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- When a chronic pain syndrome made sex excruciating, our writer found relief from the most surprising source. “The idea of injecting de-activated botulism into my pelvic floor was not one that thrilled me. Still, if it meant that Eric and I could have the kind of sex we used to have, it was worth a shot.”
Botox Saved My Sex Life (DAME)
- Surprise, surprise, the mainstream porn industry is hating on Belle Knox for not being “one of them.” “(…) starting with adult performer Belle Noire’s crusade to “expose” Knox. After tweeting at Knox for weeks, last week she published an essay called “Behind the Scenes: Belle Knox,” alleging that Knox was “completely contradictory, irrelevant, and unknowledgeable of the porn industry.”
Growing backlash against Duke porn star in adult film industry (Daily Dot)
- “You bent over to tie your shoe? Joke’s on you, let some rando pretend to penetrate you. Oh, you’re bending over to get something from your grocery basket? You’re just asking for a French comedian to make humping motions behind you.”
Remi Gaillard’s ‘Free Sex’ Prank Is The Opposite Of Comedy (HuffPo)
- The average earnings of a full-time Phone Sex Operator (PSO) earns around $40,000 per year.
Talking Dirty: The Women Who Still Make Bank as Phone Sex Operators (NAME)
- In December, the online travel company surveyed 1,000 air travelers and found that nine per cent of them reported being intimate on a plane at least once. “It happens more often on longer flights, of course. The transatlantic flights are the most popular, but it happens in business class as frequently or even more so than economy class, for instance.”
Sex acts on airplanes not uncommon, experts say (CBC)
- These Awesomely Geeky Condoms Just Made Sex Even Cooler (Buzzfeed, image above via)
- “In the fashion industry, Terry Richardson’s sexual harassment is the symptom, not the disease.”
Models Are Prey — And Not Just In Terry’s World (Buzzfeed)
- After one writer recently revealed that she’s made as much as $30,000 in a single month writing erotic ebooks featuring creatures like Bigfoot, it became clear that monster erotica has quietly become a hugely popular genre. But what attracts readers with sexy stories about mythological beasts?
Why Is Monster Erotica So Popular Anyway? (io9)
- “Can sex save Denmark?”, the advert asks. Hotel rooms are one of life’s great aphrodisiacs – at least that’s the theory behind a new campaign from Danish package-holiday specialist Spies Rejser. Its latest TV campaign, Do It For Denmark, aims to encourage Danes to go on holiday in the hope that they might procreate while abroad.
Sun, sex and a baby: the unusual package holiday for Danes (Guardian)
- Former porn performer “Melissa Midwest” Harrington is being dropped as the face of a multibillion-dollar Manhattan lawsuit against Match.com, making her the second woman since January to be removed from top billing in the case. Once among the top 10 most-searched names on the Internet, she recently demanded that she be removed from the class-action, trademark-infringement suit.
Match.com lawsuit loses second lead plaintiff (NY Post)
- Nuts, the weekly that along with arch-rival Zoo shook up the men’s magazine market a decade ago but attracted criticism for their sexist portrayal of women, is to close.
Nuts magazine to close (Guardian)
- “I compartmentalized my disability and my sexuality like it was my job until after college. Then I realized I wanted to actually have sex instead of just picking it apart in sociology class. So, like any self-respecting queer lady, I turned to the internet — and met Alex.”
Know Me Where It Hurts: Sex, Kink, and Cerebral Palsy (Autostraddle)
- Photographer Meg Allen celebrates “those who choose to exist and identify outside the gender binary” through a series of stunning portraits.
Photographing The Butch Women Of San Francisco (Buzzfeed)
