- “The app secures itself with a two-key system with video encryption, which makes it so videos can only be replayed with the permission of both parties. More specifically, you record a video on one iPhone while it is linked to a second one also using the Rumuki app. Once filming is complete, the video is automatically encrypted and each user is sent a special digital key. To unlock and play the video, users must get permission from the other first.”
* Rumuki App Strives to Keep Your Sex Tapes Secure (Future of Sex)
- “The fans have already begun the speculation about which Mass Effect: Andromeda characters they’d like to see hook up, and why. The developers, so far, have been more than willing to lean into the game’s reputation as a place to meet all sorts of new people and have sex with at least some of them. We already know the game will feature “pretty good banging,” but it looks like things may go a bit further in Andromeda.”
* Mass Effect: Andromeda dev says game features ‘full nudity,’ says it’s ‘totally softcore space porn’ (Polygon)
- “After the shoot, according to the suit, each of the performers found their videos posted on the six-year-old GirlsDoPorn.com website despite promises that the DVDs would only be distributed overseas and for private use. To agitate matters further, the performers said their real identities and contact information were leaked on the internet to sites like PornWikiLeaks for families and friends to see.”
* Millions of Dollars on the Line in GirlsDoPorn.com Suit (XBIZ)
- Reminds me of the “Matt” who pretended to be a sex worker and sex educator/blogger (“Alexa Di Carlo”) in order to trick young women into sex. “When the Washington State Attorney General sued former Capitol Hill tech journalist and fake porn recruiter Matt Hickey in December, Hickey failed to respond. On Thursday, a King County Superior Court judge sided with the state, ruling that Hickey violated state consumer protection laws by pretending to be a female porn recruiter on the internet and luring young women into having sex with him.”
* Matt Hickey Violated State Law by Running a Fake Porn Recruiter Scam, Court Rules (The Stranger)
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- “On Tuesday, Facebook decided to block a video advertisement, stating that the ad violated their guidelines around sexual content. However, the ad was merely for a collection of artwork to be auctioned off and the “sexual content” was actually a piece of artwork.”
* Facebook blocks famous nude artwork and feels the internet’s ire (Mashable)
- “The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday appeared poised to strike down a North Carolina law barring convicted sex offenders from Facebook and other social media services, with justices noting the expansive role such online tools play in today’s society.”
* Supreme Court poised to strike down North Carolina law barring sex offenders from Facebook (Newsweek)
- “Hundreds of former employees of Sterling Jewelers, the multibillion-dollar conglomerate behind Jared the Galleria of Jewelry and Kay Jewelers, claim that its chief executive and other company leaders presided over a corporate culture that fostered rampant sexual harassment and discrimination, according to arbitration documents obtained by The Washington Post.”
* Hundreds allege sex harassment, discrimination at Kay and Jared jewelry company (Washington Post)
- “It’s okay for a boy to have feelings for another boy. In fact, it’s natural, says India’s Health Ministry. It’s a groundbreaking and taboo-busting piece of official advice for teens in India, a country which in 2013 reinforced a law which makes homosexual intercourse illegal.”
* India busts taboos with new sex ed manual (CNN)
- “In a series of studies in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, psychologists in Switzerland and Canada have looked beyond the immediate bliss that sex can bring, and they say that the main reason that more sex seems to contribute to greater long-term happiness is because of all the cuddling that’s involved, both at the time, and for hours afterwards.”
* Here’s the real reason sex makes you so happy (Business Insider)
- “… He was jailed for seven years by Judge Andrew Woolman, who told him that the fact people signed up to the Plenty of Fish website, and may have indicated they are open to sexual encounters, “does not mean that they consent to sex regardless”.”
* Women who sign up to dating sites are not consenting to sex regardless, judge tells Plenty of Fish rapist (Telegraph)
- “In an effort to help correct Spain’s population decline, the country’s government appointed Edelmira Barreira to serve as its official “commissioner for the demographic challenge,” Spain’s ABC reports.”
* Spain Appointed a Sex Commissioner to Get People Making Babies Again (Vice)
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