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• Fashion and beauty website Refinery29.com has posted photos that take viewers through the 44,780-square-foot office space of Playboy Enterprises, designed by architecture firm Wolcott Architecture | Interiors.
  Office Porn: Take Our Exclusive Tour Of Playboy’s Posh BH HQ! (Refinery29)

• In response to Revenge Porn King Hunter Moore‘s new HunterMoore.tv, a site that might make it much easier to locate, stalk and even harm anyone whose images are published there, Anonymous recently mounted #OpHuntHunter and #OpAntiBully, efforts to expose everything Mr. Moore hasn’t made public or doesn’t want the public to know.
  Anonymous Hacks HunterMoore.tv, Posts Everything Online [Updated] (Betabeat, thanks Viviane!)

• Betabeat spoke with @KYAnonymous, an Anonymous operative who, along with @jackherer20, launched #OpHuntHunter and posted a list of Mr. Moore’s personal information to Pastebin. KY Anonymous proved to Betabeat that he’s behind the video calling for the attack on Mr. Moore by inputting text into the description field at Betabeat’s request.
  An Interview with the Anonymous Member Who Launched the Campaign Against Hunter Moore and Revenge Porn (Betabeat)

• Apple, which debuted iTunes in Russia on Tuesday along with 55 other countries, apparently had been rushing to roll out the service with programmers employing “xxx.xxx” placeholders for some fields.
  In Russia, Apple iTunes Store Serves Up Porn (XBIZ)

• Revenge porn site PinkMeth.com has been hit with a $1 million suit from a Texas woman who says that its operators published nude photos of her without permission.
  Revenge Porn Site PinkMeth.com Sued for $1 Million (XBIZ)

• Rachel James sat down with the founder and executive director of the Museum of Sex, Daniel Gluck, to talk about the past 10 years, the politics of sex, and his newest venture, a bar called Play.
  Q&A: Daniel Gluck, executive director, Museum of Sex (SmartPlanet)

• For December, sexologist and author Dr. Debby Herbenick hangs out on Gizmodo and answers reader questions, which seem to begin with a focus on penis enlargement. Proving that once again, Gizmodo is its own punchline.
  Are There Any Scientifically Proven “Miracle” Methods to Enlarge Your Penis? (Gizmodo)

• Researchers have looked at some interesting physical characteristics to differentiate between gay and straight people.
  Biological Characteristics Associated with Homosexuality (IMPACT Program)

• To raise money for Prostate Cancer UK, Oxford University Rugby Football Club players have posed for a 2013 calendar – and while hot, they disappoint by not going all the way.
  Players from Oxford University Rugby Football Club strip off for calendar to raise money for Prostate Cancer UK (Mail Online)

• Nancy Huston won the Bad Sex in Fiction Award, the U.K.’s “most dreaded literary prize,” for a steamy description of a threesome involving a photographer, her camera and her lover.
  Bad Sex in Fiction Award Won by Huston Novel ‘Infrared’ (Bloomberg)

• “If sex was once difficult to discuss openly, black sex was especially fraught. It touched on too many taboos: stereotypes and caricatures of “black Hottentots” with freakish feminine proportions; of asexual mammies or lascivious Jezebels; of hypersexual black men lusting after white women. (…)”
  Who’s Afraid of Black Sexuality? (The Chronicle Review)

• Copyright trolling firm Prenda Law hit a new low on Tuesday, when an exasperated federal judge in Tampa, FL, threw out its copyright infringement case. Judge Scriven dismissed the case for, among other things, “attempted fraud on the Court” for sending a “representative” to court who knew next to nothing about the company he was representing. This is especially interesting because I profiled Prenda Law for ZDNet in Hacker hater: Meet the star client of porn’s “most prolific” copyright lawyer (Pulp tech)
  Porn trolling case thrown out for “attempted fraud on the court” (Ars Technica)

• What was Publishers Weekly thinking? The trade journal has named author E.L. James the Publishing Person of the Year. An interview with James (Fifty Shades of Grey) is forthcoming in its Monday issue.
  Blinded by dollar signs? PW names E.L. James person of the year (LA Times)

• The august flagship of the Ivy League, Harvard University, approved Friday a student group devoted to kinky sex called Harvard College Munch, a university spokesman said. The group promotes “a positive and accurate understanding of alternative sexualities and kink on campus, as well as to create a space where college-age adults may reach out to their peers and feel accepted in their own sexuality,” according to the school website.
  Harvard approves student group devoted to kinky sex on campus (CNN)

• After snapping up film rights for $5 million, Universal is upset over a porn movie it says is a “rip-off, plain and simple.”
  ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Porn Adaptation Sued by Universal (Hollywood Reporter)

• I’m *still* jealous that Bacchus got to see Dan Savage in person – but thankfully, Bacchus gave us this superb writeup of the experience. “After his prepared remarks, Dan took questions from the audience. These were sometimes unintentionally hilarious (for instance, the one from the self-described Republican woman who challenged Dan because she felt “bullied” by his rough-and-tumble political remarks)…”
  Dan Savage, Live And In Person! (ErosBlog: The Sex Blog)

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