• The Batman v Superman XXX: An Axel Braun [Porn] Parody is now available if you just can’t wait for the real thing. This is not the porn parody you need, but it’s probably the one you deserve. (Explicit trailer here.)
  The Batman v Superman Porn Parody Trailer Is Here, And Kind Of Good (Cinemablend)

• Google is announcing a change in its policy to fight “revenge porn.” Soon, it will accept requests from people to remove nude or sexually explicit images of themselves shared without their consent from its search results. According to the blog post, Google already accepts requests to remove info like bank account numbers and signatures, and calls this an extension of that “narrow and limited” policy.
  Google will pull ‘revenge porn’ out of its search results (Engadget)

• Hell, a darkweb forum, is “a community where criminals can share, learn and make money.” It became better known when the Adult Friend Finder files were dumped there, and has since grown.
  Welcome to ‘Hell,’ the Hacking Site Where Millions of Sexual Secrets Got Exposed (Vice/Motherboard)

• Annalee Newitz writes, “Two very different approaches to the hackable vibrator are sitting on my workbench/dining room table right now. One, the Master Beta Kit, is a gold bullet vibe attached to an Arduino circuit board, which is in turn attached to my laptop. The other, the Crave Flex, is a sleekly-designed vibrator in matte blue, awaiting my commands as I download a small file to its memory using a web interface.”
  Your Sex Life Is an Engineering Project (Gizmodo)

• For me, this is important news. Promoting his role in blockbuster “Jurassic World,” Chris Pratt has spoken out regarding the issue of “men’s objectification.” He is decidedly not team Jon Snow on the issue.
  Chris Pratt Is A-Okay That His Body Is ‘Totally Objectified’ By You (Towleroad)

• Former porn star Bree Olson wrote an open letter to young women about why they should stay away from the porn industry. Instead of lamenting the stereotypical assumption that female porn stars are sluts, Olson had a very different reason why young women should choose another career path. Olson doesn’t just highlight the issues a woman might face within the porn industry, but the discrimination she’ll most likely experience when she tries to leave it.
  Former Porn Star Nails The Bullsh*t Way We View Female Sexuality (Huffington Post)

• In February 2015, Autostraddle launched The Ultimate Lesbian Sex Survey, open to all “lady-types who sleep with lady-types.” It garnered over 8,566 complete responses (89% of which were from people between the ages of 18 and 36) and now they’re sharing the results.
  87% Of Queer Women Are Into Porn or Erotica, But Not All Of It Is Lesbionic (Autostraddle)

• Rolling Stone was on hand to size up the competition and capture the outrageous, electrifying proceedings: Now in its third year, the Smallest Penis in Brooklyn Pageant was founded by Aimee Arciuolo, manager of Brooklyn’s Kings County Bar where the competition occurred.
  Size Doesn’t Matter: Inside Brooklyn’s Smallest Penis Pageant (Rolling Stone)

• “We need a Caucasian guy aged 25 – 50 who is prepared to flash his genitalia and shout ‘I’m a Lannister! Suck me off!'”
  Read The Casting Call For A ‘Game Of Thrones’ Penis Flasher (Uproxx)

• The mastermind behind HBO’s The Wire and Treme, along with his frequent collaborator George Pelecanos, is developing a potential series about the porn industry for the premium network. Assuming HBO opts to move forward with the entry, titled The Deuce, it will chronicle the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry in New York’s Times Square from the early 1970s through the mid-1980s.
  David Simon Reveals Plans for 1970s Times Square Porn Project at HBO (The Hollywood Reporter)

• The company behind the Autoblow, Very Intelligent Ecommerce Inc. (VIECI), this past Monday opened its “Vaginal Beauty Pageant” website for photo submissions and voting. Women may submit photos of their vaginas to the contest website and the public will vote on the vaginas they consider to be the most attractive.
  Autoblow Launches Crowdsourced ‘Vaginal Beauty Pageant’ (XBIZ)

• What if Harry Potter’s Hogwarts only had students 18 and over? And there was a lot more sex? Then you might get something like Magic University, the series written by erotic SF mastermind Cecilia Tan. And now, a new anthology of short fiction provides the perfect way to discover this world for yourself.
  The Perfect Jumping-On Point For Cecilia Tan’s Sexy Magic University! (io9)

• In the blizzard of Reddit’s fetish vendors, Angie’s just one snowflake. No matter the item — locks of hair, period-stained clothes — there are copycat sellers in triplicate. “There’s nothing unique about what I do,” another woman, Donna, told Mic. “If you look at /r/sexsells, /r/fetishitems, /r/pantyselling, etc., you can find tons of other girls that do the exact same thing.”
  Meet the Women Who Risk It All to Sell Fantasies on the Etsy of Sex (Mic)

• This is Buzzfeed, so there are three sentences telling you this is Woodrocket’s Pokemon porn parody, and 85 boring images to fill the space.
  There’s A “Pokémon” Porn Parody Called “Strokémon” And It Will Kill Your Soul (Buzzfeed)

• Ms. Megumi Igarashi sculpts and illustrates her genitals to mock what she calls outdated taboos. The authorities proved her point by arresting her last year after she e-mailed 3D data of a kayak in the shape of her vulva to supporters. Ten police officers confiscated her belongings and marched her away in handcuffs. She was interrogated for 23 days.
  Vagina monologue (Economist)

• An Austrian brothel is offering a summer special that competitors will find hard to match — free sex. Its owner says it’s his way of protesting a tax squeeze. “Effective immediately: Free Entrance! Free Drinks! Free Sex!” the Pascha bordello writes on its website. Owner Hermann Mueller said he will pay the women working for him to make up for the money they would normally get from clients.
  Brothel offers free sex to protest tax hike (NY Post)

• It’s so incredibly tempting to reveal all the bizarre places Patrick Brice’s new film, The Overnight, takes its audiences, who, if they’re anything like this viewer, will likely watch the film with mouths gleefully agape. The film opens in the bedroom of a couple, Alex and Emily, played by Adam Scott and Taylor Schilling, having banally, routine sex in their brand new Los Angeles bedroom…
  Review: THE OVERNIGHT, Hysterically Saucy And Possibly Shocking (TwitchFilm)

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Pretty ladies playing solo

• * Caprice – Private Show (video)
• * Hippy Holly – Solo (video)
• * Shirley Manson – Outrageous

• * Matilda Bae – Ballerina (“Lijeta”)
• * Helen H. – Seicar
• * Ardelia A. – Relddi

Pretty ladies playing with each other

• * Apolonia, Julia – When Girls Play
• * Adrian Blake, Honey – The Best Anniversary Present (video)
• * Sensi Pearl and Pepper Kester (video)

• * Kenna J., Lena N. – Stripped
• * Monique Symone, Layton Benton – Pussy Slammin’
• * Alexis Crystal, Lexi Dona – Convoke

Pretty gentlemen playing together

• * Dalton Briggs, Pierre Fitch – The Full Package
• * Alexander Greene, Austin Keyes – Hard to Say No (gallery)
• * Kasey, gentleman friend – Active Duty

Two girls and a guy

• * Apolonia, Carolina, Alberto – Twice the Fun (gallery)
• * Dillion Harper, Silvia Saige, Ryan D. – This Is Awkward

• * Dakota Skye, Marry Lynn, Ryan McLane – Shaven Mavens
• * Dillion Harper, Alexa Tomas, Fernando – Twosome To Threesome

M-F couple, heterosexual focus

• * Danny D, Angell Summers – Rosa Reaches Breaking Point
• * Sensi, Meg Laren – The Morning After (video, video)
• * Marley Brinx, Xander Corvus – In The Spotlight

• * Luna Ora, Denis Reed – Hot Oil Massage
• * Marina Angel, Van Wilder – Ready For It
• * Sicilia, Sean – FRÄULEIN O.

Indie queer porn needs our support:

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Photographer Rasmus Mogensen has a breathtaking portfolio. While every photo is worth your time, you may want to get right to the fine art nudes.

If you want to see more of the strange and amazing way Mogensen sees the world, check out the moving images gallery, too. Mogensen’s Vimeo channel has more. I discovered Mogensen in this big post at at 25th Century.

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• A group of teenage inventors have struck upon a clever (albeit still very conceptual) way to alert folks to the presence of various venereal diseases before the burning starts: fluorescing condoms that light up when they encounter dangerous bacteria or virii. See also: No, teenagers did not invent STI-detecting color-changing condoms (Hopes and Fears)
  Color-changing condoms could tell you which VD you just got (Engadget)

• “The Internet has become integral to modern life,” John Oliver says in a recent segment from Sunday’s episode of Last Week Tonight. The host breaks down the perils that women encounter online, including revenge-porn and chilling cyber threats. ”Congratulations on your white penis,” Oliver cracks, “because if you have one of those, you probably have a very different experience of the Internet.”
  John Oliver Takes on Revenge Porn on ‘Last Week Tonight’ (Rolling Stone)

• All the creativity at the Cannes Lions festival clearly became too stimulating for one couple spotted getting romantic outside the famed Palais’ des Festivals, right in the middle of the red carpet.
  Couple caught having sex on Cannes red carpet (Page Six)

• This is so cool! MiKandi announced today that publishers can now share their adult comics and hentai manga in its Android adult app store. Today’s launch marks the culmination of months of collaboration between MiKandi’s team and launch partners Studio Cutepet, Class Comics, Triangle! and Hizzacked that now have a presence in its app store, MiKandi’s Jennifer McEwen said. Fans can discover new comics by publisher, author or illustrator — and more are on the way.
  MiKandi Now Supports Adult Comics, Hentai Manga (XBIZ)

• Director and producer Sam Scott left no stone unturned in The Big Turn On, speaking with SexTech stalwarts such as Cindy Gallop, Kiiroo, Hot Octopuss, Ashley Madison owner Noel Biderman and a host of other commentators, and delving quick and fast inside the industry. The consensus is unanimous: SexTech is here and ready to stay.
  The Big Turn On: SexTech Hits The Silver Screen (BaDoink)

• “For the past decade, and in numerous capacities, I’ve toiled as a sex worker. I’ve peddled my trade in bars and hotel rooms, on the sets of feminist pornos, and in shady peep shows. I also work in academia—arguably, an equally shady enterprise.”
  How the Government and the Christian Lobby Quash Real Research on Sex Workers (PS Mag)

• When exes and relatives call social workers on BDSM-loving moms and dads, the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom is there to help. Like many women, Samantha likes kink. Unlike many women, she lost custody of her children over it. (…)
  Parents Can Lose Custody of Children Just for Being Kinky (Daily Beast)

• One way or another, you can be sure anti-porn crusaders will push to extend Australia’s new anti-piracy laws. The Australian Christian Lobby didn’t even wait for the legislation to pass, calling for the proposed anti-piracy laws to extend to porn in April during the copyright senate enquiry. Back when Conroy’s porn filter was on the table, there were calls to expand it to cover other vices like piracy and gambling. Now that the piracy bill has passed through the Senate, you can be sure the ACL and others are looking for ways to expand it or loopholes to exploit it.
  Porn will be next on Australia’s website-blocking agenda (Sydney Morning Herald)

• Behind the scenes of Erotic Chatbots, Ltd. are two British men: chess genius Dr. David Levy and digital erotica king Paul Andrew. Dr. Levy is the President of Erotic Chatbots, Ltd. and the International Computer Games Association; he’s also the only person to have entered the esteemed Loebner Prize for human-computer conversation more than once and achieved a 100 per cent score by winning it each time. VICE spoke with the duo about loneliness, passion, and what it means to fall in love with a smooth-talking robot.
  A Chess Genius and an Erotica Publisher Are Making the Perfect Dirty Talk Chatbot (Vice)

• “A little googling led me to the only brothel in Melbourne that was owned and operated entirely by women. It was nothing too flashy, but in reviews clients consistently referred to the club as “friendly,” which sounded nice. Plus, I couldn’t miss the chance to support a woman-owned business. I screwed up my courage and called the club.”
  I loved working at a legal brothel in Australia (Hopes and Fears)

• This one’s by me! The U.K.’s online-sex censorship crusade is a toxic encounter between government arrogance and things it simply does not understand: sex, free speech, and the internet.
  https://www.instapaper.com/read/602991509 (Penthouse)

• A must-read: Do any of the anti-porn criticisms hold water? It would be nice to know. Reliable statistics about pornography are notoriously difficult to obtain – many people underreport their own habits, and many porn companies are loath to share any sort of viewership statistics.
  Does too much porn numb sexual pleasure? (Aeon Magazine)

• Multiplayer survival game Rust randomly generates players’ physical characteristics for them, imitating the screaming chaos of biology rather than letting players choose. The next step in this boundary pushing social experiment? Penis size, of course.
  Rust Randomizes Penis Length, Players Compare Sizes (Kotaku)

• Le WTF: Germans will be able to buy adult-themed e-books only between the hours of 22:00 and 06:00, under new rules. The rules have applied to German cinemas showing adult films since 2002, but they are now being extended to cover books available on the internet.
  Sex-themed e-books given curfew in Germany (BBC News)

• San Francisco’s “Water Conservation is Smart and Sexy” campaign features voluptuous shots of shiny water features along with suggestive messages, such as “Replace Your Old Toilet and Get Paid for Doing It.”
  San Francisco thinks sex will make your showers shorter (Mother Jones)

• Warning for survivors of sexual assault and trauma. About 50 people a day are sexually assaulted or raped while they’re on the clock, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Any statistic about sexual violence, though, is a farce – only a fraction of victims ever come forward to report the crime.
  Under cover of darkness, female janitors face rape and assault (NAME)

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Today is a really happy day in the U.S., and especially here in my hometown San Francisco. People are literally going happy-crazy in the streets — and we expect this to last all weekend long. It’s beyond amazing!

There’s something I want you to read, however, which is LGBT related and is something that I’m trying to raise awareness about. It’s my newest investigative piece for Engadget, Women, LGBT least safe on Facebook, despite ‘real name’ policy.

If you, or anyone you know, has been asked to submit ID to Facebook, please read this. It’s also the first report to show that Facebook is the number one hot spot online for stalking, harassment and abuse — despite its “real names” policy.

For those of us who watched Google evolve during the #Nymwars it’s both terrifying and validating.

The report is from NNEDV, and those at extreme risk (at least 23 million Facebook users) are victims of domestic violence, victims of sexual assault, women, and LGBTQ people.

In it, I interviewed people who have submitted legal ID to Facebook to unlock their accounts after being “flagged” for allegedly using a fake name — and the company used their ID to change their account names without their consent, and locked the account function so they cannot change the name back.

Here’s an excerpt:

Despite Facebook’s insistence that its “real names” policy keeps its users safe, a new report reveals that Facebook is the least safe place for women online. And things are turning more explosive, as stories emerge that Facebook has been changing its users’ names without their consent — and the company isn’t allowing them to remove their real names from their accounts. Meanwhile, a furious LGBT coalition has rallied around the safety threats posed to its communities by the policy. Though, it was unsuccessful in blocking the company from marching in America’s largest gay pride parade.

… The Safety Net Project (at the National Network to End Domestic Violence, NNEDV) recently released a report based on results from victim service providers called A Glimpse From the Field: How Abusers Are Misusing Technology.

The report found that nearly all (99 percent) the responding programs reported that Facebook is the most misused social media platform by abusers.

… When reached for comment about the How Abusers Are Misusing Technology report, a Facebook spokesperson referred us to this Facebook post explaining how the company’s “authentic name” policy “creates a safer community for everyone.”

… However, Facebook didn’t have anything to say to us about reports that the company is changing its users’ names without their consent.

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Love wins! It’s Pride weekend here in San Francisco, and my beautiful hometown is overflowing with beautiful people of all genders and orientations. It’s my favorite weekend of the year! I hope you enjoy this Pride-tastic, hot, wet, deliciously queer installment of Eye Candy! It is my hope that this post’s theme reflects the wish in so may of our hearts and nethers during this wonderful time to be alive: equality for all.

Genderqueer lesbians

• * CrashPad Series Vol 7: From Top to Bottom
• * Dyan Ryan’s directing debut, Tooth and Nail
• * Lorelei Lee, Beretta James, more – Crash Pad’s Guide to Fisting
• * Liliyana Winchester, Audrey Doll – Spare the Rod, Spoil the Princess

Trans men

• * Tristan Mathews, Dicky Johnson – Lazy Afternoon
• * A cast of many – Trans Guys Love Cock
• * Buck Angel – Sexing the Transman XXX
• * Tomcat, Lorelei Lee – FTM Dom Roughs Up Femme Fatale
• * Mickey Mod, Cyd St. Vincent – Bonus Hole Boys: The Casting Couch

Trans women

• * Jiz Lee and Danni Daniels – JL + DD
• * Chelsea Poe – Fucking Mystic
• * Courtney Trouble’s Trans Lesbians
• * Honey gets her man
• * Jessica Host breaks in a new boy at the Armory
• * Khloe Hart’s debut fucking a guy – kissing, intense chemistry

Queer/genderqueer lesbians

• * Lesbian Curves 3: Soft Girls and Strap-Ons
• * Joey Minx and Lilah – Post Picnic Snack
• * Nikki Hearts, Luxy Hearts – In Love
• * Ava and Felix – Lesbian Forest Voyeurs
• * Nikki Silver, Juliette March – Touching Her

Gay men

• * Dalton Briggs, Pierre Fitch – The Full Package
• * Frankie V., Raphael Marino – Young Pups
• * Levi Michaels, Tayte Hanson, Levi Karter, Liam Riley, Chris Harder (nonsex cameo: Levi’s dog Bella) – Answered Prayers: The Actor
• * Angel Cruz and Levi Karter – #NOWORDS

More queer/genderqueer lesbians

• * Daisy Ducati, Nikki Darling, and Denali Winter – Sexy Snuggy Slumber Party
• * Bobby Bends, Sparky Sin Claire, and Dylan Ryan – Three-Way
• * Jade Phillips, Alaya Stone, Cinnamon Maxxine – Introducing Alaya Stone

More gay men

• * Double trouble< - Vintage gay (male) loops:
• Triple trouble – Vintage gay (male) loops:
• * Locker room – Vintage gay (male) loops:
• * Two men outdoors – Vintage gay (male) loops:

Even more queer/genderqueer lesbians

• * Ensemble cast ‘o queers – Put the Needle on the Record
• * Magnolia and Abbey – Flare
• * Zahra Stardust and Callum Jones – PreOccupation

Even more gay men

• * Emeric Roussy – Men of Montreal
• * Scott Cage, Ian Ticing – Swim Practice, Circle Jerk Boys (“99% Straight”)
• * Trent Jackson, Matt Hart – Extra Big Dicks
• * Ryan Rose, Billy Santoro – Raging Stallion
• * PD Fox, Jin Powers – Next Door Ebony

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So, every year here in San Francisco on the day before the parade, there’s the Dyke March and Pink Saturday. There’s a lot of important history behind both of those things, and I recommend investigating them beyond this post. Every year, I go to both, which is pretty easy to do because the Dyke March goes from Dolores Park, down the traditional march route through the Mission District, and then ends back up in the Castro, where everyone chills out, dances, drinks, eats, and the streets are closed to cars for the party (called Pink Saturday). It’s a “take back the night” sort of event.

This year, something changed with who runs the organization of the combined event. I’m an outsider so I don’t have all the details on a lot of this, but I can tell you what happened as far as I understand it. Usually the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence organize it, and get donations to do so during the event. They do a really amazing job every year, security is tight but that’s reassuring, and the streets are clear and clean by midnight. The morning after Pink Saturday, you’ll walk out into the Castro and you can’t really tell that 100,000 people were just partying wildly in the street.

But the Sisters didn’t run it this year. Someone ran it who had no fucking idea what they were doing. And they had the entirely non-brilliant idea of changing the time of the march, the march route, and the time of the event’s shutdown. It not being the Sisters’ event, they couldn’t call it Pink Saturday and tried to re-brand it as “Pink Party.” I heard, from people in the street while everyone was asking what the fuck was going on (I’ll get to that in a minute), that proper community outreach wasn’t done, and the new schedule was probably going to impact the services at local churches, who usually re-schedule their Saturday services around the march.

Anyway, they decided to start the Dyke March 2 1/2 hours early. Before they started it, they ranted on the microphone about how they were saving the Dyke March, and talked shit about the Sisters, which was really fucking classless and disrespectful. They spoke as if they were going to run it form now on. Then they said, let’s march.

The Dykes on Bikes revved their engines, parked around the corner from where they traditionally park, now out of view of Dolores Park. There were much fewer than usual. The new organizers started the march. And everyone was completely confused.

Before they started the march, Dolores Park and the surrounding area looked like this:

After they started the march, and marched away with some of the people, Dolores Park and the surrounding area looked like this:

This is when all us total strangers started asking each other what the hell was going on. We stood there, wondering what to do. My friends asked if we should go with the march, and I said I didn’t want to, that I wanted to see what might happen. After a few minutes of nothing, we decided to go to the Big Gay Karaoke House Party we go to every year, which is along the old Dyke March route — used to be you could sit on the porch and cheer on the dykes as they went by.

So we walked past a barrier of motorcycle cops, and another gate, and just outside the gate, I turned around and saw this:

I told my friends to stop. I walked out into traffic. And saw a wall of dykes, marching. Through the cops, who decided there were too many to stop. (I have it on good authority one of the cops actually high-fived one of the marchers.)

I stayed in the middle of the intersection. The wall surged forward, over the barrier and into the intersection of Guerrero and 18th.

They were chanting. They were powerful. They were angry, and it was a righteous anger.

They were taking back the Dyke March.

And the march was massive. Blocks and blocks of women smiling and yelling, “Whose streets? OUR STREETS! Whose streets? OUR STREETS!” And I yelled with them, shooting photos with one hand and making a fist in the air with the other one.

I went to take a picture of this person, and they said no — you belong in the photo, and pulled me in.

We all walked with the march down to our house party, and then parked our platforms and drank beer on the porch, cheering on the dykes, who streamed past for a long time.

Upstairs later, I noticed this new paint job on 18th:

After some epic gay karaoke, we ambled out to get food, and people were literally dancing in the street all down 18th, in front of Bi-Rite, and they were insanely happy, and friendly. But then at 7, the police started clearing the street, and the street sweepers came (this usually happens at midnight). People danced on the sidewalk — until the cops cleared them along. There were tons of police, it was way too early to kick everyone out, and they were visibly frustrated.

We walked back to my apartment, and saw that they were trying to shut down the Castro, too — four hours before the party usually ends. Before dark. If you’ve ever been to Pink Saturday, or you know anything about it, you know that this makes no sense, and it flies in the face of why being in the Castro on that night (night in particular) is important.

I noticed that one half of the event had like no police, and security was so lax in places that it was worrying (we weren’t checked, or stopped, or anything). So, I really hope everyone gets home safe tonight. Like, please.

I hope The City gives the Sisters everything they need — like, MONEY and support — to run the event next year.

If you want to see all the photos I took of the Dyke March, they’re in this Flickr album. I’m in the Pride parade tomorrow with Senator Mark Leno, so if you watch it on TV — look for me!

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• The brains of those ‘addicted’ to porn bear no neurological resemblance to those of other well-documented addictions while watching it, says a new study. neuroscientists Nicole Prause (Liberos LLC at UCLA) and Vaughn Steele, and their team of researchers, have released a new study, published in the journal Biological Psychology, that reaffirms their previous findings: “porn addiction” and “sex addiction,” as we understand them, may not be real.
  Your Porn Addiction Isn’t Real (Daily Beast)

• If you’re producing non-mainstream porn, the British authorities are coming after you. They will threaten you, they will destroy your business, they will publish your real name and they will issue crippling fines against you. The penalties for producing ethically-made, non-mainstream porn are legion. Pandora Blake had just started turning a profit when it happened to her.
  ATVOD: this is how they shut you up (Erotic Review Magazine)

• In this clip, a CNN anchor and editor fail to recognize that what they have identified as an “ISIS flag” is actually a flag of dildos and butt plugs, rendered in the style of ISIS.
  CNN Mistakes Dildo-Covered Flag at Pride Parade for ISIS Flag (Gawker)

• On Monday, a Twitter Q&A was set up for Fifty Shades of Grey author, E.L. James’ fans to ask her anything they wanted using the hashtag #AskELJames. However, it quickly turned into a PR nightmare.
  Twitter Q&A #AskELJames turns into epic PR disaster, EL James goaded on poor writing and rape culture (The Celebrity Cafe)

• Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has a new book out Tuesday, titled “A Time for Truth.” In it, he talks about watching pornography with Supreme Court justices for a case challenging a law that regulated online porn.
  Why Ted Cruz watched pornography with Supreme Court justices (Washington Post)

• The Guardian UK has discovered ebook erotica, but only as if it emerged when the Kindle came out. It’s bizarre. The article completely ignores the publishing history of erotica, the world of erotica before e-readers, and the sprawling world of erotica (and ebook erotica business) in general. Sheesh.
  Gay vampires and bisexual cowboys: why erotica has e-readers to thank (NAME)

• Long before geriatric Arnold Schwarzenegger reappeared to battle an army of his young, buff Arnold clones, killer robots from the future were presenting themselves for your viewing pleasure, often parading around our universe in a state of complete buck-ass nudity. It’s almost like they wanted us to review and rank them in order of sexiness.
  Every Terminator, Ranked In Order Of Sex Appeal (MTV)

• Of all the buzzy sex terms out there, “fetish” is perhaps the most misunderstood. It carries a certain connotation, as adjectives like “weird,” “strange” and even “dirty” often precede it. The result: endless jokes, stigmas and popular myths about what a sexual fetish is and isn’t. (FYI – I wrote the only how-to book on the topic, Fetish Sex.)
  It’s Time to Put These 7 Myths About Fetishes to Bed, Once and for All (Mic)

• Turning back the clock to the time when porn was distributed by few, and cost was controlled by an old boys’ network of distributors, and there were no porn tube sites, are the goals of Takedown Piracy (TDP). Since 2009, they’ve removed over 56 million pieces of content from the Internet. Recently, Takedown Piracy announced that their Nemesis program, a special digital fingerprinting process that makes it impossible to hide pirated content online, had taken down over 140,000 videos in five months.
  A World without Free Porn? (Men’s Health)

• FEMEN “sextremists” have now set up shop in more than ten countries, but only have one active branch in North America. In this documentary, VICE journalist Brigitte Noël enters the world of FEMEN Quebec as they disturb the public space with their homegrown brand of activism, bringing skin, controversy, and feminism to the front page. As FEMEN set out on a mission to protect Canadian women’s abortion rights, Noël shadowed the group to get a better understanding of their message, their approach, and whether their shock-and-awe tactics actually work.
  FEMEN: Sextremism in Canada (YouTube/Vice)

• VR is viewed by some as just a new way to play games, but each VR headset is shaping up to be its own platform with exclusives games, much like today’s consoles. Porn or not, 2016 is looking like the year virtual reality makes it or breaks it.
  Which VR headset will win? Porn has already decided (Destructiod)

• On Sunday night (June 28), AMC will premiere the first installment of its sci-fi British export “Humans” — and when it does, viewers nationwide will instantly figure out what our friends across the pond already know: that Gemma Chan is sexy.
  ‘Humans’ Star Gemma Chan Spills On Robot Sex And Women In Sci-Fi (MTV)

• Just in time for summer, luminaries in the adult industry share their secrets on how they maintain their desirable bods. Adult actresses make no secrets about how they stay in shape—perseverance and hard work. And who better to ask about looking good without clothes on than those who get paid to do it?
  How to Get Fit Like a Porn Star: Looking Good Naked Ain’t Easy (Daily Beast)

• The director of the controversial Moroccan film “Much Loved,” that addresses the Muslim country’s sex industry, has been summoned to court this week on charges of “pornography, indecency and inciting minors to debauchery,” local media reported. Although prostitution is illegal, the North African country is considered a sex tourist destination in some parts of the Arab world.
  Moroccan film director charged with ‘pornography’ (ARA)

• Two incidences of non-consensual porn have hit Australian headlines recently, along with sneers and jibes at police and the women whose photos were stolen or shared without their approval. Some of the victims are possibly underaged girls.
  Hundreds of Australian nude images posted without women’s consent (Naked Security/Sophos)

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If you’re visiting for the first time from Chilango’s Violet Blue: la evangelista del sexo y la tecnología, welcome to TinyNibbles!

Spanish speakers will appreciate my translated sex guides, El Arte Del Sexo Oral/The Art of Oral Sex (La Felación), El Arte Del Sexo Oral II/ the Art of Oral Sex II (El cunnilingus), and Imaginación Sexual: Disfrute del sexo total (Fantasías, juegos, posturas, vestuario y fetiches) – nuevas y exitantes historias de la famosa autora de literatura erótica Alison Tyler.

In addition, I had many of the sex guides I wrote for Good Vibrations translated en Español when I worked there. You can find a few of them here (“Sexo en Español”).

While you’re here… descubra Erika Lust! She’s the director of my favorite woman-run porn site in Spain, Lust Cinema.

Thank you for visiting! I hope you enjoy the topics on this site, including Accurate Sex Information and my Favorite Sex Websites (Links), articles about women and pornography and porn harms, Erotic Art, Sex News, and much more.

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Above is the embed for Rihanna’s new video, Bitch Better Have My Money (a non-YouTube link is here on Vevo if you’re held back by Google’s restrictions). It comes with a sex and violence warning for readers; survivors of sexual assault and trauma will skip hitting the ‘play’ button on this one. Why? It’s a full-on, blood-drenched cult film, a reverently grindhouse-style spectacle of sex, violence and style. So it isn’t for everyone, but is certainly, definitely for me.

I couldn’t decide whether to put this one in erotic art or erotic fashion, because it’s a visual feast, yet the couture is off the hook in every scene (as we’ve come to expect from Rihanna). So much couture/shoe/rubber/everything envy here. But if you’re a cult and horror film addict like me, this little flick is even more of a treat — and I’m enjoying watching the media scramble to call all the cult film references here. There are tons. The closest so far is Dazed, who writes,

For such an overtly cinematic watch, it’s no surprise that the seven-minute Rihanna and Megaforce-directed blockbuster doesn’t shy away from paying homage to cult film. BBHMM relentlessly throws out references across the spectrum, making for a full-blooded visual spectacle and a music video that wears its grindhouse and slash horror influences on its sleeve.

While BBHMM certainly draws on the blood reds of Dario Argento’s work or the comic horror of 70’s B-movies, we’ve aimed for the big screen and decoded RiRi’s reverence for Hollywood. (…read more, dazeddigital.com)

Well, they tried. Also, if you’re a Hannibal fan like me, you’ll love the shots of Mads Mikkelsen at the end, one of which I’ll confess to replaying a few times because… well, let’s just say… it works for me.

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• Visa and Mastercard have ceased to allow payments to be made to Backpage and Cracker for advertising services. This decision was made to appease some anti-sex work advocates in the United States, and impacts Australian sex workers who use Backpage and/or Cracker to legally advertise sexual services. For those that are unaware, sex work is mostly legal throughout Australia (except in South Australia). This decision by Visa and Mastercard is not only discriminatory but extremely dangerous.
  Class Complaint Against Financial Institutions in Australia (relating to Visa and Mastercard transactions) (KVA Legal)

• A recent Guardian article about the trouble Big Data is having with its primary business model describes Facebook’s technique of blackmailing businesses with access to their own followers. Bacchus writes, “Big Face says “we don’t want your stinky porn on our network” and an entire industry is locked out of one of the most useful networks on the planet. Multiply that by basically every other social network of size except Tumblr and Twitter, and it’s a serious problem. …”
  Network Effects Are Why #Pornocalypse Is Bad News (ErosBlog: The Sex Blog)

• The British company Lovehoney has announced the imminent release of an exclusive Motörhead branded sex toy collection. Motörhead — The Official Pleasure Collection includes four bullets and classic torpedo-shaped vibrators with the band’s iconic logo. The vibes are all named after some of the band’s most popular songs.
  Motörhead Gets Its Own Sex Toy Collection From Lovehoney (Badoink)

• Just a few weeks after Oculus founder Palmer Luckey said new VR headsets will allow pornographic material through its store, an Oculus Rift company representative stated a new (Facebook’s) position on the matter when Business Insider asked about it. “Oculus only distributes developer content that meets their terms of service, which forbid pornographic content from being a part of the Oculus Store,” the spokesman said.
  Facebook says no sex apps on Oculus, but won’t discuss limits on violence (Business Insider)

• The trial between Hulk Hogan and Gawker Media over the latter’s release of a clip of a sex-tape involving the wrestler, has been delayed. The jury trial, which had been scheduled to begin Monday in St. Petersburg, was put on hold today, after Florida’s Second District Court of Appeal ruled that Pamela Campbell, the Pinellas County circuit court judge overseeing the case, failed to enforce the strict rules governing the scheduling of jury trials.
  Court ruling means Gawker-Hulk Hogan sex-tape trial delayed (New York Business Journal)

• I really hope they film this and share the video: Stockroom and Grooby are teaming up next week to host a special “Trans Talk” panel at Stockroom University. Stockroom University is offering an unique opportunity to discuss a variety of transgender topics with a panel of Los Angeles’ most well-known trans advocates and adult performers, including Buck Angel, Morgan Bailey, Michelle Austin, and Tori Mayes.
  Stockroom, Grooby Co-host ‘Trans Talk’ Panel on July 11 (XBIZ)

• In a recent paper published in the journal Physiology & Behavior, scientists essentially tested whether they could condition a clothing fetish in male rats. In one of their experiments, a group of 40 “sexually naïve” (translation: virgin) male rats were assigned to one of two conditions. Half of the rats had their first 9 ejaculatory mating experiences with sexually receptive females while wearing tiny jackets. (…)
  Rats With Jacket Fetishes? What Animal Sex Studies Reveal About The Origin Of Unusual Sexual Interests (Sex and Psychology, thanks Jason!)

• Porn Time (Popcorn Time for porn) has hit a milestone: 1 million downloads. The app launched on June 7 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, and for Android on June 18. Today’s announcement comes on July 2, meaning Porn Time has hit the seven-digit mark in less than a month.
  Porn Time shoots past 1 million downloads in under a month, shows interest in Oculus Rift (Venture Beat)

• Maitresse Madeline Marlowe, a dominatrix and a director at Kink.com, is a self-made porn star who has never worked with an agent. She talks about how she earned $42,000 for a single cam session (fun fact: Lorelei Lee earned the same amount, separately, as well).
  How I Shot the Most Expensive Webcam Session Ever (Cosmopolitan)

• “Historically,” says Stef Woods, who teaches history at American University and focuses on American popular culture and sexuality, the word sex “was used to describe biological or physical differences. Now, it is more common to use gender or gender assigned at birth and reserve the use of sex for the act.” That distinction, Woods says, is supported by the words that appear in Frac.tl’s chart near the mentions of sex.
  200 Years Of ‘Sex’ In America, In 1 Chart (NPR)

• Charles Evens, 26, is facing up to seven years in federal prison for hacking into Google email accounts to steal nude photos that were later posted on revenge porn site isanyoneup.com, which traded on nude and sexually explicit photos that had been submitted without permission of the people depicted in the images. He pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count each of unauthorized access to a protected computer and aggravated identity theft, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. The operator of the site, 29-year-old Hunter Moore of Woodland, pleaded guilty in February to the same charges as Evens.
  Hacker-for-Hire Pleads Guilty in Massive Revenge Porn Case (Patch)

• Shine Louise Houston is used to knocking down barriers. As the CEO of feminist porn company Pink & White Productions, Houston has pushed the boundaries of this overwhelmingly straight male arena by creating porn with casts diverse in terms of sexual orientation, gender expression, and ethnic background. Now she’s breaking out of old film funding models by bringing crowdfunding into the porn world.
  How A Feminist Porn Company is Reshaping the Rules of Crowdfunding (MediaShift)

• WoodRocket asked a group of adult film performers what they masturbate to. Unsurprisingly, most of them aren’t too keen on watching their own coworkers in their spare time.
  What Porn Do Pornstars Watch? (Digg)

• “Several hours passed before I noticed spreading news that CNN reported on the flag as though it was an actual Isis banner, not a piece of cloth covered in sex toys. #DildoIsis quickly started trending online. People made tribute dildo flags. But how could a report so hysterical and so clearly false possibly get onto the air, discussed by a terrorism expert?”
  I created the Isis dildo flag at London Pride to start a dialogue, not get a laugh (Paul Coombs, Guardian UK)

• The music video for metal band Gift Giver’s new single Hell Hound finds altporn performers Jessie Lee and Scarlet LaVey getting into the music in a big, big way with an uncensored lesbian scene.
  BurningAngel Releases Exclusive Hardcore Music Video (Badoink)

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• * Naomi Nevena, Thomas Long – Desirous
• * Anna Rose, Figo – Tie Me Up

• * Kylie Kalvetti, Adriana Chechik – Blinded By Love
• * Elektra Rose, Markus London – Magic Fingers
• * Piper Perri, Kristina Bell – Ballerina Beauties

• * Aimee and Tatyana – Make Love to Me
• * Ericka – Two Dildos in the Bathtub

• * Satine Spark, Daisy Rock – Lesbian MILF Desire
• * Dunia Montenegro, gentleman friend – Anal Escapade

• * Carolina – Code Black
• * Amarna M., Lutro – Spanish Flavor

• * Kiara, Jayden – Sunset (gallery)
• * Julia, Alberto – Sex Affair (gallery)

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• This article, where Ms. Naughty thoroughly takes apart the newest wave of anti-porn hysteria, is so good I can’t decide what to excerpt for you. Just go read it!
  How To Be An Anti-Porn Campaigner (Medium)

• If social cons get their way, Pennsylvania strippers will have to kiss any sense of privacy or anonymity goodbye. Over 60 state legislators are co-sponsoring a bill that would force strippers to register with the Department of State.
  Pennsylvania legislators want to force strippers to register with the Department of State (Red Alert Politics)

• Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey caused a sensation when he said at the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality Conference that his company won’t block adult content on the Oculus Rift; too bad Facebook quashed that little dream for its store. Here follows a list of the top 5 virtual sex products which will use the Oculus Rift.
  Top 5 Virtual Sex Products Using the Oculus Rift (Lakebit)

• More than 1,400 middle and high school students across America were asked in a survey what they thought about gender representation in games, what games girls play, and more. Interestingly, they found that most of the boys thought female characters are treated too often as sex objects
  Everything You Know About Boys and Video Games Is Wrong (TIME, sound alert)

• While the effects in Lawnmower Man will have dazzled at the time – and as the best-known instance of VR sex in the movies its place in history can not be forgotten – this cyber-tryst is far more a cautionary tale than one of love, respect and union.
  VR Sex In Movies: A History of Light and Shade (Badoink)

• It seems that everyone is talking about sex robots as of late. Patrick Quinlan, best selling author of Smoked is no exception. Quinlan’s newest novel, Sexbot, is a typical fast-paced thriller.
  Patrick Quinlan Thinks You Are Going to Fall in Love With Your Sex Robot (Disinformation)

• Google recently unleashed its image identification artificial neural network to the internet masses, and, predictably, the internet has quickly decided to turn it into psychedelic porn for robots. There’s even a subreddit for it now, r/deepdream.
  What Computers Dream of When They Look at Porn (VICE)

• Penthouse Pet of the Year Nikki Benz is headed to Comic-Con with Jaclyn Taylor this weekend, for the first ever Oculus demonstration of Naughty America’s new virtual porn.
  Nikki Benz Demos Naughty America’s Virtual Porn at Comic-Con (XBIZ)

• Lots of animated gifs and Buzzfeed’s hallmark 8th grade, conversation-in-the-hall-at-school sentence structure in this look at sex and antidepressants.
  Here’s What Antidepressants Actually Do To Your Sex Drive (Buzzfeed)

• Warning for domestic violence survivors. A Florida man was arrested after an argument with his ex-wife about a sex toy escalated, according to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office. According to an arrest report, the woman was using the bathroom when Horne barged in, accusing her of cheating on him with a sex toy.
  FL man arrested after accusing ex-wife of cheating on him with sex toy (First Coast News)

• A former high school English teacher who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing three male students said Thursday she was vulnerable and made mistakes, but a Utah judge scolded her for committing serious crimes and sentenced her to up to 30 years in prison.
  Ex-teacher sentenced to 2 to 30 years in student sex case (AP)

• “Humans” has caused a stir online for some titillating reasons. It seems that the show’s continued focus on robotic sex is proving fascinating to viewers. This culminated in an outsized reaction to last week’s episode, when husband and father Joe Hawkins sleeps with his recently purchased Synth, Anita.
  Did You See That Shocking Robot Sex Scene in Humans, Channel 4’s New Sci-Fi Hit? (Future of Sex)

• A federal jury today convicted a gay porn star/escort of extorting $500,000 and a luxury car from a business tycoon who made the hush money payments when threatened with the exposure of his paid sexual encounters with the accused shakedown artist.
  Federal Jury Convicts Gay Porn Star In Extortion Of Socialite Tycoon (The Smoking Gun)

• Twerk is in the dictionary now and Pornhub wants the TwerkingButt to be in your bedroom. The vaguely terrifying, hi-tech vibrating sex toy is a pretend posterior that will cost up to $1,000 and comes with a VR headset and companion apps for iOS and Android.
  Pornhub’s TwerkingButt promises VR porn/the end of humanity (The Next Web)

• For her new book, The Smart Girl’s Guide to Privacy, Blue (hey, that’s me!) worked with attorneys, psychologists, and tech employees to put together a practical guide to online privacy that doesn’t require a huge amount of background knowledge. Though it’s marketed toward girls and discusses the role gender plays in online harassment and exploitation, Blue notes in the first chapter that the book is for women “of all shades on the gender identity spectrum” and that LGBTQ people are routinely left out of the privacy conversation.
  “The Smart Girl’s Guide to Privacy” is a Practical Look at Gender and Online Privacy (Bitch Media)

• Aurora Snow writes, “The porn industry is very segregated by race, with sites treating black-on-white sex especially as taboo. Here’s why it’s time to break down the barriers and ditch the ‘interracial’ genre.”
  Why Porn’s ‘Interracial’ Label Is Racist (Daily Beast)

• Magic Mike XXL is a film that is ultimately preoccupied with the sexual satisfaction of women, even though no one actually has sex in it (onscreen, anyway).
  ‘Magic Mike XXL’ Is the Most Sex Positive Film of the Yea (Screencrush)

• Warning for survivors of sexual assault and abuse. Federal authorities raided the home of Subway spokesman Jared Fogle Tuesday morning. FBI sources told FOX59 state and federal investigators were serving warrants at Fogle’s Zionsville home in connection with a child pornography investigation.
  Subway spokesman Jared Fogle’s home raided in child pornography investigation (FOX59)

• While online porn may seem a world away from the brothel catalogs of long ago, the Museum of Sex’s latest show shows our appetite for porn is long—and inventive.
  Inside the Museum of Sex’s 150-Year-Old Porn Stash (Daily Beast)

• When Farabet and his MadBits crew joined Twitter last summer, Roetter — the company’s head of engineering — told them to build a system that could automatically identify NSFW images on its popular social network.
  Twitter’s New AI Recognizes Porn So You Don’t Have To (WIRED)

• Legislation requiring universities in New York state to adopt a uniform affirmative sexual consent policy was signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday.
  All NY colleges to adopt ‘yes means yes’ sex assault policy (Reuters)

• While the Feds have been able to locate more than 100 of [a convicted sexual predator’s] underage victims, nearly 250 young women have yet to be identified. And that’s where you come in.
  The FBI needs your help finding 250 sextortion victims (Engadget)

• Warning for survivors of sexual assault and trauma. Kudos to AP for bringing this to the light of day. “The excerpts show [Bill] Cosby admitting that he obtained quaaludes in the 1970s so that he could give them to young women he pursued for extramarital sex. Asked if they knew what they were taking, his lawyers objected and he never answered.”
  Accuser asks for all Cosby testimony to be made public (AP)

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Once I found what people were doing with DeepDream and porn images online, I immediately had to see as much as I possibly could. Salvador Dali would be crazed with delight to have this tool to play with; maybe he’d feel like there was a place for him in our new technologies. These images are the result of feeding an image (in this post, porn photos) into an artificial neural network, thanks to Google.

Google researchers discovered, “neural networks that were trained to discriminate between different kinds of images have quite a bit of the information needed to generate images too.” Google released DeepDream on June 17, in this post on its research blog. VICE describes DeepDream thusly,

Google’s DeepDream program takes images fed into the company’s image recognition system and turns them into the most extreme version of that image imaginable. The network snags tiny portions of an image and runs it through its recognition system, exaggerating small features within it. As we explained last month:

“This basically generated a feedback loop, which exaggerated or read more meaning into simple features. For example, the researchers explained that: ‘If a cloud looks a little bit like a bird, the network will make it look more like a bird. This in turn will make the network recognize the bird even more strongly on the next pass and so forth, until a highly detailed bird appears, seemingly out of nowhere.'”

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This large-scale .gif is just insane. Find a more at Deepdream Porn and r/deepdream.

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• * Megan Rain, Marley Brinx, Ryan D. – Double Trouble

• * Carolina – Massive Squirting (gallery)
• * Milana and Lutro – Come Twice (gallery)

• * Natalie Hawke, gentleman friend – Lip Biter (video)
• * Gabriella Ford, gentleman friend – POV

• * Adel P. – Dirty Play

• * Hollie Mack, Mila Jade, Ryan D. – Mila Jade Casts Hollie Mack

• * Eddison, Isabella D. – Velvet
• * Laura I. – Palma

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• I am dead serious when I say to whoever DDoS’d this douchebag – drinks are on me, forever. This twat wrote the seminal article on the horrors and dangers of cyberporn as featured the cover of TIME in 1996 — knowing full well that what he was writing was false, based on fraudulent research, and was swiftly debunked. But the debunking was too late for the damage done thanks to his TIME piece: He started the cyberporn panic of our era, and his piece fueled the Communications Decency Act (later found to be unconstitutional). This piece is a weak non-apology for all the anti-sex, anti-porn censorship and crap we have to wade through today.
  Marty Rimm published a controversial study of online porn, and then he disappeared. (Fortune)

• “Day by day, second by second, time is destroying your vulva. Your labia are deflating like a sad soufflé. Your vagina is drying up. The color is draining from your genital region. Your husband is weeping. Your dinner is burning. Your life is a farce.”
  This sex toy will “rejuvenate” your pitiful vulva for just $850 (Hey Epiphora!)

• “She does these contradictory things at once, because Tasha Jones isn’t actually a 14-year-old girl. She’s two 20-something men who won’t give their real names. They use fake profiles to pose as teenagers online, then wait to be approached by pedophiles. When the perpetrators ask to meet, they’re lured to a public place and arrested. The two anonymous vigilantes call themselves Dark Justice.”
  Behind Dark Justice’s crusade to bring down pedophiles (Daily Dot)

• Originally posted on 50 Cent’s website, the video spread to porn sites and has garnered millions of views. The rapper, wearing a wig and playing his “Pimpin’ Curly” character, crudely narrates over the tape and mocks the woman’s body. But the “Get Rich or Die Tryin’” moneymaker is crying poverty — and it’s not the first time he’s done so.
  50 Cent’s Bogus Revenge Porn Bankruptcy (Daily Beast)

• “I’m a professional sperm donor. It kind of started off as a joke. I knew that you could earn money donating sperm. I was trying to make it as an actor … On a whim, I decided to look up sperm donation online. I was in the city most of the week anyway and I found out that, in the city, there were a bunch of different sperm donation centers. I hit up a couple. There’s two major ones: California Cryobank and Manhattan Cryobank. California Cryobank pays pretty well but is extremely selective.”
  I was a professional sperm donor (Hopes and Fears)

• It isn’t just the Irish who are afraid to talk about sex, venture capitalists and financial institutions also tend to get a bit hot and bothered about the subject. That’s the view of MakeLoveNotPorn’s Cindy Gallop who wants to make sex one of the hottest areas of start-up activity.
  Cindy Gallop: ‘I want to be the Y Combinator of sex tech’ (Silicon Republic)

• The CSPH looks at the history of the term “sex work,” it’s place within feminism, and some information about the way human trafficking is used to obfuscate sex worker rights.
  Sunday Sex School: The history of “Sex Work” (The Center for Sexual Pleasure & Health)

• Driest writeup of the hottest thing… “As the above research demonstrates, we have a much better understanding of the lived experiences of straight men who have sex with other men in comparison to a mere decade ago. However, the etiology of this behavior remains contentious, and the final posting in this blog series will examine proposed etiological explanations for this demographic.”
  Straight Men Who Have Sex With Other Men: In Their Own Words (Psychology Today)

• The CW’s epic dystopian sci-fi series The 100 has action, drama, and the most kick-ass female heroine on television, plus it’s also diverse, empowering to women and the LGBT community, and completely non-judgmental when its characters have sex. Particularly the female ones.
  ‘The 100′ Cast Reveals Why The Show Is So Sex-Positive (MTV)

• io9 braved the Comic-Con crush around the awesome DC costume display to talk to the trio behind one of DC Comics’ most exciting series today: Harley Quinn. Artist-writer Amanda Conner; her husband, writer Jimmy Palmiotti; and artist Chad Hardin answered all of our burning questions.
  The Harley Quinn Team on How to Make Sexy Comics That Aren’t Gross (io9)

• “Nichi looks at porn and sees an industry in disarray, badly in need of some sort of international kite mark. It’s the question I’ve frequently asked the feminist campaigners, religious counsellors, politicians and legislators that oppose pornography. After all, porn is a multi-billion pound international business, and the number one thing searched for on the Internet, yet simultaneously derided for everything from erectile dysfunction to moral decay and child molestation.”
  If food and fashion can be ethical, why can’t pornography? (Erotic Review)

• If you’re in LA today, please see this for me! Features Buck Angel, Sarah B. Burghauser, Jenny Factor, Jiz Lee and Dave Naz.
  Genderqueer and Other Gender Identities: A Reading and Discussion (Pen Center USA)

• In researching the possible futures for VR technology as it pertains to the adult and sex toy industries, Badoink spoke with Fleshlight’s Juan Ziena Cabezas, Alex Legret, the creative director for teledildonics company Kiiroo, and ThriXXX’s CEO.
  The History and Future of Sex and Virtual Reality (Badoink)

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UK erotic photographer Megan Eagles (MK Eagles) has a wonderful catalog, and I love that she still sells copies of her zine. I found her on C-Heads, and they point us to this great interview with her in Fotograifa, where she refers to the female gaze. But between the two, I love this quote:

Ever since I discovered a Helmut Newton editorial in an old magazine when I was 12, I was blown away. I never knew that women could be shown in such a way, powerful and sexual, with their own agency.

Helmut Newton is one of my most important visual artists, too.

While checking out her galleries, I cam across one of my favorite surprise guests in erotic photography: Cats!

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• A new EU law will force Prime Minister David Cameron to retract the UK’s compulsory porn filters. Cameron – who recently pushed ahead with legislation which could see WhatsApp, iMessage and other chat apps banned in the UK – could have to backtrack over his mandatory online porn filters. Cameron will next try to cheat the EU ban by proposing national legislation to ensure the porn blocker remains intact, exploiting a loophole in new EU rules agreed last month.
  End of UK PORN blocks? David Cameron’s compulsory filters could be SCRAPPED under EU law, Cameron opens new front in war on porn (Express UK, Financial Times)

• I love Grant Morrison. “Wonder Woman’s Invisible Plane is now shaped like a vagina, it’s the most incredible thing. It opens up in the back and it has a little clitoris hood, everything is a female-based design. It’s all based on shells and natural stuff. He’s created this entire newly designed world for the Amazons. (…) It’s the most exciting book I’ve done in years, it changed everything I’m thinking about the future.”
  Grant Morrison Talks HEAVY METAL and WONDER WOMAN: EARTH ONE (Nerdist)

• This week, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCSE) — a group founded in 1962 as Morality in Media (the name was changed this year) — held an anti-pornography summit on Capitol Hill titled “Pornography: A Public Health Crisis.” The event aims to educate lawmakers on “how porn fuels sex trafficking, child exploitation, and sexual violence” and features a who’s who of anti-sex-work, anti-science, and anti-free-speech zealots,
  Anti-Porn Summit on Capitol Hill Mixes Moralist, Feminist, and Public Health Rhetoric With Insane Results (Reason)

• “There are a lot of threads to follow if you’re looking at [the Gawker controversy] from a place of concern for the safety/human rights of sex workers, but here’s the one I’m hung up on: the belief that this man deserved to hire someone for sex quietly, privately, and without consequence. That obtaining a thoughtful, ethical level of service was his right. And the attitude that, because two people participated, two people should be named (or outed) in spite of the fact that only one party (the sex worker, in case you’re confused) is likely to be at risk of public retaliation or arrest.”
  About that Gawker post… (Writer With A Heart of Gold)

• “One of the biggest concerns anyone who’s a Dominant or a submissive in the BDSM lifestyle has is privacy. Although living in a D/s relationship or enjoying kinky fun may be an inherent part of who we are as individuals, what we do and what we enjoy is on the fringe of what’s considered “socially acceptable.” Which is why protecting each others privacy is so important. We don’t out each other. We just don’t.”
  We Do Not Out Each Other (Submissive Guide)

• A 21-year-old from New Hampshire has been charged with a range of crimes surrounding a grisly digital extortion scheme involving underage girls. The Department of Justice accuses Ryan J. Vallee of hacking into several teenagers’ social media accounts, holding them hostage unless they sent him explicit images of themselves. If they didn’t comply, he would threaten the girls with “additional harm,” although after obtaining the pictures, he distributed them to others anyway. In addition, Vallee accessed the victim’s Amazon accounts and ordered “items of a sexual nature,” which were then sent to their homes, causing untold distress.
  21-year-old charged with sextortion crimes (Engadget)

• Fusion writes, “Well, obviously they’re wearing white undergarments — they’re Mormons! Or, their characters are Mormons. This is a scene from the hyper-niche genre of Mormon-themed porn, and for the actress who goes by Maxine Holloway — known to Mormon porn fans as Sister Rose, and even better as the Mormon MILF—it’s a fantasy come true.”
  Inside the world of Mormon porn (Fusion)

• A new adult-entertainment site launched today that is specifically geared toward virtual-reality gear like Google Cardboard, which means that the iPhone can now become part of an even less subtle way than usual of looking at pictures of naked people.
  VR porn site plunges you deep into some adult situations (Cult of Mac)

• “In 2016, the first consumer version of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset will become available after years of anticipation. It will open up the VR playing field to the masses, and undoubtedly a flood of users will finally be able to enjoy the virtual sex games they’ve long been waiting for. To get you ready for the upcoming launch, we’ve compiled a list of the best online sex games for the Oculus Rift.”
  Review: The Best VR Online Sex Games for Oculus Rift (Future of Sex)

• A campaign to require condom use in pornographic film productions in California has collected enough signatures to put a ballot measure before state voters in 2016, organizers said. The signatures must still be validated by California election officials.
  Requiring condom use in porn films gets enough signatures for California vote (Reuters)

• Berish Strauch thought an inflatable [erectile device] option might work better, and the development of flexible plastics made it possible. In 1973, he proposed an implantable device that would embed a fluid reservoir inside the scrotum or the abdomen, connected to a flexible tube running along the top of the penile shaft. The impotent patient could pump the tube full whenever he felt like some sexytime.
  Here’s the First Penile Prosthetic That Didn’t Stay Erect (Gizmodo)

• Doron Ofir Casting and MTV’s series “True Life” are screening candidates for a spot on a potential upcoming episode about the adult industry. They are seeking candidates who have a parent working in the adult toy or video industry.
  MTV Casting for ‘True Life’ Episode With Adult Theme (XBIZ)

• Microsoft has launched a cloud version of PhotoDNA, its free technology designed to detect images depicting child sexual abuse, giving more services and websites the chance to use it. Now that there’s a version that runs on Microsoft’s cloud, it can be used even by smaller companies and non-profit orgs.
  Microsoft launches cloud version of child porn detector (Engadget)

• It’s only recent that trans people are becoming more accepted in our society. From our pop culture to our political discourse, transsexuals are the topic du jour. Despite all the rising awareness of trans issues, there’s a side to this story that isn’t really examined: the people who find themselves attracted to trans people (article primarily addresses male attraction to trans women).
  Examining Trans Attraction (Eros Media)

• Pornhub has never done an interview about the design philosophy behind Pornhub’s network. While you might assume it’s as easy as presenting visitors with an unending stream of hardcore material, it’s a lot more complicated.
  How Pornhub’s designers keep you coming… back (The Next Web)

• Fusion this week took the wraps off its upcoming slate, which features original and acquired docuseries, documentaries and specials. Above, watch a trailer for Fusion’s original documentary Miami Porn: Sex Work In The Sunshine State, which premieres Sunday.
  Fusion Slate Covers Sex, Drugs & Hip-Hop (Deadline)

• To be exact, the filmed sex act was in the fitting room of Uniqlo’s Beijing flagship in the shopping center of Sanlitun. The video they made of said quickie promptly went viral on social media outlets Weibo and WeChat after it was posted online, racking up millions of views and earning the outrage of Chinese authorities, who said it “clashed with socialist core values.”
  A sex tape apparently shot in a Uniqlo fitting room has Chinese authorities in a tizzy (Quartz)

• The city of New Orleans currently has the second highest sexually transmitted disease rate in the country, second only to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The city’s teenage pregnancy rate also dwarfs most other U.S. cities, and it’s the number-one reason teenage girls cite for dropping out of school. That’s probably because currently, Louisiana public schools teach abstinence-based sexual education and are prohibited from teaching students about contraception and STDs.
  The Battle To Bring Sex Education To The City With The Second Highest STD Rate In The Country (Think Progress)

• April Flores has been making erotica in the Big Beautiful Woman category (featuring larger sized women) since 2000, carefully carving out a niche in the ever-changing world of online pornography. The love of her life, noted photographer Carlos Batts, died suddenly in October 2013, throwing Flores’s life in turmoil. In an phone interview with Fusion, Flores opened up about being a new widow, being a feminist making pornography, and the lies society tells larger women.
  How adult star April Flores is redefining the concept of sexy (Fusion)

• “You’re a young salamander among giants, and it’s mating season. There’s no way you can compete with the heavyweights, so what do you do? You start a sperm-based flash mob.”
  These Salamanders Get Into Groups And Go On Sperm-Release Raids (io9)

• Japan finally moved to ban the possession of pornographic photos and videos of children, amid growing international criticism as the only Group of Seven industrialized country that had not passed a law on the matter. After the Diet amended the law on punishment of activities relating to child prostitution and child pornography, the revised law took effect on July 15 last year. But a one-year moratorium was put in place in order to give individuals who had such images time to dispose of them.
  Ban on possession of child porn takes effect in Japan (Japan Times)

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From Vogue Paris, it’s Anja Rubik and Nikolai Danielsen by Mario Testino in a very inspiring set that includes some very nice CFNM. More here (was in the March print issue) — well worth a click.

Did you know I have an erotic fashion section? :D

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The incredible work of painter, illustrator and artist extraordinaire Tara McPherson first entered my sphere when I included this tweet in a sex news post:

Now that I’ve had time to fully explore her portfolio, I’m a huge fan. She’s got all kinds of stickers, silkscreens, lithos, t-shirts, rock posters, etc. available for sale so it’s a snap to support this fab, female indie artist. You can also follow her on Twitter.

This painting is a favorite:

And back in 2011; based on this character, she did a ‘Lilitu’ Vinyl Toy for Kidrobot Black, which sadly doesn’t exist anymore.

If you liked this post, don’t miss the erotic art section.

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