- 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)
