Sunday Sex Reads: Best of the Week

“A 55-year-old mother of three, Elise would invite men and women to her temple to heal them through sensual massage and therapeutic tantric sex sessions. She considers herself a priestess and healer; a jury in Arizona just convicted her of being a pimp. … Elise called on a Native American medicine man, a porn star, a guru, and a naked life coach during the trial. But the most bizarre testimony came from reality TV star, self-styled pimp, and brothel owner Denis Hof.”
* True Erotic Crime Story: A Notorious Sex Temple and Its Ruling Pimp Priestess (Broadly/Vice)

“Ley estimated that in his own research and beyond, as much as 90 to 95 percent of porn addicts are men. “That is a significant reflection of the gendered nature of this discussion,” he surmised, further explaining that male privilege plays a role in propagating the myth of porn addiction. … With advances in gender parity, Ley posited that men are now held more accountable for their sexual misbehavior, and can sometimes hide behind the defense that their misdeeds are the result of a disease.”
* Porn Isn’t the Real Enemy (Complex)

“It’s been about 200 years or so since we checked in on the state of phallic diversity, so boy oh boy were we pleased to find Manhunt’s handy dandy crotch candy guide in our inbox this morning.”
* The NSFW Penis Identification Guide (Unicorn Booty)

“Teenagers and young adults do have in the cyber domain — as in the physical world — items of extreme value to attackers: their bodies. They also may have pictures of their bodies. They have the ability and technical capability to take more such pictures. And critically, they have friends in their contacts list who have those things as well and who trust them. To a certain group of attackers, just as in the physical world to rapists, these are items worth courting criminal sanction to steal. It is, I think, a great mistake not to think of sextortion in cybersecurity terms.”
* Sextortion as Cybersecurity: Defining Cyber Risk Too Narrowly (Lawfare)

“This is the public treatment of some women by Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president: degrading, impersonal, performed. “That must be a pretty picture, you dropping to your knees,” he told a female contestant on “The Celebrity Apprentice.” Rosie O’Donnell, he said, had a “fat, ugly face.” A lawyer who needed to pump milk for a newborn? “Disgusting,” he said.”
* Crossing the Line: How Donald Trump Behaved With Women in Private (NYT)

“In reality, female white-tailed deer go into heat in the autumn rutting season. They emit a powerful scent that attracts males, who chase them and battle each other until every last doe is pregnant. Normally, the rut lasts a month or two. But with bucks shooting blanks, the does will go into heat repeatedly throughout the fall and winter. They would become “buck magnets,” according to a Cornell study.”
* Plan to give deer vasectomies will result in ‘sex-crazed beasts’ (NY Post)

“Having a second life online, which has been criticized as anti-social and isolating, actually leads to more sex in real life for some. Of the roughly 10,000 couples who have gotten hitched virtually on Red Light Center in the past decade, about 100 went on to meet and get married in real life, according to Shuster. ”
* How Virtual Hookups are Leading to Real Sex (Playboy)

“The festival, which starts every late February in New York before traveling the globe, will celebrate its twelfth year this February 24th through March 1st , 2015. CineKink celebrates positive depictions of all kinds of kink in film, from documentaries to shorts to feature films to porn. [Nerve] had a spot of tea with CineKink’s co-founder, director, and curator, Lisa Vandever, and talked about the ways the festival has evolved and shaped her life.”
* Meet the Woman Putting the Kink into Film Festivals (Nerve)

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