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• The Voice has learned that the FBI’s Los Angeles Internet Crime division has been actively investigating Hunter Moore and Is Anyone Up for months, according to four people who say they’ve been interviewed by the FBI about his now-shuttered site. The case’s focus, according to those familiar with the investigation, was Moore’s possible connection to a hacker who has repeatedly broken into the inboxes of countless victims, rifled through their attachments, and submitted the accompanying nudes to Is Anyone Up.
  “Gary Jones” Wants Your Nudes (Village Voice)

• So much to keep us busy – and I’m thrilled to see Foreign Policy’s first-ever Sex Issue! It is “dedicated instead to the consideration of how and why sex – in all the various meanings of the word – matters in shaping the world’s politics.” Example: The Ayatollah Under the Bed(sheets).
  The Sex Issue (Foreign Policy)

• Interesting: “Thanks to the exhaustive efforts of anthropologists like George Murdock, Douglas White, and dozens of others who contributed to the Standard Cross-Cultural Survey, I can tell you quite emphatically that there is no uniformity of human beliefs about sexual behaviors across cultures and from an early point in time.”
  Taking the Christianity out of Sex (Big Think)

• A Texas patent holding company has filed seven new lawsuits — including three against the top adult entertainment companies — over image-hosting technology. LFP Internet Group, Vivid Entertainment Group and Playboy are among the adult companies hit with patent infringement claims.
  LFP, Vivid, Playboy Hit With New Patent Infringement Claims (XBIZ)

• Rachel Rabbit White writes, “Christians hocking vibrators for Jesus have a specific sex philosophy that goes along with the toys, and it’s a warped version of sex positivity. The religious right may be a slut-shaming, anti-birth-control, homophobic bunch, but there are a number of Christians who are doing sex for the Lord. Who, of course, is always watching.”
  There Are Sex Toys, and Then There Are Christian Sex Toys (Jezebel)

• A good one to add to my Unsafe Sex Toys page: “What on earth are sex toys made of, and are they body safe? Burke Denning writes about the science of sex toy health and safety.”
  The Safety Dance: Sex Toy Safety for a New Generation (Kinsey Confidential)

• “Gangbang Queen” Houston has published a memoir documenting the ups-and-downs and ins-and-outs of her life as one of the ’90s most infamous gonzo performers. Written by Houston — as Kim Halsey — with musician/artist Charles Lupula, “Houston: Pretty Enough, The Story of the Gang Bang Queen” is a truthful and un-romantized account of the ‘starlet’s most memorable moments and some of her more private experiences.
  Porn Icon Houston Publishes Autobiography ‘Pretty Enough’ (XBIZ)

• In case you’re wondering how Miss Universa Canada is doing with previously disqualified trans-girl Jenna Talackova back in the event…
  The Transgender Beauty Queen Kicked Ass (Buzzfeed)

• Turkey is cracking down on the sex trade. This fascinating story follows a woman who has been a legal sex worker for decades as she tries to open her own shop.
  The Brothel Next Door (Foreign Policy)

• The dancers of Paris’ famous Crazy Horse cabaret have gone on strike for more pay, the club confirmed Wednesday. The dancers, who voted on Monday to strike, told RTL radio their salaries “no longer correspondent to the burden of work demanded”.
  Nude cabaret dancers strike for better pay (Times LIVE)

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• Women who ride a bicycle on a regular basis are at an increased risk of losing some sensation the pelvic region which can lead to less pleasure during sex, according to a new Yale study.
  Cycling May Diminish Sexual Pleasure in Women, Lead to Numbness of the Genitalia (Medical Daily)

• They’ve made sexy boring. Best article of the week! “The only difference between the girls – always ‘girls’ – of FHM and the women I meet in real life, is that real life is a lot more diverse (…) When it comes to what people find sexy, there’s a truth in porn considerably purer than the sterile, manufactured consent of glossy magazines.”
  Sexual correctness gone mad (Guardian UK)

• About parents, kids and the porn talk: Parents have learned to expect, and often dread, two sex talks with their children: the early lesson about the “birds and the bees” and the more delicate discussion of how to navigate a healthy sexual life as a young adult. But now they are wrestling with a third: the pornography talk.
  When Children See Internet Pornography (NYTimes, via Jiz Lee)

• After Porn Ends is a documentary that examines the lives and careers of some of the biggest names in the history of the adult entertainment industry – Mary Carey, Houston, Asia Carrera, Shelly Lubben, John Leslie, Nina Hartley, Luke Ford, etc.) and what happens after they leave the porn business. Uncensored trailer here.
  After Porn Ends Documentary (After Porn Ends)

• Consumers may soon be able to test themselves for HIV and quickly learn the results in the privacy of their own homes following a unanimous approval recommendation from a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee on Tuesday.
  FDA panel recommends approving home HIV test (CNN)

• A former supervisory FBI agent is arrested and jailed on child pornography charges. He had been an FBI special agent from 1983 to 2008, serving as a bomb technician. He worked on the Oklahoma City bombing and Unabomber investigations, according to his university biography.
  Former top FBI agent charged with child porn distribution (CNN)

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