- Sperm donation has evolved from a practice of customized production to an industry that resembles mass manufacturing. Today, the supply of sperm in the United States is concentrated in a few large companies that maintain multiple offices around the country, generally near college campuses.
The Unregulated Sperm Industry (NYT)
- Under the deal with China, the “porcine semen” can be flown to the UK in frozen and fresh form. Pigs will not be flying but their seed will take to the air.
UK and China agree £45m pig semen export deal (Guardian UK)
- Scientists in Australia have found a reversible way to stop sperm getting into the ejaculate, without affecting sexual function. The animal tests showed the sperm could be “kept in storage” during sex.
Male pill keeps sperm ‘in storage’ (BBC)
- “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is a laudable, rousing movie that also made me feel like a total perv. How did this happen? To be fair, there are a handful of scenes in the movie that are fully meant to carry a sexual charge…”
The 5 Most Unintentionally Erotic Moments of Catching Fire (Vulture)
- As a nation we’re fascinated by sex and we all want to know whether our own sex lives are ’normal’. It’s surprisingly difficult to find out.
Debunking the myths: what is sex really like for ordinary people? (New Statesman)
- Last week, actress Evan Rachel Wood was royally pissed on Twitter. This time, it was over her edited and sanitized sex scene.
The Evan Rachel Wood oral sex scene the MPAA doesn’t want you to see (Mother Jones)
- Female soldiers at Fort Hood testified Monday that they were recruited for a prostitution ring set up by a sergeant involved in the sexual assault and harassment program at the Central Texas post.
Female Fort Hood soldiers recruited for prostitution ring, trial hears (Guardian UK)
- Officially issued Fatwas of note during the Egyptian presidency of now deposed leader Mohamed Morsi include A prohibition on women “eating certain vegetables or even touching cucumbers or bananas”, due to their phallic imagery which could sexually tempt women, and numerous Fatwas were authorized to use women as human shields during moments of violence.
Egyptian Fatwa: Women who swim in the ocean guilty of adultery (Examiner)
- New York men’s suit maker Daniel Friedman said, “I had no idea that this market existed.” Women and transgender men now make up one-quarter of his customers, he explained, and their numbers are growing. Others have turned to a spate of new companies, including Tomboy Tailors, Haute Butch and Saint Harridan.Custom Suits to Make Transgender and Female Clients Feel Handsome (NYT)
- This is so incredibly great. The next time someone tries to tell you that BDSM is abuse, show them this post.
Know The Difference Between BDSM and Abuse (That Feminist Dyke)
- Pew’s statistics have been used, alternately, to prove that online dating is growing – and that it will soon be obsolete. Why the confusion? It’d be easy to blame the irrepressible creativity of insta-pundits. But the truth is likely buried deeper in Pew’s online dating statistics.
There Is No Difference Between Online and ‘Real-Life’ Dating (NY Mag)
- Prostitution was decriminalised in ‘the bordello of Europe‘ in 2002. Now feminists want to overturn that law.
Germany rethinks its liberal ways on sex workers (Guardian UK)
- Let’s think through the troubling implications of the latest surveillance-state news. The NSA is conducting surveillance on the porn habits of individuals, which means that the NSA is developing expertise in discrediting people with their online behavior. It’s that same expertise that led to serious surveillance abuses in the past.
The NSA’s Porn-Surveillance Program: Not Safe for Democracy (Atlantic)
- You want to date hotties… but are you actually as attractive as you think you are? Researchers have developed an online dating system that not only matches you with partners you’ll find attractive, but who are also likely to find you attractive too.
AI Reality Check In Online Dating (i-programmer.info)
- Last Wednesday, the CDC published a report noting that barebacking, or unprotected anal sex between men, is on the rise.
Can Unprotected Anal Sex Ever Be Safe? (Slate)
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