“There’s a widely held belief that a disproportionately high number of the women in porn were sexually abused. It’s one of those casually accepted notions that are difficult to disprove, because there isn’t enough reliable research on the subject and because it happens to be true for several high-profile porn stars, such as Jenna Jameson…
“Zhana Vrangalova had hit a problem. On a blustery day in early spring, sitting in a small coffee shop near the campus of New York University, where she is an adjunct professor of psychology, she was unable to load onto her laptop the Web site that we had met to discuss. This was not a…
Photo by Peter Palm, via Dazed Digital “[Well-established] Swiss performance artist Milo Moiré (see also) has been arrested in London after allowing strangers to stroke her genitals for her latest performance piece. The project, titled “Mirror Box”, saw the artist walk around various European cities with a large reflective structure covering her body. Using a…
“In our hand-job life together, Tory and I met our clients for in-call sensual massage appointments in her cool, gray studio apartment we called “The Lab.” In the anxious moments before our client arrived, we arranged the lighting. Twinkling white Christmas lights were strung along the ceiling beams in wily twists and a paper lantern…
I didn’t get to my Tuesday and Thursday sex news posts in a timely manner this week, so here’s a weekend roundup of news items. Sunday Sex Reads will be on schedule as usual tomorrow with the most interesting sex and culture longreads of the week. “Dallas LGBT advocates want the city to become the…
#ParisStandsWithOrlando #LoveWins pic.twitter.com/2OISfTuKxB — La tour Eiffel (@LaTourEiffel) June 13, 2016 VB note: We are all #OnePulse. Get in the streets for Pride this year. “The wife of the shooter who killed 49 people at the Orlando gay nightclub Pulse early Sunday morning reportedly knew her husband was planning an attack on the club and…
“For the 60 or so years since the Miracle decision, courts have retained the prerogative to define and prosecute obscenity as they see fit, even though no high-court judge in our nation’s history has been able to adequately define exactly what “obscenity” is … But if obscenity has been judged by state- and federal-level “community…
“If real estate, open houses, and young women who can’t afford rent are things that butter your biscuit, you’re in luck. Allow us to introduce you to “Property Sex” porn.” * Why ‘Property Sex’ Is Porn’s Fastest-Rising New Genre (Maxim) Warning for survivors of sexual assault, trauma, and abuse. “In response to media coverage of…
“Actress and director Pandora Blake, who runs DreamsofSpanking.com, was among UK pornographers forced to close their websites after a 2014 law brought porn made in the UK in line with rules binding DVDs sold in sex shops. … [Now] Ms Blake is believed to be the first pornographer to be granted the right to re-open…
Incredible exposé by a former anti-trafficker. “So why do we have an entire movement dedicated to “helping” a group of people the movement isn’t even talking to? Why do anti-trafficking conferences often lack any speakers who disagree with the Evangelical or left-wing feminist position on the sex industry? Why are the voices of those in…