hot boy thursday

• Radiation shield boxers: While harm from cell-phone rays has so far been lacking sufficient scientific proof, a US firm wants men to take no chances with radiation. Boxer shorts made with the use of thin silver textile “absorb radiation” will help “protect men’s reproductive organs and maintain fertility health,” according to their producer, Manhattan-based Belly Armor company.
  Radiation-proof, sperm-friendly boxers launched (RT; also ABC)

• Kink and seeing your doctor. As more people embrace their inner kinkster, doctors need to know the details to provide quality health care. This can be complicated.
  Coming Out Kinky to Your Doctor, in Black and Blue (Daily Beast)

• News outlets were quick to cover the launch of Titcoin, because it’s good fun and good click-bait to put porn and tech trends together. But what, then, has Titcoin done to be adult-industry friendly, other than insert ‘Tit’ into its name?
  Why Is Wall Street Taking ‘Titcoin’ Seriously? (Playboy; please note that the editor is responsible for the title of my article)

• Porn tube sites now run the adult industry. Founded in 2007 by Canadians Stephane Manos and Ouissam Youssef, MindGeek (formerly known as Manwin and Mansef) has over 100 million daily visitors and is one of the top 10 consumers of bandwidth; some reports have them in the top three. They operate nearly a hundred websites that in total consume more bandwidth than Twitter, Amazon, or Facebook.
  Mindgeek porn monopoly: Its dominance is a cautionary tale for other industries. (Slate)

• A Taiwanese company is taking social networks and teledildonics all the way (finally!) with the beta launch of its tasteful new social network, LovePalz Club. Intended to be paired with the LovePalz Twist (a sex toy with male and female versions that retail for $89 and $79 respectively), it makes use of Bluetooth to connect devices through a cloud server. Once coupled with another Twist, you can control the speed, pattern, and pressure of the vibrations felt by your partner.
  Adult Social Network Connects Strangers via Sex Toys (Future of Sex)

• The Berlin Porn Film Festival (official site) is having another epic year — I’m sad to miss it. Happy for us, Pandora Blake is blogging her experiences there.
  Landing in Berlin (Spanked, Not Silenced)

• Miami-Dade (Florida) County’s sex offender residency law and housing restrictions are some of the tightest in the country. The ACLU is now challenging that law, and the way it’s been enforced in Miami, with a lawsuit filed Thursday on behalf of the sex offenders.
  ACLU Challenges Miami Law On Behalf Of Homeless Sex Offenders (NPR)

• Temporary tattoos as skin ads was covered by the NYT in 2009, and there’s even the brokerage company, Lease Your Body. Show Palace, Long Island City’s self-described “opulent” all-nude cabaret venue is launching SkinAds, an advertising program that will use the backs, stomachs, arms and legs of their performers as ad space. PornHub is the first company to participate in the ad program.
  PornHub Now Uses Temporary Tattoos To Advertise On Strippers’ Bodies (New York Observer; thanks Viviane!)

• Kink’s XXX haunted house sounds intense. It should go without saying that Hell In the Armory, the new haunted house attraction in the basement of the infamous Kink.com headquarters, is not for pearl-clutchers.
  I Went To ‘Hell In The Armory,’ And I Have A Few Words Of Advice (SFist)

• The absolutism of the fight against vanilla sex (it’s never just like “have fun with it!”) suggests a total lack of awareness re: the actualities of the kink community.
  Vanilla Sex: A Perfectly Fine Way to Fuck (Gawker)

• A case of the hiccups that just won’t go away no matter what you do could physically and mentally drain you. Before you take a spoonful of peanut butter or try to scare yourself silly, try to have an orgasm instead.
  Sex Yourself To Better Health: 4 Aches And Pains Orgasms Can Cure (Medical Daily)

• Ebola and sex: it is transmitted through bodily fluids, but only after a patient begins showing symptoms, experts say. Even though sex involves a high level of bodily fluid exchange — including semen, saliva and sweat — most experts say it isn’t risky if a person is not showing initial flu-like symptoms of the virus such as a high fever, body aches and vomiting or diarrhea.
  Sex and Ebola: How risky? (CBS News)

• Aurora Snow wants to know: “The media lost its marbles over a Notre Dame sports star’s date with a porn actor. Gawker “outs” journalists and pols that follow porn stars on Twitter. What’s with the porn hysteria?”
  Porn Stars Are People Too, Dammit: Lisa Ann’s Notre Dame Date and the Trolling of David Gregory (Daily Beast)

• A woman has become the first person to be charged under a new ‘revenge porn law’ after posting a naked picture of her ex-boyfriend’s new partner online.
  Rachel Lynn Craig is first charged under ‘revenge porn law’ in Virginia (Daily Mail)

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• New York’s Times Square has always been an eyegasm of advertising, so the adult website Pornhub’s enormous Times Square billboard featuring the winner of its contest seeking a great non-pornographic ad fit right in. Sadly, the ad was quickly removed.
  Pornhub Erects Huge Billboard in Times Square After Long Search for a Great Non-Pornographic Ad (Adweek)

• My first article for Playboy points out that Jennifer Lawrence is the new face of revenge porn, and that suing Google would be the least productive use of the power, influence and money she could bring to actually changing what revenge porn victims go through.
  Jennifer Lawrence: The New Face of Revenge Porn (Playboy)

• In a much-criticized post Wednesday on LinkedIn Pulse, business writer Bruce Kasanoff derided Jennifer Lawrence for posing modestly topless in Vanity Fair magazine. Originally titled “Why Jennifer Lawrence’s Breasts Confuse Me” and later changed to “Why Jennifer Lawrence Confuses Me,” Kasanoff’s piece showed an inability to understand consent. Kasanoff deleted the inflammatory article Thursday.
  Jennifer Lawrence’s Breasts Aren’t Sending Mixed Messages (TIME)

• Someone is trying to make “The Snappening” happen. Whether they’re trying to make it happen as a nude photo dump or as a hoax is unclear. Naturally, Snapchat says it’s their users’ own fault saying, “Snapchatters were victimized by their use of third-party apps (…)”
  A Third-Party App May Have Leaked Tens of Thousands of Snapchat P (Gizmodo)

• Actress Amanda Bynes made some startling accusations on Twitter about her father this morning and then retracted them. She had tweeted that her father “verbally and physically” abused her as a child.
  Amanda Bynes Accuses Her Father of Sexual Abuse, Then Takes It Back – Hollywood Reporter (Hollywood Reporter)

• A male-on-male sexual assaulter has put the SFSU campus on high alert this week after an incident on the running track. University police issued the alert after a male jogger reported having his ass grabbed by an unknown Asian male on Tuesday evening while he was trying to go for a jog.
  Guy Who Likes To Grab Other Guys’ Butts While Jogging Sought Near SF State (SFist)

• Playboy just spoke with Elijah Wood while he was promoting Open Windows — a thriller that revolves around a computer geek (Wood) gaining voyeuristic access to his favorite actress (Sasha Grey) via increasingly questionable means — and discovered the most disturbing movie Wood has ever seen in a film and which of his Lord of the Rings co-stars smells the best.
  Elijah Wood opens up to Playboy About Sasha Grey, and more (Playboy)

• Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett’s press office released details Wednesday of disciplinary action taken against eight state employees for viewing pornography on office computers while working for his Democratic challenger, Tom Wolf; Mr. Wolf, who has a big lead in polls over the incumbent Republican, accused Mr. Corbett of allowing a “culture” of porn viewing among his employees while he was state attorney general.
  Pennsylvania porn wars rock governor’s race (Washington Times)

• When pressed, an EPA employee recently admitted he’d been cruising NSFW sites for two to six hours every workday since 2010. Similar revelations have emerged recently at the Department of the Treasury, the National Science Foundation, and the Federal Communications Commission, where an employee said he watched porn for up to eight hours a week because he was bored. In 2010, 33 Securities and Exchange Commission employees were found to have viewed pornography repeatedly instead of doing their work.
  Watching Porn at the Office: ‘Extremely Common’ (Businessweek)

• The trailer for Disney’s documentary Bears got a hilarious spoof trailer… The video, about a different kind of Bears, is above. (“No bears were harmed in the making of this video.”)
  Disney’s nature doc ‘Bears’ gets the gay parody trailer you’ve been waiting for (Towleroad)

• “Escorts make $100 a hand job — but entrepreneurs like me? We make $5,000 a night. Welcome to the new economy of the oldest profession.”
  Sex Is Sex. But Money Is Money. (Medium)

• In news coverage of campus rape in recent years, scenarios with male sexual assault victims aren’t depicted too frequently. How gendered cultural scripts help conceal and laugh away a serious problem.
  When Women Sexually Assault Men (PS Mag)

• Digital swinging on Tumblr: Nerve talks to some of the couples and singles who enjoy Tumblr as they would any other kind of sex party.
  Digital Swingers (Nerve)

• Trigger warning for violence, gore in a sexual context: Kink, the world’s largest producer of BDSM and fetish entertainment has opened the world’s first erotic haunted house. “Hell in the Armory” runs all this month in the 100-year old San Francisco Armory where the company shoots its adult films. While the erotic haunted house isn’t nearly as explicit as the company’s films, parental guidance is strongly suggested.
  Hell In The Armory (Kink, hellinthearmory.com)

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• Look up the code F66.0 in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), the world’s most widely used diagnostic reference, and you’ll find sexual maturation disorder. That seemingly official psychological condition occurs when uncertainty about sexual orientation makes a person depressed or anxious, according to the ICD.
  No scientific basis for gay-specific mental disorders, WHO panel concludes (Science)

• This article is intense, and the Tinder guys are really fucked up — oh, and like Snapchat, their startup myth is all lies. Wolfe says in her suit: “Although it is tempting to describe the conduct of Tinder’s senior executives as ‘frat-like,’ it was in fact much worse — representing the worst of the misogynist, alpha-male stereotype too often associated with technology startups.”
  The Truth About Tinder and Women Is Even Worse Than You Think (Bloomberg)

• At least 3,000 porn websites around the world feature the revenge porn genre, and the number is rising, says John Di Giacomo of Revision Legal, a Michigan-based law firm. Women’s charities in Britain and America say more victims are contacting them for help all the time. (Men are occasionally targeted, too.) In Japan the number of cases reported to police more than tripled, to 27,334, between 2008 and 2012.
  Misery merchants (The Economist)

• A former police officer suspected in the deaths of two women whose bodies were found in suitcases dumped on a rural Wisconsin highway said he killed the women during separate meetings at hotels to have rough sex, a detective testified Thursday.
  Women found in suitcases died after rough sex, Wisconsin detective says (Twin Cities)

• CNBC reports that Google is now banning porn businesses from utilizing their ad network. The truth is, the policy of not allowing adult ads in the Google ad network was announced in March.
  Google AdWords Begins Enforcing Porn Ads Rules (Search Engine Land)

• “Join sex, relationship and business geek, Reid Mihalko of ReidAboutSex.com for an informative and humorous evening where he’ll show you three crushing mistakes most sex educators are making that leave them frustrated, burnout and broke, and the successful business models and practices that will help you turn your calling into a life-long, successful career.”
  SFSI Seminars: The Business Side of Sex Ed: How To Make a Living As a Sex-Positive Professional (Brown Paper Tickets)

• I, along with 200-plus others, have decided to spend my weekend learning about consensual non-monogamy or love with multiple partners. In other words, polyamory. This is one of a handful of conferences and retreats organized each year by Loving More, a nonprofit that’s been promoting “openly and deeply loving more than one person at a time” for over 27 years.
  A Surprising Weekend Inside the Touchy-Feely World of Polyamory (Nerve)

• Conservatives are making five arguments hailing the decision. They’re all factually wrong, which leads them to the sixth: women are sluts.
  Hobby Lobby: Sex, Lies, and Craft Supplies (Daily Beast)

• When my boyfriend and I were looking at our first apartment together last year, the number-one thing we decided we needed in order to get along was… separate bedrooms. We’re not the only ones. Arianne Cohen recently proclaimed that sleeping in her “woman cave” (a.k.a. guest room) helped save her marriage…
  The Beauty Of Not Sleeping Together (Refinery 29)

• Cross-sex hormone treatment of transgender adults leads to very few long-term side effects, according to the authors of the largest study to date to examine this issue.
  Largest Study to Date: Transgender Hormone Treatment Safe (Medscape)

• Kink CEO Peter Acworth has released a video statement giving his side of the events surrounding the protest of a prison theme of a gay circuit party, and expressing regrets that anyone had to be arrested. He makes clear that Kink is not looking to press any charges against anyone. But in the video, it is clear that some protesters were more in search of a fight than others.
  Video Released From Saturday Armory Protest; Kink.com’s Peter Acworth Responds (SFist)

• This letter is fantastic. “It’s my understanding that the FBI considers all speech activities on the domain MyRedBook.com ‘unprotected speech’. I hereby state for the record, that I was a MyRedBook VIP member, and enjoyed the use of those “private and public forums” for the purposes of speech which had heightened expectations of privacy as characterized by anonymous, password protected speech on the Internet.”
  MyRedBookVIP: The Letter (MyRedBookVIP)

• The FBI seizures of MyRedbook.com and SFRedbook.com could put more than 10,000 sex workers who relied on the sites in financial turbulence, says a leading authority on erotic service providers. Maxine Doogan, who leads the nonprofit ESPLER — known formally as the Erotic Service Provider Legal, Educational and Research Project — said that MyRedBook, in particular, had more than 40,000 listings for erotic services when it was seized by the FBI and IRS.
  MyRedBook Closure Said to Affect More Than 10,000 Sex Workers (XBIZ)

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• Morgana Maye (the amazing Mistress Morgana) goes on Masocast to talk about BDSM as therapy, how kink is perceived in the medical community, guilt and shame, how to play with someone on a deeper level, the DSM and much more.
  Morgana Maye on Masocast (Masocast)

• Chinese police have detained 501 suspects in a nationwide crackdown on prostitution, the Ministry of Public Security announced Monday. More than 1,300 cases of organizing, luring or introducing sex services were uncovered by police, and 2,410 pornography dealers had their business closed by police, the ministry said.
  Prostitution crackdown in China detains 501 people (UPI), China’s Sex Crackdown is Doomed to Fail (Bloomberg)

• Molli, now a UK-based sex worker, was “rescued” by an anti-prostitution NGO while employed as a sex worker in India. She tweets the truth of what happens in NGO-run, sex worker “rescue” centres, and her revelations inspired the Twitter hashtag #notyourrescueproject which gained publicity recently. “Rescued” sex workers [by certain NGO's] are saying they are beaten, held against their will, have to “pay” NGO staff with sex, and must have someone pay for their release. They are also afraid to state the names of the NGOs doing this, as they believe the NGOs will come find them again.
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• Calvin Darden, Jr. was charged by federal prosecutors Thursday for allegedly crafting an intricate scheme to defraud banks and impersonate his prominent father in an attempt to buy men’s magazine Maxim. The U.S. Justice Department alleges Darden lined up $28 million in loans from three lenders to scoop up the risqué mag. As part of the scheme, which nearly came to fruition, Darden allegedly impersonated his father, Calvin Darden, a director at Target (TGT) and former executive at United Parcel Service (UPS).
  Man Charged in Scheme to Fraudulently Buy Maxim Magazine (FOX Business)

• NPR thinks that porn’s piracy problem is tied to its users desire for anonymity. This is not entirely accurate; porn’s piracy shares the same issues *all* digital media (music, movies, software, etc.) are grappling with – and can be solved in the same ways. That said, take a look at NPR’s newest porn piece.
  Hurting For Cash, Online Porn Tries New Tricks (NPR)

• A survey conducted by adult webcam site Cam4.com and French survey institute IFOP surveyed a representative sample of 1,023 adults about their pornography habits. Ninety percent of men and 60 percent of women reported watching porn regularly. Fifty-three percent of survey participants watch porn as a couple, and 66 percent said they would watch with their partner if asked.
  People Who Watch More Porn Have More Sex, Survey Finds (HuffPo)

• Amateur porn website Homegrown Video cataloged all video submissions they received over a six-month period. They found that almost one-third of homemade sex tapes submitted between July and December 2013 were created not in sexually liberal coastal cities, as one might imagine, but in the Bible Belt. Furthermore, 56.9 percent of videos were submitted by women (VB note – or accounts posing as female?).
  You May Be Surprised By Who’s Filming And Uploading Amateur Porn (HuffPo)

• Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Women Reading Grindr And Scruff Messages (SFist)

• A federal bankruptcy trustee plans on putting up the Girls Gone Wild franchise for auction in April, effectively selling off its trademarks and domain names. The plan to sell off the assets of the longtime adult entertainment brand includes a stalking horse bidder — one that has already drawn out a plan to potentially acquire the assets — that would raise $1.825 million to partly pay off Chapter 11 claims. XBIZ has more information on issues around the sale, and the full list of domains on the block.
  Girls Gone Wild Bankruptcy Auction Planned for April (XBIZ)

• Queer porn producer Pink & White Productions has announced the launch of its new emerging pornographer series Point of Contact. The studio said the series showcases first-time filmmakers equipped with camera and micro-budget, who “take to the streets and sheets to explore sexuality and grow as pornographers.” The project launches with five directors: James Darling, Minax, Tina Horn, Cyd Loverboy, and Shanna Katz. A dozen more directors are slated to follow.
  Pink & White Launches New Series for Emerging Filmmakers (XBIZ)

• I’m guessing Kinsey Confidential missed the whole Sasha Grey / Stoya popularity thing, where they made bush a hot thing at least five years ago, even long after European and Aussie sites cashed in on demand for the eroticism of pubic hair… Still, I’m surprised no one mentioned the nipples :)
  Mannequins: Foreshadowing The Return Of The Retro Bush? (Kinsey Confidential)

• This is a great longread, and I’m happy to see I Want Your Love in the lineup. “Why should it be fine to show murder but not an act of love? Nicholas Barber applauds a new wave of sexual frankness.”
  Let’s do it: How sex in cinema is getting physical (Independent UK)

• Despite a stupid title, Gizmodo’s writeup on its visit to Crave is great – and provides a peek into high-end vibrator production.
  Go Deep Inside a San Francisco Vibrator Factory (Gizmodo)

• A reader asks Dr. Glickman, “How do turn my history of confusion over “bad behavior combined with good intent” into a skill for identifying and dealing with people who don’t know that they have bad behavior?”
  When Good Intentions Meet Bad Behavior (Charlie Glickman)

• The UK government is planning to extend its broken, deeply problematic and censorship-friendly ISP-level internet filtering to “extremist” content. The filters were implemented to censor “adult” content and have swept a wide variety of sites into the void, including health websites, tech forums and at one point, even WordPress blogs.
  Ministers bid to block extremist videos posted on foreign websites (BBC)

• Eros Guide wanted to know how some sex workers spend Valentine’s Day, so they checked in with some of the most popular female sex workers on the Eros Network to see what they had planned for Valentine’s Day — and then asked a few other questions to see just how romantic they are.
  How Does Your Escort Spend Valentine’s Day? (Eros Guide)

• The Associated Press originally sought the records for U.S. military personnel stationed in Japan after US military sexual assaults against Japanese women raised political tensions there. The AP analysis found the handling of allegations verged on the chaotic, with seemingly strong cases often reduced to lesser charges. In two rape cases, commanders overruled recommendations to court-martial and dropped the charges instead.
  Documents Reveal Chaotic Military Sex-Abuse Record (ABC)

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• OhMiBod celebrates its fourth year at CES with the unveiling of blueMotion, a wearable massager that uses Bluetooth technology. Compatible with Android and iOS smartphones, the blueMotion massager will hit the market in March 2014 and retail for $129. I once likened the sound of an OhMiBod toy to “a hive of angry bees” in a MacLife review, but I’d definitely give their new vibe a spin.
  OhMiBod Unveils blueMotion Wearable Massager (XBIZ)

• We’re only a week into 2014 and already a viable candidate for Most Fascinating Person of 2014 is The Guy With Two Penises, who has become a Reddit – and Internet – sensation. It helps that he’s incredibly cool, sexually articulate and totally comfortable with his sexuality.
  10 Fascinating Facts From the Man With Two Penises AMA (Rolling Stone)

• The US network HBO is set to remake the tale of a woman who inherits her husband’s porn company, with Sex and the City writer Jenny Bicks.
  French porn comedy Hard to get HBO remake (Guardian UK)

• The Department of Work and Pensions, headed by Iain Duncan Smith, has extended subsidized wage subsidies to porn industry employers willing to take on Britain’s jobless youth. But there is a caveat — the subsidies only apply to production-oriented jobs. Employers will receive no such financial breaks for hiring young performers.
  U.K. Encourages Porn Companies to Hire Unemployed Youth (XBIZ)

• On Thursday, December 26, Beyoncé and Jay-Z went on a sex toy shopping spree at Babeland in New York City, where they splurged roughly $6,000 on sex toys and gifts. “They didn’t buy anything tacky or too extreme,” a witness told Radar. “It was all top-of-the-line stuff. Some of it was even gold-plated.” My guess is that Queen Bey picked up Lelo Yva, or a Crave Duet 16GB Lux (WANTWANTWANT, more info plus engraving!) or a Jimmyjane Little Gold (I have one in steel – incredible).
  It Must Be Nice To Be Able To Spend $106k On Dildos and Booze (Dlisted)

• Go Team CoCo!!! Retired porn star Coco Brown has a new role: Come 2015, she may very well be the next Space Expedition Corp. trainee, with a $100,000 check that will send her to space. Ms. Brown is paying the money to train for a March 2015 flight. “It’s just the pilot and me,” said Ms. Brown, in The New York Post. “I’m the co-pilot. We take off from Curacao and land an hour and a half later.”
  Porn star Coco Brown preps for 2015 space travel (Washington Times)

• A train traveler who had devoured a cocktail of legal highs and alcohol was arrested after trying to have sex with a drinks trolley. Andrew Davidson was seen humping the trolley while shouting ‘I want to kiss you, I want to fuck you’. Before he foisted himself upon it, he had placed his hands on a female passenger and attempted to kiss a member of staff.
  Off his trolley: Man sentenced after trying to have sex with a buffet cart (Metro UK)

• OMG. Class is in session. If you want to know how to rule an interview when the asshole asking questions – in this case, Katie Couric – won’t stop trying to objectify and humiliate you (read: discuss your genitals) read this now.
  Flawless Trans Women Carmen Carrera and Laverne Cox Respond Flawlessly To Katie Couric’s Invasive Questions (AutoStraddle)

• Intense manscaping, hour-long erections, only one erogenous zone and injections of Caverject are just a few of the ways male porn stars are carefully crafted to be more like circus performers than sex partners.
  10 ways porn perpetuates myths about men and sex (Salon)

• Back in the 1950s it was unusual to see two married adults sleep in the same bed, let alone witness an orgy filled with bodies, lust and sexual exploration… Even still, Radley Metger’s “Score” remains one of my favorite “sexploitation” flicks.
  8 Films That Changed Sex As We Know It (NSFW) (HuffPo)

• This CFP on surveillance and pornography for Porn Studies Journal (Routledge) looks really interesting.
  Call for Papers: Surveillance, Pornography, and Porn Studies (academia.edu)

• Lots of people like X-Art’s porn – and it is beautiful – except the company itself is just proving itself over and over to be completely rotten and unethical. It sucks.
  Copyright trolls go mental: XArt’s lawyers demand 7.35 million dollars from a wrongly accused ISP subscriber (Fight Copyright Trolls)

• She created the most awful female dating profile ever on OkCupid, and recorded the results. “As a child of the Internet and confirmed weirdo, imagine my relief when they finally took that last bastion of in-person awkwardness — dating — to my laptop.”
  4 Things I Learned from the Worst Online Dating Profile Ever (Cracked)

• From hard drugs to air guns and fresh breast milk, illegal and grey-market goods are easy to find on mainland China’s most popular online shopping sites. The trade flourishes in part because of a legal vacuum – the mainland does not have a law specifically governing e-commerce. Instead, a collection of guidelines loosely govern online transactions. But revisions are under way, according to one legal expert helping with the changes, and should stifle much of the internet’s black market.
  Guns, drugs and breast milk: China’s web shoppers exploit vacuum to buy illegal goods (scmp.com)

• Briefs is the East Bay Express’ Erotic Shorts Film Competition showcasing works by amateur and professional filmmakers. The one night screening will allow filmmakers who have explored the limits of erotic entertainment to engage attendees in a liberating experience.
  BRIEFS: Call for Submissions for East Bay Express Short Erotic Film Fest (pinklabel.tv)

• Of all these type of articles we’re seeing this time of year, this one is recommended. As the New Year gets under way, Dr. Petra Boynton asks a few sexuality experts for their top tips on staying sexually happy and healthy in 2014, whether in a relationship or single.
  Want a happy and healthy relationship in 2014? Here’s how (Telegraph UK)

• Adnet Media has announced preliminary plans for the first-ever (American) Sexual Health Expo 2015, an upscale consumer expo dedicated to the promotion of sexual health products.
  L.A. ‘Sexual Health Expo’ to Debut in 2015 (XBIZ)

• According to The Times’ NewsFeed, Amazon will now “make it harder” (the article doesn’t seem to specify further) to purchase certain genres of erotica, apparently particularly works that focus on prehistoric bestiality (no, seriously).
  Amazon now “at war” with dinosaur erotica – implications for genre works? (io9)

• 2013 marks female pornographer Ms. Naughty’s 13th year in porn, and this is her 8th (fabulous, must-read) yearly retrospective about porn for women.
  Porn For Women Retrospective 2013 (Ms. Naughty)

• If you like big endorsement deals, and you cannot lie.
  Jen Selter’s Amazing Ass Landed Her Endorsement Deals (AdRants)

• Mother Jones’ Molly Redden wrote about a recent Human Rights Watch report, “In Harm’s Way,” which argues that aggressive policing in New Orleans is contributing to the city’s soaring HIV/AIDS rates. One tactic that Human Rights Watch found to be particularly problematic: the police harassment of suspected sex workers for possessing condoms.
  When having condoms gets you arrested (Mother Jones)

• Our favorite erotica siren Alison Tyler deliciously describes how to get hot on these cold winter nights with erotica – how to use it, very specifically.
  Passing Chemistry (gasm.org)

• In which Buzzfeed shows us again how easy it is for porn companies to get their press releases run as news content by gullible Buzzfeed bloggers…
  PS4 Owners Are Watching Three Times As Much Porn As Xbox One Owners (Buzzfeed)

• The number of reported sexual assaults across the military shot up by more than 50 percent in 2013, an increase that defense officials say may suggest that victims are becoming more willing to come forward after a tumultuous year of scandals that shined a spotlight on the crimes and put pressure on the military to take aggressive action.
  Reports of sexual assault in the military jumped 50 percent in 2013 (PBS)

• Paul-Julien Robert grew up on a country estate with dozens of adults; but he had no idea which one was his father. In the European free-love commune, where he was born in the late 1970s, pretty much all of the men had slept with his mother, any of them could be his dad.
  Surviving Life in a ‘70s Sex Commune (Daily Beast)

• And here’s one to make my publisher happy… “Violet Blue has truly outdone herself this time with her latest collection of romantic and heart-pounding thrills. Best Women’s Erotica 2014 delivers stories…”
  Cleis Press Releases Audiobook of Best Women’s Erotica 2014 (Broadway World)

• This is yet another article about having better sex in 2014, but it’s one that very smartly recommends that queer sex is better sex… and I agree :)
  How to Have Better Sex in 2014 (VICE)

• Gift cards for porn… Finally, a real bang for your buck. Naughty America is offering access to its dozens of online porn sites in exchange for your unused gift cards.
  Now You Can Trade Your Unwanted Gift Cards For A Porn Subscription (HuffPo)

• Have you seen this new site? Porn For Women TV is curated by Ms. Naughty, and it’s great.
  Porn For Women TV | Adult videos for women (pornforwomen.tv)

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