- This article, where Ms. Naughty thoroughly takes apart the newest wave of anti-porn hysteria, is so good I can’t decide what to excerpt for you. Just go read it!
How To Be An Anti-Porn Campaigner (Medium)
- If social cons get their way, Pennsylvania strippers will have to kiss any sense of privacy or anonymity goodbye. Over 60 state legislators are co-sponsoring a bill that would force strippers to register with the Department of State.
Pennsylvania legislators want to force strippers to register with the Department of State (Red Alert Politics)
- Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey caused a sensation when he said at the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality Conference that his company won’t block adult content on the Oculus Rift; too bad Facebook quashed that little dream for its store. Here follows a list of the top 5 virtual sex products which will use the Oculus Rift.
Top 5 Virtual Sex Products Using the Oculus Rift (Lakebit)
- More than 1,400 middle and high school students across America were asked in a survey what they thought about gender representation in games, what games girls play, and more. Interestingly, they found that most of the boys thought female characters are treated too often as sex objects
Everything You Know About Boys and Video Games Is Wrong (TIME, sound alert)
- While the effects in Lawnmower Man will have dazzled at the time – and as the best-known instance of VR sex in the movies its place in history can not be forgotten – this cyber-tryst is far more a cautionary tale than one of love, respect and union.
VR Sex In Movies: A History of Light and Shade (Badoink)
- It seems that everyone is talking about sex robots as of late. Patrick Quinlan, best selling author of Smoked is no exception. Quinlan’s newest novel, Sexbot, is a typical fast-paced thriller.
Patrick Quinlan Thinks You Are Going to Fall in Love With Your Sex Robot (Disinformation)
- Google recently unleashed its image identification artificial neural network to the internet masses, and, predictably, the internet has quickly decided to turn it into psychedelic porn for robots. There’s even a subreddit for it now, r/deepdream.
What Computers Dream of When They Look at Porn (VICE)
- Penthouse Pet of the Year Nikki Benz is headed to Comic-Con with Jaclyn Taylor this weekend, for the first ever Oculus demonstration of Naughty America’s new virtual porn.
Nikki Benz Demos Naughty America’s Virtual Porn at Comic-Con (XBIZ)
- Lots of animated gifs and Buzzfeed’s hallmark 8th grade, conversation-in-the-hall-at-school sentence structure in this look at sex and antidepressants.
Here’s What Antidepressants Actually Do To Your Sex Drive (Buzzfeed)
1 @Penthouse has a new mil/vet affairs column
2 It's titled Embrace The Suck
3 I am its author
4 Read the articles! pic.twitter.com/dVXlJ8p4LS
— Matt Gallagher (@MattGallagher0) July 6, 2015
- Warning for domestic violence survivors. A Florida man was arrested after an argument with his ex-wife about a sex toy escalated, according to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office. According to an arrest report, the woman was using the bathroom when Horne barged in, accusing her of cheating on him with a sex toy.
FL man arrested after accusing ex-wife of cheating on him with sex toy (First Coast News)
- A former high school English teacher who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing three male students said Thursday she was vulnerable and made mistakes, but a Utah judge scolded her for committing serious crimes and sentenced her to up to 30 years in prison.
Ex-teacher sentenced to 2 to 30 years in student sex case (AP)
- “Humans” has caused a stir online for some titillating reasons. It seems that the show’s continued focus on robotic sex is proving fascinating to viewers. This culminated in an outsized reaction to last week’s episode, when husband and father Joe Hawkins sleeps with his recently purchased Synth, Anita.
Did You See That Shocking Robot Sex Scene in Humans, Channel 4’s New Sci-Fi Hit? (Future of Sex)
- A federal jury today convicted a gay porn star/escort of extorting $500,000 and a luxury car from a business tycoon who made the hush money payments when threatened with the exposure of his paid sexual encounters with the accused shakedown artist.
Federal Jury Convicts Gay Porn Star In Extortion Of Socialite Tycoon (The Smoking Gun)
- Twerk is in the dictionary now and Pornhub wants the TwerkingButt to be in your bedroom. The vaguely terrifying, hi-tech vibrating sex toy is a pretend posterior that will cost up to $1,000 and comes with a VR headset and companion apps for iOS and Android.
Pornhub’s TwerkingButt promises VR porn/the end of humanity (The Next Web)
- For her new book, The Smart Girl’s Guide to Privacy, Blue (hey, that’s me!) worked with attorneys, psychologists, and tech employees to put together a practical guide to online privacy that doesn’t require a huge amount of background knowledge. Though it’s marketed toward girls and discusses the role gender plays in online harassment and exploitation, Blue notes in the first chapter that the book is for women “of all shades on the gender identity spectrum” and that LGBTQ people are routinely left out of the privacy conversation.
“The Smart Girl’s Guide to Privacy” is a Practical Look at Gender and Online Privacy (Bitch Media)
- Aurora Snow writes, “The porn industry is very segregated by race, with sites treating black-on-white sex especially as taboo. Here’s why it’s time to break down the barriers and ditch the ‘interracial’ genre.”
Why Porn’s ‘Interracial’ Label Is Racist (Daily Beast)
- Magic Mike XXL is a film that is ultimately preoccupied with the sexual satisfaction of women, even though no one actually has sex in it (onscreen, anyway).
‘Magic Mike XXL’ Is the Most Sex Positive Film of the Yea (Screencrush)
- Warning for survivors of sexual assault and abuse. Federal authorities raided the home of Subway spokesman Jared Fogle Tuesday morning. FBI sources told FOX59 state and federal investigators were serving warrants at Fogle’s Zionsville home in connection with a child pornography investigation.
Subway spokesman Jared Fogle’s home raided in child pornography investigation (FOX59)
- While online porn may seem a world away from the brothel catalogs of long ago, the Museum of Sex’s latest show shows our appetite for porn is long—and inventive.
Inside the Museum of Sex’s 150-Year-Old Porn Stash (Daily Beast)
- When Farabet and his MadBits crew joined Twitter last summer, Roetter — the company’s head of engineering — told them to build a system that could automatically identify NSFW images on its popular social network.
Twitter’s New AI Recognizes Porn So You Don’t Have To (WIRED)
- Legislation requiring universities in New York state to adopt a uniform affirmative sexual consent policy was signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday.
All NY colleges to adopt ‘yes means yes’ sex assault policy (Reuters)
- While the Feds have been able to locate more than 100 of [a convicted sexual predator’s] underage victims, nearly 250 young women have yet to be identified. And that’s where you come in.
The FBI needs your help finding 250 sextortion victims (Engadget)
- Warning for survivors of sexual assault and trauma. Kudos to AP for bringing this to the light of day. “The excerpts show [Bill] Cosby admitting that he obtained quaaludes in the 1970s so that he could give them to young women he pursued for extramarital sex. Asked if they knew what they were taking, his lawyers objected and he never answered.”
Accuser asks for all Cosby testimony to be made public (AP)
