Sex News: Westworld’s orgy, Prop 60, internet filtered in Israel, FBI on in-flight assault

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  • About that Westworld orgy scene: “We hired what they called “special extras,” “special background players,” who were willing to participate. We also had a sex stylist who made sure things looked properly choreographed in that regard. It was all hands on deck, to say the silly pun. We were trying to make things feel elegant and graceful and beautiful and strange.”
    * Inside ‘Westworld’s’ “Epic” Orgy Scene (Hollywood Reorter)
  • “The battle over California’s Proposition 60 is the best example possible of why the first step in making laws about sex work is to ask sex workers what they want.”
    * Shut Up And Listen to the Porn Stars (Medium)
  • Warning for survivors. “This year, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has opened 58 investigations into in-flight sexual assault allegations on commercial aircraft. But these investigations still don’t address the problematic reality that no centralized system exists for reporting sexual assaults on flights, or even collecting and publishing data tied to these events.”
    * What Happens After You’re Sexually Assaulted on a Plane? Not Much. (Fusion)
  • “Legislators have approved a bill that would block all porn in Israel unless people ask to view it. Under the terms of the bill, anyone wanting to access pornography online would have to tell their internet service provider, either by writing to them, ringing them or getting in touch their website.”
    * All porn sites to be banned in Israel. And it’s worse than it sounds (Independent UK)

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  • “Actress Tippi Hedren’s new memoir, Tippi, contains her account of sexual harassment and assault at the hands of director Alfred Hitchcock, the New York Post reports. Hedren, now 86, who starred in Hitchcock’s The Birds and Marnie, writes in her memoir about his unhealthy obsession with her.”
    * Tippi Hedren Writes About Sexual Assault By Alfred Hitchcock in New Memoir (Slate)
  • “While it’s easy to laugh now at the long list of potential side effects listed at the end of every pharmaceutical commercial, it was those who fought for transparency over the birth control pill that gave the people the right to know the risks with each drug we put in our bodies. Additionally, the ethically reprehensible and deeply racist Puerto Rican clinical trials led directly to the informed consent procedures that all medical studies must adhere to today.”
    * The Racist and Sexist History of Keeping Birth Control Side Effects Secret (Broadly/Vice)
  • “Australia’s Red Cross has admitted to a significant data breach that saw haveibeenpwned.com sent a file containing records on 550,000 blood donors. ITnews.com.au reports that the data dump included details of donors’ names, email addresses and sometimes even whether they had indulged in risky (for blood donors) sexual activity.”
    * Blood donors’ privacy anaemic after Red Cross data breach (Register)
  • “Vine will not be left to shrivel up and die on itself, not if Pornhub has anything to say about it. Twitter announced it was ending Vine’s short run, and the adult site was quick to come to the rescue…maybe. In a letter from Pornhub VP Corey Price to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey that was shared with CNET, Price lays out the rationale …”
    * Pornhub offers to buy Vine: ‘Six seconds is more than enough’ (CNET)

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  • “Convicted Stanford sexual assailant Brock Turner’s returned to his home state of Ohio to apparently trim bushes and lay down mulch, but that doesn’t mean you won’t get a chance to see his smiling face. California State Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo, CA is now using his visage in posters warning students of the dangers of sexual predators.”
    * Brock Turner Is Now The Literal Poster Child For Sexual Assault (SFist)
  • “A St. Louis jury on Thursday awarded a California woman more than $70 million in her lawsuit alleging that years of using Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder caused her cancer, the latest case raising concerns about the health ramifications of extended talcum powder use. The jury ruling ended the trial that began Sept. 26 in the case brought by Deborah Giannecchini of Modesto, California. She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2012. The suit accused Johnson & Johnson of “negligent conduct” in making and marketing its baby powder.”
    * Johnson & Johnson loses baby powder cancer case, California woman awarded $70M (Global News CA)
  • David Levy wrote this for Daily Mail (let that sink in for a minute), but I doubt he wrote the headline… “Synthetic skin embedded with electronic sensors will enable the robots to react with (artificial) pleasure as they are caressed by their owner-lovers, for example. And as Artificial Intelligence researchers improve the quality of computer-generated conversation, robots will develop the skills needed for seduction and the whispering of sweet nothings during love-making. Hanson Robotics, based in Hong Kong, has been at the forefront of ultra-lifelike robots for some years, as has Japan’s leading humanoid robotics designer Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro in Osaka.”
    * Westworld’s disturbing future of tourists romancing robots (Daily Mail)

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