Sex News: Bill Cosby developments, India’s panic button, Deadpool causes lewdness panic

• “US District Judge John Ross ruled that [Ashley Madison] plaintiffs have to use their real names: no “John Doe” may sign on. Forty-two plaintiffs had filed under pseudonyms such as that “to reduce the risk of potentially catastrophic personal and professional consequences that could befall them and their families” should they be publicly identified as someone whose sensitive personal information, the ruling noted.”
  * You have to use your real name to sue Ashley Madison over breach (Sophos/Naked Security)

• Forgetting that no one knows what a “tape” is anymore, d00d site Mandatory spoke with Kevin Blatt, “the world’s only celebrity sex tape broker, according to his Twitter bio. Since Blatt has worked on several celebrity sex tapes firsthand (his first being the infamous “1 Night In Paris” video), he knows of the “splits” and web dollars that went into the bigger, more renowned celebrity sex tapes.”
  * How Much Money Did These Celebrity Sex Tapes Make? (Mandatory.com)

• Actor Ryan Reynolds is backing a Salt Lake City movie theater in hot water with Utah liquor authorities for serving drinks during a screening of his movie “Deadpool.” He also donated $5,000 to a fundraising website set up to help the theater called Brewvies pay its legal bills. Brewvies is facing a possible fine of up to $25,000 and could lose its liquor license. Undercover investigators cited the theater under a law that’s generally used at strip clubs but also bans serving alcohol during films with simulated sex or full-frontal nudity.
  * Actor Ryan Reynolds is backing a Salt Lake City movie theater in hot water with Utah liquor authorities for serving drinks during a screening of his movie “Deadpool.” (Us News)

• The lawyer for a woman accusing comedian Bill Cosby of sexually abusing her as a child said that a Los Angeles County judge on Tuesday refused to dismiss the case after Cosby’s lawyers had argued to have it thrown out.
  * LA judge refuses to dismiss child sexual abuse case against Bill Cosby (Reuters)
  * See also: NY judge rejects Cosby’s request to get journalists’ notes (Boston Herald)

• Popular porn destination YouPorn has an eSports team, Team YP. Despite the fact that the team does not directly mention or otherwise peddle lewd imagery (…) ESL decided they go too far. Team YP even offered to change their name, but ESL isn’t budging. “Advertising pornography is not legal in the markets we operate in,” ESL explained.
  * ESL Bans YouPorn’s eSports Team Because Porn (Kotaku)

• Note: This reads like PR, omits significance of work by directors such as director Axel Braun. “Porn parodies have existed about as long as porn has … The A.V. Club tracked down Lee Roy Myers, one of the creators of Wood Rocket and multiple AVN Award nominee, to talk about the process from heady conception to messy completion.”
  * From Bob’s Boners to Fap To The Future: How does a porn parody get made? (AV Club)

• Seriously, WTF with SFist using the word “prostitute?” Anyway… “High-end call girl Alix Tichelman, 27, took a plea deal this week in the case of the heroin-induced death of Google X executive Forrest Timothy Hayes, who died aboard his yacht in a harbor in Santa Cruz in November 2013. As KPIX/CBS 5 reports, she pled guilty to two felony charges of involuntary manslaughter and administering drugs in Santa Cruz County Superior Court, and was sentenced Tuesday to six years in prison, with credit for timed served.”
  * Prostitute Pleads Guilty In Google Exec’s Death, Sentenced To Six Years (SFist)

• Mobile phones sold in India will be required to have a “panic button” after Jan. 1, part of the government’s efforts to address women’s safety in a country where incidents of reported rape continue to rise. “It’s a game changer,” said Maneka Gandhi, the minister of women and child development, told reporters Tuesday.
  * India orders ‘panic button’ for mobile phones in bid to protect women (Washington Post)

• “A Snapchat user who tried to exploit a woman through her leaked iCloud images stupidly sent her unsolicited naked pictures of himself and was taught a very valuable lesson. Florida blogger Kitty Pryde had intimate photos of herself leaked via iCloud and took to Twitter to get her revenge.”
  * Woman whose naked photos were leaked teaches man a lesson after he tried to exploit her (Yahoo News AU)

Main post image via Miss Atomic Bomb and the Nuclear Glitz of 1950s Las Vegas (Popular Mechanics)