“… Another media outlet offered the even more lurid headline “Sex Slaves in Compton.” But press beyond the headline, and you’ll see that the “human traffickers” arrested were actually women selling sex themselves, along with men attempting to buy sex from an undercover police officer. Like most “human trafficking operations” these days, this was a vice sting dressed up in lofty and hysterical language.”
* Homeland Security, L.A. Police Team Up to Arrest Compton Sex Workers (Reason)
“The male strippers of “Magic Mike” and its sequel “Magic Mike XXL” are heading to Las Vegas in a new live show produced by Channing Tatum, who starred in both movies. Organizers announced on Wednesday that the new production — “Magic Mike Live Las Vegas” — is expected to begin preview performances at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino by March 2017.”
* ‘Magic Mike’ coming to Las Vegas in 2017, courtesy of Channing Tatum (LA Times)
“A Windsor [Canada] man is among the defendants in a $10-million lawsuit involving piracy of hardcore pornography. David Koonar — described as the registrant and administrator of the website Porn.com — is accused of repeatedly uploading, displaying, and profiting from porn scenes protected by copyright. The suit was filed April 28 in Arizona by adult entertainment company AMA Multimedia, owner of such online porn brands as PornPros, Passion-HD, FantasyHD, CastingCouch-X.com, and Tiny4K.com.”
* Windsor man named in multimillion-dollar porn piracy lawsuit (Windsor Star)
“The Illusion VR sex suit gives the wearer simulated sexual encounters with an anime character. While she is seen through a pair of VR goggles, her cartoon breasts move if their plastic counterparts, which are attached to the suit, are fondled by the wearer. The haptic suit also creates physical sensations of heat (body warmth) and contact with the anime character on different parts of the wearer’s body. Finally, the male sleeve moves over the wearer’s penis in sync with whatever sex act appears on screen, completing the simulated sexual experience.”
* Japanese VR Sex Suit Lets You Feel Realistic Sex with Anime Women (Future of Sex)
This is a powerful, game-changing story; keep in mind that the @nytimes has until now been staunchly prohibitionist. https://t.co/WFj7UcslbD
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 5, 2016
“Erotic sculpture park? Check. Bumper cars designed like genitalia? Check. Snack bar serving aphrodisiac recipes? Check. Sex on the premises? Uh, better not. Entrepreneurs in Brazil are seeking to build an adults-only theme park called ErotikaLand near the city of Piracicaba, about two hours’ drive from São Paulo, and they hope to open its doors by 2018.”
* Brazil Ponders an Erotic Theme Park, With No Sex Allowed (NYT)
“Labour’s relationship with sex workers gets more fraught by the day. Last week, the Scottish Labour party announced their support for criminalising the purchase of sex. ”
* Labour’s authoritarian wing is cracking down on sex workers (Politics UK)
“Various cloud storage services in China, including those operated by Huawei and Alibaba, are closing down — at least partially — as the government widens its crackdown on online content it considers inappropriate. Telecommunications giant Huawei … will close its DBank service, deleting all stored data, on July 1 to cooperate with “relevant authorities to clean up pornography and piracy that are spreading on the cloud services,””
* China’s Porn Crackdown: Domestic Cloud Services The Latest Victim (IB Times)
“As you might imagine, the origin story for our beloved warrior turtles changes drastically for the porn parody, Ten Inch Mutant Ninja Turtles. This revised history involves radioactive sperm getting into the sewers. How? We’re afraid to ask.”
* The NSFW Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Porn Trailer Needs To Be Watched (CinemaBlend)
“Federal bureaucrats are raising concerns about distracted driving in semi-autonomous cars that don’t require much input from the driver. And at least one expert is anticipating that, as the so-called ‘smart’ cars get smarter, there will eventually be an increase in an unusual form of distracted driving: hanky-panky behind the wheel. “I am predicting that, once computers are doing the driving, there will be a lot more sex in cars,” said Barrie Kirk of the Canadian Automated Vehicles Centre of Excellence.”
* Driverless cars would mean ‘a lot more sex’ behind the wheel (Toronto Sun)
“Canada-based Pakistani writer Zahra Haider wrote an article for VICE titled What I Learned Having Sex As A Young Woman In Pakistan hasn’t gone down well with many on social media, and the author is now facing voluminous backlash for it.”
* Pakistani writer faces social media backlash for article on country’s ‘sex culture’ (Indian Express)
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— micsha (@micsha_maha) May 6, 2016
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