- No pants subway ride 2013: Thousands of straphangers caught without pants (NY Daily News, image above via)
- Porn giant Vivid Entertainment filed a lawsuit to try and overturn a new California law that forces X-rated film actors to wear condoms. A lawyer for the company says that thanks to the new law, the adult film industry is ‘leaving L.A. county in droves.’
Porn industry exec files suit claiming Los Angeles condom law impinges on free speech (NY Daily News)
- George Clooney trolls The Sun, proves they will print anything as fact.
By George! Clooney has ‘ball ironing’ to get rid of wrinkles on his testicles (The Sun)
- The fears of major health organizations have come true: Gonorrhea that is immune to the last remaining effective oral antibiotic has been detected in at least nine North American patients, meaning the era of “incurable” gonorrhea could be close.
First Antibiotic-Resistant Gonorrhea Cases Detected in North America (US News and World Report)
- Anderson Cooper has always been as gay as an Easter basket, as told in animated gifs.
Anderson Cooper Opens Up About His Experience With Women (Buzzfeed)
- Just… wow. CNBC should be embarrassed for running a wholly inaccurate piece with no research or fact checking whatsoever. I don’t link to false reporting on sex, but I want to expose CNBC for this one.
Porn’s New Market: Women (CNBC)
- CNBC’s utter failure to do research on female porn viewers turned into a great rant by Ms. Naughty in which we learn more than we’ve ever read on CNBC.
Porn’s “New” Market Is Women Says CNBC, 40 Years Too Late (Ms. Naughty)
- When I worked at Good Vibrations, the company had long been repackaging adult manufacturer’s toys into tasteful wrappers because the ugly, garish, sexist, sometimes racist and often gender-insulting adult industry packaging harmed sales and damaged our customer relationships. I hope the industry attitude about branding decisions has evolved.
AVN session on promoting brand features porn stars, sex-toy manufacturer (Las Vegas Review Journal)
- An interesting post that includes La Grand Bouffe, The Cook, the Thief, his wife and her Lover, Tampopo and more. It explores “a couple of films combining two of the best things in life. Sometimes in distorted, vulgar and troublesome ways.”
Sex and Food (S Magazine)
- This is really kind of fucked up and I don’t get how this ruling can stand. Adult pay-TV company Playboy did not have ‘acceptable web controls’ to check users were aged 18 or over, Ofcom concludes.
Playboy fined £100,000 for offering porn on websites accessible to children (Guardian UK)
- Los Angeles-based creator of porn fetish films Ira Isaacs (L.A. Media) was sentenced to four years in federal prison Wednesday for producing and selling obscene material (his videos depict bestiality and sexual situations involving human excrement).
Maker of porn films gets 4 years in prison in federal obscenity case (LA Times)
- This is just wrong and awful: An eighth-grade science teacher, fired after her porn past was exposed, may see her pay and benefits revoked at a board of trustees meeting today, according to officials from the Oxnard School District.
California Science Teacher Fired for Porn Past May Lose Pay (ABC News; asshole video autoplay warning)
- I’m delighted to see Dan Savage finally cover the Lift/Carry fetish.
SL Letter of the Day: Lifted Program (Slog)
- Congrats! Pink Visual President Allison Viva’s new book, “Making Peace with Porn: Adult Entertainment and Your Guy” is now available for pre-order. Among the issues that Vivas addresses is the stereotypical presentation of the adult entertainment business as “an industry filled with powerful men and victimized women.” To counter that notion, Vivas cites the stories and careers of noteworthy and empowered performers, ex-performers, producers and businesswomen such as Nina Hartley, Stormy Daniels, Lexi Belle, Alexis Texas, Shy Love, T.J. Hart, Sasha Grey, Tristan Taormino and more.
Pink Visual’s Allison Viva’s New Book Now Available for Pre-Order (XBIZ)
- Zahara Stardust says her sport empowers women. Gallery Casula Powerhouse sees it differently, and has banned a photograph of the pole dancer from a coming exhibition on women in sport.
Gallery and dancer poles apart on provocative nude sport (Sydney Morning Herald)
- Because Robin Leech wrote this piece about the porn convention it’s impossible for me to *not* have his voice reading his bombastic writing in my head. He’s really into those porn chicks. But, it’s important to note that this is the first year the expo isn’t at the same time as CES, so we’ll see how this goes.
2013 AVN/AEE: Porn stars plan 96-hour marathon of L.V. events (Las Vegas Sun News)
- OKCupid’s new blind date app came out, to some fanfare and probably a little more mockery. But it’s hit a snag: Apparently, it was coughing up users’ emails and birth dates for anyone who bothered to dig for them.
OkCupid App Bug Exposed Email Addresses and Birth Dates (Gizmodo)
- This is a hell of an article. A long piece by the journo who spent a month experience the filming of upcoming mainstream release The Canyons, starring Lindsay Lohan, James Deen and written by Bret Easton Ellis. Quelle mess.
Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie (NYTimes)
- A rambly but fun post that puts zombie sex and The IT Crowd in one column.
On the Nature of Evil (Also, Zombie Sex) (io9)
- For 20 years, Becky Adams was one of Britain’s top madams, running an escort agency. Now she plans to open a sex work house catering to people with disabilities.
UK Ex-Madam Plans Brothel for People With Disabilities (ABC News; video autoplay warning)
- Jade Blue (no relation) writes, “The adult industry is the last acceptable arena for racism.”
Racism In Porn (InfoBarrel)
- Many teenagers live half their lives on social media sites, and they’re writing the rules as they go. One online trend 16-year-old Radio Rookie Temitayo Fagbenle finds disturbing is something she calls “slut-shaming,” or using photos and videos to turn a girl’s private life inside out.
Radio Rookies: Sexual Cyberbullying: The Modern Day Letter A (WNYC)
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