Sex News: FDA lube seizures, BDSM injury survey, the Enormous Breast Ramen Festival

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Image above from Sheer Delight, Interview Magazine, March 2015 issue.

  • I love this post so much. “It seems a lot of people really, REALLY don’t get what ‘consent’ means. (…) If you’re still struggling, just imagine instead of initiating sex, you’re making them a cup of tea. (…) If they are unconscious, don’t make them tea. Unconscious people don’t want tea and can’t answer the question ‘do you want tea’ because they are unconscious.”
    Consent: Not actually that complicated (Rockstar Dinosaur Pirate Princess)
  • While living in Florida, Jennifer had Google searched “How to make money” and landed on a page about BDSM dungeons. She began reading about the business and started operating one part-time. Without a house to call her own, though, her dungeon struggled to turn a profit.
    How to Afford Park Slope? Run a BDSM Dungeon (Brooklyn Based)

Gratitude to our sponsor in Spain, women-run Lust Cinema.

  • The FDA actually started seizing our shipments of their lubricant, so we can’t even get it in the store anymore,” said Sarah Mueller, senior sex educator and resident lube expert at the Smitten Kitten, a sex boutique in Minneapolis.
    The FDA’s Crusade Against Lube (VICE)

Thank you to our sponsor, Nubile Films.

  • Video game Senran Kagura has teamed up with several well-known ramen restaurants for what’s being called, and I quote, “An Enormous Breast Ramen Festival” (爆乳ラーメン祭り or “Bakunyuu Raamen Matsuri”). Until April 5, five noodle restaurants in Tokyo are serving their own Senran Kagura noodle dishes that you would not exactly call subtle.
    Ramen Has Never Been This Lewd or Perverted (Kotaku)
  • Joy St. James writes, “Into a tiny, drawstring handbag I crammed some emergency cash, lipstick, mascara, and (just in case) condoms. Just walking from my car was an experience in itself. Like most women, I was taught from an early age to adopt what is called in Switzerland (where I’ve also lived) the Geradeaus Gait. … “Hey, baby! Looking good! Wiggle that ass for me!” The catcalls and leers, instead of offensive and annoying, I found reaffirming.”
    I Was A Streetwalker For A Night (Nerve)

Thank you to our sponsor in the UK, Joybear.

  • Pandora Blake writes, “When someone talks about ‘porn’ they probably have a specific vision in mind, and that vision may not match someone else’s. Here is a fact: you cannot possibly imagine all porn.”
    Can porn empower women? (Medium)
  • Human trafficking – and sex trafficking in particular – has become something of a Christian cause célèbre. One of the most persistent criticisms of the movement is that it’s not opposed only to explicitly forced prostitution and child prostitution, but to prostitution as a whole, even when it’s engaged in by adult women who say they are sex workers by choice. That’s one point that some activists have no problem acknowledging. “FAAST and all of our partners are very intentional in that we say that all prostitution is inherently harmful,” said Mandy Porter, coordinator at the Faith Alliance Against Slavery and Trafficking, a Baltimore-based Christian coalition whose members include World Relief and the Salvation Army.
    How Evangelicals Took Sex Trafficking From Feminists and Made It a Christian Cause Célèbre (Slate, via Ms Naughty)
  • Massive warning for survivors of sexual trauma, assault, abuse: The Indian government has remained defiant over its ban on a BBC documentary about the 2012 fatal gang-rape of a student in Delhi despite a groundswell of acclaim for the film. India’s home minister, Rajnath Singh, has threatened to take action against the BBC, though did not elaborate on what form this may take, save that “all options are open”.
    Indian government remains defiant over ban on BBC rape documentary (Guardian UK)

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