- On Twitter, Door Knob Girl (Tumblr) brings Anorak UK something they’d never thought of: a primarily Japanese fetish for pretty young girls sensuously licking doorknobs. (It’s not a new fetish.)
Japan: women licking doorknobs is a fetish (Anorak)
- Customers of one of the U.K.’s largest ISPs, Sky, will find themselves automatically blocked from online porn. The new adult content filter will be installed over the next few days to all its 5.3 million customers, as a part of Prime Minister David Cameron’s initiative.
Sky Is Blocking Adult Websites by Default in the U.K. (XBIZ)
- Today’s big porn stars aren’t just performers. They’re also directors, sex educators and lecturers. They oversee huge social media empires on Twitter, Instagram and their own websites. And they license their names to adult novelty companies in return for a portion of the sales of their branded sex toys.
Porn stars’ best business advice: Diversify (CBNC)
Have you heard? Tantus and @MetisBlack are hosting the Blogger Lounge at @WoodhullSFA 2015. See you in August!
— Tantus, Inc. (@tantus) January 21, 2015
- JoEllen Notte writes, “In addition to the stories about the lovely lady behind Orgasm Quest, other folks have been inspired to come forward and speak about sex and depression as well (seriously, how awesome is this!). In light of the fact that this subject matter can be sensitive and so many new folks are coming at [writing about] it (…) it’s a whole other animal from what many of us are used to.”
5 Tips For Writing About Sex & Depression (Redhead Bedhead)
- The corset has a bad reputation. And unfairly so, according to Valerie Steele, director and chief curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, who says this undergarment of centuries past is not nearly as evil or confining as modern folks have come to believe.
Everything You Know About Corsets Is False (Collector’s Weekly)
- Gizmodod scoured Google’s patent database to find the most absurd — and often wildly dangerous — sex-based patent designs filed by some of history’s most misguided engineers.
10 Bizarre and Horrifying Sex Patents (Gizmodo)
Shannon Williams, the fearsome activist, mother, & friend that made @swopusa a reality has passed away. May her spirit keep us restless.
— Alana Massey (@AlanaMassey) January 20, 2015
- ELLE just discovered indie female camgirls. “On any given morning, 6,000 people from around the turn on their computers to watch Vex Ashley, a 25-year-old cam girl and an independent pornographer from Leeds, take her clothes off.”
The 25-Year-Old Cam Girl Changing Porn (ELLE)
- Jiz Lee writes, “There’s a lot of talk about whether or not porn is ethical, but there’s not much discussion about the fact that most people are watching porn illegally. Forget “ethical porn” – let’s talk ethical porn consumption.”
“Ethical Porn” Starts When We Pay for It (Medium)
- This is the The Weekned’s new music video for “Earned It” — one of the tracks on The Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack — and it’s already sexier than the film will ever be.
Dakota Johnson Dangles from the Ceiling in Full Bondage in The Weeknd’s New NSFW Music Video (ELLE)
- No one is surprised here.
Director omits tampon scene from Fifty Shades movie (Hollywood.com)
- It’s like finger painting, except with his man parts and the occasional butt cheek.
The Man Who Paints With His Penis (Digg)
- Chaturbate is a live webcam site that launched in 2011. It distinguishes itself from the many other live webcam sites by its democratic approach. It is free to watch – really free, as in no logging in or setting up passwords — and open to everyone of legal age.
Are You “Internet Sexual”? (Medium)
- Instead of implementing such proven policies, Bill C-36 has — as Justice Minister Peter MacKay, who sponsored the legislation, told the Senate Committee in September — effectively made prostitution “illegal for the first time in Canada.”
Canada’s Flawed Sex Trade Law (NYT)
- Orgasms in art: Alongside various other book-centric works at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Clayton Cubitt’s “Hysterical Literature” series will be on view as part of a new exhibition called Bibliotecaphilia.
Artist Clayton Cubitt’s “Hysterical Literature” Series to Make Its First Museum Appearance (PAPER)