Sunday nibbles: Chatroulette, Apple, KarmaPorn, Lady Gaga’s injured idol fetish

Image: beautiful artwork by The Pearls (adriana munoz).

Wherein I provide you with inarguable proof that there is no such thing as a “slow news week” for sexuality. This is just part of what’s in my inbox, plus a bit of what I’ve encountered online. Cherrypick your clicks accordingly:

* As a girl who has been playing with ChatRoulette (though I prefer CatRoulette), I can’t agree more with this hilarious FastCompany infographic: ChatRoulette By The Numbers. It’s realistic to have the “girls” and “pervs” blending into one another; I haven’t been naughty on the site, but lots of other girls have. It actually looks like this. (laughingsquid.com, fastcompany.com, buzzfeed.com)

* It’s interesting that PETA dropped Tiger Woods this week; especially when you look at this fab slideshow of PETA’s most skin-tacular campaigns. (treehugger.com, via Thomas Roche)

* The Sex.com saga continues; I wrote about the URL’s outrageous history in Sex.com: A URL All Crime And No Sex. As of last week, it has now been officially foreclosed and Sex.com is going up for auction next month. A pal on Buzz suggested that it be purchased and turned over to me, which would be a lot of fun, but I did note that if the traffic estimate in this cNet post is accurate, my TinyNibbles.com has higher traffic. :) (sfgate.com, elliotsblog.com, news.cnet.com)

* Oh, Apple. Last week we think Apple lost it in a fit of sexual hysteria (I have a feature forthcoming on the story) and yanked over 5000 (not really) adult apps from its app store. The latest development is that the developer whose app became the centerpiece for all the news stories (Wobble iBoobs) and leaked Apple’s bizarre double-standard policies about so-called erotic content emailed me the other night telling me that Apple backflipped and quietly re-instated their application to the store. Across the Internet, a hundred blog posts were updated by bewildered bloggers, again. (tinynibbles.com, chillifresh.com)

* I’m excited that Examiner loves my kissing book! Last week we got great news: it’s been out only two months and is now signed for a German translation and is getting picked up in Urban Outfitters. Even more wonderful then that last week Examiner published a very handy list of first kiss do’s and don’ts that I compiled. (examiner.com)

* Don’t ever let them tell you that you’re not beautiful. Read The Five Types of Haters Female Bloggers Encounter Online — and What To Do About Them. (thechicktionary.com, via Moneda)

* Over on Sociological Images, an ad is uncovered and discussed from 1934 for a device to keep women’s reproductive organs from wandering around their bodies. And people wonder where modern underlying cultural values about women’s sexuality being mysterious, unpredictable, treacherous and frigid came from. (contexts.org, thanks, Praemedia)

* Now you can finally get that Bang Brothers website subscription you’ve always wanted but felt too morally conflicted to purchase. Okay, maybe Karma Porn doesn’t do anything for Bang’s business practices or how they treat their performers, but they’ve signed up as affiliates with a large number of porn sites and are splitting portions of their affiliate cut for signups and giving portions to various fine charities, such as Haiti relief and LGBT awareness. It’s too bad porn sites don’t have the foresight to do this on their own… Like mine, which points you to ethical porn and keeps this free sex ed resource running. (karmaporn.com)

* Condoms were allocated to Olympian athletes, but supplies ran low and an emergency shipment was brought in. Yay team! (cbc.ca)

* Bear with me, I unashamedly adore her. More fetishes a la Lady Gaga (ladygaga.com), complete with my top current Hollywood crush, True Blood’s Alexander Skarsgard. Remember how many fetishes we named in her Bad Romance video? Look for LOTS of abasiophilia, in designer style, though you could correctly state that this music video is a refined and excellent representation of Kegadoru: Injured Idol Fetish, which is more fashion-focused than abasiophilia.