- “In This One’s for the Ladies, Gene Graham’s documentary on African-American male strippers—specifically, members of Newark, New Jersey’s Nasty Boyz troupe … Magic Mike’s stripteases are downright chaste when compared to the wild action on display throughout this portrait of uninhibited men who undress for money, and the enthusiastic women who adore them.”
* Meet the Black Male Strippers Putting ‘Magic Mike’ to Shame (Daily Beast)
- “Three British teens—two 14-year-olds and one 13-year-old—have proposed an idea for a new type of condom that could detect sexually transmitted diseases amongst intimate partners … The proposal won the trio the top prize in the U.K.’s TeenTech Awards, and they have already reportedly been approached by condom companies.”
* Condoms That Change Color In Contact with STD Win Tech Award (TIME)
- Warning for survivors of sexual abuse and trauma (both links contain clear and terrible descriptions). “It only takes about two minutes into the four-hour documentary Leaving Neverland to realise that Michael Jackson’s legacy is never going to be the same again … Their accounts contain many similarities: they were both younger than 10 when they got to know Jackson, they both possessed a keen interest in performing and they were both allegedly groomed then abused for an extended period of time.”
* ‘Secrets will eat you up’ – inside the shocking Michael Jackson documentary (Guardian)
See also: Michael Jackson and Harvey Weinstein Were the Perfect Monsters (MEL Magazine)
- “Tumblr was revolutionary for so many women like me and others who felt disconnected to mainstream porn and found self discovery, affirmation, and connection within its platform. It’s an end of an era, but it’s also a clarion call to those who value freedom of speech and expression to speak up and fight for that right. So, where can women like me go from here?”
* If You Loved Tumblr, Here Are 13 Other Places You Can Go to Explore Your Sexuality (Cosmopolitan)
- “A Belarusian model who claimed to have information on Moscow’s attempts to interfere in US elections told CNN she had been ordered by Russian security agents to keep silent about her dealings with a Russian billionaire linked to the former chairman of Donald Trump’s campaign.”
* Belarusian ‘sex coach’ says she was warned to keep quiet about oligarch (CNN)
- “He was a go-go boy at the Gaiety on 46th Street. I was a peep show girl at Peepland on 42nd. Those were dangerous days. Between crack, AIDS, heroin, and that old stand-by, booze, if you weren’t leveled, you were blessed, watched over by some dark angel. We believed we were among the lucky ones.”
* Elegy in Times Square (Longreads)
- “Almost one in five parents (17%) oppose plans to introduce an age limit on porn. The government plans to use age-verification in order to prevent under 18s accessing pornography sites online, but only 83% of parents support the initiative, according to research by Internet Matters. Out of those who oppose the government scheme, 30% said it is because they would not trust age-verification companies with their data.”
* A shocking amount of parents think porn sites should have no age limit (Yahoo UK)
- “SESTA/FOSTA changed this, and last year, prominent sex-work marketplaces either shut down voluntarily, like Craigslist’s Casual Encounters section, or, like Backpage, were seized and shut down by the Feds. This is exactly what [Kamala] Harris intended.”
* The Women Running for President Have Made Life Harder for Women (The Stranger)
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- “A while ago I wrote about Twitter shadowbans. While it’s no laughing matter, I did make a joke about how no one knows exactly how it works, how many levels there are… This became abundantly apparent to me recently when I discovered something new. New — and hideous.”
* Twitter Shadowbanning AKA The Circles Of Hell (Phone Sex Secrets)
- “On the red carpet Saturday night, the alt-Hillary argued for many positions the real Hillary would take umbrage with. She’s brazenly pro-union. She supports Medicare for All. She’s also a vocal skeptic of Kamala Harris and the presidential hopeful’s prosecutorial past. “I’m not for Kamala Harris, because she’s very anti-sex work,” Hartley said. “She’s a prosecutor. She supported SESTA/FOSTA, the anti-sex-trafficking bill.””
* The Hillary Clinton of Porn Is a Hardcore Socialist (Daily Beast)