Sex News: DMV rejects furries, Cosby trial proceeds, chemsex deaths, FGM in America

• “… the DMV saw fit to recently reject a request for a more on-the-nose furry license plate, which was to read “FURRIES.” That’s according to intrepid chronicler of the furry life the Dogpatch Press: The request came from reader and furry person Pup Nacho, a San Francisco resident according to their Twitter account. ”
  * California DMV Rejects License Plate FURRIES As ‘Sexual’ Term (SFist)

• Someday I really want to see this in person. “In response to the Feel The Future theme at Melbourne’s 2016 Sexpo [NSFW] in Australia, [Giles] Walker gave patrons of a taste of what a future of sexy androids might look like.”
  * Pole-dancing Robot Stripper Performs at Melbourne Sexpo (Future of Sex)

• “A judge on Monday ruled that testimony Bill Cosby gave in an accuser’s lawsuit can be used at his sexual assault trial in Pennsylvania.”
  * Excerpts from Cosby deposition can be used at trial (Washington Post)

• “Police will now re-examine the deaths of 58 other people from the drug GHB over the last few years. The question this raises is: What have they been missing? Throughout the reports of the trial one word recurred again and again: chemsex. Uttered in increasingly wide circles, the term refers to men having sex with each other while imbibing, inhaling, or injecting (“slamming”) three principal drugs: crystal methamphetamine (aka crystal, meth, Tina), GHB (aka G), and mephedrone.”
  * Inside The Dark, Dangerous World Of Chemsex (BuzzFeed)

• “A man with a bionic penis has been inundated with offers of sex but says he is too tired to take advantage of any of them. Mohammed Abad, 44, lost his virginity to a prostitute in April after being fitted with the £70,000 eight inch prosthetic in 2012. But he doesn’t seem in a rush to go for another round and has blamed his long work hours as a security guard.”
  * Man with bionic penis is ‘too tired’ to have sex with scores of female admirers (Metro UK)

• “Contrary to what, Googling around, you might assume, obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment. “There is a bone in my prick six inches long. I will ream out every wrinkle in your cunt.” Those sentences are from the opening pages of Henry Miller’s first novel, “Tropic of Cancer,” which was published in France in 1934. Are they obscene? It took thirty years, but American courts eventually decided that they are not, and therefore the book they appear in cannot be banned.”
  * Banned Books and Blockbusters (New Yorker)

• “Sexy comic books are protected free speech, and nobody knows that better than Fakku.net. The purveyor of hentai, a pornographic subgenre of Japanese anime and manga, just celebrated its tenth birthday by joining the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF).”
  * Cartoon Porn Distributor Fakku Joins The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (Forbes)

• “Having sex with an animal is one step closer to being banned in Ohio after the state Senate unanimously approved an anti-bestiality bill. The proposal must now pass through the Ohio House of Representatives for it to become law. … Ohio is one of a dozen US states that does not have a law banning bestiality.”
  * Sex with animals is still legal in Ohio, but not for long (Independent UK)

• “A 31-year-old man became the first individual to be prosecuted and sentenced under Oregon’s new revenge porn law, authorities say. Benjamin J. Barber was sentenced on Thursday morning, according to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office. He received 6 months in jail and 5 years of probation.”
  * First conviction under Oregon’s new revenge porn law (KOIN)

• Warning, graphic. “FGM is not my shame, it is my story. I witnessed Christian religions declaring masturbation a sin, “some Christian leaders and doctors” recommending circumcision to prevent it, physicians carrying out the practice and our American culture first accepting this form of sexual abuse and then denying it ever occurred.”
  * ‘FGM happened to me in white, midwest America’ (Guardian)

• Warning for survivors of sexual assault, abuse, and trauma. “…in recently-surfaced video of an onstage event in 2013, Bertolucci announced that he did not tell Maria Schneider what was going to happen before the take; he and Brando had secretly planned it without her knowledge because the director wanted her humiliation to be real. Two powerful men, aged 32 and 48, had arranged for her to be assaulted.”
  * Last Tango scandal shows toxic extent of male power in the film industry (Guardian)

Main post image via Marina Novozhilova shows of her crazy wild side (C-Heads Magazine)