- Dr Brooke Magnanti (formerly known as Belle de Jour) writes an excellent op-ed calling out the faked ‘research’ behind anti-porn hysteria, as the UK awaits the results of deliberations on mandating country-wide ISP-level censorship to “protect the children.”
Online porn: ban this sick filth? (Telegraph)
- A woman identified as Cameron Knight has apparently been masturbating all over Cornell’s campus, including in the Law Library, IvyGate reported Tuesday. The first of what would become many pornographic videos was filmed in the school’s engineering library.
Cornell Porn Videos (Business Insider)
- Researchers at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business say the desire to indulge in Facebook, Twitter and other social-media pastimes is among the strongest temptations we now face — right up there with sex and cigarettes.
Sex? No thanks, baby, I’m hitting Facebook instead (LA Times)
- A (former) member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity at the University of Tennessee was rushed to the hospital last Thursday after giving himself a blood alcohol content level of .40 — five times the recommended limit. Local news reports immediately surfaced that the frat bro was engaged in “butt chugging” – an alcohol enema.
‘Butt chugging’ press conference is the most hilarious thing (The Daily Caller)
- But did they ask Stewie? Seth MacFarlane has declined an offer to host the Adult Video News awards next year, after being given the opportunity by producers of the show.
Seth MacFarlane Turns Down Offer to Host AVN Awards (LAist)
- The first rapid home-testing kit for H.I.V. has just gone on sale for $40, marketed as a way for people to find out privately if they have the virus that causes AIDS. But some experts and advocates say that another use, unadvertised, for the OraQuick test — to screen potential sexual partners — may become equally popular.
Another Use for Home H.I.V. Test (NYTimes)
- One of many curious postulations about the etymology of jizz – “[The word jizz] was familiar … to friends from Dublin and Kildare, and it wasgenerally used to imply spirit or cockiness. Schoolboys were encouraged to’show a bit of jizz’ and a sergeant-major regularly promised to knock the jizz or jizzom (jissom) out of a squad of recruits.”
The etymology of jizz (scribd)
- Vibrator cozies, made by crafters who really put the “do-it-yourself” back in DIY.
11 Handmade Vibrator Cozies You Can Own (Buzzfeed)
- File under: trying too hard. Clips of a rumored video showing former wrestling star Hulk Hogan having sex was posted online Thursday. Hogan originally said he was secretly filmed; conflicting rumors claim he wants to sue to stop its distribution, but new rumors claim he leaked the video himself.
Hulk Hogan sex tape sparks online Hulka(sex)mania (NY Daily News)
- The former assistant curator of the Erotic Heritage Museum in Las Vegas has filed a suit against the museum’s founder, who she says fired her then defamed and banned her from the museum after she ended an alleged three-year affair with him and then refused his advances.
Former erotic museum consultant sues founder, citing affair gone bad (Las Vegas Sun)
- For 50 years, James Bond‘s womanising has been central to the film character’s appeal. The BBC asks, how does his sex life compare with an average man, and is it healthy?
James Bond: How his sex life compares with an average man (BBC News)
- PornHub.com is offering to pay one cent for every 30 unique page views on its “small tits” and “big tits” videos this month to celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Porn Site Donates Money to Breast Cancer Foundation That Tried to Cut Off Planned Parenthood Funding (Observer)
- Great Reddit post by a dad who found porn in his son’s browser history, and how he approached having “the talk” with his kid about online porn. Spoiler alert: it’s great, and very tech savvy.
I found porn on my son’s internet broswer. Did I go about his correctly? (AskReddit)
- With porn consumption ubiquitous — and, by most reports, increasing and evolving — Meaghan Winter asked couples and individuals how they discuss porn with their dates and partners.
What Porn Means to Us: Twenty Couples on Tentacles, Baywatch, and the Skin Flicks They Share, Fear, and Imitate (NY Mag: The Cut)
- YouPorn declared this past week that it will soon be on the Xbox 360 thanks to the introduction of Internet Explorer on Xbox Live later this year. Of course, every other website will be accessible via Internet Explorer too.
YouPorn Promotes Its Availability on Xbox Live ‘Soon’ (GamePolitics)
I saw the story about the Cornell library videos and felt compelled to comment. I’m actually an engineering student at Cornell; it’s interesting to see the news made it this far. I’ve enjoyed your blog and podcast for a while now, I guess this felt like a sign to show my appreciation: thanks Violet!
Take care
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@Rocky – perfect comment is perfect. nothing says ‘staged scene’ to me like nonsensical inclusion/combination of hardware.
When FB and Myspace were first blowing up big, teen sexual activity went down a bit, as they found something else to occupy their time rather than going to their boyfriend/girlfriend’s house.
I know that this is COMPLETELY off topic, and totally geeky, but the MacBook Air that the Herge-art model is staring into already has a built-in webcam.