- “To prepare for the role in Burning Angel’s upcoming Ronda Rousey porn parody, Valentien was treated to a brief MMA lesson by her on-screen partner, adult performer Derrick Pierce. “When Joanna and I were talking, it was like, ‘What would Ronda do?’” says Pierce. “We had to do some armbars because that’s Ronda Rousey’s signature move.”
Inside the Ronda Rousey Porn Parody (Daily Beast)
- Out of more than 6,050 cases filed since January 2009, adult movie company turned copyright troll Malibu Media — that’s X-Art to porn fans — leads the way with a staggering 4,332. That total not only makes the company the most litigious in the file-sharing space, but also the most litigious copyright plaintiff in the United States, period.
Adult Movie Outfit is Most Litigious Copyright Plaintiff in US (Torrent Freak)
@violetblue FWIW Chester was the 1st UK city to claim it was porn free https://t.co/wxzORXapbx easily bypassed with https://t.co/hCCU1tgykf
— Gareth Llewellyn (@NetworkString) August 17, 2015
- Adopting a government-backed mandate, the U.K. city of York is claiming to be the first in the world to block porn from public Wi-Fi. (See embedded tweet update, above.) Baroness Joanna Shields, the government’s new Minister for Internet Safety and Security told The Mirror, “children are protected from harmful content” in cities and businesses that display the “friendly wi-fi” logo. Retailers Tesco, Starbucks and Samsung display the sign in their stores.
U.K. City 1st to Block Wi-Fi Porn (XBIZ)
- Because it’s apparently 2004 all over again, TechCrunch reports, “Teledildonics and VR are the new sex-tech frontiers.”
Bluetooth Suppositories And Other Teledildonics You Didn’t Know You Needed (TechCrunch)
- The Trans Adult Industry Foundation, Inc. (TAIF), a Los Angeles based non-profit organization has launched. The organization’s The Board of Directors includes advocate and educator Buck Angel, Grooby owner Steven Grooby, and Grooby marketing director Kristel Penn.
Trans Adult Industry Foundation (TAIF) Created (XBIZ)
- Just as “Obvious Child” was an important representation on film of a woman having an abortion and not having it ruin her life, we need similar stories in our fiction and nonfiction, and we are starting to get them. So where can readers turn for protagonists who face unintended pregnancies, have abortions, and go on to live productive, happy, healthy lives?
3 surprisingly sane books on abortion: When absolutely no women’s lives are ruined by one procedure (Salon)
- Another infringement suit has been waged by the MetArt Network against a well-known online adult brand. This time around the target is adult tube site XVideos.com and two related web properties, XVideosDaily.com and XVideosToday.net, along with defendant owners Stephane and Malorie Pacaud of France and a number of John Does. The studio’s suit also said that XVideos’ operators index the poached MetArt films, and that consumers end up sharing the films on social media sites, making it impossible to know how many times and where an unlicensed copyrighted video gets streamed.
MetArt Sues XVideos for Infringement (XBIZ)
- A small town Indiana mayor was recently arrested for paying another man for sex while the alleged sex worker was charged with intimidation, prostitution, and “failure to disclose dangerous communicable disease status” — despite the latter man’s protestations that the sex was coerced, not consensual.
Indiana Mayor Gay Sex Scandal: Assault, Bribery, HIV, and Felony Charges (HIV+ Mag)
If a boy ever tells you he's too big for a condom, please send him this pic.twitter.com/SBEjF0p7lW
— Punk Princess (@DramaticEmily) July 13, 2015
- When a teenage girl shoved her forearm into a condom, took a photo and told women on Twitter not to believe men who say they are “too big” to use protection, her post was retweeted over 25,000 times.
Condoms are getting bigger…and smaller – and it’s causing a lot of problems (Independent UK)
- In 2014, Thailand’s Apple Model Management became the first agency to represent trans models in addition to cisgender models. News has come out that Apple is opening a new agency in Los Angeles — Apple Model Management L.A. — which will represent trans models exclusively. While trans-exclusive agencies are rare, there is one other: Transcendence Icon, which opened earlier this year.
PHOTOS: A Look At Los Angeles’ New All-Trans Modeling Agency (Unicorn Booty)
- A man has been charged with stalking and harassing an FBI agent who had investigated him by posting a fake Craigslist sex ad that included the agent’s phone number and address.
Feds: Man Retaliated Against FBI Agent Via Craigslist Sex Ad (ABC News)
- TinyNibbles favorite Samantha Bentley was recently interviewed by Esquire about coming out as a porn star, her first on-camer sex scenes, and her multiple appearances on Game of Thrones, where she got to shoot a scene “with Tyrion”.
I Told Myself I’d Stop Doing Porn by the Time I Turn 30 (Esquire)
- YouTubers like GentleWhispering identify with a feeling called ASMR, or autonomous sensory meridian response. Described by those in the business as “tingles”, this pleasant, cloudy feeling occurs towards the back of your skull and is reported to be an involuntary reaction to soothing sounds such as light tapping, crinkling, and whispering.
Inside the Sensual World of ASMRotica (Broadly/Vice) See also, previously: The voice of erotic ASMR wants to give porn some love (Daily Dot)
- Multiple award winning pornographer Erika Lust’s company, Lust Productions, pulls in around $1m a month from website subscriptions with a customer base that is 40% female. “Women didn’t like the pornography they saw in the past,” she says. “That doesn’t mean we don’t like any images at all.”
What a girl wants:
The rise of porn for women (Telegraph)
- Despite the public perception that all sex offenders are recidivists — a belief that drove these laws in the first place — sexual re-offense rates are in fact lower than those for other crimes (though an unknown number of sex crimes go unreported).
Sex Offenders Locked Up on a Hunch (NYT)
