hopes up. But I was a member
for over two years, and this is how it works.
In all my years of using the Internet, one thing I've found
as an absolute is that any erotic FTP site lasts less than a week.
Let me explain.
Unless the person making the FTP site available is the owner
of the business or is the MIS director, the immediate surge in
resource demand from FTPing by anonymous users causes someone
to find out what's going on.
Once their investigation reveals erotic material on the host,
it is expunged because, particularly in the States, the MIS management
is scared to death of sexual harassment suits. Typically, the
person who posted the files in the directory is fired as well
because he had to do it from on-site.
If you are really interested in getting into an "erotic
FTP" group, you have to be bold but quiet bold in that you
need to ask everyone you can contact who seems to have access
to the "private" FTP lists, and quiet in that posting
publicly (asking for lists, asking if the lists are there, and
so on) is sure death and a mark that you are a public poster,
so they don't want you in their group.
So am I talking in circles? I say on one hand that there are
no FTP sites because they get shut down, yet I talk about a private
FTP group. However, I'm not talking in circles.
Some of the users on the Net have access to a private FTP directory
on their host system. In this directory they are allowed to have
5, 10, or 20 megabytes of personal files that no one at the host
site cares about.
These people place erotic files in this directory and make
them available to their "trading group." Each member
typically has 20 or 30 trading members in their group. These members
are selected by their geographic location and personal interests.
When one of these members acquires new material, he (or even
she) sends out private e-mail to everyone in the group, indicating
that the material is in his or her FTP directory. Everyone who
is interested in the material transfers it to their own FTP directory
and then notifies one of their other groups. (Every member usually
belongs to four or five groups, and these groups usually give
themselves names, just like gangs do.)
See what's going on here? No one ever gives more than about
10 or 20 people access to their private FTP directory, so the
host is never bombarded with many hundreds of people trying to
FTP the site within 24 hours (which is not uncommon when someone
posts something good and announces it publicly in a news group).
So how do you get into a group? Well, it's a catch-22. It's
like computer piracy. You have to first earn a group member's
trust, and then you have to have something to contribute. And
what you contribute has to be new material, because obviously
they aren't interested in anything that has already been posted
in the group.
The first step in the process is to acquire a source for new
material. I won't mislead you. Most of these members, like me,
have their own scanners or have one available to them through
the office. Frankly, it needs to be a premium-grade scanner because
no one is interested in anything that is less than 1200 DPI 24-bit
anymore.
Once you have the scanner, where do you get the material? I
think you know the answer. What you do need to keep in mind is
picking a category or two that is your personal preference for
example, straight m/f, bondage, f/f, and so on. The reason this
is important is that it dictates the type of group you will affiliate
with, because if they are into straight sex, no one is going to
be interested in your bondage pics.
Once you have your sources set up, you need to start putting
out discreet messages to people who seem to have a pipeline that
you have "new" material and are looking for "another
FTP group." That is the code phrase, if you will. You don't
need to explain yourself, or they will know you're an outsider
looking for any group. When writing these letters, you need to
make it clear that you have a constant source of new material
and state the categories you'll trade in.
It takes persistence and dedication. Joining these groups is
in effect making the discovery, scanning, and dissemination of
erotic materials your hobby! These people are ecstatic whenever
they can locate something new, and they take great pride in getting
it out to as many sources as possible before someone else can
get it.
I warn you, though: If you don't contribute on a regular basis
and "regular" is according to the group you'll stop
receiving e-mail telling you where new material is. This is how
they regulate and filter their members. Remember, this is e-mail.
They just stop telling you and stop responding to your e-mail,
leaving you out in the cold.
This is extremely mercenary, but I'm sure you can understand
why. Many people join a group and then figure they can just sit
back and "suck off" other people's work. That's exactly
what the groups call these people, too "suckers" and
"bleeders."
I used to belong to many groups, but to be quite honest, I
couldn't keep up with them. Most of them are kids in college with
access to the equipment and who sit around all day making contacts
all over the world.
Also, believe it or not, you actually reach an overload/saturation
point with erotica. I certainly did. I actually got to the point
where I couldn't care less about new material being cycled.
And in all honesty, everything eventually makes it to the erotica
newsgroup anyway if it's any good. If it isn't, it dies a quiet
death in the underground so in reality, they are doing us a service.
If you're really serious about wanting to get into one of these
groups, go out and get yourself a scanner. You can get very good
ones for about $1,000. Pick up some software (about $300) and
start putting unique and "new" material in the newsgroups.
They'll start asking you to join their groups (if your material
is any good) because they want to get ahold of that material first
for trading.
Please remember that these guys are like drug dealers and thieves!
They are your friends only as long as it serves their purpose
and feeds their addiction. Once they've used you up, or you no
longer feed their habit, you'll be dropped like a rock.
That's one of the reasons I got out of it. I'd see people dropped
just because they hadn't contributed anything in the last 30 days,
or because their material wasn't "good enough." Then
I'd start receiving e-mail from these people, begging me to intercede.
They said that they were just going through hard times and couldn't
afford it, or they were just having a hard time finding new material,
or they were just having computer hardware problems and would
soon have the money to get it fixed. I mean, they literally sounded
like drug addicts asking for a bigger line of credit.
But if you go into it with your eyes wide open, and you're
doing it for fun, it's like being a private detective and can
bring you a lot of enjoyment.
Good luck!
Gunfighter
P.S.: Let me make this very clear: Scanning pictures out of
a magazine is a violation of copyrights. It is against the law!
Now, with that said, no one has ever been busted for it here on
the Internet because it's simply too hard to regulate.
You might also consider setting yourself up a "handle"
and then getting an anonymous name through penet.fi
. Then people can appreciate your work, your "handle"
gets credit for it, and no one knows what country it came from,
so it could have come from a country that doesn't acknowledge
copyright laws for pictures in magazines.
In all honesty, the only time you really need to be concerned about anyone bothering you about copyright laws is if you scan out of Playboy or Penthouse. Most of the other adult magazines just aren't big enough to be bothered, and the XXX magazines from adult shops are typically four- or five-person operations that never know and have no desire to pursue it even if they do.
I talked with a UNIX expert friend of mine about the problem of
finding adult images on the Internet, and he had some really smart
ideas about how to find stuff. In particular, he suggested that
a good strategy is to exploit the wildcard directory that lists
features of the FTP program to find secret GIF and JPEG files.
The basic trick is that you connect to an archive like normal
(I tried it with ftp.netcom.com),
then move into the /pub directory and, instead
of just typing dir , try ls */*.jpg,
which, he tells me, will search through all the directories in
the current directory for files that have the .JPG suffix. It
worked! I found about 50 images in various directories on Netcom,
and even some adult graphics!
This is a good approach. If you have an account on one of the machines, my highly technical pal continued, you can try even more-sophisticated commands to find stuff. He showed me on his Netcom account by typing the command
find /ftp/pub -name "*.gif" -print > gif-index
>& /dev/null &
I don't have a clue what this does, but he insists that on most
systems it'll find all the GIF files in the FTP archive directory,
in the background, while I play with other stuff or read Usenet.
Once it's done, it'll have a huge listing in the file gif-index
.
It took quite a while, but sure enough, we finally ended up with
a listing of over 4,500 GIF files that people have made available.
From the list I picked a few at random to view.
There's lots of peculiar stuff on the Internet, and the more you
look, the more you find. The sad reality, however, is that most
of it is quite amateurish. When I want to look at pictures of
naked men and women, I have better results at the local magazine
rack (though it's not free, of course). On the other hand, the
stories and erotica that are published on the Net are often quite
excellent and exciting. I particularly enjoy some of the material
that shows up in alt.sex.stories.
If you're not yet convinced of the weirdness of it all, check
out the many sex-related articles and stories at the FTP site
wiretap.spies.com. Look
in the directory library/article/sex for quite a
mix of eclectic stuff (or just use Gopher to connect to
wiretap.spies.com
instead).
Also, don't forget to check out Brandy's Babes, a group of exotic
dancers who have a computer account to help them market their
wares. I kid you not. Learn more about these enterprising young
women by typing finger trisha@ramp.com or, if you
can access the World Wide Web, try URL
http://www.ramp.com/ and look in the local users area.
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