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  • The Los Angeles Times today published an op-ed that claims there’s a “strangeness” to new proposed porn production regulations in California. That strangeness, Conor Friedersdorf says, is that the draconian rules that the porn industry possibly faces are counterintuitive in “an era when a right to personal autonomy is thought to protect everything from abortion to BDSM to polyamorous orgies.” Friedersdorf notes, “The new sex police are as irrational as the old.”
    L.A. Times Publishes ‘First They Came for the Pornographers …’ (XBIZ)
  • Famed sex therapist and advice columnist Dr. Ruth Westheimer has come under fire this week for comments made during a radio interview about sexual consent. Specifically, Westheimer said on the Diane Rehm Show Monday that if a woman is already naked in bed and her partner is “aroused,” she can no longer say no to sex.
    Dr. Ruth Says Women Can’t Say No To Sex Once Partner Is Aroused (Huffington Post)

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  • This week, the Minnesota Court of Appeals overturned the conviction of Timothy Turner, who admitted to posting sexually-explicit ads on Craigslist seeking sex from men, pretending to be his ex-girlfriend and her under-age daughter. (…) In Oregon, the state Senate unanimously passed a bill that would make it a misdemeanor to surreptitiously take photos up women’s dresses without their consent.
    Without My Consent’s Weekly Roundup – June 3, 2015 (Without My Consent newsletter)
  • During the Clinton impeachment, Newt Gingrich and Dennis Hastert presented themselves as moralizing figures. Gingrich was cheating on his gravely ill wife, and Hastert would later be indicted for paying off an unnamed person to “compensate for and conceal” the sexual abuse of a high-school boy during his coaching days.
    The Changing American Sex Scandal (The New Yorker)

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  • At a public hearing on Thursday — on what could be the first-ever drug to be approved by the FDA for the treatment of women’s sexual dysfunction — the FDA may also have to answer charges that the relative lack of progress stems from bias in how women’s sexual health is treated.
    FDA to debate approval of ‘female Viagra’ (Al Jazeera America)
  • Latex: a shiny second skin that comes in every hue, shape and thickness. It can constrict and contract, inventing new silhouettes for the human body. Worn in clandestine S&M scenes or integrated into street wear, the fetishized feeling latex brings exists both in public and in private.
    The Wonderful and Bizarre World of the Latex Bodysuit Fetish (Alternet)
  • According to new research from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, men who drink the caffeine equivalent of two to three cups of coffee per day are less likely to have erectile dysfunction.
    What Your Morning Coffee Has To Do With Erections (Huffington Post)

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  • Starting tomorrow, anyone can buy a .porn or .adult domain name. As for pricing, GoDaddy today is pre-selling .porn domain names starting at $119 per domain, with a sale price starting at $83.99. United Domains is planning to sell .adult names at $79 starting tomorrow.
    General Availability for .porn, .adult Domains Starts Tomorrow (XBIZ)
  • The Science of Sex Dreams: Stephen LaBerge specializes in dream sex and orgasms. He started studying lucid dreams since research in the area began in the ‘80s, and led Stanford University’s groundbreaking work into whether dreams are controllable.
    How to Control Your Sex Dreams with Science and Sex Tech (Future of Sex)

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  • In 2012, when Barnet Lee Rosset, Jr. died, he left behind many nicknames: The Old Smut Peddler, The Last Maverick of Publishing, and The New York Anarchist, among others. He fought obscenity charges in the United States Supreme Court and won, single-handedly bringing the words fuck and cunt to American letters.
    The Strange Second Act of the Man Who Brought Smut to American Literature (New Republic)
  • Even though top New York City officials said that students should be taught how to use condoms, it actually wasn’t part of the health class curriculum. Until now. Parents will still be able to opt-out of their children learning something practical and important.
    NYC Schools Can Finally Demonstrate How To Use Condoms (Gothamist)

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    I was very pleased that there were many comments on the NY Times article on the approval of flibanserin that recommended the use of marijuana for increasing the numbers of women’s “sexually satisfying events”. Cannabis has the advantage of being used at the time of need rather than taken constantly. Its drawbacks are well-known and well-studied. For most people those drawbacks are mainly the mental effects and the illegality in most jurisdictions. Strangely, despite being banned by law with severe penalties in many places it is almost universally available.

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