- This week, in a widely anticipated vote, the Los Angeles City Council passed an ordinance requiring condoms to be used in all permitted adult films shot within city limits. Lorelei Lee, who’s worked with and without condoms, argues that mandatory enforcement is misguided. Porn Performer: Why I’m Against Government Mandated Condom Use in Porn (AlterNet)
- Arbitrary arrest, detention, torture and sexual assaults on transgender persons have increased in Kuwait during the last four years, says the Human Rights Watch (HRW). ‘They hunt us down for fun’. Police accused of transgender torture, sexual assault (Kuwait Times)
- Iran’s supreme court has upheld the death sentence for a web programmer who faces imminent execution after being found guilty of developing and promoting porn websites. Saeed Malekpour faces imminent execution on basis of confessions he retracted in letter, saying they had been beaten out of him. Iran confirms death sentence for ‘porn site’ web programmer (Guardian UK)
- Fabian Thylmann isn’t a familiar name to most people outside the adult entertainment industry. But while the 33-year-old managing partner of Manwin (Brazzers, Twisty’s, Playboy online, Digital PLayground, Wicked Pictures, YouPorn) lacks the icon status of Hugh Hefner or the grand showmanship of Larry Flynt, he has quietly become one of the most powerful people in porn over the past two years. Porn Convention 2012 – Meet the New King of Porn (CNBC)
- Online piracy continues to nip at the earnings of porn studios, and new legislation could dramatically impact how adult companies do business. So it makes sense, in a way, that the porn industry’s annual convention is facing big changes as well. Porn Convention 2012 – Is the Porn Industry Imperiled? (CNBC)
- Mad props for a cheeky headline… Worldwide conglomerate Virgin forgot to register the richardbranson.xxx domain name, and the company wants it back. Virgin loses control of porn domain (London Calling)
- As their virginal white megastores suggest, Apple doesn’t condone “overtly sexual content” in its 500,000+ iPhone Apps. However, searching for the term “sex” reveals plenty of tired Cosmo-inspired position guides and boobie pictorials in the App Store. Want an on-the-go program that’s actually sexy fun? Well, there are seven apps for that. Digital, Digital Get Down (The Valley Advocate)
- After watching the promo video for Lingerie Bowl IX, certain ad industry males have come to the conclusion that the LFL is beginning to look a whole lot more like a real sport with hot muscly women, and a lot less like an excuse to watch femmey women parade around a football field in their underwear. Too bad for them! Those of us that love tough babes are happy as clams, thankyouverymuch… Lingerie Bowl Less Sexy, More Like A Real Sport (Adrants)
- It’s not something shown very often on the morning news: pole dancing. After interviewing a local pole dancing fitness instructor, who showed off some of her moves, WNWO reporter Joe Galli dressed up in spandex and shiny leather boots and mounted a pole (video). Reporter Pole Dances During Morning Newscast (TVSpy)
- The corset has a bad reputation. And unfairly so, according to Valerie Steele, director and chief curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, who says this undergarment of centuries past is not nearly as evil or confining as modern folks have come to believe. Everything You Know About Corsets Is False (Collectors Weekly)
