Sex News: RealDoll’s AI research, sex in space fundraiser, Grindr for sale, Muslim sex lives

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  • NY Post writes, “So Apple has a new sex-tracker app? Hilarious. But the new feature makes about as much sense as Absolut having a sobriety app, or Hostess managing your weight loss program. The sex tracker is a new component of Apple’s pre-installed Health app. (…)”
    Hey Apple, your new app is killing our sex lives (NY Post)
  • Mr. McMullen, the creator of the RealDoll, says he has sold over 5,000 customizable, life-size dolls since 1996, with prices from $5,000 to $10,000. Mr. McMullen’s new project, which he is calling Realbotix, is an attempt to animate the doll; he is first focusing on developing convincing artificial intelligence, and a robotic head that can blink and open and close its mouth.
    Sex Dolls That Talk Back (NY Times)

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  • The question the weirdos are asking: Is San Francisco still our home? Is there room for all of us, or is it time to move on to stranger pastures? No one is struggling harder with those questions than the misplaced dolls, dandies and deviants of Mission Control.
    San Francisco’s freak flag is flying at half-mast (Mashable)
  • Free Speech Coalition, the national trade association to the adult entertainment and pleasure products industry, has issued a statement relative to the “outings” of adult performers and other adult industry workers. “The truth is these sometimes life-threatening outings, whether they’re the work of a stalker, an ex-lover or a rival, have become all too common. And just as commonly, the defense of the ‘outing’ is free speech. As an organization dedicated to free speech, we thought it was time to address the issue.”
    FSC Makes Statement on Adult Performer, Worker Personal Privacy (XBIZ)

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  • Josh Karp’s new book, Orson Welles’s Last Movie: The Making of The Other Side of the Wind — written up recently in these pages — contains a marvelous, little-known story about the legendary filmmaker’s involvement in a high-end mid-1970s pornographic film.
    NSFW: Watch the Porn Scene Edited by Orson Welles (Vulture)
  • KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – A government official blamed the recent deadly earthquake in Malaysia on a group of 10 foreigners who “showed disrespect to the sacred” Mount Kinabalu by posing naked at the peak last week.
    Malaysian official blames deadly quake on naked tourists (CBS News)
  • Gay-dating app Grindr LLC recently hired investment bank Raine Group LLC to help it find a buyer, according to a person familiar with its finances. More than 10 other dating companies were acquired in the past year, two by Barry Diller’s IAC/InterActive Corp., which already owns nearly 22% of the market through an amalgam of sites and apps that includes OkCupid, Match.com and Tinder.
    The Dating Business: Love on the Rocks (Wall Street Journal)

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  • As an apparent result of not initializing memory, the DynaMike ROM is filled with some fairly unfortunate leftovers from whatever else the developer was doing at the time the game was built. They only really get out of hand at 0x7000, when a 4KB portion of an HTML file begins.
    RAM Contents in Unitialized Memory (The Cutting Room Floor)

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  • If Abdelaziz Aouragh, who heads El Asira, ever does open a Mecca location of the “sex shop” it wouldn’t be so out of place. Victoria’s Secret storefronts abound across Saudi Arabia. The Kingdom even even has its own popular brand of lingerie, Nayomi, which has several locations in Mecca. Still, Aouragh understands why the story, though faulty, drew so much interest. He says that a lot of people — including many Muslims — don’t understand the role of sexual pleasure within Islam.
    The Real Sex Lives Of Muslims (Think Progress)

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