Sex News: Bondage chicken, condoms at the Olympics, New Orleans strip club raids, hacking wireless sex toys

• “South Korean condom maker Convenience Co. is donating 100,000 latex condoms and the Korean Association for AIDS Prevention will donate another 10,000 to keep on hand in the athletes’ village during the Winter Games, which open on February 9. While the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio topped that amount with 450,000 condoms, NBC News reports this is the largest number of condoms distributed during a Winter Games.”
  * The 2018 Winter Olympics Will Be Stocked With a Record-Breaking Number of Condoms (Teen Vogue)

• “CDC officials tried to explain how AIDS transmission worked to Margaret Heckler, a lawyer whom Reagan had appointed to head the Department of Health and Human Services. After being informed that AIDS was likely spread between gay men via anal intercourse, Heckler (who was evidently not a doctor) boggled and exclaimed, “Anal intercourse? You do that?””
  * Today Is Reagan’s Birthday! His Administration Laughed Off Thousands of AIDS Deaths (Hornet)

• Here’s a transcript of the Defcon presentation on hacking wireless sex toys. “A large num­ber of IoT research firms…yeah, they don’t want to look at this. Because there are stig­mas around sex. We have a very weird thing in North America about sex. We’ll watch all the vio­lence we want on tele­vi­sion but you can’t see two peo­ple have sex. Like, it makes no sense to me.”
  * Hacking the Internet of Dongs (RenderMan | Open Transcripts)

• Water is wet. “While the process has been one of growth and self-discovery, the San Francisco Bay area artist feels plagued by the precarious nature of Instagram. The erotic artists we spoke to say Instagram has expanded their reach, but the platform’s guidelines leave them never knowing what might lead to a post’s being removed, their account suspended, or worse, their Instagram existence deleted and purged forever.”
  * Erotica artists are reaching huge audiences on Instagram. But they fear getting deleted. (Washington Post)

• “Peers have rubber-stamped the British Board of Film Classification as the regulator for age checks on porn websites, but voiced concerns over delays in issuing guidance. … “I still argue, and I will continue to argue, that it is not appropriate for the government to give statutory powers to a body that is essentially a private company,” said Labour peer Lord Stevenson.”
  * Peers approve Brit film board as pr0n overlords despite concerns (The Register)

• “An unholy mix of gentrification and trafficking hysteria created the perfect political climate to allow law enforcement to shutter several New Orleans strip clubs, leaving scores of dancers unemployed. The Bourbon Alliance of Responsible Entertainers rapidly sprung into action; they disrupted the mayor’s press conference and organized the Unemployment March the following night, which drew national attention.”
  * Activist Spotlight: BARE on the Mass Closure of Strip Clubs in New Orleans (Tits and Sass)

• “British talk show host Piers Morgan got extremely mad online about a certain illustration depicting him and Donald Trump. … Morgan is still tweeting about the ass picture. Assuring people that he’s not mad, but actually just wants to point out double standards in media.”
  * Piers Morgan Tweets Drawing Of Him Eating Donald Trump’s Ass Not Once, Not Twice, But Three Times (Digg)

• ““Porn is the best thing to have happened to me,” says Jiz Lee, an erotic icon whose other informal titles include “queer porn legend,” “androgynous gender warrior,” and possessor of “a rare sexual je ne sais quois.” One of the most prominent indie porn stars today, Lee is also one of its first openly non-binary stars and an industry advocate, having appeared in over 200 projects.”
  * Queer star Jiz Lee is breaking every porn stereotype to make the industry better (Daily Dot)

• “There are dead girls in our industry and this night once meant the same to them, and it shouldn’t have. That’s what I’m thinking about — that none of this should matter. We are the black sheep of entertainment and the drive to do well is laughable from the outside. It is only porn, for Christ’s sake. Porn doesn’t matter, and now these dead girls have done something that doesn’t matter. … We are crying because those dead girls are our friends and lovers and family and they are gone and the media loves the headline but misses the story.”
  * A Firsthand Account of the Oscars of Porn (Monster Children)

• “Pornographic videos that used new software to replace the original face of an actress with that of a celebrity are being deleted by a service that hosted much of the content. San Francisco-based Gfycat has said it thinks the clips are “objectionable”.”
  * Fake porn videos deleted from internet (BBC)

• “It’s not as simple as filing a lawsuit against your employer and finding ways to prove the harassment occurred. Rather, there is a winding path that tries to get the accuser to resolve the case with their employer and come to a mutual agreement before even allowing the accuser to litigate the case in court. And when they get to court, the deck is stacked against the accuser to an extreme degree.”
  * The long, twisted path for sexual harassment victims to find legal justice (Vox)

• Just like Jake. “For over a decade, while James Franco was indulging dubious sexual impulses in his private and artistic lives, he was publicly courting the gay press with teases about his queerness. … James Franco’s persistent entitlement to queer space should have served as a red flag.”
  * How James Franco Exploits Queerness to Cover His Tracks (The Muse)

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