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  • Warning for survivors of sexual assault, abuse, and trauma. Adult performer Stoya signed into her Twitter account on Saturday and, in two succinct Tweets, leveled rape accusations at her former boyfriend and one-time porn co-star, James Deen. The reaction was swift: since Saturday afternoon, the tweets went viral, engendering two supportive hashtags (#SolidaritywithStoya and #standwithStoya); porn outlets Kink.com and Evil Angel dropped Deen from their rosters; The Frisky ended Deen’s sex column. Although Deen has denied any wrongdoing, eight other women have come out in the wake of Stoya’s tweet, including Ashley Fires and Joanna Angel. Deen co-founded the Adult Performer’s Advocacy Committee (APAC), an organization that helps ensure workplace safety in porn, with Preston. She is now serving as chairman following his resignation—as her boyfriend stands accused of serial rape. Lily Cade writes, “I have seen a lot of responses to the allegations against James saying things like “why would they come forward now, years later?” They did come forward. They told their friends. They told people on the inside. They put James on their no lists. They just didn’t tell you.”
    * It shouldn’t take a rape accusation to prove that sex workers can be raped (Guardian UK)
    * Report: Stoya Breaks Silence on James Deen Allegation (XBIZ)
    * James Deen’s Current Girlfriend Chanel Preston, Head of Porn’s Advocacy Committee, Speaks (Daily Beast)
    * Predators and Profit: James Deen (Lily Cade)

  • For nearly a decade, PayPal, JPMorgan Chase, Visa/MasterCard, and now Square, have systematically denied or closed accounts of small businesses, artists and independent contractors whose business happens to be about sex. What’s happening to female entrepreneurs in the sex business can no longer be written off as isolated incidents. Weblining’s targeted populations are porn performers, sex workers, independent retailers, erotic writers and the internet’s new generation of online pornographers: business sectors comprised of a disproportionately large number of women and LGBT people.
    PayPal, Square and big banking’s war on the sex industry (Engadget)
  • The International Human Rights Film Festival in Austria will screen Shine Louise Houston’s film retrospective on December 4th, 2015. The program “Every Time We Fuck, We Win” presents representations of sexuality in cinema that are created with self-determination and portray queer sexuality with honesty and respect.
    International Human Rights Film Festival screens Shine Louise Houston Retrospective (PinkLabel TV)

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  • For the past week, the Los Angeles City Council has been in the national spotlight thanks to a controversial plan to scare people away from its de facto red light district. Among the ideas to eradicate the ladies of the night are adding more street lights, trimming back the shrubbery and recording the license plates of cars that linger there in order to send letters to the drivers’ homes saying they were spotted in an area with sex workers and warning them about STDs.
    Drive through this LA neighborhood slowly and you could get a letter implying you solicited sex workers (Fusion)
  • Nothing can deter Tim Tebow from his very public vow of chastity — not even a former Miss Universe. Tebow has been ditched by his girlfriend of late, the perilously alluring Olivia Culpo. Sources say that he stuck to his [abstinence] guns and refused advances made by Culpo
    Former Miss Universe Dumps Tim Tebow For Not Having Sex With Her (Maxim)

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  • New research with a hydrogel and an antioxidant aims to make condoms both better and something people will actually want to use. Unlike most male condoms, it is not made of latex, but instead from a new material — a strong, elastic polymer called hydrogel, which is a gel made primarily of water that has a number of applications already, including contact lenses and other medical uses.
    A Condom That Fights HIV (Digg)
  • Warning for animal abuse content. There are an estimated 110,000 horses living on 18,000 Swiss farms. At least one of the beasts are being sexually assaulted every three days, as animal rights workers tell of fears there are as many as 10,000 people in the country with a sexual interest in them.
    Disturbing horse sex trend on the rise (News AU)
  • Warning for Hunter Moore content. Hunter Moore, the founder of revenge porn website IsAnyoneUp, has been sentenced to two and a half years in jail. In addition, the 29-year-old will have his mental health evaluated while behind bars and will have three years of supervision upon his release.
    The ‘godfather of revenge porn’ gets 2.5 years in prison (Engadget)

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  • Researchers have spotted dozens of malvertising attacks targeting hundreds of moderately popular adult sites in a recent campaign. The attacks targeted sites including drtuber.com, nuvid.com, eroprofile.com, iceporn.com and xbabe.com, each of which receive millions of visits per month, and are being distributed through the adult ad network AdXpansion, according to a Dec. 2 Malwarebytes blog post.
    Hundreds of porn sites affected in malvertising campaign (SC Magazine)
  • Florida resident George Zimmerman, who was acquitted for the shooting death of unarmed black teen Trayvon Martin, is no longer welcome on Twitter. The micro-blogging platform temporarily suspended Zimmerman’s account Thursday after doxxing and posting intimate photographs of a woman he claimed to be his former girlfriend.
    George Zimmerman Gets The Boot From Twitter After He Posted Revenge Porn (Think Progress)
  • In the 1990’s, performance artist Karen Finley gained a good deal of notoriety for being one of the NEA Four. That was a group of artists given a grant by the National Endowment of the Arts, only to have the grants rescinded by an act of congress, which viewed the artwork by her and the others as obscene.
    Artist Karen Finley reflects on Supreme Court obscenity case (WKAR)

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  • I will never stop laughing at Prenda Law. A federal bankruptcy court judge yesterday ordered the liquidation of former Prenda Law attorney Paul Hansmeier’s assets, ruling that he had sought bankruptcy protection with one purpose — “to thwart the collection efforts of his creditors.”
    Judge Orders Liquidation of Prenda Attorney’s Assets (XBIZ)
  • A recent BMJ editorial (3rd November) calls for ‘chemsex’ (the term used by the gay community to designate sex under the influence of drugs taken to heighten pleasure) to be made a ‘public health priority’. So how much do we actually know about the risks posed by ‘chemsex’?
    So how much do we actually know about the risks posed by ‘chemsex’? (BMJ/British Medical Journal)

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