Year: 2016

Sex News: GCHQ porn spylist, Jessica Drake, AIDS history correction, new male contraception

“The GCHQ has already expressed a Chinese-esque plan to create the Great UK firewall, but now the UK, which previously dabbled in porn blocking, wants online age verification services to ensure that people viewing porn are age 18 or over; the dangerous implementation of the system has outraged privacy advocates.” * UK’s porn age verification…

Sunday Sex Reads: Best of the Week

“What makes an image NSFW, according to Yahoo? I explore this question with a clever new visualization technique by Nguyen et al.. Like Google’s Deep Dream, this visualization trick works by maximally activating certain neurons of the classifier.” * Image Synthesis from Yahoo’s open_nsfw (open_nsfw.gitlab.io) “…unfettered access to all things smutty, dirty and questionably filthy…

Sex News: Cosby denied, Trump exposed, Facebook’s revenge porn problem, UK porn age verification

“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…

Sunday Sex Reads: Best of the Week

“Michael Weinstein, president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, is many things—professional provocateur; contrarian pariah; enfant terrible of the AIDS activism world. But here’s one thing he is not: a reliable source on any matters relating to HIV/AIDS. Still, that hasn’t stopped myriad news outlets from reporting on Weinstein and the AHF’s pathetic, mendacious campaign against…

Sex News: Federal rights for survivors, Backpage raided, Rentboy guilty plea, https for adult sites

“For the first time, thanks to a bill President Barack Obama signed on Friday, victims of sexual assault now have a specific set of rights under federal law when it comes to the evidence collected from their own bodies. “Beginning today, our nation’s laws stand firmly on the side of survivors of sexual assault,” said…

Sex News: Backlash Kink Olympixxx, McDonald’s sex harassment, Yahoo’s antiporn tool

“U.K. obscenity lawyer Myles Jackman and feminist pornographer Pandora Blake have organized a protest called the “Backlash Kink Olympixxx,” slated for Oct. 17 outside of Parliament. Jackman and Blake, along with members from the Open Rights Group, NO2ID and Big Brother Watch, will be campaigning against the risks posed to personal privacy and sexual freedom…