- “Republicans are taking a cue from Utah in drafting their official party platform. An amendment to the platform, which will come up for a vote Monday or Tuesday, cracks down on the porn industry. It was proposed by Mary Forrester, a delegate from North Carolina who told Yahoo! News that she worked on it with Concerned Women for America, a conservative Christian group. It’s designed, she said, to protect children from becoming porn addicts. ”
* Republicans Call Porn a ‘Public Health Crisis’ That’s ‘Destroying Lives’ (NY Mag)
* See also: GOP Declares War on Modern Sexuality (Psychology Today)
- “[In prison] If you have a [girlie] magazine in its entirety, it can be hawked to other inmates for upwards of $200, depending on what condition it’s in. The owners then make copies and resell them in black-and-white for $20 a pop. Copies (e.g. copies of copies) of spreads or certain pin-ups are then sold for a stamp a page, and prisoners often trade when they get bored of “their girls.””
* How Prison Inmates Get Porn (VICE Canada)
- “Before you ask, yes, Cucumber and Banana are called that because: dicks. More specifically, the sibling British series are called that because of a scale of how hard dicks can get, determined by scientists in Switzerland and laid out by Cucumber’s protagonist, a middle-aged gay man we meet in that terrifying moment of limbo before his life roller-coaster-drops into midlife crisis.”
* ‘Cucumber’ and ‘Banana’ Take Sex Seriously (The Ringer)
I don't think it gets more gay than a Machoke posing in front of a gay bar on a rainbow crosswalk. #PokemonGO pic.twitter.com/BFpMqujobA
— Raytings (@raylancione) July 11, 2016
- “… Such was the case today, when porn officially saw Pokemon GO take its title as the top search term on the internet. Or at least that’s what YouPorn is saying on behalf of online sex of all kinds. You can see YouPorn’s graph of search interest in Pokemon GO versus porn above. The company also awarded Niantic and Nintendo’s smash hit mobile game a tongue in cheek Gym Badge to recognize the achievement, complete with some adult jokes we won’t get into here.”
* Pokemon GO unseats porn as top search term (Fansided)
- Warning for survivors of sexual assault and trauma. “At first, there was complete silence from officials. As rumors spread on social media, police had nothing to say about allegations of mass sexual assaults and other crimes carried out on New Year’s Eve in the German city of Cologne. According to a leaked police document, published by Germany’s Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper and broadcasters NDR and WDR, the previous estimates have to be dramatically revised — upward.” < hence what a few people in the SF hacker scene have been calling ‘Appelbaum’s Law‘
* Leaked document says 2,000 men allegedly assaulted 1,200 German women on New Year’s Eve (Washington Post)
- “Friedman is a regular at universities. The Student Activities Board at the University of Michigan-Dearborn described his talk there in September this way: “From doughnuts to lasagna to ramen, lessons range from sexual assault prevention to meeting the perfect partner to spine-tingling tips that boost sexual satisfaction.””
* If you like salt and pepper you hate gays, says food critic who teaches students safe sex (The College Fix, via Academia.org)
My friend just caught a rattata in a gay club. I'm laughing so hard. #PokemonGo pic.twitter.com/GNAPXnkXSn
— MissFushi (◠﹏◠✿) (@MissFushiGaming) July 7, 2016
- “Snapchat doesn’t do enough to warn teenagers and parents about sexual content on its app, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday by celebrity attorney Mark Geragos on behalf of a family.”
* Snapchat sued for being too sexy for minors (LA Times)
- “The Legend of Tarzan featured a kiss between Alexander Skarsgard and Chrisoph Waltz, but the filmmakers cut it … David Yates, the director, has acknowledged that in his film the relationship between Tarzan and Captain Rom, played by Christoph Waltz, has homoerotic undertones.”
* Christoph Waltz Kissed Alexander Skarsgard in ‘Tarzan’, But Filmmakers Cut It (Towleroad)
- OMG, this video – gets graphic around 3:00. “MacPlaymate was made in 1986 by Mike Saenz, as “interactive erotica for the Mac.” Mike Saenz has done other things with his life—he’s illustrated comic books and produced other pieces of software — but on his Wikipedia page, MacPlaymate is still listed as one of his key accomplishments. … There’s even a PANIC button with reassuringly rounded edges and all-caps Chicago font—it hides the game—and a surprising number of ways that you can interact with your MacPlaymate.”
* Found: Hidden and Charming Mac Porn Game From 1986 (Atlas Obscura)