“According to psychologist Judith Herman, in order for society to function as it does, certain narratives are promoted while others are suppressed. As a result, people with underrepresented stories are often purposely misunderstood, misrepresented, and treated in an unfairly harsh way. Over the years, I’ve gotten countless letters from people whose lives, like mine, were…
Above: TIME’s cover for April 11, 2016. Right: TIME’s cover for July 3, 1995. Both issues contain articles with debunked or falsified data on pornography. TIME Magazine’s next issue goes full anti-porn, leading with a centerpiece story by Peggy Orenstein revealing that TIME doesn’t fact-check its articles. Fact-free items in the article include “$97 billion…
Imagine Sex and the City, but instead of New York City, the action takes place in Accra, Ghana. This is called An African City, a Ghanaian series that debuted on YouTube two years ago. The girlfriends are five fashionable African women raised abroad who have returned home to continue high-powered careers, look for love and…
Image above by one of my all-time favorite erotic photographers, Aphrocentricity/Aphro Oner. Model: Shayla. “Growing up gay as a West Texas preacher’s son, I’ve experienced homophobia in its most ridiculous, shit-kicking-est forms. Bigots in Texas aren’t particularly quiet about their distaste for fags like me, so when I relocated to the Bay Area and started…
Seriously, Malibu (X-Art) are scumbags, and this is great news. “Malibu Media — online porn producer and copyright troll — has filed more copyright lawsuits than most of the other trolls combined, most of them against anonymous “Doe” defendants whose identities are currently nothing but IP addresses for their Internet service. Malibu and others have…
“Apps like Tinder, Grindr and Happn are linked to a rise in STI’s that led one NHS clinic to set up what they claim is Britain’s only service offering sexual health support for app users. The 56 Dean Street sexual health clinic in Soho, part of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, incredibly sees around 13,000 people…
“As of publication, I am the proud owner of five dating sim apps and nine boyfriends. Their ranks include a sexually aggressive demon aristocrat, an emotionally withholding celestial deity, and a man with a fedora and a goatee who is unsettlingly referred to as my uncle (he is my least favorite). This love story—between woman…
“Google is trying to help the world surf porn more safely. Actually, Google is trying to help the world surf everything more safely. It’s just that when it checked the security protocols of the 100 most-visited non-Google websites on the planet, a fair number with less-than-ideal protection turned out to be X-rated.” Google offers help…
I am SO excited to see this show. “Lavish costume drama Versailles hasn’t even aired yet and it’s already being called ‘the most sexually graphic costume drama ever shown on British TV’. The Mail On Sunday spoke to Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen, who said Versailles was part of an ‘arms race to the bottom’ for…
Above: Olivia Rose by Jonathan Leder, via In The Raw. “President Reagan’s first speech on the subject wasn’t until May 31, 1987. By then, more than twenty-five thousand people, the majority of them gay men, had died in the United States. His Administration ridiculed people with AIDS—his spokesman, Larry Speakes, made jokes about them at…