December 2013

• Ricky Saiz, who directed Beyoncé’s clip on a hot summer day in Brooklyn, said recently that he based the concept on George Michael’s “Freedom! ’90″ video. He also discussed Beyoncé’s nipple-emphasizing bodysuit. “Our stylist Karen Langley was incredible,” he said. “When she brought out that Tom Ford for YSL molded bodysuit with the pierced nipples, I was like, ‘No way that B is going to wear this.’ (…)
  Beyoncé Brings Sex to the Runway in ‘Yoncé’ (above, via Rolling Stone)

• Adult performer Siri has been named by Quora.com as one of the website’s Top Writers of 2013. Even after reading Quora’s PR on its “Top Writers” program and looking for a collected list, I still can’t find one and have no idea what being a Quora “Top Writer” means.
  Adult Star Siri Named One of Quora’s Top Writers of 2013 (therealpornwikileaks)

• The so-called ‘Go away Cameron’ Chrome extension will allow UK internet users to visit any site they want, bypassing government restrictions on pornographic material.
  ‘Go away Cameron!’ Browser extension bypasses UK govt’s porn filter (RT)

• Erotica featuring Sasquatch, minotaurs, aliens, and boar gods may not fit everyone’s tastes, but some authors have made a killing selling monster sex ebooks.
  Amazon is making it harder to sell Bigfoot porn ebooks (i09)

• YAY!!!! Curve magazine in its January/February issue includes an article on leading queer sex trailblazers, including pornographers as well as popular queer porn star Jiz Lee on the cover.
  Porn Star Jiz Lee on Curve’s Cover (XBIZ)

• RedTube has been granted a temporary injunction against The Archive AG, which puts a stop to the letters demanding payment from RedTube viewers – for now.
  RedTube users no longer face fines for watching copyrighted porn (Digital Trends)

• “If I hadn’t ended up as a Dominatrix, I may have retrained as a plumber.”
  A Day In The Life Of A Dominatrix: The Unfortunate Ice Cream Incident (Sabotage Times)

• PornHub is going strong with the press releases and getting prime placement with its PR. Take it all with a grain of PornHub-data-only salt. “In 2013, the US earned the distinction of being the first country tracked by Pornhub to watch the majority of its online porn on mobile phones. About 52% of [PornHub] porn consumption was on mobile phones this year, compared to 46% last year, according to Pornhub. That’s significantly higher than anywhere else.”
  The US now watches the majority of its online porn on mobile phones (QZ)

• “As a gay man I’d like to set the record straight *coughs* once and for all, so that I’ll be able to join in a round of hot-or-not without having my opinion rejected with a What would you know?”
  A Gay Man’s Guide To Hot Women (Sabotage Times)

• Preston found perhaps one of the most arresting scientific papers published this year, a report on 10 hippo-neutering procedures European and Middle Eastern veterinarians performed. She describes the challenges of hippo castration, none of which I would have guessed.
  How To Castrate A Hippo (Popular Science)

• Here’s a “banned commercial” from China that touts a product that is supposed to protect women from rape and abduction. The translation to English is almost as funny as the video itself.
  Ladies, These ‘Security Pants’ Will Keep the Creeps Away From You (AdRants)

• A much-hyped protest for the right to go topless on Rio de Janeiro’s beaches fell flat Saturday when only a handful of women bared their chests for the movement. However, at least 100 photojournalists showed up… just in case there would be something to shoot.
  Topless protest against obscenity laws falls flat on Rio beach (The Globe and Mail)

• I just want to reach through the Internet and slap the New York Times‘ collective face for calling high tech sex toys “sex doodads.”
  Sex Toys and Cybersex Are Enhanced by New Technology (NYT)

• “The opt-in filters also deny access to the Parliament and Government websites and the sites of politicians, including Claire Perry, the MP who has campaigned prominently for the introduction of filters.”
  The Best Story Yet About The UK’s Online Porn Filters (Forbes)

• RSS Through secretive negotiations with ISPs, the coalition has divided the internet into ‘acceptable’ and ‘unacceptable’ categories.
  Cameron’s internet filter goes far beyond porn – and that was always the plan (New Statesman)

• The Daily Mirror UK celebrates the release of Amanda Seyfried’s Lovelace with its own infographic collection of Deep Throat statistics.
  Deep Throat porn infographic: Linda Lovelace salary and 23 more facts about the adult film industry (Mirror UK)

• Americans’ porn-watching sessions are, on average, the longest on the planet, according to a new report about the world’s porn habits in 2013.
  One Stat That Proves America Really Enjoys Its Porn (Huffington Post)

• A northern New Jersey couple claim their real estate agent kept potential buyers away from their vacant home so he could use it for “sexual escapades.”
  Suit: Real Estate Agents Used NJ Home for Sex (ABC News)

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• “How would you touch me?” Scarlett Johansson asks in her unmistakable charred rasp. The question is an invitation, the first turning point in the film’s three-act structure. Johansson is Her: the latest technology, an artificially intelligent operating system brought into being by Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix), a modern day man-child from the near future.
  My Real-Life Her: Who Needs a Body to Have Sex? (NY Mag)

• Sex books make a great gift at Christmas or during the holiday season, and there are plenty of new titles to choose from. About: Sexuality included my new sex toy book (yay!) but Best Women’s Erotica 2014 wasn’t out yet, so please do consider it in your browsing…
  Sex Book Christmas and Holiday Gifts (About: Sexuality)

• We just can’t. Nssmag.com has created the raunchiest, most totally NSFW fashion quiz ever, on its new Fashion or Porn mini-site.
  Fashion Or Porn Is The Most NSFW Game, Ever (Refinery29)

• Asking strangers about their sex lives isn’t easy [for some people] – especially when you’re wanting truthful answers. Penny Young explains how NatCen’s interviewers broached the subject for the third Natsal survey.
  Let’s talk about sex (Research Live)

• James Deen denies that porn for women exists, Dusk TV, naked men and more. Once again, Ms. Naughty has one of the best yearly wrap-ups. “2013 marks my 13th year in porn and this is the 8th yearly retrospective about porn for women.”
  Porn For Women Retrospective 2013 (Ms. Naughty)

• In case you were wondering how you say “sexting” in French, fret no more. Members of the L’academie Francaise, a government board that creates new words, have decided that frisky Frenchies are incapable of pronouncing the word sexting so they now have their own: textopornographie.
  Of Course The French Created Their Own Word For ‘Sexting’ (Betabeat)

• Ari Schlesinger writes: “I am currently exploring feminist critiques of logic in hopes of outlining a working framework for the creation of a feminist programming language. If this is something you are interested in and would like to give me some feedback on I would truly appreciate it.”
  Feminism and Programming Languages (HASTAC)

• Though the filter scheme’s architect Claire Perry dismissed concerns about over-filtering as ‘a load of cock,’ the UK’s ISP-level Internet content filters are already harmfully over-filtering as predicted. Internet filters introduced by the UK’s four major ISPs are blocking access to sites offering sex education and support services for rape and domestic abuse.
  Abuse support and sex education sites blocked by ISP’s ‘porn filters’ (Independent UK)

• “My husband does not want to be a spokesperson for child sex abuse survivors. His experiences are his own, and he finds no comfort in commiserating with others. He only agreed to this essay as a way of taking the conversation into the light, removing the shame, and saying to some other little boy, With help, you, too, can heal; to parents, Be careful; and, to partners like me, Please do not give up.”
  On Marrying a Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse (The Atlantic)

• (Video autoplay warnings on all links from these n00bs.) In what must be an amazing coincidence, ABC decides to do a story on “sex accidents” and interviews the guy being touted as the “expert” on Discovery’s new contrived cringe-worthy series about sex accidents.
  Sex Accidents Send Victims to ER Twice a Week (ABC)

• A longtime and tenured professor of sociology at University of Colorado Boulder is allegedly being forced to retire due to a lecture on prostitution that she has delivered for more than 20 years without incident.
  Professor Forced Out Over Prostitution Lecture (Huffington Post)

• Greater distance apart in relationships actually predicted more intimacy, communication, and satisfaction between long-distance partners.
  Study: Long Distance Relationships Can Work (The Atlantic)

• George Clooney and his ball-ironing. When it comes to the world of sex, it often feels like everything old is new again, but 2013 saw its share of novelties, provocations, celebrations and oddities – the good, the bad and the bizarre.
  The Year in Sex (Observer)

• Are sex workers’ lives worth less than everyone else’s? An attorney in New York recently argued in the affirmative, telling a judge that his client was being too harshly punished for the murder of a transgender sex worker.
  Are sex workers’ lives worth less than everyone else’s? (LA Times)

• io9 painstakingly compiled a map of all the most biarre and unnecessary laws regulating what you do, with whom, and where.
  A Map of the Weirdest Sex Laws in the United States (io9)

• This happened. Social Striptease Case Study (YouTube)

• It’s poorly written and overly-salacious, as if you never heard of a woman exploring sex work on Craigslist, and the author idiotically confuses mean for funny… But if you like junk food sex reads, this one’s good for toilet time.
  I Was A Co-Ed Lady Pimp (XOJane)

• Intimate videos of whispering, playing with someone’s hair and tapping fingernails cause pleasurable tingles, or ASMR, for some.
  How to Have a ‘Brain Orgasm’ (The Atlantic)

• Al Goldstein, the bearded, bird-flipping publisher of Screw magazine who smashed down legal barriers against pornography and raged against politicians, organized religion and anything that even suggested good taste, died Thursday, according to a friend. He was 77.
  Porn pioneer Al Goldstein, publisher of Screw magazine, dead at 77 (NBC)

• City officials in Milan demanded the “denuding” of a publicly displayed Christmas tree adorned with sundry red sex toys.
  Italian Officials ‘Denude’ Sex Toy Tree (XBIZ)

• Jodie Foster, Michelle Rodriguez… 2013 was another stellar year for ladies who like other ladies who want the world to know that they like other ladies.
  22 Kickass Queer Women Who Came Out in 2013 (Autostraddle)

Post images from: Galore Magazine’s 2014 Erotica Calendar [NSFW] (Touchpuppet)

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• Scientists at the Institute for Integrative Nanosciences in Dresden, Germany, have created “the first sperm-based biobots” – a cybernetic microorganism made of metal and a bull’s sperm cell that can be remote controlled and used to impregnate an egg or deliver a drug to a target anywhere inside your body.
  Scientists create a cyborg sperm for the first time ever (Gizmodo)

• Kevin Bollaert – owner and operator of revenge porn extortion site UGotPosted.com – was arrested Tuesday by California Department of Justice agents after a six-month investigation and has been charged with 31 felony counts of conspiracy, identity theft and extortion and is facing possible jail time and fines. The defendant told CNN that he feels remorse for his actions and has renounced revenge-porn-as-profession, but does not believe he has committed any crimes.
  UGotPosted Site Operator Renounces ‘Revenge Porn’ (XBIZ)

• A burgeoning industry, albeit a small one, is emerging in which African pornstars are getting it on in front of African cameramen and being told to put what where by African producers.
  The African Domestic Porn Industry Is About To Explode (Sabotage Times)

• People who are in love are less able to focus and to perform tasks that require attention. Researcher Henk Van Steenbergen emphasizes that the link between romantic love and cognitive control is a new area of research.
  Reduced cognitive control in passionate lovers (Improbable Research)

• The real shame with strippers isn’t that they take their clothes off for money. It’s that they take their clothes off for money that is then unfairly garnished by their employers.
  This Is the Real Reason Why Strippers Hate Their Jobs (Slate)

• One of my favorite places to lurk has a lively discussion about what to do – or not – when you observe what may be mile high club (sexual) activity on a flight.
  Mile High Club “etiquette” (FlyerTalk Forums)

• Webcam studios are to bedroom masturbators what brothels are to Johns. And if the internet had a designated red light district it would be Romania, where there are currently an estimated 2,000 studios in operation.
  I Spent a Month Living in a Romanian Sexcam Studio (VICE)

• Using the hashtag #CensoredUK an assembly of anti-censorship campaigners, feminists, pornographers, and others launched a protest against Prime Minister David Cameron’s internet sex filtering plan.
  U.K. citizens reject Web filtering in massive #CensoredUK campaign (Daily Dot)

• Attendees at the Paris summit of the G20 finance ministers and central bank governors fell for an email promising nude photos of Carla Bruni, former supermodel and wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
  Gov’t officials at 2011 G20 baited with porn (ZDNet)

• Sex toy shopping at Christmas may seem a tricky maneuver, but remember that the thought does count, and you never know what will come of planting erotic seeds via a well timed, and well chosen sex toy.
  2013 Christmas Sex Toy Gifts for the Holidays (About: Sexuality)

Main post image: Maryna Linchuk in Vogue Russia December 2013

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