Image by my beautiful friend Ell at Wilfuldamage. I’ve been sitting on this one for a few days, and it’s in tomorrow’s column — but it’s got enough controversy to stand on its own as a solo post for sure. In Genes May Time Loss of Virginity a study is examined that looked at whether…
Category: Sex News
Scientists film HIV spreading for the first time
For the first time in the history of HIV/AIDS, a team of scientists from UC Davis university in California, and Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York filmed an HIV infected cell as it infected a healthy cell — and it’s going to change the way HIV is treated because it’s not replicating the…
Sanity
From Wired: Judge Temporarily Bars Prosecutor from Charging Teens for Child Porn Pics. A federal judge in Pennsylvania has granted a temporary restraining order to prevent a district attorney from charging three teenage girls with the production of child pornography for allowing someone to take photos of them in states of undress. In his ruling…
The Boston Herald could have at least *linked* to Gimps Gone Wild
Just sayin’ if they’re going to be so judgmental about it they could at least link… ‘Wheelchair vamp dwarf’ porn is big business online (bostonherald.com, via Japundit)
We can haz common sense: ACLU picks up teen sex text “child pr0n” case
On January 29, 2009 in the San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate I wrote Kids Charged for Child Porn (Violet Blue: When Teens Make Their Own Porn, Who’s Being Exploited?). It focused on three girls from Pennsylvania who had just been charged with manufacturing, disseminating or possessing child pornography — for taking nudie self-portraits and texting…
A few things
Image by freckeldshoulders via Forum Voissa. * Girls With Slingshots (webcomic) does porn for women. * I have this Laughing Squid post up about my favorite talks from SXSWi 2009, including Fair Use on Trial, the EFF’s How Not to be Evil and Therapy 2.0: Mental Health for Geeks. Includes a really fun video. *…
Today’s Chron column: Red State Porn — sorta
Haha, the headlines said: Conservative states pay for porn! OMFG, what *news*. Image by the ever-talented tanguero (BLOCK, rinse, repeat). In the SF Chron online this week, I skewered the media over the really kind of weird porn study that showed conservative US states are the biggest porn buyers. Notoriously, ones that voted for McCain…
Gay marriage + equality : Gallery and livestream of in-court arguments
SF Appeal (sfappeal.com) is a site I’ve been working on with many other incredible people, but we haven’t officially launched yet — but if you want to see all the coverage (text, galleries, videos) I’ve been doing of today’s Prop 8 / marriage equality protests and our exclusive livestreaming (and archiving) of tomorrow’s in-court only…
The DNA Lounge, the California ABC, LGBT events and the lawsuit
Image by netik from his DNA Lounge’s Mardi Gras event photoset, featuring The Hubba Hubba Revue. This week’s SF Chronicle column is The ABC’s New Anti-Gay Crusade? Violet Blue: ABC’s recent targeting of LGBT events at the DNA Lounge is a tragic non-surprise. The situation really sucks and saddens many corners of many communities: help…
“The scourge of ‘Fleshbot culture'”
Image of Mistress Simone Kross from this brand new hardcore Men in Pain gallery, with videos. Hey, I helped create that culture. Yay! I’ll let this one speak for itself, Workplace Pornography: A “Virulent Cancer”!(reason.com), snip: The Washington Times unleashes a 750-word editorial on the scourge of Fleshbot culture. “Pornography is a major workplace problem…