Sex News: Google revenge porn arrest, fake bestiality, MIT’s awful sexual assault secret

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• A Google employee was arrested by federal agents for threatening to distribute nude photos of a college student if she did not comply with his requests to email him additional ones. Nicholas Rotundo, a 23-year-old man who is part of the Google’s Internal Technology program, was taken into custody earlier this month after victimizing the University of Texas at Dallas student with posting nude images of her on revenge porn websites.
  Google employee arrested over revenge porn sextortion (SC Magazine)

• Just this month, James Deen, one of the most visible contemporary male porn stars, was rejected by from donating to a slew of major breast cancer organizations. Instead, he’ll donate 50 percent of all profits from his website during the month of October to smaller organizations like The Rose and Living Beyond Breast Cancer.
  Charities Won’t Take Porn Money Unless They Can Keep It a Dirty Secret (Observer, thanks Viviane!)

• The intersection of virtual sex and the IoT is predictably a recent phenomenon, but virtual sex without the modern high-tech angle has been around for years.
  Virtual Sex: The Unspoken Driver of IoT Innovation (Techmergence)

• A British man arrested for owning “extreme porn” featuring a woman having sex with a tiger was cleared after lawyers realized the cat was, in fact, a man in a costume.
  Man cleared of owning ‘extreme porn’ after tiger in sex video revealed to be man in costume (NY Daily News)

• 28 Days Later and Sunshine writer Alex Garland is back with a new science fiction thriller, this one about the line between human and AI. In Ex Machina, a programmer is tasked with evaluating the consciousness of a female-bodied AI, and things quickly take a turn for the very weird.
  A Sexually Charged Turing Test Gets Creepy In Trailer For Ex Machina (io9)

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• In a rare glimpse into Cuban organized crime, Miami-based news organization CubaNet published a feature story looking at gangs in Cuba’s capital, reporting that the biggest gang in Havana, which operates largely in male prostitution districts, charges male prostitutes a fee in exchange for operating in their territory.
  Cuban Gang Profits From Sex Trade (In Sight Crime)

• Buzzfeed talked to Angela White, Tasha Reign, Jessica Drake, Kelly Madison and Little Red Bunny about working in porn.
  This Is What It’s Actually Like To Work As A Female Porn Star (Buzzfeed)

• “I’m in the office of Dr. Robert Nejat, getting a final consultation before I schedule my vasectomy.”
  The kindest cut: my journey into the nether regions of male birth control (The Verge)

• If you’re an anal-retentive type who enjoys quantifying every aspect of your life, there’s no shortage of sex-tracking apps for you on the market. But pretty soon you might be able to use huMOVE, a wearable tracking system that analyzes how long you last in bed.
  A wearable wants to measure sexual performance for science (Daily Dot)

• PornHub has offered to sponsor a Kent college football kit after they released a fake picture with the porn site’s logo on their shirts.
  PornHub sponsor our football kit…after we used their logo as a prank (Kent Tab)

• The investigator who led the Department of Homeland Security’s internal review of the Secret Service’s 2012 prostitution scandal quietly resigned in August after he was implicated in his own incident involving a prostitute, according to current and former department officials.
  Investigator in Secret Service Prostitution Scandal Resigns (NYT)

• Europics Ju Peng, 19, is traveling through eastern China and looking for ‘temporary boyfriends’ to fund her trip. She promises to spend the night with them in return.
  Chinese backpacker offers sex with man in each city she visits to fund trip (NY Daily News)

• Bacchus at Eros Blog writes, “Vampire porn is so profitable (bringing in porn surfers from Google, showing them free pirated porn, selling ads to advertisers desperate for that huge mass of horny eyeballs) that MindGeek has bought up a big chunk of the porn industry with the profits.”
  The Curse Of The Vampire Tubes (ErosBlog: The Sex Blog)

• A park official in southern Thailand has cleared a local shrine of the sex paraphernalia that visitors were leaving in place of garlands and other traditional offerings.
  Krabi Cave Cleared of Sex Toys (Khaosod English, via The Grugq)

• New-York based comedy duo Adam Lash and Kevin Gilligan released the first two installments of their web series “Gigahoes” this month.
  New Web Series Explores the Funny Side of Robot Sex (Future of Sex)

• Tinder has essentially exported Los Angeles-style dating across the globe. In L.A., where looks reign supreme, there’s an endless smorgasbord of single people, and anything can happen on any night. The same goes for Tinder.
  Inside Tinder’s Hookup Factory (Rolling Stone)

• Warning for sexual trauma and assault survivors: One in six female undergraduate students who responded to the survey say they’ve experienced sexual assault on MIT’s Cambridge, Mass. campus, although fewer than 5 percent reported the experience to authorities or to the school.
  1 in 6 female undergrads sexually assaulted on MIT campus, survey finds (PBS NewsHour)

• Great op-ed asks “Are vague laws allowing police to ride roughshod over legal standards?”
  Comment: Anti-porn laws allow police to target those they don’t like (Politics UK)