- A Louisiana man arrested yesterday for driving around a Walmart parking lot with his penis exposed explained to cops that “he gets aroused” when visiting the retail giant, according to a police report. “When He Comes To Walmart He Gets Aroused.” (The Smoking Gun)
- I call OUTRAGE! Sex and Zen 3D‘s distributor, China Lion Film Distribution, brings about 15 films a year to the US, usually without issue, but this film’s mix of campy-eroticism earned a NC-17 rating from Motion Picture Association of America, meaning big, fat corporate theaters weren’t interested in showing the movie and most smaller, independent art house theaters don’t have the ability to show in the third dimension. San Francisco’s chance at seeing 3D porn goes flat (San Francisco Bay Guardian)
- James Franco and Kink: As for the inspiration for the project, porn industry news source Xbiz.com reports he was recently in town shooting Cherry a (likely) R-rated flick set in San Francisco and co-written by adult performer Lorelei Lee, that may or may not contain some scenes at the Armory. James Franco Banging Out a Documentary About Kink.com (SFist)
- Joe Eszterhas, who also wrote the ’90s thrillers Basic Instinct, Showgirls and Sliver, is back now with Lust, which will be helmed by noted music-video director Hype Williams, Variety reports. Showgirls Writer’s Erotic Thriller To Be Directed By Hype Williams (Spinoff Online)
- A friend was telling me last week about a celebrity sex tape that he particularly enjoys. I asked my friend if he feels any guilt about watching this tape, knowing that the woman didn’t want other people to see it, and we ended up having a friendly debate about whether there was anything ethically problematic about his behavior. Ethics of the sex tape (Measure of Doubt)
- Writer at porn-for-women magazine sssh.com, Peg Aloi, just launched her column on Huffington Post with an article entitled “Tough Gals. Do they still exist?”Sssh.com writer joins Huffington Post roster (Erotic Scribes)
- Four out of five businesses that have preregistered .XXX domain names have no direct connection to the adult porn industry, one of the UK’s largest registrars has confirmed. Businesses Buy .XXX Porn Domains to Protect Trademarks (PCWorld)
- Rudolf Brazda, believed to be the last surviving man to wear the pink triangle — the emblem sewn onto the striped uniforms of the thousands of homosexuals sent to Nazi concentration camps, most of them to their deaths — died on Wednesday in Bantzenheim, in Alsace, France. He was 98. Rudolf Brazda, Who Survived Pink Triangle, Is Dead at 98 (NYT)
- If you’re a woman from Texas—or indeed, any woman—there’s a lot to dislike about Gov. Rick Perry. Rick Perry’s Abysmal Record on Women’s Health (usnews.com)
- The whole men demanding sex thing seems like a red herring to me. I’m not saying it doesn’t happen, but it certainly doesn’t happen at the same rate as poverty and homelessness. Youth on the street, selling sex and End Demand (The Naked Anthropologist)
