- The woman that popularized the birth of digital erotic photography in 2000 with her explicit self-portrait book Digital Diaries – Natacha Merritt – has a new book coming out this May.
Sexual Selection (top image via, Sexual Selection)
- Among the nation’s young people, those in the South suffer the worst rates of sexually transmitted infections such as HIV, according to a new study that finds little resistance among parents in the region for age-appropriate sex education in schools.
Sex education in schools? Report finds most parents favor it (al.com)
- Yes, you’re reading this on a site banned in Pakistan… But in ongoing censorship of the internet, Pakistan has blocked access to Scarleteen, a sex education website geared towards teenagers.
Pakistan blocks access to teen sex-ed site (The Express Tribune)
- Indie documentary “Car Date” promoted at Sundance uses porn stars as test subjects to “prove” that mind control tactics work on women – and the porn performers are pissed that they were used for the filmmakers’ agenda.
Filmmaker Reports Porn Stars Enraged Over Documentary That Teaches Men How to… (press release: PRNewswire)
- PayPal stops erotic censorship, Digital Playground got massively hacked, Facebook’s “Cry Rape!” rape accusation ads anger female students, and the perils of dating site security.
Sex Tech: PayPal Reversal, Digital Playground Hacked, Facebook Rape Ads (ZDNet)
- Above: a short film about a teenage nerd and the muse scientists in his head, helping him seduce his crush.
The Science of Blowjobs And Throbbing Hearts (Buzzfeed)
- An elite Metropolitan police squad has come under fire in a highly critical report commissioned by the London mayor, Boris Johnson, for its investigations into sex trafficking in the runup to the Olympics.
Met police sex trafficking investigations criticised (The Guardian UK)
- Respected colleague Cory Silverberg wrote this eloquent, thought-provoking post about use of the word “normal” by sex advice pundits – and it will make you re-think what sexual normality means after all.
The Trouble with Normal (sexuality.about)
- This story is still developing.
Google bans reddit client from Play Store for “sexually explicit material” (Hacker News)
- Santorum had a chance to backpedal on the porn crusade on the Sunday morning talk shows, but he doubled down instead (“[The Democrats] are exposing children to a tremendous amount of harm”).
Rightbloggers Denounce Rick Santorum’s War on Porn – As a Liberal Conspiracy (New York News)
- Porn star Lisa Ann (“Who’s Naylin’ Palin?”) and a walking Fleshlight roamed Austin’s Sixth Street during SXSW 2012.
Porn Star Lisa Ann and a Gigantic Fleshlight Spreading Joy at SXSW (Houston Arts)
Regarding “Car Date,” I watched the trailer and then read the two reviews on iTunes. For some crazy reason I’m suspicious that what’s going on is a sort of “Blair Witch” marketing campaign. Is it possible that this is a “real” movie masquerading as a PUA how-to, and that the two porn stars complaining about being had are actually part of the angle? I don’t know—I just feel like something is up.