- Vocativ.com posted a highly unique photo essay titled, “I’m in Love With a Sex Doll.” While the mainstream media has become increasingly wont to cover the popularity of realistic sex dolls for their sexual purposes, Vocativ’s photos highlight men — and women — who feel a deeper bond with their silicone mates.
Photo Essay Depicts Men Who Are in Love With Sex Dolls (XBIZ)
- Leslie Feinberg was a pioneer in trans and lesbian issues, workers rights, and intersectionality long before anyone could define the phrase. Feinberg’s partner, Minnie Bruce Pratt, and family offered The Advocate this obituary. As Mistress Morgana so perfectly put it, Rest in Power.
Transgender Pioneer and Stone Butch Blues Author Leslie Feinberg Has Died (Advocate)
- While the “fuck-a-fan” trend isn’t a new one, the concept of bidding to be a porn star for a day is. “Now that porn is pushing more mainstream and the taboos are washing off of it, more people are anxious to try,” says Adult Verified Video Chat company spokesman Randy. “It’s like bragging rights.”
Sotheby’s for Sex: The Problem with Auctioning Off Sex with A Porn Star (Daily Beast)
- “Prostitution opponents love to promote images of abused hookers and human traffickers to trump up hostility towards sex work. While it’s true ill-intentioned criminals do exist and should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, these conditions do not apply to the vast majority of sex workers. We should especially not conflate the sex industry with the abuses of human trafficking because it delegitimizes the workers and creates a moral panic that manifests itself in harmful legislation. The fact of the matter is that most sex workers enter the industry via their own consent and genuinely enjoy their work.”
Opinion: ‘Prostitutes Are People, Not Criminals’ by Belle Knox (Rolling Stone)
- Fur seals have been caught engaging in an extreme form of sexual behaviour. Specifically, trying to have sex with penguins. BBC warns, “You may find the videos in this story disturbing.”
Seals discovered having sex with penguins (BBC)
- The newest ebook from Digita Publications went on sale this weekend: Filthy Housewives (order direct) is an explicit erotic 80-page ebook that features sexually frustrated (modern) housewives figuring out what it takes to push their husbands over the line — and the book splits all sales with the authors evenly. Also released this weekend in the must-have erotic book sphere include Rachel Kramer Bussel’s Sex and Cupcakes.
Filthy Housewives (Digita Publications, Amazon)
- Is female Viagra a scam? The International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health, which is largely funded by the pharmaceutical industry, had joined with Sprout Pharmaceuticals and other companies with skin in the game to develop two slick campaigns, “eventhescore.org” and “womendeserve.org,” which argued that the FDA’s failure to approve a drug to treat women’s sexual problems was “sexist.”
‘Pink Viagra’: The sham drug idea of the year (LA Times)
- Cindy Gallop considers Bitcoin: she finds that necessities like VC funding, bank accounts and video streaming platforms usually read “no adult content” in the small print. As many business owners do, Gallop is cautiously and slowly approaching the Bitcoin space. We thought we’d reach out to her and give her a warm crypto welcome.
Decentralizing Sex: Cindy Gallop Makes Love Not Porn (Cointelegraph)
- Over the past few years sex clubs have become increasingly common. You can find them in almost any major city and many suburban areas throughout the US. There are definite dos and don’ts that Popsugar apparently learned the hard way.
Sex Club Etiquette (Popsugar)
- In the UK last week, Luke King, a 21-year-old man from Nottingham, England, became the first man in Britain to be jailed for posting revenge porn. A 12-week sentence was handed down on Nov. 14, after King pleaded guilty to harassment, after posting revenge porn of his ex to WhatsApp. The woman had sent King the photo while they were dating. After the break-up, King threatened to upload the photo, which is when his ex reported him to police. Although he was warned by police that posting the image online would be a crime, King followed through with his threat in August.
Revenge Porn: Man Jailed In Britain As US Lawmakers Prepare New Legislation (TIME)
- Have you ever dreamed of having a bra that could change colors when you bumped boobs with a girlfriend? Yeah, we haven’t either.
Frozen Bra That Changes Color (Popsugar)
- Parents at an elite magnet school in Chicago are up in arms over a sex education program for fifth graders that talks frankly about female condoms and lube.
Parents Freak Out Because Chicago School’s Sex Ed Talks About Female Condoms (Think Progress)
- Online distributors of adult content in the U.K. will be forced to block R18 video-on-demand adult content before users are able to reach age-verified pay walls, according to a new law that goes into effect Dec. 1. What people will be prosecuted for is terrifying.
U.K. Imposes New Age-Verification Law Going Into Effect on Dec. 1 (XBIZ)
IMPORTANT via @TVXboss – "1st Dec confirmed for new porn law. #AVMSregs2014 restrict content on UK VOD sites to R18". pic.twitter.com/7dVihNQH42
— Myles Jackman (@ObscenityLawyer) November 17, 2014
- Warning for survivors of sexual abuse and trauma: A woman named Joan Tarshis has come forward to describe how Bill Cosby drugged and assaulted her twice after she met him when she was 19 years old in 1969, describing his actions as rape. Tarshis appears to be the fifth woman to publicly accuse the comedian of sexual assault. Drugging women for sex was a repeat theme in his comedy routines.
Another Woman Accuses Bill Cosby of Rape (Slate)
- Warning for survivors of sexual abuse and trauma: Federal prosecutors say a Utah truck driver had four other victims in addition to the two women he is accused of keeping as sex slaves in his semi-trailer as he drove across the country.
Prosecutors: Utah trucker had 4 more sex slave victims (Fox News)