Sex News: GoFundMe redlining, the Japanese ‘porn king’, pre-order Bisexual Husbands

• Gizmodo features the amazing honey-dripped photography of Blake Little. This outstanding series (above) is from his new book, Preservation.
  Amazing photos of naked people completely covered in honey (NSFW) (Gizmodo)

• At noon local time last Wednesday, the Erotic Service Providers Legal, Education, and Research Project (ESPLERP) filed a lawsuit against the attorney general of the state of California, as well as several district attorneys, in a case they say has the potential to decriminalize prostitution in a handful of Western states. Last Friday, however, GoFundMe abruptly canceled the campaign without warning, deleting ESPLERP’s account on the website and changing its terms of service. (GoFundMe didn’t initially object to ESPLER using the site for fundraising.) GoFundMe’s flagrantly dishonest, redlining actions are reprehensible — I’ll never ever do business with them and my future freelance reporting will reflect what they’ve done.
  A New Lawsuit Aims to Decriminalize Prostitution in California + GoFundMe cancels sex workers’ legal fundraising efforts (Vice, DailyDot)

• YAY!!! Bisexual Husbands is now available for pre-order!!!! Alison Tyler writes, “I promised you another cover reveal, and here’s the beauty right now. Violet Blue keeps raising the bar with her ever-so-classy covers. These little collections are extremely important to me because they prove that indie presses can succeed. From the font to the layout to the covers to the smoking hot interiors, Violet is taking erotica to the future.” (Psst: we need Amazon reviewers!)
  Bisexual Husbands… (Alison Tyler | Trollop With A Laptop)

• According to the author of Barbie and Ruth, the Barbie doll all began with a German comic-strip character named Lilli. A wise-cracking, high-end call girl, Lilli was such a popular staple for the Hamburg newspaper Bild-Zeitung that they made an adult novelty doll out of her.
  The adult-themed beginnings of the Barbie doll (Hopes and Fears)

• We don’t demand that waitresses feel “empowered” in their jobs for us to recognise their agency in choosing the work, and we don’t tell other workers who serve male customers that they can’t be feminist.
  Don’t ask if porn “empowers” women – instead, ask if your feminism does (New Statesman)

• In a Flemish village outside of Turnhout, Belgium, Laura and Maurice live together with their daughter Eva. They have all the trappings of a normal family, but when 9-year-old Eva is at school, Maurice and Laura start their day jobs as porn producers.
  Making Porn, Raising A Family (Roads and Kingdoms)

• Organizers of the 12th annual CineKink Film Festival in New York announced the recipients of its 2015 awards in a range of categories during the show’s closing celebrations on Sunday.
  CineKink Announces 2015 Award Winners (XBIZ)

• Out of 50 states and one district, only nine states have any form of positive LGBT-inclusive sexual education, a number that is very disheartening for the overall well-being of many youth in the United States.
  Why Is LGBT-Inclusive Sex Education Still So Taboo? (Huffington Post)

• Britain’s biggest collection of vintage fetish mags are up for sale. The 700 magazines, some dating back to 1953, show amateurish, black and white, shots which are about as candid as today’s catalogue underwear section.
  Collector puts Britain’s biggest collection of vintage ‘fetish mags’ up for sale (Mirror)

• While Google backed down on its NSFW (Not Safe For Work) edict after “a landslide of feedback,” the unexpected backlash reopened old wounds. It’s not just the pornographers who are concerned about violations of free speech and free expression on social media. It’s bloggers who talk about everything from living a clothing-free lifestyle to adult circumcision.
  Internet porn restrictions rile First Amendment watchdogs, bloggers (UPI)

• I’m not sure why reporting like this is interesting anymore, and I don’t mean that as an insult, but here it is. “It’s my first time at AVN. I’ve wanted to go forever.”
  Porntopia: A trip to the Adult Video News Awards (Grantland)

• YouTube has closed a loophole by which porn videos were apparently left unmoderated if they had Irish language titles. The Google-owned video giant has a tough stance on ‘adult’ videos, and actively moderates content that violates its policies.
  Porn Uploaded With Irish Titles Made It Onto YouTube Unscathed (Huffington Post UK)

• The Atlantic opines, “Just as the rest of society has more openly confronted the ugly reality of rape, the BDSM scene has had to acknowledge that ‘Safe, Sane, Consensual’ is often more of an ideal than reality.”
  How Kink’s Largest Social-Networking Site Fails Its Users (Atlantic)

• The (awesome!) website Hump the Bundle offers a ‘pay what you want’ system where users can name their own price to download adult content. The site’s “suggested split” gives a large chunk to the content providers, while the rest goes to charity. But while Hump the Bundle managed to raise nearly $15,000 for a couple of months of donations, they don’t seem to be able to find charities who will take the money.
  Charity Porn Site Can’t Find Anyone To Take Its Money (Badoink)

• At 35, Shimiken is the king of Japanese porn, a $20 billion industry that produces more than double the number of adult films that America does. In 18 years and more than 7,000 films, Shimiken has refused only one scenario: having sex with an actress after she had sex with a dog.
  Meet the Hardest Working Man in Porn (Details)

• Porn star Tory Lane was arrested after allegedly becoming ‘belligerent’ on a plane and assaulting airline staff and police at Los Angeles International Airport.
  Porn star Tory Lane arrested at LAX for battery on police officer and public intoxication after she ‘drunkenly attacked flight crew’ (Daily Mail, sound alert)

Update to add:

• When the early gay movement began in the early 1950s, the U.S. government didn’t differentiate between homosexual rights manifestos, gay erotica or dirty pictures. All were considered illegal, and using the postal service to distribute any of them could and did result in long prison sentences.
  How Gay Porn Helped Build the Gay Rights Movement (Huffington Post)