- Remember Jacques Magazine, nicknamed ‘hipster porn’? Two years ago, major chain bookstores had begun adding Jacques to their newsstands. A deal was struck with PowerHouse Books to put together a calendar for a 2011 release. Then things began to fall apart… Soft Porn, Hardening Hearts: A Magazine’s Private Story (The Brooklyn Ink)
- Christian, Jewish, and Muslim entrepreneurs have launched ‘religious’ sex-toy shops online in an effort to improve pious couples’ sex lives—and strengthen the marital bond. Allison Yarrow investigates: what makes a vibrator holy? ‘Holy’ Sex Toys? (The Daily Beast)
- Great post by Dr. Charlie Glickman about why he’s no longer a sensitive new age guy, and how a number of sensitive new age dudes use it to manipulate women into having sex. Confessions of a Former Sensitive New Age Guy (Dr. Charlie Glickman)
- In the BDSM world, some pro-dommes work on a full-time basis and don’t have any type of job outside of professional domination. But pro-dommes aren’t necessarily full-time pro-dommes; many pro-dommes approach professional domination as part-time work or temp work. And in a terrible economy, the thought of making $200 or $300 an hour (which is what some experienced pro-dommes are still making) is certainly appealing to a woman who is struggling financially. Rise of the Dominatrix: How to Make $300 an Hour Doing Sex Work … Without Having Sex (AlterNet)
- To elevate typewriter sales, Ernest Dichter suggested the machines be modelled on the female body, “making the keyboard more receptive, more concave”. A phallic shape to lipstick increased sales by the way it offered a subconscious invitation to fellatio. People smoke, he explained, because it is both a sign of virility and a legitimate excuse to interrupt the day for a moment of pleasure, “comparable to sucking at the nipples of a gigantic world breast”. Sex and advertising: Retail therapy (The Economist)
- A Michigan man has been charged with felony sex offenses after he told police he was HIV-positive and had set out to intentionally infect as many people as he could, police said. Health officials have issued an alert warning that “possibly hundreds of people have been exposed to HIV.” Michigan man may have intentionally infected hundreds with HIV (MSNBC)
- Cracked compiled a list of apps just for sexual douchebags. Um, yay? In the past, aspiring jerks had to seek out other jerks to teach them all the ins and outs of what it takes to become a crusty-haired blip on the world’s douchebag radar. But those days are gone, thanks to the Superstud Blackbook… 8 Apps Designed Specifically for Modern Douchebags (Cracked)
- A new book by an ex-White House reporter claims that President Richard Nixon was a mobbed-up drunk who beat the First Lady and may have had a decades-long gay affair with a shady Miami-area businessman. Nixon’s Darkest Secret (NY Daily News)
- Fallen sex heroes and gender outlaws. People who choose to work around sexuality and gender often don’t get the acknowledgment from the mainstream media or from society as a whole that they would if their work was in another field. Here is a list of sexual losses in 2011. Sexual Obituaries 2011 (About: Sexuality)
