Nibbles: Pron.com User/Passes Hacked For Teh Lulz, Senator Dianne Feinstein vs. Porn, Porn Industry Safety Regulation Clash

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• On Friday afternoon LulzSec announced that it had stolen and posted administrative emails and passwords for 55 porn sites, along with another 26,000 emails and passwords for users of the sex site Pron.com. LulzSec Hackers Get Personal, Dump 26,000 Porn Site Usernames And Passwords (Forbes)

• Last month, we launched The Fast And Easy Book Club – our first main selection for discussion was Anne Rice’s Beauty’s Punishment (writing as A. N. Roquelaure). Now we’ve come full circle. Join in! Fast And Easy Book Club: Discuss Beauty’s Punishment (TinyNibbles/Alison Tyler)

• This year San Francisco’s Frameline Film Festival is taking some chances with more risque films “about gay porn, starring gay porn stars and even some actual gay porn.” Is San Francisco’s Gay Film Festival Turning Into an Orgy of Gay Porn? (Queerty)

• Hilarious new press release: “NBC is contributing to the sexual objectification and exploitation of women and encouraging greater acceptance of pornography with its soon-to-be-aired series, “The Playboy Club,” according to The Coalition for the War on Illegal Pornography, which is launching a full-scale effort to stop the show from being profitable.” Morality in Media Calls on NBC to Halt TV Series “The Playboy Club” Promoting Sexual Exploitation of Women and Acceptance of Pornography (BradentonHerald.com)

• “My email was eventually filled with one-liners from higher-up [Cosmo / Hearst] editors like, “Due to length and fact-check issues, we’re going to cut the fact about the increase in size of the testicles during orgasm.” Mind-blowing orgasms quickly seemed as boring as corporate-speak about mergers and acquisitions. I certainly wasn’t learning anything about sex. All the advice seemed to be variations on earlier articles and ran together in my mind as I dissected the endless lists of tips and tricks.” Cosmo sex facts: Confessions from a fact-checker at Cosmopolitan magazine (Slate Magazine)

• “Please enjoy this awesome, rare interview clip from the film of Senator Dianne Feinstein — who, in case you didn’t know, launched her local political career as a concerned housewife who campaigned against the scourge of pornography overtaking S.F. movie houses…” Watch Dianne Feinstein, ca. 1970, Go Off About the ‘Very Depraved Wares’ of Pornographers (SFist, via Smut Capital of America)

• Lawyers nitpicked at the definition of the word genitalia. Performers groaned at the suggestion they wear goggles while having sex on film. And state of California bureaucrats declared they care deeply about the pornography industry. In a four-hour hearing Tuesday that ranged from thick legalese to graphic descriptions of sex acts, officials and performers clashed over proposals for new safety regulations on the porn industry. Porn performers and regulators clash; CalOSHA Meeting Wrap-up (LA Daily News, FSC Blog)

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