It’s satire — but what sweet, sweet satire it is to see male rappers sexualized like female rappers. Genderflip rules. Male Rappers Pose Provocatively In Support of Nicki Minaj (Tea Breakfast) This week’s target of the largely anonymous hivemind is indie game developer Zoe Quinn, who recently released the interactive fiction novel and educational aid…
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Sex News: George Takei’s saucy doc, NYC condom law dead, necrophilia crime
Love this man so much. The actor George Takei, who plays himself in a new documentary, on the coming-out process, “Star Trek” and feuding with Shatner. A documentary, “To Be Takei,” opens in select cities and on VOD and iTunes Aug. 22. The film is a low-key depiction of Takei’s domestic life with (lucky!) husband…
Sex News: Intersex sex ed, commercial sex prices, threesome realities
Image via Cats That Look Like Pin-Up Girls. The Economist has analysed 190,000 profiles of female sex workers on websites where customers post reviews. The data cover 84 cities in 12 countries. In 2006 the average cost was around $340. By 2014 it had dropped to about $260. Why the price of commercial sex is…
Sex News: Coffee enema deaths, AHF targets Kink.com, help Christy Mack
Longread: Pygmalion’s true modern heir might be Davecat, a man who lives in southeastern Michigan with three high-end sex dolls. His first purchase, which he named Sidore Kuroneko, he considers his wife; the other two—named Elena and Muriel—are just intimate friends. (VB note: I consider Sidore and Dave my friends. I profiled Davecat and iDollators…
Sex News: Facebook privacy suit, Gay Men Draw Vaginas, ManServants, panty fruit
Mandy Morbid describes what it’s been like making the cult-hit YouTube show I Hit It With My Axe (a Dungeons and Dragons group comprised of porn performers), and the absolutely astonishing amount of abuse they’ve received from the gaming communities for being mostly female, and being in porn. It makes the women in tech problems…
Sex News: Porn music, OkCupid’s experiments, Masters of Sex on intersex, sex trafficking economics
Porn has always come with a soundtrack. And that soundtrack has become part of our collective erotic imagination. From “Deep Throat” to “Cafe Flesh,” the stories behind the sultry tunes that define our famous sex scenes. How sex got its soundtrack: The X-rated history of “boom-chicka-wa (Salon) “OkCupid’s ten-year history has been the epitome of…
Sex News: Scissoring, Brits shun porn filters, sex geckos in space, online sex games (review)
Having Beyoncé rework her gigantic hit “Crazy in Love” for the 50 Shades trailer is a stroke of genius all the more impressive because “genius” is adamantly not a word that one would normally associate with E.L. James’s original series. It makes the chemistry-free setup between the actors almost interesting. 50 Shades of Grey’s Trailer:…
Sex News: Men who hate women’s erotica, Comic Con trans panel, polyamory study
VB note: My sweetie is running the SF Marathon this Sunday to raise money for The Trevor Project, an LGBT youth suicide prevention organization. Help us meet (or beat!) our goal! While American generals have been criticized for their handling of an epidemic of sexual assaults, Australia’s army chief, David Morrison, is getting rave reviews…
Sex News: Airbnb’s dirty logo, TSA groper, Google and Russia censorship fallout
Airbnb unveiled its new logo, which you can see above, and the consensus on Twitter is that it looks like a vagina. I wonder if they’ll run into problems on Google AdWords, Facebook or Instagram. There’s already a Tumblr dedicated to illustrating the new Airbnb logo in compromising positions. Everyone Thinks Airbnb’s New Logo Looks…
Sex News: it’s a 3D vulva dammit, Kink in Vegas, Fox News spanked, US LGBT health survey
Japanese police have arrested a Japanese artist for sending computer data intended to reproduce her genitals with a 3D printer. This fact would violate national law prohibiting the distribution of “indecent” material. Someone please tell everyone writing headlines about this that the vagina is the INSIDE part, and the vulva is what the artist is…