- Mixxxer matches people up for one thing: sex. Hot, sweaty, smartphone-lubricated sex. Lest anyone be confused, the site clearly states: ‘This is not a dating app.’
Swipe Right For Sex: Mixxxer Is Tinder for the Porn Star Set (Daily Beast)
- The ShareBetter coalition launched a website today that will help you know if you’re booking an AirBnB close to a registered sex offender in New York.
New Site Shows Sex Offenders Near AirBnB’s (Animal NY)
- A few weeks ago, an image of a pumpkin-spice-flavored condom began spreading on Twitter, bringing with it a cascade of seasonal jokes. It remained a curiosity until a reporter with Quartz decided to reach out to Durex and its PR agency and ask the question: is it real?
How We Got Screwed By Pumpkin Spice Condoms (Digg)
WTF. The description of this totally unnecessary Vaginal Shrinking Cream is the WORST. http://t.co/67oaQeaK5g pic.twitter.com/ja4Biwd4YZ
— Cosmopolitan UK (@CosmopolitanUK) October 6, 2014
- “It is one thing to wish to have a public conversation about passive and active forms of consent, about how to deal with regrettable sex after one has had it, about how to best take care of oneself after being sexually assaulted; it is another to publicly pick apart the details of someone else’s rape.”
What Counts? Elizabeth Ellen and What Makes A Victim (The Toast)
- “Every guy reacts differently to the No Sex bomb. Some play it cool while calculating how to coerce me into changing my mind. (This usually involves the showing off of foreplay moves, tales of the extreme pleasures I’ve been missing and/or purring that they don’t mind waiting — unless it’s going to be, like, two years, in which case they’re not so sure.) Some bail immediately.”
When guys find out I’m a virgin (Salon; see also Meet the gay men who are waiting for marriage to have sex)
- Penises grown in laboratories could soon be tested on men by scientists developing technology to help people with congenital abnormalities, or who have undergone surgery for aggressive cancer or suffered traumatic injury.
Scientists ready to test lab-grown penises on men (Guardian UK)
- “Today I read this article on digital medium theft and how it’s killing the porn industry. It both upset me and got me thinking. I think the porn industry is trapped in the 90s, holding firm to the DVD mentality and hasn’t caught up to the 2000s.”
A Quick Opinion Piece on the Porn Industry (Oh Joy Sex Toy)
- Described as a “revolutionary product that comfortably reduces skin-to-skin contact during sex in the genital areas not covered by a condom”, Scroguard is a nappy-like product the user straps on before fitting a condom.
When a condom just isn’t enough: Here’s Scroguard, a latex sex nappy that protects EVERYTHING (Daily Telegraph)
- “His AIM handle was FrankZappy, and I believe he claimed to be a married man from Queens. I was Dana, a name I had lifted from a character on my favorite Purple Moon CD-ROM. Dana was 19, an aspiring veterinarian, and everyone told her she looked like Britney Spears. We met in an AOL chatroom in the “Friends” category, bonding over a shared interest in baseball and the inspiration for his screenname; I’d impressed him by referencing the lyrics to Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow.”
My first time with cybersex (Daily Dot)
- Every startup, indie developer, and indie security researcher would do well to read Pink & White’s primer on Porn’s ‘Best Practices’ for Content Trades and Shares.
TRICKS OF THE TRADE: Porn’s ‘Best Practices’ for Content Trades and Shares (PinkLabel.tv)
- Video below: a behind-the-scenes clip of Brooklyn Decker and Patrick Wilson acting out a sex scene on the set of Joe Carnahan’s movie Stretch.
How a movie sex scene actually looks on the set (mildly NSFW) (Gizmodo/Sploid)
