- It was a Thursday afternoon, and we were all attending the XBIZ 360 sex industry conference. Onstage was the Shockspot, once dubbed the “Rolls Royce of fuck machines” — a mechanized contraption of hard lines and metallic finish with a dildo affixed to its arm.
The Sex Toys of the Digital Age Still Have a Long Way to Go (VICE UK)
- Not new news, just different because it’s now: Pentesting IoT sex toys. To security researcher Ken Munro, who heads up security firm Pen Test Partners, the newest generation of teledildonics has provided an opportunity to flex his pentesting prowess.
Cracking Dildos And Dollies: Hackers Expose Vulnerabilities In Connected Toys (Forbes)
- More #OpDeatheaters madness: A top British diplomat was the focus of a secret government file about his “unnatural” sexual behaviour. He was named as an abuser of children by the MP Geoffrey Dickens in the 1980s and also had links to the controversial Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE). The files reveal for the first time that Mrs Thatcher was in regular correspondence over what she describes in one handwritten letter as the “Hayman matter”.
Secret ‘Unnatural Sex’ File Names Top Diplomat (Sky News)
- If you’re in the mood for something educational and risque, you can dig into a spate of women-run, sex-positive podcasts that are racy enough to make your ears blush.
5 Sex-Positive Podcasts You Should Check Out In 2015 (Bustle)
- After making his debut with horror-comedy hybrid Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer director Jon Knautz heads into much darker territory with his third feature, a tale of an erotic dancer turning on her lover when she suspects he’s having an affair, the erotic thriller Goddess Of Love.
Goddess of Love Trailer (TwitchFilm)
- It’s a pretty widely held belief that people who commit sex crimes were most likely sexually abused as kids. But as Cathy Spatz Widom and Christina Massey, both of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, point out in a new paper recently published in JAMA Pediatrics, there’s less hard evidence behind this proposition than you might think.
A Common Belief About Sex Offenders May Be Wrong (NY Mag)
- “No one ever thinks men become porn stars because they aren’t smart enough to do anything else.”
Naughty Nerds: College Grads Do Porn (Daily Beast)
- Numbers throughout the murky world of human trafficking are notoriously hard to verify. How many traffickers? Uncountable! How many victims? So many! How old are they? Too young! Truthout looked at 50 of the most prominent domestic groups founded or organized to limit or eradicate human trafficking, or to assist trafficking victims: Many of the most frequently cited statements are easily disputed, if factual at all. There’s also no real evidence that human trafficking is growing.
Special Report: Money and Lies in Anti-Human Trafficking NGOs (TruthOut)
