- New York’s Times Square has always been an eyegasm of advertising, so the adult website Pornhub’s enormous Times Square billboard featuring the winner of its contest seeking a great non-pornographic ad fit right in. Sadly, the ad was quickly removed.
Pornhub Erects Huge Billboard in Times Square After Long Search for a Great Non-Pornographic Ad (Adweek)
- My first article for Playboy points out that Jennifer Lawrence is the new face of revenge porn, and that suing Google would be the least productive use of the power, influence and money she could bring to actually changing what revenge porn victims go through.
Jennifer Lawrence: The New Face of Revenge Porn (Playboy)
- In a much-criticized post Wednesday on LinkedIn Pulse, business writer Bruce Kasanoff derided Jennifer Lawrence for posing modestly topless in Vanity Fair magazine. Originally titled “Why Jennifer Lawrence’s Breasts Confuse Me” and later changed to “Why Jennifer Lawrence Confuses Me,” Kasanoff’s piece showed an inability to understand consent. Kasanoff deleted the inflammatory article Thursday.
Jennifer Lawrence’s Breasts Aren’t Sending Mixed Messages (TIME)
- Someone is trying to make “The Snappening” happen. Whether they’re trying to make it happen as a nude photo dump or as a hoax is unclear. Naturally, Snapchat says it’s their users’ own fault saying, “Snapchatters were victimized by their use of third-party apps (…)”
A Third-Party App May Have Leaked Tens of Thousands of Snapchat P (Gizmodo)
- Actress Amanda Bynes made some startling accusations on Twitter about her father this morning and then retracted them. She had tweeted that her father “verbally and physically” abused her as a child.
Amanda Bynes Accuses Her Father of Sexual Abuse, Then Takes It Back – Hollywood Reporter (Hollywood Reporter)
- A male-on-male sexual assaulter has put the SFSU campus on high alert this week after an incident on the running track. University police issued the alert after a male jogger reported having his ass grabbed by an unknown Asian male on Tuesday evening while he was trying to go for a jog.
Guy Who Likes To Grab Other Guys’ Butts While Jogging Sought Near SF State (SFist)
- Playboy just spoke with Elijah Wood while he was promoting Open Windows — a thriller that revolves around a computer geek (Wood) gaining voyeuristic access to his favorite actress (Sasha Grey) via increasingly questionable means — and discovered the most disturbing movie Wood has ever seen in a film and which of his Lord of the Rings co-stars smells the best.
Elijah Wood opens up to Playboy About Sasha Grey, and more (Playboy)
- Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett’s press office released details Wednesday of disciplinary action taken against eight state employees for viewing pornography on office computers while working for his Democratic challenger, Tom Wolf; Mr. Wolf, who has a big lead in polls over the incumbent Republican, accused Mr. Corbett of allowing a “culture” of porn viewing among his employees while he was state attorney general.
Pennsylvania porn wars rock governor’s race (Washington Times)
- When pressed, an EPA employee recently admitted he’d been cruising NSFW sites for two to six hours every workday since 2010. Similar revelations have emerged recently at the Department of the Treasury, the National Science Foundation, and the Federal Communications Commission, where an employee said he watched porn for up to eight hours a week because he was bored. In 2010, 33 Securities and Exchange Commission employees were found to have viewed pornography repeatedly instead of doing their work.
Watching Porn at the Office: ‘Extremely Common’ (Businessweek)
- The trailer for Disney’s documentary Bears got a hilarious spoof trailer… The video, about a different kind of Bears, is above. (“No bears were harmed in the making of this video.”)
Disney’s nature doc ‘Bears’ gets the gay parody trailer you’ve been waiting for (Towleroad)
- “Escorts make $100 a hand job — but entrepreneurs like me? We make $5,000 a night. Welcome to the new economy of the oldest profession.”
Sex Is Sex. But Money Is Money. (Medium)
- In news coverage of campus rape in recent years, scenarios with male sexual assault victims aren’t depicted too frequently. How gendered cultural scripts help conceal and laugh away a serious problem.
When Women Sexually Assault Men (PS Mag)
- Digital swinging on Tumblr: Nerve talks to some of the couples and singles who enjoy Tumblr as they would any other kind of sex party.
Digital Swingers (Nerve)
- Trigger warning for violence, gore in a sexual context: Kink, the world’s largest producer of BDSM and fetish entertainment has opened the world’s first erotic haunted house. “Hell in the Armory” runs all this month in the 100-year old San Francisco Armory where the company shoots its adult films. While the erotic haunted house isn’t nearly as explicit as the company’s films, parental guidance is strongly suggested.
Hell In The Armory (Kink, hellinthearmory.com)
Have you seen this story about a public art installation in Paris?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-29658502
In the second pic the vibrator appears to be still in its box.