North Carolina Pastor Patrick Wooden is a rabidly anti-gay preacher who’s, well, a little obsessed with anal sex. Now, in my opinion there’s nothing wrong with being obsessed with anal sex — I can get a little obsessed with it myself, especially on Tuesdays. Hey, what’s not to be obsessed with about anal sex? Simply put, it rocks.
Pastor Wooden, however, doesn’t think it rocks. To Wooden, any male-male contact is flat-out wrong in God’s eyes, so the two-guy buttfuck is right out.
One might think that’d more or less be the end of the conversation, right? But no! Pastor Wooden can’t stop talking about buttsex! In fact, he’s spent a significant portion of his ecclesiastical career going into grotesque and stupendously excruciating detail about exactly why gay anal sex is an abomination, to the point of — if you’ll forgive the pun — making shit up. In attempting to justify his objection to gayness overall, the Pastor comes up with a spicy gumbo of urban legends and misinformation that’s as stark-raving psycho as it is unintentionally hilarious. His claims, it pains me to tell you, are…ugh…crap.
In this podcast interview with Michelangelo Signorile, transcribed here at The Huffington Post, Wooden goes the extra mile in trying to justify his bizarre statements about anal sex and a few other choice sexual variations…but mostly about anal sex. In fact, It’s not — oh, I just can’t help myself — it’s not a stretch to say that Pastor Wooden has butt on the brain. Like so many hate mongers, is — Ow! Somebody stop me! — Pulling things out of his ass. [SATISFY your CURIOSITY and CONTINUE READING…]
While I can’t decide if I want to ignore or embrace Valentine’s Day this year, the always sweet and never bitter Matthew Inman – aka The Oatmeal – makes it all better with new greeting cards conveying comic messages of twisted, tainted love (and lust).
Don’t miss his new Horrible Valentine’s Day Cards. They’re actual cards that you can give to a person in real life. That’s pretty neat. You can pay him money for them, and they start at $5. There are a number of sexytime ones, such as one card that explains how “in a sea of chest hair a man’s nipples can help you find his penis in the dark” and another one involving cheetah balls, and yet another that features a cruise missile covered in wiggling cocks. I hope that next time I see Matt I get to ask him about the science behind creating cards about farting in bed for love, and anal adventures involving man-eating cats. There’s got to be a sex guide waiting to happen in there somewhere…
- Many of you know I love FEMEN (Site: FEMEN). Police detained and later released three topless protesters this weekend after they stripped to the waist outside a World Economic Forum event in Davos, Switzerland (attended privately by wealthy elite like Arianna Huffington and Facebook’s Sherl Sandberg). The trio, from the Ukrainian group FEMEN, carried banners while shouting “Poor because of you.” Topless FEMEN protesters arrested in Davos (GlobalPost)
- To say that I’m a fan of Girl With The Dragon Tattoo would be the understatement of the century. The new version? Not so much… Here’s how Hollywood got Dragon Tattoo SO wrong: “It’s unacceptable to take a woman made into a phenomenon because of her solitary strength and particular moral compass and drive, and turn her into a romantic girl saved and guided by a man.” Softening and Sexualizing Lisbeth Salander (Movies.com, via The Sexadmeic)
- A wealthy Californian pornographer who sued Kim Dotcom for infringing copyright on thousands of nude images says he is delighted the FBI and New Zealand police have smashed Dotcom’s Megaupload file-sharing business. But Norm Zada, owner of soft-core porn website Perfect 10, said he would be happier still if the US government was instead attacking the search-engine giant Google, Kim Dotcom In Porn Wrangle (Stuff.co.nz)
- Dr. Hai Hong is one of a new generation of Chinese entrepreneurs: Hong sells sex toys manufactured in his Chinese factory, but you can get just about anything from these guys. Need a few thousand iPad cases? They’ve got your back. GPS trackers for your fleet of trucks? No problem. They say that they’re legitimate businesses. They just happen to be spammers too. Who Sent That Sex-Toy E-mail? Your Friendly Chinese Spamufacture (Wired, thanks netik!)
- It’s not new news (as you can see in the fleshlightyet Twitter timeline) but the minute that Gizmodo found out that male masturbation sex toy company Fleshlight is developing an iPad Fleshlight masturbation case, they confirmed the upcoming device. I can personally tell you that Steve Jobs would not approve… Fleshlight Developing an iPad Case You Can Have Sex With (Gizmodo)
I’m so excited to see that the Latex Stormtrooper Catsuit by the rubber couture designers at Shhh! is not a one-off (like this one), and is now for sale. It’s not cheap (£510.00), but the Brighton, England company is one of the finest latex houses on the planet so you know you’ll be getting your money’s worth.
Lust, Love and Latex has a terrific post about the item, its designer, and an upcoming Stromtrooper latex dress – with matching hood.
Every Friday on Pulp Tech I do a sex and tech news roundup – I think that the intersections of sex and tech are where we find the interesting bits. Often, these bits reveal intentions by people that want to use sexuality for something other than positive reasons, and where people try to control others (I believe porn is one of the most powerful speech censorship tools).
So I hope you check out Sex Tech Weekly when you can. This week’s installment includes a digital dating conference report, the Grindr hacker goes unpunished (with info on the hack), ICANN responds to the Manwin (YouPorn, etc) .XXX antitrust suit, and porn’s filesharing lawyer is busted for violating alleged porn filesharers’ privacy to reach his sue-happy ends. Of note is that Grindr hasn’t fixed the security hack and it’s been eight days, and that Big Porn thought to make money off torrent/pirate lawsuits but the lawyer that spearheaded the campaign is looking dirtier than the genre he represents (and not in a good way).
This week in sex and technology Big Porn’s piracy lawsuits lawyer has to pay for misconduct, the digital dating conference took place in Miami, Big Porn’s lawsuit against .XXX and ICANN got a response, and a popular location-based sex app was hacked – and it seems the hacker may go unpunished.
Digital dating destined for disruption
At the three-day digital dating conference in Miami this past week, companies brought their best pitches to show that the online dating world is looking to take its methodology, reach and profits to the next level.
Attendees spanned the online dating and hookup gamut. This included reps from Google, Bing, Match and OkCupid, Plenty of Fish, Grindr, marriage sites and startups eager to disrupt the space, such as TheComplete.me. (…read more, Pulp Tech)
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