- Yes, that’s Kink.com, San Francisco (and Lorelei Lee) in the above trailer for Cherry. The two competing Linda Lovelace biopics aren’t the only movies about the porn industry that will be arriving in theaters soon. There is also Cherry, the new film from writer/director Stephen Elliott that includes James Franco, Dev Patel, Lili Taylor, and Heather Graham.
First Trailer For Porn Drama Cherry, Starring James Franco And Heather Graham (CinemaBlend)
- The Spermcheck Fertility Home Sperm Test (spermcheck.com) is over-the-counter, fast, FDA-approved and claims to be 98% accurate.
The First FDA-Approved Home Sperm Count Test Is Now Available (Gizmodo)
- A British couple raised their child as “gender neutral” to avoid stereotypes. Why are people so upset about it?
Parents Who Hid Child’s Gender for Five Years Now Face Backlash (TIME)
- Former head of the International Monetary Fund Dominique Strauss-Kahn is to be formally questioned about his alleged links to an illegal prostitution ring and the misuse of company funds. In just nine months he has been publicly embroiled in three sex scandals; in May 2011 he was charged with sexually assaulting a New York hotel maid.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn quizzed about sex and fraud allegations (Guardian UK)
- Despite the myriad serious issues the U.S. faces, the top item on Rick Santorum’s “Issues” page is “Enforcing Laws Against Illegal Pornography.”
Rick Santorum’s Top Issue: Stopping Porn (Think Progress)
- Superb sex journalist Chris Hall writes, “One of the things that sets my teeth on edge about what an old friend calls San Francisco’s ‘Kinky Konfederacy’ – the loose affiliation of queers, kinksters, fetishists, swingers, pornographers, sex workers, and perverts who band together under the ethic of sex positivity – is the idea that sex should somehow be “spiritual.'”
Why Sex Is Not Spiritual (The Exhibitionist, SF Weekly)
- Vulture chatted with Portlandia’s cerebral stars who speak in the earnest, enunciated tones of NPR commentators — but are totally game to also elaborate on the finer points of sex scenes and the creative crush on Werner Herzog.
Portlandia’s Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein on Awkward Sex Scenes and Pining for Werner Herzog (Vulture)
- Adult film producers in Los Angeles, the home of America’s multi-million dollar pornography industry, have threatened to boycott the city in response to new rules forcing its actors to use condoms while performing in erotic films.
Porn industry threatens to boycott Los Angeles over new condom law (Telegraph)
- Kimberly Kane writes at VICE Mag, “The gay porn industry is largely condom-only but doesn’t require testing. If the straight industry adopted these same standards, performers would be less safe because condoms break.”
This Porn Star Doesn’t Think Much of the LA Condom Law (VICE)
- Jon Hamm, best known for playing Don Draper in 1960s advertising drama Mad Men, took on several different jobs as he struggled to land acting work, with his stint as a set designer on adult movies among the most memorable.
Jon Hamm had porn job (NZCity)
