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  • The Pope will have immunity from prosecution regarding the mishandling of child sex crimes by staying within the walls of the Vatican, according to an anonymous Vatican source. Reuters reported Friday, Feb. 15, that church sources have explained that the retiring Pope Benedict would be “defenseless” if he leaves the Vatican.
    The Pope seeks immunity from child sex crime conspiracy investigation (Examiner; also Reuters has what looks to me like Vatican-issued PR on the topic)
  • This is a total puff piece about 3D printing and sex toys (there is not currently a home-printing sex toy phenomenon). But don’t miss where Thingiverse’s lawyer said that Thingiverse has disallowed CAD files of sex toy blueprints on its website because, “We want to be open-source but we have to draw the line. You can’t post that stuff here.” Which shows us all how they really feel about open source. As in, Thingiverse will allow the red-headed stepchild of innovation (known as open source) into their house, but they ‘have to draw the line’ at family photos…
    Cheap 3D printers fuel home-printed sex toy “phenomenon” (Dezeen)
  • Great news! The number one sex-ed website for young adults – our beloved Scarleteen – now has live IM sex advice!
    Scarleteen Live! (Scarleteen)
  • A billboard making oral sex jokes and featuring porn star and Charlie Sheen “goddess” Bree Olson is currently up on a busy street corner in Chicago.
    Porn Ads Reaching New Mainstream Levels (Buzzfeed)
  • File under: censorship is at its most unchecked and frightening extremes when under the banner of fear: Iceland could become the first Western democracy to attempt censorship of the internet under radical proposals to block online pornography.
    Iceland considers pornography ban (Telegraph)
  • Good news. The sex ed reform bill we wanted has made it closer to the finish line: Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), and 32 other Democratic politicians re-introduced the “Real Education for Healthy Youth Act” on Thursday, legislation that would “expand comprehensive sex education programs in schools and ensure that federal funds are spent on effective, age-appropriate, medically accurate programs.”
    Lawmakers Introduce Sweeping Sex Ed Bill To Expand LGBT Inclusive, Gender Balanced Health Classes (Think Progress)
  • Maggie Mayhem has written a lengthy rage-post about her troubling personal experiences working at Kink.com, and levies a number of strong accusations at founder and CEO Peter Acworth (and others) who she says have shaped and participated in what she describes as a dark behind-the-scenes culture.
    Tales Of Kink.Com (Maggie Mayhem Speaks)
  • Meet Crave’s Duet, a dual-headed vibrator that charges via USB and can store up to 16GB of digital stuff. Half of it is the rechargeable battery with the Flash memory—convenient to store all your porn—and the other half is the dual-headed vibe.
    Duet Vibrator Comes With Up to 16GB of Storage—Wait, What? (Gizmodo)
  • Google is trying to figure out the cause of a mysterious search bug that returns pages and pages of almost exclusively pornographic and adult results when users enter certain equations or search strings.
    Google Search Glitch Serves Up Porn Results, Links (Sydney Morning Herald)

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  • The fears of major health organizations have come true: Gonorrhea that is immune to the last remaining effective oral antibiotic has been detected in at least nine North American patients, meaning the era of “incurable” gonorrhea could be close.
    First Antibiotic-Resistant Gonorrhea Cases Detected in North America (US News and World Report)
  • Just… wow. CNBC should be embarrassed for running a wholly inaccurate piece with no research or fact checking whatsoever. I don’t link to false reporting on sex, but I want to expose CNBC for this one.
    Porn’s New Market: Women (CNBC)
  • When I worked at Good Vibrations, the company had long been repackaging adult manufacturer’s toys into tasteful wrappers because the ugly, garish, sexist, sometimes racist and often gender-insulting adult industry packaging harmed sales and damaged our customer relationships. I hope the industry attitude about branding decisions has evolved.
    AVN session on promoting brand features porn stars, sex-toy manufacturer (Las Vegas Review Journal)

  • An interesting post that includes La Grand Bouffe, The Cook, the Thief, his wife and her Lover, Tampopo and more. It explores “a couple of films combining two of the best things in life. Sometimes in distorted, vulgar and troublesome ways.”
    Sex and Food (S Magazine)
  • This is just wrong and awful: An eighth-grade science teacher, fired after her porn past was exposed, may see her pay and benefits revoked at a board of trustees meeting today, according to officials from the Oxnard School District.
    California Science Teacher Fired for Porn Past May Lose Pay (ABC News; asshole video autoplay warning)
  • Congrats! Pink Visual President Allison Viva’s new book, “Making Peace with Porn: Adult Entertainment and Your Guy” is now available for pre-order. Among the issues that Vivas addresses is the stereotypical presentation of the adult entertainment business as “an industry filled with powerful men and victimized women.” To counter that notion, Vivas cites the stories and careers of noteworthy and empowered performers, ex-performers, producers and businesswomen such as Nina Hartley, Stormy Daniels, Lexi Belle, Alexis Texas, Shy Love, T.J. Hart, Sasha Grey, Tristan Taormino and more.
    Pink Visual’s Allison Viva’s New Book Now Available for Pre-Order (XBIZ)
  • Because Robin Leech wrote this piece about the porn convention it’s impossible for me to *not* have his voice reading his bombastic writing in my head. He’s really into those porn chicks. But, it’s important to note that this is the first year the expo isn’t at the same time as CES, so we’ll see how this goes.
    2013 AVN/AEE: Porn stars plan 96-hour marathon of L.V. events (Las Vegas Sun News)
  • OKCupid’s new blind date app came out, to some fanfare and probably a little more mockery. But it’s hit a snag: Apparently, it was coughing up users’ emails and birth dates for anyone who bothered to dig for them.
    OkCupid App Bug Exposed Email Addresses and Birth Dates (Gizmodo)
  • Jade Blue (no relation) writes, “The adult industry is the last acceptable arena for racism.”
    Racism In Porn (InfoBarrel)
  • Many teenagers live half their lives on social media sites, and they’re writing the rules as they go. One online trend 16-year-old Radio Rookie Temitayo Fagbenle finds disturbing is something she calls “slut-shaming,” or using photos and videos to turn a girl’s private life inside out.
    Radio Rookies: Sexual Cyberbullying: The Modern Day Letter A (WNYC)

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  • Once a week, Daily Intel takes a peek behind doors left slightly ajar. This week, the Brooklyn Woman Hooking Up During Hurricane Sandy: Female, 29, management consultant, Carroll Gardens, straight-ish, in an open marriage.
    Hurricane Sandy Sex Diary (Daily Intel)
  • Great article, NYT: “Before they take off all their clothes, the actors who perform as James Deen and Stoya go through a ritual unique to the heterosexual adult film industry. First, they show each other their cellphones: Each has an e-mail from a laboratory saying he or she just tested negative for H.I.V., syphilis, chlamydia and gonorrhea. Then they sit beside the film’s producer, Shylar Cobi, as he checks an industry database with their real names to confirm that those negative tests are less than 15 days old. (…)”
    Unlikely Model for H.I.V. Prevention – Adult Film Industry (NYTimes)
  • Ex-porn star Sasha Grey has been cast in acclaimed Spanish filmmaker Nacho Vigalondo’s new high-concept thriller “Open Windows.” The film, now shooting in Madrid, costars Elijah Wood and is being shot in real time and utilize footage from webcams, tablets, mobile phones, satellite and security cams to tell its story.
    Ex-Porn Star Sasha Grey Cast in Elijah Wood Horror Film (XBIZ)
  • I work with doctors and nurses who have done this exact work, and it is chilling to read this: A doctor who’s treated tens of thousands of women raped in the Democratic Republic of Congo was fiercely attacked last week. Dr. Denis Mukwege is the world’s best-known doctor treating women who have been raped in that country’s 16 years of conflict; he has treated more than 40,000 women and has operated on more than 15,000 women whose bodies have been ripped apart by sexualized violence.
    The Misogyny Behind an Attempted Assassination of a Man in Congo (The Atlantic)
  • Fueled by the Fifty Shades trilogy, sales of adult trade books rose 18.2 percent in July, according to AAP’s just released StatShot figures. In the month, e-book sales increased 47.4 percent while trade paperback sales rose 49.7 percent, the two formats that have benefited the most from Shades.
    Adult Trade Up in July (Publishers Weekly)

Main post photo: Henriett Barabas by Boris Ovini, Dahse Magazine A/W 2012

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  • My dear friend Jack Shamama brings us the above iPhone pic – a classic Folsom Street Fair moment in time (San Francisco, Sunday September 23).
    Best Folsom 2012 moment … (Jack Shamama | Twitter)
  • Turkish rescue workers retrieved an inflatable sex doll from the Black Sea after police were notified by panicked residents who mistook it for a woman’s body floating offshore, Milliyet newspaper reported on Sunday.
    Turkish divers ‘rescue’ blow-up sex doll from sea (Reuters)
  • At The Rumpus, Zoe Ruiz writes a melodic essay about meeting her first and only porn star crush, Kink’s Princess Donna.
    Donna (The Rumpus)
  • So many sex subcultures get to do the biggest ‘I told you so’ over this one: New research finds that comfort with sexual communication is directly linked to sexual satisfaction. According to the study, people who are more comfortable talking about sex are apparently happier with their erotic lives.
    Talking About Sex During Sex Is Good for Sex (LiveScience)
  • The fact that Burning Man has not been doing rape kits before shipping sexual assault victims off the playa is so fucking inexcusable, I can’t even dig into the rest of this post, which is (IMO) one horrifying admission after another.
    Sexual Assault in Black Rock City (Burning [Man] Blog)
  • One of the sex educators I respect above nearly all others is Dr. Cory Silverberg, and in this post he describes how he sees and defines gender in fascinating details. I think it’s the start of a roadmap for our present, and their future.
    What Do I Call Gender? (About: Sex)
  • National Geographic’s “Taboo” series has mostly been poorly researched, sex-negative, sensationalistic crap. But this installment about female bodybuilders paying rent by doing fetish work is interesting.
    Muscle Worship (National Geographic Channel)
  • There’s most certainly more to this story: an English subject worksheet for third-year students at an Islamic school in East Java contained the [clothed] image of the porn star Maria Ozawa, popularly known as Miyabi.
    Japanese porn star in workbook angers Indonesian parents (Times LIVE)
  • Bosnia’s electoral commission has kicked out an independent candidate from the race for the mayor of the country’s fourth-largest city for using online porn to attract voters: Mirad Hadziahmetovic was banned from participating in the race for mayor of Zenica in the October elections for uploading pornographic video clips to his official campaign site.
    Bosnian candidate banned from elections over porn (Boston.com)
  • Last week’s CatalystCon, a new conference on human sexuality, assembled a variety of perspectives around sex and porn, from sex educator Charlie Glickman’s take on modern masculinity to “professional naked woman” Jolene Parton’s views on fat women in porn.
    Porn and the media: How the pornography industry wants to be covered (Slate)
  • We already knew Paris Hilton was a bigot, mostly towards Blacks and Asians, but now we get to add gays to that list. A taxi driver recorded a conversation between Paris and her gay model friend who was explaining the Grindr app. This eventually led to Paris Hilton shouting that most gays have AIDS.
    Paris Hilton Says Most Gays Who Have Sex Randomly Probably Have AIDS (The Blemish)

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This month, Kink.com‘s legendary sex machine site Fucking Machines turns twelve years old. It’s kind of hard to believe that it’s been around that long, though it was the second website in the Kink (then “Cybernet”) empire. Fucking Machines isn’t old enough to visit itself, but it did get a shiny new look. A lot has changed with online porn, machine tech and content delivery online since its humble beginnings.

Why do women like to do this, and why do we like to watch? Check out this article I wrote for the SF Chronicle a few years back: Why Machine Sex? Violet Blue goes deep undercover to find out why women like to have sex with machines, and why people pay good money to watch.

Now, they have the world’s largest collection of sex machines in one place, and some of the most advanced on the planet – and there are a lot of stars that have been on Fucking Machines over that long twelve years. Still, there are some really great scenes in the archives – I’ve picked a little “best of” below to celebrate a porn site that has been a mainstay in the online sex and tech revolution.

(FM updates two times per week and has four monthly live shows.)

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Sasha Grey “Equal Pay Day” PSA

20 March 2012
Earlier this month, one of our favorite former porn stars Sasha Grey lent her persona, past and voice to Equal Pay Day, a Belgium-based org that claims it aims to close the wage gap between two genders. Looking at what they've done with editing and the final message, it looks […]
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Sex News: EFF Dating Site Privacy, Radcliffe Reads Potter Erotica, Sasha Grey, Porn Murder

11 February 2012
A woman with the world’s largest breast implants walked away from a car crash unscathed claiming her huge boobs saved her life. Sheyla Hershey’s massive 38KKK breasts had an airbag effect, protecting the rest of her body from injury in the smash. My giant boobs saved my life! Woman claims […]
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Sex News: Holiday Sex, Leo Laporte, Aurora Snow, Instagram Hotties, Men and Young Girls

23 December 2011
This week in sex and tech - Vatican-dot-XXX, Silicon Valley sperm donor’s other hobby, sex workers protest at Google, and more porn in the SOPA debate. Sex Tech Weekly: Google Sex Protest, Vatican-dot-XXX, SOPA (Pulp Tech) In late 2009, Walgreens signed a licensing deal to sell one of Screaming O's […]
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Eye Candy: All Natural Girls, And A Few Words About Porn’s Pubic Trends

19 October 2011
The latest episode of (my current favorite show) Boardwalk Empire featured lots of beautiful, naked, unenhanced, all-natural women. They were not shaved or waxed. Mind you, I'm a personal fan of the shaved babe and being hair-free, but the current trend in porn (the porn people look at as opposed […]
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Winter Is Coming: Warm Up With SMUT’s Sasha Grey Polar Fleece Blanket

3 October 2011
Winter is coming... so you better make sure you have enough blankets and sweaters. I was poking around Smut Clothing's Twitter feed (I love them!) and saw that they had made a very, very naughty houseware item: the Sasha Grey X SMUT Blanket. Made of polar fleece, it features a […]
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The Ghost of Porn Hotness Past: Sasha Grey

21 September 2011
Sasha Grey doesn't perform in porn anymore, but I just came across a great collection of really hot photo posts of her (most are circa 2008) on one of my longtime favorite sex photography tumblogs. Do take a scroll through Sasha Grey: Fluffy Lychees (also look for filthy gorgeous explicit […]
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Eye Candy: The Girlfriend Experience

4 July 2011
My favorite new galleries from my favorite sites this week, which I guarantee are 10,000 times more exciting than Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience. I'm watching it for free on Amazon Prime right now (I have the flu, fever for two days running) and I think they should have called it […]
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Nibbles: Sasha Grey On Eminem, Porn Industry On .XXX, Supreme Court vs. FCC Regs, Largest Breasted Woman Empowered As Fetish Girl, AIDS Worsens With Gov’t Denial of Inmate Sex

28 June 2011
Sexy actress watch: You may not know who Grace Huang is yet but you'll be seeing a lot more of her when The RZA's martial arts feature The Man With The Iron Fists hits the big screen. First Shots From Hong Kong Action Fantasy Blood Traffick (Twitch Film, image via) There […]
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Friday Nibbles: Hollywood Herpes Lawsuit, Flynt Lawsuit, Bin Laden’s Porn Collection, (Legal) Masturbation At Work

13 May 2011
Good luck keeping this a "Doe" suit: A-list celeb lawsuit over contracting herpes reveals existence of video taken during the sex - YouPorn has already bid $1 million for it: Hollywood Herpes Lawsuit Alleges 'A-List Celebrity' Gave STD (ABC News) The Flynt family seems to be a stormy set: Larry […]
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The Feminist Porn Awards 2011 Winners (Galleries, Video, More)

22 April 2011
Now in its fifth year, the Feminist Porn Awards are making history, getting recognition from the mainstream porn industry, and becoming legendary. (They didn't need anything from Big Porn, but I think it's great to see more bridges built.) No narrow stereotypes of porn, of feminism, or anything else here […]
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Monday Nibbles: Sasha Grey Retires, Demi And Kutcher On Sex Trafficking, More Porn Wikileaks Info, US Military Rape Epidemic

11 April 2011
A shocking expose on the frequency of soldier-on-soldier rape in the US military: 1 in 15 men, and 1 in 5 women, making female service people more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than to die in combat: The Military's Secret Shame (Newsweek; read it one one page […]
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Sunday Nibbles: Alternet on Slut Shaming, AshleyMadison Junk Food, Sasha Grey’s Neu Book, Porn Star Memoirs, Altporn Doc Download

3 April 2011
I had no idea until I read this that Julia Allison had been targeted for allegedly being a blowjob queen. Things would be a lot more exciting around Sili Valley if it were actually true. Trust me: observing sex culture and tech culture simultaneously most of my adult life has […]
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New Pics from “Rough Sex” Videos by Tristan Taormino

4 March 2011
Tristan Taormino just added a hot new set to her growing collection of explicit still galleries for her film series Rough Sex, so I thought you might want to see them all in one feature. Taormino makes mainstream porn for Vivid - and it's not like any other mainstream pr0ns. […]
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Monday Nibbles: Facebook Breakup Notifier, Sasha Grey and Eminem, Lady Porn Day

21 February 2011
* Creepy and stalkery? Check. Will people use it to see if their crushes become single? Check. Did I first wish I'd had it years ago when I crushed on someone that was taken, and then instantly felt icky? Check. It's the Facebook Breakup Notifier (breakupnotifier.com, via Hacker News) * Antidote: […]
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