This is so good I keep re-reading it. “Mary Harron’s American Psycho (2000) is a lot of things. A satire about the glittering rot of 1980s America. An excellent showcase for Christian Bale’s skills as an actor. An adaptation that bests the novel it’s based on. But more than anything else the film is a stunning example of the power of the female gaze when it turns its attention to male vanity and violence.”
* The Female Gaze of ‘American Psycho’: How Mary Harron Made Fantasy Into Timeless Satire (Village Voice)

Warning for survivors. Some were as young as 16, he passed them around to his cronies, and he recorded them. “In recent days, more than a dozen women have contacted Gretchen Carlson’s New Jersey-based attorney, Nancy Erika Smith, and made detailed allegations of sexual harassment by Roger Ailes over a 25-year period dating back to the 1960s when he was a producer on The Mike Douglas Show. “These are women who have never told these stories until now,” Smith told me. “Some are in lot of pain.””
* Six More Women Allege That Roger Ailes Sexually Harassed Them (NY Mag)

“This last day has been a handful for Paul. A couple was caught half-naked in an elevator. An elderly gambler soiled himself while playing slots and flung feces at a group of bachelorettes. A guest wouldn’t believe snorting cocaine in the reception area was illegal. A little-person prostitute was taken out by the police after performing oral sex on a client in a public bathroom.”
* 48 Hours on the Dark Side of Las Vegas (Narratively)

“If you think celesbian gossip these days is crazy, you should’ve been alive like 100 years ago because DAMN these ladies were BUSY. ”
* Top 10 Most Sexually Prolific Lesbians and Bisexuals Of Old Hollywood (Autostraddle)

“Sex advice is one of the tried and true tropes of men’s- and women’s-interest magazines: 69 Tips for Better Oral Sex, The One Move That Will Blow His/Her/Their Mind, Here’s a Sex Thing You Don’t Even Know About are, given the twin drives of sexuality and curiosity, the most evergreen of content. But Nicole Prause, principal investigator at the Sexual Psychophysiology and Affective Neuroscience Lab at the University of California, Los Angeles, doesn’t buy it.”
* The One Real Way to Get Better at Sex, According to a Sex Researcher (NY Mag)

“This may be a cuddle-for-hire website, but it’s not extolling the restorative power of platonic touch. Unlike The Snuggery, which has the soothing color scheme of a therapist’s personal blog and says it aims to “make the world a gentler place, one cuddle at a time,” Cuddle Time Agency is all about the women, with photos of cuddle babes lying in bikinis on yachts and scrunching their boobs together in grainy webcam shots.”
* Whither Professional Cuddling? (MEL Magazine)

“As the debate over whether the United States should decriminalize sex work intensifies, prostitution has quietly gone mainstream among many young people, seen as a viable option in an impossible economy and legitimized by a wave of feminism that interprets sexualization as empowering. “People don’t call it ‘prostitution’ anymore,” says Caitlin, 20, a college student in Montreal. “That sounds like slut-shaming. Some girls get very rigid about it, like ‘This is a woman’s choice.’ ””
* Daddies, “Dates,” and the Girlfriend Experience: Welcome to the New Prostitution Economy (Vanity Fair)

“Unbeknownst to me at the time, heteronormativity played a heavy part in our relationship despite us both being the same gender. This was during a period where I still identified as a cisgender boy and here I was sexually experimenting with another cisgender boy, yet I was always designated “the girl” during our playtimes. It was a role explicitly established very early on, and one that I felt surprisingly comfortable in.”
* How Learning About Queer Sex Taught Me Self-Love (Crash Pad Series)

“We seem to be in the golden age of hustlers. From tech bros to politicians, everyone’s a hustler these days. The infamous hustle is sprinkled across social media bios, WIRED headlines, and marketing campaigns. … One could say “hustler” bears some semblance to the feminized “whore,” another word loaded with connotations around money, fornication and unsavory business practices. Except, while we’ve been socially conditioned to want to be hustlers, we’re wildly uncomfortable being whores.”
* Every day we’re hustling: Why we love “hustlers” — but not “whores” (Salon)

“[Telegraph columnist Rebecca Reid] said: “I think we’re having sex differently rather than less, and the lines of what sex actually is can be a little blurry. Millennials are certainly more likely to experiment, and particularly to have sexual contact with people they find attractive rather than a specific gender … I think the easy availability of sex toys and porn is also a factor: if you’re feeling sexually frustrated you’ve got a much better outlet to address the issue yourself, rather than going out and looking for sex.””
* The real reason why millennials stopped having sex (Independent UK)

Main post image via: ANATOMICAL STUDIES OF SPIDER-MAN, MERMAIDS, AND MORE (Dangerous Minds)

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I recently posted a photo of my living room couch on Twitter, against a wall that features a painting I love very much by John John Jesse. Twitter friend Snadgy thought it was a piece by Aya Tokano — which made me realize I’d never featured/appreciated her work on my blog!

So, please introduce yourself to her incredible paintings. There’s a great feature about Tokano in Garage Magazine, which tells us:

Aya Takano bloomed as an artist in the late 1990s, as part of a new wave of Japanese artists who rejected both the formal conventions of Western art, such as one-point ­perspective and classic color theory, and the quietism of classical Japanese images. Their work is based on images of popular culture, particularly manga, anime, and model-making, with the contours of the Japanese art tradition showing through in their compositional forms.

(…) In the years when Takano was maturing as an artist, young girls – or the idea of young girls – ­became a focus of attention in Japan. Young girls were the focal point of visual art, while young female consumers were recognized by manufacturers and retailers as a new and powerful segment of the market. The era of girlie culture would last for the next decade, and eventually yield a generation of child-women. The figures that populate Takano’s world are part of this generation.

While big, lozenge-shaped eyes have become a common feature of post-anime character design, Takano’s continued use of this visual trope has less to do with infantilism and prolonged adolescence than with a certain type of eroticism that is particular to her generation. Her figures do not project insipid naïveté, but comfort with a fully formed sexuality. (… read more: AYA TAKANO – Garage Magazine)

I see that back in 2010, Tokano collaborated with Shu Uemura… and I want it all :) See also: Aya Tokano Documentary, “Queen of Superflat”

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• “Republicans are taking a cue from Utah in drafting their official party platform. An amendment to the platform, which will come up for a vote Monday or Tuesday, cracks down on the porn industry. It was proposed by Mary Forrester, a delegate from North Carolina who told Yahoo! News that she worked on it with Concerned Women for America, a conservative Christian group. It’s designed, she said, to protect children from becoming porn addicts. ”
  * Republicans Call Porn a ‘Public Health Crisis’ That’s ‘Destroying Lives’ (NY Mag)
  * See also: GOP Declares War on Modern Sexuality (Psychology Today)

• “[In prison] If you have a [girlie] magazine in its entirety, it can be hawked to other inmates for upwards of $200, depending on what condition it’s in. The owners then make copies and resell them in black-and-white for $20 a pop. Copies (e.g. copies of copies) of spreads or certain pin-ups are then sold for a stamp a page, and prisoners often trade when they get bored of “their girls.””
  * How Prison Inmates Get Porn (VICE Canada)

• “Before you ask, yes, Cucumber and Banana are called that because: dicks. More specifically, the sibling British series are called that because of a scale of how hard dicks can get, determined by scientists in Switzerland and laid out by Cucumber’s protagonist, a middle-aged gay man we meet in that terrifying moment of limbo before his life roller-coaster-drops into midlife crisis.”
  * ‘Cucumber’ and ‘Banana’ Take Sex Seriously (The Ringer)

• “… Such was the case today, when porn officially saw Pokemon GO take its title as the top search term on the internet. Or at least that’s what YouPorn is saying on behalf of online sex of all kinds. You can see YouPorn’s graph of search interest in Pokemon GO versus porn above. The company also awarded Niantic and Nintendo’s smash hit mobile game a tongue in cheek Gym Badge to recognize the achievement, complete with some adult jokes we won’t get into here.”
  * Pokemon GO unseats porn as top search term (Fansided)

• Warning for survivors of sexual assault and trauma. “At first, there was complete silence from officials. As rumors spread on social media, police had nothing to say about allegations of mass sexual assaults and other crimes carried out on New Year’s Eve in the German city of Cologne. According to a leaked police document, published by Germany’s Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper and broadcasters NDR and WDR, the previous estimates have to be dramatically revised — upward.” < hence what a few people in the SF hacker scene have been calling ‘Appelbaum’s Law‘
  * Leaked document says 2,000 men allegedly assaulted 1,200 German women on New Year’s Eve (Washington Post)

• “Friedman is a regular at universities. The Student Activities Board at the University of Michigan-Dearborn described his talk there in September this way: “From doughnuts to lasagna to ramen, lessons range from sexual assault prevention to meeting the perfect partner to spine-tingling tips that boost sexual satisfaction.””
  * If you like salt and pepper you hate gays, says food critic who teaches students safe sex (The College Fix, via Academia.org)

• “Snapchat doesn’t do enough to warn teenagers and parents about sexual content on its app, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday by celebrity attorney Mark Geragos on behalf of a family.”
  * Snapchat sued for being too sexy for minors (LA Times)

• “The Legend of Tarzan featured a kiss between Alexander Skarsgard and Chrisoph Waltz, but the filmmakers cut it … David Yates, the director, has acknowledged that in his film the relationship between Tarzan and Captain Rom, played by Christoph Waltz, has homoerotic undertones.”
  * Christoph Waltz Kissed Alexander Skarsgard in ‘Tarzan’, But Filmmakers Cut It (Towleroad)

• OMG, this video – gets graphic around 3:00. “MacPlaymate was made in 1986 by Mike Saenz, as “interactive erotica for the Mac.” Mike Saenz has done other things with his life—he’s illustrated comic books and produced other pieces of software — but on his Wikipedia page, MacPlaymate is still listed as one of his key accomplishments. … There’s even a PANIC button with reassuringly rounded edges and all-caps Chicago font—it hides the game—and a surprising number of ways that you can interact with your MacPlaymate.”
  * Found: Hidden and Charming Mac Porn Game From 1986 (Atlas Obscura)

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Just found on Feature Shoot, and not to be missed: Intimate and defiant portraits of ‘GIRLS’ in present-day China. Snip:

Described as one of the “rising stars of Chinese photography” by Ai Wewei in 2012, Beijing-based Luo Yang is gaining international recognition for her candid photographs of women in contemporary China. GIRLS began in 2007 as a deeply personal series, for in her subjects, Luo observed emotions and questions very similar to her own.

… The photographer simultaneously manages to convey the girls’ defiance and ultra-cool composure, alongside their vulnerability, shyness and insecurities. Luo elaborates: “I can’t say that they represent a whole new generation of women in China, but they are absolutely a group of women who represent independence and freedom”. (…read and see more on Feature Shoot)

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• “Led by some of the nation’s most anti-gay politicians and even the head of an anti-gay hate group, Republicans late Tuesday voted on and passed the final draft of the GOP 2016 platform. … “Opposition to marriage equality, nonsense about bathrooms, an endorsement of the debunked psychological practice of “pray the gay away” — it’s all in there,” the email reads, as the Miami Herald’s Steve Rothaus reports.”
  * GOP Passes ‘Most Anti-LGBT Platform’ in History, Log Cabin Republicans Shocked (New Civil Rights Movement)

• “A Republican National Convention platform committee has declared pornography “a public health crisis.” Committee members don’t seem to know what “public health” means. … Pornography may be an even more ridiculous extension of the “public health” claim. The GOP platform draft says, “Pornography, with his harmful effects, especially on children, has become a public health crisis that is destroying the life of millions.” But it offers no evidence. … But in a 2009 review of the literature, psychologists Christopher Ferguson and Richard Hartley concluded: “it is time to discard the hypothesis that pornography contributes to increased sexual assault behavior.”
  * Porn is not a ‘public health crisis’ (The Hill)
  * See also: Is Online Porn Really Hazardous to Your Health? (Mic)

• “The porny players are using a Diglett, a mole-like ground Pokémon, to cover up their peens. Makes sense seeing as Digletts are about eight inches long and are, by definition, dirty.”
  * Of Course Pokémon Go Dick Pics Are Now A Thing (Unicorn Booty)

• The takeaway here is that right-wing, Christian organization Enough Is Enough is pressuring Starbucks, McDonalds, and other major food chains to censor their wifi for “family friendly” content. “Enough Is Enough’s campaign includes ending free Wi-Fi access to pornography in public places like shopping malls, restaurants, stadiums, hotel lobbies and airplanes.”
  * Sorry, but you can’t watch porn at McDonald’s anymore (NY Post)

• “When Audrey Davison met someone special at her nursing home, she wanted to love her man. Her nurses and aides at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale did not try to stop her. On the contrary, she was allowed to stay over in her boyfriend’s room with the door shut under the Bronx home’s stated “sexual expression policy.” One aide even made the couple a “Do Not Disturb” sign to hang outside.”
  * Too Old for Sex? Not at This Nursing Home (NYT)

• Warning for survivors of sexual assault and trauma. Glad I’ve never tried to go to this. “The northern Spanish city of Pamplona has become famous worldwide for its high-risk festival in which revelers run through narrow streets in the early morning with charging bulls on their way to the ring. But the annual festivities and street drama have taken a darker turn this year after 15 people were arrested over the past week in separate cases of sexual assault, including gang rape.”
  * Thousands Protest Sex Assaults at Bull Run in Pamplona, Spain (NYT)

• “In Sisters of Pornography, the London-based writer and dominatrix Reba Maybury and her co-author Esra Padgett feature candid interviews with performers — brought to life through vivid hand-drawn portraits by artist Michelle Shepperd — to offer a compelling glimpse into female camaraderie in a profession still demonized by the mainstream.”
  * What Female Friendship Is Really Like in Porn (Fusion)

• “Over the past five years or so, Female Friendly categories have begun to appear across mainstream porn sites like Pornhub, YouPorn, and xHamster. … But why have these categories emerged? Are porn companies responding to an increase in female users or are they trying to attract more female users? Or is Female Friendly porn simply a token gesture in a medium dominated by the male gaze?”
  * Do Women Actually Watch ‘Female Friendly’ Porn? (Vice AU)

• “PENTHOUSE Magazine’s July / August 2016 issue reveals an in-depth look into the political power of the Mormon religion in Utah, and its hold on the rest of the country. … Campbell’s annotative eight-page essay focuses on the hyper-conservative Mormon Church, also known as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS), and its partisan influence on local, as well as national, politics.”
  * Penthouse Publishes Expose of Political Power of LDS (press release; Financial Content)

• “A woman with an enormous, warped vagina stands over you, attempting to situate a pair of naked coeds just so on an overstuffed sectional. Their faces distort and sporadically disappear as they pleasure each other and themselves. Their movements are sometimes smooth, sometimes staccato, like a couple of gyrating marionettes on Ecstasy. They moan with pleasure and talk dirty to no one in particular, but their mouths don’t move.”
  * One frightening live sex show and the state of 360 video (Engadget)

Main post image: Fuck My Like poster by Privacy Gift Shop, via Whitney Merrill.

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* Juan Lucho, Misha Cross, Max Deeds – Horny Beasts
* Amarna Miller, Owen Gray – Los Angeles

* Max, Pau Pappel, Sadie Lune, Jasko Fide, Challenger, Thia Wednesday, Cherryosity, Lou , Salty, Kristina Marlen – Shutter
* Sadie Lune, Jesse Stryder – Female Ejaculation

* Sophie Parker – Queen of fighters
* Skyler Synn – Bubble jet

* Luna Ruiz, Lobo – Blow the Candles
* Jenna Sativa Lucy Doll – Feels So Good

* Nancy A. – Xentina
* Aislin – Kinassa

* Lucie Blush, gentleman friend – Follow the White Rabbit
* Kimberley, Oochay – Sweet Blonde

* Antonia Sainz, Max Dior – Body To Body Massage
* Julia Roca, Vic Leon – Teasing

* Davon Kim – Morning Juice
* Patritcy A. – Lime

* Mandy Slim, Luke Hotrod – Caught His Stepsister
* Stacey Sweets, gentleman friend – Curvy T & A

* Alexa Grace, Van Wylde – Blonde Orgasm
* Antonia Sain, Fernando Martin – Flaunt It

* Milla – Day Dreams
* Laura I. – My Smoothie

* Henessy A., Nekane – Nimble
* Alyssa Reece, Taissia A. – Unique

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“People are taking to the internet to find Pokémon Go sex partners. And we’re not talking about a kinky minority, here—there are so many hookup ads related to the game that ‘Pokémon Go and Blow’ might just usurp Netflix and Chill, or at least become this year’s leading lazy sex pun.”
* Close Encounters of the Casual Kind: A Pokémon Go sex craze is sweeping the internet (Daily Dot)

“On Microsoft’s website for its HoloLens apps — applications available for its augmented reality headset — it depicts men and women using the hardware in very different ways. …”
* Microsoft’s HoloLens Site Reinforces Every Gendered Stereotype in Tech (Mic)

“[In prison] If you have a [girlie] magazine in its entirety, it can be hawked to other inmates for upwards of $200, depending on what condition it’s in. The owners then make copies and resell them in black-and-white for $20 a pop. Copies (e.g. copies of copies) of spreads or certain pin-ups are then sold for a stamp a page, and prisoners often trade when they get bored of “their girls.””
* How Prison Inmates Get Porn (VICE Canada)

“Three days later, a link to the experiment was posted on 2ch (“Dvach,” a Russian anonymous forum). The users created a thread titled “Looking for Sluts Who Acted in Porn or Worked the Streets,” and coordinated a cyberbullying campaign. 2ch users encouraged each other to write to the husbands and friends of supposed porn actresses whose profiles were identified on Vkontakte using FindFace. [FindFace Founder Maxim] Perlin often uses the Russian equivalent for “cool”: “identifying porn actresses is fun and kind of cool”; “it’s cool to do something good on a global level”; ”
* The end of privacy: ‘Meduza’ takes a hard look at FindFace and the looming prospect of total surveillance (Meduza)

“Launched in August 2015, Ohlala is a web-based app that facilitates what it calls “instant paid dating.” Male users post offers for dates, consisting of a time, a duration, and how much money they’re willing to pay — a typical offer is from 1–4 hours at an average price of $300. While the request is up, women can decide whether or not they’d like that person to be able to contact them. Crucially, women are not visible to men before they initiate conversation — it’s the inverse of the backpage listings to which it’s often compared. ”
* A new app lets women charge for a night out. Will dating join the on-demand economy? (Verge)

“… Pearson made headlines when he authored a report for Bondara, an adult product retailer, saying that artificial intelligence-equipped robots could “offer a customisable personality with only the emotional baggage you want” and thereby be “perfect for those people who want to live their ultimate fantasy without all the strings and emotional commitments of real relationships.” Which would seem to be exactly what Professor Sharkey is frightened of. …”
* People May Lose Their Virginity to Robots in the Future (Future of Sex)

“A woman with an enormous, warped vagina stands over you, attempting to situate a pair of naked coeds just so on an overstuffed sectional. Their faces distort and sporadically disappear as they pleasure each other and themselves. Their movements are sometimes smooth, sometimes staccato, like a couple of gyrating marionettes on Ecstasy. They moan with pleasure and talk dirty to no one in particular, but their mouths don’t move.”
* One frightening live sex show and the state of 360 video (Engadget)

“When Audrey Davison met someone special at her nursing home, she wanted to love her man. Her nurses and aides at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale did not try to stop her. On the contrary, she was allowed to stay over in her boyfriend’s room with the door shut under the Bronx home’s stated “sexual expression policy.” One aide even made the couple a “Do Not Disturb” sign to hang outside.”
* Too Old for Sex? Not at This Nursing Home (NYT)

“… By now, the attentive reader is starting to itch. You have to visit the original article to find out where Carr is sourcing his ideas. One source is CovenantEyes.com, a private company that sells Internet use-monitoring software, ostensibly so parents know what their kids are doing online. Another source Carr cites is Jill Manning, a Colorado family and marriage therapist who once worked at the Heritage Foundation in Washington DC. The Heritage Foundation has a well-worn reputation as a conservative think tank.”
* Tone-Deaf Column Argues That Internet Porn Destroys Marriages (Ask Men)

“A Republican National Convention platform committee has declared pornography “a public health crisis.” Committee members don’t seem to know what “public health” means. … Pornography may be an even more ridiculous extension of the “public health” claim. The GOP platform draft says, “Pornography, with his harmful effects, especially on children, has become a public health crisis that is destroying the life of millions.” But it offers no evidence. … But in a 2009 review of the literature, psychologists Christopher Ferguson and Richard Hartley concluded: “it is time to discard the hypothesis that pornography contributes to increased sexual assault behavior.”
* Porn is not a ‘public health crisis’ (The Hill)
* See also: GOP Is Adding ‘Porn Addiction’ to Its Platform, But Does It Even Exist? (New York Magazine)

Main post photo by my photo hero Helmut Newton, from HELMUT NEWTON EXHIBIT IN VENICE, ITALY (Treats! Magazine), which I would die to see in person.

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• So basically, a whole lot of people (including me) now won’t be able to work in a Starbucks because of a right-wing Christian anti-porn organization that is known for making false statements, in partnership with the right-wing Christian anti-porn group formerly known as Morality in Media. Censorship is taking over. “Starbucks said Friday it would soon add porn-blocking filters to its public, in-store Wi-Fi. The group Enough is Enough and the National Center on Sexual Exploitation have been putting pressure on companies that provide free Wi-Fi to the public to block porn sites.”
  * Sorry, there’s no more porn with your Starbucks latte (Ars Technica)

• “Across the US only 50% of high school students receive sex education that meets the recommendations of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. … the authors single out abstinence-heavy education, which sometimes excludes information about contraceptives, as a key concern for doctors looking to help adolescent patients avoid sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancy.”
  * Doctors urged to advise patients about risks of abstinence-centric sex education (Guardian)

• Not acknowledging the sexual abuse in the first place is what led to this… But at least we know to lower our expectations. “The Tor Project has a new board of directors, but don’t bother asking why.”
  * After Sex Scandal, Tor Project Dances Around Reason for Shakeup (Inverse)

• Pattaya is awesome and these people are crazy. “Thailand has promised to eradicate its notorious sex tourism industry as it attempts to reinvent itself as a female-friendly travel destination. … [Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul, the country’s first female tourism minister] began her drive to clean up Thai tourism’s image soon after arriving in office in 2014, singling out the seedy resort city of Pattaya as a pilot project for the country at large.”
  * ‘Thailand is closed to sex tourism’ says country’s first female tourism minister (Telegraph)

• This is really fun. “Whether you are a fan of traditional folk dance or understand the Indian language of Marathi or not, it’s hard not to be drawn in by “The Amorous Adventures of Shakku and Megha in the Valley of Consent.””
  * Agents of Ishq Gives Sex Ed a Good Name (Bitch Media)

• Yes, there are now Mötley Crüe branded vibrators. “The Official Mötley Crüe Collection comprises a set of eight mini and midi-sized vibrators, emblazoned with the band’s iconic typography and distinctive artwork …”
  * Lovehoney Debuts Mötley Crüe Collection (XBIZ)

• “Rita’s business is an online brothel that specializes in bondage and kink, and offers an essential customer-vetting service for sex workers. She is a madam, but for the electronic era. And the fact that her business exists at all offers a key insight into the future of trust and jobs in the technology-driven 21st century.”
  * Sex workers have created the perfect method for keeping people honest online (Quartz)

• “Planned Parenthood is reminding a world obsessed with “catching ‘em all” that there are some things you definitely don’t want to catch.”
  * The Genius Way Planned Parenthood Used ‘Pokemon Go’ To Promote Safe Sex (Huffington Post)

• “Data on what we search for, pay for and click on is being used to predict our desires and funnel us bespoke(ish) porn. At first blush, it might seem like this kind of micro-targeting would just turbo-boost the internet’s existing trajectory, making it even easier for people to find and embrace a diversity of bodies and fetishes. But there’s a fundamental shift here from a world in which we explore a passive sea of content to a world in which porn actively explores and prescribes itself to us.”
  * Micro-targeted digital porn is changing human sexuality (Aeon)

• “Despite the high rates of HIV here sex workers say many of their clients don’t believe that HIV is something that will ever affect them. These two women insist that they always insist that their clients use condoms. They say PrEP serves as backup protection against HIV in case the condom breaks or a client turns vicious and rapes them.”
  * Fighting HIV In Two High-Risk Groups: Sex Workers And Truck Drivers (NPR)

Main post image via ‘Sex’ an ‘adult’ magazine from the 1920s (Dangerous Minds).

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* Blake Eden, Bree Daniels and Ellena Woods – Lesbian Menage A Trois
* Clarice A. – Mire

* Emily – Stripped Naked in Hollywood
* Hegre Art – Loveseat Sex
* Eva – Sexy Naked Contortionist

* Gloria Sol – Nobasa
* Viola Bailey – Christe

* Dakota A. – Palyzo
* Patritcy A. – Lime
* Ryana – Enotia

* Winnie – Cardue
* Leila Mazz – Coluna

* Dita V. – Gnime
* Nasita – Fantasies
* Berenice – Drosise

* Lindra – Purity
* Laura I. – My Smoothie
* Diana B. – Sexual Liberation

* Sapphira – The Sea Is Beautiful
* Rosa Maria – CASTING Rosa Maria
* Li Moon – Sexy In The Sun

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• “Officials have ordered 450,000 condoms for the more than 10,000 athletes housed in the Olympic Village. According to the Folha de São Paulo newspaper, which broke the story in May, the IOC is providing 350,000 male condoms, 100,000 female condoms, and 175,000 packets of lubricant. That works out to 42 “camisinhas,’’ Brazilian slang for condoms, per athlete.”
  * Olympics 2016: Triple The Condoms! (Daily Beast)

• “A new dating service called Pokédates has been created to help “Pokémon Go” players find love while catching Pokémon. The service coordinates the entire “Pokémon Go” date, from selecting the match to finding a time based on members’ provided availability, and selecting the most convenient PokéStop or PokéGym to meet up at.”
  * The world’s first ‘Pokémon Go’ dating service has launched (Business Insider)

• Patent trolls stifle teledildonics yet again. “Winzz, LLC, an apparently now-defunct sex tech company that did business as LovePalz, has been ordered to pay $56,100.71 in damages to TZU Technologies. TZU Technologies, a California-based company, controls the rights to the US patent covering the communication of sex toys over the Internet.”
  * LovePalz must pay $56,100 in damages after losing ‘teledildonic’ patent suit (Future of Sex)

• ““We are sounding the alarm,” said Michel Sidibé, executive director of UNAids. “The power of prevention is not being realised. If there is a resurgence in new HIV infections now, the epidemic will become impossible to control. The world needs to take urgent and immediate action.””
  * HIV infecting 2m more people every year, warns UN (Guardian)

• “As part of the International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presented a report today analyzing the sexual risk behavior of American males in high school.”
  * Gay and Bi Teens, Sex, Drugs, and HIV: The Latest Numbers (Advocate)

• “California’s November ballot will leave no stone unturned. Classrooms. Cigarettes. Prisons. Pot. Also among the topics to be debated: the porn industry. Supporters of Proposition 60, also known as The California Safer Sex in the Adult Film Industry Act, say it aims to tighten safety standards within the industry and minimize the risk of spreading HIV and sexually transmitted infections. Pornographers argue the proposition tries to fix a system that isn’t broken.”
  * Making an eXXXample of California’s porn industry (SD Citybeat)

• “In Cleveland, where Donald Trump was nominated by his party’s delegates Tuesday afternoon, porn viewership has surpassed — for the first time — New York City, Miami, and Los Angeles, according to a leading adult-video streaming service. The increase in Cleveland porn traffic during the Republican National Convention is allegedly 184 percent higher than usual, xHamster reports.”
  * The Republican National Convention apparently makes Clevelanders want to watch porn (Daily Dot)

Main post photo via Above the City: Brianna by Benjamin Askinas (C-Heads Magazine).

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One of the most important articles of the decade. “Regular readers of The Fact Checker know that we have looked skeptically at various estimates of the number of youths involved in the sex trade. All too often, the estimates were based on flimsy or out-of-date data, leading to estimates that strained credulity. … Now a new study, funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, has come up with an estimate that appears significantly lower than previous estimates.”
* New study: Far fewer juveniles engaged in sex trade than previously estimated (Washington Post)

“I asked some of the adult industry’s leading porn stars and camgirls attending last week’s Latin America Adult Business Expo in Colombia for advice on how to deal with trolls and cyberbullying. They’ve spent more time thinking about this than most people (in fact, the most widely attended panel at last week’s adult business expo was on this very topic), but their advice applies perfectly to those of us who wear clothes to work.”
* Porn Stars Share Their Tips On Dealing With Internet Trolls (Fusion)

“What I think the dancer was talking about is giving the appearance of having gotten lost on our way home and wandered into the strip club, which, I guess, is how one sells sexuality to a demographic that stands behind a platform that calls porn a “public health crisis.” I am meant to exude accidental, innocent sexuality. Like a fuckable child.”
* My Week Stripping In Cleveland During the RNC (Gawker)

I totally want to try one, but holy safety gear Batman, they’re expensive. “After three years, a snub from Bill Gates, a $100,000 Indiegogo campaign, multiple tweaks and extensive testing with a state-funded sex machine, a non-FDA-approved prototype Galactic Cap is now available online for $25 a Cap (or $15, if you buy in bulk). Based on glowing, anonymous customer surveys, Powell likes to call it “the finest condom in the world.””
* Where No Man Has Come Before (MEL Magazine)

“Most important during orientation is the breakdown of Dick Checks — any ranch worker’s most important skill. Dick Checks are just what they sound like: the girl checks a dick up and down for any sign of a sexually transmitted infection or other malady. Should a penis fail this check, the customer is asked to leave.”
* I Applied for a Job at Nevada’s Most Famous Brothel (Thrillist)

“While [Vaginal Creme] Davis used her various projects to communicate her message, J.D.s more generally conveyed its sentiments of dissatisfaction by incorporating found pornographic images (a “reaction against anti-porn, sexually moralistic second wave feminism”, as [Bruce] LaBruce puts it) alongside tales of porno fiction and murderous rampages. The zine’s founders didn’t discriminate. “(It wasn’t just) queer punks, but also prison shut-ins, prostitutes, oppressed racial minorities, transgender people… anyone who went against the grain and had similar interests, sexual deviance and radical politics,” says LaBruce, “We were fighting the gay mainstream by promoting no division between gays and lesbians, by being inclusive of queers of all races, ages, genders and sexual persuasions.””
* Revisiting the seminal queercore movement (Dazed)

“[Laura Watson, spokesperson for the English Collective of Prostitutes] says that while recent progress in debates around sex work are positive, the changes need to make it on to the statute books, and fast. In the meantime, she says, sex workers are still at risk. She says a major concern is police officers unfairly using sex workers’ criminal records to contact them and blackmail them into having sex with them, in exchange for not getting further convictions.”
* This is what it’s like to be a sex worker in the UK (Independent UK)

“Earlier this week, McDonald’s and Starbucks became the two latest high-profile companies to pledge to block customers from accessing pornography over store-provided wifi networks. The development was the most recent victory in a campaign by Enough Is Enough, an advocacy group that promotes “internet safety.” These efforts seem to be successful in large part because public viewers of adult entertainment appear to be a constituency without a champion. (“Well, that’s the last 25 cents I ever give them for a cup of ice,” one fictitious public-porn aficionado told The Onion on Tuesday.)”
* Hotels: Pretty Okay With Their Customers’ Porn-Watching Habits (Atlantic)

“Banking for sex-related enterprises can be hit or miss. Some organizations find success working with payroll servicers like ADP or taking payments via PayPal, while others have their accounts closed or are denied business loans simply because of the adult nature of their business. Cannabis business owners can relate. Many cannabis businesses are forced to deal in cash due to the federal regulations that govern banking systems, although there have been recent developments regarding cannabis banking.”
* Cannabis and Sex Toys: Two Industries with Similar Challenges and Strengths (Leafly)

It is a shitty writer who believes that the opportunity to tell a woman’s story means telling more about a man’s story vis-a-vis the writer’s shitty sexual stereotypes. “If for some reason you can’t see it, it’s Batgirl and Batman, i.e. Barbara Gordon and Bruce Wayne, making out and having sex. It’s a very unusual pairing in that Barbara is usually shown to be the same age as the first Robin—and is frequently romantically paired with him. In almost all media, Batman has had a primarily parental relationship with Barbara, which makes this scene problematic for many fans on its most basic level.”
* The Killing Joke Movie Is a Disaster, Right Down to Its Comic-Con Panel (io9, thanks JWZ!)

“Rita’s business is an online brothel that specializes in bondage and kink, and offers an essential customer-vetting service for sex workers. She is a madam, but for the electronic era. And the fact that her business exists at all offers a key insight into the future of trust and jobs in the technology-driven 21st century.”
* Sex workers have created the perfect method for keeping people honest online (Quartz)

“In 2001, sex advice columnist Dan Savage got more than 12,000 fans to vote on what would officially become the commonly accepted slang for a woman inserting a strap-on dildo into a man’s ass. 5,216 of those voting — 43 percent of the voting pool — settled on pegging, a term Savage celebrates for being “crisp, clean and easily conjugated.””
* What Hetero Men Need to Know for the Perfect Pegging Experience (Alternet)

“California’s November ballot will leave no stone unturned. Classrooms. Cigarettes. Prisons. Pot. Also among the topics to be debated: the porn industry. Supporters of Proposition 60, also known as The California Safer Sex in the Adult Film Industry Act, say it aims to tighten safety standards within the industry and minimize the risk of spreading HIV and sexually transmitted infections. Pornographers argue the proposition tries to fix a system that isn’t broken.”
* Making an eXXXample of California’s porn industry (SD Citybeat)

“Despite the high rates of HIV here sex workers say many of their clients don’t believe that HIV is something that will ever affect them. These two women insist that they always insist that their clients use condoms. They say PrEP serves as backup protection against HIV in case the condom breaks or a client turns vicious and rapes them.”
* Fighting HIV In Two High-Risk Groups: Sex Workers And Truck Drivers (NPR)

Main post image (pin-up model Judy O’Day in the February, 1957 issue of Satan magazine) via SEX, SATAN AND THE SINGLE GIRL: BEWITCHING VINTAGE OCCULT-THEMED ‘MEN’S INTEREST’ MAGAZINES (Dangerous Minds).

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• “Ela Darling … prefers to eschew traditional food choices in favor of a glass of Soylent. Before she discovered Silicon Valley’s favorite meal replacement, Darling would prep for a scene with a bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich and a green coffee drink from Starbucks; but “Soylent makes me feel a hell of a lot better and it doesn’t add all the carbs and calories.” Darling also notes that “[Soylent] makes me feel satiated but not full and just generally good””
  * What Porn Stars Eat for Breakfast (Extra Crispy)

• Among The Tor Project’s priorities: Avoiding the word “rape” and giving the exclusive to the New York Times. Maybe now HN dudes and hacktivist douchebros will stop questioning the validity of our experiences, though I doubt it. Et tu, Wikileaks? Snowden? “The Tor Project, a nonprofit digital privacy group, announced on Wednesday that an internal investigation had confirmed allegations of sexual misconduct against a former employee [Jake -aka Jacob- Appelbaum] who was the public face of the organization.”
  * Tor Project Confirms Sexual Misconduct Claims Against Employee (NYT)
  * See also: Tor inquiry: “Many people” reported being “humiliated” by Appelbaum (Ars Technica)
  Update: Wikileaks has now disavowed Appelbaum, though only after publication of the NYT piece.

• “Typical to our widening gulf between rich and poor though, the New York Post reports that a new out-of-town sex club is opening in NYC soon, and unlike the democratic sex clubs of the city we once knew, this one will cost you $10,000 at a minimum to get in. The Snctm Club (not using vowels is xtrmly xclsv) will be bringing its five-figure sex parties from California to the city in September of this year according to Page Six.”
  * Sex Club With $10,000 Entry Fee Coming To Manhattan In September (Gothamist)

• “Stephen Port, the London serial killer who used Grindr to lure men to his flat and then fatally poisoned them with GHB, is facing additional charges for attacks on eight others …”
  * Alleged Grindr Serial Killer Stephen Port Charged with Attacks on 8 Others (Towleroad)

• “The Justice Department yesterday filed a brief with the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, seeking a rehearing over the recent appellate ruling involving 18 U.S.C. §§ 2257 and 2257A, the federal statutes that govern performer record-keeping for sexually explicit content.”
  * Justice Department Seeks Rehearing of 2257 Decision (XBIZ)

• “Thanks to $85,000 in donations to the Parsemus Foundation, clinical trials for a new male contraceptive called Vasalgel may be on track to start later this year. The foundation has raised two-thirds of the funding needed to produce a batch of the gel for testing in humans.”
  * Reversible Male Contraceptive Vasalgel Raises $85K for Clinical Trials (Future of Sex)

• Welcome to my world, one of constant discrimination and censorship, when I should be experiencing the same business opportunities as everyone else. Instead, we have to “sneak” … “But if the Passion Parties made it easy to talk to women directly, selling online made it harder. Klinger, like other sex toy manufacturers, couldn’t get the word out on Facebook and Instagram. They also can’t raise money on Kickstarter, and struggle to sell their product on Amazon, thanks to those sites’ rules about sexually explicit material.”
  * How Sex Toy Makers Sneak Around Digital Filters (Buzzfeed)

• “What’s the most common age of sex-offenders? It’s not a trick question, but unless you follow this stuff closely you’ll almost certainly answer wrong. In fact, most people are shocked to learn that the most common age of people charged with a sex offense isn’t a creepy 39, or 51. It’s 14.”
  * Bogus ‘sex offender’ labels are ruining lives (NY Post)

• “I hacked Pornhub for a few hours in the evening after my day job as a consultant, where I do the same sort of thing for various other companies. I’ll sometimes work through the weekend or pull an all-nighter, too — it can be difficult to stop once you get unauthorized access to stuff that’s supposed to be private or secret.”
  * I Get Paid to Hack Pornhub (MEL Magazine)

• “… now an Industrial Design lecturer from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Judith Glover, has launched the world’s first university course focusing exclusively on sex-toy design. Students in her class each have to undertake an individual project, choosing what area of the subject they want to focus on.”
  * Melbourne University Launches World’s First Sex-Toy Design Course (Future of Sex)

• “You can libel a porn star with a photo, according to a federal appeals court, which has allowed a libel suit by internet pornography pioneer Danni Ashe to go forward. That decision in her case — against an online tabloid that published an article about another porn actress who tested HIV-positive and illustrated it with an unrelated photograph of Ashe — has important First Amendment implications.”
  * How to Libel a Porn Star (Bloomberg)

• Spoiler: It’s Georgia. “A US court has ruled it is legal to film up a woman’s skirt without consent due to a “gap” in the law surrounding invasion of privacy.”
  * The US state where it’s legal to film up a woman’s skirt (Independent UK)

Post images via LICK IT! PHOTOGRAPHED BY PHIL POYNTER FOR LOVE MAGAZINE, F/W 2016 (Portraits of Girls).

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From JoyBear:

Samantha Bentley, Luke Hotrod – Samantha loves a party
Ava Dalush, Ryan Ryder – Lena’s New Man

From new site Gentle Desire:

Silvie Deluxe – Stimulating Emotions
Alluring Brunette
Gentle Belle
Leony April – The Dampening

From Buttman:

Samantha Bentley, Misha Cross – Hard in Love (rough BDSM)
Nikita Bellucci, Misha Cross – Hard in Love (rough BDSM)

From PureXXX:

Luke Hardy, Jasmin Lau – Caught Jerking Off
Alyssa Divine, Dru Hermes – Cute Ebony Brit
Dru Hermes, Mila Milan – Step Punk

From Joanna Angel/Burning Angel:

Joanna Angel, Lorelei Lee – Obediance
Draven Star, Tommy Pistol – Draven Goes Fuckabilly
Amber Ivy, Johnny Castle – Gamer Girl

From Lucie Makes Porn:

Lucie Blush – Food Fetish and Weed
Alexei Jackson, Lexie Candy – Watching Her Squirm

From Undercover Lover (UK cuckold fantasy):

Holly D., Mr. Sensi, gentleman friend – Woodland Bang Bang
Jett, Mr. Sensi – Angry Wife Gets Revenge

From WCP Club:

Nicole Bexley, gentleman friend – The Pool Girl Goes Wild
Jazzy Jamison, gentleman friend – Sexy Security Guard

From Viv Thomas:

Alexa Tomas, Zoe Doll – Eligible
Jessie Volt, Kira Zen – Engaging
Henessy A, Julia Roca – Luxury

From Evil Angel:

Violet Monroe, Sean Michaels – Anal Pervs (rough sex)
Eloa Lombard, Fernanda De Castro – Hung TS

From Nubile Films:

Jillian Janson, Kinsley Eden, Chad White – Dirty Blondes
Marley Brinx, Preston Parker – Early Morning Pleasures

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“There are some really awesome things about being in a polyamorous configuration like mine. You always have multiple someones to take care of you when you’re sick; the weed and vibrators are plentiful at each residence; you get to confuse strangers when you’re all interacting together in public, and the potential sexual scenarios are seemingly limitless. There are also some really bizarre things about being in a polyamorous configuration like mine, like helping your boyfriend and his fiancé plan their wedding.”
* When Your Partner Is Getting Married—to Somebody Who Isn’t You (MEL Magazine)

“Earlier this week, Redditors were given a pretty neat opportunity: Two leaders from the Maasai tribe, a seminomadic people living in Western Kenya, signed on to do an “Ask Me Anything.” Redditors asked about the standard stuff: religious practices, diet, what people in the village do for fun. And then, inevitably, one user asked the chiefs to describe their favorite “kind of Internet porn.””
* Reddit tried to introduce a remote Kenyan tribe to porn. It did not go as expected. (Washington Post)

“To celebrate the advent of this era, more than a hunded VR porn innovators, adult industry personalities, and habitual masturbators came together at the Kink.com Upper Floor Thursday night for a powwow called Traffic Jam 2016 that showcased the most state-of-the-art technology available for these strap-on devices.”
* VR Porn Has Coming Out Party at Kink.com (SFist)

“Rachel is no everyday arachnid trapping snacks, just a product of a fucked up, sexist culture that never took women seriously enough so she and Quinn blew who they had to until they made it to the top and joined forces. And that’s what scares the hell out of the entertainment industry, isn’t it?”
* Cannibalistic Feminism in UnREAL (Medium)

AKA my entire life fighting against being censored off of the internet. “A number of her female pornographer friends are making “really innovative, disruptive, fantastic and creative porn” but not getting the traffic or income because “no one can f**king find them”.”
The woman who gave one of the most popular Ted Talks on why Emma Watson is wrong about porn (Independent UK)

“While readers of all genders and sexual orientations purchase romance, the market is fueled largely by women. But just who is penning these works, many of which admirably prioritize female pleasure? In the case of Moonlight Desire, which claims to be written by a lady named Marilyn Lee, it’s actually a 20-something dude.”
* Meet the 20-Something Dude Secretly Writing Some of the Best Feminist Erotica (Fusion)

“The goal of this special issue is to centre the voices of porn workers, especially those in frontof the camera. We treat their work as performance, craft, and even art; but also as necessaryeconomic activity for their survival. Too often, the latter is used as proof of porn’s inherentexploitative and abusive culture. ”
* Porn Studies: Volume 3, Issue 2, 2016: Special Issue: Porn Labour (Taylor & Francis Online)

“… He said the boys fetched the prostitutes “chop-suey, chili-con-carne, liquor, tobacco, opium, medicine and articles used in their trade, deposit their money in the bank and one instance was found in which a boy was actually acquired by a prostitute to clean up her room and make her bed.””
* When Bicycle Messenger Boys Peddled Drugs And Sex Across America (1908 – 1917) (Flashbak)

“Jade, or Carly Rae Summers, is 22 years old with a fashion degree. She’s also one of a new generation of porn stars rising to fame in the UK adult film industry. When she graduated, Jade chose not to travel down the path that led to unpaid internships and uncertainty around whether she could pay her rent. Instead, she chose to become a porn star.”
* Carly Rae Summers On Why Porn Stars Can Be Feminists Too (Huffington Post UK)

Yay, they interviewed Davecat! “An iDollator is a person who is attracted to dolls. Many have formed relationships with them, thanks largely to the companies making exceptionally realistic silicone models. A well-known iDollator called Davecat was kind enough to introduce us to two of his friends—TJ and Ldpruda—who are also in relationships with love dolls. They spoke to Future of Sex about how they entered the “Synthetik” lifestyle. They also expressed their views on misconceptions about the community and how robotics could bring dreams to life.”
* iDollator Culture: Inside the Minds of Men Who Love Dolls (Future of Sex)

Main post image via The Creator’s Project, by Aline Alagem (“If Jeff Koons Collaged Internet Porn, It Might Look Something Like This” – Vice)

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Just found on C-Heads:

Leila Lowfire is definitely a woman to fall in love with. In our short interview she talks about becoming a nude model, society and beauty standards and the most important thing in life. All photographed by Sarah Bleszynski. (read more…)

See also: Sarah Bleszynski on Tumblr, Leila Lowfire on Twitter.

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• “Two-time Olympic athlete Amini Fonua is accusing The Daily Beast and its writer Nico Hines of endangering the lives of his fellow gay Olympians at the Rio Games. … On Thursday the news site published Hines’ article that detailed his experiences of using apps like Grindr to identify gay Olympic athletes in Rio. His article initially gave sufficient details, including sports and ranking, where knowledgeable people – or their governments – might be able to deduce which Olympic athletes he met via Grindr, and thus, which are gay. In about 80 countries around the world it is illegal to be LGBT, and in ten of those countries, the death penalty for the “crime” of homosexuality exists.”
  * Gay Olympian Blasts Daily Beast and Writer ‘Who Thought It’d Be Funny to Endanger People’s Lives’ (New Civil Rights Movement)
  See also: Pure weaksauce, Daily Beast: ‘Sorry for Any Upset’ Caused by Our (Possibly) Outing Gay Olympians (New Civil Rights Movement)

• “An upcoming California ballot initiative could expose porn actors who perform without condoms to lawsuits and privacy violations. … This is according to a judge’s ruling Wednesday in a hearing on the final ballot text for Proposition 60, which mandates the use of condoms in porn filmed within the state and allows any resident in the state of California to sue, and collect financial penalties from, producers and distributors of condomless adult content. It also requires producers to disclose their legal names and the addresses where filming takes place.”
  * Judge: Condom Bill Could Mean Lawsuits Against Porn Stars (Voactiv)

• “Now there’s a new study making the rounds that claims to offer empirical proof that today’s young adults also have terrible sex lives. … As Stanford sociologist Aliya Saperstein has noted, such surveys tend to use heteronormative language and often don’t reflect contemporary understanding of sex and gender as two distinct categories with more than two options. … Another problem, which the researchers noted in their paper, is that the definition of what constitutes “sex” is left up to the GSS respondents to decide.”
  * That study about millennials having terrible sex lives is probably bullshit (Vice)

• “Presenters at Def Con have revealed that at least one toy, the We-Vibe 4 Plus, regularly shares sensitive info with its creators at Standard Innovations Corporation. The couple-oriented vibrator sends its temperature to the manufacturer every minute, and reports whenever you change the vibration level.”
  * Sex toy sends intimate data to its creator (Engadget)
  See also: Standard Innovations’ oblique and tone-deaf response, Standard Innovation Addresses Customer Privacy, Security (XBIZ)

• “Domain name service company Rightside today said it recently sold two .live adult entertainment domains for six figures apiece. Sex.live sold for $160,000, while Porn.live was acquired for $120,000, said Rightside, which noted that the domain names rank among the highest for new gTLD domain name sales.”
  * Sex.live, Porn.live Domains Sell for $280K (XBIZ)

• “Sausage Party is a raunchy R-rated movie for adults only. (We repeat, it’s a raunchy R-rated movie for adults only!) It’s full of cussing, politically incorrect stereotyping, a drug addict (James Franco) tripping on bath salts and hot dog buns with mouths that look like vaginas. And for that, it’s the perfect movie to see this weekend.”
  * Why You Really Should See Sausage Party This Weekend (E! Online)

• “The digital get down is trying really hard to be as close to the real deal as possible — adult entertainment companies are now encouraging their viewers to strap on, plug in and participate. And cam girls say that the incorporation of virtual reality headsets is probably the future of porn, based on their personal experiences.”
  * Live Cam Girls Say Virtual Reality Is the Future of Porn (Mic)

• “An insider tells E! News that behind closed doors, things are getting hot and heavy at Rio’s Olympic Village. “It’s pretty intense… some athletes wait until after their competition [to party] and then others have hookups between practices because they say sex actually helps them reach for the gold.” Our source continued, “For the most part, these athletes are protected and careful because the condom stock is endless. They are extra careful this year because of Zika.””
  * Find Out What Happens Behind Closed Doors at Olympic Village (E! Online)

• “Banks and financial service companies for years have put barriers in front of adult entertainment performers, covertly declining services to them because of their occupation as sex workers. Now, it appears there is one more service — Airbnb — that has put a foot in the door to those in the business of adult entertainment.”
  * Porn Stars Say Airbnb Booted Them Off Service (XBIZ)

• “[Dallas News spent a] week analyzing [Secret Service FOIA] documents and pulled out vignettes which are shared with this story. … A supervisor choked a female subordinate because she rejected his sexual advances. … A supervisor offered a subordinate a larger office in return for sex. … A male agent’s gun was stolen by a male prostitute he solicited online. The gun was never recovered. …”
  * Dallas woman discovers new Secret Service sex scandals through public information requests (Dallas News)

• “Florida may be known for sun, sand and, um, well… you know, but British tourists are now being told to refrain from the unprotected variety of the latter due to the Zika virus. … Tourists who are in the state are being told to abstain from sex without a condom for up to eight weeks.”
  * Tourists urged to abstain from sex in Florida (Local 10)

• “The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday denied the Justice Department’s petition for a rehearing over a three-judge panel’s decision over 18 U.S.C. §§2257 and 2257A, the federal statutes that govern performer record-keeping for sexually explicit content.”
  * 3rd Circuit Won’t Rehear 2257 Case (XBIZ)

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* Noel Monique – Voenia
* Krystal Asky, Asia Hump – Strap-on Punk Girls

* Ashley Lane – Light My Fire
* Adel Morel – Kitchen
* Sapphira A. – Comme Un Garcon

* Lea – Colombian Beauty
* Denisse Gomez – Enjoying Holidays
* Sapphira – Top Of The League

* Eva – Sexy Naked Contortionist
* Julia – Monumental Muse
* Eden – Artist

* Janelle B. – Rinaja
* Lucy Li – Tondo
* Zarina A. – Sarvie

* Eveline Dellai, Kira Zen – Feverish
* Alexa Tomas, Lexi Lowe – Romance
* Julia Roca, Lola A. – Frivolous

* Silvia Dellai – Tantalizing
* Olia – Passionate Nylons

* Sade Mare – Dark Arousal
* Elizabeth L., Laima R. – Foot Worship

* Milla – Spice of Life
* Leah Gotti – Amor Perro

* Laura K. – Presenting Laura K.
* Pammie Lee – The Break Out
* Svajone – Unwrapped

* Mary Kalisy – Once is Not Enough
* Vanessa A. – Come to Play

* Candice Luka – Getting In Tune
* Alex Grey – Red Flower

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“#ImWithHer, but—as a former sex worker—I’ve got to wonder, is Hillary Clinton with me? Shortly after Ima Matul’s speech Tuesday at the Democratic National Convention, the “sex trafficking survivor” who spoke in support of Hillary Clinton was revealed to have actually been a victim of forced labor (not sexual slavery). Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s convention speech also focused on sex trafficking, and cited questionable statistics about human trafficking being the “third largest” criminal economy in the world. Lena Dunham — a celebrity who in spite of fervent criticism has since doubled down on her stance against the decriminalization of sex work — was also a speaker.”
* Sex Work Isn’t Sex Trafficking (Daily Beast; link is not an endorsement of the website)

“Since The Donald bested the field of cuckservatives with his manly virility and full head of hair, those who couldn’t see a good insult go to waste have continued to use it in its shortened form — cuck … So now that a word previously only used for pornography or in 4chan has achieved mainstream political significance, it’s time to ask the question: Why has the word “cuck” resonated with so many angry white men?”
* Why Angry White Men Love Calling People “Cucks” (GQ)

“There are two big constraints. The first is how busy people are when they’re in space. Even if they wanted to and it were physically achievable, astronauts on space missions just don’t have time to have sex; they’re there to do a job, one that could kill them if something goes wrong. The second is that, because of the laws of physics, sex in space is really, really hard to make happen. …”
* Sex in Space is So Much Harder Than You Could Have Ever Imagined (Fusion)

“Despite the store’s humble appearance [in San Francisco’s Mission District in 1977], Good Vibrations would eventually become a standard bearer in an industry with few standards, a clearinghouse for sexual information in a sexually anemic culture, and an inspiration to feminist and queer-identified entrepreneurs everywhere who wanted to follow in Joani Blank’s sex-positive footsteps.”
* Remembering Good Vibrations Founder Joani Blank, 1937 – 2016 (Bitch Media)

“I’ve heard many survivors talk about feeling excluded, at best, and retraumatized, at worst, by events or spaces that bill themselves as sex-positive, despite the fact that, in principle, sex positivity intentionally carves out space for survivorship. So I got to thinking about the relationship between sex positivity and trauma-informed practices, and I think there might be something valuable there.”
* Trauma informed sex positivity (The Dirty Normal)

“In the case of sex addiction, we have a perfect storm of psychiatrists, psychotherapists, and other assorted mental health professionals trying to fit sexual behavior into a socially constructed paradigm of monogamy, pair bonding, and yes, even intimacy.”
* How Social Constructionism Created the Sex Addiction Model (Psychology Today)

“What gives the Shadow Dexterous Hand its tactile abilities is haptics, which allows a piece of technology to communicate through touch. The Force Touch feature on your iPhone? That’s haptics at work. The way your phone vibrates when you catch a Pokémon in Pokémon Go? That’s haptic, too. These things may already turn you on. But trust us, that’s only just the beginning. Haptics are what will power the coming sex machine revolution.”
* The Secret Behind Great Machine Sex (Fusion)

“To that effect, Trouble’s films feature moves like fisting, which is widely banned in mainstream porn. “But fisting is a legitimate sex act,” Trouble said. “When the Hollywood porn industry is calling it obscene, it’s invalidating the way that lots of people, especially queer people, are having sex in their homes. It’s my mission to fight for that to be seen.””
* Queer Porn Revolutionist: Courtney Trouble (East Bay Express)

“Now there’s a new study making the rounds that claims to offer empirical proof that today’s young adults also have terrible sex lives. … As Stanford sociologist Aliya Saperstein has noted, such surveys tend to use heteronormative language and often don’t reflect contemporary understanding of sex and gender as two distinct categories with more than two options. … Another problem, which the researchers noted in their paper, is that the definition of what constitutes “sex” is left up to the GSS respondents to decide.”
* That study about millennials having terrible sex lives is probably bullshit (Vice)

I want to go cover this! Someone please send me! “Researchers and experts in both sex and tech are gearing up to put sex robots under a microscope at the first ever tech conference dedicated to the impact of technology on intimacy and sexuality. The event—set to be held in Manchester, England from September 7 through 9—will consider the latest research and theories about how humans engage with social media, robots, artificial intelligence and other forms of technology to explore sex.”
* Will Sex Robots Destroy the Human Race? Experts Host a Tech Conference to Discuss (Observer)

“Anna Lee, the president of Vancouver-based HoloFilms, as well as a director of its movies, says customers have been requesting VR movies with “a very specific girlfriend experience. They want emotional connection and cuddling more than just sex. They want the actresses to look them in the eyes and say ‘I love you,’” Lee told me. “We’re moving away from the gonzo hardcore stuff to more intimate experiences. They’re requesting more average penis sizes from the actors. They want it to be easier to feel like they’re in it.””
* When it comes to VR porn, men want more than just sex (Fusion)

Main post image via Erotic French postcards from the early 1900’s (Dangerous Minds).

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• “Yes, the world’s first open-source, anatomically correct, printable 3D clitoris is here, and it will be used for sex education in French schools, from primary to secondary level, from September.”
  * How a 3D clitoris will help teach French schoolchildren about sex (Guardian)
  See also: Printing a 3D clitoris (Ufunk, main post image via)

• I’m not linking to this for the article. I’m linking to this for the comments: Sausage Party completely fucked over their animators, and they’re in the comments with the really awful details. These douchebags shouldn’t be bragging about anything.
  * ‘Sausage Party’ Directors Conrad Vernon & Greg Tiernan On Making 2016’s Most Outlandish Animated Film (Cartoon Brew)

• Warning for survivors of sexual assault and trauma. “The two hefty block quotes I’ve featured so far could have been — perhaps, normally would have been — the blog post here. “Hey, folks, here’s a thing to read, this woman whose husband doesn’t want to fuck her, she writes pretty, check it out, it’s about the human sexual condition, that’s our beat, enjoy.” But, um — you remember where I wrote that her story is “pretty unflinching about the ugly parts”? In one of those ugly parts, she recounts her tendency to rape her husband. She doesn’t use that word. ”
  * Her Husband? He Really Wasn’t Interested (ErosBlog: The Sex Blog)

• “Ozzy Osbourne is the latest in a string of people (almost always men) to diagnose themselves as “sex addicts.” As a professional sex educator who has spent 20 years advocating for healthy sexuality, I want to speak up and critique the idea of “sex addiction” as it’s commonly understood. In many ways, the concept of sex addiction has been fabricated by “addictionologists,” the people who claim they have the addiction, and the media. The concept has rapidly been accepted as truth when there is still no substantive evidence that sex addiction is real. This is dangerous on so many levels and we are asking the wrong questions.”
  * Now Ozzy: 6 Reasons We Need to Question Sex Addiction (Medium)

• “Because we live in a sex-negative society, presenting poly relationships as “just” sex is a powerful way of signaling that these relationships don’t deserve to be taken seriously. Sex-negativity isn’t a uniform phenomenon—there are pockets of sex-positive people, pockets of the tragically repressed, and plenty of everything in between. But on the whole, we tend to think that “real”-love relationships are serious—and should be shored up with social and legal privileges—whereas sex is “just” sex. …”
  * Dear Media: Polyamory Is Not All About Sex (The Establishment)

• “Since 1969, Werner Herzog has chased mirages in the Sahara desert, examined the plight of Nicaraguan child soldiers and documented the harrowing lives of Antarctica scientists. But in his new film Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World, the 73-year-old director tackles the most expansive project of his career: the Internet.”
  * Werner Herzog on Revenge Porn, Adult Diapers and the Internet’s Future (Rolling Stone)

• “From the outside, Math Magazine looks more like a vintage textbook or old-school medical journal than a porn magazine. And that’s exactly the point. “Our discreet design and name allow readers, also known as Mathletes, to inconspicuously look at pornography in public,” editor-in-chief MacKenzie Peck explained in an interview with The Huffington Post.”
  * This Is What A Feminist Porn Magazine Looks Like (HuffPo)

• “My first character was a housewife in a hijab married to an unsuccessful terrorist and cabdriver in New York. She wasn’t a subservient, weepy Middle Eastern woman (the kind of part I was being asked to audition for). She was an incredibly smart, liberal ball-buster who didn’t believe in tears. Eventually, I came up with a full set about being female and I christened my first show “Unladylike: The Pitfalls of Propriety.” I told my audience that to me, oral sex was like cooking: I had no natural flair for it and was operating from a recipe handed down years ago by another woman who didn’t know what she was doing either. ”
  * India’s female comics never joked about pubic hair or sex. Then I showed up. (WaPo)

• “California voters will be asked to decide a whopping 17 ballot initiatives this November, as corporations and interest groups turn to the direct democratic process to advance their causes. Voters will face questions relating to everything from legalizing marijuana for recreational use, banning the death penalty, taxes on cigarettes — and whether performers in pornographic films must wear condoms.”
  * California’s 2016 ballot: ‘Sex. Drugs. Guns. Death.’ (The Hill)

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