“In our hand-job life together, Tory and I met our clients for in-call sensual massage appointments in her cool, gray studio apartment we called “The Lab.” In the anxious moments before our client arrived, we arranged the lighting. Twinkling white Christmas lights were strung along the ceiling beams in wily twists and a paper lantern sat on the floor glowing soft and rosy. …”
* Britney Spears and the Mysteries of the Super Orgasm (Prime Mind)
“After running Web Personals for about a year, he “didn’t know any better” and sold it to Telepersonals for $100,000. Soon after he got out of the non-compete, he started another dating website, FriendFinder.com, in 1996.”
* The Creator of the First Online Dating Site Is Still Dating Online (Motherboard/Vice)
“Jones says that over the past six years she has written more than 2,000 profiles for women using sugar baby dating sites like SeekingArrangement.com, and that she gets new clients every day. For $97 she customizes one of three profile templates that she’s developed—for sugars seeking an “allowance,” a “mentor,” or an “upgraded lifestyle.””
* Looking For The Perfect Sugar Daddy? Hire A Ghostwriter (Voactiv)
“The first time you heard the word “Oneida,” it was probably in the context of silverware. … commune members engaged in a system of “complex marriage,” believing that loving, open sexual relationships could bring them closer to God. They believed the liquid electricity of Jesus Christ’s spirit flowed through words and touch, and that a chain of sexual intercourse would create a spiritual battery so charged with God’s energy that the community would transcend into immortality, creating heaven on earth.”
* The Polyamorous Christian Socialist Utopia That Made Silverware for Proper Americans (Collectors Weekly)
“The last thing he said to her: “I will destroy you.” He certainly tried. First, he put a CD of nude images up for auction on eBay. Then, he began posting the nudes to the Facebook page of the college where she teaches. Finally, he began using the images to pose as her online, inviting men to come have sex with her. His actions weren’t illegal in Maryland at the time—they were criminalized in 2014 largely thanks to Chiarini’s advocacy—and she never got justice.”
* Dear Revenge Porn Victims, It Gets Better (Daily Beast)
@TheRippedBodice @AlisonTyler @violetblue @sommer_marsden Never ever lose your place. https://t.co/ocxnCr093U
— Trenchcoatpress (@adpederman) June 12, 2016
“With the release of their new and supposedly revolutionary condom LELO HEX, the company has once again proven that if you’re a rich dude, people will overlook the fact that you’re an abuser in order to work with you. Who’s the face of their new LELO HEX condoms? None other than Charlie Sheen.”
* LELO HEX: You’re not #Winning Us Over (Marvelous Darling)
“When LELO, the luxury sex toy manufacturer, invited me to a briefing to see its big breakthrough in condom technology, I jumped at the chance. Weeks later I found myself sitting across the table from the company’s founder, Filip Sedic, my hands covered in lube, attempting to tear apart perhaps the most ambitious prophylactic of our time.”
* Test-driving LELO’s ‘condom of the future’ (Engadget)
“The Clit List is a new, online database of feminist porn aimed at helping women reclaim their bodies after sexual assault. … One woman, who wants to remain anonymous, tells me: “After I was raped it felt like my sexual independence had been stolen from me and I didn’t know what I liked any more. I couldn’t get turned on by myself but needed a partner to be turned on visually, so I looked for porn.”
* The Clit List is a New Porn Resource for Victims of Sexual Assault (Vice UK)
“[Erika Lust‘s] work is ethical, ensuring everyone involved is paid fairly, and each production is tasked with creating a good working environment. Shot from a female perspective, the emphasis is on developing an engaging storyline for the viewer to enjoy as well as presenting scenes that depict female pleasure.”
* This woman wants to change everything about porn – in the best way (Independent UK)
“A 2014 study conducted by Purdue University economics professor Jillian B. Carr of people on the North Carolina sex offender registry found that being on the registry had no effect on recidivism. That’s consistent with a 2007 report by Human Rights Watch, which looked at various studies and concluded that sex offender registries did little to prevent sexual violence.”
* Why sex offender registries don’t work (Quartz)
“While it’s totally OK to enjoy watching porn — and even alright to borrow some of its moves — there are a lot of naughty-film elements that ought to stay in the exaggerated, unrealistic world of the XXX screen. Seriously — please just never do any of these.”
* 33 Things That Happen in Porn That Are Pretty Bad Ideas in Real Life (Thrillist)
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