Sex News: Porn awards in Getty Images, Larry Flynt on Charlie Hebdo, polyamory on CNN, lulzy safewords

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  • 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)

  • 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)

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  • 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)

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  • 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)

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  • 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)

  • 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)

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