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  • “Man, now I gotta defend my orgasm to a bunch of strange dudes. Wait, no I don’t.” A curious Reddit user monitored her heart rate using a Fitbit while she had sex and posted the results online. Naturally, the Reddit trolls rolled in soon after…
    Woman Wore A Fitbit During Sex, Got Mansplained By Trolls (HuffPo)

Queercon DEF CON

  • Queercon started as an LGBT meet-up group at the DEF CON hacker conference more than a decade ago. But the San Francisco-based nonprofit, which finished its 12th year with Defcon at Bally’s Hotel and Casino on Sunday, is becoming something else: The men who lead the group have made it their mission to increase LGBT visibility. And it seems to be catching on.
    Let’s hack Grindr! Queercon helps diversify tech field (Washington Blade)
  • In a new review of the scientific literature on asexuality, published in the Journal of Sex Research, Anthony F. Bogaert argues that more sex researchers should start paying closer attention to asexuality, because you can’t attempt to understand the broad spectrum of human sexual desire unless you also understand those who never experience it.
    5 Ways to Better Understand Asexuality (New York Magazine)

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  • A very impressive trailer has arrived online for upcoming Thai erotic horror Hood. The titular hood in this case is a reference to the spread neck of a cobra poised to strike, the story revolving around a love story between a man and woman who proves to be some sort of shape shifting snake spirit.
    Snakes, Blood And Sex In Thai Erotic Horror HOOD (TwitchFilm)

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  • Former Prenda Law Attorney Paul Duffy, 55, died Monday from heart and alcohol-related conditions. He was a partner in the now-dissolved Prenda Law, which was notorious for exacting shakedown payments from porn piracy defendants through court-approved subpoenas; I wrote about them targeting hackers here. The firm which closed shop in 2013 after U.S. District Judge Otis Wright in Los Angeles sanctioned the three for deceiving the court in a copyright infringement case.
    Former Prenda Law Attorney Paul Duffy Dies (XBIZ)
  • Rachel Kramer Bussel wanted “to find out the appeal of taking and sharing dick pics, so I asked anonymous 34-year-old male sex blogger [NSFW] Exhibit A, who’s posted his share of them at exhibitunadorned.com, how he got started.”
    Why do men take dick pics? (CityPaper)

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  • Like every startup ever, it’s like Uber for condoms and it is going to change the world by saving “those women” in Africa. “L. Condoms is a startup in the current batch of Y Combinator that promises delivery of comfortable, paraben and glycerin-free prophylactics straight to your door in under an hour.”
    Y Combinator’s L. Condoms Provides Safe Sex, On-Demand (TechCrunch)
  • “Because certain generations of men are coming to the end of their lives now, we tend to find [porn] magazines from the 1970s and 1980s, normal top shelf magazines — Playboys, Penthouses,” Webuyanyporn told AFP. They either shred the material or sells it at Ram Books, at their shop in Islington, north London, which bills itself as being “for the collector of bizarre and erotic mags”.
    Porn again: disposing of UK’s dirty magazines with discretion (Business Insider)

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  • If you do happen to behold two characters mysteriously undressed and engaged in a lengthy private conversation, it’s likely that you’re witnessing an instance of erotic roleplay, commonly referred to as ERP in World of Warcraft’s Pornshire. ERP is not unique to WoW; it also occurs in other MMORPGs like Guild Wars 2, Starwars: The Old Republic, and Wildstar.
    Elves, Anal, and Breeding Fetishes: Inside World of Warcraft’s Thriving Sex Club (Broadly/Vice)
  • Extreme warning for survivors of sexual assault, abuse, and trauma, and human beings everywhere. What is described in this New York Times article is a crime against humanity, and it must be stopped.
    ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape (New York Times)

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