For the uninitiated, Next Media Animation is a Taiwanese animated news outlet that covers just about anything and everything, and focuses on the item of the day it thinks is bound to be the most viral. Viewers count on quite a bit getting lost in translation, resulting in bizarrely humorous retellings of current events that can be hit or miss. Anyway, NMA has been a bit of a cult internet thing for a few years now.
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.
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.
Daily Mail creates a moral porn panic to force the UK government into filtering its citizens’ internet access (and it’s working), Google says parents are better than porn filters, and the birth of the datasexual. Sex Tech: CP Honeypot, UK Porn Filter Panic, Groupon, Datasexuals (Pulp Tech)
A jury today found fetish filmmaker Ira Isaacs guilty on five counts of violating federal obscenity laws. His films contained shit-eating and women having sex with dogs. Ira Isaacs Found Guilty on Five Counts of Federal Obscenity (XBIZ)
A German researcher set out to determine if he could make ordinary undergrads more attractive to the opposite sex by teaching them pickup artist techniques. The experiment was a big success, but it also had unintended consequences. Study: Pickup Artist Training Works, But Makes You Feel Bad About Yourself (Buzzfeed)
The man on the graphic photo below is a 42-year-old shop owner in the Meilan District of Haikou City, in Hainan, that big island south of mainland China. A 41-year-old woman killed him by squeezing his testicles. Woman Kills Man By Squeezing His Testicles (Gizmodo)
Madison Young, kinky feminist porn performer, director, and producer, spoke at a panel discussion last night at Apexart gallery as part of their exhibition Consent. It also included Sinnamon Love, Tina Horn, Dan Reilly, Museum of Sex curator Sarah Forbes, and Cindy Gallop. Talking About Porn With the People Who Make It (The Measure)
This article illustrates the ignorant sexist douchebaggery in Silicon Valley startup and app scene, something I’ve experienced and witnessed quite a lot – and it’s a compelling, much-needed article. However, I link with the caveat that I completely disagree with what Shanley Kane did and how she went about it. “Gangbang Interviews” and “Bikini Shots”: Silicon Valley’s Brogrammer Problem (Mother Jones)
These intrepid reviewers took to Yelp to explain just what was wrong with the butts, boobs, “ding a lings,” and general attitudes at the strip clubs of their choice. 13 Surprisingly Thorough Yelp Reviews Of Strip Clubs (Buzzfeed)
Great interview with Dan Savage. His column Savage Love has run for 20 years (!) and is syndicated in over 60 newspapers, his It Gets Better Project has helped countless gay teens cope with bullying, and MTV tapped him to bring his trademark wit to college campuses for its new TV show Savage U. So What Do You Do, Dan Savage, Nationally Syndicated Sex Columnist? (Mediabistro)
A standing ovation for this post: “I wasn’t far into the story when I realized that Fifty Shades of Grey not only sets people who live a BDSM lifestyle back decades in terms of being understood by society, but that it eroticizes dangerous practices as well, especially for those who are new to this aspect of sexuality and looking to incorporate it into their lives.” The Troubling Message in Fifty Shades of Grey (BlogHer)
I had the chance to see the screening of Stephen Elliott’s new film Cherry – and I wrote this review for SF Appeal. I think you’ll like it. Snip:
(…) Angelina (Ashley Hinshaw) is an 18-year-old girl in Long Beach with a dutiful pal Andrew (Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire) and a penchant for banging bad boys. She works at a laundromat to supply money for her family; a little sister, addict mother Phyllis (Lili Taylor) and angry drunk of a stepfather. She does a lingerie shoot where she negotiates herself a good deal; her first act of taking ownership of her life makes her decide to bail up to San Francisco to make a better life for herself.
With Andrew in tow (and decidedly in the frustrated friend zone), they land in SF at a hospitable homosexual’s flat. From there, Angelina explores San Francisco as we know it and her narrative arc into Kink.com (called “BOD” in the film) unfolds. At BOD she costars with Lorelei Lee, and finds an unusual allegiance with BOD’s leading lesbian director Margaret (Heather Graham).
Angelina’s journey into BDSM porn is the backdrop against which she confronts growing up and facing her family, making boundaries with friends and colleagues that fall in love with her, and her first real relationship with an adult man (James Franco). (…read more, sfappeal.com)
I really hope that someday soon, someone makes "G-Spot: The Musical." I imagine it could be like the Buffy: The Musical episode. In it, G-spots are magically hexed to make people sing and dance when they're stimulated, and of course few people believe they exist - except for a few […]
The FBI had set up its fake CP site for precisely this situation: When investigators had a lead on someone specific, they e-mailed the person with a custom password and the site URL. The strangely explicit front page discussion about the "Child Pornography" within made sure that visitors could […]
Met Art has long been one of the online mainstays for high-end explicit pinup photos and videos (of women). It almost goes without saying that they (and others like Hegre Art) outclassed and outpaced outlets like Playboy, Penthouse and other 'gentlemen's magazine' style channels long ago. I could say a […]
It's a quickie, but Agent Provocateur's new promo video The Chase works for me. I am a bit biased, however, because I happen to own the Margot set she's wearing. (Thank you, filthy gentleman.)
Alissa Brunelli shoots pretty tattooed alt girls (mainly) for Zivity and Suicide Girls. Brunelli's Tumblr is a great way to get a daily dose of SG-flavored eye candy, her website has a sexy portfolio, and she posts daily pics via her Twitter. She's a great find, via Modfetish.
Kicked off decency-enforcing Kickstarter while other projects similar to it remain, the porn doc Staying Power has set up shop on Indie A GoGo.
Staying Power: The Business and Value of the Adult Entertainment Industry (Indiegogo)
Here we go again with the "torture porn" lines... Groupon is under fire once again for […]
Another quickie for you with beautiful porn from Joymii. I've got a news post on its way for you; first I have a few press errands to run - I'm covering the San Francisco International Film Festival (including the Maggie Gyllenhaal Hysteria screening)...
Giselle and Jessy - Perfect Lovers (image via)
Zoe […]
I like this week's new galleries at Watch4beauty so much, I'm posting them all. Lynette's set reminds me of vintage Playboy, and Satine is for those that love us pale bruntettes... Enjoy!
Lynette - Suspenders
Satine - Bottom (pictured)
Mia Manarote - Playtime for pussy
Eileen - Freckled
Smitten Kitten is a rad sex-positive sex toy retailer that has been making some really excellent videos lately. In a departure form their last sexy ones, this great and highly informative video covers toxic sex toys, in time for Earth Day. In it Jennifer Pritchett, owner of The Smitten Kitten, […]
Safer Sex for Seniors has launched, in light of recently released data on doubled rates of STIs among older adults, including syphilis, gonorrhea, and HIV infections. The resource aims to help older peeps enjoy pleasure-seeking without worry, taking into account all the fun tricks our bodies play on us as […]
Sometimes people act like Penthouse Letters is the fucking Grapes of Wrath.
In the case of "Fifty Shades of Grey," a trashy novel just somehow gets lucky with a well-timed PR campaign and so people make it out to be way more than it is. But even then, it looks like […]
Treats! Magazine certainly delivers the eye candy, and for its third issue Treats! has just uploaded new videos with beautiful girls and distinctly haunting atmospheres. Above is the gorgeous Emily Ratajkowski as shot by Steve Shaw. Below is a lovely gothy-dark sequence called Ritual shot by talented favorite Signe Vilstrup, […]
Just in case the 12 problems that busty girls have bummed you out. Here are six perks to having big boobs...
6 Perks Of Being A Busty Girl (Buzzfeed)
The good people at Early to Bed did a quick plug for the awesome Clarisse Thorn’s new book, Confessions of a Pick up […]
Ms. Violet Blue (@violetblue) is an investigative tech reporter at CNET, Zero Day, ZDNet, and CBS News, as well as an award-winning sex author and columnist, making her the foremost expert in the field of sex and technology. She travels to hacker conferences and hacker gatherings around the world to cover hacking, cybercrime and personal privacy violations in countries such as Malaysia, Germany, Morocco, China, the Dominican Republic, the United States, and Serbia. In 2012, Blue presented “Hackers as a High-Risk Population” bringing harm reduction to the featured stage for CCC’s 29c3 hacker conference in Hamburg. She is an Advisor to Without My Consent, a Member of the Internet Press Guild, a Member of the Center for Investigative Reporting, and is an Editor on the Board for Routledge's Porn Studies Journal.
Blue appears on CNN and The Oprah Winfrey Show and is regularly interviewed, quoted, and featured in a variety of publications that includes ABC News and the Wall Street Journal. She has authored and edited award-winning, best selling books in eight translations - one is excerpted on Oprah Winfrey's website - and has been a sex columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. She has been at the center of many Internet scandals, including Google’s “nymwars” and Libya’s web domain censorship and seizures—Forbes calls her “omnipresent on the web” and named her a Forbes Web Celeb. She has given keynote talks at such conferences as ETech, LeWeb, and the Forbes Brand Leadership Conference, she received a standing ovation at Seattle’s Gnomedex, and has given two Tech Talks at Google.
Violet Blue bio courtesy TTI Vanguard. Photo of Violet Blue by Samantha Wolov.
