This week, in a widely anticipated vote, the Los Angeles City Council passed an ordinance requiring condoms to be used in all permitted adult films shot within city limits. Lorelei Lee, who’s worked with and without condoms, argues that mandatory enforcement is misguided. Porn Performer: Why I’m Against Government Mandated Condom Use in Porn (AlterNet)…
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Sex News: Condoms in Porn, Facial Ejaculation, Asexuality, CES 2012 Booth Babes, Michael Fassbender
CES 2012 booth babes told press that women prefer raising kids to being in technology, men publicly harassed the babes for dates, and female attendees probably wondered if they’d accidentally wandered onto the set of Mad Men. The CES 2012 booth babe problem (Pulp Tech) The Los Angeles City Council approved a new mandate Tuesday…
Supreme Court Considers Fleeting Expletives and Brief Nudity on TV…Again
Did you know that earlier this week, the nine justices of the US Supreme Court were asked to consider the bare asses hanging over their heads? If you said “no,” don’t feel bad. It was news to me that there are bare asses hanging over the highest court in the land — the one that…
Sex News: Evan Rachel Wood, SOPA Porn Protest, Ned Stark, Woman With Two Vaginas
Sex tech, booth babes, porn stars, high tech sex toys and more were at the Consumer Electronics Show, 2012. Sex Tech Weekly: CES 2012 booth babes, teledildonics and porn (Pulp Tech) When British television aired a story about a woman who had been born with double the equipment – two vaginas, two cervixes and two…
Sunday Sex WTF: A Sample of Lodged Foreign Objects 2011
You’ve no doubt heard the joke about the guy who ends up in the emergency room with a bottle of shampoo lodged too far up his bum for at-home removal, claiming that he slipped and fell while taking a shower… Well, as many of us who have worked sex crisis hotlines (or those who have…
Sex News: Porn’s Condom Problem, Plus Size Models, Prison Sex, XBIZ Porn Awards
In its January issue, plucky Plus Model Magazine just published an editorial featuring totally naked plus model Katya Zharkova contrasted as a plus-size model to a standard fashion model. The images are sobering. Plus-Size Model Editorial Says Runway Models ‘Meet the Physical Criteria for Anorexia’ (Fashionista) Adult film star Asa Akira (at right) won Female…
Sex News: CES, Groupon Kink Offer, Porn for Women, Anderson Cooper
Continuing financial and social insecurity have been big news in 2011 and the world of porn has also seen its share of uncertainty. Something that has become apparent over the last 12 months is that female porn consumers have become incredibly comfortable with adult material; the new generation of internet users see porn as their…
Sex News: Spreading Santorum, Rape in the US, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Farm Animals
This week we see what happens when a data nerd analyzes call girl ads and a sex worker survey in Britain, Facebook’s obscene and pornographic flagged photos turn out to be false claims, and beloved search engine expert Danny Sullivan takes a look at Rick Santorum’s enduring issues with Google search results. Sex Tech Weekly:…
Sex News: Nixon, Manscaping, Religious Sex Toys, Apps for Douchebags
Remember Jacques Magazine, nicknamed ‘hipster porn’? Two years ago, major chain bookstores had begun adding Jacques to their newsstands. A deal was struck with PowerHouse Books to put together a calendar for a 2011 release. Then things began to fall apart… Soft Porn, Hardening Hearts: A Magazine’s Private Story (The Brooklyn Ink) Christian, Jewish, and…
Sex News: Wank Champ, Love and Autism, Lady Gaga, Backpage Murders, Rihanna
UK tabloid The Sun has a great collection of sexy stills of Rihanna from her hot new video, You Da One. Rihanna’s new video is BAD (The Sun) This is one of my favorite posts of 2011. “For anybody with an interest in cultural history — and especially, aspects of cultural history that have ever…