- How the pressures of the shipping industry have shaped everything about the maritime culture of Filipino Seafarers. Right down to their penile implants.
The Strange Sexual Quirk of Filipino Seafarers (The Atlantic)
- An NSA recruit describes failing the polygraph test in a fit of shameless sexual honesty.
I sexually harassed my NSA polygrapher (Chicago Now)
- Great takedown by Rachel Kramer Bussel on the myth of better sex with apps. “There’s a new iPhone app called Spreadsheets that, by measuring your movement and noise level in bed, will give you a readout of your sexual activity by the numbers (…)”
I Don’t Want or Need an App to Measure My Sex Life (Medium; Editor’s Picks)
- Arrow Productions, the go-to studio for vintage and classic porn — and owners of the copyright to the legendary 1972 “Deep Throat” title — is suing the producers of the new “Lovelace” biopic.
TMZ: Arrow Productions Sues ‘Lovelace’ Creators (XBIZ)
- Lovelace, Hollywood’s latest look at the adult film industry, opens today. Porn star and producer Joanna Angel talks about what infuriates her regarding what Hollywood always gets wrong about porn.
Joanna Angel Explains What Hollywood Always Gets Wrong About the Adult Film Industry (Complex)
- This sucks – Driven By Boredom was robo-ejected from Instagram without notice or ability to retrieve their photos. So glad I never used Instagram; they don’t give a shit about their users. “If you follow me on any of my social networks you probably have noticed that I got banned from Instagram. I am very upset to lose my most popular social network (8,500 followers) and a ton of photos.”
Banned By Instagram (Driven By Boredom)
- A must-read that is the belle of Twitter right now: “There’s a piece of twaddle going around FetLife called 10 Rules For Dating My Daughter, which is packed with “funny” threats like this: “Rule Four: I’m sure you’ve been told that in today’s world, sex (…)”
Dear Daughter: I Hope You Have Some Fucking Awesome Sex. (Ferrett Steinmetz, via Dr. Charlie Glickman’s Twitter)
- Tumblr had silently blacklisted linking to Extra Lunch Money and harshly penalized some Tumblr users for linking to it. When this came to Tumblr’s public attention, they fixed it, saying it was a glitch. Another misstep, but another course correction. Instagram, are you watching?
Tumblr Censoring Select Adult Links (ErosBlog: The Sex Blog)
- A group of sex researchers met to advise themselves and other people about how to get the kind of attention they want from people in the media.
For Sex Researchers: How to Get the Attention You Want (Improbable Research)
- Lady Gaga is fully nude in the promo video (above) for a trendy performance artist’s new project. Gaga looks gorgeous.
The Abramovic Method Practiced by Lady Gaga (Vimeo, above)
- Showtime’s new drama series “Masters of Sex” stars Michael Sheen as William Masters and Lizzy Caplan as Virginia Eshelman Johnson; it airs on September 29.
Full trailer for Masters of Sex shows the long, hard road of sexology (io9)
- Three months before Russia’s parliament unanimously passed a federal law banning the propaganda of “non-traditional relationships” — that is, same-sex ones — the bill’s sponsor went on the country’s most respected interview show to explain her reasoning.
Why Russia Turned Against The Gays (Buzzfeed)
- George Takei signed this, and so did I. JOIN US!
Petition: International Olympic Committee (IOC): Relocate the 2014 Winter Games to Vancouver (change.org)
- Petition: Add the basis of comprehensive sex education into the Australian National Curriculum (change.org)
- Hey guuuuurl, I love your linkbait. “To swallow or not to swallow: that is the question. You can only really answer it for yourself, but we aim to help you make that decision an informed one.”
A Complete Breakdown of the Nutritional Content of Semen (Jezebel)
- Records at the Illinois Secretary of State show that porn troll law firm Prenda Law was “voluntarily dissolved” on July 26. The move isn’t surprising and is largely a formality.
Prenda officially dissolves as Steele agrees to pay $5,400 penalty (Ars Technica)
- “Something I noticed on the internet over the past six months disturbs me and pisses me off: It’s difficult to find porn or adult entertainment in the usual ways online.”
Where Did All the Sex on the Internet Go? (YNOT)
- (VB note: I disagree with the idea that people who depict and enjoy impossibly large breasts don’t regard actual women as human.) Boob Jam is a 48-hour coding event that will take place in the US in September where designers will create video games that show the “unsexy reality” of having breasts (e.g. having a mammogram). The idea behind Boob Jam is to “change the aesthetic away from women being nothing but boobs and sexual objects to thinking of them as active subjects.”
Boob Jam: A Coding Marathon to De-sexy-fy Breasts in Video Games (Animal NY)
Also: Animal talked to Boob Jam creator Jenn Frank about the Boob Jam project, errors in her BBC profile, why video games are fun and the “male gaze” argument is boring in Why Video Games Are Ready for Different Boobs (Animal NY)
- Noam Ash of the web series My Gay Roommate is home from college for the summer and posts this special webisode dedicated to the fine art (and hazards, in a house of doors with no locks) of manscaping.
The Art of Manscaping: VIDEO (Towleroad)
- Pasadena City College’s self-titled “Porn Professor” announced this week he will not offer the class again in the near future after pressures from the college and social media sent him to psychological rehab last week.
Pasadena City College’s ‘Porn Professor’ will no longer offer porn class (Pasadena Star News)
- WARNING: Database pr0n alert! ToGo interviewed Eric Pickup, IT Lead at the Manwin group (the company behind sites like YouPorn and Pornhub), about their transition to using Redis, why they made the switch, and how well it’s working.
How YouPorn Uses Redis: SFW Edition (ToGo)
- It appears that Zynga is not “down to bang” with the casual-sex app “Bang with Friends.” The game maker filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the app’s maker for trademark infringement.
Zynga sues ‘Bang with Friends’ sex app for trademark violation (CNET)
- A porn performer writes about finding out he chose a person’s real name (as his stage name), and how he sought to remedy the situation: “The email was from another Conner Habib, one who wasn’t in porn. ‘My grandmother searched for me on Google and nearly had a heart attack,’ he wrote. ‘So… Is Conner Habib your real name?'” (I am tempted to write the other side of this, describing when the woman using my name and likeness to make porn – including sex ed porn – emailed me saying I could have my name back when she was done with it, and I finally contacted a lawyer.)
Text Archive What’s In A (Porn) Name? (Buzzfeed)
Did you really just refer to Marina Abramović as “trendy”? Trending, maybe.