- Android app Adult Player appeared to offer porn, but secretly took pictures of users with the phone’s front-facing camera. It then locked the user’s device and displayed a demand for $500 (£330) which was difficult to bypass.
Porn app took secret photos of users (BBC)
- “What are the ethics of watching porn [and why don’t we talk about it? … In part, that’s because a vocal contingent maintains that the most ethical consumption of porn is the consumption of no porn at all, while others believe it means no consumption of porn that hasn’t loudly been declared to be of the “feminist” variety. ”
How To Not Watch Porn Like A Dick (Refinery 29)
- “It goes smoothly. The chatter is easy, the spark is there. The plush richness of the pasta provides a kind of comfort. Afterward, I head to his suite and snort a stifled chuckle. A hotel room. The stuff of movie clichés. We fumble through the motions. Foreign body meets foreign body. Mouths here, hands there. … Then he hands me $940.”
Will Whore For Food (Lucky Peach)
- The [UK] National Sperm Bank has only signed up nine donors since it opened last year. Those in charge think that men have been put off by the change in law in 2005, which no longer grants donors anonymity. Now the bank is thinking of appealing to British men as “supermen” saviours of national fertility, because a similar approach worked in Denmark.
Steady on, chaps. We are not all after your sperm (Guardian UK)
- The recent Ashley Madison data dump is seeing some AM users receiving extortion messages demanding Bitcoin, with the threat of sharing the information with their friends, family and employers via Facebook. Security firm Cloudmark did a little sleuthing to see what they could find out about the blackmailer.
Extorting money from Ashley Madison customers is actually pretty easy (Ars Technica)
- Porn performer Danica Dillon said that Josh Duggar offered her $1,500 to have sex with him at her hotel room in Philadelphia. She allegedly accepted his offer of payment and they went to her hotel room. … Duggar treated her so rough that she said it felt like she was being raped. She said she was “terrified” during the whole ordeal.
Porn star Danica Dillon gives Anna Duggar advice on marriage with Josh Duggar (Examiner)
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- “Don’t take personal responsibility. Don’t engage in any self-investigation into your patterns, stories, false convictions. Don’t realize some of those things are, if you’re attuned and balanced, quite wonderful, and to be applauded. (…) Just blame addiction.”
“Sex addiction” does not exist. Sorry, Christian right (SF Gate)
- Pro: Bold new frontier of Yelp reviews. Con: One more group we’re forced to acknowledge as human beings.
The Pros And Cons Of Legalizing Prostitution (The Onion)
- “The refusal of white porn actresses to participate in scenes with black performers — or charging a premium to do so — is especially jarring given the fact that black actresses are still paid substantially less than white performers for the same work.”
James Deen Is Pissed Off About Racism in the Porn Industry (Broadly/Vice; See also: Racist Porn and the Recession)
- The dōjin circle Kuramochi Zukan has drawn mecha based on the Tenga line of male sex toys. Tenga Robo first appeared on the group’s Twitter account on Valentine’s Day and White Day (a gender-flipped version of Valentine’s Day on March 14), where it caused a sensation. Kuramochi Zukan followed this up at this season’s Comiket with a full color art book which includes many variations on the Tenga motif, including a robot modeled after the Tenga Egg.
Dōjin Circle Draws Mecha Modeled After Sex Toy (Anime News Network)
- Recently, ex-Chairperson of the Delhi Commission of Women Barkha Shukla joined the long line of people to criticise Sunny Leone. Indian politician Atul Anjan recently claimed Leone’s condom ad for Manforce promotes rape. They are in a long list of detractors of who include BJP MP Anurag Thakur, SrI Ram Sene Leader Pramod Muthalik and Congress’ Abhishek Manu Singhvi. “She might have done it inadvertently, but Sunny Leone has become a patriarchal society’s worst nightmare and that’s reason enough to celebrate.”
Why Sunny Leone threatens India’s patriarchal society (DNA India)
- Later this month, a North Carolina high school student will appear in a state court and face five child pornography-related charges for engaging in consensual sexting with his girlfriend. What’s strange is that of the five charges he faces, four of them are for taking and possessing nude photos of himself on his own phone—the final charge is for possessing one nude photo his girlfriend took for him.
2 North Carolina teens hit with child porn charges after consensual sexting (Ars Technica; See also: Kids Charged for Child Porn)
- Affective science, the study of emotion elicitation, emotional experience, and the recognition of emotions in others, is on the brink of changing this and it’s got some really sexy potential.
Affective Computing: How Empathetic Devices Could Change Your Sex Life (Future of Sex)
- French street artist Kashink has created murals with young people, challenging attitudes about the female body to support My Body My Rights. Here she takes Amnesty International back to where her art activism began.
Street art that defies the status quo on gender and sexuality (Amnesty International)
- The future of sex toys for men [will] feel like tiny pistons tapping against the frenulum, the fold of skin near the head of the penis. This “guybrator,” as it’s called, won’t stroke. It won’t suck. It oscillates: The wearer will slide it over his penis and a pulsing plate will tap against it, making it hard and ultimately bringing it to orgasm.
The Sex Toys of the Future Are Here — And They’re for Men (Mic)
- UK campaign groups have called on the government to grant anonymity to revenge porn victims amid concern publicity surrounding convictions only causes more people to search for explicit images. MPs have been urged to close a legal loophole and see revenge porn brought in line with sex offences, which ban victims from being identified.
Campaigners call for revenge porn victims to be given anonymity (Guardian UK)
- Angie Rowntree, the creator and operator of Sssh.com, was featured in a Cosmopolitan interview last week. The Rowntree piece was part of Cosmo’s “Sex Work,” a weekly series that profiles women who have careers in sex-related industries. Rowntree in the Cosmo article described how she pioneered “porn for women” in the late 1990s after she found a void in the sexually explicit marketplace
Cosmopolitan Interviews Angie Rowntree About Sssh.com (XBIZ)
- Warning for survivors of sexual assault and trauma: A rapist has been jailed after the kickboxer he tried to assault caught him in a headlock with her legs before raising the alarm. Mark Willis, 40, pounced on the 25-year-old woman, punching her in the face several times during the nighttime assault. She choked him out with her legs, then got the police.
Jail for sex attacker foiled by woman who turned out to be kickboxer (Guardian UK)
- Warning for survivors of sexual assault and trauma: An Iraqi woman gunned down the ISIS terror chief who forced her into sex slavery, it has been reported. The woman, believed to be be a member of the Yazidi-Kurdish minority, shot dead a senior Islamic State commander known as Abu Anas, according to Iraqi satellite TV network Alsumaria News.
Iraqi woman guns down ISIS commander as bloody revenge for making her a sex slave (Mirror UK)
