- “Burger Kings in Israel are giving grown-up customers extra incentive to visit this Valentine’s Day: Jerusalem Post is reporting the fast food chain is packaging an “Adults Meal” that includes sex toys to get you in the mood after downing your Whoppers and chicken fries.”
* Burger King Israel includes sex toys in its very happy meal (AV Club)
- This new paper says gaydar is a myth: Ecological Invalidity of Existing Gaydar Research: In-Lab Accuracy Translates to Real-World Inaccuracy: Response to Rule, Johnson, & Freeman
- “MindGeek’s YouPorn division said this week that it’s trying to boost the safety of users by offering a bug bounty program. Based on severity, security pros can reap rewards between $50 to $25,000 to find weaknesses in its adult tube site platform.”
* YouPorn’s Bug Bounty Program Offers Up to $25K (XBIZ)
- This is a first: The post calls it a survey when it was actually a study. Usually it’s the opposite. “A recent survey of 230 gay, straight and bisexual North American men showed that 30% admitted faking orgasms. But why?”
* Why Are Gay and Bi Men Faking Their Orgasms? (Unicorn Booty)
- “Let’s get this out of the way: the new recording rig recently released by VR Bangers [NSFW] is less an erotic fantasy and more the stuff of nightmares. That is, if disembodied heads stir up in you an unsettling uncanny valley response.”
* VR Porn Studio Releases POV Head Rig for Max Intimacy Between Actresses and Viewers (Future of Sex)
- Sounds like a LOT could go wrong here. “A bizarre new trend in the U.K. is seeing men and women freezing their genitals in a bid to improve their appearance and boost their sex lives…. During the treatment the genital area is blasted with a chilly vapour from a liquid nitrogen tank. The nitrogen is filtered and distributed through a funnel.”
* ‘Love Mist’; People are freezing their genitals to boost sex lives (Toronto Sun)
- “According to a study released this week by the Texas Freedom Network, more than four-fifths of all school districts in the state either do not teach sex education or promote an abstinence-only program.”
* Sex Ed: New study gives Texas a failing grade in facts of life (Texarcana Gazette)
- “On-demand postexposure prophylaxis with doxycycline might significantly reduce the incidence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), new research shows.”
* Antibiotics After Sex Nearly Halves Incidence of STIs (Medscape)
- They’re “Gay for the stay.” “There’s every shade of human sexuality in prison, but sexual activity isn’t a necessary or defining part of the romantic partnership. Relationships in prison are sometimes about sex, but more often they’re about human connection. Because prison is an awful place: It is designed to deny people of their desire to connect.”
* Amanda Knox: What Romance in Prison Actually Looks Like (Broadly/Vice)
I feel like the Trump/Christie relationship is teaching kids all the wrong lessons about BDSM. https://t.co/mMouzMvhb5
— (((Yonatan Zunger))) (@yonatanzunger) February 17, 2017
- “The Independent spoke to Derek Hay – the founder of LA Direct Models which represents many of the top adult performers – via Skype from his offices in Las Vegas, Nevada. … Overseeing and managing the pay of his clients is part of his job. The pay for adult performers is not set in stone, and usually vastly depends on what they are willing to do.”
* This is how much porn stars get paid – depending on what they do (Independent UK)
- “Nearly half (46%) of the 544 people who responded said they would be more sexually confident if they did not have asthma. The survey found that just under 15% felt their asthma had contributed to a relationship finishing, with one respondent revealing that theirs had been ended in an ambulance, during an asthma attack …”
* Asthma sufferers ‘struggling with their sex lives’ (BBC)
- “A former executive at Magic Leap is accusing the mysterious startup of fostering a hostile workplace toward women, an environment she says results in missed internal deadlines. … Campbell alleges she was fired because Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz refused to acknowledge the depth of misogyny in the company’s culture …”
* Former exec says Magic Leap hobbled by a sexist workplace (CNET)
- “… Carrillo and Hoffman note that many of their respondents simply “see no real personal or social advantages that would stem from publicly adopting an identity as bisexual or gay.” In many cases, it may not be in their interests to do so — hence the compartmentalization of their same-sex encounters.”
* How Straight Men Who Have Sex With Men Explain Their Encounters (NY Magazine)
