A few quick items to keep you up to speed as we head into the weekend… * World of Warcraft gamers who were hooking up while in-world are going to have to make new plans: Blizzard Cracks Down Erotic Role-Playing in WoW. (tomshardware.com) * I didn’t recognize Hilary Swank in this new latex-y pin-up shoot,…
It’s official: Prop 8 has been struck down as unconstitutional (mercurynews.com). I know it’s already going to be appealed by the Mormons and the h8ters and the same asshats who want porn made illegal, but hey — WE WON TODAY!!!! (The ruling has a 2-day stay.) I’m about to head down to the Castro to…
* It’s a new month (already!) and Jiz Lee is raising money for the Femina Potens art gallery! Please consider contributing to a very important place for feminist porn, art and culture. You really have no idea how much Femina gives back to, and helps out the communities that intersect under this banner. (image via,…
* In this week’s Savage Love column, Dan replies to a reader who asks why women don’t consume porn the same way that men do. In “Cockcakes” Dan combines porn for women, quotes from me, the Our Porn, Ourselves movement, and cupcakes. Extra bonus: Dan calls me “Violet Blue, author, blogger, activist, and tireless foe…
* It’s never been a secret that some lesbians love gay male porn and some gay men love watching straight porn (to get off). In fact, I interviewed lesbian porn filmmaker Shine Louise Houston and we talked about the lez love for gay porn; I interviewed gay male porn star Michael Soldier and we talked…
UPDATE Friday July 16: All charges against John Stagliano have been dropped on a technicality. “‘I hope the government will learn a lesson from its experience,’ [U.S. District Court Judge Richard J.] Leon said in a rebuke. He cited a string of “difficult, challenging and novel questions” raised in the case concerning decades-old federal obscenity…
This is a great story that defies stereotypes; Julia Perez is a sex symbol in Indonesia, a primarily Muslim country (86%) who is currently running for deputy district head in Pacitan, the province Indonesia’s president comes from — with a big focus on sexual health, women’s rights, sex ed for teens and is targeting corruption…
* As you may have heard, Prince(ss) declared the internet “over” so you can just pack up your free tube porn and go home. MK describes it best (image via), “Pack up all your shit and let’s all say our goodbyes to easy access porn, videos of cats riding on Roombas, 505 errors, and up-to-the-second…
FOX Goggles is going to be a new feature here on Tiny Nibbles: it’s shorthand for when a story about sex in culture hits corporate news media and gets spun wildly, often falsely, out of proportion to the point of misleading the public. It happens quite a bit: remember when all us ladies “lost” our…
* It doesn’t matter how you felt about the idea of .xxx domains for porn sites — tomorrow ICANN is making their decision, and all signs point to yes. They’re saying it won’t be made “mandatory” for websites. Not sure how they’d enforce that one, anyway. With all the hysteria and hyperbole prior to this…