- TIME Magazine’s next issue goes full anti-porn, leading with a centerpiece story by Peggy Orenstein revealing that TIME doesn’t fact-check its articles. Fact-free items in the article include “$97 billion global porn industry” (a number repeated for over 10 years w/no source) and “nearly 90% of 304 random scenes contained physical aggression toward women” (from a widely, publicly, established as debunked anti-porn paper, via Chyng Sun’s 2008 “The Price of Pleasure”). TIME’s centerpiece rests on the notion that all porn is the same (heterosexual, made by a single group of people, deliberately violent toward women). These are things everyone with an internet connection can verify are biased and bogus (check paragraph 6).
But this isn’t the first time TIME has published false anti-porn data. For women who value their sexual agency on all sides of the porn debate, TIME done the equivalent of publishing a hysterical anti-abortion rant and calling it the only truth about the abortion issue — with all the same ties to religious right organizations. It’s kind of unbelievable to see that TIME is actually this one-sided and far, far behind the times with the issues. The article is linked below if you want to see just how absurd and inflammatory — and arguably harmful to female sexual agency — the magazine’s next issue is.
How Porn Is Changing a Generation of Girls (TIME)
- A hacker has gained access to admin functions on the porn website Team Skeet and is advertising a database supposedly containing email addresses, plain text passwords, names, and physical and IP addresses for over 237,000 users of the site, as well as the broader porn network, Paper Street Media (PSM).
Hacker Breaches Porn Network, Advertises User Data on Dark Web (Motherboard)
- Or, why I don’t cite Tumblr for porn (because I have firm rules about crediting creators and performers). Adult director Jacky St. James, whose film The Sexual Liberation of Anna Lee is featured in a GIF story that garnered more than 35,000 notes, argues that the marketing and monetization of porn seen on Tumblr is nothing short of an ethical violation.
There’s a Problem With Tumblr Porn That We Don’t Talk About (Mic)
- Micha Stuntz has had so much medical grade silicone oil injected into his manhood that it now weighs 9.5lbs – the same amount as an average cat. He revealed that his super-sized schlong now measures 9 inches in length and 5.5 inches wide.
Man with 10lb penis reveals all about his ‘creative’ sex life (Daily Star)
Oh Joy PORN! @ErikaMoen & @Plustenstrength visited CrashPad's set and made a comic about it! https://t.co/dBRV7PLVdG pic.twitter.com/KquK1wr3T5
— Crash Pad Series (@CrashPadSeries) March 29, 2016
- According to data from Pornhub that tracked viewing patterns among female users, American women overwhelmingly favor lesbian porn. In fact, most of the western hemisphere — North, Central and South America — primarily searched for lesbian porn.
U.S. women prefer lesbian porn, according to Pornhub (Huffington Post)
- Women who perceive that their sexual partner is imposing perfectionist standards on them may suffer sexual dysfunction as a result, psychologists at the University of Kent have found. In the first in-depth study of how different types of sexual perfectionism affect women over a period of time, researchers also found that ‘partner-prescribed’ sexual perfectionism contributed to negative self-image.
When women feel their partner demands perfection, sex life suffers (Eureka Alert)
- A court case that would have tested the right of sex workers to offer services together in brothels to protect themselves has collapsed after a police officer refused to give evidence.
British sex workers’ rights case collapses after five years (Guardian)
