January 2015

• Plans are afoot to develop an erotic entertainment attraction in Taiwan’s Southwest Coast National Scenic Area. The sex theme park — or “Garden of Eden” as it’s called in the proposal — will be modeled after other erotic parks around the world including Jeju’s Loveland in South Korea and Vigeland Park in Oslo, Norway.
  A new sex park for Taiwan? (CNN; above image from Jeju via CYMT)

• Numbers throughout the murky world of human trafficking are notoriously hard to verify. How many traffickers? Uncountable! How many victims? So many! How old are they? Too young! Truthout looked at 50 of the most prominent domestic groups founded or organized to limit or eradicate human trafficking, or to assist trafficking victims: Many of the most frequently cited statements are easily disputed, if factual at all. There’s also no real evidence that human trafficking is growing.
  Special Report: Money and Lies in Anti-Human Trafficking NGOs (TruthOut)

• For the past few years, campaigns against human sex trafficking have swelled in the days before the Super Bowl, largely because of the persistence of a claim that it’s the largest sex trafficking event in the country. But as it turns out, there is very little empirical evidence that speaks to this oft-repeated claim.
  Does sex trafficking increase around the Super Bowl? (Tampa Bay Times/Politifact)

• In the case of articles on Wikipedia about human trafficking in Canada, there is virtually no opposition. The Wikipedia admin and campus ambassador Neelix has almost single-handedly defined this area on Wikipedia — and he is staunchly an anti-sex work abolitionist.
  Unpaid Advocacy on Wikipedia (Wikipediocracy)

• Hot Kickstarter alert: Renowned photographer (and cover artist for two of my books) Steve Diet Goedde celebrates 25 years of his iconic erotic and fetish imagery with a deluxe retrospective book. His team is creating three volumes of iconic images from the Goedde archive and never before seen images from these now-legendary photo sessions featuring a legion of celebrated models (edited by Eric Kroll).
  ARRANGEMENTS: 25 Years of Photography in 3 Volumes (pre-order, Kickstarter)

• If you’re a woman with a functioning vagina you already have a reliable supply of products to sell: your panties.
  Get Cash For Your Undies: A How-To Guide For Enterprising Ladies On The Web (Animal NY)

• East coast blizzard hookups: Bored, hungry, and fearing for their lives, New Yorkers took to the internet in droves to try to find some companionship for the end-times. Here’s the crème de la crème of Craigslist love-seekers who were just trying to take this half-assed blizzard to bonetown. Links are wildly NSFW.
  Man Who Wanted His Snow Shoveled, then Oral Sex, Is the Craigslist Blizzard Hookup Winner (Village Voice)

• Ask many porn performers or producers willing to speak on the record about Pornhub, and they’ll likely give a response akin to the following, from indie performer and producer Courtney Trouble: “Fuck them. I don’t like their parent company [Mindgeek]. I don’t like them.”
  What porn stars talk about when they talk about Pornhub (Daily Dot)

• Craig Brittain of Colorado Springs, Colo., who ran the revenge porn website isanybodydown.com (while running a scam revenge porn removal service for pictures he posted) settled with federal regulators, and got little more than a slap on the wrist.
  FTC Settles Case Against ‘Revenge Porn’ Site Operator (ABC News)

• K&L Gates, a Pittsburgh-based law firm, is working with about 100 victims of revenge porn. Most of its clients come through the program’s website or referrals from two national advocacy groups for victims of revenge porn, the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative and Without My Consent (where I’m an Advisor).
  Law Firm Founds Project to Fight ‘Revenge Porn’ (NYT)

• in a new CNN mini-doc web series titled “Sex, Drugs & Silicon Valley” the Bay Area tech scene lets its freak flag fly high for a national audience.
  CNN Explores The Druggy, Trippy, And Poly Side Of Silicon Valley Geekdom (SFist)

• That sound you hear is the door being banged harder on the wedged foot of the adult biz. Not just content with strafing established workers, models, producers and any others connected to them, the biggest, most powerful and influential web companies are cutting off the oxygen to anything related to sex if it’s for pleasure.
  Pornocalypse: The End Of The F*cking World? (BaDoink)

• Nuns from the Sisters of St. Charles in Chicago’s suburban Melrose Park are fed up over the Club Allure gentlemen’s club.
  Nuns Say Strip Club Is Full of ‘High Friction,’ Want It Closed (XBIZ)

• Amped Asia got to interview Asian porn stars at Asian Model Palooza, and they said wacky porn star things.
  The Uncensored Shit that Asian Porn Stars Say (Amped Asia)

• Former print journalists making their second feature (documentary Hot Girls Wanted), Bauer and Gradus follow five different young women active in the bustling Florida porn scene (most are 18 or 19 years old, though one two-year veteran is 25 and already a “MILF”).
  Sundance Film Review: ‘Hot Girls Wanted’ (Variety)

• Though it’s had a huge surge in popularity at upscale spas over the past few years, like most “new” health trends, vaginal steaming has been around in some form or another for a very long time.
  What Is Vagina Steaming? (Bustle)

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• The Las Vegas AVN (adult trade industry magazine) porn awards and expo are in Getty Images, and the photos are going up uncensored.
  2015 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo (Getty Images)

• The adult content filters being rolled out by most UK internet providers under a scheme championed by David Cameron are blocking the websites of businesses and charities, as well as URLs with Sussex or Essex in them. Several of the blocked charities were offering support and services to young people escaping abuse or alcohol dependency.
  Internet filters block websites of sex abuse charities (Guardian UK)

• When a dozen people, including 11 staffers, were gunned down at the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo this month, Larry Flynt, like many people, was shocked. But the iconoclastic publisher said he was more stunned by what he referred to as cowardice among several American media outlets in the wake of the tragedy.
  Larry Flynt reacts to ‘Charlie Hebdo’ shooting, calls American media ‘spineless’ (WCPO)

• CNN does polyamory, SF Bay Area style. Miju Han lives in the Bay Area, works as a product manager and shares a charming apartment with her fiancé. Here’s what makes her love story a bit different: She’s also in three other relationships.
  I have a fiancé, a girlfriend and two boyfriends (CNN Money)

• While porn and sex toys are a no-no on Kickstarter, they’re just fine on Indiegogo along with a number of other crowdfunding sites. There is even a pair of porn-only crowdfunding sites. And, just as with other industries, people are putting down a lot of money.
  How the smart (small) money is betting on porn (CNBC)

• This article is porn negative, and FYI the genre performers are called pro-am, as in, professional amateurs, but the doc might be interesting. The world of pro-am is examined in a new documentary by Jill Bauer and Ronna Gradus, “Hot Girls Wanted,” which premiered Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival.
  Sundance Doc ‘Hot Girls Wanted’ Explores Amateur Porn (AP/ABC News)

• Love this, the Mirror telling us the most popular word is “cock.” Psychologist Mark Allen Thornton used data from around 300,000 erotic stories and 65,000 authors who published their work on fiction site Literotica, to find who writes what kind of sex — and who likes reading about it.
  A psychologist reveals the MOST erotic word, found by DATA (Mirror UK)

• This is a very fun — and funny — list of real safewords, with accompanying lulzy gifs.
  Awesome rough sex safe words all couples can use in the bedroom tonight (SheKnows)

• This article is truly great and very important. The Globe spoke with experts about shifting toxic gendered dialogue, without overpolicing men and conversation in general.
  Experts working to shift the toxic gender dialogue (Globe and Mail)

• Fun post. Karley Slutever tells us, “from personal experience, I can say that some [dungeons] are very elegant and ornate, while others are far trashier, and tend to be located in unassuming office buildings in gross areas of midtown, on a floor just above, like, a pottery class, and just below an insurance company. Random.”
  The World’s Sexiest Dungeons (Slutever)

• Put your critical thinking caps on when parsing the latest NYT article about Google searches and what they say about sex — and for the articles starting to repeat it without question. For instance, are these all straight men and women? Does it account for condom availability programs at schools and health clinics nationwide? Where is his Google search data coming from? (The author’s last article was based on his conclusions from “surveys, social networks, pornographic searches and dating sites.”)
  Searching for Sex (NYT)

• Nevada health officials said Friday that they’re considering strict brothel-style regulations for a booming adult film industry following the announcement last month that two male performers tested positive for HIV following a video shoot in the state.
  Nevada considering strict condom regulation for porn films (Boston Herald)

• A sure highlight of this season’s menswear shows during Paris Fashion Week: the Rick Owens fall/winter 2015 collection. If you love dick, that is.
  Hot New Trend in Men’s Fashion: Visible Penis (Cosmopolitan)

• If you’ve grown tired of your six-speed vibrator, then the customizable Mod Indiegogo vibrator may be just right for you. The Mod, which stands for Multivibrating Open-source Dildo, is the “flagship” product of Atlanta-based Comingle’s open source sex toy platform. Basically, it’s a vibrator that can be programmed with endless vibration patterns you, or someone else in the community, code. But for hardcore DIY sex toy enthusiasts, the Mod also can be used to do so much more.
  The Mod Indiegogo: Open Source Sex Toy Platform Lets You Customize Own Vibrator (iDigitalTimes)

• Great news if you missed it: CrashPadSeries and New York Toy Collective have extended the “Dream Scene” porn scriptwriting contest to February 1st, 2015 (midnight PST).
  Dream Scene Contest: Submit Your Queer Porn Script! (Crash Pad Series)

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