- Unlike the battle against pirated content elsewhere in the world, prosecutors in Tawain have no problem with their country’s online sites using other foreign companies’ porn to make a profit.
Taiwan Says Porn Not Protected Under Intellectual Property (XBIZ)
- Rainey Reitman, activism director at the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, explains that advertisers often consult social networks to find their potential audience, and dating sites like Match.com or OkCupid provide more information than most. OkCupid’s latest social experiment, launched in Beta in January, takes its previous data-farming efforts to another level.
Mysterious Suitors: OkCupid’s Latest Venture Might be a Ruse (SF Weekly, thanks Eve!)
- Incautious Porn is a site that gathers comments and phone numbers left in public forums for erotic performers to call, and uses the information to create a piece of digital artwork that’s available for purchase. Also available for purchase? A scan of its database to see if your phone number has been found, followed by a subsequent €1,000 fee to remove it.
Incautious Porn scrapes erotic solicitations to highlight the art of extortion (The Verge)
- I’m not alone when I say that Kate Bornstein is one of my lifelong personal heroes – I know that lives have been saved and people made sane (and whole again) by reading Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws, My Gender Workbook and Gender Outlaw. Kate Bornstein has cancer – it’s curable (PHEW), but funds are needed.
Help Kate Bornstein Stay Alive by Laura Vogel (GoFundMe)
- Thanks to people who think college students are children and should be protected from modern sex ed, the majority of the funding has been withdrawn from the University of Tennessee’s Sex Week. Education, you’re doing it wrong.
U of Tennessee Sex Week Loses Funding (Charlie Glickman)
- Two important sexuality conferences are coming up fast, they have the most incredible lineups for discussion and talkes I’ve seen yet for these cons, and tickets are still available for both.
The Feminist Porn Conference (thefeministpornbook.com)
YTH Live: Annual Conference on Youth, Tech, and [Sexual] Health (sexuality.about.com)
- This is real, and he’s… amazing. OG sex blogger (and longtime friend, and longtime co-commiserator about unattributed porn) Bacchus is offering a new service for fun, saying “I Will Track Down The Source Of Your Favorite Adult Photo Or Art And Research It For $5.” People have already paid for his services and had good results. Who knew?
Porn Research And Attribution Service (ErosBlog: The Sex Blog)
- Mainstream adult ‘novelty’ makers CalExotics have announced the creation of a team of “Expert Sexperts” on Club CalExotics 2.0. The Love Birds, Jaiya, and Sunny Megatron join the new and improved online community as a team of sexual wellness and intimacy educators. I’m not sure who they are, but it’s great to see they’re not using ‘porn star’ as the only qualification for their educators.
CalExotics Introduces ‘Expert Sexperts’ (XBIZ)
- A University of Alberta voice coach has been using sex toys to massage the throats of actors and singers and is getting results.
Sex toy gives singers that extra octave (Toronto Star)
- From the SFSI wires – a really cool Tumblr. No porn, just real sex educators – no fucking fake fakety fake Carrie Bradshaw bullshit, thankyouverymuch.
Make Sex Normal (makesexnormal.tumblr.com)
- Jon Hamm plays Don Draper in the TV series Mad Men – and his penis is so visibly large that once it was spotted in a photo through his pants, it promptly was assigned its own agent. Anyway, my boyfriend is out of town and apparently the next season of Mad Men has tight pants.
FREE THE HAMMACONDA! (Dlisted)
- Did I mention my boyfriend is *still* out of town?
15 Hilarious Tweets About Jon Hamm’s Penis (Buzzfeed)
- Oh, Daily Mail. You confuse and amuse.
Bad news for the 220-mile high club: Researchers find sex in space could lead to life-threatening illnesses (Mail Online)
Photo: Tony Kelly Photography.
