- I’m linking to the comments left by hackers, startup jocks and tech insiders because they see right through the .XXX TLD opening day announcement by ICM Registry – and it’s amusing. “Are you joking?” Comments: XXX TLD Officially Open (Hacker News)
- A teen-age girl says a Jackson County police officer forced her to give him oral sex in his squad car after he found her and some friends in a park after curfew. And she says that assault is just the tip of the iceberg of a pattern of sexual deviancy by Jackson County police officers. Teen Girl Forced to Give Cop Oral Sex — What the Sick Abuse of Authority Says About Our Rape Culture (AlterNet)
- In the spring of 2009, a college student named Amy received an instant message from someone claiming to know her. Certainly, the person knew something about her—he was able to supply details about what her bedroom looked like and he had, improbably, nude photos of Amy. He sent the photos to her and asked her to have “Web sex” with him. (…) The FBI found different kinds of malware on the computers, including tools to install a key logger on remote machines, software to turn on webcams and microphones attached to infected computers, and “dozens of videos” from those webcams, most showing the victims “getting out of the shower, dressing for the day, having sex with a partner.” How an omniscient Internet “sextortionist” ruined the lives of teen girls (ArsTechnica)
- In an ongoing [porn] BitTorrent lawsuit of particular interest, in which the plaintiff’s lawyer has already refused to comply with a court order demanding to know how much money is being made from settlements, a judge has now dismissed all but one of the defendants. This welcome news for more than 5,000 John Does is further augmented by a wave of criticism from the presiding judge who clearly understands “copyright-troll” style lawsuits. Judge Decimates BitTorrent Lawsuit With Common Sense Ruling (TorrentFreak)
- This December, television soap magnate Ekta Kapoor will release “The Dirty Picture,” a mainstream Bollywood biopic about Silk Smitha — a skin-show specialist from the ’80s who crossed over to perform sensuous so-called “cabaret” numbers in mainstream films. India: Soft-core porn makes a comeback (GlobalPost)
- Associate Professor Katrien Jacobs‘ research at The Chinese University of Hong Kong on “People’s Pornography” has investigated the culture of ‘Do It Yourself’ amateur porn on the Chinese Internet, as well as the interplay between pornography producers and consumers within the state’s censorship mechanism. China: Sex, Censorship and the Rise of ‘People’s Porn’ (Global Voices)
- “Ms Wolf- I recently ran across your article, Why is Rape Different?, in which you argue that allowing rape survivors to remain anonymous when we don’t do the same for any other crime victim infantilizes women and makes rape prosecutions more difficult. Although you wrote this some months ago, it’s still bouncing around on twitter, so I feel moved to respond.” An Open Letter to Naomi Wolf: Why Rape is Different (Charlie Glickman)
- Condemning the executions, the spokesperson of Iran Human Rights (IHR), Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, said:”Yesterday’s executions for sodomy might be among the rare cases were the Iranian authorities admit to having executed men convicted of homosexual acts”. Three men were executed convicted of sodomy (Iran Human Rights, via Jiz Lee)
- After a first meeting on August 17, they are still going topless as they read pulp fiction outdoors in various New York City locales. Meet New York City’s Outdoor Co-Ed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society
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- A treasured sex blogger shares a life-altering discovery: “For the first time in decades, my medical issue wasn’t allergies. I have terminal cancer; I am dying, sooner rather than later.” Sex, Lies, Secrets, Endearment Terms & Dying, The End Game, Part One: The First Day of the End of My Life (SexyPrime, a blog by Susan Crain Bakos)
