- Porn has always come with a soundtrack. And that soundtrack has become part of our collective erotic imagination. From “Deep Throat” to “Cafe Flesh,” the stories behind the sultry tunes that define our famous sex scenes.
How sex got its soundtrack: The X-rated history of “boom-chicka-wa (Salon)
- “OkCupid’s ten-year history has been the epitome of the old saying: two steps forward, one total fiasco. A while ago, we had the genius idea of an app that set up blind dates; we spent a year and a half on it, and it was gone from the app store in six months.”
We Experiment On Human Beings! (OkCupid)
- Alexandra Brodsky and Dana Bolger — the founders and current co-directors of Know Your IX, a sexual assault survivor-led group working to address campus violence — want to reform the law that forms the foundation of their group’s name. They want the colleges that fall short of Title IX to be slapped with a fine.
One Simple Solution To Make Sure Colleges Start Taking Rape Seriously (ThinkProgress)
- When Masters of Sex works, the show is riveting, weird and funny. But lately it’s suffering from “Bill is the heroic sex doctor who never existed” syndrome. And last night’s incredibly distorted story of how intersex surgeries happened just took that way, way too far.
An Awkward and Uncomfortable Masters of Sex Gets Everything Wrong (io9)
- Doctors treating a woman for severe weight loss and lethargy were shocked to discover she had a sex toy stuck inside her — and it had been in place for a decade.
Surgeons remove toy stuck in woman’s vagina for 10 years (News AU, via JWZ)
- Toys like OhMiBod’s blueMotion are helping to popularize teledildonics, or cyberdildonics: sex toys controlled by computers, operated over geographical distances. It’s an idea that hasn’t yet materialized on a broad scale.
This Bluetooth-Enabled Vibrator Might Bring Us Closer to Computer-Engineered Orgasms (Betabeat)
- Standing at 3’10” with a rare type of dwarfism called Kniest, Dr. Marylou Naccarato has become something of a pioneer in the Little People of America community. At a recent conference, she broke conservative boundaries to talk the ins and outs of sex, intimacy, and lovemaking with the various limitations that may come with life as a person of short stature.
The Challenges of Having Sex as a Little Person (The Atlantic)
That awkward moment when Satan is a perfectly acceptable option for your kids. pic.twitter.com/YrxTdPxeM6
— VN (@VotezNon) July 27, 2014
- The Satanic Temple announced on Monday that “informed consent” abortion laws — which require doctors to give state-mandated information that can be inaccurate or misleading to women seeking abortions in an effort to provide a “balanced” perspective — violate the temple’s religious philosophy.
The Satanic Temple Wants to Use Hobby Lobby Against ‘Informed Consent’ Abortion Laws (Vice)
- “Yes, you read that title correct, $260,000 PLUS PER YEAR! Well, that is apparently how much the sex traffickers make in profits per year, per individual victim, and remember there are many (page 2, column A, para. 1). So that means that the traffickers are making MILLIONS! Per year, as per the “many” victims. But where exactly did this figure, the profits of the human traffickers, originate from?”
$260,000 PLUS PER YEAR! (Kwe Today)
Wearing @Blacklickorish Photography: @corpvampire pic.twitter.com/f7aiVM9tQV
— Skin (@Skin_Diamond) July 8, 2014
- TMZ Sports spoke with Skin Diamond who said she watched the video of US Olympian sprinter Josh Mance asking her out on a date this weekend and was flattered, but she’s in a relationship already.
Porn Star Skin Diamond Rejects U.S. Olympian: ‘He’s Cute Though’ (TMZ)
- Experiment: “A stranger I met through Tinder would remotely control my app-based vibrator and I would, strangely and awkwardly, find some way to get off.”
I Did It For Science: A Stranger Remotely Controlled My Vibrator (Nerve)
- Organizers of the recent online debate, “Women in Porn: Shattering the Myths,” declared the event successful and announced that a second discussion featuring the same panelists is already in the planning stages. The goal for MindBrowse.com, according to Rowntree, is to develop into a “TED-like platform for discussion of serious, weighty issues surrounding the adult industry”.
‘Women in Porn’ Debate Sequel in the Works (XBIZ)
- Photos by Nate “Igor” Smith of racy juggalettes spotted at the 2014 Gathering of the Juggalos, held July 23-27 in Thornville, Ohio. Juggalos were classified as a gang in the FBI’s 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment report.
Juggalettes of the 2014 Gathering (NSFW) (Village Voice)
