- Ted Cruz’s campaign has pulled its most recent ad, “Conservatives Anonymous,” after learning one of the actors in the spot is a former softcore porn performer. The ad, which was set at a group therapy session of conservative voters who feel betrayed by Marco Rubio on immigration, featured actor Amy Lindsay, who played a woman telling another group member, “Maybe you should vote for more than just a pretty face next time.”
Cruz Campaign Removes Ad Featuring Softcore Porn Star (BuzzFeed)
See also: GameLink Offers to Produce ‘Porn Stars for Cruz’ Commercials (XBIZ)
- Because MSNBC’s Mika Bzrezinski and her co-hosts aren’t actually qualified to hold jobs in public broadcasting because they’re too stupid to operate Google, they had a little bit of a hard time following the story of the porn actress who starred in the Ted Cruz ad Friday, when Bzrezinski had to ask her co-hosts to explain the difference between soft and hardcore porn.
Mika Brzezinski: ‘What’s the Difference’ Between Soft and Hardcore Porn? (Mediate)
- Each Valentine’s Day the Seattle Aquarium invites people to watch the sea creatures mate, but this year the chance to watch some 8-armed nooky has been called off. Aquarium staff say they’re afraid that their male octopus – a 70-pound cephalopod named Kong – is too big for the females who are 30 to 40 pounds, and he may eat them.
Seattle Aquarium cancels octopus sex act due to cannibalism concerns (KomoNews)
- “While condolences are appropriate at this time, we feel it’s also equally appropriate to remember just how staunchly Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia opposed gay rights throughout his tenure on the Supreme Court. … It is both ironic and fitting that one of Scalia’s most hateful and flippant remarks about homosexuality was given just months before he would pass away. (…)”
Remembering Antonin Scalia: His 7 Most Hateful and Homophobic Remarks (Towleroad)
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that the adult film industry is well suited for implementation of a combination of HIV prevention strategies that include the consistent use of condoms, performer testing and PrEP. The CDC made the recommendation in a study that looked at occupational HIV transmission among gay male adult film performers in 2014.
CDC Issues Report Recommending Condoms, Testing, PrEP (XBIZ)
- Dutch startup Leakserv is playing in the online identity management space, with a special focus on helping victims of revenge porn who want specific content taken offline. Co-founder Bart van Leeuwen says the service can be tasked with finding images, videos and keywords/personal information (such as home address for victims of doxxing), using a proprietary “self-learning” algorithm. It also makes use of Google’s reverse image search, as well as using its own search technology.
Dutch Startup Leakserv Takes Aim At Revenge Porn (TechCrunch)
- Sadly, this writer is really freaked out by sex, but the topic (OMGYes) is interesting nonetheless. It should really be an app, but, you know, Apple. “After 1,000 one-on-one interviews1 with women about their sexual preferences and styles of masturbation (among other things), the OMGYes team compiled a dozen or so demonstrable practices for having good or better or more orgasms. OMGYes uses infographics, videos, and statistics to do what even the best how-to books rarely do: give data on how to get off.”
The website OMGYes uses qualitative research and slick design to help women have better orgasms (Wired)
- So “the articles.” It turns out they are very good in this new issue, another reason this is not your elders’ Playboy, which, even though it published authors such as Alex Haley, Norman Mailer, Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, Ian Fleming, Shel Silverstein, and Kurt Vonnegut, didn’t always publish their best work. (“Playboy Special” is a magazine industry term for a B-minus article by an A-plus writer.)
Playboy’s First Nudity-Free Issue, Reviewed (Vanity Fair)
See also: What Some of the World’s Biggest ‘Playboy’ Collectors Think of Its Nudity-Free Rebrand (Vice)
- UK Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has been criticised by AIDS campaigners after she announced the government’s decision not to make sex and relationships education compulsory in schools.
AIDS campaigners slam UK government for not making sex ed compulsory (Mashable)
- MindBrowse.com and XBIZ will bring together key members of the adult entertainment industry for the panel, “Consent in Porn: Debunking Myths and Managing Realities.” The event will be broadcasted live from Los Angeles on MindBrowse.com, free of charge, beginning at 1 p.m. (PST) on Thursday, Feb. 25.
Consent in Porn: MindBrowse, XBIZ to Debunk Myths, Address Realities (XBIZ)
- Warning for survivors of sexual abuse, assault, and trauma. “The veiled woman is played by Nadia Ali, a 24-year-old porn star and first-generation American from Pakistan. She’s been in the adult industry for just a year, but doesn’t mind pushing religious boundaries in the name of XXX entertainment. Oh, and she’s also a practicing Muslim. Ali is often filmed wearing her hijab—and little else—while engaged in various hardcore sexual activities.”
Banned in Pakistan: A Muslim Porn Star’s Sexual Crusade (Daily Beast)
- Human Rights Watch on Friday urged Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo to protect gay and lesbian rights, a day after his government told instant messaging apps to remove stickers featuring same-sex couples in the latest high-profile attempt to discourage visible homosexuality in the socially conservative country.
Indonesia warns messaging apps to drop same-sex emoticons (Washington Post)
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— Ms Naughty (@msnaughty) February 12, 2016
- Brazzers has announced “The Future of F***ing” (sound alert), its tech-porn initiative with concept projects that include virtual reality simulation, hologram porn and nerve impulse implants. Brazzers is also launching BrazzersNow, a fully safe-for-work platform that will feature behind-the-scenes, user-generated and pop culture content related to the adult entertainment industry.
Brazzers Announces ‘Tech-Porn’ Venture, SFW Platform (XBIZ)
- File under hereditary scumbaggery. A new report from the New York Daily News details the sexual assault allegations made against Peyton Manning by an athletic trainer on the football staff during his time at Tennessee. The report cites court documents, which it also uses to support its claim that Manning’s family engaged in a smear campaign against the alleged victim, Dr. Jamie Naughright, breaking a confidentially agreement the parties had signed.
Report: Peyton Manning tried to discredit accuser (SI Wire)
- This article begins with, “There are few worse things I can imagine than your parents or spouse receiving periodic access to your web browsing history.” I completely disagree. I think it’s much worse to have a life partner who treats you like a child when it comes to sex. Anyway… “The ticket says that the account holder (the wife) uses Covenant Eyes to keep her husband from looking at porn or having “ungodly thoughts,” because his porn-viewing habits are ruining their marriage. The wife was warning the IT company that her husband kept calling in to get the system restored, which she didn’t authorize. But he kept managing to circumvent the app somehow, and getting his system infected with ransomware.”
Frustrated Spouses Keep Trying to Get Around This Porn-Blocking App (Motherboard/Vice)
- “The largest forum for consensual “cum tributes” is a subreddit called TributeMe, which has amassed more than 30,000 subscribers in its three-year existence. “Cum tributes” are by no means a Reddit phenomenon; prior to TributeMe’s birth, men would submit Polaroids of their centerfold come shots to magazines such as Juggs as a pre-digital tribute, and fetish communities like FetLife and NewbieNudes have been hosting them for years.”
Inside the Sexy, Subversive World of Cum Tributes (Fusion)
- PSA for a class taught by two whipsmart, creative, bold, and fantastic people: “Wanna be a badass sex blogger? There’s more to it than buying a domain name and throwing up a sexy photo. In these online lessons, expert sex bloggers Epiphora (Hey Epiphora) and JoEllen Notte (Redhead Bedhead) spill all the insider secrets they’ve amassed in their decade of combined experience sex blogging.”
Be a Sex Blogger – Online classes and lessons for aspiring badass sex bloggers (Be A Sex Blogger)
- Warning for survivors of sexual abuse, assault and trauma. “C.J. Mahaney was a Takoma Park pot smoker when he found God and opened a church. Over the next 40 years, he expanded it from a hippie congregation into an evangelical empire. … [In 2011] Parents were reporting that their children had been sexually abused by other church members. And they were sharing stories, saying they were mistreated by churches when they spoke up. Until that moment, Pam Palmer had no idea there were other families out there just like hers.”
The Sex Scandal That Devastated a Suburban Megachurch (Washingtonian)