- This week Axel Braun took to crowdfunding site Indiegogo.com to finance his newest and most ambitious venture yet — “The Empire Strikes Back XXX: An Axel Braun Parody” — the sequel to the highest-selling adult movie of all time, “Star Wars XXX.” “I’m trying to do something that has never been done,” Braun said. “I want to make the most amazing porn parody ever, completely funded by fans and sponsors, and then I’m going to give it away for free. There will be no DVDs; it will only be available online, and it will be free for everyone. Forever. No hidden gimmicks; no need to give out your email address; no membership; absolutely nothing but click and watch. Full HD, and fully legal. It’s my way to fight Internet piracy while giving back to the fans, and it’s a bit of a social experiment.”
Axel Braun to Crowdfund ‘The Empire Strikes Back XXX,’ Release It for Free (XBIZ)
- Facebook is most definitely censoring transgender/gender non-conforming ad content for What’s On Weibo, a website about trends in Chinese social media.
Is Facebook Censoring LGBT Ads? (Unicorn Booty)
My Facebook account has been frozen, but you can follow my page here: https://t.co/12jGHORqK3 #mynameis pic.twitter.com/T1CTqxmxfB
— Jiz Lee (@jizlee) February 24, 2016
- “Elizabeth Holloway Marston was a psychologist, and the wife of fellow psychologist William Moulton Marston, who’s credited with creating Wonder Woman. At least, she was one of his wives, depending on how you look at it. She was his legal wife, to be sure, but the two lived with a third partner, Olive Byrne, and each woman bore two of Marston’s children. … According to Jill Lepore’s Secret History of Wonder Woman, the family was part of a larger “sex cult” that practiced free love and advocated the superiority of women. Lepore also writes that a third woman, Marjorie Huntley, was an occasional member of their household and helped out with the inking and lettering of Wonder Woman comics.”
On Elizabeth Holloway Marston, And Telling The Truth About Wonder Woman (comics Alliance)
- NYT profiled the kinky coming-out of Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas and life shared with his wife, author and blogger Mollena Williams-Haas.
A Composer and His Wife: Creativity Through Kink (NYT)
- “With Fuller House coming up on Netflix, a porn company has taken it upon itself to create a porn parody of the original nineties sitcom Full House. … The “Full Holes” porn trailer starts out with some good old-fashioned teenage sexual activity between D.J. Tanner and her boyfriend Steve but it gets creepy really quickly when Uncle Joey asks some of the younger members of the house if they want him to pull his dick out. And it’s all downhill from there.”
The Full House Porn Trailer Is Horrifying And Can’t Be Unseen (CinemaBlend)
- This time last year open-source sex tech company Comingle finished a successful crowdfunding campaign for its hackable sex toy the Mod, raising more than $60,000 from 319 backers. But now it has announced it must cancel the project after a financially and mentally draining lawsuit.
Say Goodbye to the Mod: Patent Suit Ends Production of Open-Source Dildo (Future of Sex)
- Exxxotica’s organizers and their attorney are giving the City of Dallas one last chance to overturn its approved resolution that banned the adult entertainment expo from its city-owned convention center. In an ultimatum made today by Exxxotica and attorney Roger Albright, the expo plans to sue Dallas if it doesn’t begins the process of overturning the ban.
Exxxotica Gives City of Dallas Ultimatum: Drop Ban or Face Suit (XBIZ)
- Alaska Senate Bill 21 has been updated with language the sex trade of Alaska now supports. The Community United for Safety and Protection, a group of current and former sex workers in the state of Alaska, said in a press release today that the bill’s new language would allow people in the sex trades who are the victims or witnesses of crimes like murder, sex trafficking or assault to make reports to the police without being charged with prostitution.
Alaska Sex Workers Support Immunity Bill (XBIZ)
- “More than three decades into the epidemic, and our HIV outreach efforts are still chronically underfunded. So why do we allow one of the largest HIV organizations in the U.S. to devote millions each year on antisex and antiprevention campaigns that ignore science in favor of shame? It’s time we said enough.”
AHF Goes Further in Wrongheaded Battle Over Condoms in Porn (Advocate)
- Tech startups are known for their flexible culture, which often involves drinking and partying at the office. But Zenefits, the troubled $4.5 billion startup that recently lost its founder CEO Parker Conrad, may have taken the startup vibe a little too far.
Zenefits had to tell staffers to stop having sex at work (Business Insider)
- The Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) at the University of Queensland has announced the development of an ultra-thin latex made from a native grass called spinifex. Professor Darren Martin of AIBN said this new material shows great promise in creating condoms with the same strength as existing latex brands but that are considerably thinner—and thus much more comfortable to wear.
Nanotech Engineers Developing Condoms As ‘Thin As a Human Hair’ (Future of Sex)
Leather-Clad Ted Cruz Greeting Voters At Reno-Area Fetish Club https://t.co/6Dqm7lWrVw #NSFW pic.twitter.com/Dk8uaqYqT1
— The Onion (@TheOnion) February 23, 2016
- “Although it’s hard to determine exact numbers, a 2013 report showed that of Tumblr’s 200,000 most-visited blogs, 11.4 percent of them (around 22,775) host adult content. That same analysis found that 16.6 percent of Tumblr’s traffic comes from those X-rated blogs. Keep in mind: of Tumblr’s users, just over half are women, disproportionately young women between 18 and 29. Given these numbers, it’s not surprising that anecdotal evidence points to a growing number of women in their late teens, 20s and 30s who are using Tumblr to find images that will get them off.”
Why Tumblr Porn Is Great For Women (Huffington Post)
- Two complainants have failed in their attempt to get Germany’s constitutional court to consider their claim against the laws banning sex with animals. The two unnamed individuals say they are sexually attracted to animals.
Sex with animals remains banned in Germany as legal bid fails (BBC)
- British men who contract with sex workers while abroad would be prosecuted in the UK under new laws that make paying for sex illegal, according to a report backed by a senior MP. Sex tourists and businessmen who pay for prostitutes on expense accounts would also be criminalised under the proposals in the Sex Buyer Law report.
Paying for sex abroad could become illegal in the UK (Independent UK)
- An Oregon man who accessed hundreds of email accounts and stole explicit photos of celebrities pleaded guilty Thursday to a felony hacking charge in Los Angeles. Andrew Helton of Astoria, Oregon, faces up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to stealing nude or explicit photos from 13 people, including some unidentified celebrities. (This is separate from the iCloud celebrity nudes disaster.)
Andrew Helton of Astoria, Oregon pleads guilty to “phishing” nude photos (CBS News)
- Tying up your lover is one way to introduce a little excitement to the bedroom. But for male nursery-web spiders, bondage during mating can be a matter of life and death. By restraining their partners, male spiders reduce their chances of falling victim to sexual cannibalism, a new study finds.
Kinky Spiders: Males Tie Up Partners During Sex (Live Science)
- Fourteen more people may have caught the Zika virus in the U.S. without traveling to affected zones, federal health officials said Tuesday — strong evidence that the virus is sexually transmitted fairly often. “CDC and state public health departments are now investigating 14 new reports of possible sexual transmission of Zika virus, including several involving pregnant women,” the CDC said in a statement.
CDC Reports 14 New Cases of Sexually Transmitted Zika in U.S. (NBC News)
- “… sex, especially among older people, has long been associated with many physical health benefits, such as lower blood pressure and a decreased risk of heart attacks. But in exploring whether its health benefits extend to cognitive function, a recent study found that while enjoyable, sex doesn’t necessarily prevent mental deterioration.”
Examining the Health Benefits of Sex, on the Brain (American Council on Science and Health)
