- The data showed that 21% of women and 32% of men watch live sex shows online. Skype sex is also increasingly common, with 26% of respondents saying they had “had sexual relations via a webcam,” while 48% said they would do so if given the opportunity.
New Survey Says Americans Are Getting Freakier, Masturbating More (Refinery 29)
- Fuck yeah Rachel Kramer Bussel! “Over the past 21 years, I’ve slept with men and women of various ages, races, professions and sizes, and while the qualities that most attract me are a sharp mind and a good sense of humor, there’s no denying that the one type of person I’ve wound up falling the hardest for are fat men. I’m certainly not the only one…”
Why I’m Hot for Fat Guys (Nerve)
- In contrary to Vimeo’s content standards, it has wiped all of Ms. Naughty’s content, such as her Feminist Porn Awards documentary and video of her Feminist Porn Conference talk. Let’s hope they fix it soon. (Ms. Maughty’s Twitter)
Vimeo deleted docos about the FPA, Berlin PFF, my presentation at last year's FPCon, my "Something Better" doco…
— Ms Naughty (@msnaughty) May 16, 2014
- Judge Katherine Forrest took Isaias (Chelo) Flores-Mendez off the streets for good, calling his role in luring women to the city to sell their bodies up to 35 times a day in New Jersey shacks ‘depraved’ and ‘repulsive.’
Pimp who forced Mexican women into sex slavery in New York City gets life sentence (NY Daily News)
- “New York City drove down its H.I.V. infection rate in part by flooding the streets with millions upon millions of free condoms each year. At the same time, the police have undermined this effort by using condom possession as evidence to support prostitution charges — and by simply seizing condoms from sex workers and destroying them.”
Get Rid of ‘Condom Policing’ (NY Times)
- File under glad you’re catching on… An academic from Durham University says that schools should move beyond the “prevention and plumbing” model of sex education towards lessons that also focus on the “pleasurable aspects of sex.”
Sex education ‘must focus on pleasurable side to sex’ (Telegraph UK)
- A study by Cooper and colleagues has created the Faking Orgasm Scale.
‘I’ll have what she’s having’ – Developing the Faking Orgasm Scale for Women (BPS Research Digest)
- An open letter to Assemblymember Isadore Hall and the thousands of porn performers and producers who are concerned about Bill AB 1576 aka “The Condom Mandate”.
Keep Queer Porn Legal in California! An open letter from Pink & White Productions. (Pink & White Productions)
- As of early May, X-Art had filed about thirty-eight per cent of all copyright suits in 2014. Today, they average more than three suits a day, and defendants have included elderly women, a former lieutenant governor, and countless others. “Please be advised that I am ninety years old and have no idea how to download anything,” one defendant wrote in a letter, filed in a Florida court.
The biggest filer of copyright lawsuits? This erotica website (The New Yorker)
- The second half of this article has a great interview with Jillian Lauren: The Sultan of Brunei and his brother Prince Jefri were dubbed “constant companions in hedonism” in 2011 by Vanity Fair. Here and abroad, the brothers are infamous for their sex parties and their harems composed mainly of underage girls.
The sex-obsessed world of Brunei (NY Post)
- A former producer is suing NBC’s “Dateline” for repeatedly requiring her “to engage in sexual role play and serve as bait for targets.” Lengle says Slepian had her set up a secretly filmed meeting in Las Vegas with a guy who promised better sex with Oxycodone and Xanax. The segment never aired.
Former producer for NBC’s ‘Dateline’ was forced to respond to sex ads online as part of ‘Wild Wild Web’ series: suit (NY Daily News)
- A professor’s lifelong research leads to a growing understanding of pleasure, pain, and the genital-brain relationship. “The women’s nerves transmitted sensory activity from the clitoris, vagina, and cervix, even though the spinal cord was severed.”
How Orgasm Could Dull Pain (The Atlantic)
- Image of sex on top of a bridge span, via. Also — WOW!
The 10 Weirdest Places People Have Been Caught Having Sex (Nerve)
- While our culture promotes a male-centric (that is, penis-centric) view of sex, men do not necessarily have it easy. Boys are taught that “real men” are sexual aggressors, and the tenets of toxic masculinity promote stoicism and ignorance; to admit fear, discomfort or confusion about sex implies vulnerability at odds with culturally-acceptable machismo.
17 Lies We Need to Stop Teaching Boys About Sex (Policy Mic)
- Visitors at the newly-opened hotel inside of the Shard are being creeped out by the bizarre effects of a simple design flaw — which reflects the view inside of certain rooms directly onto the windows of nearby guests at night.
A Design Flaw Is Turning the London Shard Hotel Into a Voyeur’s Dream (Gizmodo)
- Fawn, 28, and India Rose, 23, share an estimated fortune of AUD $600m after inheriting their grandfather Paul Raymond’s vast porn empire estate. Raymond opened the UK’s first strip club, The Raymond Revue Bar, in 1958 in London’s Soho.
The porn heiresses worth millions (News.com.au)
- Trigger warning for sexual trauma survivors, and caution that this is about sophisticated consent. Cara Sutra writes, “This adamant refusal to let the events and the perpetrators have any further power over me, mentally or physically, ties in very much to why rape fantasy is such an enjoyable roleplay and sexual fetish of mine.”
You can take my rape fantasy when you non-consensually prise it from my kink dependent mind (Cara Sutra)
Vimeo has temporarily restored my videos but I’m still supposed to comply with guidelines that are vague and have to make changes. Apparently I can’t show people touching their “bathing suit area”. I’ve asked them to be more specific about what I need to do to comply. I’ve posted the ongoing correspondence with them: http://msnaughty.com/blog/2014/05/17/what-happened-when-i-asked-vimeo-to-define-sexual-stimulation/