- Kicked off decency-enforcing Kickstarter while other projects similar to it remain, the porn doc Staying Power has set up shop on Indie A GoGo.
Staying Power: The Business and Value of the Adult Entertainment Industry (Indiegogo)
- Here we go again with the “torture porn” lines… Groupon is under fire once again for offering a discount on a Kink.com Armory tour.
Groupon Earns Boycott for Porn Studio Offer (NBC Chicago)
- Ms. Naughty has a full list of the Feminist Porn Award winners 2012! Congrats to all the awesome artists.
Feminist Porn Awards 2012 – Winners (Ms. Naughty’s Blog)
- Revenge porn site becomes anti-bullying site, a dating spreadsheet goes viral, UK’s largest abortion provider hacked, Kink sues a tube site and more.
Sex Tech: IsAnyoneUp, Robot Prostitutes, Dating Spreadsheet Disaster (ZDNet)
- Filmmakers gathered in Toronto this week for the annual Feminist Porn Awards. Maura Kelly reports on the films, the followers—and the critics.
Can Porn Be Feminist? (The Daily Beast)
- A widow has won a bitter victory — her husband’s death by electrocution to the genitals has to be revisited by their insurance company.
Widow receives accidental-death benefits in auto-erotic electrocution case (NYPOST)
- Some batches of transvaginal ultrasound gel have been recalled due to bacterial contamination. We asked experts if women were at risk.
Can Transvaginal Ultrasounds Be Dangerous? (Buzzfeed)
- Actually, the study says that watching explicit sex quiets part of the brain. But everyone, including Slate, is reporting it as a “shutdown.” Annoying.
Porn Makes Parts of the Brain’s Visual Processing Shut Down (Slate)
- New details have emerged about the allegation that Secret Service agents paid for (or in some cases failed to pay for) prostitutes in Cartagena, Colombia. Here’s what we know so far.
10 Things Everyone Should Know About The Secret Service Prostitution Scandal (Buzzfeed)
- An anonymous woman with Herpes writes, “There are fenced-in corners on the Internet for people like me. Single with herpes? Try STDmatch.net, or positivesingles.com. This was my future, I thought immediately after being diagnosed. Over and over again, my Google searches reinforced the burning shame of having herpes. Even OkCupid had turned on my new quarantined clan. ”
The Perks of Herpes (The Hairpin)
- Portland, OR: A man who said he was fed up with being harassed by airport security stripped to his birthday suit while in an airport screening lane Tuesday evening and was arrested.
Man protests airport security – naked (KOMO News)
- An anonymous finance guy tells BuzzFeed Shift what compels him to seek out paid sex: “I used to go to bars where I thought there’d be hot young girls… I could never seal the deal.”
Why This Married Wall Street Banker Pays For Sex (Buzzfeed)
There’s a video on the `war on illegal pornography` site that details some of the things which can be found objectionable that are done at the Armory… The girl disgustedly reading out the list is cute, so I figured it was more of an advertisement than anything else.
I also love that Groupon is (so far) not backing down. I guess they’re going to be the posterchild of `all publicity is good publicity` this time around.