Year: 2016

Sex News: Porn and religiosity, XHamster blocks North Carolina IPs, UK gov worried about anal

The government has voiced concern that more young people are trying anal sex – as part of a push to regulate pornography. The UK’s Department for Culture, Media & Sport, overseen by Culture Secretary John Whittingdale, is currently consulting on proposals to make age verification mandatory for online pornography. The consultation document lists a number…

Sunday Sex Reads: Best of the Week

“If you’re going to fuck a total stranger, you’re probably going to want them to be attractive, so Heaven Circle vets its guests, even operating a tiering system with extra special parties for the sexual elite. A “sex olympics” is currently being planned, where the best performers from parties around the world will come together…

Sex News: RIP Amber Rayne, the economics of porn, MPAA vs. revenge porn laws

“When the 10 participants touched the robot rather than pointed at it, their physiological arousal rose. And for 90 percent of participants, arousal increased the more “off-limits” the body part got. Touching a robot’s hand or neck elicited a less significant response than touching the eye or buttocks, for example.” * Touching robots can turn…

Sunday Sex Reads: Best of the Week

“According to psychologist Judith Herman, in order for society to function as it does, certain narratives are promoted while others are suppressed. As a result, people with underrepresented stories are often purposely misunderstood, misrepresented, and treated in an unfairly harsh way. Over the years, I’ve gotten countless letters from people whose lives, like mine, were…

Sex News: Featuring debunked data, TIME publishes anti-porn issue; the trouble with Tumblr

Above: TIME’s cover for April 11, 2016. Right: TIME’s cover for July 3, 1995. Both issues contain articles with debunked or falsified data on pornography. TIME Magazine’s next issue goes full anti-porn, leading with a centerpiece story by Peggy Orenstein revealing that TIME doesn’t fact-check its articles. Fact-free items in the article include “$97 billion…

Sex News: An African City, Tinder harassment, Ted Cruz’s sex life, regulating sex

Imagine Sex and the City, but instead of New York City, the action takes place in Accra, Ghana. This is called An African City, a Ghanaian series that debuted on YouTube two years ago. The girlfriends are five fashionable African women raised abroad who have returned home to continue high-powered careers, look for love and…

Sunday sex reads: Best of the week

Image above by one of my all-time favorite erotic photographers, Aphrocentricity/Aphro Oner. Model: Shayla. “Growing up gay as a West Texas preacher’s son, I’ve experienced homophobia in its most ridiculous, shit-kicking-est forms. Bigots in Texas aren’t particularly quiet about their distaste for fags like me, so when I relocated to the Bay Area and started…