- A historic vote by delegates of Amnesty International at the Dublin International Council Meeting calls for decriminalizing consensual sex work and protecting the rights of sex workers globally. Amnesty and global sex worker organizations have been at loggerheads with Hollywood stars such as Kate Winslet, Lena Dunham and Meryl Streep who appear to conflate sex work with sexual slavery and child sexual trafficking.
Sex work decriminalized in historic Amnesty International vote + Q&A on the Policy to Protect Human Rights of Sex Workers + Global Movement Votes to Adopt Policy to Protect Human Rights of Sex Workers (The Week, Amnesty International; image above: Maxine Holloway)
- Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey will be transformed into “Ronda ArouseMe.” The “Rowdy” Olympian wasn’t all that upset over the news, and hopes Kleio Valentien — who plays the title character — can make good use of the money.
Ronda Rousey reacts to UFC porn parody ‘Ronda ArouseMe’ (MMA Mania)
- “Man, now I gotta defend my orgasm to a bunch of strange dudes. Wait, no I don’t.” A curious Reddit user monitored her heart rate using a Fitbit while she had sex and posted the results online. Naturally, the Reddit trolls rolled in soon after…
Woman Wore A Fitbit During Sex, Got Mansplained By Trolls (HuffPo)
- Queercon started as an LGBT meet-up group at the DEF CON hacker conference more than a decade ago. But the San Francisco-based nonprofit, which finished its 12th year with Defcon at Bally’s Hotel and Casino on Sunday, is becoming something else: The men who lead the group have made it their mission to increase LGBT visibility. And it seems to be catching on.
Let’s hack Grindr! Queercon helps diversify tech field (Washington Blade)
- In a new review of the scientific literature on asexuality, published in the Journal of Sex Research, Anthony F. Bogaert argues that more sex researchers should start paying closer attention to asexuality, because you can’t attempt to understand the broad spectrum of human sexual desire unless you also understand those who never experience it.
5 Ways to Better Understand Asexuality (New York Magazine)
- A very impressive trailer has arrived online for upcoming Thai erotic horror Hood. The titular hood in this case is a reference to the spread neck of a cobra poised to strike, the story revolving around a love story between a man and woman who proves to be some sort of shape shifting snake spirit.
Snakes, Blood And Sex In Thai Erotic Horror HOOD (TwitchFilm)
- A recent study published in the journal Appetite has found that women with full stomachs are more likely to respond to romantically arousing images than women with empty stomachs.
Everything You Know About Eating a Burrito Before Sex Is Totally Wrong (Mic)
- Pennsylvania’s attorney general said Wednesday that criminal charges threatening to end her career were filed as part of an effort by state prosecutors and judges to conceal pornographic and racially insensitive emails they circulated with one another.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane: Charges tied to porn emails (CBS News)
'Porn' and 'prostitution' join 'rape' and 'ritual abuse' on @ucsantabarbara's Types of Sexual Assault list. http://t.co/4QHmzw4WKN
— Mike Stabile (@mikestabile) August 13, 2015
- Recently a US Army reservist was arrested for sharing child pornography. Here’s what makes his story different from dozens of others: He’d been turned in by Dropbox.
Dropbox Refuses to Explain Its Mysterious Child Porn Detection Software (Gizmodo)
- Former Prenda Law Attorney Paul Duffy, 55, died Monday from heart and alcohol-related conditions. He was a partner in the now-dissolved Prenda Law, which was notorious for exacting shakedown payments from porn piracy defendants through court-approved subpoenas; I wrote about them targeting hackers here. The firm which closed shop in 2013 after U.S. District Judge Otis Wright in Los Angeles sanctioned the three for deceiving the court in a copyright infringement case.
Former Prenda Law Attorney Paul Duffy Dies (XBIZ)
- Rachel Kramer Bussel wanted “to find out the appeal of taking and sharing dick pics, so I asked anonymous 34-year-old male sex blogger [NSFW] Exhibit A, who’s posted his share of them at exhibitunadorned.com, how he got started.”
Why do men take dick pics? (CityPaper)
- Full of energy, Lenny Kravitz jumped up and down with his guitar strapped across his body when he performed in Sweden this week — when his pants let rip to reveal he was going commando and wearing a cockring. The music icon, a consummate professional and a hell of a performer, didn’t seem all that bothered.
Lenny Kravitz suffers VERY revealing wardrobe malfunction as trousers split (Mirror UK)
- Above: Sex education on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, featuring Jonathan Banks, Laverne Cox, Jack McBrayer, Megan Mullay, Kumail Nanjiani, Nick Offerman, Kristen Schall and Aisha Tyler.
Sex Education (HBO) – Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (YouTube)
- Like every startup ever, it’s like Uber for condoms and it is going to change the world by saving “those women” in Africa. “L. Condoms is a startup in the current batch of Y Combinator that promises delivery of comfortable, paraben and glycerin-free prophylactics straight to your door in under an hour.”
Y Combinator’s L. Condoms Provides Safe Sex, On-Demand (TechCrunch)
- “Because certain generations of men are coming to the end of their lives now, we tend to find [porn] magazines from the 1970s and 1980s, normal top shelf magazines — Playboys, Penthouses,” Webuyanyporn told AFP. They either shred the material or sells it at Ram Books, at their shop in Islington, north London, which bills itself as being “for the collector of bizarre and erotic mags”.
Porn again: disposing of UK’s dirty magazines with discretion (Business Insider)
- If you do happen to behold two characters mysteriously undressed and engaged in a lengthy private conversation, it’s likely that you’re witnessing an instance of erotic roleplay, commonly referred to as ERP in World of Warcraft’s Pornshire. ERP is not unique to WoW; it also occurs in other MMORPGs like Guild Wars 2, Starwars: The Old Republic, and Wildstar.
Elves, Anal, and Breeding Fetishes: Inside World of Warcraft’s Thriving Sex Club (Broadly/Vice)
- Extreme warning for survivors of sexual assault, abuse, and trauma, and human beings everywhere. What is described in this New York Times article is a crime against humanity, and it must be stopped.
ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape (New York Times)
