Sunday Sex Reads: AdultFriendFinder breach, Ex Machina, libertarian porn

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  • What you won’t find [on PornHub], despite the fact that in book form it has sold over 100 million copies and as a film has made more than $500 million, is contract porn. But now, with its release on DVD, Fifty Shades of Grey — maybe the only movie ever made that’s understood the appeal of a woman looking at a man across 12 inches of hard-wood conference table and murmuring “no anal fisting” — puts contract in the light it deserves (glowing, above the Apple logo). It’s not so much that with Fifty Shades, porn has gone mainstream; it’s that with Fifty Shades the mainstream has been revealed as porn.
    50 Shades of Libertarian Love (The Los Angeles Review of Books)

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  • In 2006, Oprah Winfrey cancelled an appearance on her show by Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, the parents whose 15 children had made them famous not just to fellow evangelical Christians but to the secular world as well. Only now is Discovery beginning to acknowledge the likelihood that eldest son Josh Duggar molested all but one of his five younger sisters.
    The Web Has Known About Josh Duggar for Years. When Did TLC Find Out? (Defamer)
  • Sex and robots: The concept of AI—specifically of the foxy, sexualized persuasion—has permeated pop culture for a very long time, most recently exemplified with Alex Garland’s Ex Machina. And should these AI rise up, what kind of role would sexuality and sexual identity play in their existence—if at all? Hopes&Fears corralled a group of varied experts to weigh in through a group panel discussion to see what the future holds for us, the AI… and our respective crotch parts.
    Artificial Sexuality: a roundtable discussion on screwing robots (Hopes and Fears)

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  • Federal agents arrested a State Department employee flying out of Atlanta this week and charged him with running a massive, repulsive “sextortion” racket using U.S. State Department computer access. He stole sexually explicit photos of young women from their Internet accounts, threatened to release personal information on them and their families (or cause them to lose their jobs), and then blackmailed them for more sexual photos and videos. He phished, hacked and terrorized hundreds of women with the aid of his government computer access.
    State dept. worker accused of ‘sextortion’ has hearing in Atlanta (AJC)

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  • “The mainstream video game industry, replete as it is with violence simulators and power fantasies, is a shrinking violet when it comes to honestly portraying intercourse. Sex [in video games] is treated like a Fabergé egg, a delicate treasure with incalculable value but no other purpose than to look nice on a shelf and point out to friends. In the God of War series, sex is a reward mechanic that churns out points in exchange for quickly mashing buttons. But you never see the sex, you just hear it!”
    Let’s Talk About Sex (in Video Games), Baby (The Mary Sue)
  • “In real life, almost every article about sex dolls (a term I’m using interchangeably here with “love doll,” even though not everyone who owns such a doll does so for sexual purposes) has stated that the market for such dolls is almost entirely male—but not entirely.”
    The Human Side of Sex Dolls (LadySmut)
  • Ever wonder what it’s like to see a penis ejaculate into your face while dressed to the nines in the South of France? Well then Gaspar Noe’s Love might be for you. Despite several instances of tastefully lit fellatio, and a 3D image of a large penis’s sperm cascading towards the audience, Gaspar Noé’s Love proved to be the dumbest movie screened so far at Cannes — as well as the most soporific.
    Cannes’s 3D Porn: High Heels, Tuxedoes, and Midnight Money Shot (Daily Beast)
  • They were supposed to be enforcing the law. Instead, the FBI alleges, a pair of rogue FBI agents ran a sex-for-hire stable, staffed with illegal talent. One DEA source told The Daily Beast on the condition of anonymity that the incident is a slap in the face for the agency.
    DEA Agents Ran Jersey’s Sleaziest Strip Club (Daily Beast)

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  1. Edit needed: in the last article linked to, it should read “… a pair of rogue DEA agents ran a …” “Rogue” is also perhaps a bit overstating the case. “Foolish” or “sleazy” might perhaps be more accurate, from my reading of the linked article.

  2. Settle down, Elf. How about let’s not presume to tell each other what or what not to call the performers in the video. Your insistence that they must be regarded as “woman-shaped masturbation assistance devices” is more objectifying and dehumanizing than the video is. Your tedious commentary kinda looks like misogyny shabbily disguised as feminism. I mean really, where do you think you’re posting and who are you trying to impress here (apart from yourself)?

  3. That Coco De Mer ad is more embarrassing than sexy; It’s like some bad 1960s-era experiment with editing, no longer cool in an era when digital images can be streamed together so willfully, combined with a lot of skinny, young, white women servicing male fantasies.

    Let’s not call them “sexbots,” shall we? They’re woman-shaped masturbation assistance devices.

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