- Get Hung for the Holidays. Highlights include “Oh, Poly Night,” the bitterly hilarious “12 Fights of Christmas,” and lyrics like “This holiday’s nothing but wholesome / so why you gotta turn it into Folsom?” The wonderful, local, sex-positive Rachel Lark is beloved for her bawdy jams, which have been heralded by folks like Margaret Cho and Dan Savage. And now she’s brought us all some Christmas cheer with a surprising, subversive holiday album. It’s sure to terrify your family and delight your friends.
‘Hung For The Holidays’ Is The [SF] Xmas Album We’ve Been Waiting For (SFist)
- If law has been slow to recognize mainstream BDSM, however, BDSM has not forgotten law. Far from locking law out of its bedrooms, mainstream BDSM has deliberately imported one unlikely legal form: contract.
Nonbinding Bondage: Exploring the (extra)legal complexity of BDSM contracts (Harvard Law Review)
- Print Your Own Dildo is a new company that is so dedicated to personalizing an already quite personal experience that they’ve named themselves for it. PYOD is here to do exactly that: let you design and 3D print your own sex toy. PYOD has just launched their Kickstarter campaign, seeking to get their novel idea off their drawing board and into your… er, hands.
PYOD Launches Kickstarter: Customize your own 3D printed sex toy (3D Print)
- Fashion Happy Dolls manufactured in China have made some unsuspecting parents fashionably unhappy. You can buy the discount fairy doll in several versions, blond or brunette, blue dress or purple, silver wings or gold. But no matter which model you choose, she appears to come with penis.
All I want for Christmas Is A Transgender Fairy (The New Civil Rights Movement)
- Drone porn is a con as old as the handicam: “Bang Bus” fooled viewers into thinking it was actually picking up random girls from off the street. “Amateur” and “casting couch” porn shot by companies fools people into thinking the participants have “never done that before.” Same with “girlfriend revenge” porn sites from large porn companies: the women are under contract. Now one of Manwin’s sites is proffering “drone porn” — ostensibly to cash in on the voyeur market. That site really freaked out one very naive writer at The Verge (who has apparently never heard of 2257 laws).
This drone porn isn’t real, it’s just really creepy (The Verge)
- Citizen science sex hacking! For anyone who wants to dip their toes into science, but then leave the heavy lifting to the professionals, citizen science might be the answer. (Science Hack Day was at the forefront of this.) One way we might be interested in getting involved? Help scientists learn about human sexual activity via Kinsey Reporter.
Here’s How You Can Help Scientists Study Sex, Whales, and Distant Galaxies (Mother Jones)
Asked what project caught his eye in 2014, @BrockKeeling chose One Rincon for its, uh, anatomy http://t.co/IuqAdK8zY2 pic.twitter.com/zRQpspyVhe
— Curbed SF (@CurbedSF) December 23, 2014
- A Japanese woman who makes art based on her vulva has been charged with obscenity, in a case that has sparked discussion on censorship. Mass media continues to confuse ‘vagina’ (inside) with ‘vulva’ (outside) in this case, and it’s really annoying everyone with a brain.
Japan charges Tokyo vulva artist with obscenity (BBC)
- Two centuries after his death, the descendants of the notorious Marquis de Sade have finally embraced their once-reviled relative. The French aristocrat scandalised his contemporaries with his erotic works which saw him locked in prisons and an insane asylum for 32 years. Now, the eldest member of the dynasty, Elzear de Sade, has said the family are no longer ashamed of their controversial ancestor and has reclaimed the title of marquis which has not been used since his 1814.
Descendants of notorious 19th Century writer the Marquis de Sade reclaim his title after 200 years of disowning novelist (Daily Mail)
- In my last news roundup, I pointed out that 50 Shades actor Jamie Dornan revealed he thinks kinky people are gross. IBT picked up the story. Stephen Elliott told IBT, “To me it’s the equivalent of making a movie about gay people and making homophobic remarks.” Morgana Maye: “A team of oxen couldn’t drag me into a theater to watch this trash.”
Will ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’ Movie Accurately Depict BDSM? Two Dominatrixes And A Submissive Tell All, ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’ Star Jamie Dornan Angers BDSM Community With Elle Interview Comments (The Mary Sue, IBT; video autoplay alert)
- Former gay porn actor and escort Luka Magnotta was found guilty Tuesday of first-degree murder in the dismemberment of a Chinese student.
Ex-Porn Actor Luka Magnotta Guilty of Dismembering Chinese Student (NBC News; video autoplay alert)
- Nerve interviews MasterJ, who runs the Jonai Academy for Bad Girls, specializing in tantric therapy, specifically Japanese bondage, or Shibari.
The Real Work of a Bondage Therapist (Nerve)
- Jezebel and Washington Post report a fake study: Jezebel (Isha Aran) and Washington Post (Roberto A. Ferdman) have been taken in by that religious anti-porn study I warned you about this weekend (and was debunked by Reason). It’s not a study, it’s a “discussion paper” based on a religious survey that was put in headlines on conservative news sites. It’s amazing to see Jezebel and Washington Post get so obviously suckered. (Jezebel, Washington Post)
- First-time sponsor Trannies in Trouble has announced its support of the 7th Annual Transgender Erotica Awards. The 7th Annual Transgender Erotica Awards will be held on Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015 at the Avalon in Hollywood.
Trannies in Trouble to Sponsor Transgender Erotica Awards (XBIZ)
- China’s most prolific underwear thief terrorised his neighbours in a one-man crime wave that was anything but brief … it lasted more than a decade. The underwear bandit, named only as Tan, had hidden more than 2,000 pairs of pilfered pants and brassieres in the cavity above his bedroom in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region’s second-largest metropolis and was caught when the ceiling of his apartment collapsed under the weight of his stash. He had amassed the vast – and colourful – trove of lingerie by creeping into his neighbours’ homes and snatching their smalls when they were at work.
Underwear thief is caught after ceiling collapses under the weight of the 2,000 sets of lingerie he had hidden in China (Daily Mail)
- Australian artist Tully Arnot has constructed a simple little mechanized sculpture that spends its solitary days constantly liking every person that comes up in its Tinder feed. Titled Lonely Sculpture, the piece uses a rubber finger attached to a small motor. It’s all been perfectly timed to Tinder’s refresh rate for potential love.
Robot Finger Continuously Cruises Tinder As ‘Lonely Sculpture’ (Animal New York)
The print your own dildo kickstarter has been taken down. Why?