Sex News: The Stormy Daniels arrest, FOSTA lawsuit update, porn filter study findings, challenge to ‘gay panic’ murder defenses

• “Columbus, Ohio, police on Thursday morning arrested Stormy Daniels, the stripper and porn actress allegedly paid to keep quiet about her 2006 affair with President Donald Trump, for violating Ohio’s Community Defense Act. She reportedly let patrons of the Sirens nightclub, who turned out to be undercover officers, touch her during her performance … A judge dismissed the misdemeanor charges on Thursday afternoon … Ohio’s Community Defense Act was passed in 2007 and had not been cited a single time in Franklin County before the arrest of Daniels.”
  * Why Stormy Daniels’ Arrest Matters (Huffington Post)
  See also: Stormy Daniels’ Trumped Up Prosecution (Free Speech Coalition)

• “Justice Department attorneys on Thursday said that the Woodhull Freedom Foundation along with other plaintiffs seeking to challenge the legal merits of FOSTA lack standing in their case and that the case should be dismissed. The Justice Department today filed its opposition to the plaintiffs’ motion for preliminary injunction and its motion to dismiss the complaint in its entirety (…)”
  * Justice Department Seeks Dismissal of FOSTA Lawsuit (XBIZ)

• “In a paper entitled Internet Filtering and Adolescent Exposure to Online Sexual Material, Oxford Internet Institute researchers Victoria Nash and Andrew Przybylski found that Internet filters rarely work to keep adolescents away from online porn.”
  * Researchers find that filters don’t prevent porn (TechCrunch)

• “Patricia Schiller, a Washington sex and marriage therapist who became a leading authority on how doctors, nurses, teachers and members of the clergy could talk about sex in ways that were neither prudish nor judgmental, died June 29 at her home in Palm Beach, Fla. She was 104.” (She was the founder of AASECT.)
  * Patricia Schiller, prominent sex therapist, dies at 104 (Washington Post)

• “Derek Hay, a leading agent in the adult film industry, has been accused by four female porn performers of sexual abuse, according to a formal complaint filed with California’s Labor Commissioner … They also accuse Hay of bilking his clients into improper “exclusive multi-year agreements” which include “unconscionable fees” for minor infractions, like shoot cancellations, which Hay then “coerces performers to either pay in cash, or ‘work-off’ by performing sexual acts on him.””
  * Four Porn Performers Accuse Top Agent Derek Hay of Sex Abuse, Trafficking (Rolling Stone)

• “Within each generation, a rising class of heroes arrives to champion the queer community. Fredy Alanis, a 19-year-old legend who hails from the Chicago suburbs, is one such hero — or he has become one, at least, to thousands of people on social media, who have eagerly spread his tale of how a fated interaction with a ten-inch penis landed him in the hospital.”
  * He Sucked a 10-Inch-Penis, Then Ended Up in the ER. His Story (them)

• “Our government decided to make the internet worse, endanger the lives of sex workers, and make it harder for law enforcement to hunt down sex traffickers … It will be worse in the UK where a challenge along civil liberties lines is more likely to fail. UK speech laws are a mess and it’s unlikely opponents of the proposed law will find judicial relief from UK FOSTA knockoff.”
  * A FOSTA Of One’s Own: UK Parliament Members Looking To Punish Websites, Push Traffickers Underground (TechDirt)
  See also: Our Sex Trafficking Witch Hunt (illustrated; The Nib)

• “When someone murders an LGBTQ-identified person, the murderer can use the unofficial gay panic defense in court, basically saying that they flew into murderous insanity after a queer person hit on them.”
  * Two Congressional Democrats Just Submitted a Bill to Ban ‘Gay Panic’ Murder Defenses Nationwide (Hornet)

• “The aim of linking the human mind directly to computers has always been a mainstay of cyberpunk. Most visions of doing so have been, for lack of a better word, messy, with users depicted with big holes drilled into their heads so they can jack into cyberspace. Researchers at UC Berkeley’s Adesnik Lab, however, have working on a much less invasive solution—using light … the sexual possibilities are practically limitless.”
  * Sex on the Mind: Could Brain Holograms Lead to Direct Neural Interfaces? (Future of Sex)

• “Saying realistic sex dolls are the future of our sex culture, SexySexDoll.com has announced the availability of its services as an authorized reseller of quality sex doll brands.”
  * SexySexDoll Explores ‘Future of Sex Culture’ (XBIZ)

Main post image of Anya Ivy via the PornHub Nation Art Installation feature in XBIZ; the exhibit is open Wednesday-Sunday 6pm-Midnight, July 14th – August 11th, 2018 at 4067 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA. Also, definitely click on pornhubnation.com and hit “View Source.”