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• Instead of the traditional sexualised writhing men and women pictured in the renowned manual of sultry acrobatics, The Extremely Unofficial and Highly Unauthorized Star Wars Kama Sutra contains images of the great and the good of both Imperial Forces and the Rebel Alliance.
  Yes, there is a Star Wars kama sutra but it might surprise you (Mirror)

• As the tidal wave that is The Force Awakens approaches, its rising tide has lifted all kinds of Star Wars-related merchandise — apparently including the pornographic parody movie Star Wars XXX, which has seen a 500% increase in DVD sales since the beginning of December.
  Star Wars porn sees 500% sales growth in two weeks (Mashable)

• Feminist porn site BrightDesire.com has announced the release of the popular song “Happy Birthday to You” into the public domain, creating an erotic scene featuring the tune, which it claims is the first porn film to do so. “If you’re going to celebrate a momentous change in copyright law, you might as well do it with a threesome,” said Ms. Naughty. “I think this could be the first pairing of ‘Happy Birthday to You’ and multiple female orgasms.”
  Bright Desire Creates Copyright-Free ‘Happy Birthday to You’ Scene (XBIZ)

Thanks to our sponsor in Spain, women-run Lust Cinema.

Today is the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers #IDEVASW https://t.co/6rm9hdQHb8 pic.twitter.com/9x4OB63htW

— Australian Sex Party (@aussexparty) December 16, 2015

• Christmas shopping gets harder every year — what do you get for the love of your life that has everything? Magnus Irvin has the answer: Your anus. Not just your anus — but a tastier and/or shinier version of it! Irvin is the man behind Edible Anus — for fifteen years, he’s been selling chocolates taken from an actual anus mold. This year, though, he’s decided to branch out: He’s not just casting chocolates anymore, but you can get anuses of all sorts!
  Say ‘I Love You’ With The Gift Of An Anus (Unicorn Booty)

• Larry is America’s oldest male sexual surrogate, a job in which he risks being arrested in order to help others work through sexual dysfunction during one-on-one “sessions.” In the past 35 years, the gig has matched him with dozens of women (and an occasional man) to achieve therapeutic goals. In the past, he says, he has worked with disabled clients, abuse survivors, and people from strict religions backgrounds, as well as with millionaires, geniuses, 40-year-old virgins, and powerful judges.
  This Man Gets Paid to Help Women Enjoy Sex (Broadly/Vice)

• Jonathan Stack is co-founder of World Vasectomy Day; Hopes and Fears spoke to him while he was in Bali making preparations for World Vasectomy Day 2015, part of a larger tour of south Asia that includes Bangladesh and India which he referred to as “a global scrotal adventure.” In New York, there was a World Vasectomy Day event that took place at a bar where vasectomies from Florida were live-streamed.
  Meet the Vasectomists (Hopes and Fears)

Much gratitude to our thoughtful sponsor, Nubile Films.

• “The subjects are conservatives in power, that work in lawmaking or help support it, and yet do nothing to curtail guns. I locate an original photo of them with a gun … photoshop the gun out, plop a dildo image in, and make it look somewhat realistic. I post it to GOPdildo.tumblr.com …”
  Why I can’t stop putting dildos into the hands of powerful conservatives (Medium, thanks M!)

• The porn performers interviewed by Mic had both invisible disabilities, such as chronic pain or hearing loss, as well as visible disabilities, such as crutches or a wheelchair. Most agreed that the sex industry provides a flexibility that is rarely offered by other types of jobs.
  These Disabled Porn Performers Are Changing How We Talk About Sex and Disability (Mic)

• You would think the biggest hurdles with the new penis transplants would be organ rejection or poor feeling and function. But one of the greatest challenges has been a failure of the recipient to accept the donor penis as his own—even if it has feeling and functions as well as his own penis did.
  The New Penis Transplants and Their Unexpected Side Effects (Guide to Getting It On)

• In a museum on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand’s famed sex industry is proudly celebrated. Stripper poles, condoms and sex toys are among the items on display, while another exhibit lauds the trade’s contribution to the economy.
  Private view: Thai museum celebrates sex industry and its workers (Guardian)

• Fallout 4 had only been out for three days before the game has its first nude mods.
  Welp, It Took a Whole Day to Get ‘Fallout 4’ Nude Mods (Motherboard/Vice)

Thank you to our sponsor in Holland, Abby Winters.

• The porn industry survived [the James Deen] scandal and it will likely survive this one too. But away from the very serious issues of on-set and off-set consent and overall performer protection, what’s perhaps most interesting about this particular mainstream story is that it regards the industry and the people on the other side of the lens.
  The private lives of very public porn stars (Telegraph)

• Zomato has taken food porn to a whole new level. Since last week, the Gurgaon-headquartered food-search-and-delivery website has been advertising on some of the world’s biggest porn sites. The logic behind the decision: A considerable number of Indians spend their time watching porn.
  Hungry for more clicks, Zomato is running a killer marketing campaign on porn sites (Quartz)

• Porn star Sara Tommasi has been hired to run an Italian soccer team. The well-known Italian beauty has been hired by amateur side Marruvium in her homeland, although her exact role is still unclear.
  Porn star hired to run Italian soccer team (NY Post)

• To promote their latest stock of clothing, online Japanese retailer BUYMA has realized a commercial campaign that cleverly integrates technology, design and dance. The scene stars two completely naked dancers that perform a routine alongside Tchaikovsky’s ‘Swan Lake Suite’, whilst a fleet of carefully programmed drones perfectly move in tandem — censoring their most intimate body parts.
  Nude dancers are censored by carefully programed drones in Japanese ad campaign (DesignBoom)

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• An eBay user called Hypnoritual has taken apart a Casio Realistic Concertmate 500 keyboard (Casio SK-1) and swapped the speaker for an E-stimulation sex toy. Why? We’re not entirely sure, but the product description says audio is turned into “electric sensations” and “rhythm patterns act as e-stim programs”.
  This Casio keyboard has been turned into a sex toy (MixMag)

• A year after laws restricting online pornography in the UK were introduced, two women reveal how the regulations have affected their lives and the industry. The Audio Visual Media Services regulations (AVMS) banned sex acts that were deemed morally damaging or life-threatening, including strangulation, face-sitting and fisting. “Many UK websites have had to sell their businesses overseas, and others have closed down. Those remaining are forced to severely limit the sort of content they are able to publish.”
  UK porn laws a year on: A porn actress and a dominatrix on destroyed businesses and censorship (Independent)

• A State Department employee pleaded guilty to a campaign of online sexual harassment that is as widespread as it is disturbing. According to a statement released this week by the U.S. District Attorney’s office, Michael C. Ford, formerly an employee at the U.S. Embassy in London, pleaded guilty to a slew of charges that included e-mail phishing to steal passwords, computer hacking, and creating a widespread cyberstalking scheme to harass hundreds of women in the U.S. and elsewhere.
  Government Employee Pleads Guilty to Massive Sextortion Campaign (Motherboard/Vice)

• Strong warning for survivors of sexual assault and trauma. A woman said she was sexually assaulted at knifepoint. Then she said she made it up. That’s where our story begins.
  An Unbelievable Story of Rape (ProPublica)

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“Theodor Seuss Geisel, better-known as Dr. Seuss, was a legendary children’s book author, radical ideologist, and a lover of reading. Among his many creative feats is a fairly unknown, fairly scandalous one: In 1939, when Geisel left Vanguard for Random House, he had one condition for his new publisher, Bennett Cerf — that he would let Geisel do an “adult” book first. The result was The Seven Lady Godivas: The True Facts Concerning History’s Barest Family.”
The Seven Lady Godivas: Dr. Seuss’s Little-Known “Adult” Book of Nudes (BrainPickings)

“It’s great when a movement speaks to you, and the moment that that happens, you might discover just what is that you want and hope for in this world. I wonder: who felt like a movement was speaking to them when we started seeing the giant orange billboards going up all over Oakland and the San Francisco Bay Area? Who read the billboard, “Porn Kills Love. Fight for Love” and was like, YES, you guys, I finally know what I stand for?”
When Porn Complicates The Relationships Of Straight White Christian Hipsters, It’s Not Our Problem (Medium/HARLOT Magazine)

“So 2016 could be the year of the quantified cock. But just because you can doesn’t mean you should and the one thing that neither company is copping to is a lack of consumer interest. The quantified-self movement is already masturbatory enough. Do we really need a device to tell us how to get it on?”
Junk technology: Why your penis pedometer is DOA (Engadget)

“Sovereign Syre, who’s been in the business for six years, says that before every shoot she’s done, she also has talked to her co-stars about boundaries and preferences. The conversation continues throughout the scene. Even directors she’s known for years, Syre says, will ask before tucking in the label on her underwear or rearranging her hair. If, during filming, things get too intense, actors on BDSM shoots use agreed-upon safe words.”
How to Talk About Consent Like a Porn Star (Mother Jones)

“Cock rings have been around since 1200 B.C., but what happened when your ancient ancestors needed a little extra staying power before there were things like rubber, silicone, or stainless steel? Goat eyelids. No, you read that right: real and actual goat eyelids. The premium joints even came with the goat’s eyelashes still attached, for her pleasure and so forth.”
Quack science. Goat parts. Nazi automatons. Your favorite sex toys have sordid histories. (Inverse)

“In order to apply for a job as a courtesan at Sheri’s Ranch … you have to have access to the Internet, know your measurements, and have three really hot pictures (unfiltered, if that’s even a thing anymore) of yourself. Yeah, so anyone, including my mom, can visit the employment section on Sheri’s website and apply to be a courtesan. But that doesn’t mean anyone can actually be one: the process is incredibly selective.”
What Actually Happens at a Nevada Brothel (Thrillist)

“According to the Kinsey Report, around 37 percent of women will experience sleep orgasms by the age of 45. If you’re in your 20s or 30s and have still never woken up climaxing, you’re in luck. The highest incidences of nocturnal orgasm for women overall occur between their 40s and mid 50s—unlike men, who sadly experience all the dream-coming in their teens and early 20s before seeing it diminish rapidly in their 30s. While sleep orgasms can be a relief for those of us in a sex drought, it’s incredibly frustrating for those who can only come while asleep. Message boards and forums are full of cries for help.”
What Are Sleep Orgasms, and How Can I Have One? (Broadly/Vice)

“I have seen a lot of responses to the allegations against James [Deen] saying things like “why would they come forward now, years later?” They did come forward. They told their friends. They told people on the inside. They put James on their no lists. They just didn’t tell you.”
Predators and Profit: James Deen (Lily Cade)

“Sex and romance plays a substantial role in Fallout 4, and IGN’s complete wiki guide will get you started to the road to building relationships and flirting with every available companion. At this time, Piper, Magnolia, and Preston are confirmed romantic options. A player’s lovable status is affected by a Relationship Level referenced in the Loveable Achievement.”
Sex and Romance – Fallout 4 Wiki Guide (IGN; image via Kotaku)

“There was, of course, the much-discussed pegging episode of Broad City, but the rubbery member also popped up on Orange Is the New Black and Sense8. This is exciting for many reasons—the strap-on can be used to invert gender roles, portray a broader spectrum of sexuality, and honestly depict lesbian sex, just to name a few. But its rise is also a hard-won victory, considering the shameful ways Hollywood has previously portrayed objects that provide sexual pleasure.”
How Sex Toys Penetrated Television (Broadly/Vice)

“In Sweden, an all female porn collective — New Level of Pornography — thinks there’s more to sexually arousing filmmaking than cute teens and coeds. “To us it is important to change the term ‘porn’ from the inside,” says Zara Kjellner, the woman behind New Level of Pornography and its corresponding website, where feminist adult entertainment can be seen for free. “We wanted to contribute to the industry with our own ideas of what porn can be.””
[NSFW] Inside Sweden’s Feminist Porn Wave (The Creators Project/Vice)

“The idea that pornography causes – or is at least linked to – sexual violence is often simply accepted without question … But what role does porn actually play in violent crime? The most honest answer to this question is “we don’t know”. There’s no one perfect kind of research that we could do to find out whether porn causes violence. We can show students porn in the lab and see whether they give somebody more electric shocks afterwards, but would the findings apply to people in the real world?”
Asking whether porn causes sexual violence is the wrong question – here’s why (Independent UK)

“Veronica Hart has been in the adult film industry for nearly four decades. She started as an actress and has since become a director, producer, and even a caterer for porn sets. Although porn was once a way pay the rent, Hart kept with it because, she tells us, she sincerely likes the people with whom she works. Still, as a woman, mother, and wife, Hart feels some responsibility for the product she helps put out into the world.”
A Former Porn Star on the Ethics of Adult Films (Men’s Journal)

“Sex is probably the furthest thing from your mind when you think about Star Wars, even though the entire saga is predicated upon a particularly convoluted paternity issue. For an entire series whose existence is due to one night of forbidden love-making, there’s a conspicuous absence of sex. It begs the question: Will there ever be a Star Wars sex scene?”
The Problem With Sex in ‘Star Wars’ (Inverse)

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It’s here! Extreme HR Violations ($3.49) is a collection of ridiculous, extreme, and -intentionally arousing- office sex stories.

These people are unhireable, and their sexual escapades are unbelievable! No really, this thing is like an employee handbook written by perverts. That’s because it is: The authors in this anthology are in award-winning erotica collections, and are also clearly recovering from painful office jobs in their past. This book is what really skilled erotica writers do when they’re blowing off steam… and I think you’ll love it as much as I do.

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The keg: Seven sordid offices…
The powder: Their depraved hiring practices…
The fuse: Applicants’ willingness to do anything with office supplies…
And the white-hot spark was: A horrified human resources department!

The blasts that follow will either confirm—or explode—your ideas about corporate team building!

In Extreme HR Violations, seven skilled authors deliver clever tales of behavior highly inappropriate for any workplace… Secretaries willfully file everything in the bottom drawer. Female execs put male assistants to the oral test in overtime. Interns stage pantyless catfights in the break room. IT workers get “accidentally” trapped between ladies’ legs under desks. Punishments involve filling out forms in ways you’d never imagine.

The ridiculous sex antics by bosses and underlings in these tales of office kink lead readers down shameful career paths, yielding referrals that can only be whispered by the most depraved recruiters.

There’s a ton of chemistry in these stories, and a fun bit of romance too. But make no mistake: These offices are an HR department’s nightmare, and that’s entirely the point.

Table of contents

* Introduction: The Ins and Outs of Office Politics by Violet Blue
* This Call May Be Monitored for Quality Assurance by Xavier Acton
* Quiz Day by Sommer Marsden
* The Importance of Good Networking by Saskia Walker
* Disciplinary Action by Marie Sudac
* Fair Trade by Jodi Fowler
* The Job Interview by Thomas S. Roche
* Memorandum by N. T. Morley

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Pre-order my ridiculous new erotic collection! Extreme Human Resources Violations (ebook, $3.49)

Image: The art of Alana Dee Haynes, via 25th Centruryyy.

• James Deen responds to the allegations: “I know some people will understand me and what I’m saying, and some may be offended by it and say even worse things as a result. We live in a world where accusations get great attention and no one really seems to want to get the truth. I’m in porn, and when you take porn activity into polite society it sounds really twisted. The media needs stories and I can see how this is one hell of a story.”
  James Deen Breaks His Silence: ‘I Am Completely Baffled’ by Rape Allegations (Daily Beast)

• “A discussion about ethical practices and informed consent is well overdue, especially within an industry that is largely unregulated and gets by using the labour of contracted workers. This is the discussion that we’ve been having for years within the feminist porn community. Now it’s time for the wider industry to stand up and be counted, to make an effort to ensure that performer safety and consent is given priority. It’s also time to talk about how to make consent issues visible to pornography fans, partly to educate but also to address the often-held concerns about porn production.”
  How The Porn Industry Can Lift Its Game On Consent (Medium, @msnaughty)

What kind of company tweets this? Extremely Unprofessional.. GROSS @xart pic.twitter.com/G3PBv9NECF

— Bonnie Rotten® (@thebonnierotten) December 3, 2015

• The U.K.’s tax and customs authority on Friday announced that it has set up its first task force targeting the adult entertainment sector. The HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) said it was targeting strippers, online escorts and adult club owners, among others, in a move to find unreported revenue.
  U.K.’s Tax Authority Creates Task Force Targeting Adult Entertainment (XBIZ)

Thanks to our sponsor in Spain, women-run Lust Cinema.

• The first penis transplant in the United States is set to take place within the next year. Surgeons from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine — which has an active hand and face transplant program — say the recipient will be a young soldier injured in a bomb blast in Afghanistan.
  First U.S. penis transplants planned to help wounded vets (CBS News)

• This article is about sexual assault. Articles in this series have so far have examined fatalities and excessive force at the hands of law enforcement officers in Kern County, California, which has the highest per capita rate of officer-involved deaths anywhere in the US so far this year. But a Guardian investigation into the county’s two largest police departments also identified a string of sexual misconduct cases involving officers, and a pattern of secretive attempts to pay off victims with small sums of cash.
  The County: sexual assault and the price of silence (Guardian)

• According to decades-old research by psychologist David M. Buss, men are hardwired to feel jealous over a partner’s sexual infidelity, while women are more likely to feel jealous when a partner is emotionally unfaithful. This theory has led to what is known as the parental-investment model.
  Why Does Evolution Want Infidelity to Hurt So Much? (Vice)

Much gratitude to our thoughtful sponsor, Nubile Films.

One week left! Tantus Rumble needs YOUR help to become a reality; Share & Buy yours now! https://t.co/Uj11BKB2xv pic.twitter.com/W37vRvNvjU

— Tantus, Inc. (@tantus) December 8, 2015

• In the English language, the word “he” is used to refer to males and “she” to refer to females. But some people identify as neither gender, or both – which is why an increasing number of US universities are making it easier for people to choose to be referred to by other pronouns.
  Beyond ‘he’ and ‘she’: The rise of non-binary pronouns (BBC)

• The FPPC will consider a $61,500 fine against porn-industry opponents of a 2012 Los Angeles County ballot measure to require adult film actors to wear condoms. A similar measure has qualified for the November 2016 state ballot. The state Fair Political Practices Commission will consider the penalty, the largest fine of the year, at its Dec. 17 meeting.
  Porn industry faces $61,500 fine for putting foreign money into 2012 campaign (Sacramento Bee)

• MTV’s docu-series True Life is turning its lens towards straight men who perform in gay adult films (known as ‘gay for pay’) as the subject of its next installment. The episode will focus on two guys who perform in gay adult films because of the lucrative payouts. However, while one performer is open about his involvement in gay for pay films, the other keeps it a closely guarded secret.
  ‘Gay For Pay’ Adult Film Stars Talk Gay Sex and Double Lives in MTV ‘True Life’ Teaser (Towleroad)

Thank you to our sponsor in Holland, Abby Winters.

Hah! Japanese edition of PERV released next month, w/subtitle translating back as "Deviation of love that nobody sex pervert is conceal."

— Jesse Bering (@JesseBering) December 9, 2015

• I wish I had an article in the January issue! Kelly Shibari is featured as the first-ever plus size model in Penthouse Magazine. “For Penthouse, 2015 has been a year-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of the creation of the magazine, and of its mission to honor the grace and allure of the female form,” Managing Director Kelly Holland said.
  Penthouse Features Kelly Shibari as First-Ever Plus Size Model (XBIZ)

• And not a risk was taken, nor a stereotype opposed. Pamela Anderson may get the cover of the historic last nude issue of Playboy, but blonde Kristy Garett snagged the last nude playmate spot, as the 749th (and last) woman to earn the centerfold spread.
  Kristy Garett Named Playboy’s Last Nude Playmate (People)

• Chloe Mafia, a former porn star, claimed that a married pilot of a Kuwait Airways flight from London to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport invited her and a friend into the cockpit for champagne and a ride on his lap as he smoked, let them play with aircraft controls and boasted about being a member of the “mile-high club,” according to British tabloid reports in July. Now, the wayward aviator apparently has had his license revoked.
  Kuwaiti pilot punished for letting ex-porn star visit the cockpit (Washington Post)

Thank you to our sponsor and friends, Pink Label TV.

• Australia’s Parliament says it is seeking input on whether access to online adult content is harmful for children. The Australian Senate has opened an inquiry called “Harm being done to Australian children through access to pornography on the Internet” and seeks to track online consumption of porn by those under 18.
  Australia’s Parliament Seeks Input to Decide Porn Access (XBIZ)

• For Lucie Bee, the strangest thing that has ever happened on a porn set was the time a pair of window washers materialised at a high-rise window.
  “They stopped, we stopped,” she says.
  “We just stopped in place for a really long time.”
  “I waved, which is awkward when someone’s face is between your thighs, they waved, washed the windows, waved again, down they went.”
  So you want to be a porn star? (ABC AU)

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I’m delighted to announce that the erotica collection I’ve been working on for the past few months is now available for pre-order in the Kindle store! Extreme HR Violations ($3.49) releases this Friday, December 11. On that date, it’ll also be available to buy direct as a .pdf in the Digita Publications store.

If you’re a book reviewer, click here to get an advance review copy.

The keg: Seven sordid offices…
The powder: Their depraved hiring practices…
The fuse: Applicants’ willingness to do anything with office supplies…
And the white-hot spark was: A horrified human resources department!

The blasts that follow will either confirm—or explode—your ideas about corporate team building!

—

Everyone in this book should be fired.

In a collection that reads like an employee handbook written by perverts, seven skilled authors deliver clever tales of behavior highly inappropriate for any workplace. Secretaries willfully file everything in the bottom drawer. Female execs put male assistants to the oral test in overtime. Interns stage pantyless catfights in the break room. IT workers get “accidentally” trapped between ladies’ legs under desks. Punishments involve filling out forms in ways you’d never imagine.

The ridiculous sex antics by bosses and underlings in these tales of office kink lead readers down shameful career paths, yielding referrals that can only be whispered by the most depraved recruiters.

There’s a ton of chemistry in these stories, and a fun bit of romance too. But make no mistake: These offices are an HR department’s nightmare, and that’s entirely the point.

Table of contents

* Introduction: The Ins and Outs of Office Politics by Violet Blue
* This Call May Be Monitored for Quality Assurance by Xavier Acton
* Quiz Day by Sommer Marsden
* The Importance of Good Networking by Saskia Walker
* Disciplinary Action by Marie Sudac
* Fair Trade by Jodi Fowler
* The Job Interview by Thomas S. Roche
* Memorandum by N. T. Morley

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Nowness writes, “For his first-ever solo exhibition, graphic artist Jamie Hewlett explores a range of disparate subjects, from ‘tarotica’—a titillating reinterpretation of the tarot’s Major Arcana—to photorealist illustrations of a bucolic French landscape. Known for creating punkish comic book Tank Girl and the characters behind Damon Albarn-fronted ‘virtual’ band Gorillaz, here Hewlett pays homage to B-movies from the 1960s and 1970s that revelled in gratuitous sex and violence, by introducing his fictional pin-up Honey.” The video link is here.

Found via Treats! Magazine, which has more info and examples of Hewlett’s art from “Call Me Honey.” In a coincidence of timing, San Francisco nightclub DNA Lounge just announced another Cyberdelia event: In in January they’re screening Tank Girl, with a costume contest and all the cyberdelic trimmings… I can confirm that rollerblades and actual torpedo tits are encouraged.

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Image of Stoya by Sean&Seng, via Fashiontography.

• Warning for survivors of sexual assault, abuse, and trauma. Adult performer Stoya signed into her Twitter account on Saturday and, in two succinct Tweets, leveled rape accusations at her former boyfriend and one-time porn co-star, James Deen. The reaction was swift: since Saturday afternoon, the tweets went viral, engendering two supportive hashtags (#SolidaritywithStoya and #standwithStoya); porn outlets Kink.com and Evil Angel dropped Deen from their rosters; The Frisky ended Deen’s sex column. Although Deen has denied any wrongdoing, eight other women have come out in the wake of Stoya’s tweet, including Ashley Fires and Joanna Angel. Deen co-founded the Adult Performer’s Advocacy Committee (APAC), an organization that helps ensure workplace safety in porn, with Preston. She is now serving as chairman following his resignation—as her boyfriend stands accused of serial rape. Lily Cade writes, “I have seen a lot of responses to the allegations against James saying things like “why would they come forward now, years later?” They did come forward. They told their friends. They told people on the inside. They put James on their no lists. They just didn’t tell you.”
  * It shouldn’t take a rape accusation to prove that sex workers can be raped (Guardian UK)
  * Report: Stoya Breaks Silence on James Deen Allegation (XBIZ)
  * James Deen’s Current Girlfriend Chanel Preston, Head of Porn’s Advocacy Committee, Speaks (Daily Beast)
  * Predators and Profit: James Deen (Lily Cade)

You can talk about how sexist and bad the porn industry is, but they moved faster on the James Deen issue than Hollywood did on Bill Cosby.

— mistressmatisse (@mistressmatisse) December 3, 2015

My porn performer friends, would you agree this statement is "distancing?" It didn't read that way to me. https://t.co/ZdhjZ5JV5W

— Rachel Kramer Bussel (@raquelita) December 2, 2015

• For nearly a decade, PayPal, JPMorgan Chase, Visa/MasterCard, and now Square, have systematically denied or closed accounts of small businesses, artists and independent contractors whose business happens to be about sex. What’s happening to female entrepreneurs in the sex business can no longer be written off as isolated incidents. Weblining’s targeted populations are porn performers, sex workers, independent retailers, erotic writers and the internet’s new generation of online pornographers: business sectors comprised of a disproportionately large number of women and LGBT people.
  PayPal, Square and big banking’s war on the sex industry (Engadget)

• The International Human Rights Film Festival in Austria will screen Shine Louise Houston’s film retrospective on December 4th, 2015. The program “Every Time We Fuck, We Win” presents representations of sexuality in cinema that are created with self-determination and portray queer sexuality with honesty and respect.
  International Human Rights Film Festival screens Shine Louise Houston Retrospective (PinkLabel TV)

Thanks to our sponsor in Spain, women-run Lust Cinema.

• For the past week, the Los Angeles City Council has been in the national spotlight thanks to a controversial plan to scare people away from its de facto red light district. Among the ideas to eradicate the ladies of the night are adding more street lights, trimming back the shrubbery and recording the license plates of cars that linger there in order to send letters to the drivers’ homes saying they were spotted in an area with sex workers and warning them about STDs.
  Drive through this LA neighborhood slowly and you could get a letter implying you solicited sex workers (Fusion)

• Adult entertainment company Kink recently launched KinkVR (nsfw, obviously) offers free content until 25 December. Merry Christmas indeed.
  Major porn studio goes VR, free until the end of the year (Wareable.com)

• Nothing can deter Tim Tebow from his very public vow of chastity — not even a former Miss Universe. Tebow has been ditched by his girlfriend of late, the perilously alluring Olivia Culpo. Sources say that he stuck to his [abstinence] guns and refused advances made by Culpo
  Former Miss Universe Dumps Tim Tebow For Not Having Sex With Her (Maxim)

Much gratitude to our thoughtful sponsor, Nubile Films.

• New research with a hydrogel and an antioxidant aims to make condoms both better and something people will actually want to use. Unlike most male condoms, it is not made of latex, but instead from a new material — a strong, elastic polymer called hydrogel, which is a gel made primarily of water that has a number of applications already, including contact lenses and other medical uses.
  A Condom That Fights HIV (Digg)

• Warning for animal abuse content. There are an estimated 110,000 horses living on 18,000 Swiss farms. At least one of the beasts are being sexually assaulted every three days, as animal rights workers tell of fears there are as many as 10,000 people in the country with a sexual interest in them.
  Disturbing horse sex trend on the rise (News AU)

• Warning for Hunter Moore content. Hunter Moore, the founder of revenge porn website IsAnyoneUp, has been sentenced to two and a half years in jail. In addition, the 29-year-old will have his mental health evaluated while behind bars and will have three years of supervision upon his release.
  The ‘godfather of revenge porn’ gets 2.5 years in prison (Engadget)

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• Researchers have spotted dozens of malvertising attacks targeting hundreds of moderately popular adult sites in a recent campaign. The attacks targeted sites including drtuber.com, nuvid.com, eroprofile.com, iceporn.com and xbabe.com, each of which receive millions of visits per month, and are being distributed through the adult ad network AdXpansion, according to a Dec. 2 Malwarebytes blog post.
  Hundreds of porn sites affected in malvertising campaign (SC Magazine)

• Florida resident George Zimmerman, who was acquitted for the shooting death of unarmed black teen Trayvon Martin, is no longer welcome on Twitter. The micro-blogging platform temporarily suspended Zimmerman’s account Thursday after doxxing and posting intimate photographs of a woman he claimed to be his former girlfriend.
  George Zimmerman Gets The Boot From Twitter After He Posted Revenge Porn (Think Progress)

• In the 1990’s, performance artist Karen Finley gained a good deal of notoriety for being one of the NEA Four. That was a group of artists given a grant by the National Endowment of the Arts, only to have the grants rescinded by an act of congress, which viewed the artwork by her and the others as obscene.
  Artist Karen Finley reflects on Supreme Court obscenity case (WKAR)

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• I will never stop laughing at Prenda Law. A federal bankruptcy court judge yesterday ordered the liquidation of former Prenda Law attorney Paul Hansmeier’s assets, ruling that he had sought bankruptcy protection with one purpose — “to thwart the collection efforts of his creditors.”
  Judge Orders Liquidation of Prenda Attorney’s Assets (XBIZ)

• A recent BMJ editorial (3rd November) calls for ‘chemsex’ (the term used by the gay community to designate sex under the influence of drugs taken to heighten pleasure) to be made a ‘public health priority’. So how much do we actually know about the risks posed by ‘chemsex’?
  So how much do we actually know about the risks posed by ‘chemsex’? (BMJ/British Medical Journal)

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• * Carolina, Kiara, Kristof – Pregaming

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• * Piper Perri, Logan Pierce – School Girl Flogging

• * Baby Kate, Steve Q. – Invitation To Touch
• * Megan Rain – Office Passion
• * Mea Melone – Flexible Form
• * Alexis Adams, Karla Kush, Bambino – Memories Of A Threesome

• * Dean Van Damme and Poppy Cox – A Talk Too Dirty
• * Amarna Miller, Mickey Mod – An Appointment With My Master

• * Jiz Lee and Nikki Darling – Training Day

• * Ariana Marie, Marley Brinx, Johnny Castle – Sexy Surprise
• * Aiko Mai and Vinna Reed – Orgasmic
• * Apriloneil, Jessy Jones – Mirror Magic

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Amazon has really fucked up search when it comes to finding or discovering quality erotica and sex titles. That’s why I started this series. My handpicked Kink Your Kindle selections follow strict standards. All fiction must have explicit, realistic sex within rich storylines that are framed by excellent storytelling, as well as complex and compelling characters. Sex acts can range from sweetly romantic to thoughtfully quick and dirty. All nonfiction must be accurate, nonjudgemental, and sex-positive, preferring an all-gender, all-orientation approach.

I hope that Kink Your Kindle helps to hack a path through the Kindle store’s overwhelming swamp of untalented fetish-spammers and inability to sort for quality, which dominates Amazon’s erotica and sex categories. I hope that through Kink Your Kindle you discover new authors you grow to love.

• Coming Out Like a Porn Star: Essays on Pornography, Protection, and Privacy ($9.99) edited by Jiz Lee
  “This revealing, moving, and often surprising collection lets you go deep inside the lives of generations of porn stars and explicit performers. It’s an absolute must-read for anyone interested in sex industry politics, sex-positive culture, and porn studies––and for anyone whose friend, lover, or family member has taken their pants off in front of a camera. One after the other, these memoirs add up to a powerful, if ironic, conclusion: Porn stigma is the biggest problem many adult performers face, and it is at least as likely to come from our feminist moms as from prudish conservatives. Once you’ve heard the clear, articulate voices of these porn stars, you’ll never look at a sex movie, or the people who make it happen, the same way again.” (— Carol Queen, PhD Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture)

• Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life ($11.99) by Emily Nagoski
  “Ever wondered if something’s wrong with you? What happened to your sex “drive”, or why you’re body’s arousal doesn’t match you’re brain’s, or just whether you’re normal? This book distills all the latest research about women’s sexuality into something that is immediately useful into people’s lives. As someone who struggles with changes in sexual function, I found the material life-changing. The writing is clear, friendly, accessible, and just a bit nerdy.” (Amazon review)

• Sex Addiction: A Critical History ($21.80) by by Barry Reay
  “The concept of sex addiction took hold in the 1980s as a product of cultural anxiety. Yet, despite being essentially mythical, sex addiction has to be taken seriously as a phenomenon. Its success as a purported malady lay with its medicalization, both as a self-help movement in terms of self-diagnosis, and as a rapidly growing industry of therapists treating the new disease. The media played a role in its history, first with TV, the tabloids and the case histories of claimed celebrity victims all helping to popularize the concept, and then with the impact of the Internet.”

• Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work ($16.17) by Kimberly Kay Hoang
  “At a time when ethnographers in sociology seem inclined to write sensationalist accounts designed for mass appeal, Hoang represents the relationship between sexual and economic relations in Vietnam with exceptional thoughtfulness, methodological self-reflection, and theoretical sophistication. The book beautifully examines the relationships among masculinity, femininity, power, sexuality, and financial transactions among Western and Vietnamese women and men, making clear the many ways that sex workers and their clients or patrons manipulate their relations to meet complex personal and economic needs. She respects her subjects enough to avoid feeding two most common tropes in common representations of Asian sex workers, the exotic doll and the helpless victim.” (Amazon review)

• Paperback only, and so worth it: Horizontal Collaboration: The Erotic World of Paris, 1920-1946 ($39.95) by Mel Gordon
  “Mel Gordon, author of Voluptuous Panic, the celebrated history about the sex culture of Weimar Berlin, returns with a stunningly illustrated look at Paris, The City of Pleasure, prior to and during German occupation during World War II. The book Horizontal Collaboration encompasses the Jazz Age, Depression, World War and Occupation, and Liberation. It concludes with the shuttering of the licensed brothels in 1946, which some Parisian intellectuals thought was the final “destruction of French civilization”. Hundreds of images, most never before seen in a book, encompass this fascinating but little-known history.”

• Even Deeper ($2.99) by Alison Tyler
  I’m hooked on the story of Jack, Samantha, and Alex. “This series is Ms. Tyler’s best writing to date, and the Paris trip in “Even Deeper” leaves you breathless, hot, and bothered. But this is just the start of their wicked journey in the heart of the city and later into a dizzying erotic foray into the French countryside. Stay tuned because it’s only going to get better! The only way it could be better is a print version to go with my paperback set.” (Amazon review) See also: Bent Over His Desk: Hot Office Kink($4.49)

• Fierce Enchantments: Ten Erotic Tales of Myth, Magic and Desire ($7.99) by Janine Ashbless
  “One is struck by the sheer breadth of author Janine Ashbless’ inventiveness, her natural gift for storytelling honed to acute sharpness with rigorous intellectual focus and well-practiced craftswomanship. Covering all the archetypal bases from folk ballads, myth, legend, and fairytale to futuristic sci-fi, well-researched historical fiction, contemporary horror, paranormal thriller, and post-apocalyptic action-adventure, there’s something for everyone in this wondrously abundant, cerebrally and erotically stimulating, perpetually entertaining collection.” (Amazon review)

• Rough Magick ($3.99) by Francesca Lia Block
  “In Rough Magick, we have gathered together a collection of haunting, sometimes chilling, short stories and poems about the darker side of love and sex. Some of the stories are magical; some are more realistic and the “magic” comes through in language and lyricism. Some protagonists are teens and some are adults. There is romanticism and eroticism and even horror. What unites the stories is that the writers have boldly faced love’s shadows in unique and gripping ways.”

• The Circlet Press Steampunk Bundle: Four Full-Length Novels & An Anthology ($5.99) edited by Elizabeth Schechter, Peter Tupper, Vinnie Tesla, Lionel Bramble, J. Blackmore
  “Five complete book-length works of steamy steampunk, available only until February 15th, 2016 in this bundle! A discreet brothel staffed by robots. A theatre that enacts your most secret fantasies. A mad scientist whose machines are powered by human arousal. A team of secret agents on a mission to the steam-shrouded jungles of Venus. “Elizabeth Schechter fuses diverse genres with such artful subtlety that we barely notice the genius at work before our eyes. Steampunk, erotica, fairytale romance, horror, sci-fi; Schechter does it all so deftly, blends it all so seamlessly, we are left wondering by what weird and wonderful magic such stories are created. “—Big Brain Erotica” Also: Buy direct from Circlet Press.

• Spy Games: Thrilling Spy Erotica ($5.99) edited by Jillian Boyd
  “A scintillating collection of eclectic espionage-themed erotica… Ashton Peal starts things off with “The Sound of the Chime,” in which we experience how isolating spycraft can be. Stuck in her routine of spy protocols, Chime develops an illicit flirtation with Operator during their weekly phone calls. Then one night things go too far and everything changes. … In Anna Sky’s “Clean Lies,” Ciara enters a hotel suite disguised as a maid to install a high-tech device to steal information from a Scottish multimillionaire. When she’s caught in the act by the devilishly handsome rogue, she can either preserve her cover as a naughty maid and submit to a spanking — and maybe more — or she can get away while she can.” (Amazon review)

• Bisexual Beauties: 10 Sexy Stories of Girls Who Love Girls… and Guys ($7.99) by Giselle Renarde
  “Girlfriends share their first taste of man in “Felicity’s First” while frisky folk singers take Winter along for the ride in “Forbidden Folk.” A curvy girl joins the action when she walks in on her co-worker crush seducing a sexy stranger. A proudly bisexual building super fixes more than just leaky pipes, and a concerned BFF helps her married friends break down barriers when she jumps into bed with them.” See also: Everybody Knows: 15 Transgender Love Stories ($6.99)

• Step Beast: (Military Stepbrother Romance) ($3.99) by Selena Kitt
  “This book is so much more than I ever expected from it. Its dark yet sweet, gritty yet fun. There are enough twists to keep you reading ‘just a few more pages’ until you realize that the entire day/night is gone and you’re not at the end yet. I can’t really say more without giving major spoilers and this is the sort of book where you really want to go through the book because in each chapter it seems like you see a new facet of the one of main characters’ personalities. With books like this, Selena Kitt is rapidly becoming one of my favorite authors.” (Amazon review) See also: Peter and the Wolf (New Modern Wicked Fairy Tales; $0.99)

• The Flight of the Black Swan ($2.99) by Jean Roberta
  “The Flight of the Swan, set in England and at sea during the time of the U.S. Civil War, more than lives up to the “bawdy” promise in its title. This is a story constantly in motion, as Emily learns about young love and lesbian sex, only to be parted from her Lucy very early on. She winds up on the Black Swan, a ship full of men who, due to their homosexuality, wouldn’t be welcome in the official English Navy ships. There is plenty of subterfuge and secrets that are slowly revealed, and Roberta slyly lets the reader in on both the jokes and the true emotion behind some of these secrets, which include cross-dressing. There is plenty of drama, love scenes and adventure as the ship’s crew fight to save themselves and battle for the cause of ending slavery, though their own thoughts on the topic are brought into relief when they encounter a former slave, Mary Ann.” (Amazon review)

• Cathedral of Furs: Ardent Erotica Inspired by Anaïs Nin ($2.99) by Lana Fox
  “From taboo eroticism to ardent longing that ignites the page and makes the heart thump harder, no one writes passion like Anaïs Nin. That’s why erotic author and publisher Lana Fox created Cathedral of Furs — five ardent linked stories inspired by Anaïs Nin’s diaries. Much like Nin herself, the protagonist Arielle refuses to let her heart be bound by rules that make no sense for her. Thus she embarks on a journey of forbidden liaisons, exotic revelations, and courageous encounters that society would have her shun in spite of their heart-driven passion. “

• Show Yourself to Me: Queer Kink Erotica ($6.99) by Xan West
  “Xan West introduces us to pretty boys and nervous boys, vulnerable tops and dominant sadists, good girls and fierce girls and scared little girls, mean Daddies and loving Daddies and Daddies that are terrifying in delicious ways. Submissive queers go to alleys to suck cock, get bent over the bathroom sink by a handsome stranger, choose to face their fears, have their Daddy orchestrate a gang bang in the park, and get their dream gender-play scene–tied to a sling in an accessible dungeon. Dominants find hope and take risks, fall hard and push edges, get fucked and devour the fear and tears that their sadist hearts desire. Within these 24 stories, you will meet queers who build community together, who are careful about how they play with power, who care deeply about consent.”

• Under By Treaty (Alien Shapeshifter Romance; Qui Treaty Collection) ($3.99) by Kayla Stonor
  “This story manages to thread the needle … This difficult feat is accomplished through the use of the alpha submissive concept. Essentially, an alpha submissive can be described as a man who is normally dominant, but during the course of the story one special Domme figures out a way to bend him to her will — willingly, or otherwise. … The hero, General Jaden, is a hardened, bad-ass soldier, and the thought of submitting to anyone or anything is as alien to him as the mysterious and deadly invaders who’ve laid waste to large swaths of a future Earth. Kayla does a good job in setting the stage for what transpires later in the story, firmly establishing that Jaden doesn’t submit to anyone willingly. Enter Sonil, a beautiful, bewitching, and (despite her frequently indulged penchant for dishing out some serious pain), ultimately vulnerable heroine as the Domme. I loved her, and as a dominant male, that takes some doing for me to connect so strongly to a Domme in erotic fiction.” (Amazon review)

NEW FROM ME

• Wetware: Cyberpunk Erotica ($3.89) edited by Violet Blue
  “Wetware ended far too soon. When I finished the last story, Synthetic Skin, my favorite of the seven, I was left wanting far more similar stories. I could easily read far more set in the worlds of Synthetic Skin; Bishop to King’s Pawn, Two; and Rough, Trade as well. Everything was hot, the plots underneath them all varied more than I’d imagined, and the small bits of cyberpunk culture recommendations in between worked wonderfully as transitions. This is the level of substance I want to read in more erotica collections. The lack of any stories that made me cringe or skim through only adds to it. The one time I thought a story would be gross is the time my expectations got tossed on their head. Wetware is simply fantastic.” (Amazon review)

HAPPIER HOLIDAYS

• ’tis the Season ($0.99) by Sommer Marsden
  “I sat down to read a few pages to see if it was what I wanted. Cup of coffee and a few oatmeal cookies later and I was all done, blinking and going “that’s all? But I wanted MORE…” This is a quick read, like 50 pages, but 50 steaming pages! Wow! I loved this novella … Natalie has a problem; the thermostat in her apartment is stuck open and her upstairs neighbor – her insanely hot, sexy, and unfortunately, attached, upstairs neighbor – is the local handyman. She goes up to ask him to fix it and discovers him… well, entertaining himself after a breakup… as per the usual Sommer Marsden read, hijinks ensue…” (Amazon review)

• Holiday Kink: Dirty Christmas Quickies ($2.99) edited by Violet Blue
  “Sure, it took me a little while to get into it (see “Santa/Elf/Holiday themes aren’t typically my thing”), but once I was (starting with “Unwrapped” by Ayre Riley—cis m/f pegging fun that was extraordinarily well done), I was totally wrapped (ha!). Other stories totally worth the $2.99: “A Very Naughty Elf” by Felix D’Angelo (“I got your North Pole right here”—nice—and a fantastic tale of BDSM santa comes home to his naughty elf), “Mandatory Fun” by Alison Tyler (everything you’ve come to expect from Alison: fun, entertaining, and sexy kink at an office party), and Violet’s collected recipes and solid advice on sex and safe BDSM play. It’s like Redbook gone Hustler, I swear it. As far as I’m concerned, that’s a damn good thing.” (Amazon review)

See also, on writing and reading erotica:

Why I Write Bisexual Romance (Huffington Post)
Pornocalypse 2015 is Upon Us! (Selena Kitt)

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• Scope commissioned graphic artist Paul Patemen, who works under the moniker Paté, to illustrate an A to Z guide to sex for people with disabilities as part of its End the Awkward campaign, an effort to change attitudes around disability.
  These Cheeky Alphabet Cartoons Are Busting Myths About Sex and Disability (Mic)

• Two men hovered over the turkey pen, watching. A large, male bird walked in a circle, readying his mating dance, keen for the right moment. The moment arrived — clueless and giddy, the bird excitedly fluffed his feathers and approached his object of desire: the severed head of a taxidermied, female turkey, mounted on a stick. It was the early 1960s, and Dr. Martin Schein and Dr. Edward Hale were working tirelessly at Pennsylvania State University to find out what makes domestic turkeys interested in sex.
  How to Seduce a Turkey: The Bizarre Poultry Sex Experiments of the 1960s (Atlas Obscura)

• The Porn Sparks Love campaign, developed by GameLink, launched today to combat anti-porn efforts and propaganda (notably, the Mormon billboard campaign in California, “Porn Kills Love”). “Porn Sparks Love” highlights the positive impact of pornography on love and relationships around the world through expert and viewer testimonials, as well as scientific studies and media articles. Garnering the support of the adult industry and its millions of fans, the de-shaming initiative supports openness, creative self-expression and all forms of sexuality.
  ‘Porn Sparks Love’ Campaign Fights Anti-Porn Propaganda (XBIZ)

• Jessica Jones, Netflix’s adaptation of a Marvel comic about the titular misanthropic, hard-drinking superhero (played by Krysten Ritter), has been rightfully praised for its handling of consent and sexual assault. Yet, what perhaps makes the show so successful and revolutionary is how it handles Jessica’s sexuality following her assault. Although both are victims of brutal assault at the hands of a male assailant, Jessica and her best friend Tricia (as played by Rachael Taylor) are aggressively, unapologetically sexual. Considering the typically one-dimensional depictions of assault survivors’ sexuality, this is nothing short of revolutionary.
  What ‘Jessica Jones’ Teaches Us About Having Sex After Sexual Assault (Mic) See also: Beyond Bed-Breaking Sex: Jessica Jones & Luke Cage Share Marvel’s First Real Romance (Decider)

• A new study from researchers at Washington State University (WSU) analyzed data from a survey of over 33,000 U.S. adults and found that a “taxonic,” or categorical, model was better suited for describing sexual orientation than a continuum model like the famous Kinsey scale. In other words, sexuality isn’t a sliding scale so much as it is a complicated multiple choice question.
  Kinsey Was Wrong: Sexuality Isn’t Fluid (Daily Beast)

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• Kristina Knapic thought she was renting her 1920s home in Ojai, California, to an Airbnb user named Anna, who was planning “a quick summer vacation” with some friends. But, she alleges, it was actually used by Michael Lucas, the gay porn king of New York, for a hard-core shoot, which she discovered upon returning and finding her sheets soiled and enema kits strewn about. But XBIZ reports, Michael Lucas Says Airbnb Mansion Suit Is Bogus.
  Lawsuit: Michael Lucas, Gay Porn Auteur, Tricked Woman Into Renting Her Mansion for a Shoot Via Airbnb (New York Magazine)

• “The Pacific Northwest’s biggest, best, and only amateur porn festival wrapped up its 11th annual run last weekend. And it was our biggest HUMP! yet: More than 20,000 people poured into theaters in Seattle, Portland, and Olympia over two long, wet weekends to watch porn the way their grandparents used to—sitting next to strangers in the dark.”
  HUMP! 2015 Winners (Stranger)

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— Tantus, Inc. (@tantus) November 23, 2015

• Sperm length varies by several orders of magnitude across species, from the tiny sperm of the porcupine (0.0003 cm) to the gigantic sperm of the fruit fly (6 cm), which is more than 20 times the length of the fly. The fruit fly’s sperm looks like a wound-up ball of string that unravels once inside the female’s even longer reproductive tract.
  The Biggest Sperm Come In The Smallest Packages – And Other Odd Facts About Male Sex Cells (IFL Science)

• The general consensus is that the use of just about every illicit drug causes damage to the testicles (er, not really. -VB) and prevents the creation of testosterone — the linchpin substance for the entire male reproductive system. For the purposes of this piece, we leaned heavily on a 2012 study called “The Insults of Illicit Drug Use in Male Fertility” from the American Society of Andrology’s Journal of Andrology.
  We Asked Three Doctors How Illegal Drugs Affect Your Sperm (Vice UK)

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— Ms Naughty (@msnaughty) November 23, 2015

• In the face of threatened legal action from the football star Jameis Winston, CNN did not back away from broadcasting “The Hunting Ground,” a documentary about sexual assault on college campuses that has stirred controversy since its January debut at the Sundance Film Festival.
  CNN Shows Sex Assault Film Despite Legal Threat (NY Times)

• It is not just China’s economy that has loosened up since 1979. The country is in the midst of a sexual revolution. A 2012 study found that more than 70% of Chinese people have sex before marriage. The social climate remains chilly. Most news items about sex involve scandals or crimes. Schools ban pupils from dating and many deploy “morality patrols” to root out flirting or frolicking couples. The dominant message is to abstain. A 2013 review by UNESCO and Beijing Forestry University noted the prevalence of “terror-based” sex education, with content largely focused on the horrors of pregnancy, abortion and HIV. Earlier this month a university in Xi’an in central China ran a course entitled “No Regrets Youth” where students received a “commitment card”, essentially a pledge to remain a virgin until marriage.
  Dream of the bed chamber (Economist)

• “I once supervised a therapist who believed that if someone was into spanking, something was wrong because, in her opinion, pain and pleasure should never be combined. This ignores the research that shows that, for some, pleasure and pain combined is and can be normative and erotic. One sex addiction therapist I knew believed it was wrong for a man to wear woman’s clothing for sexual arousal because, “Why would the man want to humiliate himself in this way?” We now know more about transgender issues and how normative it is for many straight men to enjoy dressing in women’s clothes and underwear, and how it isn’t at all humiliating for them. This therapist was using his own bias or belief system rather than the latest science to treat his client, and needs to expand his understanding and protect the client from his countertransference.”
  Why I Am No Longer a Sex-Addiction Therapist (Psychology Today)

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• * Anastasia, Zazel Paradise, Miyuki Son, Lina Bembe, Natalia Ferrari, Jay Smooth – Try My Boyfriend
• * Ryan James and Maria Agrado – Hello Pool Boy

• * Amarna Miller and Maximilian Gambero – Do You Find My Feet Suckable?
• * Bel Gris and Lana Sue – Dear Brother In Law

• * Amber Nevada, Dido Wend, Marc Sanz, Ian Grey – Pansexuals
• * Julia Roca and Marc Morato – Eat With Me

• * Dean Van Damme and Poppy Cox – A Talk Too Dirty
• * Amarna Miller, Mickey Mod – An Appointment With My Master

• * Amarna Miller and Kristopher Kudjoe – Manuel del Placer
• * Tiffany Doll, gentleman friend – Wine is the Best Lubricant

• * Alexa Tomas and Joel Tomas – Slo-Blo-Mo-Job
• * Julia Roca and Mickey Mod – La Reine des Culottes

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“Because we worked on the margins, we Internet models all knew each other, and we extended one another what protection we could. We spread word about who was a good guy and who was a sociopath, knowing full well that the police would do nothing if one of these sessions ended in rape. I knew a girl who had worked as a bondage model. While tied up, the photographer threatened to kill her. She wept. He let her go. When she went to the police, they shrugged her off. Later, the photographer murdered a different model.”
Tales of Being a Naked Artist’s Model (New Republic/Molly Crabapple)

1. “One day, I had two back-to-back clients, both with the same name. I mixed up my notes and ended up doing a cop cavity search role-play scene with my second guy. He seemed a bit surprised upon seeing me in officer gear and explained that he never did a role-play before. My first client ended up getting a sensual session instead of his cop role-play. Oops.” —Domina Devorah
7 Sex Workers on Their Most Hilariously Embarrassing Moments (Cosmopolitan)

“More than 10 women have discovered that they had relationships with undercover UK policemen, some lasting years, without being told their true identity. On Friday it was announced that police had agreed to give a full apology and pay compensation to Lisa and six other women for the trauma they suffered after being deceived into forming intimate relationships with police spies. … Kennedy had a number of sexual relationships while undercover. The longest was with Lisa (2003-2009).”
Lisa Jones, girlfriend of undercover policeman Mark Kennedy: ‘I thought I knew him better than anyone’ (Guardian UK)

“In March 2013, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation challenged the world to reinvent the condom — a device that’s been around for centuries yet has seen minimal technological improvement in the past 50 years. The most promising designers would score $100,000 in seed funding, plus a chance at an additional $1 million to further finance their projects. … Two and a half years later, we’re still waiting.”
2 Years Later, Here’s What Happened to Bill Gates’ Condoms of the Future (Mic)

“A Spike Lee movie set to open Dec. 4, “Chi-Raq,” is a modern riff on the ancient Greek comedy “Lysistrata;” both offer satirical takes on women who go on sex strikes to get men to end violence. But do sex strikes work in real life? A Chicago woman is betting yes: April Lawson started a petition on Change.org to put an end to violence on the South Side.”
Do Sex Strikes Work? (Discovery)

“I hadn’t touched another woman in an intimate way since before getting married six years ago. Then, in the most peculiar circumstances, I was doing it. … After 30 seconds, the experience became too much and I stopped. I ripped off my Oculus Rift headset and stood up from the chair I was sitting on, stunned. It was a powerful experience, and I left convinced that virtual reality was not only the future of sex, but also the future of infidelity.”
Is an Affair in Virtual Reality Still Cheating? (Motherboard/Vice)

“Unfortunately, transgender people are a group that was so marginalized in comics that the only characters trans people could see ourselves in were shapeshifters, aliens and victims of magic spells or science fiction body swaps. While trans characters were scant for most of the history of comic books, these kinds of characters were actually pretty popular, going as far back as DC Comics’ Golden Age.”
The Complete History of Transgender Characters in American Comic Books (Autostraddle)

“The authors of the Motion Picture Production Code, which came into effect in 1930, were rather more cateogorical about the bare human body. Nudity, they argued, is never justified; it “may be beautiful [but that] does not make its use in the films moral”. All actors, directors, and producers were strictly warned against showing the naked body.” (Sound like modern social media? Yep.)
A hundred years of over-baring censors (Economist)

“Sex furniture is big business; Liberator, the biggest industry player in the States, employs 200 people, while its competitor The Tantra Chair ships worldwide to countries including Saudi Arabia (huge fans of calfskin sex chairs, apparently). For those who can’t afford to drop upwards of $1,299 on a custom-designed sex chair, Internet forums will identify which IKEA product gives you an unexpected bang for your buck.”
The Sex Furniture Makers Trying to Make Fuck-Chairs and Foam Wedges Sexy (Broadly/Vice)

“By the 1500s, European women were getting in on the action; some even donned merkins, which are very funny false hairpieces designed for the pubic area, often made of goat hair. After observing the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere, Darwin noted that pubic hair was uncommon in many cultures, citing that many people found the presence of hair “unclean” for both religious and hygienic reasons.”
The Prickly History of Pubes in Porn (Broadly/Vice)

Discussing Carol, Cate Blanchett’s new film which chronicles a love affair between two women in 1950s New York City, Blanchett told the press at Cannes with perceptible disdain: “What happens these days is if you are homosexual, you have to talk about it constantly; it has to be the only thing; you have to put it before your work, before any other aspect of your personality.”
Sorry, Cate Blanchett, Gays Really Do Need to Shout Their Sexuality From the Rafters (Slate)

"Clearance is denied" https://t.co/nRHcsezeo6 [PDF] pic.twitter.com/uLcN92Rmhe

— Fenrir (@semibogan) November 22, 2015

oh please please please go read the document in my last tweet. it is comedy and opsec gold. pic.twitter.com/2edAjIIA3j

— Fenrir (@semibogan) November 22, 2015

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If you’re a Tumblr erotic photo/art nudes prowler, you’ve probably come across photos with the name CubCollab appended to them. Like most things Tumblr erotic or not, the source of these is tough to track down, and Google’s increasingly muddled (and prudish) search doesn’t help in tracking down artist attribution. Lucky for you, research is one of my fetishes. I found out who, and what, CubCollab is.

CubCollab is model, photographer, stylist and office manager Tanya Dakin and her sweetheart. In response to a comment on her Tumblr, Erotic Tonic, she writes,

Thank you, all the work with CubCollab are intimate projects between myself and my boyfriend who’s much younger than I, hence the name Cub, he is not a photographer per-say, I select the location, mostly when we are vacationing, choose wardrobe and styling to play up the surroundings, set the cameras exposure and base tone, and hand the camera over, he shoots and brackets, and interjects his ideas, he then let’s me do the rest, skin edits, final toning and adjustments. Lately he is the only one I have been wanting to model for In an erotic sense, I’m losing my hunger to express myself in the hands of others, it’s a nice transition into retirement, and beautiful memories we share as artist working together as not just a team, but an intimate couple. We have another vacation getaway coming up end of December, lots of bright rooms with beautiful muted and earthy tones, I’m brainstorming for style and wardrobe already.

I’m a fan. And now I have another mad crush… and I’m looking forward to whatever direction CubCollab decides to go. Also, this photo she styled has an outfit so cute, I’m dying for it.

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Cybercrime and passion: Wetware: Cyberpunk Erotica (ebook, $3.89)

• When does nudity on film become porn? It’s a blush-inducing question that has lacked a clear answer for a century now: On November 18th it will be 100 years since a naked woman first appeared on American screens, in the film “Inspiration”, but censors still grapple with the nuances, vague rules of thumb and subjectivity.
  A hundred years of over-baring censors (Economist)

• “Our cultural shame and fear around sex permeate [social network] community standards and it shows. When a Facebook ad is denied for cleavage, which I’m told isn’t allowed even in an educational context – but bathing suit models are everywhere the eye can see, what kind of user experience is being cultivated?”
  The Morality Police on Pinterest, Facebook and Instagram (Fetish.com)

• Two St. Lucian women went to court Thursday after they were caught hiding cocaine molded as sex toys in their vaginas at an airport in Guyana. Cosmetologist Chermisa Wheeler, 38, and babysitter Andree Willy, 43, were sentenced on drug trafficking charges incurred while trying to board a return flight to their native St. Lucia.
  Women arrested with coke sex toys in their vaginas (NY Daily News)

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• Sex toy entrepreneur Brian Sloan is on the hunt for the most beautiful set of bollocks. The Scrotum Beauty Pageant is apparently legit and he’s offering the bloke with the most terrific testes the chance to win $10,000 (£6,543).
  The First-Ever Scrotal Beauty Contest Is Happening And Winner Gets $10,000 (Unilad)

• Tantan, a Chinese clone of dating app Tinder, sends passwords, phone numbers, location data and more in plain text, Larry Salibra, founder and CEO of Pay4Bugs, a crowdsourced bug software testing program, has found.
  Tantan, the Tinder of China, Has a Basic Security Flaw (Motherboard)

• Sky UK Ltd. has sent out letters to thousands of its broadband customers warning them that they could receive demand letters from Golden Eye International for porn downloaded through torrent sites. Golden Eye, the company that owns copyrights for Ben Dover Productions content, earlier this year won a court order that forced Sky to hand over customer data corresponding to IP addresses infringing on its poached content.
  Sky UK Warns Customers of Porn Piracy Demand Letters (XBIZ)

• The first-ever pill designed to boost women’s libido has had an anticlimactic launch. According to a report from Bloomberg, there have been only 227 prescriptions for Addyi (pronounced “add-ee”) in its first two weeks on sale — a low figure compared to the more than half a million men who were prescribed Viagra during its first month on sale in 1998. However, this isn’t necessarily a straightforward reflection of demand, but also of the pill’s underwhelming performance.
  The sex drug for women that doesn’t really work, isn’t really selling (Verge)

• Let’s talk about sex, baby — with a condom emoji, that is. That’s what condom maker Durex is pushing for, as it tries to convince the Unicode Consortium to include a safe-sex emoji on World AIDS Day on Dec. 1. The company launched a #CondomEmoji campaign across social media this week, asking people to support an emoji that makes it abundantly clear that people want safe sex.
  Durex wants the makers of emoji to add a condom to promote safe sex (Daily Dot)

• An arbitration panel, 2-1, recently denied cybersquatting claims against the operator of two domains that incorporate “porntube” within its website names. The decision made by ADR Forum neutrals is significant because Tenza Trading Ltd., which operates PornTube.com among many other web properties, owns a U.S. trademark for the mark “porntube” for adult entertainment services and has used it commercially since 2005.
  Arbitrators Deny Cybersquatting Claims Involving ‘Porntube’ Mark (XBIZ)

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• A hilarious profile published Wednesday in London’s Evening Standard raises a lot of questions about Tinder CEO Sean Rad’s intelligence, and his fitness to be a CEO — not to mention their PR person’s fitness to effectively do her job. First off, Rad did not know what the word “sodomy” meant …
  Tinder CEO Sean Rad: A Case Study In Why 29-Year-Old CEOs Shouldn’t Run Their Mouths (SFist)

• Disgraced reality star Josh Duggar was hit by a lawsuit on Wednesday from porn star Danica Dillon, who claims Duggar assaulted her while they were having sex earlier this year. Dillon is suing the former “19 Kids and Counting” star for $500,000 in damages, alleging he “manhandled” her and caused her “physical and emotional injuries” during their March hook-up, according to court documents obtained by TMZ.
  Josh Duggar sued by porn star (NY Daily News)

• What Is Pornstep?! That’s right, who needs wobbly bass and shitty bros when you can have bukkake splurts and blowjob pops? Take one part MRI machine, two parts soundsystem dub and three parts moan samples, and you got the hottest new genre to turn up to this weekend in the club.
  What Is Pornstep?! (Papermag)

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• * Adel P. – Wonderful
• * Foxy T. – Secrets
• * Joanna – Glamorous

• * Tina H. – Favorite Chair (video)
• * Sapphira – Well Done (video)

• * Foxhouse Films – Femmephilia
• * Many babes – New Crash Pad episodes

• * Presenting Isabella
• * Carter Cruise, Jenna Sativa – Lesbian Lust

• * Apolonia – Artful Solo
• * Introducing Celeste (gallery)

• * Araya Acosta – Emela
• * Nika N. – Apocy
• * Michelle H. – Paghie

• * Lucy – Yummy Yogurt
• * Dellai Twins – Fun at Madeira

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• Susie Bright weighed in on the just-released Paris Attacks terrorist manifesto on her Facebook page, reposted on Towleroad. The manifesto said it “set out targeting the capital of prostitution and vice” and Bright elaborates on “Their obsession with sexual revenge, the revenge of the sexually rejected.” Warning for survivors of sexual assault and trauma.
  Susie Bright on the Sex-Obsessed Paris ISIS manifesto (Towleroad)

• One year after demonstrators convened outside Parliament to protest a change in regulations for online adult content distributors, organizers are planning another one. This year’s demonstration, called “(Pro) Porn Protest 1 Year On,” is slated for Saturday, Dec. 12, at noon at the Old Palace Yard opposite the Palace of Westminster.
  London Porn Protest Slated for Dec. 12 (XBIZ)

• November 14 saw an unnamed porn performer interviewed by UK media alleging that she’d had sex with a Hollywood actor who is HIV positive, and that the actor had sex with at least 50 adult movie actresses, despite knowing his condition. It wasn’t hard to guess it might be Charlie Sheen — who had now disclosed that he is HIV positive. Added: The actor said he had paid “millions” to unnamed individuals who had threatened to expose his HIV-positive status. Sheen said he was diagnosed with HIV about four years ago. He insisted that it was “impossible” that he could have transmitted the virus to someone else since his diagnosis, while acknowledging that he had unprotected sex during that time with two people.(Variety)
  TMZ and People Magazine: Charlie Sheen Is HIV Positive (XBIZ)

• Earlier this week, PornHub announced a 10% drop in traffic among videogame fans the day Fallout 4 was released. Using anonymous user affinity profiles from Google GOOGL +1.47% analytics, the site saw the biggest drop between 6AM and Noon, and then again between 6PM and 10PM, hours it assumed most people were just beginning their trips into the wasteland.
  Pornhub Says Its Gaming Audience Dropped 10% The Day ‘Fallout 4’ Came Out (Forbes)

• Indie porn film fest Porntopia was last weekend, and it looked amazing! I can’t find any coverage or afterglow posts (yet), but the thank you post is here, and some really nice photos are up here.
  Porntopia 2015 photos (Gourmet Book Design, Porntopia 2015)

I love Sara Karola's "Dirty Dishes" on display at Unseen Gallery. #GUSH #pornotopia2015 pic.twitter.com/pYGYDrxpnG

— Jiz Lee (@jizlee) November 16, 2015

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• San Francisco grand dame and larger-than-life ’60s cultural figure Carol Doda has died. The 78 year old was beloved and revered for her bare, entrepreneurial spirit — not to mention her bare, once world-famous, silicone-injected 44D breasts — and will be missed and remembered by many for her legacy of positivity and free expression.
  Carol Doda, ’60s Stripping Sensation And Cultural Icon, Dead At 78 (SFist)

• Doctor Who producers are bringing back flirty female favourite River Song to serve up a Christmas Day “sex storm” for fans. They decided to include River – played by Alex Kingston – as surprise guest star in the raunchiest-ever episode of BBC 1’s long-running sci-fi show.
  Doctor Who is serving up a ‘sex storm’ as favourite character returns (Mirror UK)

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• The mosaic portrait of Donald Trump made entirely of dick pics is uncredited on every website right now, including NY Mag, Esquire and many others. It’s actually by HomoPower, who says, “I give you a pic showing what Donald Trump is really made of. This is a high-resolution photo mosaic of Trump made with 500 dick pics.”
  HomoPower: Donald Trump (homopower.tumblr.com)

• Larry Flynt appeared on the Nov. 11 episode of Bravo TV’s “Million Dollar Listing,” negotiating the sale of Hustler’s Sunset Strip property to developer Zachary Vella of VE Equities. It will reportedly be turned into an upscale restaurant and nightclub.
  Larry Flynt Sells Hustler Store on ‘Million Dollar Listing’ (XBIZ)

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• A Secret Service officer assigned to the White House was arrested after he was caught in a sting sending naked pictures of himself to someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl from Delaware, according to a criminal complaint unsealed last Thursday. The complaint comes after a series of high-profile controversies for the Secret Service.
  Secret Service officer arrested in child sex sting (CNN)

• After 10 years honoring some filmmakers in erotica, organizers of the Feminist Porn Awards have decided to draw the curtains on the show. Carlyle Jansen, owner of Toronto adult toy store Good for Her, which launched the awards program in 2006, said that the show will take “a short break” in 2016 and return at a later date.
  Feminist Porn Awards Won’t Be Held in 2016 (NAME)

• A man who admitted to stealing nude photos from women’s email accounts and selling the images for publication on a website was sentenced Monday to more than two years in federal prison. Charles Evens confessed to breaking into the Gmail and Yahoo email accounts of hundreds of women, obtaining nude photos and selling the images to another man, Hunter Moore.
  Judge sentences ‘revenge porn’ hacker to 2 years in federal prison (LA Times)

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• A Christmas print ad for retailer Bloomingdales shows an image of a woman and a man with a very questionable headline between them. The headline reads, “Spike your best friend’s eggnog when they’re not looking.” Like every brand which finds itself in this situation, an apology has been issued on a Facebook post. It begins by avoiding accountability, saying “In reflection of your feedback …”
  Bloomingdales’s Slammed With Social Media Outrage Over Date Rape Ad (Adrants)

• A porn star is revealing what it’s like to date as a sex worker and sharing her three cardinal rules she says people must follow if they want to be in a relationship with her – or another sex worker.
  Porn star reveals the three rules of dating a sex worker (Daily Mail)

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Image: “Last Tango in Paris” shot by Ellen von Unwerth via MenDaily.

“Dr. Katherine Goldey and Dr. Sari van Anders of the University of Michigan set out to test a straightforward hypothesis: The more choice women had over the pornography they watched, the more aroused they would become. Unsurprisingly, that prediction came true. But something unexpected happened in their study, too. Women who freely chose their own erotica also experienced more disgust, guilt, and embarrassment than women who were given limited or no choice over their viewing material.”
Why Are Women Still Ashamed of Watching Porn? (Daily Beast)

“Let me start with a prediction: sex robots will become a reality. I say this with some confidence. In making this prediction, I won’t make specific claims about the likely form or degree of intelligence that will be associated with these sex robots. Granting this, it seems to me that there are three stances one can take towards the existence of such robots: Liberation, Regulation, and Criminalisation.”
The Campaign Against Sex Robots: A Critical Analysis (Philosophical Disquisitions)

“Ask any sex worker how they maintain their boundaries, and you’re in for a long conversation. Some people develop a working identity that they keep entirely separate from their real-life persona, and others conflate the two. Many sex workers desperately want to be out but don’t want to endure the invasive questions, or fear that their housing stability or the custody of their children would be compromised. Some of us just don’t feel that connected to the character we’ve created for work, so it seems unimportant to talk about. And while some strippers love putting platforms on and grinding into their partners’ crotches as foreplay, just as many would slap their boyfriend silly if he asked.”
What It’s Like to Date When You’re a Porn Star (Cosmopolitan)

Kudos to @MorganaMaye for making this story more than some questionably pegged anecdote pretending to be news. https://t.co/ysH76YgSIR

— Troy Orleans (@troyorleans) November 14, 2015

“Adult performers on facing prejudice in one of the most controversial occupations. Exploring the nature of privlege, race, gender and class at the heart of a divisive industry: When the steamy on-screen encounters are over, their clothes are picked up off the floor, and the cameras are switched off, porn performers have to deal with day-to-day life like anyone else – including telling their friends and families how they’re getting paid each month.”
This is what it’s like to come out as a porn star (Independent UK)

“It appears we’re on the brink of a robo-sexual revolution. Some have claimed that you’ll be, like the selfie, a socially derided mainstay by 2025. Other, more conservative, estimates posit that having sex with you will be either commonplace or more popular than human-on-human sex by 2050. Whatever the case, you’re coming — or should I say arriving — soon.”
Dear first-generation sex robot … (Engadget)

“Sangkharom wasn’t always a sex worker, nor did she ever envision herself as one. But, her prior employment — competing in lady boy contests in Isaan, a region in Northeastern Thailand — wasn’t a stable source of income. Sangkharom, who has been working in the sex industry for about 10 years, speaks with pride when she talks about her occupation. Not only does sex work allow her to be economically self-sufficient, but, as someone with an exuberant personality, it also provides her with the freedom she desires. “I like sex work because… it makes me feel good,” she said. “I can choose [the man]. It’s up to me. I can do my way. I can dance and have music, drinking [and] relax.””
Thailand’s trans sex workers seek empowerment, not pity (Asian Correspondent)

“So there’s this essay by Christopher Zeischegg aka Danny Wylde. It’s titled On The Moral Imperative To Commodify Our Sexual Suffering and I think there’s some stuff in there I disagree with. I have to say “I think” because it’s a dense essay with a lot of nuance, some of which may be getting past me. What’s more, I haven’t been where Zeischegg has been or done what he’s done. What I have done is worked (in my pasty-faced keyboarding way) in the same porn industry as him, and experienced (right along with him) certain changes in the porn business …”
Danny Wylde Has Stuff To Say (Eros Blog)

““Never, ever send nude photos to a guy. When I say never, I mean fucking never.” The words hit me like a knife in the chest as I read them on page 228 of Amber Rose’s new manifesto on living right, How to Be a Bad Bitch. Even nudes that obscure your face can be identified by tattoos or other characteristics, Amber warns, and in the event of breakup, you’ll have to wonder for the rest of your life if the ex in possession of this salacious contraband will decide to share them with the world at large. … Heeding this rule would effectively crush my whole sexy-selfie game.”
Why I Have My Face in My Naked Selfies (New York Magazine)

#CNBC CENSORED Amedeo Modigliani's masterpiece after it sold at auction for a record $170M. Keep it prude, America. pic.twitter.com/RcS5jkMxo9

— Rick Calmon (@rcalmon) November 10, 2015

“Imagine that a thousand people—randomly selected from the U.S. population—had unprotected sex yesterday. How many of them will eventually die from contracting HIV from that single sexual encounter? Now, imagine a different thousand people. These people will drive from Detroit to Chicago tomorrow—about 300 miles. How many will die on the trip as a result of a car crash? Which of those two numbers is bigger?” (Hint: Your guess is probably wrong.)
People Are Terrified of Sex (The Atlantic)

“The Erotica Readers and Writers Association has been around since 1996. … In recent years, as Amazon (and other retailers) have pushed back against erotica authors, I have seriously considered giving up on the genre altogether. … I have never met a more fun-loving, open-minded, good-hearted crowd of people. Erotica authors are the first line in the defenders of the freedom of expression. They go places others are often afraid to venture, and tackle topics that far too many shy away from.”
Changing of the Guard (Erotica Readers & Writers Association)

“Odds are, every weirdo customer at the shop she works at, every distant relative, and every long forgotten high school Facebook friend asked her to weigh in on how she felt when Caitlyn Jenner came out. You probably don’t need to add to that. This is especially true when there’s yet another murder or hate crime committed against a trans woman. She deals with that reality every day, so she may not want to rant about it for hours on end when she comes home at night.”
10 Simple Steps to Being a Better Cis Partner to Your Trans Girlfriend (SheWired)

Image: “Last Tango in Paris” shot by Ellen von Unwerth via MenDaily.

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Does the stunning erotic art of Jean-Sébastien Rossbach look familiar? If so, then it’s because he’s known for having “illustrated the covers of Dan Simmons’ Hyperion series, George R. R. Martin’ A Game of Thrones, Robin Hobb’ Royal Assassin and about a hundred more covers for novels, video games, comics, and so on… JS works for prestigious clients among which are Marvel, Dark Horse, Warner Home Video, Ubisoft, SEGA, Wizards of the Coast, Blizzard, Wizkids, Tor Books, SEAT, EMI and many others around the globe.”

His Tumblr is here, he’s @livingrope on Twitter, and you can buy his prints here. I really want a copt of his ten-year retrospective, Burning Inside: The Art of Jean-Sébastien Rossbach (it’s also bilingual English / French).

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Cybercrime and cybersex: Wetware: Cyberpunk Erotica by Violet Blue (ebook, $3.89)

• Inspired by Mitt Romney’s run for the US Presidency, Portland-based photographer Neil Dacosta satirized the Mormons’ politicized stance on same-sex relations by coming up with The Book of Mormon Missionary Positions.
  ‘The Book of Mormon Missionary Positions’ is the one gay sex manual that is TOTALLY SAFE FOR WORK (Dangerous Minds)

• Earlier this year, Bethesda announced that the Fallout 4 protagonist could romance any of a dozen or so companions throughout his or her adventure—no matter the gender. Romance enriches the player experience, but the way Fallout 4 has approached romance — through universal bisexuality — speaks volumes to how RPGs will treat character sexuality in today’s more diverse, relatively more open society of sexualities and genders. Early reviews are reporting that while only one companion can accompany the Sole Survivor at a time, the player can still romance multiple companions — in essence, be polyamorous.
  Fallout 4 Impresses with Queer Romance, Polyamory (Unicorn Booty)

• In surveillance footage released by D.C. police this week, two unidentified women are seen twerking on, groping and harassing a man they did not know. The bizarre incident, which happened on Oct. 6, is being classified as sexual abuse and has authorities on the hunt for the two suspects. According to police, the video shows just a portion of the relentless assault.
  Women sought after twerking attack on man at D.C. gas station (PIX 11)

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• “Even if you planned on missing tonight’s Republican presidential debate, we couldn’t let you miss this troll-tastic gay billboard mocking Donald Trump right outside of the debate venue. Apparently, Hornet — the hook-up app that infamously teamed-up with Cazwell in his sexy Middle Eastern music video — put up a large billboard right across the street from the Milwaukee Theatre featuring a Trump-esque elephant (named “Trunk”) sexting with a horny, rainbow-colored unicorn — ohhhhhh my!”
  Hornet Trolls Republican Debate With Gay Hookup Billboard (Unicorn Booty)

• The regulations, invented by the state’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (a.k.a. Cal/OSHA), cover everything from safety training and condom usage to whether or not you can ejaculate on someone’s face. For starters, there are privacy concerns. Porn stars have long struggled with stalkers, doxxers, and overzealous fans who pry into their personal lives, and sharing medical records with all porn employers would only make that information easier to hack.
  California Is Considering New Draconian Porn Regulations (Vice)

• Marie-Chantal is a self-described “porn GIF-making gamer girl” in her mid-20s. She lives in Montreal, runs her own NSFW Tumblr and makes exclusive GIFs for some prolific porn producers, including Blacked, Tushy, New Sensations and Girlsway. She’s one of a handful of people who make GIFs to promote the content porn companies are producing. She’s been doing it full-time for about a year.
  Meet the Woman Who Makes Porn GIFs for a Living (Mic)

• Looks like Playboy didn’t understand the role of porn in intimate relationships. Playboy is dropping full nudity from its magazine; Playboy Enterprises CEO Scott Flanders told CNN Money that the decision was made partly because of a proliferation of porn on the Internet. Flanders says there’s too much interest in porn. “My personal view is that unfortunately availability of porn in some cases has substituted for intimacy in personal relationships.”
  Playboy CEO: There’s too much interest in porn (CNN)

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• Case in point: Baron Wolman’s pictures of the original groupies in 1969. Billed on the cover of “A Special Super-Duper Neat Issue” of Rolling Stone (then a fledgling magazine), they inspired outrage in readers unfamiliar with the sexual innovations of the counterculture. In addition, the sometimes salacious articles that accompanied the photos irked some of the women portrayed. But Mr. Wolman said his portraits had a different intent.
  Groupies, From Sex Symbols to Style Icons (NYT)

• Warning for survivors of sexual trauma. A University of Virginia fraternity sued Rolling Stone magazine on Monday for $25 million in damages over a discredited article about a 2012 gang rape at the fraternity. “Rolling Stone published the article with reckless disregard for the truth,” it said. The lawsuit contends that Rolling Stone and Erdely wanted to advance a narrative of college campus sexual violence by depicting a rape, whether it was true or not, the statement said.
  Virginia fraternity sues Rolling Stone over rape story (Reuters)

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• Eight out of ten of the world’s most popular porn websites have been successfully blocked by the Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission (MCMC). On Tuesday, the MCMC announced that it had blocked 1,074 pornography websites for violating the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998. Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Seri Dr Salleh Said Keruak said a total of 106 more sites would be blocked for the same offence.
  Access to most popular porn websites blocked (Malaysia) (Star Online)

• A 28-year-old man in China, who is said to be suffering from terminal cancer, wanted to get married so he exchanged vows with a sex doll because he did not wish to leave a grieving widow after his death. The man, whose name is yet to be disclosed, wanted to experience his dream wedding day photo shoot for which he chose the lifelike sex doll.
  China: Terminally ill Beijing man weds lifelike sex doll (Yahoo UK)

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• ​Things My Dick Does is a 3-month-old Tumblr account whose anonymous, San Francisco based, 34-year-old creator uses his penis as the basis for, what he calls, “weirdly adorable” illustrations. Digg spoke to the guy behind the project over email… because why not?
  Meet The Illustrator Who’s Making A Webcomic, Starring His Dick (Digg)

• Over the weekend pop star Rihanna had her stylist put in a rush order for high-end custom-made latex suits from The Stockroom’s Syren Couture brand. A Stockroom rep told TMZ that the $2,000-plus order had to be completed within 48 hours for a music video that’s being shot this week. Rihanna’s stylist requested full-body black and dark navy catsuits, according to TMZ.
  TMZ: Stockroom Supplies [Syren] Latex Outfits for Rihanna Music Video (XBIZ)

• Warning for survivors of sexual trauma. It is one of the most lurid and complicated legal cases in recent Canadian history. A group of lawyers are contending that a man did nothing illegal when he had the family dog perform oral sex on his step daughter. Government attorneys are adamant that the man needs to be found guilty, if the law is expected to protect children from bestiality. And animal rights activists are arguing that the man’s actions are not just morally outrageous, but animal abuse.
  Nobody Is Sure If Oral Sex With Animals Is Illegal in Canada, But Court Aims to Find Out (Vice)

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One beautiful Tumblr and passionate journey; Strictly Nawa Kitsune self-describes, “My vision of ropes as a model and as a photograph”. Above: “A strong session with Marion…” with photos by Kitsune, ropes and play by DirtyVonP.

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Image: Debbie Harry of Blondie (1969) via Pussy Le Queer.

• Susan Sarandon found out she was pregnant by the pool. Princess Margaret visited. So did Hillary Clinton. And now Gore Vidal’s Italian home, La Rondinaia, is up for sale. What happened in Ravello. at this dramatic home Vidal became so well-known for inhabiting, encapsulated the wider narrative of Vidal’s private and public life—the writing, the celebrity, the sex, and the depth of his relationship with his longtime partner Austen.
  Inside Gore Vidal’s Cliffside Palace of Sex, Scandal, and Celebrity (Daily Beast)

• “In the four months since my breakup I’ve culled the combined wisdom of my single friends to help me through this twisted maze. (Look for my guide to online dating: “Limp catfish and other cautionary tales” in the near future.) Just about all of my eligible friends have shared their personal war stories from this new era of love as a digitized battlefield. … 1. A simple “hello” is your RSVP to a private viewing of strange dick …”
  Let’s talk about sex: This is Computer Love (Engadget)

• “In a twist confirming the plotline of many porn films made for straight men, a new study claims that when it comes to arousal, all women are at least a little bit into women. For women who have already confirmed they are into women (like me), the results leave me with more questions than answers. Straight women have been rejecting my offers to split an Awesome Blossom at Chili’s for more than a decade. What’s going on here?”
  Why I’m Not Buying This Study That Claims All Women Are a Little Gay (NY Mag)

• Warning for survivors of sexual abuse and trauma. The star of a film on sex work in Morocco – banned in the North African kingdom – was savagely beaten in Casablanca last week, sparking an outcry on social media over social taboos that activists say can be enforced by violence. Loubna Abidar, who portrays a Marrakech sex worker in Much Loved, a film by renowned French-Moroccan director Nabil Ayouch that caused a stir in Morocco when a series of previews were released on YouTube, said police and hospital workers refused to help her. Instead they humiliated her, she said.
  Morocco sex worker film star severely beaten amid controversy (Independent UK)

• Now that we are actually living in 2015 — and with 2016 right around the corner — it’s fun to look at some notable books and films that tried to envision what sex would be like in the future. In other words, right this very minute. A lot of things turned out to be flat out wrong. But what’s even more intriguing—and even more than a bit chilling—is what they actually may have gotten right.
  The Sexual Future of 2015: What Sci-Fi Movies and Books Got Wrong… and Right (Future of Sex)

What helpful words of wisdom did @FionaPattenMLC find in the anti-porn @PinkCrossOz showbag at Melbourne #Sexpo? pic.twitter.com/pKPGlvToYX

— australian sex party (@aussexparty) November 8, 2015

• The groan-worthy double entendres that Bond would use to coax willing honeys into bed were some of the most immediate pleasures of the ironic ’70s Bond pictures and of the highly questionable Brosnan era. The days of characters named Pussy Galore have long since past, but let’s revisit a time when Bond lived like the MacGyver of sex puns, turning whatever subject at hand into a roiling hotbed of barely contained eroticism.
  James Bond’s Ten Randiest Sex Puns, Ranked From Corniest To Suavest (Uproxx)

• In these food-obsessed, dinner-Instagramming times, chefs are clearly the new rock stars — and they now have the groupies to go with their celeb status. It’s not only the male chefs who have their zealots. “Dating a chef like April is my absolute dream. Not only is she attractive, but her food is so creative,” gushed Dana Salvatore, a 25-year-old producer. “It’s my absolute goal to meet a chef; I’ve tried on Tinder.”
  Meet the chef groupies looking for sex in the kitchen (NY Post)

• Shocking the internet is not easy to do; earlier this year, a woman who found a ball of cat hair in her vagina managed to transfix those of us who love hearing that someone else’s life is more ridiculous than theirs. This week, freelance writer Amanda Chatel has managed to make jaws drop with her YourTango essay entitled, “I Sent My Cheating Husband An ACTUAL Pile Of Horse SHIT In The Mail.” No, said “horse shit” is not a metaphor, but actual horse shit, mailed via a company called Shitexpress.
  We’ve reached peak male fragility: A writer sends a box of horse crap to “my cheating husband” and random men tell her she should kill herself (Nerve)

• From 2010 to late 2013, Fabian Thylmann presided over the meteoric rise of a company called MindGeek, a collection of online adult streaming video (or “tube”) sites that became one of the largest and most powerful adult entertainment conglomerates ever assembled — and in turn, irrevocably influenced the course of countless business ventures and careers.
  Meet The Guy Who Changed Porn Forever (BuzzFeed)

• If sex were music, what would it sound like? Our pop stars and musicians have come up with some deft approximations over the years, but nothing quite as literal as Rory Viner. The Japan-based sound artist has been strapping movement sensors across his and his partner’s bodies during intercourse, feeding the signal to software programmed to respond with synthesizer notes, and playing the output back live.
  What Real Sex Music Sounds Like (Vice)

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* Kinsley Eden, Ryan D. – Infatuated

* Larkin Love, Will Powers – Rockabilly Pin-Up (video)
* Joanna Angel, Mark Wood – A very adult Wednesday Addams (video)
* Rizzo Ford, Mr. Pete – Street Punxxx (video)

* Erato, Martin B. – Aregli
* Bran, Leda – Serata

* Gina, Kristof, Jayden – Cocktails for Three (sweet boy-boy-girl scene)
* Apolonia, Carolina, Sean – La Masturbadora (gallery)
* Josephine, Den – Hot TV Night (gallery)

* Robert Axel, Aubrey Kate – Aubrey Kate’s TS Fantasies (video)
* Lance Hart, Sunday Valentina – Aubrey Kate’s TS Fantasies (video)

Find more Eye Candy here.

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Thanks to the rise of anti-sex and anti-art platforms and apps, search engine de-indexing and search censorship, and “objectionable content” gates, finding erotic art is incredibly difficult these days. Even just five years ago, one could reliably discover erotic art in all mediums from all over the world just by looking for it. At this time in our brand-saturated, ad industry sanitized internet, a lot of artists have given up sharing their art online (and erotic art blogs have dried up as a result). Now I’m back to being one of the lone tastemaker bloggers (like it was 10 years ago), but I’d rather have more competition, thanks.

So I’m sure you know how important the free expression of art is to me… which is why I’m delighted to discover The 2015 Feck:Art Competition Winners and Opening Night Party. The invitation to submit explained, “Feck, local producers of socially responsible erotica, invite you to submit your visual response to this erotic art competition for your chance to be exhibited as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival.” (Feck are the amazing people behind sites I’ve linked to for ages such as I Feel Myself, I Shot Myself and Beautiful Agony.)

Here’s the online virtual exhibition of the winning artworks.

See also: Photographs from the FECK:ART Erotic Art Competition Exhibition Opening Night. Sept 18, 2015.

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Cybercrime and passion: Wetware: Cyberpunk Erotica (ebook, $3.89)

Above image via Sticks and Stones Agency.

• It’s terrifying how little The House of Lords understands about the internet. The House of Lords has been discussing the impact of pornography in Britain, with the elder statesmen taking turns to weigh in on what should be done to stop the waves of smut [allegedly] corrupting young minds. The debate, led by the Bishop of Chester, has gone on since midday, and many peers offered eye-brow raising verdicts on pornography and things like “this practise called webcamming”.
  The House of Lords debated porn, here are the eight best bits (Telegraph)

• “In the four months since my breakup I’ve culled the combined wisdom of my single friends to help me through this twisted maze. (Look for my guide to online dating: “Limp catfish and other cautionary tales” in the near future.) Just about all of my eligible friends have shared their personal war stories from this new era of love as a digitized battlefield. … 1. A simple “hello” is your RSVP to a private viewing of strange dick …”
  Let’s talk about sex: This is Computer Love (Engadget)

• Now that we are actually living in 2015 — and with 2016 right around the corner — it’s fun to look at some notable books and films that tried to envision what sex would be like in the future. In other words, right this very minute. A lot of things turned out to be flat out wrong. But what’s even more intriguing—and even more than a bit chilling—is what they actually may have gotten right.
  The Sexual Future of 2015: What Sci-Fi Movies and Books Got Wrong… and Right (Future of Sex)

• From 2010 to late 2013, Fabian Thylmann presided over the meteoric rise of a company called MindGeek, a collection of online adult streaming video (or “tube”) sites that became one of the largest and most powerful adult entertainment conglomerates ever assembled — and in turn, irrevocably influenced the course of countless business ventures and careers.
  Meet The Guy Who Changed Porn Forever (BuzzFeed)

Thanks to our sponsor in Spain, women-run Lust Cinema.

Lube Company Offers #RondaRousey Lifetime Supply After Maxim Article https://t.co/7V836pilZA pic.twitter.com/uw9Ui2QD7e

— MMAWeekly.com (@MMAWeeklycom) November 6, 2015

• You wouldn’t know that there are plenty of women (and men) of various ages who swear by lube from reading UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion Ronda Rousey’s [bad sex] advice to Maxim readers. In response to a 36-year-old male reader asking “What should a guy ALWAYS do in bed?” she wrote, in part: “What should a guy always do? Take his time. In general, a girl takes a minute. He needs to get her ready. You should never need lube in your life. If you need lube, then you’re being lazy…and you’re not taking your time.” VB note: lots of people are annoyed by Rousey’s remark…
  Ronda Rousey gives terrible sex advice: “If you need lube, then you’re being lazy” shows she has no business telling other people how to get off (Salon)

• Kenya’s Ministry of Devolution has been accused of spending millions of taxpayer money on overpriced goods, including sex toys and a condom dispenser.
  Kenya’s Devolution Ministry Bought Sex Toys, Vibrators, Condom Dispenser With Taxpayers’ Money, Parliament Says (IB Times)

• Not only did Ashley Madison enable those who cheat — it also cheated customers out of money. That’s what one man is alleging in a lawsuit against the now-disgraced website, exposed for misrepresenting its services after hackers infiltrated the site and unearthed the clandestine behaviors of Ashley Madison’s users and company leadership. As Josh Katzowitz notes at the Daily Dot, TMZ reported that a man named David Poyet filed suit against Avid Life Media, the parent company of Ashley Madison.
  Why Ashley Madison will win in court (Daily Dot)

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Someone turning "Netflix and chill" into graffiti outside Netflix's Los Gatos HQ… pic.twitter.com/7nEre4ouvg

— scott budman (@scottbudman) November 4, 2015

• If sex were music, what would it sound like? Our pop stars and musicians have come up with some deft approximations over the years, but nothing quite as literal as Rory Viner. The Japan-based sound artist has been strapping movement sensors across his and his partner’s bodies during intercourse, feeding the signal to software programmed to respond with synthesizer notes, and playing the output back live.
  What Real Sex Music Sounds Like (Vice)

• The first five female sexual assistants, specially trained to provide paid services to disabled people, have started to work in the Czech Republic, Lucie Sidova, director of the Rozkos bez rizika organisation (Bliss Without Risk, R+R), which has trained the assistants, said this week. Apart from Switzerland and Czech Republic, sexual assistance exists in countries such as Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany and the Netherlands. The applicants for the relevant licence have to complete special courses or studies.
  CzechRep has first five sexual assistants for disabled people (ceskenoviny.cz)

• It was the tweet heard round the sex-worker world. At 6:12 p.m. on Oct. 29, Margaret Cho, the 46-year-old comedian, disturbed the Twittersphere with an economical 109 characters: “Sex work is simply work. For me it was honest work. I was a sex worker when I was young. It was hard but well paid. There’s no shame in it.”
  Margaret Cho Wants to Talk About Sex Work (NYT)

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• California voters could help decide the future of the state’s multibillion-dollar adult film industry next November, weighing in on a newly qualified ballot measure that would require porn actors to wear condoms. The California Safer Sex in the Adult Film Industry Act qualified for the November 2016 ballot on Wednesday based on a random sampling of the nearly 557,000 voter signatures that proponents filed in September, avoiding a full signature count.
  Condoms-in-porn measure qualifies for next year’s California ballot (Sacramento Bee) See also: FSC: Condom Initiative Would Result in Performers Being Sued, Harassed (XBIZ)

• One of the standout moments on last night’s episode of “Empire” was the reveal that Gabourey Sidibe’s character Becky has a love interest. In a playful, racy scene we find Becky and hip hop artist MC J Poppa (actor Mo McRae) having sex on a rooftop.
  ‘Empire’ Just Showed Viewers That Fat Women Like Sex, Too (Huffington Post)

A photo posted by Melissa Murphy (@xmelissamakeupx) on Jul 27, 2015 at 11:01am PDT

• Makeup artist Melissa Murphy was once blacklisted by the porn industry after she revealed what its stars really look like. She uses Instagram to showcase her work, sharing before-and-after photos of the actresses and nude models. When those photos hit Reddit and went viral in the media, members of the adult industry accused Murphy of selling the story to the press.
  Makeup artist reveals new before-and-after photos of porn stars (Tech Insider | Above: Nicole Aniston on set for Holly Randall)

• When the issue of sex workers in Thailand is brought up, any discussion is usually characterized with words of ‘exploitation’, ‘coercion’, and ‘human trafficking’. However, not all feel oppressed and that they are undertaking a degrading occupation. Some of the girls interviewed felt that sex work was a means of emancipating themselves economically, and as a consequence felt more optimistic about their futures.
  Why some Thai sex workers say they are happy in their jobs (Asian Correspondent)

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• Craft artist Lucy Sparrow recently challenged U.K. censorship laws with a sex shop made entirely of 5,000 felt products, some of which featured hardcore fetish and BDSM acts that were outlawed by the U.K. nearly a year ago. Sparrow decided to test the boundaries of the laws with her “Madame Roxy’s Erotic Emporium” art installation, which was open to the public for 10 days in October and featured 5,000 felt-based sex products sewn by hand.
  Felt-Filled Sex Shop Challenges U.K. Censorship Laws (XBIZ)

• “Chemsex” is used in the United Kingdom to describe intentional sex under the influence of psychoactive drugs, mostly among men who have sex with men. It refers particularly to the use of mephedrone, γ-hydroxybutyrate (GHB), γ-butyrolactone (GBL), and crystallised methamphetamine. These drugs are often used in combination to facilitate sexual sessions lasting several hours or days with multiple sexual partners.
  What is chemsex and why does it matter? (The BMJ)

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• * Cocomi Sakura Alien Proportions
• * Caprice and Valerie Yin and Yang

• * Amarna Miller – Bansia
• * Tina H. – Favorite Chair

• * Lilly – Sunset
• * Gabirella Bathing

• * Introducing Celeste
• * Sapphira – Magnificent Lady

• * Chloe Amour, Amanda Aims – Like Minded
• * Jillian Janson, Carter Cruise, Shyla Jennings – Only The Best

• * Leah Gotti – Presenting Leah Gotti
• * Dita V. – Sarueja

• * Dido, Malati – Lessons
• * Malati – Magic
• * Mireya – Unapproachable

• * Nasty S. – Persuasion
• * Melisa E. – Waxplay

• * Engelie Massaging Kiki
• * Valerie Pop Star

• * Mayuko Made in Japan
• * Miri Wet in Bed

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Above: Monica Bellucci in Lui Magazine November 2015.

• “By 1830, the average length of a whaling voyage was thirty months, but they were often longer—Nantucket wives were dubbed “Cape Horn widows,” because their husbands might be gone for eight years. In Moby-Dick, Captain Ahab tells his first mate, Starbuck, that of the past forty years of “making war on the horrors of the deep” he’d only been ashore three, leaving only “one dent in [his] marriage pillow.” “[W]ife?” Ahab rages, “wife?—rather a widow with her husband alive!” The dildos, called “he’s-at-homes” in some books on the history of the Yankee whale fishery, were meant to be some insurance of fidelity for a husband who was rarely present.”
  There Once Was a Dildo in Nantucket (LitHub)

• “I’m here to talk about sex and writing about sex, especially writing sex in SF that expands beyond real-world boundaries and assumptions about sex. To evoke a recent Hugo winner, I’ll call it a three-body problem, where the three elements are sex, science fiction, and writing itself, and the solution requires understanding of each. I see many essays about sexuality or sexual identity in genre fiction—I’ve written quite a few myself—that I feel don’t adequately include the act of writing itself in the equation. Because once I began to address writing directly in the relationship between sexuality and science fiction, I laid bare the entire fallacy of the literary establishment, which condemns laser beams and lasciviousness equally.”
  Out of This World Sex Writing (Strange Horizons)

• “In 1964, Gerald Harris successfully prosecuted Jonas Mekas for showing a 43-minute film by Jack Smith called “Flaming Creatures,” which included nudity and sex acts. Fifty-one years later, after reading an article about Mr. Mekas in The New York Times, Mr. Harris reached out to the defendant to apologize.”
  The Prosecution Resets in a 1964 Obscenity Case (NYT)

• “A classic bridge experiment was conducted in 1974 by Donald Dutton and Arthur Aron that had men contacted by an attractive woman either on a scary suspension bridge, or a non-fear arousing bridge. The woman asked them to fill out questionnaires. The men on the fear-arousing bridge felt more sexual arousal for the woman.”
  Decoding the Science Behind Makeup Sex (LadyLux)

• “That Oregon has a lot of strip clubs is well known to any resident. Why here? Locals understand it’s partly because Oregon loves free speech. It’s the only state to have no crime of obscenity, which remains a federal offense. Oregon’s free speech protections are far more expansive than those of the federal government. The all-nude, liquor-serving strip clubs are just the most visible manifestation of a legal framework that protects everything from naked bike rides to verbal harassment to unlimited campaign spending.”
  How an Oregon football scandal changed the state’s free speech laws forever (SB Nation)

• “If a pirate had a mid-’70s lounge, it would look like this. Just a typical San Francisco sex party. A voluptuous, tattooed woman wearing nothing but a thong interrupted the light chatter with a question. “Anyone want to help me hold down and fuck my pregnant friend?” Her question was met with a chorus of arms raised, and I was left alone, squinting in the direction of a pile of girls surrounding a woman, eight months pregnant and getting enthusiastically fisted.”
  I’m Always the Wallflower at the Orgy (NY Mag)

• “There were a few other women in the class. We all smiled awkwardly at each other and made small talk while we sat in folding chairs. We pretended we weren’t about to take a class that promised to teach the psychology of a submissive male, how to manage a stable of men, and, my personal favorite, how to harness your pussy power. I was there to finally change the pattern of my love — and sex — life.”
  The Dominatrix Class That Changed My Life (Narratively) See also, recommended: ForteFemme

• “Although people might separate their romantic orientations from their sexual orientations, some feel that these distinctions are problematic and steeped in centuries of homophobia. Charles Pulliam Moore discussed the phenomenon of “bisexual but hetero-amorous” men in a Thought Catalog piece and how their willingness to have sex with men, while withholding the emotional attachment, prevents them from being accepted by both the heterosexual and LGBT communities. “Bisexuals get a bad rap for not being able to explain their emotional actions that seem so incongruous with their sexual proclivities. That doesn’t need to be the case.”
  Are You a Heteroromantic Bisexual? A Guide to One of the Most Misunderstood Sexual Orientations (Mic)

• “While conventional psychotherapists still debate the ethics of hugging their patients, Rogers and Thole have pioneered a form of intensive therapy that incorporates consensual BDSM activities into their sessions with clients. The objective is to activate repressed emotions in order to process them in a safe and supportive environment. In order to better understand their technique, which they call Light/Dark Therapy, the couple invited me to participate in an immersion with them. For the next forty-eight hours, we will not leave this cabin.”
  That Time I Tried BDSM Therapy (The Atlantic)

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Cybercrime and passion: Wetware: Cyberpunk Erotica (ebook, $3.89)

• The National Library of Sweden has added artist Nina Linde’s erotic braille book to its collection. Linde was inspired to create the book after visiting Stockholm’s Braille Library, where she was unable to find anything X-rated. “The book is about sexual stimulation, I don’t think ‘porn’ is the right word,” Linde said. “And sexual stimulation is for everyone.”
  A sex book for the blind has finally made it to the National Library of Sweden (Paper Mag)

• The European Union has voted through legislation that will require all internet providers to treat online traffic “without discrimination” – effectively ending porn filters established by David Cameron. The ruling, which has been greeted with dismay by anti-porn campaigners, will come into effect by the end of the year and is part of a broader move by the EU towards “net neutrality.”
  The EU just made porn filters illegal (Independent)

• Automatic porn filters will be made “law of the land”, David Cameron has said. The prime minister’s intervention to bolster porn filtering powers follows the European Parliament’s introduction of net neutrality regulations, which will ban the current porn filtering agreement. ISPs will now be forced to implement and maintain the controversial porn filters, the government has said. (VB note: What’s it called when an international body governing human rights says censoring citizens’ information access is a form of state oppression, and a country then doubles down on said censorship?)
  Net neutrality: Automatic porn filters to be made ‘law of the land’ (Wired UK)

• Former porn star Jenna Jameson will be the subject of a reality show documenting her conversion to Judaism and her upcoming marriage in Israel. Jameson’s Israeli fiance, diamond merchant Lior Bitton, told Israel’s Walla news that the show is in its early production stages, the Times of Israel reported Tuesday. It is unclear where the show will air.
  Ex-porn star Jenna Jameson to have reality show about her conversion to Judaism (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Thanks to our sponsor in Spain, women-run Lust Cinema.

• On Bourbon Street, the old allure of sex and the pull of the supernatural seamlessly blend together to create a unique business opportunity—particularly in the back rooms where no one can hear you.
  The Haunted Strip Clubs of New Orleans (GQ Magazine)

• “But what’s the “time to horror porn” timeline look like for Virtual Reality? Well, I wasn’t exactly looking out for that metric, but Virtual Real Porn, a company that specializes in providing erotic virtual experiences, straightened me out and informed me this important milestone was hit today, with its horror-themed Virtual Reality Halloween Special.”
  Virtual reality porn just got scary for Halloween with first horror-porn experience (VentureBeat)

• Getting a new sex toy on the market is an expensive undertaking. Developing a prototype for a new product and bringing it through to manufacturing can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Until recently, there were only three ways to do it: work for a large company with the resources to develop your ideas; sell your ideas to a large company; or have the money yourself, or find a major investor or lender. The advent of technologies like digital modelling and 3D printing, along with the birth of crowdfunding, have changed all of that, opening up opportunities to a new wave of young innovators and designers.
  Technology and crowdfunding are changing the sex-toy game (Vue Weekly)

Much gratitude to our thoughtful sponsor, Nubile Films.

Watch out, Killer Halloween Sales start TODAY! Snag the first Flash Sale: It's a slasher. https://t.co/Qj5eFojk1r pic.twitter.com/Aqfxk6oJZr

— Tantus, Inc. (@tantus) October 30, 2015

• Activities include visiting the Prado Museum in Madrid with [porn] actress and art history buff Amarna Miller, biking with Poppy Cox and Paulita Pappel in Berlin, being serenaded by actor and guitarist Luke Hotrod in London or going vermouth tasting with Bel Gris in Barcelona. Lust describes the experience as a “unique chance to get to know people you wouldn’t usually meet!” and she’s also offering aspiring filmmakers the opportunity to direct and produce their own desires as a film from beginning to end in her Barcelona studio.
  Erika Lust Offers Porn Stars as E.U. Tour Guides on P2P Travel Site (XBIZ)

• Did you hear about the Canadian girls who skidoo across frozen lakes teaching sex education with feather boas? Foxy (Fostering Open Expression Among Youth) won the $1m (£494,000) Arctic Inspiration Prize for their bold approach to traditionally taboo topics in sexual health.
  ‘Foxy’ group brings sexual education to the Arctic (BBC)

Thank you to our sponsor in Holland, Abby Winters.

• The Free Speech Coalition announced today it will continue fighting newly revised Cal/OSHA regulations that as proposed would mandate goggles, condoms, dental dams, gloves and other skin guards for adult performers.
  FSC: Goggles, Gloves Could Be Required on Calif. Porn Sets as Early as January (XBIZ)

• Kenyan police are investigating the murders of 10 women working as prostitutes, a record number of attacks in one month that has led to fears of a serial killer targeting sex workers. Concerned about the safety of women working on the streets, campaigners have called on the government to legalise prostitution and offer proper protection to vulnerable women.
  Kenya police fear serial killer targeting sex workers after 10 deaths in one month (Guardian)

• The U.N.’s special rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, has asked Japan to ban manga comics that have “extreme child pornographic content,” a move that critics say would limit artistic freedom of expression. Japan did ban the possession of child sexual imagery in June 2014, but such depictions are not forbidden in manga comics, video games or animated movies.
  U.N. Tells Japan to Ban Manga With Child Porn Content (XBIZ)

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• Back in August, [Towleroad] told you about the raid carried out by federal officers against Rentboy in New York. CEO Jeffrey Hurant was among the company’s executives arrested on charges of prostitution. Since then, Hurant has been silent on the legal battle he and his company have been facing–until now. Posting on Facebook, he asked for the public’s help in financing Rentboy’s legal defense (…)
  Rentboy CEO Asks for Help on Facebook (Towleroad)

• China announced the end of its controversial one-child policy Thursday as the country’s Communist leaders battle to confront a demographic time bomb. All Chinese families will now be allowed to have two children, a decision that is expected to blunt the effect of population aging and provide other economic benefits. As one of the Communist party’s most onerous intrusions into family life comes to an end, the Post’s Alia Dharssi examines the ways it has altered Chinese society and will shape it for years to come.
  China’s controversial one-child policy has ended but its effects will be felt for decades (National Post)

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Cybercrime and passion: Wetware: Cyberpunk Erotica (ebook, $3.89)

Image by Mirial via Beautiful Bizarre

• Warning for survivors. Hundreds of women in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) — including domestic workers who are victims of rape — are routinely imprisoned under laws that forbid sex outside marriage, a BBC investigation has found. Under the UAE Penal Code, which is based on Sharia law, those convicted of zina (charges of illicit sex which include adultery, fornication, and homosexuality) face severe penalties. The extent of the abuse is unknown. In 2014, another HRW report, which suggests that there are at least 146,000 female migrant domestic workers employed in the UAE, stated how some employers accused workers of zina “to counter rape or sexual assault allegations that the worker had made against the employer.”
  Rape Victims Are Being Jailed Under Extramarital Sex Laws in the UAE (Vice)

• Although people might separate their romantic orientations from their sexual orientations, some feel that these distinctions are problematic and steeped in centuries of homophobia. Charles Pulliam Moore discussed the phenomenon of “bisexual but hetero-amorous” men in a Thought Catalog piece and how their willingness to have sex with men, while withholding the emotional attachment, prevents them from being accepted by both the heterosexual and LGBT communities. “Bisexuals get a bad rap for not being able to explain their emotional actions that seem so incongruous with their sexual proclivities. That doesn’t need to be the case.”
  Are You a Heteroromantic Bisexual? A Guide to One of the Most Misunderstood Sexual Orientations (Mic)

• Peter Barbey is wasting no time as the new owner of the Village Voice; he’s nixed the thought of changing the print edition size, pitched to staff the concept of special themed inserts and decided it’s time for a major ad dollar shift. Barbey plans to get rid of escort ads, a racy fixture of many an alt-weekly. “Adult women can be escorts, that’s fine with me,” Mr. Barbey said, “but it’s not the kind of advertising that fits where we want to go.”
  New Village Voice Owner Plans to Ditch Escort Ads (Adweek)

Thanks to our sponsor in Spain, women-run Lust Cinema.

• Dana Zzyym has spent most of their life struggling to conform to social and legal categories of gender. But now Zzyym is claiming the State Department violated their constitutional rights when it denied them a U.S. passport last year for failing to pick either a male or female gender box.
  Intersex Activist Denied A Passport Sues The U.S. Government (BuzzFeed)

• The Food and Drug Administration this week advised consumers to not purchase eight penis pill brands. The FDA said distributors of the brands claim that the ingredients are “all natural” but laboratory analysis confirmed the pills were found to contain the active ingredients in the FDA-approved prescription drugs Viagra and Cialis. So far this year, the FDA has blacklisted 34 penis pill brands.
  8 More Penis Pill Brands Blacklisted (XBIZ)

• An Egyptian actress and TV personality has ignited a nationwide controversy for suggesting that Egyptian men would benefit from watching more pornography. In fact, she’s facing jail time.
  Watching Porn in Cairo (Reason, thanks P!)

• “Historically, we’ve tended to view masturbation as a pathology. And for that we can thank the English charlatan John Marten, who in the early 1700s published a tract, with an insufferably long title, that sought to identify autoeroticism as a disease (which is odd, because it’s the safest form of sex) …”
  The Weird Ways Kids Learn to Masturbate (NY Mag)

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Hello @reddit ! I’m Axel Braun, and I'll be doing an AMA on October 27 at 7 pm EST! #AskMeAnything #ForReals pic.twitter.com/HH4hnPMbbw

— Axel Braun (@axelbraun) October 23, 2015

• “While conventional psychotherapists still debate the ethics of hugging their patients, Rogers and Thole have pioneered a form of intensive therapy that incorporates consensual BDSM activities into their sessions with clients. The objective is to activate repressed emotions in order to process them in a safe and supportive environment. In order to better understand their technique, which they call Light/Dark Therapy, the couple invited me to participate in an immersion with them. For the next forty-eight hours, we will not leave this cabin.”
  That Time I Tried BDSM Therapy (The Atlantic)

• “The hetero (and non-hetero, but, let’s face it, mostly hetero) sex on offer to young women is not of very high quality, for reasons having to do with youthful ineptitude and tenderness of hearts, sure, but also the fact that the game remains rigged. It’s rigged in ways that go well beyond consent. Students I spoke to talked about “male sexual entitlement,” the expectation that male sexual needs take priority, with men presumed to take sex and women presumed to give it to them. ”
  Why Sex That’s Consensual Can Still Be Bad. And Why We’re Not Talking About It. (New York Magazine)

• There are some really, really cool innovative crowdfunded sex toys on this list. Like the Rumble.
  10 crowdfunded sex toys to spice up your sex life (Daily Dot)

Thank you to our sponsor in Holland, Abby Winters.

• China produces 70 percent of the world’s sex toys, despite strong regional taboos surrounding sexuality, and its sex shops now outnumber Starbucks. The coffee giant has more than 1,500 stores in China, but that’s small potatoes compared to the countless dispensers of condoms, vibrators and costumes. The over $2 billion Chinese sex toy industry relies in large part on exporting, particularly to South Africa, South Korea and Russia.
  Sex Shops Now Outnumber Starbucks in China (XBIZ)

• Last Monday evening, a woman had the awful but, unfortunately, not uncommon experience of getting flashed while using the New York subway system. As the NYPD told Gothamist, the 38-year-old was standing on a platform in the Fifth Avenue N/R station “when she heard a hissing noise beside her. (…)
  Hissing, Gun-Wielding Subway-Station Masturbator Turns Out to Be a Retired Cop (NY Magazine)

Thank you to our sponsor and friends, Pink Label TV.

• Great review: Bacchus at ErosBlog took a look at a new 35-minute “featurette” called Gone: A Story Of Love And Courage “that’s also a moving and affecting erotic musing on the role sex plays in grief and loss.”
  Gone: A Story Of Love And Courage (ErosBlog: The Sex Blog)

• A new law in the conservative Indonesian province of Aceh will punish those thought to have had gay sex with 100 lashes from a cane. Although gay sex is not illegal according to Indonesian national law, Aceh has some autonomy from the central Jakarta government and has adopted a form of Shari‘a law. Human-rights activists have called the new law “inhumane” and “cruel.”
  Gay Sex Now Punished With 100 Lashes in Indonesia’s Aceh (TIME)

• Marie Claire contributing editor Amanda de Cadenet surveyed 3,000 women to determine their relationship with porn and 31 percent admitted to watching adult films at least once weekly. Contrary to popular belief, 76 percent of [those] women did not feel that adult films negatively impacted their sex lives or relationships.
  A Third of Women Admit They Watch Porn Weekly (XBIZ)

• Truth is stranger than fiction, as this incredible documentary attests. Had its events been written in a novel you would have dismissed it as totally outlandish, and yet everything in The Sex Change Spitfire Ace (Channel 4 UK) is completely true.
  TV Review: The Sex Change Spitfire Ace (Herald Scotland)

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Cybercrime and passion: Wetware: Cyberpunk Erotica (ebook, $3.89)

Image: Rosie Rivette, via Sticks and Stones Agency.

• “Some people (particularly those behind the recent conservative campaign, “Porn Kills Love“) see watching porn and being in love as total contradictions — that explicit content compromises our ability to connect meaningfully with other people. In reality, though, there’s no lack of love in the community of adult performers, producers, and directors.”
  Four Porn Stars Talk About How They Fell in Love (Cosmopolitan)

• “All this to say, though, that technology can be used for intimate endeavours without the layperson user ever realising (perhaps until it is too late) that their intimacy is built on a fragile, untrustworthy structure. The argument that I hear too often is that a user chose to do a certain thing, and so should face the consequences no matter what they are – but this seems like an unuseful and un-nuanced way of approaching what is clearly a growing problem.”
  Tech, design and intimacy; first thoughts (Zara Rahman)

• “[Sex and depression] Survey respondents often listed embarrassment and awkwardness as reasons for not bringing up the issue of sex with their doctors. There was something else though too: the idea that doctors would not be willing to help. “They didn’t care and it wouldn’t matter,” wrote one respondent. “My psychiatrist gives no shits,” wrote another.”
  Let’s Talk About Sex and Depression (Bitch Media)

Thanks to our sponsor in Spain, women-run Lust Cinema.

• “If I never get a job in mainstream [onscreen entertainment] I will be OK. I have a whole other job in a completely different entertaining field,” [James Deen] laughed. “Porn’s like really honest and respectful and very professional, as opposed to mainstream where it’s all really manipulative and messed up.”
  Inside the Secret Behind Porn Superstar James Deen’s Big Hollywood Crossover (The Wrap)

• “When Dr. Rachel Rubin, a professor of American studies at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, set out to write a book about the history of the Renaissance Faire, one of the things she found was that even early on the festival was a hub where people gathered to celebrate certain sexual behaviors, and to discover new ones. Visitors and staff at the faire dabbled in costumes and role play, which often carried straight from the medieval fairgrounds to the bedroom after dark.”
  The Secret Sexual World Of America’s Renaissance Faires (Vocativ)

• “To test whether or not any sacrifice was made in satisfying press curiosity, I put on the Oculus Rift headset just before filming, and realize that 180 degrees offers more than enough immersion. It’s about the sex in front of the users, not about the wall behind them.”
  Behind the Scenes of a Virtual Reality Porn Shoot (Vice)

Much gratitude to our thoughtful sponsor, Nubile Films.

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— HumSexCollects (@HumSexCollects) October 20, 2015

• ​Mr. Pam has been filming and directing gay male porn for over a decade. Here, she talks about HIV, condom use in porn, and the trend of straight women watching and loving gay male porn. “I ended up getting a job at CNET and I was an interactive designer with them for six years. I was getting a little bored and meanwhile, one of my friends was with Naked Sword and they wanted to do this online talk show where they would go to the porn sets and interview people. …”
  What It’s Like to Be a Gay Porn Director (Cosmopolitan)

• Brooke Sever is the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan Middle East, which predominantly sells in Dubai, as well as in Beirut in Lebanon. Sever explains of the complexities of publishing her magazine each month. Sever spoke to Cosmopolitan.com about what it’s like to potentially face jail time every time her magazine goes to print.
  “We Can’t Publish the Word ‘Sex'”: What It’s Like to Be the Editor of Cosmo Middle East (Cosmopolitan)

• “I became concerned that I might be the one to have the heart attack, and I wasn’t going to die without one last cigarette. I lit up, inhaled and exhaled, inhaled and exhaled again. Finally, I couldn’t take the extended silence any longer. “Gramma?” “I was just thinking. I hope none of the men at the nursing home get us confused and try to put my feet behind my head. I don’t bend that way anymore.”
  The Time I Told My Grandmother I’ve Been Using Her Name to Make Porno (Vice)

• On Coming Out Like A Porn Star: To date, Jiz Lee has starred in over 200 porn films and websites, earning respect as a queer porn legend. “Porn is one of the best things I’ve ever done, but there were so many stigmas I didn’t know how to tell my family about it,” Lee said in an email. “That’s how I began asking others their stories.”
  How to Tell Your Parents You’re a Porn Star (Vice)

• Great resource: “Listed below are links to ongoing studies of human sexuality by researchers around the world. You are eligible to participate in as many as you would like, depending upon whether you meet the selection criteria.”
  Want to participate in a sex study? (Sex and Psychology)

Thank you to our sponsor and friends, Pink Label TV.

Nothing wrong w choosing abstinence, but you can't tell me this isn't creepy as finding a skeleton in a dark alley https://t.co/5QcEb3H4B2

— Jamilah Lemieux (@JamilahLemieux) October 24, 2015

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• * Manuel Ferrara, Jezabel Vessir – Staying In (gallery)
• * Danny Mountain, Adriana Chechik – Poly/Amory Episode 4 (gallery)
• * Riley Reid, Jenna Sativa, Poly/Amory Episode 3 (gallery)
• * Adriana Chechik, Logan Pierce, Aidra Fox – Poly/Amory Episode 2 (gallery)

• * Adriana Chechik, Hollie Mack, Logan Pierce – Anal Lovers
• * Belle Claire, Richy – Showstopper
• * Tracy Delicious, Blanche Bradburry – A Perfect Passion
• * Ariana Marie – Late Night

• * Adelle and Claudia Macc – Pas De Deux

• * Liza Del Sierra, Wesley Pipes – Big Booty Anal Pro (video)
• * Cali Sweets, Ana Folesbos – Disobedient Little Slut

• * Den and Josephine – Hot TV Night (gallery)
• * Apolonia and Carolina, with Sean – La Masturbadora
• * Gina and Lutro – Orgasmic Yoga (gallery)

• * Michelle H. – Medav (solo)
• * Sarika A. – Senze (solo)

• * Kimmy Granger, Chad White – Punished School Girl
• * Milana Blanc, Thomas Stone – Skinny Dip
• * Adria Rae, Piper Perri, Johnny Castle – Casting Adria Rae

• * Irina Vega, Fenyx Santos – CINÉMA X (PIGALLE)
• * Amarna Miller, Ryan James – Romance Bullshit
• * Jennifer Lo, Spy Ritt – A Night In Japan
• * Carol Vega, Alexa Tomas, Joel Tomas – We Know You’re Watching (photos)

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A blown-glass, wind-up, steampunk-evoking vibrator and a vibrating, penetratable fleshy blob of a vaulting horse are the centerpieces of Design Academy Eindhoven (Netherlands) graduate Bastiaan Buijs‘ final year project. Grandfathers Clock and The Satyr each present as suitable for inclusion in a Scandinavian home design aesthetic, yet, to me, retain something that reminds me how these settings are simultaneously attractive, and yet uncomfortable to actually be in.

‘The satyr’ uses the the buck – a classic gym apparatus [vaulting horse] – as reference for the abstract looking form of this straddle. Targeted for men, the piece produces vibrations and along with a hole at the one end, allows the user to feel an intense and all round stimulating experience.

‘Grandfather’s clock’ is a vibrator fabricated from hand-blown glass. The intricate clockwork mechanism is visible and powers the vibrations (lasting 4-5 minutes) powered by winding the key. The use of craftsmanship and unconventional materials hopes for people to not have them hidden away, but proud and decorative objects of lust. (designboom)

About The Satyr, Buijs writes, “I gave the design a more abstract form and changed its function from a gym into a sexobject for men. It has organic forms and hole meant for the man to put his penis in. The vibrations, height and roundings result in an intensely stimulating physical experience.” He told designboom, “The normalization of ordinary sex toys in my opinion, contribute to the breaking of taboos around sexuality.”

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Seven skilled authors merge sci-fi and sex: Wetware: Cyberpunk Erotica (ebook, $3.89)

Above: Kamasutra – Durex Real Love via creative advertising showcase The Next Gag.

• Brooke Sever, 30, is the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan Middle East, which predominantly sells in Dubai, as well as in Beirut in Lebanon. Sever explains of the complexities of publishing her magazine each month. Sever spoke to Cosmopolitan.com about what it’s like to potentially face jail time every time her magazine goes to print.
  “We Can’t Publish the Word ‘Sex'”: What It’s Like to Be the Editor of Cosmo Middle East (Cosmopolitan)

• Mr. Pam has been filming and directing gay male porn for over a decade. Here, she talks about HIV, condom use in porn, and the trend of straight women watching and loving gay male porn. “As far as trends, I’ve actually seen an explosion [of straight women watching gay porn] this year. They’re coming to the parties and stuff. … The performers love that women are supporting them and buying their products.”
  What It’s Like to Be a [female] Gay Porn Director (Cosmopolitan)

• Erika Lust has been creating content about female desire since 2005 — movies like Barcelona Sex Project; books like Good Porn: A Woman’s Guide; and now her site XConfessions.com, which offers short films and written stories based on viewer-submitted fantasies (and where she uses a 90% female production crew). Here, she talks about a being a feminist in porn.
  I’m a Feminist Pornographer (Marie Claire)

Thanks to our sponsor in Spain, women-run Lust Cinema.

• “It’s become a part of my life,” admits Liu Qian on the topic of online dating. Over the last decade, her computer and smartphone have helped her to meet a multitude of suitors and lovers. “Your family may have some rules for you, but when you are not home, things are different,” she says. “For example, one-night stands: they’re really common. Almost everyone I know has had that experience.” Liu is riding a wave that is sweeping away centuries of Chinese social [and sexual] tradition.
  China’s sexual revolution: traditions die as love goes digital (Toronto Star)

• Three members of a reported “master-slave” sex cult were convicted Wednesday of murdering a young Marine wife from Fallbrook. Former Marine Staff Sgt. Louis Perez, 49, Dorothy Grace Maraglino, 40, and Jessica Lynn Lopez, 28, were convicted of torturing and murdering Brittany Killgore, 22.
  Three sex-cult members are convicted of murdering Marine wife (LA Times)

• A new study just published in the Journal of Sex Research reveals that [male] genital responses can indeed be faked in lab studies, which suggests that these measures may not always be as reliable as you think. However, these scientists also discovered a novel way of potentially catching fakers: recording their eye movements while they view sexual stimuli.
  Can Men Fake Their Genital Responses In Sex Studies? Yes, But Their Eyes Reveal The Truth (Lehmiller)

Much gratitude to our thoughtful sponsor, Nubile Films.

Very personal comic about my fears surrounding being in porn. Been so nervous about this 1! https://t.co/RWE30Ry33J pic.twitter.com/78hpPr4oVG

— Erika Moen (@ErikaMoen) October 20, 2015

• Weird animal sex and fetishes are just some of the topics of this year’s Dunedin ScienceTeller, a biennial festival celebrating science communication and storytelling. This year’s topic is sex and science and will be headlined by noted American sex columnist, Dan Savage, who will give the keynote address on Friday, October 30. See also: my book Fetish Sex, the only one of its kind.
  Why are some people kinky? (Stuff NZ)

• One of America’s favorite family summer traditions is home to a simmering sexual subculture, where lovers of kink and BDSM gather among families and fairgoers. The Renaissance Faire — family friendly, olde-worlde theme parks marketed with the tagline “Where Fantasy Rules” — is a veritable Disneyland for kinksters.
  The Secret Sexual World Of America’s Renaissance Faires (Voactiv)

• Note: this article only defines sex as male-female, penis-vagina penetrative sex, and dances around the very interesting mechanics of blood flow and erectile tissue in zero gravity, which is a bummer. NASA doesn’t prohibit its astronauts from engaging in sexual activity. The agency doesn’t even enforce a “no fraternization” policy. Is this because our space agency is sexually liberated? Not really. It’s because in zero gravity, sex is nigh impossible. … The biggest challenge for male astronauts is maintaining constant blood flow, a tricky matter when immersed in a zero-gravity environment.
  The Science Fictional History of Zero Gravity Sex (Inverse)

Thank you to our sponsor in Holland, Abby Winters.

After 13 years at 1372 Mission Street, the St. James Infirmary is losing their beloved clinical space. Together… https://t.co/WfV39H0MQ9

— Red Light Legal (@redlightlegal) October 21, 2015

• Antigone Davis, Facebook’s head of global safety, said on Tuesday the company is focused on targeting the people who post intimate or nude images of others online without their consent. But she hesitated to say whether the company would back legislation that holds technology companies liable if they do not promptly remove the images when asked.
  Facebook silent on federal revenge porn bill amid delays (The Hill)

• Some of these guys worked hard for their glutes. At around 6:55 p.m. last night, the NFL Network was airing a post-game interview from the Cincinnati Bengals locker room after their 34-21 win over the Buffalo Bills. As cornerback Adam “Pacman” Jones was being interviewed, many of his teammates in the background were in several stages of undress.
  NFL Network Airs Nude Players During Locker Room Interview (Adweek)

• “The [sperm bank] researcher explained that the selection process went beyond visual cues. “Before, most of [our DVDs] had featured Caucasian individuals engaged in straight sex, so it was not much diversity. We wanted to get variety: Caucasians, African-Americans, Asians… by giving out multiple pornos with characters from different racial categories, we’re able to give [our patients] what they want to see,” he said.”
  This Is the Porn You Get at a Sperm Bank (Vice)

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#Love"@sinsinsboutique: How terribly kinky #lovemakers #sex #debauchery #kinky #movieposter http://t.co/xHSVYB7jOD pic.twitter.com/0oyDW6AsqU"

— David Burbidge (@burb58) October 18, 2015

• Cal/OSHA’s Standards Board released a slightly modified version of the proposed Section 5193.1, which would mandate barrier protection, including condoms, to shield [porn] performers from contact with bloodborne pathogens, or other potentially infectious material during the production of films. “Unfortunately, the Standard’s Board disregarded testimony from top medical professionals, AIDS organizations, adult performers and experts from the industry in order to support the misguided moral crusade of one special interest,” said Duke, referring to the AIDS Healthcare Foundation.
  Cal/OSHA Keeps Proposed New Bloodborne Pathogens Law Intact (XBIZ)

• Note: the knee-jerk hysteria about alleged dangers of this pill is kind of amazing; it’s not anywhere near as dangerous as Viagra. Which also works on women. Controversial female sexual dysfunction drug Addyi became available on Saturday … “The little pink pill” became the first-ever drug for treating low sexual desire in women that’s not explained by a medical or mental-health condition or prescription meds.
  ‘Female Viagra’ Is Here, But Don’t Go Running to Your Doctor (NY Mag)

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Seven skilled authors merge sci-fi and sex: Wetware: Cyberpunk Erotica (ebook, $3.89)

Image: Nicole Kidman in October’s Interview Magazine, via Fashiontography.

• “In the popular imagination, the eternal trope is that the porn industry drives the adoption of new technology; that it accounts for some astronomically large portion of all Internet traffic; and, yes, that it generates equally enormous sums of money for all the faceless people who run its operations. We picture these people as sleazy Southern Californians wearing pinkie rings and polyester. … But it isn’t like that at all.”
  The Porn Business Isn’t Anything Like You Think It Is (Wired)

• “… in a room of her own, another 13-year-old makes her own tentative sexual forays, but it’s not a familiar scene. She’s not “practice kissing” with her BFF or pushing off the roving hands of a too-old boyfriend or giggling about guys she’s totally crushing on. It’s just her, at her keyboard — oh, and she’s reading about the characters of her favorite book having acrobatic, highly noncanonical sex with each other.”
  Welcome To The Sex-Positive Wonderland Of Erotic Fan Fiction (Huffington Post)

• What do DJ and New Museum darling Juliana Huxtable, a former member of industrial outfit Throbbing Gristle, and “drag mother” Flawless Sabrina have in common? They all have work featured in Bring Your Own Body, an exhibit that opened yesterday at Cooper Union “presenting the work of transgender artists and archives.”
  Bring Your Own Body To This All-Trans Art Show (Bedford and Bowery)

• Neil Strauss is best known for The Game, his exploration into the world of pickup artists, and its follow-up, The Rules of the Game, which distilled that wisdom into a set of tactics for approaching and seducing women. ​But selling his fans on his new project, The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships, is not going to be straightforward. The new book chronicles his forays into sex communes, threesomes, and a modern-day harem.
  The Author of “The Game” Now Says the Art of Seduction Is Nonsense (New Republic)

Thank you to our thoughtful sponsor Nubile Films.

• “Several months ago, a female friend told me that, six months earlier, a close male friend of mine sexually assaulted a female friend of hers.”
  How Do I Handle a Claim of Sexual Assault by a Close Friend? (NYT)

• “For those authors who have yet to discover it – Amazon is currently going through and classifying a great deal of romance books as erotica. … Amazon clearly painted us with one brush, without any regard to actual content. If your catalog is primarily erotic romance and/or erotica – they may have done that with yours as well. If I were you, I’d check.”
  Pornocalypse 2015 is Upon Us! (Selena Kitt)

• “Once [Community actor] Dan Harmon returned home, we got his live tweeting of watching the Community porn parody from Hustler video. The DVD seemed to be in the collection of sweet parting gifts left by McGathy for Harmon, including the bits from above with the writer’s room. And from there, we were treated to a wonderful ride through Harmon’s experience with the film, and likely a bit too much about his knowledge of pornography.”
  Dan Harmon Decided To Live Tweet The ‘Community’ Porn Parody With Magical Results (Uproxx)

• In June, a sheriff in Illinois called on Mastercard and Visa to stop processing payments for the classifieds ad site Backpage.com, which the law enforcer alleged was a hotbed of prostitution and sex trafficking. Within 48 hours, both companies had complied, leading Backpage to sue the sheriff for using the power of his office to circumvent legal avenues of addressing his allegations against the site, much as police had done to publishers deemed to be proliferating “impure” books in the 1960s.
  The Porn-Peddler’s Guide to Operation Choke Point (MiKandi)

Thank you to our woman-run sponsor in Australia, Bright Desire.

• “In Las Vegas, I was 21. We’d been there three days, and I was learning my new name. A stranger was teaching it to me in the ballroom. The women changed their clothes again and again; they passed in parades of Technicolor latex, in white dresses and nurse hats, in fishnet and lace. On a table nearby, a woman climaxed.”
  How I Earned My Porn Star Name (Lorelei Lee, BuzzFeed)

• Playboy’s recent decision to stop publishing nude photos marks a watershed moment in media, as the porn pioneer buttons up and turns its back on what made it famous. But the company’s core has had little to do with pornography for a long time.
  China—not online porn—is why Playboy is dumping nude photographs (Quartz)

• “In Fez, I had practiced dialogues that adhered to Morocco’s traditional gender roles: Fatima cooks in the kitchen, while Mohammed sits at the café. My tutor there, an unmarried and conservative woman, punctuated my classroom dialogues with instruction on what good Moroccan women did or did not do. To be seen as good was plainly imperative, which left me at a disadvantage. I wasn’t Muslim, I wasn’t married, I wasn’t a virgin, I lived alone. And I had desires. It seemed impossible for me to befriend good Moroccan women, but I also didn’t want to feel alone.”
  [Letter from Morocco] | Lost Girls, by Sarah Dohrmann (Harper’s Magazine)

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• A pair of recent studies found that one in three young adults in the United States identify on the bisexual spectrum, and one in two in the U.K. The lack of bisexual representation in the media leads to a dangerous lack of awareness of the problems facing this community. In the last year, over a dozen studies have pointed to a bisexual health crisis. Bisexuals face elevated risks of violence and discrimination, often at higher rates than gay and lesbian peers; biphobia in medical offices contributes to an environment where bisexual men have a higher risk of contracting HIV and STIs than either straight or gay men. Mental health issues, domestic violence and substance abuse are all higher in the bisexual community. (VB note – us bi people also have alarmingly high rates of suicide.)
  Why Saying ‘Bisexual’ Is More Important Than Ever (Rolling Stone)

• Shine Louise Houston stands against a concrete wall with a smile while gazing directly at you, the viewer. In her early 40’s, she is a queer black, brown, and 3rd generation immigrant of average stature who is masculine or butch presenting and wears a natural afro and rimmed glasses. A lip-ring is centered in her bottom lip. She wears a flannel shirt and black zip-up hoodie. “As a voyeur, I use my film to explore gender and sexuality. I explore butch/femme sexual dynamics, trans and non-binary expressions of sexuality and desire, and exploring masculine beauty.”
  Profile Interview: Shine Louise Houston (Queer of Gender)

• In 2011, several years after retiring from a long career of professional running, Suzy Favor Hamilton, a three-time Olympian, began moonlighting as a high-end escort in Las Vegas. She made hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars per hour.
  What Made Suzy Run (The New Yorker)

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• * Lilly – Violeta

• * Steph Brooks – Petite and Sweet
• * Chanell Heart – The Wild One (gallery)
• * Samantha Bentley – Pink Glass

• * Dita V – RIEGO

• * Tina H. – Favorite Chair (gallery)
• * Sapphira – Well Done (gallery)

• * Nici Dee – Vety

• * Sabrina – Slippery
• * Amarna Miller, Bailey Ryder – Glance

• * Chloe Amour, Amanda Aims – Like Minded

• * Vanea H. – Horny
• * Emily Bloom – DEARVE
• * Sienne – Extina

• * Celeste T. – Comfort in the Car
• * Denisse Gomez – Car Wash

• * Raeah – Vila
• * Laura S – Contrasting Beauty
• * Maya Virdi – The Attic

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Hacking, crime, and sex: Check out my newest collection, Wetware: Cyberpunk Erotica (ebook, $3.89)

• A group of Orthodox priests have stripped off for a charity calendar – to help fight homophobia. “A journey into his soul that will teach him that diversity of desires is nothing to fear but instead should be embraced.”
  These Orthodox priests stripped off to fight homophobia, and it’s sinfully good (Pink News)

• Students at the University of Texas at Austin are planning a provocative protest against a new gun law that forces the state’s public colleges and universities to allow firearms in their campus buildings. To protest the concealed carry law, UT-Austin students are preparing to strap “gigantic swinging dildos to our backpacks.” What the Houston Chronicle calls a ”strap in” will commence on Aug. 24, 2016 — the beginning of the school year and several days after the law takes effect in the state. The students’ call to action: “Cocks, not glocks.”
  Texas Students Reach For Sex Toys To Protest Concealed Carry Law (Huffington Post)

• “Oh wow,” Jamie Lee Bracey says in the video, which has been viewed over 3 million times. He picks up a bottle of Gun Oil H2O, a personal lubricant that’s known for its targeted marketing to the gay community. “It says water-based lubricant for your gun.” According to Bracey, the product was mistakenly being sold at the Walmart gun counter in Florence, Alabama.
  Alabama Walmart Mistakenly Stocks Gun Counter With “Gun Oil” Lube (NewNowNext)

• “A group of self-declared “fighters” campaigning under the banners “Porn Kills Love” and “Fight The New Drug” are spreading the word in San Francisco through their sleek website, billboards, and sidewalk chalk that Porn Is Bad, You Guys. But, in fact, this particular group of hipster posers are expressing not just anti-porn, but anti-sex rhetoric, spreading misleading and debunked information, hiding their religious affiliation (its founders are Mormon though they claim the group is not religious), and basically wasting their time and ours.”
  Mormon Founders Launch ‘Porn Kills Love’ Campaign In SF (SFist)

Thanks #PornKillsLove folks! Your billboards sparked a porn link swap and search tip discussion among my friends. Money well spent! <3 <3 <3

— Jessi Fischer (@thesexademic) October 14, 2015

Thanks to our sponsor in Spain, women-run Lust Cinema.

• In an exclusive conversation with The Advocate, Transportation Security Administration officials contend that they are working diligently with trans advocacy groups to improve training and standard protocol for agents who encounter transgender passengers.
  TSA Says It Will Stop Calling Trans Bodies ‘Anomalies’ (The Advocate)

• Pornhub has introduced a new feature that it hopes will make it easier for people to identify revenge porn and request its removal. In a press release published today, the site announced a new online submission form that revenge porn victims can use to flag any explicit videos or images that were published without their consent. Previously, revenge porn takedown requests could only be filed through email.
  Pornhub makes it easier to report revenge porn (Verge)

• California is ramping up its war on revenge porn by giving victims new tools for fighting back. State Attorney General Kamala Harris said Wednesday that her office has partnered with tech companies and law enforcement agencies to create an online resources hub, Cyber Exploitation, to help people remove unauthorized explicit photographs or videos of themselves from the Internet.
  California launches site to help victims of revenge porn (CNET)

• A Liberian woman contracted Ebola in March by having sex with a survivor of the viral disease, researchers report. Using studies of both people’s viral genomes and of the people’s contacts with any other possible sources of the virus, the researchers conclude that the woman’s disease represents the first known case of sexual transmission of Ebola.
  First known case of sexually transmitted Ebola reported (Science News)

• After receiving negative responses from Malaysia’s Johor Tourism Department and the inspector general of police, the future of the second international Love and Sex with Robots Congress is uncertain. Professor Adrian Cheok and Dr. David Levy were planning to chair the event in Iskandar, Malaysia, on November 16. (I wish I could afford to go to it, wherever it will be.)
  Malaysian Police Call ‘Love and Sex with Robots’ Conference Illegal (Future of Sex)

Much gratitude to our thoughtful sponsor, Nubile Films.

The 15 Sexiest Robots in Movie History! Who's Your Favorite? http://t.co/HMaUoC8ZAT #robots #movie pic.twitter.com/rGbPpp3Id8

— FutureofSex (@FutureofSex) October 14, 2015

• When a business responds to a woman’s complaint with a joke about fucking her — no matter her line of work — it’s beyond inappropriate. Nikita Bellucci tweeted Transavia – a subsidiary of Air France — earlier this week asking about her delayed flight from Budapest but was (rightfully) angered by the reply on Twitter.
  Porn star gets into spat with airline after it joked about her career (Daily Mail)

• Brian Sloan makes some of the tackiest sex toys on the market, and he knows it. He also doesn’t care. If you don’t know his name, you know him by his over-the-top products, equally innovative in both design and shock value. Sloan owns the company Very Intelligent E-Commerce, but what brought him into the internet’s limelight was the Autoblow, a robotic blowjob machine.
  We Talked to the Man Engineering the World’s Craziest Male Sex Toys (Maxim)

• “The men with transgender partners in this documentary (series, Sex Diaries: Trans Lovers, Channel 4, UK) came across as shallow and uninteresting. Unlike their often fascinating other halves.”
  Sex Diaries: Trans Lovers review: interesting women, shame about the men (Guardian UK)

• “Jessie” and her boyfriend, “James,” despite being computer-simulated software, are otherwise average in every way. She’s the amalgamation of more than 400 female body types; James represents the average man in height, weight, and, perhaps most important, in this particular situation, penis size. Together they’ll be e-trying the newest model of the We-Vibe.
  The Race to Build the Perfect Couples Sex Toy (Vanity Fair)

Thank you to our sponsor in Holland, Abby Winters.

• I love Lorelei Lee so much. “Every time I meet a stranger, I do this math: How much do you know about me already? What, if anything, do you deserve to know? At a holiday party surrounded by women my age, by mothers in Saturday lipstick, I won’t lie exactly, but I will evade. If you tell me a dirty joke, I’ll pretend I haven’t heard it before. I never cash my checks with the teller anymore. My name is the last thing I will tell you.”
  How I Earned My Porn Star Name (BuzzFeed)

• Ciao! Italy’s highest court has ruled that an employer cannot fire a worker for watching porn while on his lunch break. Today, the Supreme Court of Cassation rejected an appeal from FIAT, the man’s employer who terminated him, according to Live Sicilia.
  Viewing Porn OK at Lunch Break, Italy’s Highest Court Rules (XBIZ)

• Well… first, camgirls have been the ‘new porn stars’ for about 15 years, and this article is all over the place. But there are a couple of good tips in it (from the camgirls themselves, of course). Definitely read Digital privacy for sex workers: The Eros Guide provider series, the series I worked with sex workers to create, which was then mimicked (poorly) by the EFF.
  Camgirl OPSEC: How the World’s Newest Porn Stars Protect Their Privacy Online (Vice)

Thank you to our sponsor and friends, Pink Label TV.

• “The stigma of being a sex worker has followed Lisa Ann [into her current, respected position in fantasy sports), and in her first year a woman called into the show to question her authority on fantasy sports. “She told me I was a whore, and said, ‘What makes you think you know anything about this?'” Ann said. The call was quickly cancelled and Ann brushed it off on-air, but it struck a nerve. What indeed gave her the right to step into this new world? “She’s put in the work,” Ronis says. “She’s earning respect in the fantasy community.”
  How Lisa Ann went from porn star to fantasy sports guru (Fox Sports)

• In 2011, several years after retiring from a long career of professional running, Suzy Favor Hamilton, a three-time Olympian, began moonlighting as a high-end escort in Las Vegas. She made hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars per hour and worked semi-anonymously, but several of her regular clients learned who she was, and within a year she was outed by a writer for the Web site The Smoking Gun.
  What Made Suzy Run (The New Yorker)

• MindGeek owns most major tube sites, including PornHub, YouPorn and Red Tube. Its network reaches over 100 million people every day. Each set of eyeballs tends to spend a substantial amount of time on the sites — over 10 minutes, in the United States. That kind of reach can produce massive profits from ad revenue alone.
  How MindGeek transformed the economics of porn (Fusion)

• Adult performers banded together [in August] to create The Adult Performer Advocacy Committee (APAC). With an educational focus, the Los Angeles-based meetings, which occur every other month, often begin with a panel of experts discussing specific topics, ranging from “how to deal with personal relationships while working in porn” to things like “banking for adult entertainers.”
  Porn’s Norma Rae Moment (Daily Beast)

The post Sex News: Cocks not Glocks, Mormons target porn in SF, revenge porn tools, Lisa Ann rules fantasy sports appeared first on Violet Blue ® | Open Source Sex.

Chinese erotic photographer Ren Hang has a giant collection of new work on his site, and it’s worth clicking and lingering on every brilliant, compelling shot. Look in Photography 2015 and Photography 2015 II. Hang is also prolific and busy on his Tumblr, and there are more goodies to love on Flickr. Thanks to Sex in Art for the heads up.

The post New work by Ren Hang appeared first on Violet Blue ® | Open Source Sex.

These images are from Corwin Prescott’s incredible Temperance series. You can find other new works on his Tumblr, and much more in Corwin Prescott’s Patreon. There are also prints on Etsy.

The post Keeping up with Corwin Prescott appeared first on Violet Blue ® | Open Source Sex.

Seven skilled authors merge sci-fi and sex: Wetware: Cyberpunk Erotica (ebook, $3.89)

• Okay, so this tool might be a fake product, but the Dildo Selfie Stick is pretty much one of the most ingenious ideas of the year.
  Sex-toy selfie stick is too good of an idea to remain fake (Daily Dot)

• Chances are you’ve seen photos of the Sexy Pizza Rat and Sexy Cecil the Lion (and Sexy Donald Trump and Sexy Minion and Sexy Lobster, and I can go on and on…) costumes floating around the internet. Go ahead and keep rolling your eyes and writing your outraged articles, because Chad Horstman doesn’t care what you think of his costumes.
  We Talked to the CEO Behind Those Ridiculous “Sexy” Halloween Costumes (Maxim)

• This article is a must-read. “In June, a sheriff in Illinois called on Mastercard and Visa to stop processing payments for the classifieds ad site Backpage.com, which the law enforcer alleged was a hotbed of prostitution and sex trafficking. Within 48 hours, both companies had complied, leading Backpage to sue the sheriff for using the power of his office to circumvent legal avenues of addressing his allegations against the site, much as police had done to publishers deemed to be proliferating “impure” books in the 1960s.”
  The Porn-Peddler’s Guide to Operation Choke Point (MiKandi)

Thanks to our sponsor in Spain, women-run Lust Cinema.

• Using criminal software known as Blackshades, Leeds-based hacker Stefan Rigo, 33, was able to gain remote access to webcams anywhere in the world. Rigo spent five to 12 hours each day spying on unsuspecting people’s daily activities through Skype or in front of the computer.
  British man hacked webcams to watch people have sex (NY Daily News)

• Canada’s new prostitution act is supposed to keep workers safe, but many in the profession say it puts them in danger. As Arielle Piat-Sauvé reports, the fight to sell sex safely is far from over.
  Law V. Lust (maisonneuve)

Much gratitude to our thoughtful sponsor, Nubile Films.

This Guy Is Crowdfunding A Sex Toy With A Mouth, Vagina And Butthole http://t.co/ULOd2nfh3B pic.twitter.com/FXLXGPyPXq

— FutureofSex (@FutureofSex) October 8, 2015

• At CEATEC, the component maker paired up with TECHMAC to show off a dating game featuring a “Tokimeki Sensor” — “tokimeki” is a Japanese word for “palpitation” that’s often associated with dating simulators. The player places their hand on a board, with the index fingers placed on an optical palpitation sensor on the back. The subject then faces a flirty anime boy or girl on the left screen for about a minute, followed by its human counterpart on the right, and then the game will determine whether you’re into 2D romance instead of 3D.
  This sensor knows if you like anime a little too much (Engadget)

• Patent troll TZU Technologies reportedly filed six lawsuits in June, claiming infringement of its intellectual property, patent number 6,368,268. The TZU claim is based on a 2002 patent issued to HasSex president Warren Sandvick, for a “stimulation system” that could be remotely controlled from another location — broadly encompassing the entire realm of teledildonics. Apparently the Cotman IP group, which represents TZU dropped the lawsuit against Kickstarter when it learned that the company was determined to fight it in court.
  Teledildonics Patent Troll Drops Suit Against Kickstarter (XBIZ)

• Because of the abuse and lack of support, homeless LGBT teens often engage in “survival sex” or sex used as a means to survive extreme situations. The new amendment for safe harbor laws should include a ban on arrests and court proceedings for juveniles on all prostitution-related charges. There are currently no safe harbor protections for juveniles engaged in “sex survival.”
  7 Solutions To Save Homeless LGBT Kids From ‘Survival Sex’ (aplus)

• Stanford University was sharply criticized on Monday for pushing an interpretation of campus-wide sexual assault data that activists said is misleading.
  Activists Blast Stanford For “Misleading” Campus Sex Assault Data (Buzzfeed) See also: A Sex Scandal Rocks Stanford’s Business School (Bloomberg)

• Italian porn actor/director Rocco Siffredi is starting an academy to teach aspiring adult film actors and actresses the tricks of the trade. He will document his training in the reality show, “Universita del Porno,” to air in Italy, Perfil.com reports. Classes will be in session on the set of “Siffredi Hard Academy,” in which the porn veteran will instruct a group of 21 hopefuls on different techniques and tactics on how to be a believable porn actor on screen.
  ‘Porn University’ opens for aspiring adult film performers (NY Daily News)

Thank you to our sponsor in Holland, Abby Winters.

• There is soooooo much sex in this show now. “Bomer went on The Ellen DeGeneres Show to discuss what it’s like getting that up close and personal with [Lady Gaga in American Horror Story: Hotel]. “Yeah, I think you see more of me in the first episode of this than you see in the first two Magic Mikes combined,” he admitted.”
  Matt Bomer Discusses Onscreen Sex With Lady Gaga & American Horror Story: Hotel (Refinery 29)

• Obscenity lawyer Myles Jackman has announced his launch of an appeal on the crowd-funding website Patreon for monthly donations to fund his pro bono activism. Jackman is known for his work in representing criminal defendants charged with consensual adult pornography offenses and specializes in privacy and freedom of expression issues — especially for members of the BDSM, LGBTQ, adult entertainment industry and sex worker communities.
  U.K. Lawyer Myles Jackman Now Crowdfunding Free Speech Activism (XBIZ)

• A federal judge threw out a former hotel owner’s lawsuit against a Connecticut town’s police force last week over a raid of the hotel during a swinger’s party. The gist of the judge’s ruling: a sex party is not a form of protected free speech under the First Amendment.
  Judge rules sex parties are not a form of protected speech (Fusion)

Thank you to our sponsor and friends, Pink Label TV.

• If your knowledge of the desnudas is through glancing at the Post or Daily News, you might expect that Times Square currently feels like a cross between a Dutch red-light district, a Wild West town, and a Caligulan orgy. In reality, while there have been a few notable incidents — a fight between an unstable female passerby and one of the performers; the arrest of another performer for alleged prostitution and drug possession — the atmosphere around the women seems friendly, even festive. They circulate around the plaza, smiling with the pleasantly distracted air of flight attendants, their outfits no more titillating than those of Vegas showgirls.
  Times Square: The City’s Id, Now and Always (NY Magazine)

• Warning for survivors of sexual assault and trauma. “four men nabbed in an FBI sting operation targeting an extreme slice of the human trafficking underworld: people seeking sexual and domestic slaves. Court papers paint a disturbing picture of the lengths all four fiends went to keep their would-be slaves hidden. They outfitted their homes with things like soundproof boxes, window coverings, and even a 500-pound therapeutic bed with chains.”
  FBI Uncovers National Sex Dungeon Ring (Daily Beast)

The post Sex News: Sexy Pizza Rat costume culprit, Dildo Selfie Stick, deep inside Operation Choke Point appeared first on Violet Blue ® | Open Source Sex.

Seven skilled authors merge sci-fi and sex: Wetware: Cyberpunk Erotica (ebook, $3.89)

• Just blocks away from the Tinder headquarters in Los Angeles, a large pink and purple billboard shows two pairs of people silhouetted, foreheads inclined toward one another. Two of the faces say Grindr and Tinder. On the other two are scrawled the names of STDs. The billboard is part of a campaign from the Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which posted its warnings about Internet hookups and venereal disease in more than 50 spots around the city last week.
  Billboards linking Tinder to STDs are latest battleground in online dating wars (Washington Post)

• Sex, money, betrayal: The bizarre brawl between American Apparel Inc. and its founder, Dov Charney, has all that and more. But now this tabloid tale is coming down to a seemingly staid bit of finance: the bonds.
  For all the back-and-forth over American Apparel — spanning Charney’s alleged sexual antics, management’s wrath and the dueling lawsuits that have followed — neither side is in control. Instead, the bondholders are. That became apparent on Monday, when the company announced a prearranged bankruptcy filing.
  Sex, Betrayal and Bond Traders: The Fall of American Apparel (Bloomberg; super annoying video autoplay alert)

• We like to think that, over time, our laws become less prejudiced and discriminatory. For sex workers, however, the law hasn’t bent in the direction of greater equality. Over the last 150 years, rights for sex workers have in many ways diminished, according to West Virginia University journalism professor Alison Bass. In her book Getting Screwed: Sex Workers and the Law, released today. In the past and today, Bass finds, sex workers have been marginalized by stigma that portrays them as immoral, dangerous, even diseased figures. But while the stigma hasn’t changed, the laws have — in many cases, from the point of view of the sex worker, for the worse.
  The Law’s Tougher on Sex Workers Today Than It Was in the 19th Century (Pacific Standard; see also this excerpt from the book on Salon)

• There’s a reason why the campaign #freethenipple blew up on (Facebook-owned) Instagram: the photo-sharing website is typically quick to pull down posts showing women’s nipples, even if there’s nothing pornographic about the photos. Why? Well, according to Business Insider, the app’s cofounder puts the blame on Apple.
  Instagram blames Apple for strict anti-nudity stance (Engadget)

Thanks to our sponsor in Spain, women-run Lust Cinema.

• “The next big thing in this arena will not be so much the sexiness of the machines we are familiar with now, but rather the sex appeal of machines with which we will have sex.”
  Desire Machines: How wearables like the Apple Watch tap into the language of fashion and sex (Alphr)

• Forcing others into sex or any sort of labor is abhorrent, and it deserves to be treated like the serious violation it is. But the activity now targeted under anti-trafficking efforts includes everything from offering or soliciting paid sex, to living with a sex worker, to running a classified advertising website. What’s more, these new laws aren’t organic responses by legislators in the face of an uptick in human trafficking activity or inadequate current statutes. They are in large part the result of a decades-long anti-prostitution crusade from Christian “abolitionists” and anti-sex feminists.
  The War on Sex Trafficking Is the New War on Drugs (Reason)

• On September 24th game developer Zoe Quinn and cultural critic Anita Sarkeesian, both targets of Gamergate, testified in front of the United Nations about online harassment. In this article, Vice talked to Randi Harper, the creator of GG Autoblocker and founder of the Online Abuse Prevention Initiative, who said “Sex trafficking, sex work, and pornography should not have been included in a report about online abuse. It was a distraction from other valid concerns that should have been covered more thoroughly, and furthermore, it was a call for censorship. It is becoming clear that certain groups are willing to fly the flag of online abuse on their pet causes, such as banning pornography or wanting to remove the safety of anonymity.” too bad Quinn and Sarkeesian didn’t say this to the U.N.
  ‘I’m Disappointed': Zoe Quinn Speaks Out on UN Cyberviolence Report (Vice)

Much gratitude to our thoughtful sponsor, Nubile Films.

#fail The UN report's basis for porn "facts" is from debunked, unverifiable, right-wing org Stop Porn Culture http://t.co/CjjUIAxDmC (NSFW)

— Violet Blue ® (@violetblue) September 28, 2015

• Annalee Newitz visits the set of Kink’s upcoming feature, Star Trek: The Next Penetration. According to Newitz, when someone asks you if you want to visit the set of a Star Trek gangbang film, “Just in case you are wondering, the answer to that question should always be yes.”
  The Best Little Porno Movie on the Internet (Gizmodo)

• Three New Zealand historians have contributed a wealth of astounding, rich and often surprising information to the issue of sex addiction, with the first book chronicling the history of this influential concept. Sex Addiction, A Critical History, was published in 2015, and represents a remarkable detailing of the troubling, often hidden, history of this concept.
  Who Is The Real Father of Sex Addiction? (Psychology Today)

• As Patrick Kane’s attorney Paul Cambria Jr. held his first news conference about the ongoing rape investigation involving his client, a national TV audience couldn’t help but notice the “Hustler” mug on the shelf directly behind him. The Internet lit up with criticism, questioning the wisdom of having a mug — which advertised a pornographic magazine often accused of demeaning women — in the background while addressing a sexual assault accusation. It appeared imprudent to many, even though Cambria has represented the magazine’s publisher, Larry Flynt, for decades.
  Patrick Kane’s defense attorney: More than just a ‘porn lawyer’ (Chicago Tribune)

• If you needed any more evidence that the smartphone is the dominant computing platform, then Pornhub’s figures should probably convince you. Back in 2010, desktop browsing accounted for 88 percent of the site’s traffic, but in 2015, that figure has fallen to just 37 percent. The rest of that figure is now accounted for by Android and iOS, with a near perfect split between the two (Android has 32 percent, iOS has 31).
  Pornhub thinks your smartphone choice reflects your kinks (Engadget)

Thank you to our sponsor in Holland, Abby Winters.

• The eJaculator is the latest addition to a series of male teledildonic sex toys taking advantage of developments in virtual reality technology. The eJaculator will consist of an app, a silicone sex sleeve with a plastic exterior (measuring 12 by 4 inches), a hands-free remote control, and a virtual reality (VR) headset. Note that the VR headset does not display content on its own. Instead, the headset is designed as a bracket that clamps onto a smartphone, and uses the device’s screen to display the VR videos.
  Introducing the eJaculator: A New Male Virtual Reality Sex Toy (Future of Sex)

• Amber Rose kicked off her first annual “SlutWalk” at Pershing Square in downtown L.A., which drew a sizable crowd of supporters. The 31-year-old has spent most of the year campaigning for the event, which seeks to empower women about their sexuality while also breaking down stereotypes and double standards about gender.
  Amber Rose Draws Large Crowd of Supporters for Her “SlutWalk” (VladTV)

• “Appealing an obscenity charge against Hubert Selby’s Last Exit to Brooklyn in an English court, the brilliant ­lawyer-novelist John Mortimer advanced what would come to be known as the “aversion defense” or the “repugnance theory.” The idea was that, far from tending to “deprave and corrupt” its readers, a work like Last Exit to Brooklyn, precisely by being so disgusting, would induce a moral counterreaction. Mortimer won the case and went on to successfully defend, among other things, the Sex Pistols’ album Never Mind the Bollocks.”
  Why Read Books Considered Obscene? (NYT)

Thank you to our sponsor and friends, Pink Label TV.

John Waters tours The Kinsey Institute, reviewing parts of the John Money Collection. Waters and Money were friends. pic.twitter.com/cXGUq2v8El

— IU Cinema (@IUcinema) October 2, 2015

• Barley Marshall said officers turned a blind eye when she carried out sex acts with then-prisoner Ben Harwood during six-hour visits in the hospital. At the time Harwood was serving 12 months in Nottingham prison for drug offences, aggravated burglary and possessing ammunition.
  Prisoner has sex with girlfriend in hospital bed while chained to guard (Star UK)

• The Federal Election Committee yesterday dashed the hopes of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which was counting on the panel to revisit the issue of foreign money donated to a group opposed to the 2012 “Safer Sex” Measure B ballot measure.
  FEC Won’t Review AHF’s Complaint Over Foreign Donations (XBIZ)

• Please share as appropriate: UNLV survey on sex work.
  UNLV Consumption and Adult Entertainment Research Project (unlv.co1.qualtrics.com)

Arse Elektronika Award 2015 for "Direct Neural Stimulation To Create Strapon You Can Feel" (Veaux, Rickert) #arse2015 pic.twitter.com/pCYwQVIxM9

— J. Grenzfurthner (@johannes_mono) October 5, 2015

• Recently added to the BioPortfolio report store is Global Adult Vibrator Market Study Report 2015-2019, a new report from Technavio published on 2015-09-29. This 52-page report is available in pdf from $2500 (which means none of us will ever see it; ping me if you get a copy). “With the rapid growth and development of e-commerce and the easy availability of adult products online, this industry is poised for further growth. Adult vibrators are a key part of this growth, led by the relative anonymity and comfort of buying these products online. Technavio’s analysts forecast the global adult vibrator market to grow at a CAGR of 16.98% over the period 2014-2019.”
  Global Adult Vibrator – Market Study Report 2015-2019 (Bio Portfolio Reports)

• Warning for survivors of sexual assault and trauma: A Colorado man has been accused of “hunting” boys and young men on social media, keeping them at his home as sex slaves, and branding them with a tattoo of “ownership.” Sean Crumpler, 48, faces a dozen counts related to sex trafficking, including one count of a sexual offense with notice of HIV.
  Man accused of ‘hunting’ sex slaves on Grindr and branding them (Fox 4 Charlotte)

The post Sex News: AHF attacks Tinder and Grindr, Instagram blames Apple, bogus sex trafficking laws appeared first on Violet Blue ® | Open Source Sex.

Seven skilled authors merge sci-fi and sex: Wetware: Cyberpunk Erotica (ebook, $3.89)

• Just blocks away from the Tinder headquarters in Los Angeles, a large pink and purple billboard shows two pairs of people silhouetted, foreheads inclined toward one another. Two of the faces say Grindr and Tinder. On the other two are scrawled the names of STDs. The billboard is part of a campaign from the Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which posted its warnings about Internet hookups and venereal disease in more than 50 spots around the city last week.
  Billboards linking Tinder to STDs are latest battleground in online dating wars (Washington Post)

• Sex, money, betrayal: The bizarre brawl between American Apparel Inc. and its founder, Dov Charney, has all that and more. But now this tabloid tale is coming down to a seemingly staid bit of finance: the bonds.
  For all the back-and-forth over American Apparel — spanning Charney’s alleged sexual antics, management’s wrath and the dueling lawsuits that have followed — neither side is in control. Instead, the bondholders are. That became apparent on Monday, when the company announced a prearranged bankruptcy filing.
  Sex, Betrayal and Bond Traders: The Fall of American Apparel (Bloomberg; super annoying video autoplay alert)

• We like to think that, over time, our laws become less prejudiced and discriminatory. For sex workers, however, the law hasn’t bent in the direction of greater equality. Over the last 150 years, rights for sex workers have in many ways diminished, according to West Virginia University journalism professor Alison Bass. In her book Getting Screwed: Sex Workers and the Law, released today. In the past and today, Bass finds, sex workers have been marginalized by stigma that portrays them as immoral, dangerous, even diseased figures. But while the stigma hasn’t changed, the laws have — in many cases, from the point of view of the sex worker, for the worse.
  The Law’s Tougher on Sex Workers Today Than It Was in the 19th Century (Pacific Standard; see also this excerpt from the book on Salon)

• There’s a reason why the campaign #freethenipple blew up on (Facebook-owned) Instagram: the photo-sharing website is typically quick to pull down posts showing women’s nipples, even if there’s nothing pornographic about the photos. Why? Well, according to Business Insider, the app’s cofounder puts the blame on Apple.
  Instagram blames Apple for strict anti-nudity stance (Engadget)

Thanks to our sponsor in Spain, women-run Lust Cinema.

• “The next big thing in this arena will not be so much the sexiness of the machines we are familiar with now, but rather the sex appeal of machines with which we will have sex.”
  Desire Machines: How wearables like the Apple Watch tap into the language of fashion and sex (Alphr)

• Forcing others into sex or any sort of labor is abhorrent, and it deserves to be treated like the serious violation it is. But the activity now targeted under anti-trafficking efforts includes everything from offering or soliciting paid sex, to living with a sex worker, to running a classified advertising website. What’s more, these new laws aren’t organic responses by legislators in the face of an uptick in human trafficking activity or inadequate current statutes. They are in large part the result of a decades-long anti-prostitution crusade from Christian “abolitionists” and anti-sex feminists.
  The War on Sex Trafficking Is the New War on Drugs (Reason)

• On September 24th game developer Zoe Quinn and cultural critic Anita Sarkeesian, both targets of Gamergate, testified in front of the United Nations about online harassment. In this article, Vice talked to Randi Harper, the creator of GG Autoblocker and founder of the Online Abuse Prevention Initiative, who said “Sex trafficking, sex work, and pornography should not have been included in a report about online abuse. It was a distraction from other valid concerns that should have been covered more thoroughly, and furthermore, it was a call for censorship. It is becoming clear that certain groups are willing to fly the flag of online abuse on their pet causes, such as banning pornography or wanting to remove the safety of anonymity.” too bad Quinn and Sarkeesian didn’t say this to the U.N.
  ‘I’m Disappointed’: Zoe Quinn Speaks Out on UN Cyberviolence Report (Vice)

Much gratitude to our thoughtful sponsor, Nubile Films.

#fail The UN report's basis for porn "facts" is from debunked, unverifiable, right-wing org Stop Porn Culture http://t.co/CjjUIAxDmC (NSFW)

— Violet Blue ® (@violetblue) September 28, 2015

• Annalee Newitz visits the set of Kink’s upcoming feature, Star Trek: The Next Penetration. According to Newitz, when someone asks you if you want to visit the set of a Star Trek gangbang film, “Just in case you are wondering, the answer to that question should always be yes.”
  The Best Little Porno Movie on the Internet (Gizmodo)

• Three New Zealand historians have contributed a wealth of astounding, rich and often surprising information to the issue of sex addiction, with the first book chronicling the history of this influential concept. Sex Addiction, A Critical History, was published in 2015, and represents a remarkable detailing of the troubling, often hidden, history of this concept.
  Who Is The Real Father of Sex Addiction? (Psychology Today)

• As Patrick Kane’s attorney Paul Cambria Jr. held his first news conference about the ongoing rape investigation involving his client, a national TV audience couldn’t help but notice the “Hustler” mug on the shelf directly behind him. The Internet lit up with criticism, questioning the wisdom of having a mug — which advertised a pornographic magazine often accused of demeaning women — in the background while addressing a sexual assault accusation. It appeared imprudent to many, even though Cambria has represented the magazine’s publisher, Larry Flynt, for decades.
  Patrick Kane’s defense attorney: More than just a ‘porn lawyer’ (Chicago Tribune)

• If you needed any more evidence that the smartphone is the dominant computing platform, then Pornhub’s figures should probably convince you. Back in 2010, desktop browsing accounted for 88 percent of the site’s traffic, but in 2015, that figure has fallen to just 37 percent. The rest of that figure is now accounted for by Android and iOS, with a near perfect split between the two (Android has 32 percent, iOS has 31).
  Pornhub thinks your smartphone choice reflects your kinks (Engadget)

Thank you to our sponsor in Holland, Abby Winters.

• The eJaculator is the latest addition to a series of male teledildonic sex toys taking advantage of developments in virtual reality technology. The eJaculator will consist of an app, a silicone sex sleeve with a plastic exterior (measuring 12 by 4 inches), a hands-free remote control, and a virtual reality (VR) headset. Note that the VR headset does not display content on its own. Instead, the headset is designed as a bracket that clamps onto a smartphone, and uses the device’s screen to display the VR videos.
  Introducing the eJaculator: A New Male Virtual Reality Sex Toy (Future of Sex)

• Amber Rose kicked off her first annual “SlutWalk” at Pershing Square in downtown L.A., which drew a sizable crowd of supporters. The 31-year-old has spent most of the year campaigning for the event, which seeks to empower women about their sexuality while also breaking down stereotypes and double standards about gender.
  Amber Rose Draws Large Crowd of Supporters for Her “SlutWalk” (VladTV)

• “Appealing an obscenity charge against Hubert Selby’s Last Exit to Brooklyn in an English court, the brilliant ­lawyer-novelist John Mortimer advanced what would come to be known as the “aversion defense” or the “repugnance theory.” The idea was that, far from tending to “deprave and corrupt” its readers, a work like Last Exit to Brooklyn, precisely by being so disgusting, would induce a moral counterreaction. Mortimer won the case and went on to successfully defend, among other things, the Sex Pistols’ album Never Mind the Bollocks.”
  Why Read Books Considered Obscene? (NYT)

Thank you to our sponsor and friends, Pink Label TV.

John Waters tours The Kinsey Institute, reviewing parts of the John Money Collection. Waters and Money were friends. pic.twitter.com/cXGUq2v8El

— IU Cinema (@IUcinema) October 2, 2015

• Barley Marshall said officers turned a blind eye when she carried out sex acts with then-prisoner Ben Harwood during six-hour visits in the hospital. At the time Harwood was serving 12 months in Nottingham prison for drug offences, aggravated burglary and possessing ammunition.
  Prisoner has sex with girlfriend in hospital bed while chained to guard (Star UK)

• The Federal Election Committee yesterday dashed the hopes of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which was counting on the panel to revisit the issue of foreign money donated to a group opposed to the 2012 “Safer Sex” Measure B ballot measure.
  FEC Won’t Review AHF’s Complaint Over Foreign Donations (XBIZ)

• Please share as appropriate: UNLV survey on sex work.
  UNLV Consumption and Adult Entertainment Research Project (unlv.co1.qualtrics.com)

Arse Elektronika Award 2015 for "Direct Neural Stimulation To Create Strapon You Can Feel" (Veaux, Rickert) #arse2015 pic.twitter.com/pCYwQVIxM9

— J. Grenzfurthner (@johannes_mono) October 5, 2015

• Recently added to the BioPortfolio report store is Global Adult Vibrator Market Study Report 2015-2019, a new report from Technavio published on 2015-09-29. This 52-page report is available in pdf from $2500 (which means none of us will ever see it; ping me if you get a copy). “With the rapid growth and development of e-commerce and the easy availability of adult products online, this industry is poised for further growth. Adult vibrators are a key part of this growth, led by the relative anonymity and comfort of buying these products online. Technavio’s analysts forecast the global adult vibrator market to grow at a CAGR of 16.98% over the period 2014-2019.”
  Global Adult Vibrator – Market Study Report 2015-2019 (Bio Portfolio Reports)

• Warning for survivors of sexual assault and trauma: A Colorado man has been accused of “hunting” boys and young men on social media, keeping them at his home as sex slaves, and branding them with a tattoo of “ownership.” Sean Crumpler, 48, faces a dozen counts related to sex trafficking, including one count of a sexual offense with notice of HIV.
  Man accused of ‘hunting’ sex slaves on Grindr and branding them (Fox 4 Charlotte)

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I regret switching to an iPhone for a lot of reasons (although security isn’t one of them). I miss a lot of things about the Android OS, and now MiKandi’s comic store has me seriously considering fitting an Android tablet purchase into my budget. I love comics. Especially explicit erotic comics; my apartment is dotted with stacks of them, which have overflowed from my bookcases, piled knee-high in a gloriously NSFW mix with rare erotic art and photography books.

MiKandi’s store has a hell of a selection, the kind of titles my local store would special order for me. (Hint: I like my sex comics well-drawn, imaginative, outrageous, impossible, and filthy.) I’d love to see MiKandi add all the old Eros Comix & Fantagraphics (@eroscomix), as well as Last Gasp’s erotic comics and erotic graphic novels in their store.

At present, I noticed they have Deimos, comics by Hizzacked (that’s her Binary Gangbang above, here’s Sequoia State), CutePet, and MiKandi just announced it’s adding “Switch” by artist Reinbach (main post image; image below). I especially like MiKiandi’s line, “Experience the best adult comics, hentai manga, and erotic books anytime, anywhere from the app store that treats you like an adult.” Thank you.

* Researching Hizzacked for this post I discovered that Coinbase doesn’t allow “adult” transactions, and banned her for selling her comics and artwork with bitcoin through the service. WTF, Coinbase?! I’m never recommending Coinbase again.

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I regret switching to an iPhone for a lot of reasons (although security isn’t one of them). I miss a lot of things about the Android OS, and now MiKandi’s comic store has me seriously considering fitting an Android tablet purchase into my budget. I love comics. Especially explicit erotic comics; my apartment is dotted with stacks of them, which have overflowed from my bookcases, piled knee-high in a gloriously NSFW mix with rare erotic art and photography books.

MiKandi’s store has a hell of a selection, the kind of titles my local store would special order for me. (Hint: I like my sex comics well-drawn, imaginative, outrageous, impossible, and filthy.) I’d love to see MiKandi add all the old Eros Comix & Fantagraphics (@eroscomix), as well as Last Gasp’s erotic comics and erotic graphic novels in their store.

At present, I noticed they have Deimos, comics by Hizzacked (that’s her Binary Gangbang above, here’s Sequoia State), CutePet, and MiKandi just announced it’s adding “Switch” by artist Reinbach (main post image; image below). I especially like MiKiandi’s line, “Experience the best adult comics, hentai manga, and erotic books anytime, anywhere from the app store that treats you like an adult.” Thank you.

* Researching Hizzacked for this post I discovered that Coinbase doesn’t allow “adult” transactions, and banned her for selling her comics and artwork with bitcoin through the service. WTF, Coinbase?! I’m never recommending Coinbase again.

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Above three images are of Antonio Black and Sabrina Jay in their luscious new film from FrolicMe.

Below – the beautiful new European site, Verso Cinema:

• * Silvia Rubi, Gabe Tonic, David Santos – Thr3e
• * Miriam Prado, Jorge Prado – Sweet Sacrifice
• * Selina Ak, Alex Ak – Bluette
• * Silvia Rubi, Gabe Tonic – Belle Dame
• * Selina and Alex – Unwrap Me

• * Odette Delacroix, Veronica Rodriguez, Van Wylde – Bed Bunnies
• * Gia Paige, Jessy Jones – Object Creampie

• * Wolf Hudson, Aubrey Kate – TS Massage (video)
• * Lance Hart, Aubrey Kate – TS Girls on Top (video)

• * Megan Rain, Banbino – Turn Me On
• * Nathaly, Angelo Godshack – Sexual Awakening
• * Roxy James, Kristof Cale – Love Connection

• * Ashley Sinclair, Jillian Janson, Ryan D. – Sweet Release
• * Piper Perri, Logan Pierce – School Girl Flogging

• * Gina and Sean – Creamed (photos)
• * Lexi and Jason – Pleased Bunny (photos)

• * Maddy Rose, Ryan D. – Ballet Babe
• * Piper Perri, Skye West, Ryan D. – Dance Partners

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Seven skilled authors merge sci-fi and sex: Wetware: Cyberpunk Erotica (ebook, $3.89)

Image: Naomi Campbell on the October 2015 cover for Lui Magazine.

• Porn.com takes the lead among the first companies in the online adult industry to completely drop Adobe Flash as its default video player in favor of a more secure HTML5 player, following in the footsteps of Internet giants such as YouTube, Mozilla and Twitch. In recent months, Adobe Flash has come under fire for being too vulnerable to hacker attacks due to its glaring security flaws.
  Porn.com Moves Over to HTML5 Player (XBIZ)

• The Economist covers the business angles of porn and the internet (what I’ve been writing about for 10+ years) and does a stellar, interesting job of it in the current issue. “More and more content producers are signing deals to let their stuff appear on tubes: if a viewer clicks through to the originating site and subscribes, the tube will get a cut, sometimes as much as 50%. Since tubes get so many visitors, the bargain may be worthwhile for pay sites even if only one in 1,000 of them decides to subscribe.”
  Naked capitalism (Economist)

• “These papers offer some comfort to those worried about anti-porn campaigners’ most alarming claim. Online porn is not producing a generation of zombies unable to relate to the opposite sex, and porn addiction, if it exists at all, is very rare. And the worriers’ fears were not borne out in the past: since the 1950s women’s status has improved; rape has become rarer; and couples have continued to meet and fall in love.”
  Generation XXX (Economist)

Thanks to our sponsor in Spain, women-run Lust Cinema.

• Rumors about the sex scenes in HBO’s upcoming series Westworld are flying, and everyone is on damage control; currently the salacious headlines have HBO and SAG pointing fingers in the press. Either way, I can’t wait – it’ll have some of my all-time favorite actors and stands on the shoulders of one of my favorite old sci-fi flicks.
  HBO’s Daring New Show Promises to Make the Game of Thrones Sex Scenes Look Tame by Comparison (Vanity Fair)

• MetArt has dropped its lawsuit against adult entertainment conglomerate MindGeek and its PornHubPremium.com property. The suit, filed in August in Miami federal court by Hydentra L.P., which does business as adult content providers MetArt and SexArt, claimed copyright and trademark infringement after it allegedly found 100 of its copyrighted videos on the adult tube site.
  MetArt Drops Suit Against Mindgeek (XBIZ)

• Honey Lee Cottrell was one of the “core four,” along with Debi Sundahl, Nan Kinney, and Susie Bright, who gave On Our Backs its style and success. When it started in 1984, she proposed a “Bulldagger of the Month” centrefold for the first issue. She was a member of San Francisco Sex Information in the 1970s, and co-authored I Am My Lover, a 1978 feminist book celebrating masturbation that she created with Joani Blank and Tee Corinne; her still photography has appeared in publications including The Blatant Image, Coming to Power, Sinister Wisdom, and Nothing But the Girl.
  Honey Lee Cottrell: Lesbian Photographer, Filmmaker, Pioneer of Women’s Erotica, Dies at Age 69 (mysocalledgaylife)

Much gratitude to our thoughtful sponsor, Nubile Films.

• A couple years back the Incredible Things blog learned about Slap It, a butt lamp that turns on when you spank it. Back then there were only a limited amount available for purchase at upwards of $1k. But now, they’re available once again and at the affordable price of $230.
  This Butt Lamp Turns On When You Spank It (Incredible Things)

• Every member of the University of York Fetish Society had their name revealed by secretary who apparently didn’t use the BCC function. The kinky student club runs a variety of BDSM-related activities for students at the top Yorkshire university. Last week, the secretary accidentally revealed all the names of the student members in a mass email, before issuing a apology.
  Every member of fetish society revealed after ‘unforgivable’ email bungle (Mirror)

• (Canada) A Bank Street sex shop has been slapped with a $260 fine under a city bylaw after a teen purchased a “chest binder” — a sleeveless elastic undervest used to flatten the chest. Venus Envy owner Shelley Taylor said, “It’s so upsetting cause Venus Envy is the only place in town to buy binders. And we do see a lot of young people because that’s who can’t order online and who often need info as well as products,” says Taylor.
  Venus Envy fined for selling ‘chest-binder’ to teen (Ottawa Citizen)

• Previous studies of how heterosexual women perceive penis size and shape relied on 2D drawings and photographs of flaccid penises. Now, a research team of psychologists from UCLA and the University of New Mexico have taken things into the third dimension.
  Researchers Are Making 3D-Printed Penises To Test What Women Think About Size (Gizmodo AU)

• “Gaspar Noe’s Love is ridiculous, and I’m fairly convinced it knows it. It’s a movie about dicks, which are ridiculous objects; and ridiculous people, who happen to be dicks. It’s the great cinematic circle-jerk. Your mileage may vary. There is, as has been well-documented, a great deal of sex in the movie, and the sex is unsimulated.”
  Destroy All Monsters: LOVE And Dicks (TwitchFilm)

Thank you to our sponsor in Holland, Abby Winters.

Betty Blythe in ‘The Queen of Sheba’ 1921 pic.twitter.com/pEquvbbhXD

— Old Pics Archive (@oldpicsarchive) September 26, 2015

• Lawyer Kazuko Ito and Setsuko Miyamoto welcome as ‘groundbreaking’ a recent Tokyo court ruling that declared making individuals appear in porn movies against their will is illegal, during a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.
  Landmark ruling in favor of victimized porn actress paves way for others to quit, say lawyers (Japan Times)

• Grace Jones, from I’ll Never Write My Memoirs: “What are the chances of a female president being elected? The men-only corporate reaction is: What about the tampons? Will she bleed everywhere? What if she gets pregnant? What if she is going through the menopause? What if she’s been through the menopause and is therefore old and used-up? It’s the same old caveman shit, a power thing. It’s why I want to fuck every man in the ass at least once. Every guy needs to be penetrated at least once.”
  ‘I want to fuck every man in the ass’: Grace Jones on misogyny and the music industry (TimeOut)

• A top-secret GCHQ document from March 2009 reveals the agency has targeted a range of popular websites as part of an effort to covertly collect cookies on a massive scale. It shows a sample search in which the agency was extracting data from cookies containing information about people’s visits to the adult website YouPorn, search engines Yahoo and Google, and the Reuters news website.
  From Radio to Porn, British Spies Track Web Users’ Online Identities (Intercept)

Thank you to our sponsor and friends, Pink Label TV.

• Sprinkling one’s erotica with its fair share of Yiddish and Hebrew takes a fair bit of ingenuity and chutzpah—especially when the person behind the sexy prose is not only an Orthodox Jewish woman but one committed to following halacha, a collection of Jewish religious laws that tackle a range of subjects from whether you can mix meat and dairy (nope) to whether you can perform oral sex on your wife (probably yes).
  How Orthodox Women Sell Sex (Daily Beast)

• Everyone who has heard of Paul Verhoeven’s Basic Instinct will instantly recall the iconic scene of Sharon Stone slowly opening and closing her legs in a police interrogation. The film’s content could most certainly be described steamy, but it required the inclusion of [violent] elements to keep an R-rating.
  Why Basic Instinct Was Able To Get Away With Such Lengthy Sex Scenes (Cinemablend)

• An Australian artist who previously drew a torrent of angry comments for knitting with wool inserted into her vagina will soon weave that negative feedback into a new work of art.
  Artist Threads Angry Internet Comments into New Vaginal Knitting Project (Hypoallergenic)

• Warning for survivors of sexual assault and trauma. “The true hero of Asking for It is unmistakably Doreen, Vivienne’s intelligent, sympathetic psychologist. ‘Rape fantasies are among the most common sexual fantasies women have,’ she tells Vivienne (and the reader). ‘The fantasy isn’t your problem; it’s the extremity of your fixation on it.’”
  Can feminists enjoy romance fiction? (Aeon)

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I first discovered the magical, eerie, strangely sensuous and seriously remarkable work of Marina Bychkova – Enchanted Doll – back in 2006 and I covered it on Fleshbot, where I worked at the time (and now sadly many of my posts are 404s). My love for her work only grew, so I was thrilled to post about her again when her work was featured in the December 2012 issue of Vogue Japan.

See why I’m such a huge fan by taking a look at her galleries (and nudes).

This time, there’s no direct reason for a revisit other than that I just wanted to see what she’s been up to at Enchanted Doll. She retired six months ago… but couldn’t stay retired, yay! Turns out since then, she’s been busy – and now has these exquisite Enchanted Paper Dolls for sale. “Currently there are 4 designs: Cinderella, Sapphire, Echo and Imperial Concubine.”

And there’s an Enchanted Doll book (unboxing here)! She also made an incredible breast cancer survivor doll. There was also a 2015 Enchanted Doll tattoo contest, which is well worth a look. Take the time to click on the entries, as each have multiple submissions from around the world and writings about impermanence, art, and much more.

If you like Vancouver-based Bychkova’s work as much as I do, definitely keep up with her blog and Twitter account. There’s also a monthly Enchanted Doll email newsletter.

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In keeping with this weekend’s Folsom Street Fair traditions here in San Francisco, enjoy these romantic BDSM galleries and videos.

Antonia Sainz, Lutro – Foreplay Fantasy

Sicilia and Kristof – Tape Me Up (video)

Moni, her boyfriend – I Pegged My Boyfriend

Milana and Lutro – Beautiful Agony (video)

Connie Carter – Sexual Fantasies

Coco, Sylvia – Black and White

Leila, Clover – Bondage massage

Hold Me So Tight It Hurts – X-Confessions

Madison Young – Midori’s Expert Guide to Sensual Bondage

Adrianna Nicole – Midori’s Expert Guide to Sensual Bondage

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Here’s a little light pre-Folsom Street Fair fun: Some of the artists and performers at Kink decided to make a mini-parody of Rihanna’s superb music video Bitch Better Have My Money (a non-YouTube link is here on Vevo if you’re held back by Google’s restrictions)., called Bitch Better Lick My Honey. You can tell they had a lot of fun making it, and it looks like they used Kink’s rooftop, the Armory’s Drill Court and the road along San Francisco’s Twin Peaks for locations.

The video’s copy on Vimeo tells us, “Daisy Ducati and her best bitches, Maitresse Madeline and Lorelei Lee, take Holly Heart on the sexiest, kinkiest bender of her life.” However, while the video is also to be found on YouTube, Kink spokesperson Mike Stabile spoke truth when he said, “Adult content is often flagged and removed from mainstream sites, even when it’s it’s less explicit than similar content. That’s why, even though it’s not porn per se, we’re working with PornHub as a distribution partner.”

And guess what’s not in other blog posts about this? The very explicit fun they had while shooting the video, as seen in this Whipped Ass promo gallery (with videos).

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Seven skilled authors merge sci-fi and sex: Wetware: Cyberpunk Erotica (ebook, $3.89)

Image via Huffington Post’s feature on Sophie Ebrard‘s project It’s Just Love (more here).

• Conjugal visits loom large in pop culture. They are the subject of prison-related jokes: In the sitcom Arrested Development, one episode builds to a scene where a character is pushed against a conjugal trailer and sees his incarcerated father having sex with his mother. The origin story of conjugal visits in America, however, is a chapter of American racism.
  The Dark Origins of Conjugal Visits (Priceonomics)

• Warning for survivors of sexual trauma and abuse: There were more than 1,000 newly recorded cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) in England between April and June, NHS data reveals. They show nine cases where girls were under 18 when first seen. FGM is illegal across the UK and it is illegal to take someone abroad for this purpose.
  NHS uncovers 1,000 FGM cases in England (BBC News)

• Earlier this week, One Million Moms launched a campaign against the Muppets. The focus of the Christian advocacy group’s ire is The Muppets, the “perverted” new sitcom starring the puppet troupe created by the late Jim Henson, which premiered last night on ABC. (FYI: Fusion is partly owned by ABC.)
  ‘The Muppets’ and sex: What you need to keep in mind (Fusion)

Thanks to our sponsor in Spain, women-run Lust Cinema.

I was followed into a party by a journalist who asked me a question about female empowerment and then quoted me entirely out of context for an outlet I didn’t agree to speak with. So I feel now, with the beauty of Instagram I should clarify my statements, if for nothing else than for posterity. In drama, if a nude scene forwards a story or is shot in a way that adds insight into characters, I’m perfectly fine with it. Sometimes explicit scenes are required and make sense for the characters/story, as they do in Westeros. If it’s gratuitous for gratuitous sake, then I will discuss with a director on how to make it more subtle. In either case, like a good Mother of Dragons, I’m always in control. #dracarys #bodiesmaybetemplesbutmindsarewhatmatter #MODforreal

A photo posted by @emilia_clarke on Sep 16, 2015 at 7:59am PDT

• Emilia Clarke was reportedly quoted saying she “can’t stand” the graphic sex scenes in her show on Sept. 13, but it turns out her words were taken out of context. Emilia trashed the report saying she thinks GoT could be more “subtle,” posting her response on her Instagram.
  Emilia Clarke Slams Report Claiming She ‘Can’t Stand’ Explicit ‘GoT’ Sex Scenes (Hollywood Life)

• The newest addition to the LELO collection is the first scented vibrator from the company. The Lily 2 is available in three different aromas: Bordeaux and Chocolate, Rose and Wisteria, and Lavender and Manuka Honey.
  A scented sex toy that’s classy, not kitschy (Mashable)

• Sexual activity with an animal is covered in UK law by Section 69 (!) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003. Recent allegations that a politician might have had oral sex with a dead pig would not be covered by this offence. This is because the law stipulates that the animal involved must be a “living animal”. It also only covers penetration in “the vagina or anus” of the animal.
  The legal situation if someone has oral sex with a dead animal (Independent UK)

Much gratitude to our thoughtful sponsor, Nubile Films.

• Ela Darling, who co-founded a virtual reality porn company, spoke to Cosmopolitan about her company and it’s totally worth a read.
  This Woman Co-founded A Virtual Reality Porn Company And Here’s What You Need To Know About Having Sex With A Hologram (Bustle; image above of Ela Darling by Wilfred Guenthoer)

• Brian Shuster, founder of virtual reality network Utherverse (parent company to Red Light Center, an online meta-verse for the role-playing community), is proposing a new wave of virtual reality porn: an immersive experience that lets users move around in a 3D space. Along with holograms, Shuster is working on Syntholograms, a scene where users can walk around the environment, step to the side and peer around without seeing a cutoff.
  Hologram Porn: The Most Realistic Sex Imaginable (Daily Beast)

• “If you happen to be having sex in front of an audience, a Pinterest board filled with positions, lighting, and camera angles that have worked in other situations is a godsend.”
  How I Use Pinterest To Make Porn (BuzzFeed)

Thank you to our sponsor in Holland, Abby Winters.

RIP Honey Lee Cottrell. Your art held a mirror to queer sex, and showed that butch was beautiful too. https://t.co/alxrL1md4R #onourbacks

— Jiz Lee (@jizlee) September 24, 2015

• A teenage North Carolina couple has been charged with making and distributing child pornography. Their alleged crime: snapping and sending nude photos — of themselves. “Pretty much everything about this case is appalling,” Mary Anne Franks, a law professor at the University of Miami, told The Washington Post in an e-mail.
  N.C. just prosecuted a teenage couple for making child porn — of themselves (Washington Post)

• “In the study, published online last week in the journal Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, Joshua B. Grubbs of Case Western Reserve University surveyed about 2,000 adults about their pornography use, their levels of anxiety and depression, and whether they perceived their use of pornography to be an addictive behavior. His results showed that people who believed they were addicted to porn also experienced more psychological distress — depression, anxiety, anger — than those who didn’t feel as if they were addicted to porn. … Earlier this year, Grubbs published another interesting study concerning perceived porn addiction, finding that the people most likely to believe that they had lost control over how much porn they watched were more likely to hold religious or moral beliefs against having sex.”
  Believing You’re Addicted to Porn Is What Causes Psychological Distress (NY Mag)

• New mom Jessica Biel is teaming up with WomanCare Global to make a series of sex-ed videos to help young women know more about their bodies. The actress shared that when she and hubby Justin Timberlake were trying to conceive their first baby, she never realized before that she knew so little about her own body and how it worked.
  Jessica Biel Talks Sex-ed In New Video Series (TechTimes)

Thank you to our sponsor and friends, Pink Label TV.

• True Companion claims to be developing the world’s first sex robot, which is due to launch later this year. A campaign has called for an outright ban on robots developed for sex. Leading academics in robot ethics have warned that their creation will only increase the objectification of women and children, further dehumanising those who are abused for sex.
  Campaign Against Sex Robots calls for ban on human-robot sex (Wired)

• The government of India is stumbling horribly through its attempts to ban porn, create a national encryption policy, and create policy on net neutrality.
  What Do Encryption Policy, Porn Ban, and Net Neutrality Have in Common? (Gadgets 360)

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Seven skilled authors merge sci-fi and sex: Wetware: Cyberpunk Erotica (ebook, $3.89)

Image: Beyonce by Robin Harper for Flaunt on Fashiontography

• I’ll be writing more this week about the recently-discovered, apparently intentional targeting of my name on keyword ban lists circulated in developer communities and used in apps, search engines, autofill products, and searches in various websites. To get the gist, read Bacchus’ terrific post (fyi, there have been developments since).
  Pornocalypse Comes For Your Keyword Searches (ErosBlog: The Sex Blog)
  See also: Words in Item description that will prevent Google from seeing your item (Etsy)

• Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor has blocked access to the Russian version of PornHub and 10 other porn sites. It published an online statement Monday announcing a ban on 11 websites ruled to contain unlawful pornographic content based on a Krasnodar region’s court ruling. Roskomnadzor warned in its Monday statement that distributing illegal pornographic content online is punishable by a prison term of two to six years.
  Media Watchdog Blocks Access to Russian PornHub, 10 More Adult Sites (Moscow Times)

• The average porn user may have more egalitarian views towards women than non-users, a contentious new study has suggested. Taylor Kohut, the study leader and a post-doctoral fellow in psychology, analysed data from 35 years of the General Social Survey, a US government-funded project that interviews around 24,000 men and women a year about a variety of issues.
  Watch porn? You might be a ‘useful ally’ in the fight for equality (Independent UK)

• Warning for animal torture and murder. A Houston woman has become the first person convicted in federal court of making and distributing “animal crush” fetish porn videos. Ashley Richards, 24, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to four counts of producing and one count of distributing the videos between 2010 and 2012. They depict the torture and killing of puppies, kittens and chickens.
  Houston woman convicted of making ‘animal crush’ fetish porn videos (Guardian)

• Last week, Annie Sprinkle announced the death of Candida Royalle on Facebook.
  Facebook post (no title) (Facebook)

Thanks to our sponsor in Spain, women-run Lust Cinema.

Parting such sweet sorrow. Last photo of #Club90 #porn star support group did w/ #candidaRoyalle, @CineKink #xxx pic.twitter.com/anUsda7tYw

— Annie Sprinkle (@AnnieSprinkle) September 13, 2015

• Lisa Vandever writes, “A pioneering feminist filmmaker and prominent figure in the world of adult cinema, Candida Royalle died earlier this week, at the age of 64, after a lengthy fight with ovarian cancer. (…) according to filmmaker Jennifer Lyon Bell, “Candida was a true trailblazer, creating 100% unique porn for women and couples at a time when the concept of women as sexually independent beings (and as consumers of actual explicit movies) was not just bemusing, but shocking and appalling to many. Candida deflected naysayers, including a lot of angry feminists, with grace and poise.””
  Remembering Candida Royalle, 1950 – 2015 (Filmmaker Magazine)

• “…our ears perked up this week when we got some interesting data on national game console usage. It came from a porn site, of all places: YouPorn’s Gamers Statistics breakdown. The site delivers a host of server and search statistics derived from visitors who access it using a console’s built-in Web browser. While it’s fascinating to learn that porn hunters on Nintendo systems search for “zelda” and “pokemon” much more often than others, it’s the regional breakdowns that really got us interested.”
  What porn site statistics can tell us about the worldwide console wars (Ars Technica)

• The New York City Board of Health voted on Wednesday to ease regulations on a controversial circumcision ritual practiced in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. The vote repealed a Bloomberg-era rule requiring parents to sign a consent form before the ritual, which involves a person performing a circumcision, known as a mohel, to use his mouth to suck blood away from the incision on an infant’s penis. The practice has been linked to herpes infections in infants.
  New York City Health Board Repeals Rule on Consent Forms for Circumcision Ritual (NYT)

Much gratitude to our thoughtful sponsor, Nubile Films.

• Myles Jackman is Britain’s leading obscenity lawyer. But he does not merely defend the accused: his life’s great plan and purpose is to rid this country once and for all of its laws criminalising extreme pornography – laws that he regards as morally and socially iniquitous.
  One lawyer’s crusade to defend extreme pornography (Guardian UK)

• False clickbait: Men who pay for sex may be more inclined to sexual violence and have less empathy for women, according a study that made headlines last week. The study’s lead researcher was Melissa Farley, founder and director of Prostitution Research and Education, a nonprofit with the stated goal of abolishing prostitution. Farley told HuffPost that her data supports the view that prostitution is an institution of “sexual abuse” and “sexual aggression.”
  Why You Should Be Skeptical Of Study Saying Men Who Buy Sex Are Prone To Violence (Huffington Post)

• Alabama is one step closer to mandating a 40 percent state excise tax on pornography — even online content. If passed into law, the proposal would effectually place a tariff on the gross receipts from the sale, rental or admission charges of pornographic material disseminated in print, videos and online downloads.
  40% Porn Tax Proposal Moves Forward in Ala. (XBIZ)

• Back when adultery and gay sex were widely criminalized in the United States, when masturbation was thought to make you crazy and fellatio was taboo, the Kinsey Institute famously revealed that Americans were secretly less faithful, more gay, more various in their sexual practices and more perverse than most wanted to think. Sixty years later … three new books try to explain modern mating.
  ‘Date-Onomics,’ ‘The Sex Myth’ and ‘Modern Romance’ (NYT)

Thank you to our sponsor in Holland, Abby Winters.
Above: Timothy Leary x Susan Sarandon (Future Eyes TV/YouTube)

• A new study suggests that ‘gaydar’ — the sixth sense by which many insist they can just tell that someone they meet isn’t heterosexual — is bad in two big ways. For starters, it doesn’t work. But more importantly, the concept of gaydar may be pretty harmful.
  New study finds that your ‘gaydar’ is terrible (Washington Post)

• “Part one of our three-part tour into future sex developments is this speculation on sensory tech: how our seeing—and feeling—will be more than believing. These incredible sensory advances will be introduced to us via three innovative technologies.”
  The Future of Sexual Sensing: Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Neurostimulation (Future of Sex)

Thank you to our sponsor and friends, Pink Label TV.

• In a highly entertaining, much-needed, thorough debunking and utter trouncing, Ms. Naughty takes apart an article on ABC’s The Drum website “So what if your porn is feminist? The collusion of feminism with sexual violence“ by Laura McNally. If ABC contended for legitimacy in balanced reporting, her post would be run in response.
  “So What If Your Porn Is Feminist?” So, This. (Ms. Naughty)

• Homophobic attitudes may say a lot about the person who holds them, new research suggests. A new study of university students in Italy revealed that people who have strongly negative views of gay people also have higher levels of psychoticism and inappropriate coping mechanisms than those who are accepting of homosexuality.
  Homophobic People Often Have Psychological Issues (Live Science)

• Playboy Enterprises International filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the operators of hip-hop gossip site MediaTakeout.com, alleging they violated copyright laws when it leaked nude photos of hip-hop star Azealia Banks.
  Playboy Sues Site for Posting Nude Azealia Banks Pics (XBIZ)

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Above: Space by Bruno M.

• Android app Adult Player appeared to offer porn, but secretly took pictures of users with the phone’s front-facing camera. It then locked the user’s device and displayed a demand for $500 (£330) which was difficult to bypass.
  Porn app took secret photos of users (BBC)

• “What are the ethics of watching porn [and why don’t we talk about it? … In part, that’s because a vocal contingent maintains that the most ethical consumption of porn is the consumption of no porn at all, while others believe it means no consumption of porn that hasn’t loudly been declared to be of the “feminist” variety. ”
  How To Not Watch Porn Like A Dick (Refinery 29)

• “It goes smoothly. The chatter is easy, the spark is there. The plush richness of the pasta provides a kind of comfort. Afterward, I head to his suite and snort a stifled chuckle. A hotel room. The stuff of movie clichés. We fumble through the motions. Foreign body meets foreign body. Mouths here, hands there. … Then he hands me $940.”
  Will Whore For Food (Lucky Peach)

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• The [UK] National Sperm Bank has only signed up nine donors since it opened last year. Those in charge think that men have been put off by the change in law in 2005, which no longer grants donors anonymity. Now the bank is thinking of appealing to British men as “supermen” saviours of national fertility, because a similar approach worked in Denmark.
  Steady on, chaps. We are not all after your sperm (Guardian UK)

• The recent Ashley Madison data dump is seeing some AM users receiving extortion messages demanding Bitcoin, with the threat of sharing the information with their friends, family and employers via Facebook. Security firm Cloudmark did a little sleuthing to see what they could find out about the blackmailer.
  Extorting money from Ashley Madison customers is actually pretty easy (Ars Technica)

• Porn performer Danica Dillon said that Josh Duggar offered her $1,500 to have sex with him at her hotel room in Philadelphia. She allegedly accepted his offer of payment and they went to her hotel room. … Duggar treated her so rough that she said it felt like she was being raped. She said she was “terrified” during the whole ordeal.
  Porn star Danica Dillon gives Anna Duggar advice on marriage with Josh Duggar (Examiner)

Duggar Family attends fiery church sermon on pornography ahead of Amy Duggar's wedding. http://t.co/68q7FbP8Op pic.twitter.com/CwGbqn2aIs

— EntertainmentTonight (@etnow) September 6, 2015

• “Don’t take personal responsibility. Don’t engage in any self-investigation into your patterns, stories, false convictions. Don’t realize some of those things are, if you’re attuned and balanced, quite wonderful, and to be applauded. (…) Just blame addiction.”
  “Sex addiction” does not exist. Sorry, Christian right (SF Gate)

• Pro: Bold new frontier of Yelp reviews. Con: One more group we’re forced to acknowledge as human beings.
  The Pros And Cons Of Legalizing Prostitution (The Onion)

• “The refusal of white porn actresses to participate in scenes with black performers — or charging a premium to do so — is especially jarring given the fact that black actresses are still paid substantially less than white performers for the same work.”
  James Deen Is Pissed Off About Racism in the Porn Industry (Broadly/Vice; See also: Racist Porn and the Recession)

• The dōjin circle Kuramochi Zukan has drawn mecha based on the Tenga line of male sex toys. Tenga Robo first appeared on the group’s Twitter account on Valentine’s Day and White Day (a gender-flipped version of Valentine’s Day on March 14), where it caused a sensation. Kuramochi Zukan followed this up at this season’s Comiket with a full color art book which includes many variations on the Tenga motif, including a robot modeled after the Tenga Egg.
  Dōjin Circle Draws Mecha Modeled After Sex Toy (Anime News Network)

• Recently, ex-Chairperson of the Delhi Commission of Women Barkha Shukla joined the long line of people to criticise Sunny Leone. Indian politician Atul Anjan recently claimed Leone’s condom ad for Manforce promotes rape. They are in a long list of detractors of who include BJP MP Anurag Thakur, SrI Ram Sene Leader Pramod Muthalik and Congress’ Abhishek Manu Singhvi. “She might have done it inadvertently, but Sunny Leone has become a patriarchal society’s worst nightmare and that’s reason enough to celebrate.”
  Why Sunny Leone threatens India’s patriarchal society (DNA India)

• Later this month, a North Carolina high school student will appear in a state court and face five child pornography-related charges for engaging in consensual sexting with his girlfriend. What’s strange is that of the five charges he faces, four of them are for taking and possessing nude photos of himself on his own phone—the final charge is for possessing one nude photo his girlfriend took for him.
  2 North Carolina teens hit with child porn charges after consensual sexting (Ars Technica; See also: Kids Charged for Child Porn)

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• Affective science, the study of emotion elicitation, emotional experience, and the recognition of emotions in others, is on the brink of changing this and it’s got some really sexy potential.
  Affective Computing: How Empathetic Devices Could Change Your Sex Life (Future of Sex)

• French street artist Kashink has created murals with young people, challenging attitudes about the female body to support My Body My Rights. Here she takes Amnesty International back to where her art activism began.
  Street art that defies the status quo on gender and sexuality (Amnesty International)

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• The future of sex toys for men [will] feel like tiny pistons tapping against the frenulum, the fold of skin near the head of the penis. This “guybrator,” as it’s called, won’t stroke. It won’t suck. It oscillates: The wearer will slide it over his penis and a pulsing plate will tap against it, making it hard and ultimately bringing it to orgasm.
  The Sex Toys of the Future Are Here — And They’re for Men (Mic)

• UK campaign groups have called on the government to grant anonymity to revenge porn victims amid concern publicity surrounding convictions only causes more people to search for explicit images. MPs have been urged to close a legal loophole and see revenge porn brought in line with sex offences, which ban victims from being identified.
  Campaigners call for revenge porn victims to be given anonymity (Guardian UK)

• Angie Rowntree, the creator and operator of Sssh.com, was featured in a Cosmopolitan interview last week. The Rowntree piece was part of Cosmo’s “Sex Work,” a weekly series that profiles women who have careers in sex-related industries. Rowntree in the Cosmo article described how she pioneered “porn for women” in the late 1990s after she found a void in the sexually explicit marketplace
  Cosmopolitan Interviews Angie Rowntree About Sssh.com (XBIZ)

• Warning for survivors of sexual assault and trauma: A rapist has been jailed after the kickboxer he tried to assault caught him in a headlock with her legs before raising the alarm. Mark Willis, 40, pounced on the 25-year-old woman, punching her in the face several times during the nighttime assault. She choked him out with her legs, then got the police.
  Jail for sex attacker foiled by woman who turned out to be kickboxer (Guardian UK)

• Warning for survivors of sexual assault and trauma: An Iraqi woman gunned down the ISIS terror chief who forced her into sex slavery, it has been reported. The woman, believed to be be a member of the Yazidi-Kurdish minority, shot dead a senior Islamic State commander known as Abu Anas, according to Iraqi satellite TV network Alsumaria News.
  Iraqi woman guns down ISIS commander as bloody revenge for making her a sex slave (Mirror UK)

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• * Asis A. – Winixia
• * Emily Bloom – Jeneri
• * Mila M. – Bonada

• * Dana DeArmond, Veruca James – Paint
• * Nicole Aston, Georgia Jones – Double penetration with toys (gallery)
• * Kellie, Nina – Strap-on play (gallery)

• * Pandora B. – Macaan
• * Sapphira – Well Done (gallery)
• * Violet G. – More

• * Dakota Skye, Xandra Sixx, Sydney Cole – Girls Loving Girls
• * Odette Delacroix, Charlotte Stokely – Only You
• * Dakota Skye, Kimmy Granger and Xandra Sixx – Naked Twister

• * Heidi – In a pool
• * Denisse Gomez – Perfection
• * Wanessa – Tatoo Girl
• * Lucy, Heidi – You Kiss Like A God

• * Julla – Late Night Play
• * Lexi B. – Oiled Up

• * Aubrey A. – Presenting Aubrey
• * Kika – Achna
• * Yarina A. – Rimane

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Above: “All About The Woman” Agent Provocateur AW15 Lookbook

• “What I have learned from examining the site’s source code is that Ashley Madison’s army of fembots appears to have been a sophisticated, deliberate, and lucrative fraud. … It’s possible, as one person put it to me in email, that Ashley Madison was actually a pretty decent hookup site for gay people—but that was mostly because the system was designed to ignore them.”
  Ashley Madison Code Shows More Women, and More Bots (Gizmodo)

• A rally and demonstration has been slated to take place outside the federal courthouse in downtown Brooklyn in an effort to denounce the prosecution of the CEO and staff of RentBoy.com. Last week, the offices of the longtime online escort advertising directory were raided in New York by the Department of Homeland Security.
  Protest Slated Over RentBoy.com Prosecutions (XBIZ)

• “But let’s not dwell on Super Hornio Bros.: there are an awful lot of other depictions of Mario’s genitalia out there, the vast majority of which are drawings in which Mario acts as a surrogate for the viewer; the real focus of these cartoons is Princess Peach. Some of these drawings are part of grander graphic narratives, male fantasies that repurpose videogame characters from all eras and genres and species into a single “utopian” fuck session.”
  Does Mario have a penis? (Killscreen Daily)

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• The path to market for the first-ever women’s libido drug began in 2010 when Dr. Irwin Goldstein chased a pharmaceutical executive around a Miami medical conference. Goldstein’s profile rose in connection with the 1998 FDA approval of Viagra, Pfizer’s breakthrough erectile dysfunction drug. Goldstein was instrumental in the clinical trials.
  Meet the controversial doctor behind the new “Viagra for women” (Mother Jones)

• Nerve turned 18, and its essay on sex then and now, through its own lens, is limited and depressing.
  Literate Smut (Nerve)

• School is starting again, and with it the nonsensical protests by conservatives of the dirty parts of Ontario’s new health curriculum for elementary schools.
  Sex-education protest organizers are just making things up now (Ottawa Citizen)

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How much has AHF spent on political campaigns & lobbying? Get the facts here: http://t.co/KFcipJXjWa

— Kink.com (@kinkdotcom) September 2, 2015

• The Free Speech Coalition today petitioned California’s attorney general to conduct an audit of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation to determine if the organization’s nonprofit status should be revoked. The FSC said that over the past four years, the controversial Los Angeles-based healthcare organization appears to have willfully and repeatedly violated multiple laws and regulations related to political spending by a nonprofit.
  FSC Calls on Calif. Attorney General to Probe AHF (XBIZ)

• One of the world’s most-viewed pornography Web sites is offering a new $25,000 college scholarship for a student who will be judged partially on a homemade video submission answering a single question: “How do you strive to make others happy?” Pornhub.com, which touts 78.9 billion online video views each year, recently began accepting submissions for the scholarship as part of the site’s expanded philanthropic efforts.
  Porn site offers $25,000 college scholarship, asks students: “How do you strive to make others happy?” (Washington Post)

• “The prefix “pan” originates from Greek, meaning “all” or “every”. Pansexual people are attracted to all kinds of people, regardless of their gender, sex or presentation. There are several genders, and while some trans people do not fit into the traditional gender binary, some do. So for example, while a bisexual cis woman may be attracted to cis men and women, I am attracted to cis people, trans people, demigender people, and genderfluid people, to name a few.”
  I’m pansexual – here are the five biggest misconceptions about my sexuality (Independent UK)

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• A woman who posted sexually explicit images of her girlfriend to hurt and humiliate her after an argument has been given a suspended sentence. Paige Mitchell, 24, admitted uploading four intimate photos of the victim to her Facebook page. She is the first woman to be sentenced for an offence under revenge porn laws introduced in England and Wales in April.
  Woman pleads guilty to posting revenge porn photos of girlfriend (Guardian UK)

• Genderqueerness refers to an identification with neither, both or a combination of male and female genders across a spectrum. Genderfluid, androgynous, non-binary and other terms are also used by those who fit this description in some way.
  9 Things To Never Say To Someone Who Is Genderqueer (SheWired)

• This week, the debate about decriminalizing sex work continues on Shortwave, with Maxine Doogan, President of the Erotic Service Providers Network in San Francisco, and Taini Bien Aime, Executive Director of The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women.
  Should sex work be legal? (PBS NewsHour)

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• A large Kaiser Permanente study in San Francisco among people at high risk for HIV found none of them contracted it while using preexposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, a two-drug combination designed to prevent the disease’s spread.
  Study finds pill prevents HIV infection in high risk population (UPI)

• Second Puberty: A Humorous, Informative Guide To HRT will be a sex-ed short about HRT in the form of one of those videos about puberty we all had to watch in school, only with jokes.
  Kickstart this: new sex-ed video about ‘Second Puberty’ for trans people starting HRT (Unicorn Booty)

• Adult entertainment conglomerate MindGeek reacted today to MetArt’s copyright and trademark infringement suit waged last week, denying its allegations and calling it “frivolous.” “MindGeek is astonished that MetArt has chosen MindGeek, its long-time content partner, as the next target of its newly adopted business model of filing baseless claims,” MindGeek said in a statement today.
  MindGeek Calls MetArt’s Suit ‘Frivolous,’ Warns of Counterclaims (XBIZ)

• Non-consensual behavior is a problem at kinky & BDSM events. Last year professional pervert and sexual health educator Maxine Holloway worked with the BDSM & kink, and sex worker community to initiate the ASK FIRST Campaign. “Let’s take the ASK FIRST Campaign to the NEXT LEVEL.”
  Ask First: Support consent at this year’s Folsom Street Fair! (Indiegogo)

• LA Weekly says that if someone wants an adult performer in their Hollywood production, they should call this gatekeeper, but I’m not sure why. They write, “Howard Levine, 60, has become one of the go-to people to whom L.A.- and New York-based mainstream productions turn when they need to source male and female porn stars for racy roles and cameo appearances.”
  Need a porn star for your TV show? Call Howard Levine (LA Weekly)

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Erotic photographer and filmmaker Dave Naz has been doing some really compelling work around gender, sexuality and identity over the past few years. It’s also really important work, because there’s nothing like it. Naz’s examinations not only focus on gender, identity and areas of sexual spectrum that are consistently overlooked, sidelined and ignored by most. His films create a space in which the conversations about these things are in the words of the people we’re observing — and this is so very important. I’m a fan, and I want as many people to see this work as possible.

I previously wrote The fourth installment of Trans by Dave Naz and Triptych: The three installments of Trans: A Photo and Video Project by Dave Naz if you want more background. You can also read about Dave’s Trans project here, and his book Genderqueer here.

Naz’s new documentary Identity: In & Beyond the Binary is posted in full on YouTube and embedded above. It’s a 1-hour documentary interviewing trans, genderqueer, butch and queer people on their varied experiences with gender identity. The interviews address topics from hormones to employment to growing up.

The doc features: Buck Angel, Michelle Austin, Birdmountain, Matty Boi, Jonelle Brooks, Eva Cassini, Colten, James Darling, Afro Disiac, Jade Downing, Evie Eliot, Jenny Elizabeth, Michelle Firestone, Foxxy, Jamie French, Khloe Hart, Mis Isabella, Tara Jolie, Tasha Jones, Riley Kilo, Kristel, Jiz Lee, Eva Lin, Kelli Lox, Venus Lux, Mandy Mitchell, Chelsea Poe, Andre Shakti, Shawn, Kendra Sinclair, Stefani Special, Tiffany Starr, Wendy Summers, Tristan Taormino, Courtney Trouble, and Wolfe Moon.

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• * Kleio Valentien, Derrick Pierce – Ronda Arouse Me (gallery)
• * Sydnee Vicious, Joanna Angel, Seth Gamble, Bill Bailey – Sydnee’s First Time (gallery)
• * Nikki Hearts, Jon Jon – All About That Bass (gallery)

• * Arian, Kristof Cale – Late Night Romance
• * Aidra Fox, Kimmy Granger, – Roommate Seduction
• * Lady D., Figo – Sneak Peek
• * Lexi, Jason – Pleased Bunny (gallery)

• * Connor Maguire, Aubrey Kate – TS Beauties (gallery)
• * Nick Capra, Jessy Dubai – TS Superstar (gallery)

• * Chastity Lynn, Ryan Driller – Paint
• * Lea Lexis, Leilani Leeane, Alec Knight – Paint

• * Renee Roulette – Petite Dream
• * Adelle, Chriss Tom – Workout Partner

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• The Hitachi Magic Wand Throughout Art History pays homage to the great works of Western art and the great sex toy by inserting the latter into the former, with hilarious results. Unicorn Booty interviewed the artist.
  The Man Who Is Photoshopping Vibrators Into Famous Works Of Art (Unicorn Booty)

• Basically, all the female profiles on Ashley Madison were fake. “Out of 5.5 million female accounts, roughly zero percent had ever shown any kind of activity at all, after the day they were created.”
  Almost None of the Women in the Ashley Madison Database Ever Used the Site (Gizmodo)

• You only have until July 1, 2016 to watch pay-per-view porn in a Hilton Hotel; after that, it will disappear from the worldwide chain’s television screens, a decision that’s being hailed as a major victory by conservative group National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE). You may remember them as [Morality in Media], the same group that recently launched a successful campaign to get Cosmopolitan magazine covered up in stores like Rite Aid because it, too, was tagged with the dreaded “porn” title by the group.
  No more porn in Hilton hotels: The conservative sex-shaming lobby claims a major victory (Salon)

• Despite the Australia’s rabid porn censorship and eagerness to censor the internet, it’s a world leader in sex-positive, feminist porn. “As a porn ‘industry’ we’re even smaller, thanks to many a Draconian law and the fact you must shoot in the ACT to avoid most illegalities. But here’s the thing: in recent years several of our filmmakers have won coveted awards at porn and erotica festivals the world over.”
  Aussie Porn Invasion (Simply Sxy)

• Federal agents raided the Manhattan headquarters of Rentboy.com as part of a money laundering and state prostitution investigation Tuesday, authorities said. Seven people, including CEO Jeffrey Hurant, were arrested as part of the raid at the Rentboy.com offices on 14th Street and Fifth Avenue. Department of Homeland Security agents and members of the NYPD, which assisted in the raid, were seen removing boxes from the offices Tuesday.
  Feds Raid ‘World’s Largest Male Escort Site’ in Manhattan (NBC New York)

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The Department of Homeland Security, keeping America safe, one anus at a time. #rentboy http://t.co/MZ4dXeBEad pic.twitter.com/D7XTlu5ISI

— Christopher Moraff (@cmoraff) August 27, 2015

• On the afternoon of August 25, the feds stormed RentBoy.com’s Union Square offices, shut down the site and arrested its executives. RentBoy is a New York-based global escort enterprise with over 10,500 workers, reportedly receiving 500,000 visitors per day around the world. The site has operated within public view for many years. This is not a secretive, dark web enterprise hidden from the public eye. It’s a popular online destination that allows escorts to set their own rules and rates.
  The Feds’ RentBoy Raid Is an Attack on LGBTs and Sex Workers (Huffington Post)

• Leaked files from last week’s Ashley Madison dump reveal plans by Avid Life Media (ALM), the site’s parent company, to launch an app that allows men to rate each other’s wives, the Daily Dot has discovered. The app, which was going to be called “What’s Your Wife Worth,” also appears to attach a dollar amount to the women based on a their rating.
  Ashley Madison was working on an app called What’s Your Wife Worth (Daily Dot)

• Even as asexuals are increasingly coming out and expanding the definition of the term, too often, in mainstream culture, asexuality is dismissed or problematized, or treated simply as less worthy than being sexual, as Dr. Ruth Westheimer did this week.
  Dr. Ruth is wrong about asexuals: It’s a legitimate sexual orientation, not a problem to be solved (Salon)

• This is so cool! Future of Sex spoke to robotics expert David Levy about his views on Roxxxy (the sex bot), and what the future holds for the sex robot industry.
  Roxxxy and Beyond: A Look at the Present and Future of Sex Robots (Future of Sex)

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I can't believe you wipe arses for a living. I would NEVER want to be a care home worker. It should be criminalised. #jobstreatedlikesexwork

— Pandora Blake (@pandorablake) August 25, 2015

• Treasure Island Media announced this week that their six-year investigation by Cal/OSHA over the use of condoms had concluded with a mere $685 fine for the company. This is great news, because the AIDS Healthcare Foundation has been lobbying against and harassing the porn industry, and had hoped that Cal/OSHA would consider the lack of condoms on an adult set to be a serious fine, and had pushed for fines in the tens of thousands of dollars. Instead, Cal/OSHA rebuked them.
  The Landmark Cal/OSHA Ruling on Condoms + Treasure Island’s Cal/OSHA Violations ‘Not Shown to Be Serious’ (Free Speech Coalition, XBIZ)

• The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) caused a panic in the adult entertainment community by issuing subpoenas for porn performer health records dating back to 2007 from several testing and health care facilities, including Cutting Edge Testing, Talent Testing Service, and a clinic that provides health care to performers in the industry.
  AIDS Panic Over Subpoenas in Porn World (Daily Beast)

• Meika Hollender has already co-authored a book on non-toxic cleaning, picked up an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business, and, with the help of her dad, launched her own sustainable brand of sexual health products for women called Sustain. The brand started with condoms in 2013, but has recently expanded to lubricant, and is launching “post-play” wipes in September.
  Meet the Girl Who’s Changing the Condom Industry (Teen Vogue)

• The University of London team has spent more than three years crafting a new, 8-inch ‘bionic’ penis out of skin grafts culled from Abad’s forearm and becomes erect by mechanically pumping fluid into it. This pump is activated by a button located near his remaining testicle. This marks the first time that such a device has been successfully implanted.
  Pioneering surgery gives man world’s first ‘bionic’ penis (Engadget)

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• “Over a few glasses of wine, Mom told me about all the sound effects she’d worked out to make the whole thing more realistic for her callers. Silly putty is good for general squelching, and wet flannels dropped into the toilet apparently sound exactly like massive shits. You can blow a raspberry at guys who are big into farting, but you have to be careful not to laugh.”
  When Your Mom Works a Phone Sex Chat Line (Broadly/Vice)

• Byron Myers, a crust punk welder living in Philadelphia, decided with his friends that it would be fun to make a sexy calendar devoted to the same thing, and to raise money to start an independent porn website featuring porn they’d want to watch. They enlisted the help of an old New York punk named Slug (who famously gave G.G. Allin his last dose of heroin before he died).
  Crust Punk Porn Is as Grimy as You Think It Is (Vice)

• Joanna Angel believes she has robust security on her website, but worries it may not be enough to ward off ever-more sophisticated hackers. She hired outside experts to run her online security after hackers shut her site down for five days, costing her money and, temporarily, customers. Angel said the Ashley Madison affair and release of people’s names might curb customers’ willingness to disclose personal information, although she had not seen any evidence of this.
  Ashley Madison hack sends shivers through hook-up, porn sites (Reuters)

• Looking into the history of “adultery” laws, it’s clear that they were not just used to punish married adults for sleeping together. Instead, they were used to enforce more specific social norms around sex and, sometimes, race—how much sex society could tolerate at different points in American history and who, exactly, was allowed to sleep with whom.
  The Racist, Slut-Shaming History of Adultery Laws (Atlas Obscura)

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My newest book Wetware: Cyberpunk Erotica is a labor of love — from myself, and all the authors I worked with to create the collection. To share with you what’s in it, I’ve included the introduction in its entirety — a full free chapter — in this post, below. I hope you like it.

Wetware was was meant to be more than an erotica collection, but also a commentary on the state of cyberpunk culture today. And according to the reviews, the book is more successful in this goal. In fact, the reviews are blowing my mind, so I have to share a few choice snippets with you before you dig in.

Best erotica collection of 2015: Simply put, Blue’s collection is one of the best erotica anthologies I’ve had the pleasure of reading. Gorgeous prose, from Blue’s intro on cyberpunk lit to each erotic story. These stories blur the lines of gender, of sexuality, and of what it means to be human. –Rebecca

Over too soon: Everything was hot, the plots underneath them all varied more than I’d imagined, and the small bits of cyberpunk culture recommendations in between worked wonderfully as transitions. This is the level of substance I want to read in more erotica collections. The lack of any stories that made me cringe or skim through only adds to it. The one time I thought a story would be gross is the time my expectations got tossed on their head. Wetware is simply fantastic. –Ken F

The Future Cannot Come Soon Enough: Each story presents a different version of the future; universes where technology and discovery are seamlessly coupled (pun intended) with unabashed sexuality. The sex is raw, often rough; the characters are needy, hungry, vibrant…real. The collection offers variety in voices, settings, and couplings, all the while maintaining the uniform sterling quality of writing.
I would have a hard time picking a favourite story: I enjoyed the flawless integration of the world building in Sixty Five Night, the twist in Never Say No, and the insight of Synthetic Skin. The prologue, an essay on cyberpunk and sexuality by Violet Blue herself, is not to be missed. –TheJulia

And with that, here’s the first chapter of Wetware:

INTRODUCTION: CODED IN SPIRALS AND PHEROMONES
BY VIOLET BLUE

Cyberpunk sexuality is revolutionary. It always has been, and always will be — this is one of its most threatening, exciting, and arousing aspects. And yet, cyberpunk is so very different than it was a decade ago.

“High tech, low life” is cyberpunk’s front-facing motto. It used to suggest an underclass — in station, gender, sexuality, skin color, ability, or circumstance — a snapshot of the possibility of hacked tech (or biotech) facilitating change, vis a vis the protagonist hacker’s complicated gifts. Contemporarily, the slogan conjures visions of rich corporate tech assholes slumming it in Bay Area dive bars, wearing hoodies that read “hacker” — while there’s not an ounce of punk in them, and their distinct interest is in preserving the financial and moral status quo.

As you’ll see in this collection of erotic short fiction, cyberpunk has changed, and its dystopia has assimilated the hypocrites, the privileged and the assholes. Tech didn’t empower us to even the stakes, it just gave us a window with which to watch Neuromancer, Blade Runner, and The Matrix come true. And new cyberpunk erotica embraces our recalibrated urge to smash the state. Or as Thomas S. Roche puts it in Bishop to King’s Pawn, Two: “The war machine is a fog machine, it always had been.”

A story, interestingly, where love is a side effect of stolen weaponized biotech:

Behind Winged Victory, he was chatting with either Arkady Bougarin or Jovan Stijovic. The latter’s company, SerbArms, manufactured the new Celikkrik, or “Steel Scream.” Did that handshake mean a shipment of ultrasound cannons would be loaded onto an Antonov bound for Athens first thing in the morning?

Bishop put her eyes on him with such intensity that he couldn’t help but notice. That was one of the things these ex-spooks brought with them into their tenure in the shadow government: Peripheral vision that preceded on intuition. Bishop had it in spades, too, though she’d gained it in different environs.

Bishop gave him a subtle smirk, her eyes emitting a knowing glow. Jesus, she loved him. She loved him so much she could feel it like a volt from her brain stem to her stomach, which flipped with the realization, and sent the current to her pussy, which warmed and juiced simultaneously. This was definitely something fucking new for Bishop. She wanted to fuck him right now, with everyone watching.

She practically did. He saw her. She eyefucked him. He eyefucked back. Fuck, fuck, fuck, she was so in love with this fucker that it hurt to look at him.

—Thomas S. Roche, “Bishop to King’s Pawn, Two”

Like more than a few people, cyberpunk fiction was where I finally reconciled with feeling like an outsider in my own body. Beyond its pivotal fantasies of transhumanism, cyberpunk’s sexuality embraced the gender spectrum in a way that actually felt like it could make sense: Individuated.

By the time Snow Crash came out, we were all beyond buying what we were told was “right” and “wrong” about sex, and love, and gender. We knew it was a trick to maintain gender roles and economics, a means of control that would soon cease to make sense. Cyberpunk, when at its best, embraced this. Here, binary belongs to code, not gender, and while it’s arousing to watch Trinity and Neo fuck, it’s great cyberpunk because it’s describing something hot — not prescribing gender, desire or behavior.

Neve sighed.

“I’m afraid I can’t do that, Dave.”

She smiled at the joke, but it made me cold inside. Not just because of the obvious cultural echo, but because Neve has never been allowed to call me by name. Even when Olivia and I had first purchased her, I was always “Master.” It took on a new and deviant meaning once I had started to play with her privately, when Olivia wasn’t around. But when Olivia left, that’s when I’d truly become Neve’s Master.

My eyes bugged out.

“What did you say?” I asked.

“I said I’m sorry, Dave, I can’t let you out of the apartment. Not until after I’ve taught you a lesson or two.”

–Devyn X. Sands, “Never Say No”

This isn’t a typical erotica collection, nor is it a typical fiction anthology. It can’t be. Cyberpunk must remain true to itself, for that is its ethos and heart, and so it must also be about culture as much as techno-wank. This book has hot sex in it, yes. It’s cyberpunk genre fiction, yes; it relies on technology or biotechnology to tell its edgy stories.

But each story is bookended with an interstitial that brings you back to cyberpunk culture, and the things that make those of us who grew up there who we are today, in a wholly celebratory way: little cheers for our cultures and our sexualities, for they are most certainly and wonderfully entwined.

The systems still suck, and our complicated gifts don’t make anything easy, but we deserve pleasure where we can find it.

Casey made his way past a table of Annex guys. There was Jack Newton. His face was pink with a half-dozen drinks or more. He checked Casey out with blatantly non-professional interest.

Casey had not expected anyone to recognize the suit; if they had, then it wouldn’t be much of a damned exfil suit, would it? But everything had been tense as hell at the Annex since those Code Safety activists attempted a backdoor into the Hardware Dev Team’s system a few weeks ago.

Ironically enough, it was Casey’s clean-up of the incursion path that got him the opportunity to falsify the sign-out log and get the Mark V out of the equipment locker. He had the Code Safety crew to thank for his walking into the Smith & Jones bar and seeing Jack Newton and Mike Stanley both damn near pop boners when they caught sight of him.

Casey breathed easier. Newton and Stanley led the Annex’s FBI counter-terrorism liaison team, on TDY from the J. Edgar Hoover building in downtown DC. Sitting with them were Andy Korowski and Mark Blunt, two on-site Annex security contractors. It was Andy who always gave Casey shit when he wanted to prop open the door to third-floor south so Casey didn’t have to ring Andy’s cell for an “exfil” when he was done taking a shit. Andy didn’t spot the suit, either. Ironic, wasn’t it?

Andy and Mark checked him out, too. Those weren’t the looks of Q-Clearance guys spotting their tech on the run; those were guys lusting after a hot blonde piece of ass twenty years their junior.

Casey felt a warm glow. His tension lightened. He rabbited for the back room, trying to look like he wasn’t rabbiting.

—Kendra Jarry, “Synthetic Skin”

This book’s stories reflect the current places that sex and cyberpunk have found themselves in, and that, to me as an editor, was a really interesting thing to discover. Like many who felt that cyberpunk fiction and films spoke directly to their experience, the old-school brand of hard, noir, transgressive, anti-hero fiction was a thing that made sense to me. I grew up in San Francisco; my biological mother was the only blood relation I knew for any length of time, and she was a Stanford engineering grad who was supervising military contract work in Silicon Valley by the time I was nine.

She was a single mom, and also a drug addict whose life spiraled out of control, partying with game designers and hackers (who must be in coder retirement homes by now). I wasn’t allowed friends my own age, so spent my time with her friends and boyfriends, whose computers, magazines and book collections gave me escape into green DOS screens, games and sci-fi.

Things got really bad, and I ran away at 14 to live on the streets with gutter punks my age, whose home lives made mine look like a cakewalk. There, sexuality was fluid and respect was earned. I emerged having replaced my only family member with punk street values—to then find a natural fit with the freaks, phreaks, hackers, career criminals, and evil geniuses at Survival Research Laboratories, my home for over a decade.

It was developing tech, of course. Nate emphasized that there was no quality control.

Protective measures, Nate had cautioned her, must be taken. Don’t give your connectome-reconstruct Marcus control over anything dangerous. Precautions, precautions, precautions.

Amira took none.

A week after she first booted her new Marcus, she visited the Elective suite on Twenty-Two Medical. She went for the whole suite of Skinteractives. Nipples, clit, labia, butt-cheeks, butthole, face, mouth, fingers, earlobes, toes… trachea, even. Everywhere they’d install them.

–Stephen Stavros, “Sixty-Five Night”

I saw many flavors of cyberpunk life as part of SRL, working almost daily at our San Francisco machine shop, and internationally, with the earned title of machine operator at our industrial machine art shows that were performed worldwide.

Many names familiar to cyberpunk (and punk) culture spent time with us. William S. Burroughs had a birthday party at our shop. Hunter S. Thompson slept on the couch (and had to have a flame thrower taken away from him on one occasion). Bruce Sterling fled during production of one of our shows, in what we all joked was abject terror from the loud, drunken butch-dyke lesbian sex that happened on the cot next to him late one night in an abandoned Phoenix warehouse (which we’d commandeered to sleep in). 2600 and Rotten crews (among many others) brought us “presents.” There are so many more stories like these, but you get the idea.

Some of them log out and run at this point. Not many, to be fair.

“Okay,” he says, his voice betraying strain. “This is a dream, right?” He’s tall, in the flesh, with nut-colored hair that sticks out at the front and a square face just starting to soften about the chin. He’s wearing a Heavy Metal T-shirt, but it’s nice and new and clean. No over-muscled warrior then, but attractive enough.

“Of course it is,” I answer soothingly, stroking his ballsack and feeling it tighten in my hand. I can see a room full of files and books and DVDs behind him. It looks like a domestic scriptorium. A study — yes, that’s the word. “Do you like it?” I ask.

“Uh. Yes.”

“Are you alone?”

“Yes. My … everyone’s gone to bed.”

“What’s your real name, Curelion the Hallowed?”

“Joe,” he whispers. His eyes look glazed. I can see him groping at his crotch, but he can’t intercept my hands. He can only feel the effect they’re having, and it’s making him buck and bite his lip.

“Would you like to fuck me, Joe?”

—Janine Ashbless, “Grinding”

Cyberpunk is different now. It was already sophisticated both technologically and socially beyond what society could handle—and it reflected a real, living, breathing culture.

But it has lived to see itself become attainable and popularized, and this changes the whole conversation. All the things that cyberpunk hated are now more part of its worlds than ever. Things have become amazing, and tools of oppression (like gender and sexuality) are being upended — while at the same time something has gone terribly wrong with the way technology was supposed to empower us.

There, in the pale light, I saw her skin begin to blossom, on that single spot at the edge of her right buttock. To my sinking dismay, a drop of blood had appeared.

She sighed, moaned softly. I thought for a second she was going to laugh, but she didn’t.

Something was wrong.

I touched my fingertips to the place on her ass, lifted my hand and inspected the drop of her blood.

It was the wrong color, not quite red enough, too thin. I licked my finger and my mood darkened. I threw the whip down.

Grabbing her hair, then, pushing her head forward. I felt for the lump, knowing it was there. It only took me a minute to find it.

Madeline had engineered this. But why? I worked back the thin plastic covering buried in Coreen’s hair. She grew silent.

“Playing against the rules?” I asked as I exposed the tiny jack, and chuckled.

Coreen remained silent, then let out a faint spray of laughter. Her naked body shook with it.

I left her for a moment and returned with the necessary equipment.

—N.T. Morley, “Dangerous Circuitry”

It is our growing sense of things gone terribly wrong that gives the stories here their power, anchored in one of cyberpunk’s most defiant agents of change: the human sexual connection (even in this book, where the sex isn’t always with humans).

The title of this anthology, Wetware, was considered with express acknowledgement and cyber-nod to Rudy Rucker’s 1988 biopunk sci-fi novel of the same name, itself the middle of the Ware trilogy. Wetware as a genre in hacking indicated biological hacking, of which there is plenty of in the stories here.

The authors whose stories were selected for this collection have all been very patient with me, and deserve a special thank you for putting up with every maniacal edit I requested. I put myself in your seat, dear reader, and us pervy technoweenies are a demanding bunch. I hope you enjoy the selections here as much as I do.

Violet Blue
San Francisco

Find Wetware on Amazon, or buy it direct as a .pdf on Digita Publications.

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• Unlike the watch itself, the “Apple Watch” sex toy is designed for women. Sex toy manufacturer Lovense has a new remote control vibrator called Blush, which connects to your phone and your partner’s phone to create some high-tech sexual experiences. Blush launched an Indiegogo campaign this week to raise $10,000 for its phone and Apple Watch-connected vibrator.
  Here’s The First Apple Watch Sex Toy (Huffington Post)

• In light of the Ashley Madison mess, Rachel Kramer Bussel’s timing is excellent: She wanted to find out what makes open marriages work, “especially since we live in a society that is highly skeptical of the prospect.”
  Can an Open Marriage Be a Good Marriage? (DAME Magazine)

• Speaking of the Ashley Madison mess, did you know that the dump is packed with false accounts (at least 12 Barack Obama accounts are on Ashley Madison), and that gay men who used the site for discreet hookups are at risk from the exposure? My sex-positive, snarky, and privacy-focused response is up.
  Ashley Madison: A honeypot for people who had something to hide (ZDNet)

• A former employee of the U.S. Embassy in London has been charged with using stolen passwords to acquire sexually explicit photographs of women in order to blackmail them. Michael Ford, 36, was charged with nine counts of cyber stalking, seven counts of computer hacking to extort, and one count of wire fraud, the Department of Justice said Wednesday. He was arrested while visiting family in Georgia in May. Ford allegedly “tormented women across the country,” U.S. Attorney John Horn said. “This sadistic conduct is all the more disturbing as Ford is alleged to have used the U.S. Embassy in London as a base for his cyberstalking campaign.”
  Ex-US Embassy employee charged with ‘sextortion’ (The Hill)

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AHF/Weinstein has subpoenaed porn performers' medical information?! What a bully. @TalentTesting @cuttingedgetest please protect our info!

— Jiz Lee (@jizlee) August 21, 2015

• Someone please stop the AHF. The Free Speech Coalition said that the AIDS Healthcare Foundation has issued subpoenas to talent testing facilities to obtain porn performers’ private medical information. “This is of grave concern for us as we always hold performer privacy as an important right and protection,” the FSC said in a release. “It is critical that you let the testing facilities know that you do not want your medical information given over to AHF.
  AHF Has Subpoenaed Performer Medical Data, FSC Says (XBIZ)

• “In an article in Marie Claire, Anne Hathaway recalled footage of a police raid on a brothel employing Asian women filmed by a camera crew, saying she “saw things that are unimaginable. They were all so tiny and scrunched up there together, but when they came out they weren’t shocked that there was a camera. They weren’t worried about getting arrested. They were gone. They were numb. They were unrecognizable as human beings.” I’ll just say that in the real-life exchanges I’ve had with Asian sex workers, very little bugs them more than teary-eyed white girls describing them as tiny and helpless and inhuman.”
  What’s Lena Dunham got against sex work? (Now Toronto)

• Jared Fogle, who for years served as the spokesman for the sandwich chain Subway, is facing federal charges that he repeatedly paid to engage in sexually explicit acts with children and that he received and distributed child pornography, according to court documents.
  Jared Fogle charged with paying for sex with minors, possessing child porn (Washington Post)

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Madame Tussaud's in Las Vegas puts out long statement after a Savage turns up on Nicki Minaj wax figure …. pic.twitter.com/64KkcuwfB1

— DJ Akademiks (@IamAkademiks) August 19, 2015

• Madame Tussauds has said it is redesigning its Nicki Minaj display after images of visitors taking provocative photos with the waxwork appeared online. The figure, which was unveiled earlier this month in Las Vegas, features the chart-topping rap artist with her hands and knees on the ground and her butt in the air – an homage to the music video for her track Anaconda.
  Madame Tussauds rethinks Nicki Minaj waxwork display over saucy fan photos (Guardian UK)

• Not helping negative stereotypes about porn performers at all, Woodrocket.com has a new video featuring popular pornstars discussing their grossest moments on set. It’s not for the faint of heart. To hear the pornstars tell it, it seems like you can’t shoot an anal scene without pausing to clean up a poop incident.
  Watching Porn Stars Talk About Their Grossest Scenes Is Not For The Faint Of Heart (AskMen)

• Eighty-eight percent of all copyright-trolling cases in the U.S. in 2014 involved an adult entertainment film, according to a new study on intellectual property litigation. The study, titled “Intellectual Property in U.S. District Courts: 1994-2014″ and authored by Matthew Sag, a professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, also noted that one porn company — Malibu Media, aka X-art.com — accounted for 80 percent of all John Doe suits in 2014.
  88% of All U.S. Copyright Trolling Cases Involve Porn, Study Says (XBIZ)

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Images released for new Warwick Rowers naked calendar. http://t.co/bxTyijdccC pic.twitter.com/bac4W6LSAu

— Gay Times Magazine (@GayTimesMag) August 20, 2015

• The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday approved the first prescription drug designed to boost sexual desire in women, though in an exhibition of dated perceptions about women and sex, it will be prescribed for “emotional distress.” Under a plan imposed by the FDA, doctors will only be able to prescribe Addyi after completing an online certification test demonstrating that they understand its side effects. Pharmacies will also have to be certified.
  FDA approves female sex pill, but with safety restrictions (Inquirer)

• Yep, they’re still around: Suicide Girls got a profile in Racked. It’s a website, a label, a community, and an aesthetic borne out of the altporn moment of the early aughts. Even though that moment has passed, Racked tells us that “the Suicide Girls movement has never been stronger.”
  Going Pink: The Suicide Girls Story (Racked)

• A new essay and paper by Ira Ellman, a law professor at Arizona State University, suggests that the Supreme Court’s decisions were occasionally based on a totally made-up statistic happened not once, but twice, in two major decisions regarding sex offenders — McKune v. Lile and Smith v. Doe.
  How the Supreme Court used a made-up statistic to expand sex offender registries (Vox)

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• The days of topless painted ladies hitting up tourists in Times Square appear to be numbered. Mayor de Blasio on Wednesday convened a special task force charged with finding a legal way of evicting the jiggly panhandlers. The increased scrutiny was evident Wednesday evening when one of the men overseeing the women was arrested.
  NYC searches for ways to ban Times Square topless ladies (NY Daily News)

• “I’m endorsing Hillary Clinton,” Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt told TheWrap during an interview. “If she wins, she’ll be able to appoint two or three judges to the Supreme Court, which could shift the balance.” But even though Flynt and Hirsch, as well as other wealthy pornographers, are willing to donate large sums of money to candidates, most presidential hopefuls are too skittish to accept them.
  Porn & Politics: Adult Film Industry Moguls Get Into Bed With 2016 Presidential Candidates (TheWrap)

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Okay, no one was as great as Bob Fosse. But the new trailer video for San Francisco’s Folsom Street Fair makes me so proud of my hometown right now! FOLSOM STREET was directed and produced by Aron Kantor, choreographed by Danny Dolan, and features Broadway performer Colin Cunliffe, nightlife promoter Mario Diaz, gender-queer drag queen Grace Towers, local treasure Fauxnique, and a variety of San Francisco dancers and performers. The short film’s creators explain,

San Francisco has long pushed culture boundaries, radical self-expression and sexual freedom. Today awash in stories of the changing face of the city and its quickly eroding creative communities, “Folsom Street” joyously celebrates the rich history of diversity that pushes the limits of raw sexuality that make this city the exciting cultural haven that it has always been.

… The film serves as both a metaphor for the Folsom Street Fair and an example of the possibilities of queer community effort and activism.

Folsom Street Fair 2015 is Sunday, September 27, 11am – 6pm on Folsom Street between 8th and 13th streets in San Francisco, CA.

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• * Andre Shakti, Sailor – CrashPad #200 (hooray for #200 and 10 years of Crash Pad!)
• * Nenetl Avril and Verta – CrashPad #199

• * Emily Bloom – Ortali (cute bra!)
• * Lenore – Bitare

• * Leda – Anieci
• * Dita V. – Hierba

• * Mia Malkova, Jillian Janson, Johnny Castle – Swingers
• * Ariana Marie, Bambino – Thick And Creamy

• * Brianna Rose, Xander Corvus – BDSM (photos)
• * Vera Drake, Bill Bailey – Uber Mistake (gallery)
• * Joanna Angel, Jessica Creepshow, Seth Gamble – Jessica’s First Time (gallery)

• * Dillion Harper, Xander Corvus – Oil Me Up
• * Cassidy Klein, Logan Pierce – Show It Off

• * Carolina, Kristof – Liaison
• * Lutro, Amarna – Spanish Flavor

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• “To prepare for the role in Burning Angel’s upcoming Ronda Rousey porn parody, Valentien was treated to a brief MMA lesson by her on-screen partner, adult performer Derrick Pierce. “When Joanna and I were talking, it was like, ‘What would Ronda do?’” says Pierce. “We had to do some armbars because that’s Ronda Rousey’s signature move.”
  Inside the Ronda Rousey Porn Parody (Daily Beast)

• Out of more than 6,050 cases filed since January 2009, adult movie company turned copyright troll Malibu Media — that’s X-Art to porn fans — leads the way with a staggering 4,332. That total not only makes the company the most litigious in the file-sharing space, but also the most litigious copyright plaintiff in the United States, period.
  Adult Movie Outfit is Most Litigious Copyright Plaintiff in US (Torrent Freak)

@violetblue FWIW Chester was the 1st UK city to claim it was porn free https://t.co/wxzORXapbx easily bypassed with https://t.co/hCCU1tgykf

— Gareth Llewellyn (@NetworkString) August 17, 2015

• Adopting a government-backed mandate, the U.K. city of York is claiming to be the first in the world to block porn from public Wi-Fi. (See embedded tweet update, above.) Baroness Joanna Shields, the government’s new Minister for Internet Safety and Security told The Mirror, “children are protected from harmful content” in cities and businesses that display the “friendly wi-fi” logo. Retailers Tesco, Starbucks and Samsung display the sign in their stores.
  U.K. City 1st to Block Wi-Fi Porn (XBIZ)

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• Because it’s apparently 2004 all over again, TechCrunch reports, “Teledildonics and VR are the new sex-tech frontiers.”
  Bluetooth Suppositories And Other Teledildonics You Didn’t Know You Needed (TechCrunch)

• The Trans Adult Industry Foundation, Inc. (TAIF), a Los Angeles based non-profit organization has launched. The organization’s The Board of Directors includes advocate and educator Buck Angel, Grooby owner Steven Grooby, and Grooby marketing director Kristel Penn.
  Trans Adult Industry Foundation (TAIF) Created (XBIZ)

• Just as “Obvious Child” was an important representation on film of a woman having an abortion and not having it ruin her life, we need similar stories in our fiction and nonfiction, and we are starting to get them. So where can readers turn for protagonists who face unintended pregnancies, have abortions, and go on to live productive, happy, healthy lives?
  3 surprisingly sane books on abortion: When absolutely no women’s lives are ruined by one procedure (Salon)

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• Another infringement suit has been waged by the MetArt Network against a well-known online adult brand. This time around the target is adult tube site XVideos.com and two related web properties, XVideosDaily.com and XVideosToday.net, along with defendant owners Stephane and Malorie Pacaud of France and a number of John Does. The studio’s suit also said that XVideos’ operators index the poached MetArt films, and that consumers end up sharing the films on social media sites, making it impossible to know how many times and where an unlicensed copyrighted video gets streamed.
  MetArt Sues XVideos for Infringement (XBIZ)

• A small town Indiana mayor was recently arrested for paying another man for sex while the alleged sex worker was charged with intimidation, prostitution, and “failure to disclose dangerous communicable disease status” — despite the latter man’s protestations that the sex was coerced, not consensual.
  Indiana Mayor Gay Sex Scandal: Assault, Bribery, HIV, and Felony Charges (HIV+ Mag)

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If a boy ever tells you he's too big for a condom, please send him this pic.twitter.com/SBEjF0p7lW

— Punk Princess (@DramaticEmily) July 13, 2015

• When a teenage girl shoved her forearm into a condom, took a photo and told women on Twitter not to believe men who say they are “too big” to use protection, her post was retweeted over 25,000 times.
  Condoms are getting bigger…and smaller – and it’s causing a lot of problems (Independent UK)

• In 2014, Thailand’s Apple Model Management became the first agency to represent trans models in addition to cisgender models. News has come out that Apple is opening a new agency in Los Angeles — Apple Model Management L.A. — which will represent trans models exclusively. While trans-exclusive agencies are rare, there is one other: Transcendence Icon, which opened earlier this year.
  PHOTOS: A Look At Los Angeles’ New All-Trans Modeling Agency (Unicorn Booty)

• A man has been charged with stalking and harassing an FBI agent who had investigated him by posting a fake Craigslist sex ad that included the agent’s phone number and address.
  Feds: Man Retaliated Against FBI Agent Via Craigslist Sex Ad (ABC News)

• TinyNibbles favorite Samantha Bentley was recently interviewed by Esquire about coming out as a porn star, her first on-camer sex scenes, and her multiple appearances on Game of Thrones, where she got to shoot a scene “with Tyrion”.
  I Told Myself I’d Stop Doing Porn by the Time I Turn 30 (Esquire)

• YouTubers like GentleWhispering identify with a feeling called ASMR, or autonomous sensory meridian response. Described by those in the business as “tingles”, this pleasant, cloudy feeling occurs towards the back of your skull and is reported to be an involuntary reaction to soothing sounds such as light tapping, crinkling, and whispering.
  Inside the Sensual World of ASMRotica (Broadly/Vice) See also, previously: The voice of erotic ASMR wants to give porn some love (Daily Dot)

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• Multiple award winning pornographer Erika Lust’s company, Lust Productions, pulls in around $1m a month from website subscriptions with a customer base that is 40% female. “Women didn’t like the pornography they saw in the past,” she says. “That doesn’t mean we don’t like any images at all.”
  What a girl wants:
  The rise of porn for women (Telegraph)

• Despite the public perception that all sex offenders are recidivists — a belief that drove these laws in the first place — sexual re-offense rates are in fact lower than those for other crimes (though an unknown number of sex crimes go unreported).
  Sex Offenders Locked Up on a Hunch (NYT)

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I’m not familiar with the work of performance artist Cacia Zoo, but this video makes me a cheering, smiling, ecstatic fan. In it, Cacia Zoo does a glorious rendition of Maya Angelou’s Phenomenal Woman (a shortened version), in lingerie by babylikestopony and NOE garment. The video was shot by Akaness Shark.

Found at: Sex in Art

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This seems like a good gallery to share with you on such a hot day. Here in SF it’s an unusual 85 degrees, and in addition we had a wind shift this morning that pulled in a blanket of smoke over the city from the lingering Northern California wildfires. It’s hazy and sticky-icky out. So this set, where photographer Danny Lane (also here) shoots model Melissa (also here) as she cools off shooting her own self-portraits feels like a nice fit.

Find the entire set here exclusively on Sticks and Stones Agency, with bonus links to more of Lane’s beautiful work.

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• A historic vote by delegates of Amnesty International at the Dublin International Council Meeting calls for decriminalizing consensual sex work and protecting the rights of sex workers globally. Amnesty and global sex worker organizations have been at loggerheads with Hollywood stars such as Kate Winslet, Lena Dunham and Meryl Streep who appear to conflate sex work with sexual slavery and child sexual trafficking.
  Sex work decriminalized in historic Amnesty International vote + Q&A on the Policy to Protect Human Rights of Sex Workers + Global Movement Votes to Adopt Policy to Protect Human Rights of Sex Workers (The Week, Amnesty International; image above: Maxine Holloway)

• Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey will be transformed into “Ronda ArouseMe.” The “Rowdy” Olympian wasn’t all that upset over the news, and hopes Kleio Valentien — who plays the title character — can make good use of the money.
  Ronda Rousey reacts to UFC porn parody ‘Ronda ArouseMe’ (MMA Mania)

• “Man, now I gotta defend my orgasm to a bunch of strange dudes. Wait, no I don’t.” A curious Reddit user monitored her heart rate using a Fitbit while she had sex and posted the results online. Naturally, the Reddit trolls rolled in soon after…
  Woman Wore A Fitbit During Sex, Got Mansplained By Trolls (HuffPo)

• Queercon started as an LGBT meet-up group at the DEF CON hacker conference more than a decade ago. But the San Francisco-based nonprofit, which finished its 12th year with Defcon at Bally’s Hotel and Casino on Sunday, is becoming something else: The men who lead the group have made it their mission to increase LGBT visibility. And it seems to be catching on.
  Let’s hack Grindr! Queercon helps diversify tech field (Washington Blade)

• In a new review of the scientific literature on asexuality, published in the Journal of Sex Research, Anthony F. Bogaert argues that more sex researchers should start paying closer attention to asexuality, because you can’t attempt to understand the broad spectrum of human sexual desire unless you also understand those who never experience it.
  5 Ways to Better Understand Asexuality (New York Magazine)

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• A very impressive trailer has arrived online for upcoming Thai erotic horror Hood. The titular hood in this case is a reference to the spread neck of a cobra poised to strike, the story revolving around a love story between a man and woman who proves to be some sort of shape shifting snake spirit.
  Snakes, Blood And Sex In Thai Erotic Horror HOOD (TwitchFilm)

• A recent study published in the journal Appetite has found that women with full stomachs are more likely to respond to romantically arousing images than women with empty stomachs.
  Everything You Know About Eating a Burrito Before Sex Is Totally Wrong (Mic)

• Pennsylvania’s attorney general said Wednesday that criminal charges threatening to end her career were filed as part of an effort by state prosecutors and judges to conceal pornographic and racially insensitive emails they circulated with one another.
  Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane: Charges tied to porn emails (CBS News)

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'Porn' and 'prostitution' join 'rape' and 'ritual abuse' on @ucsantabarbara's Types of Sexual Assault list. http://t.co/4QHmzw4WKN

— Mike Stabile (@mikestabile) August 13, 2015

• Recently a US Army reservist was arrested for sharing child pornography. Here’s what makes his story different from dozens of others: He’d been turned in by Dropbox.
  Dropbox Refuses to Explain Its Mysterious Child Porn Detection Software (Gizmodo)

• Former Prenda Law Attorney Paul Duffy, 55, died Monday from heart and alcohol-related conditions. He was a partner in the now-dissolved Prenda Law, which was notorious for exacting shakedown payments from porn piracy defendants through court-approved subpoenas; I wrote about them targeting hackers here. The firm which closed shop in 2013 after U.S. District Judge Otis Wright in Los Angeles sanctioned the three for deceiving the court in a copyright infringement case.
  Former Prenda Law Attorney Paul Duffy Dies (XBIZ)

• Rachel Kramer Bussel wanted “to find out the appeal of taking and sharing dick pics, so I asked anonymous 34-year-old male sex blogger [NSFW] Exhibit A, who’s posted his share of them at exhibitunadorned.com, how he got started.”
  Why do men take dick pics? (CityPaper)

• Full of energy, Lenny Kravitz jumped up and down with his guitar strapped across his body when he performed in Sweden this week — when his pants let rip to reveal he was going commando and wearing a cockring. The music icon, a consummate professional and a hell of a performer, didn’t seem all that bothered.
  Lenny Kravitz suffers VERY revealing wardrobe malfunction as trousers split (Mirror UK)

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• Above: Sex education on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, featuring Jonathan Banks, Laverne Cox, Jack McBrayer, Megan Mullay, Kumail Nanjiani, Nick Offerman, Kristen Schall and Aisha Tyler.
  Sex Education (HBO) – Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (YouTube)

• Like every startup ever, it’s like Uber for condoms and it is going to change the world by saving “those women” in Africa. “L. Condoms is a startup in the current batch of Y Combinator that promises delivery of comfortable, paraben and glycerin-free prophylactics straight to your door in under an hour.”
  Y Combinator’s L. Condoms Provides Safe Sex, On-Demand (TechCrunch)

• “Because certain generations of men are coming to the end of their lives now, we tend to find [porn] magazines from the 1970s and 1980s, normal top shelf magazines — Playboys, Penthouses,” Webuyanyporn told AFP. They either shred the material or sells it at Ram Books, at their shop in Islington, north London, which bills itself as being “for the collector of bizarre and erotic mags”.
  Porn again: disposing of UK’s dirty magazines with discretion (Business Insider)

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• If you do happen to behold two characters mysteriously undressed and engaged in a lengthy private conversation, it’s likely that you’re witnessing an instance of erotic roleplay, commonly referred to as ERP in World of Warcraft’s Pornshire. ERP is not unique to WoW; it also occurs in other MMORPGs like Guild Wars 2, Starwars: The Old Republic, and Wildstar.
  Elves, Anal, and Breeding Fetishes: Inside World of Warcraft’s Thriving Sex Club (Broadly/Vice)

• Extreme warning for survivors of sexual assault, abuse, and trauma, and human beings everywhere. What is described in this New York Times article is a crime against humanity, and it must be stopped.
  ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape (New York Times)

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This isn’t a sex related post, so feel free to skip this one and rest happy knowing we’ll be back to our irregularly scheduled sex culture fascinations after this post. (You can always enjoy my new cyberpunk erotica collection in the interim.)

While covering two information security conferences for work in Las Vegas last weekend, I stayed at Bally’s Hotel and Casino, which was the location of the second conference (DEF CON 23). I’m a massive horror film fan, and occasional film reviewer for various media outlets, so I know a lot of odd details about choices directors have made when making certain films. The Shining is one of my favorites, and I’ve studied it extensively. With that in mind, Bally’s, formerly the MGM Grand, is by far one of the creepiest hotels I’ve ever stayed in.

It’s important to note that everything in this post related to films is entirely coincidental.

On the second day of my stay, a fire alarm went off sometime before I awoke in the morning, it seemed to be outside and continued for over an hour until I left my room to get in a cab and go to work at Mandalay Bay, location of the Black Hat conference. I mentioned the alarm to the cab driver, and he remarked at what a traumatic noise that must have been for people at Bally’s. When I asked why, he told me about the 1980 fire in the casino, which spread to the hotel, killing 85 people and injuring over 700. You can read the fire investigation report here.

Most of the deaths, I discovered, occurred in the North — now Indigo — tower rooms, hallways, stairwells, floor lobbies, and elevators. I noticed that the Wikipedia article seems to deliberately skirt this fact. Only a few deaths occurred in the casino, and a few others died from jumping or falling. The fire started from faulty wiring in a kitchen socket, and estimates by the Clark County Fire Department clocked the speed of the fire’s spread through the casino at 15 to 19 feet per second. Because the fire started at around 7:00 am, most guests were in their rooms (the hotel was at 99% capacity). It was a tragedy that changed regulations around fire alarms and fire sprinklers.

I was already uncomfortable about the hotel, due to a nightmare about people — or rather, human mannequins in breathing masks — watching me from a square cut in the ceiling over my bed. But that cab ride was when I realized just how much the hotel reminded me of Stanley Kubrick’s film, The Shining. Please note that there’s no way the two could possibly be related; The Shining came out in May 1980, while the MGM’s (Bally’s) fire happened in November 1980.

The MGM Grand had originally opened on the Bally’s site in 1973, and for its 7-year run, was *the* place for Hollywood stars to stay, play (lotsa Rat Pack activity), perform, and film celebrity TV shows.

Interestingly, in The Shining as Mr. Ullman tours Jack and Wendy through the Overlook, he says,

Ullman: “This place has had an illustrious past. In it’s heyday it was one of the stopping places for the jet sets … even before anyone knew what a jet set was. We had four presidents who stayed here. Lotsa movie stars.”

Wendy: “Royalty?”

Ullman: “All the best people.”

1. South Tower (Jubilee Tower) hallway color palette

The South tower was under construction when the North’s tragedy occurred. Stepping out of my South Tower (Jubilee) room and looking down the hall was when I first remembered the color palette of The Shining. Not many people realize this, but there are two separate color themes in The Shining — and they’re both inside the hotel. The color theme we remember the most is in the parts of the hotel that are occupied by hotel guests who are still alive — namely, where Danny rides his bike.

The hallway outside my room in the South Tower:

An example of The Shining:

2. The elevator doors

This color match stood out after I noticed the parity in the hallway’s coffee brown, red, and orange palette. The elevator doors in the South Tower:

The elevator doors in The Shining:

3. They both have a Gold Room

The Gold Room is the Overlook hotel’s ballroom, appearing in the film a few times in different eras. Famously, it’s where Jack — after passing a hallway lined with four huge mirrors, each of which reflects Jack’s inner psychosis seen in his facial expressions — visits with ghost bartender Lloyd and Jack “falls off the wagon.” Jack sits at the bar facing yet another mirror, covers his eyes, Lloyd appears, and Jack has a drink. After his sip, Lloyd steps aside and Jack can no longer be seen in the mirror.

The hotel was full of DEF CON attendees so I only got this shot to show Bally’s Gold Room:

The Shining Gold Room:

4. North Tower (Indigo Tower) hallway color palette

At this point, I was wondering about the colors in the North Tower, and realized that it was the “Indigo” tower — so there was a good chance it would be in blue ranges. Which bugged me, because I knew that in The Shining, the color palette for areas in the hotel where people are murdered — the realm of the dead — was in blue and mustard yellow. While the Art Deco bathtub scene, the famous “Room 237″ scene, is in greens, the rest of the murder scenes are in mustard/blue parts of the hotel. The hallway with the twins is mustard yellow with blue; the outside of the notorious “Here’s Johnny!” scene is mustard with blue (and so on).

The Twins:

North Tower color scheme, entrance to 20th floor lobby:

5. Use of mirrors and disorientation

I mentioned the mirrors in The Shining’s scene of Jack and the Gold Room. Stanley Kubrick’s use of mirrors in The Shining are widely written about, because they’re prevalent and symbolic throughout the film. The mirrors mostly reflect doors, and show characters when they’re struggling between, or succumbing to, the barriers between the living and the dead. Danny meets his “redrum” friend in a mirror; Jack’s demons reveal themselves in numerous mirrors throughout the film; we see “REDRUM” on a door in the mirror.

There’s much more with mirrors in the film, but you get the idea. Kubrick meant The Overlook to be spatially disorienting, and even physically impossible (an outside window in an inner office; stairs to nowhere, etc.), and the film’s mirrors are part of Kubrick’s intentional disorientation of the viewer.

Which is why, when out of curiosity I visited the North Tower and picked the 20th floor at random, I was a little freaked out to discover not only the color scheme, but that its guest room hallways are practically lined with mirrors (unlike any of the South Tower floors). Here, giant mirrors cover the walls, primarily reflecting doors.

But in many cases, they’re only reflecting each other — so walking down the halls, looking to left or right shows an infinity stretching and warping into a curved blackness you can’t see the end of.

Above: The round mirror is actually reflecting a full-wall mirror across from it, so the door you see on the left is actually also the door on the right.

Below: In some places, I stood in the reflection of three mirrors, and could not be seen. You can see the mirrors in front of me are reflecting the mirror behind me — but not me.

On the 20th floor, I also noticed that there appear to be room numbers missing.

I’m glad to have discovered later — and not when I was there — how many people died in the 20th floor hallways, several 20th floor rooms, its stairwell, and the 20th floor lobby. There’s a list (incomplete) of deaths and hotel areas here.

I uploaded all the full-size images from my 20th floor trip here if you want to see more photos and look closer.

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• On Thursday Death and Taxes reported the open letter that artist Molly Crabapple wrote to Lena Dunham about why she won’t work with her as long as she’s got her name on a letter to Amnesty International urging it to reverse its stance on sex work. (To wit: Dunham supports the continued criminalization of sex work despite numerous studies showing how harmful these policies are to sex workers.) Now Dunham has responded to her critics by doubling down on her well-intentioned but misinformed stance.
  Lena Dunham doubles down on her dangerous opinions about sex work + Hollywood Actresses Oppose Amnesty International Sex Worker Vote; Sex Workers and Their Supporters Tell Them Kindly to STFU (Death and Taxes + The Mary Sue)

• Bowing to a public outcry, the Indian government said it would lift a days-old ban on hundreds of porn sites after critics accused the government of encroaching on personal freedoms. However, few are reporting that access to the blacklisted sites was not actually restored by the telcos. India had issued an order to ban 857 websites, strangely most of which are MILF porn sites, well-known tube sites and other very random porn URLs. India’s porn block also targeted torrent sites, CollegeHumor and 9Gag, and other non-porn choices like Barstool Sports, PopURLs and YouRather. The full list was posted online by the Centre for Internet & Society.
  India rescinds ban on Internet porn after public outrage, ridicule + Porn in India is actually still banned (Los Angeles Times, Independent UK)

• Verizon, one of the largest communication technology companies in the world, has filed the first cybersquatting claim for a .porn domain name. Adam Rothman of Roslyn, N.Y., registered Verizon.porn on June 4; however the site hasn’t been exploited and remains parked. Stephen Winyard, director and vice president of ICM Registry, which offers .xxx, .porn, and .adult, as well as the upcoming .sex, domains, told XBIZ that “brands can choose prevention or cure.”
  Telecom Fights to Scoop Up Verizon.porn Domain (XBIZ)

• A Netflix for porn? That sounds irresistible — especially for online media trying to keep up their page-view counts late in the summer, when nothing is happening at all. That’s why dozens of outlets were eager to take the bait when Pornhub, a site known for hosting thousands of free porn clips, pitched them the Netflix-for-porn idea. There’s only one problem: It’s a bogus story.
  No, Pornhub Did Not Just Launch the Netflix of Porn (Variety)

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• In 200 Years of Sex British health website DrEd.com dove into the entire corpus of dirty words in literature, both fiction and nonfiction, to explore the way certain words having to do with “venereal” matters have appeared, faded, or been associated with new companion words over the last two centuries.
  How Sex Talk in Literature Has Changed Over 200 Years (NAME)

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• We’ve told you before about Malibu Media, the porn company that has filed more than 3,500 lawsuits against alleged illegal online sharers of its adult content, thus earning its “copyright troll” badge with ease. Malubu is also known as X-Art, a company I refuse to do business with. But the company doesn’t want that term being used against it in court. In a case that’s been going on for three years, Malibu recently filed a motion [PDF] asking a federal court to block the defendant from using terms that it believes “would be unfairly prejudicial.”
  Noted Porn Copyright Troll Asks Court To Block Use Of Terms Like “Porn” & “Copyright Troll” (Consumerist)

• Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows 10 gave one user an unwanted porny surprise after installing the new software – the update automatically made his porn image collections into a slideshow and used it as a screensaver — then discovered by his wife, who apparently wasn’t okay with it. The OS auto-pulls screensaver slideshow images from the ‘My Pictures’ folder, evidently without warning.
  Wife sees husband’s hardcore porn slideshow thanks to Windows 10 upgrade (Geek.com)

• Great headline, epic stock art, and an actually interesting article: “What is a Good Looking Penis?” That was the title of a recent scientific study. No, seriously – researchers investigated what women look for in a penis, and there seems to be a lot more to it than just size and girth.
  Scientists Reveal What The Perfect Penis Looks Like (IFL Science)

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Learn all about writing and selling erotica from a seasoned pro, Rachel Kramer Bussel: https://t.co/nr76piJROG @raquelita

— LitReactor.com (@LitReactor) August 6, 2015

• HBO has ordered a pilot about the early porn biz called “The Deuce,” which now has James Franco attached as the star.
  James Franco Attached to HBO Pilot on Early Porn Biz (XBIZ)

• Kennston Productions is striving to change how consumers see trans men content. With their launch of FTM.porn they are giving consumers the opportunity to find any kind of FTM porn they want — gay, straight, queer or solo FTM porn. This blog-based site updates every few days with a new set from one of Kennston’s sites or other FTM sites.
  Kennston Productions Launches FTM.porn (XBIZ)

• Britain’s independent police watchdog agency said on Monday that it would investigate an allegation that the police in Wiltshire had dropped a criminal investigation in the 1990s when the subject threatened to go public with accusations that the former Conservative prime minister Edward Heath had sexually abused children.
  British Police to Review Sex Abuse Claims Against Ex-Premier Edward Heath (NYT)

• Ex Machina, written and directed by Alex Garland, is a hard sci-fi flick addresses big ideas while remaining a rather intimate film. It is also an intense psychosexual thriller with a classic mad scientist element. Link warning for spoilers.
  Exclusive: Alex Garland on the ending of Ex Machina (Blastr)

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China Now Clamping Down on Amateur Porn http://t.co/6Xo9be4cVn pic.twitter.com/KBZ6B7FVHf

— XBIZ (@XBIZ) August 6, 2015

• Ela Darling is the creative director, star, and co-owner of VRtube, a burgeoning VR porn company and lab for development in the emerging tech space of virtual reality. The company started with VR porn, expanded into the market with the first-ever real-time VR porn video game, and this week launched an interactive VR camera, the launch of which marked the first ever Oculus Rift-enabled 3D virtual reality live cam offering.
  What It’s Like to Be the First VR Cam Girl (Vice)

• Among the NFL documents unsealed by a federal judge in the Tom Brady “Deflategate” appeal is a fact sheet on HIV and AIDS given to all players. And the document acknowledges that some of its players may have sex with men.
  NFL includes sex between men as part of AIDS awareness (Outsports)

• Warning for sexual trauma survivors: Despite Bill Cosby’s best legal efforts to fight it, a Los Angeles judge has ordered comedian Bill Cosby to give a deposition in a lawsuit by a woman who says she was molested as a 15-year-old at the Playboy Mansion in the 1970s. L.A. County Superior Court Judge Craig D. Karlan ruled that Cosby, 77, must be interviewed under oath Oct. 9 as part of a civil suit filed by Judy Huth. In the latest Bill Cosby revelation, he admitted to having seven prescriptions for Quaaludes in order to use them for sexual encounters with women.
  Bill Cosby ordered to give deposition in Los Angeles sex abuse lawsuit (LA Times)

• Warning for sexual trauma survivors: When Carter Reynolds (who commands an army of 4.3 million fans on the short-form video platform Vine) showed up at Vidcon last week the conference hotel received so many death threats that Reynolds was promptly and unceremoniously banned. “I’m NOT a rapist,” he tweeted to his 2.4 million followers. “Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet.”
  Inside the underage sex scandal that’s tearing Vine apart (Washington Post)

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The Diaries Project is a gorgeous, sexy Tumblr belonging to photographer João Guedes, who is based in Vancouver and São Paulo. He’s also on Behance.

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Photographer Scott Worldwide posts few details about themself, but the photos they post of beautiful femmes in all sizes and styles tell us enough to know that we’re okay with that as long as the hotness keeps coming. You can also follow Scott Worldwide’s work on Twitter and on Deviant Art.

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Cyberpunk anti-heroes face global conspiracies, misused government R&D, thugs, drugs, true love, artificial intelligence, and vengeful sexbots in my newest collection, Wetware: Cyberpunk Erotica.

Wetware is the cyberpunk erotic anthology I’ve been working on — and it’s done! — and you can now pre-order it on Amazon for Kindle ($3.89)! It’s out on Thursday, August 6, and if you want to wait and get it from me direct, check DigitaPub.com on the same day for a .pdf at $3.49. I’m so excited! I’m extremely proud of this book.

Wetware shows how hot “high tech low life” can get when it’s spiked with all the glittering and frightening possibilities of cyberpunk. Seven unpredictable stories depict hackers, transhumans, androids, pop stars, armed revolutionaries, government contractors and more who discover that sex is hotter with hacked, stolen and renegade tech — especially when it’s a high-risk proposition.

Some erotica writers have ideas, others have visions. Love is a side-effect of stolen, weaponized biotech in “Bishop to King’s Pawn, Two” by Thomas S. Roche. In “Synthetic Skin” by Kendra Jarry, a government contractor steals secret field hardware for the sole purpose of seduction. A brainwave hacker’s conquest in a club bathroom stall takes a turn in Cecilia Tan’s “Rough, Trade.”

Lines are crossed and re-crossed when the household helper bot in Devyn X. Sands’ “Never Say No” has had enough of her owner’s perversions. “Sixty-Five Night” by Stephen Stavros charts a dangerous AI experiment that pushes one woman into a seedy neon ghetto for a public transhuman sexual encounter — under the shadow of a murder conspiracy.

Cyberpunk’s sexuality has always been transgressive and prescient; this collection brings the genre’s tradition into the current state of cyberpunk affairs. Wetware isn’t a typical erotica collection, nor is it a typical sci-fi anthology. It’s also a rich celebration of hacker and cyberpunk culture, within the hallmarks of this culture’s rich and diverse sexualities and genders. It’s a tech-savvy, philosophically-rich, erotic anthology artfully spiked with cyberpunk-themed cocktail recipes and recommendations for sexy cyberpunk films, books, and anime.

My introduction “Coded in Spirals and Pheromones” features story excerpts in an essay examining cyberpunk sexuality, and how our fantasies of a gilded cyberpunk future have arrived — while at the same time, something has gone horribly wrong with the way technology was supposed to empower us. Blue explains exactly why “it is our growing sense of things gone terribly wrong that gives the stories here their power, anchored in one of cyberpunk’s most defiant agents of change: Sex.”

Table of Contents

• * Introduction: Coded in Spirals and Pheromones by Violet Blue
• * Bishop to King’s Pawn, Two by Thomas S. Roche
• * Liquid Exploits: The Gibson Engine
• * Rough, Trade by Cecilia Tan
• * Say Cyber One More Time: Sexy Cyberpunk Films
• * Dangerous Circuitry by N.T. Morley
• * Liquid Exploits: Tschunk!
• * Grinding by Janine Ashbless
• * Say Cyber One More Time: Adult Cyberpunk Books
• * Never Say No by Devyn X. Sands
• * Liquid Exploits: Zero Couth
• * Sixty-Five Night by Stephen Stavros
• * Say Cyber One More Time: (Sexier) Cyberpunk Anime
• * Synthetic Skin by Kendra Jarry

This book contains adult situations, including BDSM, domestic discipline, gender fluidity in sexual situations, backdoor and oral play, power exchange, role-play, spanking, bisexual men, and explicit scenes. The book also depicts non-monogamous relationships and sexual activity (and penetration) involving more than two individuals.

Pre-order Wetware: Cyberpunk Erotica. on Amazon for Kindle ($3.89)

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Meet indie erotica’s perfect couple: Filthy Housewives and Bisexual Husbands.

• Everyone remembers “I Try,” Macy Gray‘s 1999 valentine to difficult love. With her crackling delivery, Auto-Tune-free vulnerability, and yearbook-ready soundbites —”My world crumbles when you are not here” had a place of prominence on our own senior pages—the song scratched at the sutures on all of our lovestruck hearts. Her latest single “B.O.B,” is about another, less complicated kind of love: the one a woman has for her Battery Operated Boyfriend.
  Macy Gray Wrote a Love Song to Her Vibrator (ELLE)

• When WhoPutThatThere decided to become a moderator of r/DirtySnapchat, the 22-year-old didn’t use the subreddit herself. Already a mod on r/Snapchat, she was just looking to make friends. Now she, along with nine other male moderators, are in charge of running and managing the two-year-old forum that’s grown to over 25,000 subscribers, all redditors who want to find age-appropriate partners to sext with on Snapchat.
  What it’s like to run an anonymous Snapchat sexting ring (Daily Dot)

• A notorious San Francisco gay porn studio is set to release a gangbang porn flick with a woman and a trans woman in starring roles, but the gang’s not all on board. Treasure Island Media, a studio so raunchy they’ve been banned from the Folsom Street Fair, crosses the gay porn gender taboo in their upcoming release Fuck Holes 3, which comes out August 5th. Depending on who you ask, this is either a breakthrough for a silent, underrepresented porn-consuming demographic or a slap in the face to everyone who’s marched since Stonewall.
  Gay Porn Studio Adds Trans And Bio-Female Porn Stars, Controversy Erupts (SFist)

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The "Stop Procrastinating" app is just a porn addiction front. Bad science, tons of shaming. http://t.co/dqrb0hwUkQ

— Mike Stabile (@mikestabile) July 28, 2015

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• Celebrities like Lena Dunham, Kate Winslet, Meryl Streep, and Anne Hathway have protested Amnesty International’s proposal to decriminalize prostitution. Sex workers (as well as academics, social workers, and human-rights organizations) back Amnesty’s proposal, and want the celebs to stop speaking for them — and to stay out of it.
  Sex Workers From Around the World Tell Hollywood to Mind Its Own Business (Reason)

• This article is so important. “There are plenty of paradoxes inherent in activism vis-à-vis prostitution — how to protect someone in a vulnerable occupational situation while not appearing to endorse that occupation? … The problem arises when the proposed answers have more to do with the askers’ distaste for prostitution than with research-supported solutions to help sex workers. It becomes more about the morality and feelings of the savior than those being saved.”
  What’s the Right Way to Protect Sex Workers? (NY Mag/The Cut)

• “Jay Sin’s TS Playground #20″ is the No. 1 selling porn title on GameLink’s site this week, No. 12 is “TS Beauties” and six other transgender porn titles are scattered throughout the top 100 list. But how does this affect the lives of trans people? Is trans porn merely the sexual fetishization and objectification of trans bodies, or has trans porn helped to drive the social acceptance of transgender people?
  Transgender Porn Is A Best-Seller, But Is It Good For Trans People? (IB Times)

• Twenty-three-year-old Marta recently decided to enter the porn industry in Barcelona. Marta, who prefers not to publish her full name, asserts she has never seen porn as taboo; she merely saw a good career opportunity.
  Marta Wasn’t Desperate for Money. She Just Knew Porn Was the Life She Wanted. (Narratively)

• Bloxers boxer shorts are sewn with a special interior panel that deflects “the dreaded public boner” down and to the side, thus hiding it from view. The folks behind Bloxers call this panel the “Deflector Shield,” and buyers can pick a model with the shield positioned on the left or the right, depending on to which side the gentleman dresses. The shorts are cotton, and the shield is a nylon/elastane mix.
  Attention Teenage Boys: Bloxers Boxers Hide Embarrassing Erections (FastCoExist)

• After being served for patent infringement on July 20, open-source sex tech company Comingle is turning to the public for help building its defense case. California-based company TZU Technologies is suing six sex tech companies for willful infringement of its patent that controls the remote sex market. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has weighed in on the patent infringement suit against six haptic toy makers, and they’ve surmised that the patent holder’s suit is “ridiculously broad.”
  Hackable Dildo Company Seeks Prior Art and Funds for Cybersex Patent Defense Case + The 6 Sex Tech Companies Facing Lawsuits for Patent Infringement + EFF Calls Haptic Toy Patent ‘Ridiculously Broad’ (Future of Sex, XBIZ)

• “I think most people in our age bracket probably see it in pornography before we have any idea what is what, and porn makes seem kind of easy, because it always goes well. So you’re just like, Yeah, it’ll be fine! … I remember being really excited about it, then being like, Oh my god, I have no idea what’s going on here, and she doesn’t seem impressed.”
  Five Men Talk About Going Down On Girls (The Hairpin)

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— CoCo Brown (@ItsCoCoBrown) April 11, 2015

• CoCo Brown is about to make history as the first former adult actress to leave earth on a suborbital flight to space. In preparation for her 2016 flight, CoCo is undergoing grueling training as part of an elite group—one of the first 100 people to earn astronaut wings through XCOR.
  Exclusive: Meet the World’s First Porn Star Turned Astronaut (Daily Beast)

• Jessica Drake talked to Stylecaster about her views on the differences between the sex in adult films and the sex had at home, how she feels technology has changed the porn industry, the craziest thing a male fan’s ever done, and (lots) more.
  The Difference Between Porn Sex and Your Sex, According to Adult Star Jessica Drake (Stylecaster)

• If you thought you’d turn to Medium as a means to shame or harass others, think again. The site has changed its rules, and now prohibits acts of public shaming, revenge porn, and posting private information on others (doxxing).
  Medium takes a stance against revenge porn and doxxing users (The Next Web)

• But in 1970, as the sexual revolution challenged traditional perspectives on love and sex, the industry was stuck between increasing demand and growing concerns over morality. The “torrent of sexuality,” as LIFE called it, was a subject of debate from the Capitol Building to small-town living rooms, as elected officials and private citizens debated not only what to do about porn, but also how to define it in the first place.
  A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Porn Industry in 1970 (TIME)

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I signed up to take the #USTransSurvey because http://t.co/Wpnfv1y3o0 specifically mentions GQ & non-binary folk as included!

— Kit Stubbs, Ph.D. (@vortacist) July 28, 2015

• After accepting a plea deal that could put her in prison for up to seven years, more details of upstate prison worker Joyce Mitchell’s statements to authorities were released. In May, she said, Matt asked her to perform oral sex and she did, out of fear, she said. On other occasions, Matt would come to her desk wearing a big coat in which he had cut a hole so that Mitchell could touch his genitals. She also said, “I did take some naked photos of my breasts and vagina and gave them to Inmate Matt to give to Inmate Sweat.”
  Prison Worker Helped Inmates Escape Because Of The Fantasy And The Sex (Gothamist)

• A golf course is a site of competition, friendship, tradition and memories. For some, though, it’s more than that. They look at a golf course–usually in the wee hours, framed by moonlight, perhaps–and think, You know what? That would be a great place to have sex.
  Happy Ending: Hooking Up (Golf Digest, thanks D!)

• “I want to see age restrictions put into place or these [porn] websites will face being shut down,” David Cameron said in a statement this week. Legislation could be introduced that will make it “an offence in the UK to publish pornography online without age verification controls, possibly with a regulator to oversee and enforce controls”, according to a UK Government statement.
  Free porn websites could be shut down within months, says David Cameron (Independent UK)

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