- A new EU law will force Prime Minister David Cameron to retract the UK’s compulsory porn filters. Cameron – who recently pushed ahead with legislation which could see WhatsApp, iMessage and other chat apps banned in the UK – could have to backtrack over his mandatory online porn filters. Cameron will next try to cheat the EU ban by proposing national legislation to ensure the porn blocker remains intact, exploiting a loophole in new EU rules agreed last month.
End of UK PORN blocks? David Cameron’s compulsory filters could be SCRAPPED under EU law, Cameron opens new front in war on porn (Express UK, Financial Times)
- I love Grant Morrison. “Wonder Woman’s Invisible Plane is now shaped like a vagina, it’s the most incredible thing. It opens up in the back and it has a little clitoris hood, everything is a female-based design. It’s all based on shells and natural stuff. He’s created this entire newly designed world for the Amazons. (…) It’s the most exciting book I’ve done in years, it changed everything I’m thinking about the future.”
Grant Morrison Talks HEAVY METAL and WONDER WOMAN: EARTH ONE (Nerdist)
- This week, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCSE) — a group founded in 1962 as Morality in Media (the name was changed this year) — held an anti-pornography summit on Capitol Hill titled “Pornography: A Public Health Crisis.” The event aims to educate lawmakers on “how porn fuels sex trafficking, child exploitation, and sexual violence” and features a who’s who of anti-sex-work, anti-science, and anti-free-speech zealots,
Anti-Porn Summit on Capitol Hill Mixes Moralist, Feminist, and Public Health Rhetoric With Insane Results (Reason)
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- “There are a lot of threads to follow if you’re looking at [the Gawker controversy] from a place of concern for the safety/human rights of sex workers, but here’s the one I’m hung up on: the belief that this man deserved to hire someone for sex quietly, privately, and without consequence. That obtaining a thoughtful, ethical level of service was his right. And the attitude that, because two people participated, two people should be named (or outed) in spite of the fact that only one party (the sex worker, in case you’re confused) is likely to be at risk of public retaliation or arrest.”
About that Gawker post… (Writer With A Heart of Gold)
- “One of the biggest concerns anyone who’s a Dominant or a submissive in the BDSM lifestyle has is privacy. Although living in a D/s relationship or enjoying kinky fun may be an inherent part of who we are as individuals, what we do and what we enjoy is on the fringe of what’s considered “socially acceptable.” Which is why protecting each others privacy is so important. We don’t out each other. We just don’t.”
We Do Not Out Each Other (Submissive Guide)
- A 21-year-old from New Hampshire has been charged with a range of crimes surrounding a grisly digital extortion scheme involving underage girls. The Department of Justice accuses Ryan J. Vallee of hacking into several teenagers’ social media accounts, holding them hostage unless they sent him explicit images of themselves. If they didn’t comply, he would threaten the girls with “additional harm,” although after obtaining the pictures, he distributed them to others anyway. In addition, Vallee accessed the victim’s Amazon accounts and ordered “items of a sexual nature,” which were then sent to their homes, causing untold distress.
21-year-old charged with sextortion crimes (Engadget)
- Fusion writes, “Well, obviously they’re wearing white undergarments — they’re Mormons! Or, their characters are Mormons. This is a scene from the hyper-niche genre of Mormon-themed porn, and for the actress who goes by Maxine Holloway — known to Mormon porn fans as Sister Rose, and even better as the Mormon MILF—it’s a fantasy come true.”
Inside the world of Mormon porn (Fusion)
- A new adult-entertainment site launched today that is specifically geared toward virtual-reality gear like Google Cardboard, which means that the iPhone can now become part of an even less subtle way than usual of looking at pictures of naked people.
VR porn site plunges you deep into some adult situations (Cult of Mac)
- “In 2016, the first consumer version of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset will become available after years of anticipation. It will open up the VR playing field to the masses, and undoubtedly a flood of users will finally be able to enjoy the virtual sex games they’ve long been waiting for. To get you ready for the upcoming launch, we’ve compiled a list of the best online sex games for the Oculus Rift.”
Review: The Best VR Online Sex Games for Oculus Rift (Future of Sex)
"I want to see myself and my community as the focus of desire. I make queer porn to set the story straight." ~ @ShineLouise #harveymilk
— Pink & White (@PinkWhite) July 17, 2015
- A campaign to require condom use in pornographic film productions in California has collected enough signatures to put a ballot measure before state voters in 2016, organizers said. The signatures must still be validated by California election officials.
Requiring condom use in porn films gets enough signatures for California vote (Reuters)
- Berish Strauch thought an inflatable [erectile device] option might work better, and the development of flexible plastics made it possible. In 1973, he proposed an implantable device that would embed a fluid reservoir inside the scrotum or the abdomen, connected to a flexible tube running along the top of the penile shaft. The impotent patient could pump the tube full whenever he felt like some sexytime.
Here’s the First Penile Prosthetic That Didn’t Stay Erect (Gizmodo)
- Doron Ofir Casting and MTV’s series “True Life” are screening candidates for a spot on a potential upcoming episode about the adult industry. They are seeking candidates who have a parent working in the adult toy or video industry.
MTV Casting for ‘True Life’ Episode With Adult Theme (XBIZ)
- Microsoft has launched a cloud version of PhotoDNA, its free technology designed to detect images depicting child sexual abuse, giving more services and websites the chance to use it. Now that there’s a version that runs on Microsoft’s cloud, it can be used even by smaller companies and non-profit orgs.
Microsoft launches cloud version of child porn detector (Engadget)
- It’s only recent that trans people are becoming more accepted in our society. From our pop culture to our political discourse, transsexuals are the topic du jour. Despite all the rising awareness of trans issues, there’s a side to this story that isn’t really examined: the people who find themselves attracted to trans people (article primarily addresses male attraction to trans women).
Examining Trans Attraction (Eros Media)
- Pornhub has never done an interview about the design philosophy behind Pornhub’s network. While you might assume it’s as easy as presenting visitors with an unending stream of hardcore material, it’s a lot more complicated.
How Pornhub’s designers keep you coming… back (The Next Web)
- Fusion this week took the wraps off its upcoming slate, which features original and acquired docuseries, documentaries and specials. Above, watch a trailer for Fusion’s original documentary Miami Porn: Sex Work In The Sunshine State, which premieres Sunday.
Fusion Slate Covers Sex, Drugs & Hip-Hop (Deadline)
- To be exact, the filmed sex act was in the fitting room of Uniqlo’s Beijing flagship in the shopping center of Sanlitun. The video they made of said quickie promptly went viral on social media outlets Weibo and WeChat after it was posted online, racking up millions of views and earning the outrage of Chinese authorities, who said it “clashed with socialist core values.”
A sex tape apparently shot in a Uniqlo fitting room has Chinese authorities in a tizzy (Quartz)
- The city of New Orleans currently has the second highest sexually transmitted disease rate in the country, second only to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The city’s teenage pregnancy rate also dwarfs most other U.S. cities, and it’s the number-one reason teenage girls cite for dropping out of school. That’s probably because currently, Louisiana public schools teach abstinence-based sexual education and are prohibited from teaching students about contraception and STDs.
The Battle To Bring Sex Education To The City With The Second Highest STD Rate In The Country (Think Progress)
- April Flores has been making erotica in the Big Beautiful Woman category (featuring larger sized women) since 2000, carefully carving out a niche in the ever-changing world of online pornography. The love of her life, noted photographer Carlos Batts, died suddenly in October 2013, throwing Flores’s life in turmoil. In an phone interview with Fusion, Flores opened up about being a new widow, being a feminist making pornography, and the lies society tells larger women.
How adult star April Flores is redefining the concept of sexy (Fusion)
- “You’re a young salamander among giants, and it’s mating season. There’s no way you can compete with the heavyweights, so what do you do? You start a sperm-based flash mob.”
These Salamanders Get Into Groups And Go On Sperm-Release Raids (io9)
- Japan finally moved to ban the possession of pornographic photos and videos of children, amid growing international criticism as the only Group of Seven industrialized country that had not passed a law on the matter. After the Diet amended the law on punishment of activities relating to child prostitution and child pornography, the revised law took effect on July 15 last year. But a one-year moratorium was put in place in order to give individuals who had such images time to dispose of them.
Ban on possession of child porn takes effect in Japan (Japan Times)