- I am dead serious when I say to whoever DDoS’d this douchebag – drinks are on me, forever. This twat wrote the seminal article on the horrors and dangers of cyberporn as featured the cover of TIME in 1996 — knowing full well that what he was writing was false, based on fraudulent research, and was swiftly debunked. But the debunking was too late for the damage done thanks to his TIME piece: He started the cyberporn panic of our era, and his piece fueled the Communications Decency Act (later found to be unconstitutional). This piece is a weak non-apology for all the anti-sex, anti-porn censorship and crap we have to wade through today.
Marty Rimm published a controversial study of online porn, and then he disappeared. (Fortune)
- “Day by day, second by second, time is destroying your vulva. Your labia are deflating like a sad soufflé. Your vagina is drying up. The color is draining from your genital region. Your husband is weeping. Your dinner is burning. Your life is a farce.”
This sex toy will “rejuvenate” your pitiful vulva for just $850 (Hey Epiphora!)
- “She does these contradictory things at once, because Tasha Jones isn’t actually a 14-year-old girl. She’s two 20-something men who won’t give their real names. They use fake profiles to pose as teenagers online, then wait to be approached by pedophiles. When the perpetrators ask to meet, they’re lured to a public place and arrested. The two anonymous vigilantes call themselves Dark Justice.”
Behind Dark Justice’s crusade to bring down pedophiles (Daily Dot)
- Originally posted on 50 Cent’s website, the video spread to porn sites and has garnered millions of views. The rapper, wearing a wig and playing his “Pimpin’ Curly” character, crudely narrates over the tape and mocks the woman’s body. But the “Get Rich or Die Tryin’” moneymaker is crying poverty — and it’s not the first time he’s done so.
50 Cent’s Bogus Revenge Porn Bankruptcy (Daily Beast)
- “I’m a professional sperm donor. It kind of started off as a joke. I knew that you could earn money donating sperm. I was trying to make it as an actor … On a whim, I decided to look up sperm donation online. I was in the city most of the week anyway and I found out that, in the city, there were a bunch of different sperm donation centers. I hit up a couple. There’s two major ones: California Cryobank and Manhattan Cryobank. California Cryobank pays pretty well but is extremely selective.”
I was a professional sperm donor (Hopes and Fears)
Yeah…pretty sure it wasn't the anal that ruined this relationship. https://t.co/XFTaGdCazF
— Heather Parker (@heatherr_parker) July 13, 2015
- It isn’t just the Irish who are afraid to talk about sex, venture capitalists and financial institutions also tend to get a bit hot and bothered about the subject. That’s the view of MakeLoveNotPorn’s Cindy Gallop who wants to make sex one of the hottest areas of start-up activity.
Cindy Gallop: ‘I want to be the Y Combinator of sex tech’ (Silicon Republic)
- The CSPH looks at the history of the term “sex work,” it’s place within feminism, and some information about the way human trafficking is used to obfuscate sex worker rights.
Sunday Sex School: The history of “Sex Work” (The Center for Sexual Pleasure & Health)
- Driest writeup of the hottest thing… “As the above research demonstrates, we have a much better understanding of the lived experiences of straight men who have sex with other men in comparison to a mere decade ago. However, the etiology of this behavior remains contentious, and the final posting in this blog series will examine proposed etiological explanations for this demographic.”
Straight Men Who Have Sex With Other Men: In Their Own Words (Psychology Today)
- The CW’s epic dystopian sci-fi series The 100 has action, drama, and the most kick-ass female heroine on television, plus it’s also diverse, empowering to women and the LGBT community, and completely non-judgmental when its characters have sex. Particularly the female ones.
‘The 100’ Cast Reveals Why The Show Is So Sex-Positive (MTV)
- io9 braved the Comic-Con crush around the awesome DC costume display to talk to the trio behind one of DC Comics’ most exciting series today: Harley Quinn. Artist-writer Amanda Conner; her husband, writer Jimmy Palmiotti; and artist Chad Hardin answered all of our burning questions.
The Harley Quinn Team on How to Make Sexy Comics That Aren’t Gross (io9)
- “Nichi looks at porn and sees an industry in disarray, badly in need of some sort of international kite mark. It’s the question I’ve frequently asked the feminist campaigners, religious counsellors, politicians and legislators that oppose pornography. After all, porn is a multi-billion pound international business, and the number one thing searched for on the Internet, yet simultaneously derided for everything from erectile dysfunction to moral decay and child molestation.”
If food and fashion can be ethical, why can’t pornography? (Erotic Review)
- If you’re in LA today, please see this for me! Features Buck Angel, Sarah B. Burghauser, Jenny Factor, Jiz Lee and Dave Naz.
Genderqueer and Other Gender Identities: A Reading and Discussion (Pen Center USA)
- In researching the possible futures for VR technology as it pertains to the adult and sex toy industries, Badoink spoke with Fleshlight’s Juan Ziena Cabezas, Alex Legret, the creative director for teledildonics company Kiiroo, and ThriXXX’s CEO.
The History and Future of Sex and Virtual Reality (Badoink)
