- In the past, Gone Girl’s cunnilingus scene would have earned the film a big, ugly NC-17 rating from the relentless prudes at the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), a shadowy trade organization that’s long deemed any degree of corporal violence as far more acceptable than female sexual pleasure, and has done more to shame male-to-female oral sex than Michael Douglas. But recently, the MPAA has loosened the stick in its collective ass and allowed women to go there whilst maintaining an R rating.
Oral Sex Comes of Age in Hollywood: ‘Gone Girl’ the Latest Film to Showcase Female Pleasure (Daily Beast)
- Dave Hockey and Shawna Bigelow have spent £20,000 on sex dolls to spice up their love life. The couple, who have been dating for over a year, regularly share their bed with five silicone dolls.
Meet the couple who share their bed with five lifesize sex dolls (Daily Mail)
- This week, Google Plus started allowing account holders to self-flag their accounts as NSFW in a few new ways. The content policy has not changed, and they haven’t made it a per-post flagging option. But hey, it’s better than that other site.
Restrict your content by age and location (Google+ Your Business, thank you A!)
- Dubbed the “Revenge Porn 2.0 Act” by Sen. Anthony Cannella, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation to expand California’s revenge porn ban to include “selfies.”
Gov. Jerry Brown Expands Revenge Porn Law to Include ‘Selfies’ (XBIZ)
- Meanwhile, a few blocks from the Bungalow… The Canadian Foreskin Awareness Project (CAN-FAP) will be doing foreskin painting tomorrow! “Anyone who’s been to Castro Street Fair in recent years knows that there are always at least two booths there devoted to denouncing circumcision and celebrating “foreskin pride” and foreskin mutilation awareness. Well, they’re back!”
Live Foreskin Painting Will Happen At Castro Street Fair Sunday [NSFW] (SFist)
- The obvious problem with California’s new sexual consent law — which many other states are considering as well — is that it assumes that sexual assault, already a crime under multiple laws, is the result of miscommunication.
The big problem with California’s new sexual consent law (The Week)
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— Courtney Trouble (@courtneytrouble) October 3, 2014
- “I can’t remember the first time Denise told me about her phone-sex career, but it wasn’t long after we were introduced. She’s refreshingly — sometimes brutally — honest, and one of the most contagiously social people I’ve ever met. Denise is far and away the top earner at her company, where she’s been atop the leaderboard for more than a year.”
My friend, the phone sex worker (The Verge)
- Patrick “PK” McDonnell has joined the Titcoin adult digital currency team, the company announced today. Titcoin said McDonnell is globally known as “The Coyote of Wall Street” for his work on making Steve Madden a publicly traded company.
Patrick McDonnell Joins Titcoin (XBIZ)
- “Adult stores have a stigma of a dirty guy in a trench coat ready to flash, we just want to make it more female friendly,” he said. “I don’t think a porn store could ever become gentrified. The fact that we exist as a business pisses people off.”
16th and Mission Porn Shop Tries to Go Upscale (Mission Local)
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— Maxine Holloway (@MaxineHolloway) September 30, 2014
- Another great article by author Jesse Bering: The sex lives of so-called celibate clergy are notoriously difficult to study empirically. During the past decade, however, a few scholars have penetrated this cloistered world of smothered lust.
The Masturbatory Habits of Priests (Playboy)
- In the introduction of Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One is Looking), published last month, OkCupid co-founder Christian Rudder notes that, while companies started compiling data for profit, resulting troves contain vast storytelling potential.
How OkCupid is bolstering data journalism (Columbia Journalism Review)
- Bare Reality is a searingly intimate art and social project that features untouched photos of women’s breasts alongside personal stories of how they feel about them. British photographer Laura Dodsworth has launched a Kickstarter campaign so she can complete the project and publish the book.
100 Women Get Real About Their Un-Airbrushed Breasts (A Sexy Woman of a Certain Age)
- YAY Cara Sutra! Congrats, we love you! U.K.-based mother and entrepreneur Cara Sutra has earned herself a place in the final line-up of The Mumpreneur Awards. The annual ceremony aims at celebrating parents throughout the U.K. who manage the task of juggling business with family life.
Sex Toy Blogger Cara Sutra Nominated for U.K. ‘Mumpreneur’ Awards (XBIZ)
- Mary Jane McGraw told cops that porn store customer Shane Gregory was “acting strangely,” and set off the business’s “security device” as he exited the store. McGraw confronted Gregory and asked him to empty his pockets.
Man, 22, Ended Up In Handcuffs After He “Pulled A Pocket Pussy Out Of His Pants” (The Smoking Gun)
- Official figures expected to show Britain’s economic recovery even stronger than previously thought, with illegal drugs and prostitution, which represent 0.7pc of GDP, fuelling faster growth.
Sex and drugs boost UK economy (Telegraph)
- The Handie is a male masturbation glove that looks like a cartoon hand, but also like if something went terribly wrong while jacking off near something radioactive (No Pigsley! Down!) you’d become some kind of really angry NSFW comic supervillain. It is a glove made of elastomer silicone with a one-speed vibrator and onboard lube dispenser. The funding is set at $69K, which sadly looks like an arbitrary amount because they were trying to be cute, though the har-har sales text can’t be helping them any.
The Handie: Adult Novelty for Men! (Indiegogo)
About this:
“The sex lives of so-called celibate clergy are notoriously difficult to study empirically. During the past decade, however, a few scholars have penetrated this cloistered world of smothered lust.”
I recently read a history of the Protestant Reformation and I was surprised that sex was such a central issue, perhaps the dominant issue. During the 1400s the emphasis on celibacy broke down in much of northern Europe. Martin Luther turned against celibacy exactly because he saw that very few priests were able to maintain it. Martin Luther then came round to the other side of the debate: he insisted that all ministers had to be married. He wrote “No man can be trusted during his time of Nature.” He defined “time of Nature” for men as beginning at age 15 and ending at age 60. In Germany, on the eve of the Reformation, the majority of all priests were living openly with their female partners, who they were not legally allowed to marry because of the law enforcing celibacy. The Reformation allowed all of these priests to marry the women they had been living with.
It is unfortunate that these sane reforms lead to 100 years of religious war, and more than 50 million deaths.