Sex News: Wikimedia porn, extreme penis trauma, Texas bans male masturbation [UPDATED]

• A man named Yuan was working at a nearby Chinese railway station but did not realize his laptop was hooked to the giant LED screen he was trying to fix – and apparently wanted to watch some porn at work. So when Yuan started playing the (banned) Chinese porn on the train station jumbotron, hundreds of local residents stopped to watch ‘Sex And Chopsticks’ as well. This went on for about 10 minutes before the company which owned the giant screen called Yuan to complain. Yuan responded by disconnecting the computer and tried to hide the evidence by throwing the porn video disc out the window.
  Chinese Porn Broadcast Of ‘Sex And Chopsticks’ On Giant Screen Gets Worker Arrested (Inquisitr)

• ATTENTION: comments are saying this is satire. I was spoofed, but keep in mind that it was illegal to sell sex toys in Texas until 2010 – two years in jail – so it’s not completely unbelievable. “Coming down to the final minute as Texas Lt. Governor David Dewhearst forced Sen. Wendy Davis to end her filibuster, the legislature was unable to pass a widely decried abortion bill. The legislature was able to accomplish another aspect of their pro-life agenda though, a ban on male masturbation.”
  Texas legislature fails on abortion, passes masturbation bill (Tribune Herald)

Excerpt with details – permits for male sex toys, sex with women only, two years in prison:

The new measure will go into effect on January 1, 2014 which will make many forms of male masturbation illegal. Exceptions include sperm donations, which now must only be performed at a designated hospital facility.

Those found in violation of the new law could be sentenced up to two years in prison.

• Many things in porn are exaggerated, including the statistics regularly quoted to show how much pornography is on the web. In 2010 the largest study ever done into human sexuality published a very different figure for how many of the web’s most popular sites were devoted to porn. The academics behind the research based their results on analysis of the million most frequented sites in the world. Their estimate? Just 4% of those websites were porn.
  Web porn: Just how much is there? (BBC News)

• “Diving into Wikimedia Commons is like walking into a hoarder’s photography warehouse. It is a vast, comprehensive mess. More controversially, Wikimedia Commons hosts thousands of sexually graphic videos and images: penises, masturbation (including one shot with a Fleshlight), vulvas, ejaculation (both male and female), santorum, graphic visualizations of Bukkake, and so on. The Commons is so supersaturated with porn that explicit content bleeds into places you’d never expect.” (So true: I find porn there every time I look for ZDNet artwork.)
  How Wikimedia Commons became a massive amateur porn hub (Daily Dot)

• Warning for male sexual trauma survivors: on mushrooms, he apparently somehow tore his own penis off. Police found the naked man screaming and bleeding from the waist down, on his knees outside a school in Michigan.
  Man, 41, rips off own penis while high on magic mushrooms (Mirror Online)

• Study: Another example of researchers bending new technology to meet their desires: “Validity and Reliability of a Smartphone Application for the Assessment of Penile Deformity in Peyronie’s Disease.”
  How To: Smartphone Assessment of Penile Deformity (Improbable Research)

• Now, an escalation of HIV, syphilis, genital herpes and other sex-spread infections is spurring demand for knowledge and condoms in China – a country where intrauterine devices and sterilization are the mainstays of birth control.
  Sex Ed Rollout in China Seen Benefiting Reckitt to Ansell (Bloomberg)

• Serving and former priests hired rentboys for sex in churches from pimp who sold consecrated hosts to satanists, says defrocked clergyman.
  Vatican Rentboy and Satanism Claims Revealed by Paedophile Priest Don Patrizio Poggi (IBTimes UK)

• On Friday Facebook announced a new advertising policy for potentially controversial pages, saying it will ban ads from pages or groups containing violent, graphic, or sexual content. This time around, Facebook is hoping to use a short period of human-based review on sexual content before passing the job to computers, the company explained in describing its new policies.
  Will Facebook’s Robot Censors Know Porn When They See It? (Businessweek)

• Charlie Jane Anders writes, “You might have supposed that a single Game of Thrones porn movie would be sufficient. Or you might have thought the HBO show is already fulfilling your porno needs. In any case, there will soon be two duelling Thrones pornos.”
  There will soon be TWO competing Game of Thrones porn spoofs (io9)

• This post is intense. “I am a sex worker. I am exploited in the workplace. The conditions I work under are demoralising and degrading. I regularly go home from work and cry because of the things my employers have made me do, and the ways I have been treated, or been forced to treat others. I’d cry in the toilets, but they don’t let us have toilet breaks.”
  Rosie B On Being Exploited (Nimues World)

• Lost? Let these Zelda Map Panties help you find your way.
  I’m In (And Don’t Care If It’s Ladies): Zelda Map Underwear (Geekologie)

• Apologizing for making people “pray away the gay” – The president of Exodus International, Alan Chambers, issued a series of apologies and explanations last week about plans to shut down the organization, which for 37 years has worked with Christians dealing with same-sex attraction.
  Exodus International, criticized for ‘reparative therapies’ for gay Christians, to shut down (Washington Post)

• Google has given blogs marked ‘adult’ on its Blogger service until Monday to cease monetizing or face deletion. Untold numbers of angry and panicked users forsee an SEO bloodbath.
  Google’s Blogger to delete all ‘adult’ blogs with ads in three days (Pulp Tech, ZDNet)