Sex News: Apple Watch sex toy, AIDS Healthcare Foundation violating sex worker privacy, Tussad’s Minaj wax troubles

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  • Unlike the watch itself, the “Apple Watch” sex toy is designed for women. Sex toy manufacturer Lovense has a new remote control vibrator called Blush, which connects to your phone and your partner’s phone to create some high-tech sexual experiences. Blush launched an Indiegogo campaign this week to raise $10,000 for its phone and Apple Watch-connected vibrator.
    Here’s The First Apple Watch Sex Toy (Huffington Post)
  • In light of the Ashley Madison mess, Rachel Kramer Bussel’s timing is excellent: She wanted to find out what makes open marriages work, “especially since we live in a society that is highly skeptical of the prospect.”
    Can an Open Marriage Be a Good Marriage? (DAME Magazine)
  • Speaking of the Ashley Madison mess, did you know that the dump is packed with false accounts (at least 12 Barack Obama accounts are on Ashley Madison), and that gay men who used the site for discreet hookups are at risk from the exposure? My sex-positive, snarky, and privacy-focused response is up.
    Ashley Madison: A honeypot for people who had something to hide (ZDNet)
  • A former employee of the U.S. Embassy in London has been charged with using stolen passwords to acquire sexually explicit photographs of women in order to blackmail them. Michael Ford, 36, was charged with nine counts of cyber stalking, seven counts of computer hacking to extort, and one count of wire fraud, the Department of Justice said Wednesday. He was arrested while visiting family in Georgia in May. Ford allegedly “tormented women across the country,” U.S. Attorney John Horn said. “This sadistic conduct is all the more disturbing as Ford is alleged to have used the U.S. Embassy in London as a base for his cyberstalking campaign.”
    Ex-US Embassy employee charged with ‘sextortion’ (The Hill)

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  • Someone please stop the AHF. The Free Speech Coalition said that the AIDS Healthcare Foundation has issued subpoenas to talent testing facilities to obtain porn performers’ private medical information. “This is of grave concern for us as we always hold performer privacy as an important right and protection,” the FSC said in a release. “It is critical that you let the testing facilities know that you do not want your medical information given over to AHF.
    AHF Has Subpoenaed Performer Medical Data, FSC Says (XBIZ)
  • “In an article in Marie Claire, Anne Hathaway recalled footage of a police raid on a brothel employing Asian women filmed by a camera crew, saying she “saw things that are unimaginable. They were all so tiny and scrunched up there together, but when they came out they weren’t shocked that there was a camera. They weren’t worried about getting arrested. They were gone. They were numb. They were unrecognizable as human beings.” I’ll just say that in the real-life exchanges I’ve had with Asian sex workers, very little bugs them more than teary-eyed white girls describing them as tiny and helpless and inhuman.”
    What’s Lena Dunham got against sex work? (Now Toronto)

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  • Madame Tussauds has said it is redesigning its Nicki Minaj display after images of visitors taking provocative photos with the waxwork appeared online. The figure, which was unveiled earlier this month in Las Vegas, features the chart-topping rap artist with her hands and knees on the ground and her butt in the air – an homage to the music video for her track Anaconda.
    Madame Tussauds rethinks Nicki Minaj waxwork display over saucy fan photos (Guardian UK)
  • Not helping negative stereotypes about porn performers at all, Woodrocket.com has a new video featuring popular pornstars discussing their grossest moments on set. It’s not for the faint of heart. To hear the pornstars tell it, it seems like you can’t shoot an anal scene without pausing to clean up a poop incident.
    Watching Porn Stars Talk About Their Grossest Scenes Is Not For The Faint Of Heart (AskMen)
  • Eighty-eight percent of all copyright-trolling cases in the U.S. in 2014 involved an adult entertainment film, according to a new study on intellectual property litigation. The study, titled “Intellectual Property in U.S. District Courts: 1994-2014” and authored by Matthew Sag, a professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, also noted that one porn company — Malibu Media, aka X-art.com — accounted for 80 percent of all John Doe suits in 2014.
    88% of All U.S. Copyright Trolling Cases Involve Porn, Study Says (XBIZ)

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  • The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday approved the first prescription drug designed to boost sexual desire in women, though in an exhibition of dated perceptions about women and sex, it will be prescribed for “emotional distress.” Under a plan imposed by the FDA, doctors will only be able to prescribe Addyi after completing an online certification test demonstrating that they understand its side effects. Pharmacies will also have to be certified.
    FDA approves female sex pill, but with safety restrictions (Inquirer)
  • Yep, they’re still around: Suicide Girls got a profile in Racked. It’s a website, a label, a community, and an aesthetic borne out of the altporn moment of the early aughts. Even though that moment has passed, Racked tells us that “the Suicide Girls movement has never been stronger.”
    Going Pink: The Suicide Girls Story (Racked)

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  • The days of topless painted ladies hitting up tourists in Times Square appear to be numbered. Mayor de Blasio on Wednesday convened a special task force charged with finding a legal way of evicting the jiggly panhandlers. The increased scrutiny was evident Wednesday evening when one of the men overseeing the women was arrested.
    NYC searches for ways to ban Times Square topless ladies (NY Daily News)
  • “I’m endorsing Hillary Clinton,” Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt told TheWrap during an interview. “If she wins, she’ll be able to appoint two or three judges to the Supreme Court, which could shift the balance.” But even though Flynt and Hirsch, as well as other wealthy pornographers, are willing to donate large sums of money to candidates, most presidential hopefuls are too skittish to accept them.
    Porn & Politics: Adult Film Industry Moguls Get Into Bed With 2016 Presidential Candidates (TheWrap)

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