Sunday Sex Reads: Best of the Week

“In “giantess” chatrooms fans role-play shrinking and growing. The giants might flirt with the “tinies” by describing scenarios in which they pick them up or wield a foot over their heads. There are also forums for swapping Photoshopped images that bring these fantasies to life. In a thread on the website Giantess City, a user shared a mockup of Ariana Grande looming over a green, suburban landscape. (In response, someone wrote, “more like Ariana Venti, am I right?”) In another, a doctored image shows a naked woman lowering herself onto a large, phallic building. It is all wonderfully imaginative, playful and fun (although it does sometimes broadly overlap with more controversial fantasy realms, like vore porn, which depicts make-believe cannibalism).”
Giantess Porn Is Getting Bigger… And Bigger (Voactiv)

“”I have been doing plastic surgery for 15 years, and I think there is a lot more focus on the vagina, how it looks, because of the overwhelming popularity of Brazilian waxing,” says Giese. “There has been a real change in the aesthetic of the vagina, more focus, and women are taking a lot more of the hair off. I see naked women all the time during liposuction, tummy tucks, so I see the change in grooming. It’s not just a change in the younger population—it’s in the mature population as well.””
Why More Women Than Ever Are Getting Their Vaginas Done (Broadly/Vice)

“Mr. Kalin is the 24-year-old founder of a group called Party With Consent — a slogan displayed in neon behind him (and on T-shirts he would later hand out). On this Saturday, he had traveled from Providence, R.I., where he worked at the Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University, to Hartford to speak to Trinity students about the importance of understanding what has become a campus buzzword of late: consent. The lecture, which he would give four times on this day, to four different groups of students, was part of a sexual assault curriculum that Trinity College freshmen were required to complete (and had their attendance recorded to ensure it).”
Campus Sex … With a Syllabus (NYT)

“For years, CES shared the Las Vegas Convention Center with the Adult Entertainment Expo (AEE). But when AEE decided to reschedule its show in 2012, the biggest tech show on Earth lost its adult edge. That is until this year. Over the course of three days, I met with four companies showcasing sex-related products in and around the show.”
Sex is back at CES (Engadget)

“What followed was what lawyers for Nicole Eramo, an associate dean at U-Va., described in new court documents as an elaborate scheme to win Duffin over by creating a fake suitor, Monahan, to spark romantic interest — a practice known as “catfishing” — that morphed into a sensational claim of gang rape at a U-Va. fraternity that Jackie said was instigated by the fictitious upperclassman, and finally a Rolling Stone story that rocked the U-Va. campus and shocked the nation.”
‘Catfishing’ over love interest might have spurred U-Va. gang-rape debacle (Washington Post)

“Since the first case was reported in 1958, there’s been around 100 confirmed cases of semen allergy in women, though recent studies show it may be far more common that previously thought. Understandably, women are hesitant to come forward lest they’re sent off with a fistful of antibiotics and a patronizing smile. Laura’s experience was precisely that: “My GP did his best to keep the smirk off his face, gently pressing STI leaflets into my hand. I shoved a peer reviewed medical paper back into his, and eventually got a referral. And an apology.””
What It’s Like to be Allergic to Semen (Broadly/Vice)

“The boys she lets into her bedroom are virgins. She’s running a pay-it-forward favor of sorts: She’ll give these guys a good first time, and in turn, they’ll show their girlfriends the perfect, romantic first sexual encounter that she never got to experience.”
‘Firsts’ is fresh, nuanced take on teens and sex: review (NY Daily News)

“It was back in 2006 that I wrote my first retrospective post which means that this is the 10th time I’ve looked back at porn for women over the year. In that decade, “porn for women” has become something of an old-fashioned term, replaced by the labels feminist porn, ethical porn, queer porn, new wave porn. A lot has changed – the industry, those making porn and the internet itself. In any case, here’s another look at what’s happened in the world of female-focused erotic content.”
Porn For Women Retrospective 2015 (Ms. Naughty’s Porn for Women)

Bacchus writes, “Here’s a story that should send a chill down the spine of anybody who ever had a profile on an adult social media site. The FBI uses search warrants to collect whole databases of user contact information from adult social media sites, so that it can broadcast a large volume of entrapment emails just to see who bites? Yes, apparently that’s now a thing.”
FBI’s Email Broadcast Stings Four CollarMe Users (Eros Blog)

With his team, Haworth developed the [sex work safety] NUM app based on the charity’s body of knowledge and feedback from sex workers themeslves. Spreading alerts as quickly as possible is a vital part of the app’s offering. As Haworth tells me, the need for it is aptly demonstrated by the case of Thomas Hall, who attacked four sex workers in the course of a single evening in Manchester in 2013. This feature was also inspired by location-based dating apps like Tinder and Grindr. “We wanted to use the same location technology for a very different end,” Haworth tells me.
Sex work apps are about more than advertising – they can keep workers safe (New Statesman)

Main post photo via “Girls Gone Barcelona” #6 Jackie by Jordi Pelegri for C-Heads.