- Adult movie company ZIZ Entertainment recently auctioned off several costumes featured in its cosplay-themed porn videos Taimanin Asagi and Taimanin Yukikaze, which is based on the adult computer games by the same name. And people are willing to pay top dollar, er, yen, for the used outfits.
Cosplay Porn Outfits Fetching Thousands of Dollars (Kotaku)
- “The ouster of American Apparel ’s controversial CEO Dov Charney has overshadowed the fact that the chain, with its soft-pornesque brand equity, has been striking a sour note with shoppers.”
It’s Not Just American Apparel: For Fashion Retailers, Sex Just Isn’t Selling These Days (Forbes)
- Lovepalz‘ latest release, the Ladobi, is a six-way earphone set providing 360-surround sound, earbuds optimised to accompany porn, steamy webcam sessions, or even good old-fashion Skype phone sex.
Weird tech: headphones designed for watching porn (Telegraph UK)
- Dana DeArmond is the thinking man’s pornstar. An early social media star, DeArmond had nearly a million Myspace friends earning her the name “The Internet’s Girlfriend” before she even began her career.
Dana DeArmond has 10 things to say to men (NAME)
- Visit SFRedbook.com, MyPinkBook.com, or MyRedBook.com right now, and you’ll only find the seals of the law enforcement agencies—the FBI, the DOJ, and the IRS—that seized the sites as part of a prostitution and money laundering investigation. The seizure is part of a disturbing trend of targeting sex workers, but more than that, it is an attack on the rights to free speech and free association exercised by a diverse group of people, many of whom have nothing to do with the alleged crimes.
Whose RedBook? Why Everyone Should be Concerned By the Seizure of MyRedBook.Com (EFF)
— SciencePorn (@SciencePorn) July 1, 2014
- Swedish designer sex toy brand LELO is sponsoring “SELF,” a multimedia theater production staged in Shanghai. LELO’s endorsement comes as part of its UnDesign Award 2014, the company said, which challenges creatives to explore new ways of building connections in all their forms.
LELO Sponsors ‘Transmedia’ Theater Performance (XBIZ)
- Michael Biehn, who appeared in such sci-fi blockbusters as “The Terminator” and “Aliens,” is sticking to the genre with “Fembot,” the next movie he and his wife, Jennifer Blanc, are making. The plot imagines a not-too-distant future where citizens can buy a robot companion designed specifically for them.
Married duo to film sci-fi thriller ‘Fembot’ (Page Six)
#LOL RT @kevinjdelaney All of the teams that banned sex at the #worldcup have been eliminated http://t.co/TEDe2KPtHs pic.twitter.com/9zzw8s5u8a
— violet blue ® (@violetblue) July 2, 2014
Is this painting offensive? @mallgalleries censored @MsMccall’s work for being “disgusting”: http://t.co/NgnWh6n6MC pic.twitter.com/NgtwGyCDsW
— Zoe Margolis (@girlonetrack) July 1, 2014
- Whitney Wolfe, Tinder’s former VP of marketing is suing the hookup startup after what she describes as a spree of misogyny and sexual harassment at the hands of its CMO Justin Mateen. You will wish you never used Tinder after reading this.
Ex-VP Sues Tinder Alleging Coworker Called Her a “Whore” (And Worse) (Valleywag)
- Last week ABC’s Nightline ran a story about female libido pill Sprout’s new tactic with the FDA. If the piece is a harbinger of things to come, it’s looking good for Sprout. True liberation, apparently, comes in the shape of a little pink pill.
The Revolution Will Not Come In Pill Form (About: Sex)
Let us introduce our July #PenthousePet of the Month @Skin_Diamond #BadAss #PenthouseMagazine #TattooTuesday #Fierce pic.twitter.com/38mrZ63COK
— Penthouse (@Penthouse) July 1, 2014
- “Yesterday I finally made it out to Q-Toys, the only store in Austin that carries only safe, non-toxic sex toys, for a g-spot workshop… Yes, a sex educator started the g-spot workshop by saying that no one knows if the g-spot exists, and if it does, no one knows what it is. She drew up a diagram of vaginal anatomy, but with ??? instead of labeling the g-spot.”
Yes, the G-Spot Is Real (Penny’s Dirty Thoughts)
- “I keep accidentally watching porn where girls drink their own pee,” a straight male friend named Alex recently lamented. “My dick went limp in my hand,” another male friend said of the moment when a group-sex scene morphed into the horrifying depiction of one performer’s digestive troubles. Nevertheless, he watched the whole thing.
The Porn Flâneur: What Baudelaire and LubeTube Have in Common (NY Mag)
