- Jon Millward got to analyze data from the U.K.’s number one retailer of sex toys (Lovehoney), and did some incredible data visualization based on one million sex toy sales.
Down the Rabbit Hole: An Analysis of One Million Sex Toy Sales (Jon Millward)
- Two of the world’s biggest porn sites have promised “in-your-face” support for today’s “battle for the net” protest against proposals by US regulators to create online fast lanes for some companies. Pornhub and Redtube, two of the world’s largest pornography sites, on Friday announced they would join the “go-slow” day of action.
Pornhub and Redtube to join go-slow protest over US threat to net neutrality (Guardian)
- Vasalgel, a reversible, non-hormonal polymer that blocks the vas deferens, is about to enter human trials. How will rhetoric change when male bodies become responsible for birth control?
Male Birth Control, Without Condoms, Will Be Here by 2017 (Daily Beast)
- A security researcher got an eyeful of a sex worker’s client base when he investigated a VoIP service whose “burner” phone numbers are being recycled.
Recycled ‘burner’ number sends sex worker’s clients to security researcher (ZDNet)
- A book I’ve been waiting for is finally here: I first read The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality as a draft, and found it so informative, warm, compelling and eye-opening that I can’t recommend it highly enough. You can read an early excerpt in TIME here.
The Invisible Orientation (Amazon)
- Last week, the Shenzhen Market Supervision Bureau raided the factories of Chinese counterfeiter “Lemei,” which was producing fake Fleshlight products. Interactive Life Forms, makers of the Fleshlight brand of male masturbators, said it worked with the Chinese government agency for two years.
Fleshlight Counterfeiter ‘Lemei’ Gets Raided in China (XBIZ)
- Only about 5 percent of the companies in the Fortune 500 are run by women. The highest paid female CEO in America, topping that list, is a transgender woman.
The Trans-Everything CEO (NY Mag)
- If you’ve followed public debate over sex work and trafficking in recent decades, you’ve probably seen some variation on this sentence: “The average age of entry into prostitution is 13.” Except for one thing: There is little basis for the claim, or even where it originated.
Is One of the Most-Cited Statistics About Sex Work Wrong? (The Atlantic)
- t the Livraria Cultura bookstore on Paulista Avenue, a waiter circulated with champagne on a recent Monday evening as a line formed in front of Gabriela da Silva, 22, who had come to launch her first book, “The Pleasure Is All Ours,” written under the pseudonym Lola Benvenutti.
What a prostitute’s story tells us about sex and a woman’s role in the new Brazil (Washington Post)
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- The war over Zoe Quinn’s Wikipedia page is revealing a very ugly world of male editors who impersonate women and trans people to smear women’s Wikipedia pages, and propagate a strong culture of virulent misogyny. This, I know personally.
Wikipedia and the war on women’s dignity (Wikipediocracy)
- A week after the images first appeared on Reddit — and a day after site administrators vowed not to take them down — the Internet’s front page has deleted the forum that propagated stolen celebrity nudes and popularized them across the Web.
How copyright became the best defense against revenge porn (Washington Post)
- Male Sex Work And Society is a collection of essays and studies that examines the role of male sex work from an interdisciplinary perspective, including fields of study like public health, sociology, psychology, social services, history and mental health.
A Look At The Male Sex Worker Throughout History (Huffington Post)
- The Washington-based evangelical megachurch Mars Hill is shutting (some of) its doors following controversy over founder Mark Driscoll’s well-documented homophobic and sexist remarks; the church is citing financial difficulties caused by “negative media attention.” In a blog post Driscoll asserts women’s role in the world, essentially calling them “penis homes”.
Evangelical megachurch begins closing branches after pastor calls women “penis homes” (Salon)
- An NBC News digital producer was arrested Tuesday for secretly videotaping his girlfriend having sex with him and posting it to XTube without her consent, law enforcement sources told The Post.
NBC producer busted for posting secret sex tapes to porn site (NY Post)
“How will rhetoric change when male bodies become responsible for birth control?”
Maybe I didn’t get the memo, but since when are we men *not* responsible for birth control?