- “This year’s Netflix series Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On is a look at young women who enter the adult video industry. … “We have received nearly a dozen reports of adult performers who say they were manipulated, coerced or lied to during the production of Netflix’s Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On,” Siouxsie Q. James, director of policy and industry relations for FSC, said in a statement.”
* Porn Biz Warns Performers About Netflix’s Hot Girls Wanted (LA Weekly)
- “For years we’ve known that Twitter is horny for the Frosted Flakes mascot. When Tony started blocking people for sending him graphic messages and imagery, Chester Cheetah (of the Cheetos brand) tried to co-opt the lascivious attention. But it didn’t work.”
* How Tony the Tiger Became the Most Sexually Objectified Breakfast Mascot (Mel Magazine)
- “Defying U.S. safety protections for human trials, an American university and a group of wealthy libertarians, including a prominent Donald Trump supporter, are backing the offshore testing of an experimental herpes vaccine.”
* Peter Thiel Funds ‘Unethical’ Offshore Herpes Vaccine Trial (Daily Beast)
- “… Wait, what?! Hold on. Did the show accidentally travel to 1992? Is this an outtake from that Jamie Foxx movie Booty Call? The fact that Tiffany’s interest in blow jobs is equated to whiteness is hilariously tone deaf. Blow jobs are a very basic component of having sex. The idea that black women are against them seems ripped from bad stereotypes about a previous generation. …”
* Insecure Recap: Sexplosion (Vulture)
Here's video proof of @AIDSHealthcare PAYING people to come support #MeasureB
This is what u waste donation $$$ on instead of helping people pic.twitter.com/OXWMCXvHio— brad armstrong (@wickedarmstrong) August 22, 2017
- “This week, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a cornerstone of the law, an adult video film permit. The $1,671 document will allow producers to make videos for two years. It will also allow county health inspectors to visit sets and make sure condoms are being used.”
* It Now Costs $1,671 for Permission to Film a Porno (LA Weekly)“The only real winners since the passage of Measure B have been lawyers and moralists. … Predictably, the measure’s primary effect has been to drive the industry out of the county, which might make those particularly concerned about the moral purity of L.A. County happy, but does absolutely nothing to protect adult film performers overall.”
* Porn producers should be heard by L.A. County officials (Los Angeles Daily News)
Our opponent AHF paid random people to wear shirts & attend the meeting. Nobody paid us. I spent $20 on parking & missed a morning's work.
— Tim Woodman (@ProVillain) August 22, 2017
- “India is deploying thousands of riot police and shutting down internet services in two northern states, as it prepares for the sentencing on Monday of a self-styled ’godman’ whose followers went on the rampage after he was convicted of rape on Friday.”
* After deadly protests, Indian states in lockdown for ‘godman’s’ rape sentencing (Reuters)
- “ISIS threatened to behead Lebanese-American porn star Mia Khalifa with a mocked-up execution photo, but she’s keeping up a brave front, she said.”
* Porn star claims ISIS threatened to behead her (NY Post)
- “The firm, Fireworld, posted a since deleted article to its site that encouraged parents to buy its “invisible PC spy software” so it could be used “to find out if your son is gay” the BBC reported.”
* Company Promised Its Spyware Could Help Parents ‘Find Out If Your Son Is Gay’ (Huffington Post)
- “Reddit user beaston02 was determined to find the true ceiling of Amazon’s cloud storage plan, which was killed off in June. He decided to push its limits with a petabyte of porn. … He said it took five or six months to collect one petabyte of porn, and he stopped collecting just shy of 1.8 petabytes.”
* A Redditor Archived Nearly 2 Million Gigabytes of Porn to Test Amazon’s ‘Unlimited’ Cloud Storage (Motherboard/Vice)
Four splendid covers from La Vie Parisienne… (1927) pic.twitter.com/3Ux1e9XSdg
— Pulp Librarian (@PulpLibrarian) August 27, 2017
- “Gay sex worker Jessie Colter opened up on social media Thursday about being attacked by two men posing as clients in San Francisco. Days before a white supremacist rally is scheduled to take place there, Colter thinks the two incidents are related.”
* Gay Sex Worker Assaulted by ‘Clients’ in San Francisco, Blames White Supremacist Rally (Unicorn Booty)
- “On Sunday, The Wrap published an explosive article from [Joss Whedon ex-wife] Kai Cole, stating that Whedon cheated on her with “actresses, co-workers, fans and friends” throughout their 16-year marriage. She paints an unsettling picture of a man who allegedly exploited his feminist reputation to behave like a stereotypically creepy Hollywood producer, sleeping with young actresses while lying to his wife.”
* Joss Whedon’s Alleged Sex Scandals May Destroy His Feminist Image (Daily Dot)
- “The teenage daughter of a police dispatcher at the center of a Northern California sexual misconduct scandal involving two dozen officers has filed a lawsuit against one of the law enforcement agencies, her attorney announced Friday. … She alleges that she had sexual encounters with four Richmond Police officers in exchange for protection from arrest and tipoffs to prostitution operations. She also alleges a fifth officer fondled her. Several officers face criminal charges.”
* Teen sues Northern California police over sex scandal (Washington Post)
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— Maxine Holloway (@MaxineHolloway) August 30, 2017
