- The innocuous elegance of the sex toy box, which could easily double as the jewelry box on a fashionable nightstand, is partly what enabled MUA to become the first adult company to get by Kickstarter’s puritanical standards.
The First Ever Adult Product on Kickstarter Isn’t a Sex Toy At All (Nerve)
- Antidepressants are one the most common forms of treatment for depression, but using antidepressants tends to have pretty noticeable side effects, especially sexual ones. These sexual side effects can be very unpleasant for people taking antidepressants but a new study has demonstrated the power of exercise in helping to counter the negative effects of this lifesaving medication.
Antidepressants: Study Says Exercise Can Reduce Sexual Side Effects (Guardian LV)
- The Top 100 Sex Bloggers of 2013 list from Between My Sheets is such a great list, and I’m even on it! Woo-hoo! Cherry-pick some new writers for your RSS reader.
Top 100 Sex Bloggers of 2013 (Between My Sheets)
- “Now comes word that at least one police agency is fairly routinely targeting suspects by attacking them with malware that can turn on the camera, while leaving the indicator LED off and as dark as your shifty little soul…”
PSA: It’s Time To Tape Over Your Webcam Lens (ErosBlog: The Sex Blog)
- UK-based Man + Hatchet has created a beautiful stop motion video consisting of naked people who helped tell the story of Sam, a man who isn’t a fan of his own body.
Hundreds Disrobe And Roll Around on Giant White Sheets to Promote Health Brand (Adrants)
- Another HIV outbreak in the mainstream porn industry has been determined, and production at mainstream locations ceased over the weekend. This time it is a male performer from the straight industry.
Adult Industry Calls for Production Moratorium (XBIZ)
- Occidental College said it had failed to disclose two dozen sex-crime allegations, but a review finds at least 27 others that weren’t reported.
California College received more sex assault allegations than it reported (LA Times)
- Microsoft researchers have designed a smart bra that can detect stress. The prototype contains removable sensors that monitor heart and skin activity to provide an indication of mood levels.
Microsoft designs stress-busting bra (BBC)
- From “revenge analytics” to Siri sex surrogates, here are some unsettling ways in which love could look different a decade hence. Is technology killing romance or just making it more efficient?
The Future Of Relationships: 10 Ways We’ll Be Dating, Having Sex, And Breaking Up In 2025 (FastCoExist)
- Steamboat Willie, indeed. Unsuspecting audiences expecting to enjoy Disney’s animated movie “Frozen” in a Tampa, Florida movie theater were recently shown the sexually explicit trailer for “Nymphomaniac,” Lars von Trier’s art house film about sex addiction.
Movie theater in Florida accidentally plays “Nymphomaniac” trailer ahead of Disney movie (Salon)
- Bad Sex Media Bingo (badsexmediabingo.com)
- The bloggers at Destructoid reached out to Pornhub and got some interesting information about the porn tendencies of different gaming console users.
Playstation users prefer mature porn; Xbox users last longer (LazyGamer)
- As regular readers of this blog have long known, Martijn Broersma and his partner in the Netherlands started a 24/7 porn channel for women called Dusk. It’s been so widely popular that it’s set to launch in America by 2014. Hooray!
The First 24/7 Porn Channel for Women Is Coming to the U.S. (Nerve)
- When coming out as not-totally-heterosexual, the rules are different for men and women.
Why Should Fluid Sexuality Be Women-Only? (NY Mag)
- I find The Economist’s gender binary goggles retro and quaint.
Vive la différence! (Economist)
- Bravo. “What you might not know is what it feels like to hear a joke like this, what it’s like to be triggered. To that end, let me tell you a story about a period of my life that I don’t often discuss.”
Please Stop: The Trans Joke at the Spike Video Game Awards (BorderhouseBlog)
- With its sensuous, impeccable writing and a strong, unabashed voice, A Pleasant Kind of Heavy is the recent entrant to what is being dubbed the new wave of erotic writing in the country of India.
Women erotica writers come out to chronicle middle-class India’s sex life (Times of India)
- Using the volunteer panel data from GhostRank along with other sources, we were able to find some… interesting information.
The Internet is for Porn (and Tracking, Apparently) (Ghostery)
- In our age of exhibitionism, there is nothing inherently shocking about kinky imagery. So while Prickett’s Adult masquerades as subversion, it actually reinforces male ideas about women and power and sex.
New Erotic Women’s Lit Is Not as Subversive As It Thinks It Is (New Republic)
- Private investigator Garth Bruen can’t reliably determine who owns and operates disturbing Web sites because of the cloak of anonymity enjoyed by many businesses online. Bruen says he thinks that sometimes privacy goes too far. (And the war on anonymity finds a new trigger to leverage in its favor…)
How violent porn site operators disappear behind Internet privacy protections (Washington Post)
- “Robots won’t merely be set to work out in the world. They will also move into our homes, with consequences for human intimacy as we now know it. Robots will not only be able to do our household chores, but care work, performing the labours of love without ever loving.”
The Philosopher’s Beard: Love’s Labour’s Lost: How Robots Will Revolutionise Human Intimacy (Philosopher’s Beard)
- Brooke Scelza contends in Evolutionary Anthropology that not only do human females seek out multiple sexual partners as an evolutionary strategy, they opportunistically shift that strategy depending on the environmental context (more on that below). In other words, female sexuality is not so much blindly promiscuous as it is pragmatic.
When Are Women Most Likely to Be Promiscuous? (Slate)
- Whether or not penis size matters, it is a major source of anxiety among men. In Unhung Hero, Patrick Moote explores his own insecurity — and whether or not he can grow what nature gave him.
Why One Man Decided To Share His Smaller-Than-Average Penis With The World (Buzzfeed)
- A Google Calendar For Sexuality Conferences and Events (Charlie Glickman)
- A Christmas tree trimmed with references to the popular erotic novel “Fifty Shades of Grey” was removed from a Chicago Winter WonderFest after event staff questioned whether handcuffs and other decorations were appropriate for the festival.
’50 Shades of Grey’ Christmas Tree Yanked from Navy Pier Winter WonderFest (DNAinfo)
- The media’s fascination with Winston’s career prospects was allegedly shared by the Tallahassee Police Department. Patricia Carroll, the lawyer for the woman who accused Winston of rape, said she was told by a detective that her client’s life would be “made miserable” if she went ahead with the investigation.
The maddening familiarity of the Jameis Winston case (Salon)
- “Rock on with your class and intelligence! Religion, parents, society and others sometimes teach us sex is inherently tacky and vulgar. We are all sexual beings. (…)”
Where can I find classy porn? Funky Brown Chick knows (Metro)
