- Fetish model and producer Natali Demore (BondageOrgasms and SmotheredSlave) and her video editor Jack Banner were found dead on Aug. 4 at Demore’s production studio in Van Nuys, where they followed through on an apparent “consensual suicide pact.” Demore and Banner died of wounds from two shotguns found at the scene that were rigged to fire simultaneously.
Natali Demore and Her Editor Jack Banner Found Dead (XBIZ)
- After years of campaigning by trans activists, the American Psychiatric Association has removed “gender-identity disorder” as a mental illness, and replaced it with the more neutral diagnostic term “gender dysphoria.”
American Pyschiatric Association Drops Gender-Identity Disorder As Mental Illness (Queerty)
- I enjoy watching Guardian UK throw their skirts up over their heads in shame and shock about porn sex. I really do. But this is a good article about a landmark case, for many reasons.
Extreme porn trial: well, thank you for that interesting anatomical lesson (Guardian UK)
- MaryAnn Sahoury of New Jersey was incensed to find out that footage of her unpaid participation in an educational video about breastfeeding found its way into a porn video posted on Xtube.
Breastfeeding NJ mother sues after educational-video footage winds up in online porn (NY Daily News)
- The author of Scam School (Brian Brushwood, who I appeared onstage with at SXSW this year) and his podcast co-host Justin Young decided to make a prank version of 50 Shades with cutesy hipster references and based on fan submissions, and even though it’s a joke in every way, it’s at the top of the iTunes charts.
Crowdsourced Erotic Fiction Novel Hits #4 On The iTunes Charts (Techdirt)
- Ms. Naughty writes, “US Olympic rower Henrik Rummel’s impressive package inspired numerous items on Gawker, complete with close-ups, admiring his groin, musing about whether the tackle was erect or not and analyzing the overall size of said member. They even interviewed Rummel about his penis. The rowing star denied having a boner.”
Penis-A-Rama At The Olympics (Ms Naughty’s Porn For Women)
- Daily Beast capitalizes on Jenna Jameson’s cracked out endorsement of Romney and delivers more hard-hitting non-news featuring Kimberly Kane, Joanna Angel, Dana DeArmond, Kayden Kross and more. Le huh?
Text Archive 8 Porn Stars’ Presidential Endorsements! (The Daily Beast)
- HPV is a sexually transmitted virus that is most commonly passed between people during vaginal, oral or anal intercourse. It can also be transmitted through genital-to-genital, or hand-to-genital contact.
Teens Can Get HPV Without Sexual Intercourse Er, it can be passed between adults in the same way too… (My Health News Daily)
Looks like the syphilis outbreak from EU may have landed in US…US performers should consider getting testing for syphilis immediately.
— Michael Fattorosi (@pornlaw) August 8, 2012
- Members of the adult production community in Budapest, Hungary, one of the hubs of porn shooting in Europe, have met to decide how long they will continue to have a moratorium on filming while they take steps to control a syphilis outbreak.
Talent Community in Budapest Calls Meeting to Discuss Syphilis Outbreak (XBIZ)
- A sex worker has won an anti-discrimination case against motel owners in a Queensland mining town who refused to rent her a room.
Sex worker wins right to work from motel (Sydney Morning Herald)
- Early polling suggests that California’s Proposition 35 looks like a sure winner in November. Unfortunately, Prop 35 is badly drafted — potentially turning even misdemeanor offenses dealing with prostitution, solicitation, non-marital sex, sex with minors, “sexting,” pornography, obscenity, and extortion into major, multi-year felonies.
I Despise Human Trafficking, but I Oppose the Badly Drafted Prop 35 (Orange Juice)
Main post image: Georgi Andinov shoots Teodora Tranova, Iveta Dimitrova, Peter Stoychev for issue 14 of FACTICE Magazine.
In relation to the anal fisting case (it is very amusing to watch newspapers and journalists trying to talk about it in a tactful way!), the barrister in question was interviewed on Newsnight two days ago (8th of August, I think), so catch it on BBC iPlyaer. Useful for at least those in the UK!
The interview is good as it focuses on the legislation that prompted the trial, it was apparently only meant to be used for ‘dangerous’ material which could be potentially published – and in this case, it invaved the privacy of an individual. Who, by the way, was the advisor to Boris Johnson, so it will be interesting to see whether he gets his job back after this…