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- Hooray for Naughty Nerdy! “Ms Walker knew another porn star called Maisie Dee, having interacted with her online. Ms Dee appeared in three Game of Thrones episodes during the show’s second season. She (half-jokingly) told Ms Dee about her desire to get a role in Game of Thrones, and the pair talked more at work that evening.”
Meet Aeryn Walker, the feminist Aussie porn star in Game of Thrones (News AU)
- A rapper who has worked with the Wu-Tang Clan cut off his own penis before attempting suicide by leaping from a building, police said today. Andre Johnson was rushed to hospital on Wednesday after he jumped from a second-floor balcony at an apartment building in North Hollywood. Mr Johnson was found on the sidewalk critically injured and was taken to hospital along with his severed penis. It is unclear if doctors are attempting to reattach his penis, TMZ reported.
Wu-Tang Clan-affiliated rapper cuts off his own penis before attempting suicide by jumping from a building (DailyMail)
- A study published in The Lancet, a medical journal, documents the successful implantation of incubator-grown vaginas in four women at a hospital in Mexico City between 2005 and 2008.
Laboratory-Grown Vaginas Have Been Hiding Among Us for Years (Slate)
- “An X-ray showed a rope with four knots stuck in the narrowest part of his urethra with 10 centimeters dangling out of the urethral opening.”
Dr. Dong and The Case of The Urethral Jump Rope (JWZ)
- Sweetie looks much like other unfortunate young Filipinas. Just 10 years old, her user profile shows, she spends her days online fielding requests from men who offer her money to perform sexual acts in front of a webcam. Unlike her peers, though, Sweetie is a computer-generated avatar created by a Dutch non-profit group seeking to unmask sexual predators on the Internet. Some 20,000 people contacted Sweetie during the eight weeks she was online last year, while researchers in an Amsterdam warehouse used keystrokes to turn her head, make her stare attentively or reach to adjust her webcam.
Pedophiles Lured by Avatar in Tech Industry Porn Fight (Bloomberg)
- China’s National Office Against Pornographic and Illegal Publications just announced another big campaign against pornography. The “Cleaning the web” initiative is to last until November and target websites, search portals, mobile app stores, and set-top boxes that provide access to porn.
China’s latest crackdown on porn has little to do with porn (Quartz)
- “If only they were a little more like . . . earrings,” the Kate Upton said of her 34-D’s. “If I could just take them off like they were clip-ons.”
Kate Upton hates her breasts (Page Six)
- “We know you can use Bitcoin to buy booze and breast implants, and you used to be able to use it for drugs. But the three-month-old site Tits For Bitcoin (yup), which lets you trade cryptocurrency for webcam models, is a new one.”
‘Tits For Bitcoin’: Webcams and Cryptocurrency Are a Match Made in Heaven (Betabeat)
- “I’ve been performing in feminist porn for several years, and this year I attended the Ninth Annual Good for Her Feminist Porn Awards and Conference in Toronto. (…) The director’s vision was for us to act out a sensual kink scene inspired by the most popular fan-fiction in all the land: 50 Shades of Grey. However, dirty talk and rough sex were frowned upon, as the producers were aiming for something more BDSM-light.” (She’s talking smack about filming this scene for Ms. Naughty.)
Authentically Yours: Feminist Porn Gets Political (SF Weekly)
- During its five-year, four-city pilot, the CDC is focusing on preventing dating violence among middle-schoolers in Baltimore, Chicago, Oakland, and Fort Lauderdale. As part of follow-up research to assess the program’s effectiveness, the pilot will compare an eighth-grade-only program in schools with a comprehensive approach spanning three grades and multiple spheres of influence.
The New Sex Education Focuses on Preventing Violence (The Atlantic)
- In a new video created by TDA_Boulder for Sir Richards Condom Company, Andrew Kresge, director of operations for Sir Richards, says, “I’m doing my part to help the world. That’s what we do here at Sir Richard’s. For every condom you purchase, we donate one to a developing country. So far, Sir Richard’s has donated over 2.5 million condoms.”
Half Naked Man Says the More Sex We Have The More Lives We Save (AdRants)
- An online petition that seeks to oust the AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s CEO and president, Michael Weinstein, now has the support of the Free Speech Coalition. Weinstein has been asked to resign from his post for recent comments made about Truvada, the pre-exposure prophylaxis, FDA-approved medication for use by people at high risk for HIV. The drug is intended to help prevent transmission of the virus.
FSC Supports Change.org Petition Targeting AHF’s Weinstein (XBIZ)
- The Louisiana House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly — 27–67 — to retain a law banning “crimes against nature,” including oral sex and all forms of same-sex sexual contact. The law has been unenforceable for over ten years, since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Lawrence v. Texas that laws criminalizing consensual private sexual behavior are unconstitutional.
Louisiana Lawmakers Refuse To Repeal State Law Banning Oral Sex (ThinkProgress)
- I covered the reactive, transparent dress two years ago, but still want one! The INTIMACY 2.0 project (because it can’t truly be INTIMATE unless it’s in ALL CAPS) comes from Studio Roosegaarde, a “social design lab for interactive art, fashion, and architecture” based in China and the Netherlands. According to the project description on its website, the garment is intended to “explore the relationship between intimacy and technology.”
This dress becomes transparent when it detects you’re turned on (Daily Dot)
- “Written in plain, user-friendly language and covering everything from revenge porn to identity theft to online dating, The Smart Girl’s Guide to Privacy is specifically geared toward women and other vulnerable members of the online population, who need guidance navigating the murky, often treacherous waters of the Internet. The Daily Dot recently talked to Blue about Heartbleed, Tinder, revenge porn, and why we shouldn’t have to Just Say No to sexting.”
Violet Blue talks sexting, revenge porn, and why we should be a little scared of Tinder (Daily Dot)
- “Saturday night, a small posse and I drove down to Long Beach, Calif., to catch the “Best of Hump! Tour.” For the uninitiated, Hump is an exhibitionist extravaganza hosted every year by sex columnist-turned-dirty-movie emcee Dan Savage in which ordinary folks become weekend porn stars, shooting sexually explicit short films designed to arouse and entertain a room full of like-minded strangers.”
Leave Your Hangups at Home: Hump! Amateur Porn Fest Hits the Road (Variety)
- “Maddy O’Reilly is an adult film star making her directorial debut in “Maddy O’Reilly is Slutwoman.” We asked Maddy to keep a diary for us during filming so you could read all about her experiences. Here is Day One.”
What It’s Like to Direct Your First Adult Film (When You’re Also Starring In It) (BroBible)
- An auction to sell off the Girls Gone Wild franchise’s assets was called off last week because there were no qualified overbids submitted to the bankruptcy trustee. In February, bankruptcy trustee R. Todd Neilson secured a stalking horse bid for $1.825 million to purchase the brand’s assets, including its trademarks, domain names and litigation rights, as well as its assumed liabilities.
TTIGirls Gone Wild Auction Called Off; No Competing OverbidsLE (XBIZ)
- “It’s been a while since we’ve seen shenanigans from American Apparel. But an image currently on their website promoting a new line of miniskirts features a women wearing a pleated miniskirt bent over exposing her underwear. And it caught our attention.”
Pervy Upskirt Shot Touts American Apparel Miniskirt Line (AdRants)
