Sex News: Alt-Right’s war on sex, BBC on Instagram discrimination, science on porn consumption, and more

0 pieces of BRILLIANCE put forth by a DARING and DELIGHTFUL reader

  • A decade of corporations like Facebook censoring sex-positivity got us here: “Michael Kosta sits down with clinical psychologist Dr. David Ley, who traces the origins of the alt-right movement’s anger to its anti-masturbation stance.”
    * Why Is the Alt-Right So Angry? (Daily Show | Comedy Central)
  • Kanye West, who wrote a song last year about how bad he wants to fuck his wife’s sisters… “Kanye West is a NoFap guy … It’s helpful to their scolding campaign to erase or demonize legitimate sex workers this way, and indeed, the atmosphere of NoFap may cast the consenting female porn star as a seductive Jezebel, out to soil and ruin promising young men.”
    * Kanye West Is a NoFap Hero (MEL Magazine)
  • Did Australia’s lawmakers just get unfrozen after 50 years in a time capsule? “Peter Dutton’s Department of Home Affairs has suggested that in an attempt to protect children from seeing sexually explicit material online, we should force adult web sites to introduce facial recognition technology for their users as a form of age verification.”
    * Big Brother is watching… porn? (The Spectator Australia)
  • I answer the BBC’s question here. “Ms Evans’ group has collected a list of more than 1,300 performers who claim that their accounts have been deleted by Instagram’s content moderators for violations of the site’s community standards, despite not showing any nudity or sex.”
    * Why is Instagram deleting the accounts of hundreds of porn stars? (BBC)

  • This is part of the science-based approach to understanding porn consumption. I wish CBS and other outlets would do more with it. “Porn scholar Madita Oeming teaches a class on porn studies in Berlin. She explains why she feels that the mass availability of pornography has offered an outlet for sex positivity and body positivity that didn’t necessarily exist before.”
    * Does modern porn lead to more sex positivity? (CBS News)
  • For the record, I stand in solidarity with people who like big fake penises. And this article is coming from a good place. “Our anatomy hasn’t changed much since ancient times, but our ideas have. The assumed marriage of gender identity and genitals has weakened … In an attempt to embrace sexual accessories that are for the people and by the people, erotic toy company LoveHoney has, for the past few years, been crowdsourcing the sex-loving public to design their own fantasy toys.”
    * How sex toys finally evolved beyond the big fake penis (Mic)
    See also: ‘Dildo Sculptor’ Lets You Design Your Ideal Sex Toy (Future of Sex)
  • What’s cool about this is that now I’m thinking about the “stone butch” [sexual] identity differently. “The Asexuality Visibility and Education Network (AVEN), for example, describes some asexual people as ‘sex-favourable’, which is an ‘openness to finding ways to enjoy sexual activity in a physical or emotional way, happy to give sexual pleasure rather than receive’.”
    * What being asexual or aromantic tells us about sex and romance (Aeon Essays)
  • Speculative piece, but worth a look. “Today, the results are mostly crude. Unlike the most sophisticated deepfake videos traded online, no one is going to mistake any of the 3D models Motherboard has seen during our reporting for actual images of a real person. ”
    * People Are Having Sex With 3D Avatars of Their Exes and Celebrities (Vice)

  • Content warning for personal shares, which I’m not a huge fan of generally. “When I began trying to hack my own sex life for this series, I learned that — like most purported “life hacks” — the idea of a one-size-fits-all magic bullet for better sex doesn’t exist.”
    * Sex, hacked (Mashable)

Main post image via: Tatyana Kombarova by Viktor Korneev (Portraits of Girls)

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