Sex News: Ben & Jerry’s trademark porn suit, Sleepfucking, JetBlue ponysex, OMG bouncy house

Mythical Proportions (above) was the winner of the Stranger’s HUMP festival, 2011, Best Humor prize. You have until October 5 to submit an entry to Dan Savage’s incredible film festival.

• Sexsomnia (sleepfucking), a woman rapes her boyfriend and the ever-entertaining Jesse Bering – it’s a capital installment of Savage Love. I recently sleep texted someone hot, but that’s different, right?
  Sleepfuck with me (Savage Love | Chicago Reader)

• This week in Sex Tech, the Kinsey sex tracking app gets pulled by legal, Sex.com wants to send porn to Palestine, Grindr does in-app pushes to get guys to vote, and much more.
  Sex Tech: Kinsey app pulled, Grindr politics, porn for Palestine (Pulp Tech)

• According to Adweek, Larry Flynt is taking out full-page ads in WaPo and USA Today offering $1 mil for Romney’s heisted tax returns.
  Larry Flynt Offers $1M Reward for Mitt Romney Tax Returns (Adweek)

• The pornographic exploits of “Ben & Cherry” in titles such as “Boston Cream Thighs,” “Peanut Butter D-Cups” and “Chocolate Fudge Babes” will temporarily simmer down following a court order won by similarly named ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s.
  Ruling on Ben & Jerry’s lawsuit blocks X-rated ‘Ben & Cherry’s’ porn (LA Times)

• Just… Jimmyjane has a bouncy house. Whoa.
  Win Your Very Own Jimmyjane Bouncy House! (Babeland)

• William H. Masters III, the 60-year-old son of the late Dr. William H. Masters, who was one half of the famed sex research team of Masters and Johnson, was arrested in a rural Michigan sting operation for allegedly exposing himself to two female undercover investigators.
  Sex researcher’s son charged with exposing self (WSJ)

• Tickets have now gone on sale for Arse Elektronika, the subversive noncommercial sex and technology conference. The lineup looks amazing, and it will be in a couple of The Armory’s locations. This will be one you won’t want to miss.
  Arse Elektronika (monochrom.at)

• The Kinsey Institute along with Indiana University released a free app that allows users to anonymously report on sexual behavior. On Thursday the institute announced that it was pulling the plug — at least temporarily — on the project after the university’s lawyer raised concerns.
  Sexual research app scrutinized by lawyers (LA Times)

• The JetBlue Twitter account has recently been dropping hints to bronies that they are down with the hoofcrew, and the bronies are loving it. Add to this the brony style of art known as “clop” — a term that describes the sound a horse would make when fapping. This should be fun…
  JetBlue Is Courting Bronies, Knows About Illicit Ponysex (Buzzfeed)

• Congrats to Buck Angel on the launch of a transman focused dating site!
  Trans man Dating with Buck Angel (buckangeldating.com)

• Thomas Roche writes, “I would go so far as to say Time Out’s article by Michele Filgate entitled “Ten Books More Erotic than Fifty Shades of Grey“ ranks as one of the most ignorant things I’ve read about sex so far this year — and this, frankly, is a hell of a year to be competing for that dubious honor.”
  Time Out Article Rips Fifty Shades of Grey While Showing Sex Negativity and Ignorance (Deception Press)

• File under ORLY? – A study published in the August issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family (print only), found that women who dated their partner for at least 182 days before having sex reported higher levels of satisfaction, commitment, intimacy, emotional support, and sexual satisfaction in the resulting relationship.
  182 days till sex: New study says the key to relationship satisfaction is waiting six months to do it. (Slate)