- This sucks! I love this photographer, and his milky pinups are so cute! Coca-Cola’s ad for its new UK milk product has been branded sexist by consumers who say it sexualises women.
Coca-Cola advert for new milk product branded ‘sexist’ by consumers (Mirror UK)
- A petition asking the porn industry to drop use of the term “shemale” in its marketing of trans women reached 650 supporters on Thanksgiving weekend. Started by performer Chelsea Poe, the action was taken to demonstrate to mainstream companies employing trans women that there was support to discard the use of terms considered derogatory by other media industries.
Petition Calls for Porn to Drop ‘Shemale’ Characterization (XBIZ)
- We saw it coming a year ago and tried to raise the alarm. UK’s online sex censorship crusade is in full swing. The UK government has quietly changed legislation to create a list of sex acts been banned from online porn videos filmed in the UK in a bid to crack down on “harmful” content. The list includes spanking, caning, ‘aggressive’ whipping, physical or verbal ‘abuse’, fisting, female ejaculation, facesitting, choking. Change.org Petition: Remove Regulations for Video On Demand Pornography (AMSR 2014). BBC: Online porn restrictions will lead to UK exodus. Daily Beast: Why Has Female Ejaculation Been Banned in British Porn? Independent UK: The new UK porn legislation will turn erotic film into boring, unrealistic male fantasy.
A long list of sex acts just got banned in UK porn (Independent UK)
- The UK security services are facing questions over the cover-up of a Westminster paedophile ring as it emerged that files relating to official requests for media blackouts in the early 1980s were destroyed.
Media ‘gagged over bid to report MP child sex cases’ (Guardian UK)
Aggressive whipping is out. What about passive aggressive whipping? #ThingsNowBannedInUKPorn
— Ryan James (@ryanjamessydney) December 2, 2014
Shame that all that Westminster paedo ring evidence went missing, but it's good that they've banned women from sitting on Ben Dover's face.
— Limmy (@DaftLimmy) December 2, 2014
- In 1981, Time reported that 4,000 floppy-disk copies of “computer fantasy game” Softporn had been sold, making each and every purchaser the proud owner of America’s first commercially-released pornographic computer game.
The Odd History of the First Erotic Computer Game (The Atlantic)
- On Monday, a Los Angeles man named Noe Iniguez became the first person ever to receive a jail sentence for violating California’s new revenge porn law. Iniguez got one year in jail and 36 months probation for three criminal counts, one of which was revenge porn-related. Iniguez’s case was particularly awful.
Finally, Someone Is Going to Jail for Revenge Porn (Gizmodo; warning for sexual trauma survivors)
- A former sales consultant is suing real estate platform Zillow for sexual harassment. The ugly details are on Valleywag: Zillow Accused of Subjecting Female Employees to “Sexual Torture”
Zillow faces sexual harassment allegations (CNN Money; ; warning for sexual trauma survivors)
- YouPorn’s long and much-publicized quest to enter esports is finally over. The porn streaming site has signed a six-month deal with Spanish club Play2Win, who will now compete under the moniker “Team YP.”
YouPorn finally gets its esports team (Daily Dot)
- Dating website OKCupid has started testing a broader list of gender and orientations. For orientation, the list now includes: Straight, Gay, Bisexual, Asexual, Demisexual, Heteroflexible, Homoflexible, Lesbian, Pansexual, Queer, Questioning or Sapiosexual. The list of genders now includes: Woman, Man, Agender, Androgynous, Bigender, Cis Man, Cis Woman, Genderfluid, Genderqueer, Gender Nononforming, Hijra, Intersex, Non-binary, Other, Pangender, Transfeminine, Transgender, Transmasculine, Transsexual, Trans Man, Trans Woman, or Two Spirit.
OKCupid begins rolling out new sexuality and gender options (PinkNews)
- Daily Beast checks out a porn parody factory. Rule 34 is a popular Internet meme that asserts: “If it exists, there is porn of it. No exceptions.” A visit to WoodRocket.com is enough to convince anyone of the truth in that.
Inside the Greatest Porn Parody Factory: From ‘Game of Bones’ to ‘The Humper Games’ (Daily Beast)
- The Autoblow dude is making a lady toy: Called Slaphappy: a “flat, flexible vibrator” that “bends to take care of you on the outside, and bends to take care of you on the inside,” according to creator Brian Sloan, the maker of the legendary electronic blowjob machine Autoblow 2.
Blow Job Machine Creator Crowdfunding a Bendable Vibrator for Women (Betabeat)
- Warning for sexual trauma survivors. The notion of psychiatric personnel forcing people to sit in a chair, strap on VR goggles, and look at realistic depictions of underage boys sounds like A Clockwork Orange — though it’s actively being explored.
Can Virtual Reality Treat Pedophiles? (NY Mag)
- “Escorts and providers of erotic services, unfortunately, face enormous criticism and discrimination over their choice of work. One of the worst kinds of judgment is the assumption that escorts are either coerced into doing their work, or that they’re too stupid to realize how bad it is for them. That’s the basis for the so-called ‘rescue’ operations that activists do.”
The Sexism Behind the Anti-Escort Movement (Sexual Intelligence)
- I WANT THIS. Hurt Me Plenty is a Leap Motion game about spanking very naughty men. It aims to do one thing games are notoriously terrible at: be sexy. The game works with the Leap Motion controller, track pad and mouse, which in this case detects a spanking motion and transfers it into the game accordingly.
A Game About Spanking. Consensual Spanking (Kotaku)
- When a man drives by the strip at Lumley Beach in downtown Freetown at night, he’ll probably hear a sharp hiss. It’s the sound prostitutes make, and they’ve perfected the hiss. That’s why they’re called serpents.
Hissing And Sighing: The Lament Of Sex Workers In Sierra Leone (NPR)
- Indians are among the most prolific consumers of internet pornography in the world, and increasing numbers of men — and women — are streaming it on their mobile phones. Pornhub has given Quartz access to their data, and Quartz kindly notes the data doesn’t include the 10 other websites, such as YouPorn and RedTube, that make up the entire Pornhub network.
Everything you wanted to know about how India watches porn in one map and five charts (Quartz)
Best Birth Announcement ever. Today's CM. What a wonderful family. pic.twitter.com/Zz4NkssKHD
— Lisa Dart (@frostyagnes) December 2, 2014
- The births section of Tuesday’s Courier-Mail (Australia) featured a light-hearted retraction from Yolanda Bogert, who wanted to announce the birth of her 19-year-old son. It wasn’t the first announcement, but rather, a retraction to the birth announcement they originally made.
Transgender man’s parents take out newspaper ad to support him (Daily Dot)
- Sweden’s “government-funded innovation agency” Vinnova are, along with the country’s video game association, developing a ratings system to track ‘sexist’ content in games.
The Insane Swedish Plan to Rate Games for Sexism (Daily Beast)
- Sex toy ecommerce, like every other kind of ecommerce in China, is growing. Chinese tech site iHeiMa is reporting today that Xingjiabi – which has now rebranded itself Taqu (Touch) – recently closed a series A round of RMB 50 million (about US$8.1 million).
Sex toy ecommerce app in China raises $8 million series A funding (Tech In Asia)
- It’s like being arrested for using Thingiverse and a Makerbot: A Japanese woman who made a kayak modeled on her own ladybits has been arrested again. Artist Rokude Nashiko was arrested in July for crowdfunding the construction of a vulva-kayak, using a 3D printer. Igarashi was re-arrested Wednesday on suspicion of sending a link “that shows her plan to create a boat using three-dimensional obscene data to a large number of people,” a Tokyo police spokeswoman told AFP.
Japanese vagina kayak artist arrested again for obscenity (Guardian UK, thanks John!)
oglaf.com has a great comic this week about the banned UK sex acts in porn.
Although to be fair, all this has done is applied the same rules to UK made online porn as have applied for many years to R18 rated sex shop DVDs/videos. Everyone is getting annoyed about the recent change, but it would be much better to question why these limits ever applied to sex shop porn in the first place. The fact that the laws are now consistent is actually a good thing, it’s what they ban which is wrong.