- Slate discovers James Deen (above, playing a vampire overlord for Kink) and suggests that commercial porn lacks attractive men because the makers are homophobic and cater to male viewers’ homophobia. He is right. However, I don’t think men are inherently homophobic and that making porn that turns on straight women in and of itself makes straight men uncomfortable… Porn that Women Like: Why Does it Make Men So Uncomfortable? (Slate)
- (VB disclosure: I’m an advisor for Without My Consent which seeks legal paths to justice for victims of this exact situation.) Christopher Scott was arrested on a variety of criminal charges related to his uploading to the Internet of a video showing him having sex with a former girlfriend. Scott told cops that he posted the video because he was “depressed” over his breakup with the 24-year-old victim, who did not give him permission to disseminate the explicit video. Scott admitted that he was “trying to be hateful” and “realized the implications it could have.” Jilted Boyfriend Arrested For X-Rated Upload (The Smoking Gun)
- Is fellatio in the back seat of a police car considered a blue light special? “While en route to male and female booking, the deputy noticed the pair moving around in the back of the patrol car. He looked in his rearview mirror and could no longer see Tina Arie.” Most know what the mile high club is – but what is it when it is in a cop car? (Montgomery County Police Reporter, via Legally Weird)
- Maybe she should have practiced the withdrawl method… “Western Nevada College student Karen Royce has filed a harassment claim against the school, alleging a [human sexuality studies] professor there required students to divulge personal details of their sex lives and assigned them to masturbate.” Lawsuit vs. school cites masturbation assignment (AZ Central, via Legally Weird)
- Porn star Sunny Leone will ignite the sex worker vs. porn performer class war arguments with her quotes in Times of India, but what’s also interesting to note is that Leone is the only Indian porn star I know of. Porn star doesn’t mean prostitute: Sunny Leone (The Times of India)
- Sex scandals typically unfold the same way—a media frenzy erupts, alleged victims and perpetrators, as well as their defenders, are dissected under a microscope and demonized accordingly. What Most Sex Scandals Have In Common (Hint: It’s Not Sex) (GOOD, via Buzzfeed)
- Possibly thousands of celebrities have had their names permanently banned from the new .xxx internet domain. The Register reveals that celebs from Justin Bieber to Piers Morgan has had their .xxx address placed into a permanent “reserved” status by registry manager, ICM Registry. Celebrities will not have to pay and ICM has not published its list of reserved names, nor will it reveal how long the list is or how it decided which celebrities were worth including. Secret list of celebrity .xxx domains removed from market (The Register, via @tgpfeeder)
- Siri Fails as a Marriage Counselor (eBookNewser)
- Botoxing your vagina? Thanks, Cosmo… “Each month like clockwork, men’s and women’s magazines hit the newsstands, bursting with terrible sex and dating advice. And each month, we pick out the worst tips and mock them for your edification.” Ridiculous Tips for a Miserable Sex Life: November 2011 (Nerve.com, via Rachel Kramer Bussel)
Straight male here. I just wanted to pop in and say that I actually prefer it when the men in my porn are attractive. If they’re not, my mind goes all topsy turvy and wonders how an ugly guy like that gets a lady like that–not that it doesn’t happen in real life, but I prefer to not deal with the cognitive dissonance.
Is it just me or is that Slate article incredibly awkward? I agree that men aren’t inherently homophobic and that the nature of porn that turns straight women on is much more threatening to straight men. Particularly when it involves a relatively attainable actor like James Deen who for all intents and purpose could be your “bro.” Oooh… Does it bother men because of their homophobia? Because the idea of women enjoying porn? Or because it means “your bro could be serving your girl The Turbo and she might really enjoy that, bro” … Ow, thinking like a bro has made my head hurt.
Though personally, if there has to be a guy in my porn (and not a hella-packing Jiz Lee), make mine a James Deen.
Though, judging by the photos in the GOOD article, someone needs to hire him an interior decorator in a major way.
Ug!
He didn’t read it.
i’m a biologist. I hear botox, and I’m thinking Clostridium, paralyzed muscles, etc…
I was hoping to see something more than “oh NO you didn’t…”
Wait, botox in the vag isn’t necessarily ridiculous. It can in some cases be a legitimate treatment for vaginismus & pelvic floor dysfunction. But unfortunately botox carries so much stigma in and of itself, because it’s associated with vanity, that most folks still roll their eyes when first confronted with such a treatment. It is too bad the Nerve editor did not read the rest of the Cosmo submission, I would be curious to see if that’s mentioned at all. In fact one of the commenters explicitly states, that woman developed a trainwreck of a yeast infection, and as a result of that her vaginal muscles tensed up beyond her control.
This particular site tends towards being anti-medicine wrt vaginsimus, but it presents some pros & cons about botox as an option: Before using Botox for vaginismus
Also unfortunately since it ‘s still a new thing, it’s not typically covered by insurance, so, that sucks.
Like on the MTV True Life special about women with painful sexual problems, one of them had botox + physical therapy to work on the pelvic floor muscles.