- “Salvador Dalí: In 1973 that dream culminated in a sensual fusion of cookbook and art object, Les diners de Gala, which Taschen just announced it is reprinting for the first time in decades. Peppered between Dalí’s often outlandish recipes are surreal photos and illustrations of the food paired with his melting clocks, barren deserts, and fantastical animals. ”
* Salvador Dalí’s Rare Erotic Cookbook Is Getting Reprinted (Vice)
- Warning for survivors of sexual assault, abuse, and trauma. “Four women accused Donald Trump of groping or kissing them without their consent in news reports published Wednesday, just days after the Republican presidential nominee insisted in a debate that he had never engaged in such behavior.”
* Four women accuse Trump of forcibly groping, kissing them (Washington Post)
- Warning for survivors of sexual assault, abuse, and trauma. “The attorney for a woman accusing Donald Trump of raping her in 1994 when she was 13 years old has told BuzzFeed News the case against the Republican presidential candidate will be tried in court — and Trump himself will have to answer the accusations under oath.”
* Attorney: Donald Trump Will Have To Answer Teen’s Rape Accusation In Court (Buzzfeed)
- “A legal case against Facebook, which will involve a 14-year-old taking the company to court in Belfast over naked images published on the social network, could open the floodgates for other civil claims, according to lawyers who work with victims of revenge pornography.”
* Facebook revenge pornography trial ‘could open floodgates’ (Guardian)
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— Betsy Woodruff (@woodruffbets) October 12, 2016
- “The British Board of Film Classification has signed an agreement with the U.K. government to act as the country’s new porn age-verification regulator. BBFC Director David Austin explained the organization’s new role regulating online adult entertainment to a committee in Parliament weighing the 2016 Digital Economy Bill … Austin said that the BBFC will methodically start focusing on the largest offending websites, including foreign ones, and notifying them for breaches in the U.K.’s mandatory age-verification laws … Austin also mentioned that sanctioned sites could find web properties blocked by IP address and de-indexed from search engines.”
* BBFC Tapped as New Porn Age-Verification Regulator (XBIZ)
- Warning for survivors of sexual assault, abuse, and trauma. “Bill Cosby lost his latest big to throw out the criminal sex assault case against him when the Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled Wednesday that accuser Andrea Constand did not have to testify in person at the entertainer’s preliminary hearing last May. The court issued a one-sentence order denying Cosby’s request to either have the charges against him dismissed or get a new preliminary hearing where Constand would have to testify in person.”
* Bill Cosby Loses Latest Bid to Throw Out Criminal Sex Assault Case (People)
- Warning for survivors of sexual assault, abuse, and trauma. “The lawyer defending an alleged choker-rapist [a serial attacker of sex workers -VB] told a jury on Thursday that Jacques Rouschop couldn’t physically have committed the vicious sex crimes he’s accused of because his hernia “makes it too painful to have sex from behind, his stomach is too large and his penis is way, way too small.””
* Obese man accused of sexual assault uses micropenis, big stomach defence (Ottowa Citizen)
- “The HBO series “Westworld,” which debuted last week to huge numbers, tells the story of a country western theme park populated by androids … And because it’s a science fiction narrative about robots and sex, the show has stirred long-standing concerns about what havoc technology could bring to bear on our sex lives.”
* Don’t worry about sex robots. They won’t ruin sex. (Washington Post)
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— Vote #NoProp60 (@VoteNoProp60) October 12, 2016
- “A man who kept sexts sent between his teenage stepdaughter and her boyfriend because he wanted police to act has been convicted of possessing child pornography and placed on the sex offenders register.”
* Man who told police about sexts sent by stepdaughter convicted under child porn laws (Sydney Morning Herlad)
- “David, an Ohio resident, suffers from post-orgasmic illness syndrome, or POIS, a rare disorder in which an orgasm leads to debilitating symptoms — including fatigue, brain fog, fever and reduced cognitive functioning — that can last for days. ”
* When an Orgasm Can Destroy Your Life (We Are Mel)
- “Britons using in vitro fertilization (IVF) to try and conceive a child just received a very modern option courtesy of London Sperm Bank. As reported by The Next Web, nicknamed “Order a Daddy,” the London Sperm Bank Donors app now allows registered users to browse sperm donor profiles.”
* ‘Order a Daddy’: Sperm Delivery App Lets Users Pick Ideal Donor (Future of Sex)
- ““This is something that games routinely build out, but never socially simulate or really think about,” Yang mused in an email. “In Fallout 4, a bathroom means a medkit box and toilet dioramas. In Deus Ex, it means a ventilation duct and maybe a password pickup because someone left their phone in a stall (as if that ever happens). What if the gameplay of bathrooms riffed off how we actually feel about bathrooms in real life?”
* Erotic Video Game Will Let Players Get Sexy In The Bathroom (Kotaku, via Mr. Trout)
