- A Google webmaster video released today tries to answer the question why porn sites are at the lower end of PageRank. Google’s Matt Cutts fielded a question relating to the topic from Studio 3X in New York: Video: Why Are Porn Sites at Lower End of PageRank? (XBIZ Newswire)
- “Sex & Zen 3D: Extreme Ecstasy,” a Cantonese-language film billed as the first major 3-D porn movie, has been acquired for theatrical release in North America by China Lion Film Distribution. (No release date yet.) ‘Sex & Zen 3D’ to play in U.S. theaters (Los Angeles Times)
- Women find happy guys significantly less sexually attractive than swaggering or brooding men, according to a new University of British Columbia study that helps to explain the enduring allure of “bad boys” and other iconic gender types. Happy guys finish last, says new study on sexual attractiveness (sciencedaily.com)
- During the FOX segment, which aired after last week’s Lady Gaga-themed “Born This Way” episode, host Damali Keith kicked off by comparing Glee’s gay themes to “product placement” – you know, the kind that leaves “everyone in the theater thirsty for that particular brand.” Fox affiliate: Is “Glee” turning our kids gay? (Salon.com)
- (Think there will ever be articles about women like me, female sex bloggers that didn’t let the haters win?) Sex And The Ivy blogger Lena Chen: “when Marie Claire approached me (along with four other women) about a story on my sexual history and number of partners last fall, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to talk about double standards. There was only one glaring problem: It brought me back to a person I tried mightily not to be anymore, and the “fearless” sexual provocateur they were hoping to interview was now terrified what others might think.” I was the Harvard harlot (Salon.com)
- LOVE THIS: “After experimenting with online dating through OK Cupid for about three months, I can now say I’ve done my best, and now I’m done with it. Plain and simple, I’m out. To explain to you the reasons why I am done involve back tracking through my experiment in using technology to find people with whom I might have similar interests and enough in common to warrant an IRL (in real life) meeting with someone…” Why I Am Done With OK Cupid and Online Dating (Hips For Hire)
- What reprehensible event could possibly have the same consequences as the spiritual dead zone rape victims are left in? Well, getting a flat tire, according to Kansas state Rep. Pete DeGraaf (R). Kansas Rep. Pete DeGraaf: Being impregnated during a rape is just like getting a flat tire (Kansas City News)
- Beautiful and sad piece on love, sex, and technology in Iran: Lust, Devotion, & the Binary Code (vqronline.org)
- Moral crusaders intent on saving people from sex work rarely engage with the enormous subject of what activity will provide income instead and how. The present worldwide craze assumes that any job will be better – meaning more dignified, fulfilling, heartwarming – than any sex job. Rescue Industry | Sex Work | Sweatshops | Cambodia (The Naked Anthropologist)
- Not okay with being fetishized, female wrestlers are hurt and angry when videos of competition are sold to Clips for Sale as fetish clips – unknowingly, but as per their filming agreement: Popping up in porn (WTKR)
Sadly that Matt Cutts video strikes me as being a load of happy horseshit.
ErosBlog has been a 5 for more than half a decade. In that time I’ve added thousands and thousands of links, many of them decent quality if not quite the Wall Street Journal. I’ve got a *much* weightier set of inbound links than many many non-adult sites with higher pagerank. And Tiny Nibbles, which has a whole lot more and better inbound links than me, is stuck at the same PR5.
So, I simply don’t believe that there isn’t some sort of “bad neighborhood” or other penalty being applied to sites with adult content.