- OhMiBod celebrates its fourth year at CES with the unveiling of blueMotion, a wearable massager that uses Bluetooth technology. Compatible with Android and iOS smartphones, the blueMotion massager will hit the market in March 2014 and retail for $129. I once likened the sound of an OhMiBod toy to “a hive of angry bees” in a MacLife review, but I’d definitely give their new vibe a spin.
OhMiBod Unveils blueMotion Wearable Massager (XBIZ)
- We’re only a week into 2014 and already a viable candidate for Most Fascinating Person of 2014 is The Guy With Two Penises, who has become a Reddit – and Internet – sensation. It helps that he’s incredibly cool, sexually articulate and totally comfortable with his sexuality.
10 Fascinating Facts From the Man With Two Penises AMA (Rolling Stone)
- The US network HBO is set to remake the tale of a woman who inherits her husband’s porn company, with Sex and the City writer Jenny Bicks.
French porn comedy Hard to get HBO remake (Guardian UK)
- The Department of Work and Pensions, headed by Iain Duncan Smith, has extended subsidized wage subsidies to porn industry employers willing to take on Britain’s jobless youth. But there is a caveat — the subsidies only apply to production-oriented jobs. Employers will receive no such financial breaks for hiring young performers.
U.K. Encourages Porn Companies to Hire Unemployed Youth (XBIZ)
- On Thursday, December 26, Beyoncé and Jay-Z went on a sex toy shopping spree at Babeland in New York City, where they splurged roughly $6,000 on sex toys and gifts. “They didn’t buy anything tacky or too extreme,” a witness told Radar. “It was all top-of-the-line stuff. Some of it was even gold-plated.” My guess is that Queen Bey picked up Lelo Yva, or a Crave Duet 16GB Lux (WANTWANTWANT, more info plus engraving!) or a Jimmyjane Little Gold (I have one in steel – incredible).
It Must Be Nice To Be Able To Spend $106k On Dildos and Booze (Dlisted)
- Go Team CoCo!!! Retired porn star Coco Brown has a new role: Come 2015, she may very well be the next Space Expedition Corp. trainee, with a $100,000 check that will send her to space. Ms. Brown is paying the money to train for a March 2015 flight. “It’s just the pilot and me,” said Ms. Brown, in The New York Post. “I’m the co-pilot. We take off from Curacao and land an hour and a half later.”
Porn star Coco Brown preps for 2015 space travel (Washington Times)
- A train traveler who had devoured a cocktail of legal highs and alcohol was arrested after trying to have sex with a drinks trolley. Andrew Davidson was seen humping the trolley while shouting ‘I want to kiss you, I want to fuck you’. Before he foisted himself upon it, he had placed his hands on a female passenger and attempted to kiss a member of staff.
Off his trolley: Man sentenced after trying to have sex with a buffet cart (Metro UK)
- OMG. Class is in session. If you want to know how to rule an interview when the asshole asking questions – in this case, Katie Couric – won’t stop trying to objectify and humiliate you (read: discuss your genitals) read this now.
Flawless Trans Women Carmen Carrera and Laverne Cox Respond Flawlessly To Katie Couric’s Invasive Questions (AutoStraddle)
- Intense manscaping, hour-long erections, only one erogenous zone and injections of Caverject are just a few of the ways male porn stars are carefully crafted to be more like circus performers than sex partners.
10 ways porn perpetuates myths about men and sex (Salon)
- Back in the 1950s it was unusual to see two married adults sleep in the same bed, let alone witness an orgy filled with bodies, lust and sexual exploration… Even still, Radley Metger’s “Score” remains one of my favorite “sexploitation” flicks.
8 Films That Changed Sex As We Know It (NSFW) (HuffPo)
- This CFP on surveillance and pornography for Porn Studies Journal (Routledge) looks really interesting.
Call for Papers: Surveillance, Pornography, and Porn Studies (academia.edu)
- Lots of people like X-Art’s porn – and it is beautiful – except the company itself is just proving itself over and over to be completely rotten and unethical. It sucks.
Copyright trolls go mental: XArt’s lawyers demand 7.35 million dollars from a wrongly accused ISP subscriber (Fight Copyright Trolls)
- She created the most awful female dating profile ever on OkCupid, and recorded the results. “As a child of the Internet and confirmed weirdo, imagine my relief when they finally took that last bastion of in-person awkwardness — dating — to my laptop.”
4 Things I Learned from the Worst Online Dating Profile Ever (Cracked)
- From hard drugs to air guns and fresh breast milk, illegal and grey-market goods are easy to find on mainland China’s most popular online shopping sites. The trade flourishes in part because of a legal vacuum – the mainland does not have a law specifically governing e-commerce. Instead, a collection of guidelines loosely govern online transactions. But revisions are under way, according to one legal expert helping with the changes, and should stifle much of the internet’s black market.
Guns, drugs and breast milk: China’s web shoppers exploit vacuum to buy illegal goods (scmp.com)
- Briefs is the East Bay Express’ Erotic Shorts Film Competition showcasing works by amateur and professional filmmakers. The one night screening will allow filmmakers who have explored the limits of erotic entertainment to engage attendees in a liberating experience.
BRIEFS: Call for Submissions for East Bay Express Short Erotic Film Fest (pinklabel.tv)
- Of all these type of articles we’re seeing this time of year, this one is recommended. As the New Year gets under way, Dr. Petra Boynton asks a few sexuality experts for their top tips on staying sexually happy and healthy in 2014, whether in a relationship or single.
Want a happy and healthy relationship in 2014? Here’s how (Telegraph UK)
- Adnet Media has announced preliminary plans for the first-ever (American) Sexual Health Expo 2015, an upscale consumer expo dedicated to the promotion of sexual health products.
L.A. ‘Sexual Health Expo’ to Debut in 2015 (XBIZ)
- According to The Times’ NewsFeed, Amazon will now “make it harder” (the article doesn’t seem to specify further) to purchase certain genres of erotica, apparently particularly works that focus on prehistoric bestiality (no, seriously).
Amazon now “at war” with dinosaur erotica – implications for genre works? (io9)
- 2013 marks female pornographer Ms. Naughty’s 13th year in porn, and this is her 8th (fabulous, must-read) yearly retrospective about porn for women.
Porn For Women Retrospective 2013 (Ms. Naughty)
- If you like big endorsement deals, and you cannot lie.
Jen Selter’s Amazing Ass Landed Her Endorsement Deals (AdRants)
- Mother Jones’ Molly Redden wrote about a recent Human Rights Watch report, “In Harm’s Way,” which argues that aggressive policing in New Orleans is contributing to the city’s soaring HIV/AIDS rates. One tactic that Human Rights Watch found to be particularly problematic: the police harassment of suspected sex workers for possessing condoms.
When having condoms gets you arrested (Mother Jones)
- Our favorite erotica siren Alison Tyler deliciously describes how to get hot on these cold winter nights with erotica – how to use it, very specifically.
Passing Chemistry (gasm.org)
- In which Buzzfeed shows us again how easy it is for porn companies to get their press releases run as news content by gullible Buzzfeed bloggers…
PS4 Owners Are Watching Three Times As Much Porn As Xbox One Owners (Buzzfeed)
- The number of reported sexual assaults across the military shot up by more than 50 percent in 2013, an increase that defense officials say may suggest that victims are becoming more willing to come forward after a tumultuous year of scandals that shined a spotlight on the crimes and put pressure on the military to take aggressive action.
Reports of sexual assault in the military jumped 50 percent in 2013 (PBS)
- Paul-Julien Robert grew up on a country estate with dozens of adults; but he had no idea which one was his father. In the European free-love commune, where he was born in the late 1970s, pretty much all of the men had slept with his mother, any of them could be his dad.
Surviving Life in a ‘70s Sex Commune (Daily Beast)
- And here’s one to make my publisher happy… “Violet Blue has truly outdone herself this time with her latest collection of romantic and heart-pounding thrills. Best Women’s Erotica 2014 delivers stories…”
Cleis Press Releases Audiobook of Best Women’s Erotica 2014 (Broadway World)
- This is yet another article about having better sex in 2014, but it’s one that very smartly recommends that queer sex is better sex… and I agree :)
How to Have Better Sex in 2014 (VICE)
- Gift cards for porn… Finally, a real bang for your buck. Naughty America is offering access to its dozens of online porn sites in exchange for your unused gift cards.
Now You Can Trade Your Unwanted Gift Cards For A Porn Subscription (HuffPo)
- Have you seen this new site? Porn For Women TV is curated by Ms. Naughty, and it’s great.
Porn For Women TV | Adult videos for women (pornforwomen.tv)
than Jane Selter’s got an arse like an onion: it makes me want to cry.