- “What I have learned from examining the site’s source code is that Ashley Madison’s army of fembots appears to have been a sophisticated, deliberate, and lucrative fraud. … It’s possible, as one person put it to me in email, that Ashley Madison was actually a pretty decent hookup site for gay people—but that was mostly because the system was designed to ignore them.”
Ashley Madison Code Shows More Women, and More Bots (Gizmodo)
- A rally and demonstration has been slated to take place outside the federal courthouse in downtown Brooklyn in an effort to denounce the prosecution of the CEO and staff of RentBoy.com. Last week, the offices of the longtime online escort advertising directory were raided in New York by the Department of Homeland Security.
Protest Slated Over RentBoy.com Prosecutions (XBIZ)
- “But let’s not dwell on Super Hornio Bros.: there are an awful lot of other depictions of Mario’s genitalia out there, the vast majority of which are drawings in which Mario acts as a surrogate for the viewer; the real focus of these cartoons is Princess Peach. Some of these drawings are part of grander graphic narratives, male fantasies that repurpose videogame characters from all eras and genres and species into a single “utopian” fuck session.”
Does Mario have a penis? (Killscreen Daily)
- The path to market for the first-ever women’s libido drug began in 2010 when Dr. Irwin Goldstein chased a pharmaceutical executive around a Miami medical conference. Goldstein’s profile rose in connection with the 1998 FDA approval of Viagra, Pfizer’s breakthrough erectile dysfunction drug. Goldstein was instrumental in the clinical trials.
Meet the controversial doctor behind the new “Viagra for women” (Mother Jones)
- Nerve turned 18, and its essay on sex then and now, through its own lens, is limited and depressing.
Literate Smut (Nerve)
- School is starting again, and with it the nonsensical protests by conservatives of the dirty parts of Ontario’s new health curriculum for elementary schools.
Sex-education protest organizers are just making things up now (Ottawa Citizen)
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- The Free Speech Coalition today petitioned California’s attorney general to conduct an audit of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation to determine if the organization’s nonprofit status should be revoked. The FSC said that over the past four years, the controversial Los Angeles-based healthcare organization appears to have willfully and repeatedly violated multiple laws and regulations related to political spending by a nonprofit.
FSC Calls on Calif. Attorney General to Probe AHF (XBIZ)
- One of the world’s most-viewed pornography Web sites is offering a new $25,000 college scholarship for a student who will be judged partially on a homemade video submission answering a single question: “How do you strive to make others happy?” Pornhub.com, which touts 78.9 billion online video views each year, recently began accepting submissions for the scholarship as part of the site’s expanded philanthropic efforts.
Porn site offers $25,000 college scholarship, asks students: “How do you strive to make others happy?” (Washington Post)
- “The prefix “pan” originates from Greek, meaning “all” or “every”. Pansexual people are attracted to all kinds of people, regardless of their gender, sex or presentation. There are several genders, and while some trans people do not fit into the traditional gender binary, some do. So for example, while a bisexual cis woman may be attracted to cis men and women, I am attracted to cis people, trans people, demigender people, and genderfluid people, to name a few.”
I’m pansexual – here are the five biggest misconceptions about my sexuality (Independent UK)
- A woman who posted sexually explicit images of her girlfriend to hurt and humiliate her after an argument has been given a suspended sentence. Paige Mitchell, 24, admitted uploading four intimate photos of the victim to her Facebook page. She is the first woman to be sentenced for an offence under revenge porn laws introduced in England and Wales in April.
Woman pleads guilty to posting revenge porn photos of girlfriend (Guardian UK)
- Genderqueerness refers to an identification with neither, both or a combination of male and female genders across a spectrum. Genderfluid, androgynous, non-binary and other terms are also used by those who fit this description in some way.
9 Things To Never Say To Someone Who Is Genderqueer (SheWired)
- This week, the debate about decriminalizing sex work continues on Shortwave, with Maxine Doogan, President of the Erotic Service Providers Network in San Francisco, and Taini Bien Aime, Executive Director of The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women.
Should sex work be legal? (PBS NewsHour)
- A large Kaiser Permanente study in San Francisco among people at high risk for HIV found none of them contracted it while using preexposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, a two-drug combination designed to prevent the disease’s spread.
Study finds pill prevents HIV infection in high risk population (UPI)
- Second Puberty: A Humorous, Informative Guide To HRT will be a sex-ed short about HRT in the form of one of those videos about puberty we all had to watch in school, only with jokes.
Kickstart this: new sex-ed video about ‘Second Puberty’ for trans people starting HRT (Unicorn Booty)
- Adult entertainment conglomerate MindGeek reacted today to MetArt’s copyright and trademark infringement suit waged last week, denying its allegations and calling it “frivolous.” “MindGeek is astonished that MetArt has chosen MindGeek, its long-time content partner, as the next target of its newly adopted business model of filing baseless claims,” MindGeek said in a statement today.
MindGeek Calls MetArt’s Suit ‘Frivolous,’ Warns of Counterclaims (XBIZ)
- Non-consensual behavior is a problem at kinky & BDSM events. Last year professional pervert and sexual health educator Maxine Holloway worked with the BDSM & kink, and sex worker community to initiate the ASK FIRST Campaign. “Let’s take the ASK FIRST Campaign to the NEXT LEVEL.”
Ask First: Support consent at this year’s Folsom Street Fair! (Indiegogo)
- LA Weekly says that if someone wants an adult performer in their Hollywood production, they should call this gatekeeper, but I’m not sure why. They write, “Howard Levine, 60, has become one of the go-to people to whom L.A.- and New York-based mainstream productions turn when they need to source male and female porn stars for racy roles and cameo appearances.”
Need a porn star for your TV show? Call Howard Levine (LA Weekly)
