- The data shown above come from the Facebook dating app, Are You Interested (AYI). All men except Asians preferred Asian women, while all except black women preferred white men. And both black men and black women got the lowest response rates for their respective genders.
The uncomfortable racial preferences revealed by online dating (Quartz)
- Hotel heiress and author (!?) Paris Hilton told a TMZ reporter yesterday that she “never made a dollar” from her infamous sex tape, 1 Night in Paris. “I make enough money in nice ways,” she said as she was exiting LAX airport.
Paris Hilton Denies Making Money Off Sex Tape (XBIZ)
- Shereen El Feki, author of Sex and the Citadel, points out that many sex workers believe they can keep their virginity intact and not be at risk of HIV/Aids because they only perform anal and oral sex, which isn’t true. She told DNA that many of these male clients are the same men who end up marrying women who are pressured to remain virgins until marriage. Because of these men’s actions, their wives become criminalized if they are infected.
Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby…In the Middle East (Fusion)
- One minute she’s doing homework and congratulating a friend on making varsity. The next, she’s the center of the this swarm of porny weirdness on Twitter. It was like the setup for a new Spielberg sci-fi movie.
Why Did 9,000 Porny Spambots Descend on This San Diego High Schooler? (The Atlantic)
- Microsoft has rewritten an Xbox One web promotion that backfired when it was branded sexist by upset gamers. The tech giant has apologized.
‘Honey, I know you’d rather KNIT but’ … ‘Sexist’ Microsoft U-turns in Xbox One brouhaha (The Register)
- I’m really excited about my next book, which will be out soon! The authors I got to work with in Best Women’s Erotica 2014 are incredible. (Amazon)
- Glenn Greenwald: “The National Security Agency has been gathering records of online sexual activity and evidence of visits to pornographic websites as part of a proposed plan to harm the reputations of those whom the agency believes are radicalizing others through incendiary speeches, according to a top-secret NSA document.”
Top-Secret Document Reveals NSA Spied On Porn Habits As Part Of Plan To Discredit ‘Radicalizers’ (HuffPo)
- The way this NYT writer describes sex toy customers is cruel and offensive – he can’t hide his disgust – but the topic of the article is interesting. I’ve always wanted to go to the Guangzhou National Sex Culture Festival.
With Glut of Lonely Men, China Has an Approved Outlet for Unrequited Lust (NYT)
- A Place Where Capitalism and Hedonism Meet (slideshow, NYT)
- UK adults wanting to view explicit content will “have to have a discussion” with their spouse or partner, Prime Minister David Cameron told BBC Radio on Nov. 18. At a London conference that day, Google and Microsoft announced controls that limit child porn searches, initiatives Cameron threatened to enforce through legislation if not enacted voluntarily.
In Child Porn Crackdown, U.K.’s Internet Filter Strategy Ensnares ISPs (Businessweek)
- PornHub apparently issued a press release about its data-linkbait project, because after notorious PR site WebProNews regurgitated the info, it next appeared on Vice, Jezebel and other websites having a slow news day and looking to reprint some PR. I do love looking at the PornHub Insights data; I just had to point out the story’s progression.
People Really Do Give Up Porn for Baby Jesus (Webpronews)
- British men and women are having increasingly adventurous sex, but couples are doing it less often, a sex survey shows. Dr Terri Apter examines the apparent contradictions revealed in UK sex lives and asks why the findings don’t add up.
National sex survey: The numbers behind our supposed sex lives don’t add up – and here’s why (Telegraph)
- The Girl With A One Track Mind debunks some sex myths.
13 Things Men’s Magazines Get Totally Wrong About Sex (Buzzfeed)
- France, with its long history of liberal attitudes towards sex, looks set to introduce €1,500 fines for clients of prostitutes. As the divisive bill goes before lawmakers, sex workers argue it will make their lives more dangerous. Equality groups, however, back the plan.
France set for new law to fine clients of prostitutes (The Local)
- A UPS driver who decided to spend his lunch break having sex with a prostitute in the back of his delivery truck will probably regret his decision — once the company tracks him down, that is.
UPS Driver Has Sex with Hooker in Truck, Hooker Posts Photos Online (Gawker)
- The first issue of indie zine Fucking Trans Women is here, in both digital and analog versions, for only $8.
Fucking Trans Women (fuckingtranswomen.tumblr.com)
- Cosmopolitan recently uncovered an intriguing Craigslist ad about a young man in London who is looking for someone to film him having sex with nature.
Love the Earth So Much… You Have Sex with It? (The Bold Italic)
- Today, the Center for Sex & Culture announced that it will participate in #GivingTuesday, an online non-profit fundraising event, on December 3, 2013. To give on December 3, go to the CSC page at the fundraising website Razoo and donate. Any amount, large or small, will be accepted; and since the CSC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, gifts are tax-deductible. (CSC, Razoo)
