- “This is the last fucking straw. As sex workers, we have had enough. We are sick of the public (including much of the left) clinging to the vestiges of a puritanical past. Therefore, with all due defiance and anger, we welcome you to a nuanced position on sexuality and labor: the work of sex.”
Labor Intensive: In Defense of Sex Work (Red Wedge Magazine)
- Twitter came under criticism this summer for allegedly censoring ads for condoms or sexual health information, even though the company’s policy allows those kinds of ads. RH Reality Check reported in June about four companies and organizations that claimed Twitter had not only censored their ads, but also blocked their accounts from advertising.
Twitter Faces Renewed Criticism for Condom Ad Policies (RH Reality Check)
- “This isn’t a population we can afford to ignore, or an issue we can afford to sweep under the rug. First of all, people with developmental or intellectual disabilities do have sexualities; everyone does. Secondly, people with developmental or intellectual disabilities are at alarmingly increased risk (relative to the general population) of experiencing many kinds of abuse, including sexual abuse.”
Sexualities and People With Intellectual Disabilities (Robin’s Toy Nest)
- In 1960s Paris she became known as the world’s most exclusive madam, whose client list was said to include John Kennedy, de Gaulle, Onassis, and multiple Rothschilds, and whose beautiful and cultivated girls often went on to marry wealth, power, and prestige. But among the many secrets Madame Claude kept, perhaps the greatest were her own. William Stadiem, who knew the elusive Claude in the 1980s, follows her trail to the South of France.
Madame Claude and Parisian Sex Work: Behind Claude’s Doors (Vanity Fair)
- a campaign ad for Republican congressional candidate Gary Kiehne, the guy who once said 99% of mass shooting are committed by Democrats, in which Garry is accompanied in the background by a horse with a large erection.
This Political Campaign Ad Features A Horse With A Large Erection (AdRants)
- Your favorite adult star has to log a lot of gym hours to keep those curves in all the right places; sexy bodies are a lot of work and simply starving won’t do the trick. Pop Physique is the fitness craze sweeping the porn industry, making it less likely an actress will groan at the idea of reverse cowgirl.
#ButtSchool – How Porn Stars Work Out: Pop Physique Promises the Perfect Derriere (Daily Beast)
- A German court has ruled that a landlord was within her rights to evict a man for persistently using a squeaky swing set as a sex prop in his flat late at night.
German sex-swing enthusiast evicted from flat after noise complaints (Guardian)
- Jane Hilton’s latest book Precious gives a rare look inside Nevada’s brothels, exiled by law to secretive, ranch style locales in the deserts. A series of striking, mostly nude portraits of the women that live and work there, Hilton’s images are a non-judgemental look at one of the world’s most misunderstood professions.
Inside Nevada’s secret brothels (Dazed and Confused)
- A Pennsylvania woman faces up to nine years in prison after she downloaded horrific child porn in a bid to frame her estranged husband. Meri Jane Woods saved 40 sickening shots to their family computer last August — which she then took to police to try and blame on her ex Matthew Woods.
Pennsylvania woman tries to frame estranged husband with Internet child porn, faces prison (NY Daily News)
- I can’t begin to emphasize, in strong enough language, how wrong and harmful this is. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation is wrong, in the face of science and against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization, and with this blatant misinformation is actively campaigning against the prevention of HIV/AIDS.
AIDS Healthcare Foundation Launches Ad Campaign Against PrEP (Buzzfeed)
- When I did my first sex and tech talk at Dorkbot SF (2005) I specifically said that patents (patent trolls, I said) were the reason we didn’t have the kind of teledildonics that were possible. “When the RealTouch [NSFW] interactive device came out in 2009, it was hailed as the future of sex—a way for a man to get it on remotely with an adult video star or live model. Five years later, you’re lucky if you can buy one secondhand.”
Are Patents to Blame for Stalling Teledildonics? (Future of Sex)
- This Thursday marked the release of the Doctor Who porn parody Doctor Whore — and I’m glad I’m not along in totally hating the name. I hate the name so much I just don’t want to see it, and The Mary Sue took one for the team.
I Watched Doctor Whore And Its Geek Porn Predecessors And Lived To Blog About It (The Mary Sue)
Main post image: Lana Zakocela shot by Cameron Hammond on Nowear Land.
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