A new photo series from U.K. publication The Sun, called What Real Men Look Like in Pants Ads, shows regular blokes posing in their skivvies. Each real dude wears a designer brand like Dolce and Gabbana and Armani and strikes the same pose as a famous model like David Beckham, Cristiano Ronaldo, David Gandy, and…

What do you do when Facebook compares you to a porn star? Well, if you’re irreverent marketing consultant and author Erika Napoletano, you run with it. Napoletano recently realized (after receiving what she describes as “a metric fuckton” of emails from friends) that fans of her Facebook page, Redhead Writing, were being recommended to also…

Gawker was wrong: no, it is not legal to walk around Sweden masturbating in public. But Gawker likely got their info from the Daily Mail, which cited a mistranslation as evidence to prove that, from now on, it will be totally fine to wander the streets of Sweden masturbating. Great job, Daily Fail. You Can’t…

A Kiev-based agency has developed iron weights shaped like breasts. It’s a real product. Breast Weights: A Bro-tastic New Standard In Agency IP (Fastco Create) Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare has blocked Looo.ch and added it into the Registry of Forbidden Sites. The site recently published two ebooks…

A federal court in Wisconsin has sanctioned a lawyer for adult film producer Malibu Media (also known as X-Art) for filing lists of “disturbing lewd, unusual and unredacted titles of pornographic films allegedly also downloaded by the defendant” but not produced by Malibu, in eleven lawsuits. Judge William Conley said that the list “appears calculated…

What happens when a country renowned for its homophobic and extreme religious beliefs opens up about bedroom practices? An Englishwoman’s Guide To Ugandan Sexual Customs & Marriage Rituals (Sabotage Times) In a push by the Federal Government, US universities are required to strengthen their policies and punishments with respect to sexual assault. When Yale University…

This is one of those ‘hell of a post’ posts, that isn’t necessarily news, but you won’t want to miss it. And as a journalist who writes about sex and porn, and also bare-knuckle boxes with tech’s most influential PR departments, I think the PR reference is bracingly right on target. “(…) The kind of…

MT @Wikipedia_Forum: Wikipedia moves #ChelseaManning back to Bradley Manning http://t.co/LSrksGvzcO http://t.co/CJSa15XX1A #girlslikeus — Cecilia C Chung (@cecilia_c_chung) August 31, 2013 If you read any post about Manning’s gender, make it this one: “(…) Manning is a person whose imprisonment for half a lifetime tells us of the ethical failure of the world’s remaining superpower. Manning…