March 2013

• Campaigners including Richard Dawkins have called for a day of action to support a young Tunisian woman who appeared to post pictures of herself topless as part of a feminist movement in the country, and was subsequently threatened with death by stoning.
  Topless Tunisian Femen Protester ‘Amina’ Threatened With Death By Stoning (Huffpo UK)

• High school science teacher Tim McDaniel is being investigated by Idaho’s professional standards commission because he allegedly used the word “vagina” while teaching a 10th grade biology lesson on reproduction and anatomy.
  High school teacher under investigation for saying “vagina” during anatomy lesson (Salon)

• Interesting blog post by the founder of just-launched free social dating app CupidWithFreinds about the stigmas surrounding online dating – and explains his solutions to the crappy aspects of typical dating sites with his social dating profile and engagement model.
  The Lie Hollywood Loves to Tell (jared tame)

• The Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers about three erection enhancement products sold on various websites — Rock-It Man, Libido Sex Enhancer and Stiff Days.
  FDA Warns of 3 Penis Pills (XBIZ)

• “If you really want to know people, start by looking in their bedrooms,” says Shereen El Feki, author of the new book, Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World. El Feki found that demonstrators for political freedom in Tahrir Square during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution had little interest in also promoting sexual freedom – and more.
  Sex in the Arab World: Shereen El Feki Talks with Tracy Quan (Reason)

• With a strict new condom ordinance on the books in LA County, many producers are looking for alternative sites to shoot, reports CBS Los Angeles. Many porn producers are looking to move to nearby locations, like Chatsworth or Camarillo. But Camarillo City Council members voted Wednesday night and agreed to a 45-day moratorium on making adult movies and videos.
  LA porn producers consider moving due to new condom rules (CBS)

• Author Jillian Lauren writes, “I was 12, and he was my 20-year-old camp counselor. For years, I thought I was asking for it — but not anymore.”
  My inappropriate relationship (Salon)

• Producer and director Axel Braun has released the first official image from his eagerly anticipated superhero parody “Wonder Woman XXX.” The photograph depicts porn starlet Kimberly Kane as Wonder Woman and reveals the DC Comics heroine’s revamped costume. His new trailer for porn parody Iron Man XXX is below.
  Kimberly Kane’s ‘Wonder Woman XXX’ Costume Revealed (XBIZ)

• Fifteen years ago today the FDA approved Viagra, paving the way for a new category of drugs and a marked change in the acceptability of talking about erections in public.
  This Day in Sex Drug History (sexuality.about.com)

• Police believe they have smashed what could be Britain’s biggest child-sex ring. Six men have been arrested so far and officers have identified almost 50 alleged victims of rape, abuse and sex slavery aged as young as 12. Detectives fear those numbers could easily reach more than 100.
  Peterborough: Police smash ‘biggest child-sex ring’ in the UK (Mirror UK)

• Lena Dunham’s HBO dramedy “Girls” shows pear-shaped and small-busted Dunham nude or scantily clad in almost every episode of the series’ two seasons, in premises ranging from mundane bathing scenes to graphic sexual scenarios. This has inspired an internet backlash from people who don’t think that’s okay.
  Lena Dunham Promotes Body-Diverse Sexuality On HBO’s “Girls” (Kinsey Confidential)

• Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is offering quite a challenge to brilliant minds everywhere: create a condom that men prefer to use over no condom. On Gates’ “Impatient Optimists” website for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a blog post describes how condoms are effective at preventing the spread of HIV and unintended pregnancy, but most people don’t want to use them.
  Bill Gates: Create a Condom Men Will Use Over No Condom At All (DailyTech)

• CNN looks at the increasing amount of cases between erotic dancers and employers over labor issues.
  Strippers vs. club owners in fight over labor rights (CNN Money)

• California’s Pasadena City College canceled a talk by James Deen first saying there was a danger of “violent protests,” but then claiming a paperwork problem. The professor who invited Deen explores his employer’s deeper issues.
  Porn Star James Deen Threatens Assumptions About Women And Sex (dailylife)

• Internet cafes across the state of Florida could soon be forced to close their doors. The Florida House last Friday overwhelmingly approved a ban on the state’s combination internet cafes/adult gambling establishments. Those backing the ban called Internet cafes a “cancer” that has spread throughout neighborhoods across the state.
  Fla. House passes bill banning Internet cafes, adult arcades (TC Palm)

• Alex, of the blog “Classy As Fuck”, recently posted about the weird disclosure ethics of sex toy company Adam & Eve. It seems they wanted to purchase a sponsored post from Alex – but once her post went up the company had some issues with her (legally required) disclosure.
  Adam & Eve Would Prefer You Not Disclose Their Sponsored Post (Get Off My Internets)

• Even this dude’s original list of “tech hotties” is an uninformed surface skim of the internet’s popular, mainstream and safe female tech personalities. Sad to see the mainstreamers still missing the point about tech hotness.
  Writer of Complex’s ‘50 Hottest Women in Tech’ List: I Tried! (The Daily Beast)

• As the razor wire, the blast walls and the security checks around Kabul’s presidential palace clearly suggest, Afghans employed by the government have a lot to be concerned just by walking to the office. But for Afghan women employees there is an additional hazard: the increase of sexual harassment by guards and male co-workers.
  How Afghanistan is Beginning to Deal with Workplace Sexual Harassment (TIME)

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