- American Apparel’s plus-size model search was titled “The Next Big Thing.” Dallas student Nancy Upton decided to go over the top to get noticed. Article features our friend April Flores. American Apparel and blogger Nancy Upton spar over ‘The Next Big Thing’ contest (The Washington Post)
- Dan Savage tops the topic of women and porn, and more. Also, this Savage Love column features a few extremely kind words about me! “I won’t blow my boyfriend because I worry I’ll disappoint him!” Masturbation Feels Better With Porn—Should It? (Washington City Paper)
- Speaking of women and porn… “As the moral guardians who monitor our public expressions of sexuality never, ever offer what they consider to be an acceptable image of female sexual desire, I can only conclude they don’t have one. From their determination to pathologize the sexy, I understand them to be saying that female sexual desire has no business being publicly represented at all.” How to incite a moral panic about sex (On Line Opinion)
- Adult ‘midget’ porn star Percy Foster was new to the world of porn but had impressed producers with his uncanny resemblance to celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay. The photo in this brief post is of a honey badger – on purpose? Gordon Ramsay dwarf porn lookalike eaten by badgers (Zap2it)
- Viggo Mortensen stars in David Cronenberg‘s new film that centers on Freud and Jung’s hypersexual muse. “I suppose, though, that it draws more interest about the film for men to be buzzing about Keira Knightley being tied up and spanked by Michael Fassbender than to discuss the film from the perspective of its views on sex and fidelity and, in particular, sexual drive as an innate natural force at war with the contrived restraint of religion and social mores.” TIFF ’11 Review: A Dangerous Method (Movie City News)
- (Reuters) – U.S. scientists have developed a strain of green-glowing cats with cells that resist infection from a virus that causes feline AIDS, a finding that may help prevent the disease in cats and advance AIDS research in people. Green-glowing cats are new tool in AIDS research (Reuters)
- Marriage can be tough. But one expert believes it doesn’t have to be – that our ‘one mate for life’ rule is unrealistic, unnecessary, even unnatural. We dare to ask if, perhaps, he has a point. Is monogamy making us miserable? (Telegraph)
- A drinks maker has been awarded a trademark for a German ‘f-word’ obscenity after a two-year legal fight for an alcoholic beverage using the word. Drinks maker granted trademark for German f-word obscenity (The Local)
- Fun article about geeks and kinky sex! Are geeks kinkier than most people? Or are they just more honest about it? Geeks and Sex and Kink! Oh, My! (Geek In A ChinaShop)
- Warning: photo of the eel. An erratic eel wriggled its way up a man’s penis and into his bladder following an accident during an unorthodox beauty spa treatment in China. Eel removed from man’s bladder after entering penis during beauty spa (Metro.co.uk)
- I hope this is the start of a real, bona-fide porn performer union. A group led by producer/director Nica Noelle and performer January Seraph has formed the Adult Performers Association (APA). Adult Performers Association Forms (XBIZ.com)
- Cab-for-hire startup Uber Cab crunched crime and their ride numbers, and the results are interesting. “But there was one surprise. One crime, beyond all the rest, had a specifically BIG peak on a specific day. Prostitution. On Wednesday nights.” How prostitution and alcohol make Uber better (Uber Blog)
- In honor of NBC’s new series The Playboy Club, Playboy is publishing a 1961-themed issue that will retail for just 60 cents — the same price the magazine sold for in 1961. Playboy Lowers Price to 60 Cents for October Issue (FishbowlLA)
Post image from the gorgeous shoot, Beach Domination: Rianne ten Haken by Philip Riches for Avant Garde Magazine (Fashion Gone Rogue).
