The woman that popularized the birth of digital erotic photography in 2000 with her explicit self-portrait book Digital Diaries – Natacha Merritt – has a new book coming out this May. Sexual Selection (top image via, Sexual Selection) Among the nation’s young people, those in the South suffer the worst rates of sexually transmitted infections…
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Sex News: Gillian Anderson, Ender’s Game, Rihanna, PayPal, Limbaugh Condoms, Feminist Porn Awards
Y&R South Africa was briefed by Playboy SA to develop a print campaign to help shift perceptions about the magazine, reaffirming its position as being more than just a nudie mag. Playboy ads ironically say men do read it for the articles (Copyranter, above image via) The SXSW panel “Sex, Dating, and Privacy Online” described…
Sex News: Louboutin at Crazy Horse, Erotica Writer Outed, Bestiality Porn Trial, Robert Pattinson
In collaboration with Parisian cabaret Crazy Horse, Christian Louboutin, a French footwear designer, has consented to be the show’s frist “Guest Creator” and to put up what will hopefully be an exciting play. Here’s a full uncensored gallery at Vancouver Sun – read more at: Crazy Horse: Christian Louboutin Choreographs Erotic Play for Parisian Cabaret…
Sex News: Porn’s Poor New Era, Sex and Zen 4D, Ellen von Unwerth, Santorum SEO
Porn’s iPad future, Capcom’s live game Cross Assault displays ugly sexism and Spreading Santorum’s SEO endures despite Google’s changes. Sex Tech: Porn’s Tech Future, Spreading Santorum SEO, Capcom’s Sexism Problem (Pulp Tech) LOVE this article: “When I entered the industry, we were staying in French chateaus. Now, companies are struggling to stay alive. Somewhere in…
Sex News: Mad Men, Fleshlight at SXSW, Sex Doll STDs, Rape Jokes
Above: Mad Men Season 5 First Look – Official Poster (TV Line) Lisa Ann and Tori Black, two of the Fleshlight “girls,” will be strolling the streets of downtown Austin and taking photos with SXSW attendees. They’ll be accompanied by the Fleshlight mascot. Austin-based maker of Fleshlight sex toy hopes to arouse SXSW visitors (Examiner.com)…
PayPal Censors the Erotic Content of Indie Ebook Publishers
I jumped into erotic e-books as a writer and small publisher at the very beginning. My hope was to have free and open distribution of erotic lit that was not determined by anyone except those who wanted to write it and those that want to read it. I think this new development with PayPal is…
Sex News: Stephen Hawking, YouPorn Wasn’t Hacked, Porn Kickstarter, Ashton Kutcher
Sir Richard Branson wins his dot-XXX name from a squatter with bad intent to his name and mark, YouPorn was not hacked despite current headlines, porn’s own Kickstarter has launched and it looks really cool, and China’s first online sex toy boutique. Sex Tech: YouPorn NOT Hacked, Richard Branson dot-XXX, A Porn Kickstarter (ZDNet) Delegate…
RIP: Actress Lina Romay, Jess Franco’s Muse and “Daughter of Dracula”

The “Bare Breasted Countess” has died. It has been confirmed that actress Lina Romay, x-rated horror actress from Europe’s heady heyday of blood-spattered lesbian vampire films of the 1970s, died on February 15. If you’re not familiar with Romay’s work, and you like cheesy horror films that take themselves seriously as art films, I highly…
Sex News: Home Sperm Test, San Francisco Cherry, Awkward Portlandia Sex, Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Yes, that’s Kink.com, San Francisco (and Lorelei Lee) in the above trailer for Cherry. The two competing Linda Lovelace biopics aren’t the only movies about the porn industry that will be arriving in theaters soon. There is also Cherry, the new film from writer/director Stephen Elliott that includes James Franco, Dev Patel, Lili Taylor, and…
Sex News: Facebook Censorship Rules, Fleshbot Sold, Role Play Arrests, HIV Resistant Women
This is a big Sex News post, with a lot of links worth looking at. We had to do a little server maintenance this week, and I apologize for the backlog (but now we’re sleeker than ever on the, er, back end). In case you were wondering, the photos from a Chinese sex doll factory…