- Porn Time is based on existing Popcorn Time code and works in a similar fashion to other forks. It uses BitTorrent under the hood and works on most popular platforms. In addition, the streams can be cast directly to the big screen with Chromecast, Airplay or DLNA.
Now There’s a Popcorn Time For Porn Too (TorrentFreak)
- I made a fun discovery this weekend: The author of Love and Sex with Robots, David Levy (in partnership with Paul Andrews of House of Erotica), has launched Erotic Chatbots Ltd. — and they now have a fundraising page.
Exciting launch: David Levy’s Erotic Chatbots Ltd. now raising funds (TinyNibbles | Violet Blue)
- The place where molester of 5-year-olds Josh Duggar got his “counseling” was actually the Institute of Basic Life Principles’ (IBLP) Little Rock Training Center, one of many scattered throughout the country that were once run by 80-year-old cult leader Bill Gothard, who was forced to formally step down in 2014 in response to 34 charges of sexual abuse.
The Truth About Josh Duggar’s Sham Cult-Center “Counseling” (Gawker)
- A Food and Drug Administration panel recommended a drug called flibanserin — dubbed “the female Viagra” — for approval this week. But experts say the comparison to the erectile dysfunction medication is problematic and gives the wrong impression to women seeking treatment for sexual problems.
‘Female Viagra’ FDA Approval: 5 Facts Women Should Know About Flibanserin (International Business Times)
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— Anna Holmes (@AnnaHolmes) June 5, 2015
- “They [the members of the FDA advisory committee] were emotionally blackmailed by the Even the Score campaign, whose activists maintained “something was better than nothing,” said Thea Cacchioni, a sociologist and assistant professor in the Department of Women’s Studies at the University of Victoria.
Astroturfers rule the day: FDA’s flibanserin reviewers were “emotionally blackmailed” by a slick lobbying campaign (Health News Review)
- Of the fortune 500 corporations, fewer than 1,420 executives (directors, VPs and above) were members of Adult Friend Finder. Another 230,000 or so rank and file employees of fortune 500 companies were also members – following in the footsteps of their admired superiors no doubt. Their interests ranged widely. Of the 2,400,000 odd employees of the Federal Government, we find a measly 120,000 or so who were members.
How the most damaging hack In cyber history was met with little notice (SiliconANGLE)
- “We’ve talked to trans people in crisis for 2574 hours since November. We have answered 11,300 calls and have 200 operators, all trans identified,” said Greta Gustava Martela, founder of the suicide hotline Trans Lifeline. She is a person who’s looking to create one such resource, by trans people, for trans people.
Where Is The Support For Trans People In Crisis? (Eros Media)
- Prior to the disastrous “perfect storm” year of 2008 when the stock market crashed, banks failed, consumer credit card limits were crushed and porn became a primarily free commodity on the internet, many studios were able to find angel investors and venture capitalists that were more than happy to throw some money at porn productions. Those days are very much over. Investors, not just in regards to porn, but pretty much anything, are now very wary to invest in anything that is not already making a profit.
The Challenges Of Crowd Funding Porn (EroticScribes)
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— Ms Naughty (@msnaughty) June 6, 2015
- Vibrating, Bluetooth-enabled, custom-fit and applicator friendly? Yep, the condom game has changed. Sound a little sci-fi? It’s just one of the many industrious takes on the condom underway as the focus on contraception turns to enhancing pleasure. From creations like foldable condoms to $100,000 grants for condom innovation by the Gates Foundation, we’re finally rejecting the status quo in favor of condoms that take advantage of technology — and feel really, really good.
These Are the Revolutionary Condoms Our Sex Lives Have Been Waiting For (Mic)
- Hot Girls Wanted has been widely heralded as “eye opening,” “thought provoking,” and “the film that will make you think about the actual human beings you’re jerking off to.” But it’s also been panned—particularly by sex workers—as a piece of simplistic, hyperbolic, and fraudulent propaganda, guilty of portraying its subjects as victimized naifs devoid of agency.
Hot Girls Wanted Tries and Fails to Turn Its Porn-Star Subjects Into Victims (Reason)
- Sexxpot, derived from a low-THC strain called Mr. Nice, has been grown, packaged, and branded (with an extra x) by Karyn Wagner, founder of Paradigm Medical Marijuana, as an “aphrodisiac weed” — the first to specifically target women.
Meet The Woman Making Aphrodisiac Weed (Huffington Post)
- A cockring that counts calories during sex? The gentleman puts Lovely – for that’s its name – around the base of his appendage. It monitors his body movements during sex and sends the data to the accompanying app. He can then look back over how many calories he burned during the act, as well as other stats like his duration, force, and even top speed.
This sex toy wearable will track your performance (T3)
Does this seem correct to anyone?
“Investors, not just in regards to porn, but pretty much anything, are now very wary to invest in anything that is not already making a profit.”
I realize that I have a distorted view of things, because I work in the startup incubator that is run by NYU, but all day, every day, I am surrounded by startups that are not making a profit, but which are getting substantial angel support. Angels do invest in unprofitable businesses.
Surely a more serious issue is that the porn industry seems to be consolidating?
I remember when Barbara Roberts became the CEO of FPG International, back in 1990, she gave an interview, and she made a number of brilliant points, one of which was that the stock photo business was beginning to consolidate, and in all such cases the suppliers get hurt. She was warning photographers that things were about to get bad for them, a fact that no one wanted to hear at the time, but of course, she was completely correct.
It seems to me that what happened to stock photography in the 1990s is now starting to happen to the porn industry. And the exceptions to the trend are also very similar: In the 1990s it was pointed out that the only stock photos that would hold their value would be the one-of-kind photos that no one could ever re-create, and for the most part that meant either journalism or historical photos. The same holds true now for porn: its a commodity with little value, and the only exceptions are the stuff that’s either interesting for historic reasons (Deep Throat) or it is one of a kind (typically because some celebrity is involved, a la Paris Hilton, Kim Kardasian, Farrah Abraham, etc).