- A former Texas high school English teacher and mother of three is on trial, accused of having sex with five male students.
Teacher Accused of Having Group Sex With Students on Video (ABC News)
- Kink.com has stopped production temporarily and an industry-wide moratorium is being called for. The Los Angeles County Public Health Department is investigating a possible cluster of syphilis cases among adult film industry performers, officials said Friday.
Porn industry syphilis cases in L.A. County under investigation (LA Times)
- Dr. Silverberg breaks it down: “The headline reads: More teens have oral sex earlier than vaginal intercourse. (…) there is news here. Only it doesn’t have anything to do with the new statistics. The article is about a report released today by the CDC based on data from the National Survey of Family Growth, which included questions for 15-24 year-olds about their first experience of oral sex, vaginal intercourse, and the timing of the two.”
The Need to Always Make More of Oral Sex (About: Sexuality)
- Congressman Todd Akin, who told a Fox reporter in an 18-minute interview that women’s bodies have the ability to determine if a rape was “legitimate” and then automagically self-terminate the pregnancy so abortion isn’t necessary in cases of rape, refused to apologize today.
Akin: I Won’t Apologize For Rape Comment. Now Let’s Talk About Unemployment. (The New Civil Rights Movement)
- Axe Japan has produced a webcam site that lets you tilt the camera this way and that … the better to score an upskirt shot or ten.
When the Mirrors on Your Shoes Just Won’t Cut It (Adverve)
- Eating around two handfuls of walnuts a day improves sperm health in young men, a study in the journal Biology of Reproduction suggests.
Walnuts ‘improve sperm health’ (BBC News)
- danah boyd writes what should be considered the essential starting point for any and all discussions and efforts around sex slavery, sex work and sex trafficking. It’s a blog post that should be hammer-stapled into Ashton Kutcher’s forehead. “Folks in the anti-trafficking worlds need to recognize how valuable sex workers can be as allies. Regardless of how any anti-trafficking group may feel about sex workers, one thing is clear: sex workers often have more access into the worlds in which the majority of commercial sexual exploitation takes place.”
What Anti-Trafficking Advocates Can Learn from Sex Workers: The Dynamics of Choice, Circumstance, and Coercion (danah boyd; article is also published on HuffPo but studies have shown that linking to HuffPo causes rectal bleeding)
- VentureBeat does a drive-by on the SkyDrive/Microsoft no-porn-in-the-cloud story I publicized a couple weeks ago and adds a cursory look at cloud service storage ToS and adult content.
Why won’t Microsoft let you store porn in the cloud? (VentureBeat)
- Great op-ed on Australian sex and censorship in cinema: “On any typical train carriage, you’ll find at least one reader unabashedly engrossed in Ana Steele’s romps with Mr Grey and his Red Room of Pain. Yet a film with the same content – that is, a movie combining real sex with bondage – must, by law, be refused classification. How does that make sense?
“Fifty shades of ambiguity make porn laws a perverse joke (Sydney Morning Herald)
Main post image from Every Day I Love (Nicole Trunfio photographed by Guy Aroch for S Magazine #10).
I’ll not beat the politics with a stick — that heading image is really great. The others in that shoot have a certain feel… and it’s one I quite like. Almost dark, but also unmistakeably sexy.
What kills me about the Akin thing is seeing all of the GOP try pathetically to distance themselves from him, when they’ve shown again and again that a majority of them agree with him (in particular Ryan). Apart from Akin’s ridiculous choice of words and general ignorance, the fundamental problem is still the same ‘forcible/legitimate’ vs ‘other’ kinds of rape, that we saw back in H.R. 3, which Ryan co-sponsored. He in particular deserves a lot more pressure on this issue.
It was only at a very recent time that an incredibly conservative state attorney general stepped down, it is a group of those state-level positions that decide classification laws. We’ve only just gotten an 18+ rating for computer games, it will probably be some time before any more significant changes can be made considering the leftist ruling party is a Minority Government and has a very tenuous grip on power (and would lose an election called tomorrow). Baby steps. They’re being made, but for right now, we’re limited to baby steps.