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• The result of four years of hard work? A robotic butt named Patrick, who delivers instantaneous feedback to students about the prostate exam he’s receiving. Patrick comes equipped with four sensors, and its highly-visual software can inform students whether they’re applying optimal pressure. He might inform the student if the pressure is too soft or if they have neglected to cover the whole prostate.
  Robotic Butt Helps Medical Students Learn Professional Intimacy (KQED, thank you Cyrus!)

• Congrats, UK. It sucks to be you: Britain is at the cutting-edge of censorship, it has been claimed, as government plans to implement ID-based age checks for pornography websites gather pace.
  The UK is becoming the world leader in censorship (NAME)

• Merriam-Webster has updated its dictionary to include the words, WTF, meme, photobombing, and… NSFW! Yay! I remember having to explain to San Francisco Chronicle staff and management what that was. Not fun!
  Merriam-Webster Unabridged (Merriam-Webster)

• This is a wonderfully written first-person essay by a trans woman about her experiences with orgasm, pleasure and self-discovery. Highly recommended for all genders, actually.
  A Trans Woman Learns To Masturbate (Eros Media)

• CNN is staffed by drunk hamsters. There, I said it.
  Sex trade goes underground in China’s ‘sin city’ (CNN)

• Burgeoning industries like fintech, edtech and healthtech are constantly in the news. But not sextech. Given the ubiquity of sex, is that about to change?
  What is sextech and why is everyone ignoring it? (Hot Topics)

• A handful of anti-gay activists and their cameramen held an event Friday morning dubbing the longstanding Leather Archives & Museum a “perversion museum” that promotes incest, pedophilia and sadomasochism to children. But Rogers Park neighbors weren’t having it.
  Neighbors of Leather Museum Tell All 4 Anti-Gay Protesters to ‘Go Home’ (DNAinfo Chicago)

• The statute of limitations for criminal prosecution of sexual assault has just gone from four years to 20 in Nevada – and that’s because of the wave of accusations against comedian Bill Cosby. (I counted over two dozen last time I could stand to look.)
  Bill Cosby Assault Allegations Trigger Change in Nevada Sex-Crime Law (Daily Beast)

• Men are fulfilling their dreams of having giant penises that weigh multiple pounds with this medically dubious, illegal intervention. In Monster Meat, Vice meets Micha from Berlin, who decided a few years ago to take this irreversible step.
  This Is What Life Is Like With A Gigantic Penis (Vice/YouTube)

• I wasn’t wearing a skimpier top than usual, and I hadn’t recently gotten a boob job. The only thing I’d changed was my perfume. For a week, I’d been wearing synthetic pheromones “guaranteed” to make me more attractive to other humans.
  I wore ‘pheromone perfume’ to become a sex goddess (Fusion)

• Not many details on the yet, but it may have to do with the EU’s stance on net Neutrality. A leaked EU Council document shows that plans are afoot to stop Cameron’s censorship/web filtering plan in its tracks — and with the UK on the verge of trying to debate a better deal for itself within Europe, the Prime Minister is not in a particularly strong position for negotiating on the issue.
  Leaked document shows Europe would fight UK plans to block porn (Betanews)

• A recent report by Ameritest, one of the industry’s leading advertising testing firms, found that sex actually doesn’t sell. Sean Scott, Ameritest senior brand consultant, told Ad Age that sex just “doesn’t perform that well in spurring purchase intent.” In particular, the report took a close look at one of Carl Jr.’s latest ads, its 2015 Super Bowl “all-natural” burger commercial featuring model Charlotte McKinney and her bouncing “natural” boobs.
  Copyranter: Sex just don’t sell like it used to (Digiday)

• San Francisco, this looks fun: “What is it like to see a performance when you’re naked?” This question sparked “Nude Night” at the festival THIS IS WHAT I WANT. While patrons at San Francisco’s CounterPulse won’t be required to participate in the clothing-optional aspect of the opening night of festival (they’ll be asked to “be aware and respectful”), those who do get a $5 discount off the ticket price.
  Desire in focus at CounterPulse fest (SF Examiner)

• Games that deal with sex in a realistic way are largely unexplored territory. Mainstream games with sex scenes like Mass Effect or God of War exist to titillate and empower. But indie designers like Nina Freeman are pushing back, hoping to recouple sexuality and humanity by making players feel confused, awkward and vulnerable.
  If Sex Videogames Make You Feel Weird, That’s the Point (Wired)

• On Tuesday Night a joint operation involving Pattaya’s Tourist Police and a team from the Chonburi Provincial Police Special Operations Unit took place and targeted two shops which were reportedly selling penis and breast-shaped soap to locals and tourists. No one knows why.
  Penis and Breast-Shaped Soap seized by Police from South Pattaya Stores (Pattaya One)

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• Two of Britain’s top creatives have teamed up to make one of the most extravagant erotic brand films ever — a frenetic two-and-a-half-minute film for London adult retailer Coco de Mer.
  Ad of the Day: Adult Retailer Makes Probably the Craziest X-Rated Ad Yet (AdWeek)

• This Friday the news hit that 3.5 million personally identifiable records were leaked from systems belonging to the adult oriented website, AdultFriendFinder. The really interesting part wasn’t so much the tenting of fingers and overly ravenous bystanders but, more so the number of people cringing behind their monitors across the vast expanses of the Internet.
  The human cost of the Adult Friend Finder data breach (CSOnline)
  See also: Adult Friend Finder confirms data breach 3.5 million records exposed (CSOnline)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• Simone Steenberg and Lolo Bates, both photographers studying at the London College of Fashion will be curating a fashion photography show, called Pink Pistols, at Doomed Gallery in Dalston London opening June 18th 2015, about celebrating and exploring the female body and showing unconventional fashion photography.
  “Pink Pistols” A fashion photography show celebrating and exploring the female body (C-Heads Magazine)

• “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)

• It’s the yearly article where someone discovers the used panty trade and tries to make the topic seem… not used.
  Inside the Thriving Online Market for Women’s Dirty Underwear (VICE)

• “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)

• Controversial op-ed: “To paraphrase Janet Mock: Trans people aren’t ‘passing’ as men or women. We’re being. Out of all the words in the transgender lexicon, “passing” is the one I hate most. And that’s no small feat.”
  Op-ed: I’m a Trans Man Who Doesn’t ‘Pass’ — And You Shouldn’t Either (Advocate)

• A first-person essay about male bisexuality.
  Learning to Embrace Sexuality’s Gray Areas (NYT)

• 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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• Yay Stockroom! Fetish gear from L.A.-based erotic boutique The Stockroom appear in the latest Taylor Swift music video, Bad Blood, above. Stockroom took a chance on me and published my book Fetish Sex in 2006. Swift’s people reportedly picked up $13,000 in fetish clothing from The Stockroom, and Swift wears an outfit from The Stockroom’s latex brand, Syren Couture, in the video.
  Stockroom Supplies Fetish Attire for New Taylor Swift Video (XBIZ)

• Last month the A&E Channel aired a few episodes of its reprehensible show 8 Minutes, a reality program about a pastor who “saves” sex workers from “the life.” Now several women have come forward after being on the show saying that they were never connected to the resources promised, were pressured into signing contracts, and were misled about their level of anonymity on the show. The show, unfortunately, is not an anomaly.
  Combating Trafficking Takes Much Longer Than Eight Minutes (RH Reality Check)

• As politicians in D.C. push to censor the web in the name of catching sex traffickers, civil-liberty lovers may find some solace in a recent federal court ruling. Maintaining a “free and open Internet” is more important than thwarting traffickers at all costs, ruled Judge Richard Sterns of the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts.
  Backpage.com Lawsuit: Sex Trafficking Doesn’t Trump Internet Freedom, Says Federal Judge (Reason)

• I don’t know about you, but this raises some questions about just how cozy Facebook is with law enforcement in sharing (and spying on) its users’ private communications. Also, warning for survivors of sexual abuse and trauma on this one. No one seems to know — or wants to say — just how often Facebook gets involved in tipping off law enforcement about suspicious online behavior. Facebook won’t say, ICE claims it doesn’t know, and FBI just said “No” when asked if they had any data on the number of Facebook tips they investigate.
  Facebook helps police bust sex predators (Fusion)

• Today, the U.S. government released a sizeable tranche of documents and other material recovered during the Osama Bin Laden raid on the Abbottabod, Pakistan, compound used to hide Bin Ladin. An official at the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence today said that the sexually explicit content would remain classified even as other parts of Bin Laden’s personal files were released.
  Bin Laden’s Porn Stash Is Kept Secret (XBIZ)

• Faced with a Department of Justice investigation into air marshals, the men and women charged with protecting U.S. commercial flights from terrorism, former and current air marshals are coming forward to describe a “wheels-up, rings-off” culture rife with adultery, sex work, and other misconduct.
  Air marshals say a party-hearty attitude prevails at the agency (Reveal)

• The prostitutes at AP need to brush up on their sex work terminology… A California sex worker charged with killing a Google executive with an overdose of heroin aboard his yacht pleaded guilty Tuesday to involuntary manslaughter and administering drugs. A Santa Cruz County Superior Court judge sentenced defendant Alix Tichelman to six years in prison, bringing a sudden and unexpected conclusion to a case that garnered national attention.
  Sex worker pleads guilty in overdose death of Google exec (AP)

• I would like to test this, please: Lovense and VirtualRealPorn are creating a way to enjoy synced-up virtual reality sex. The trick involves using a Bluetooth dongle, specially coded VR videos, and Lovense’s Max and Nora sex toys to make the toys’ vibrations and rotations sync with the VR action seen in your headset.
  New Sex Toys Sync Up to Virtual Reality Porn (Wired)

• A judge in Fresno County, California, ruled last week that a lawsuit against the Clovis Unified School District’s abstinence-focused sex education program was justified because it was out of compliance with the state’s law mandating sex education to be medically accurate and free of bias.
  Judge’s Ruling in California Abstinence-Only Sex Ed Case Shows Importance of Strong Policies (RH Reality Check)

• Well-deserved: Big congrats to Cecilia Tan! The Pioneer Award is given annually to a few “pioneers” of romance, and the Career Achievement Award in Erotic Fiction is an honor – Tan won both this year!
  RT Award Recap: Cecilia Tan Pioneer & Career Achievement Award speeches (Cecilia Tan)

• Join San Francisco Sex Education for a night of education on and exploration of Sex and Video Games, led by a specialist in the field. Morgan “Red” McCormick has been a regularly invited speaker at Penny Arcade Expo on the topic of transgender representation in video games, and much more. Join us as we learn about the history and progression of sexuality in video games.
  SFSI Seminars: Sex and Video Games (Brown Paper Tickets)

• Dr. Nadim Uddin Siddiqui hosts a weekly call-in show about sexual issues on a Pakistani cable television channel. The program, Clinic Online, is a rarity for a conservative Muslim nation, but has proved popular, particularly among women.
  Live On Pakistani TV: A Call-In Show About Sex (NPR, via Thomas Roche)

• Religious leaders aren’t usually the best advisers on how to spice things up in the bedroom, but Orthodox Jewish couples struggling to sustain passionate marriages are finding a savior in Rabbi Natan Alexander. Men and women dissatisfied with their love lives are making pilgrimages to the Judaean Mountains near Jerusalem, where Alexander may prescribe them a Sqweel.
  Toy Vey: The Rabbi Selling Kosher Vibrators (Bloomberg)

• Twenty years ago, while people were shoveling processed foods down their gullets, they were also erotically consuming the sex toy equivalent of toxic processed foods. Yes, in the not so distant past folks were heading to their local smut emporium to purchase dildos, butt plugs and other goodies made from toxic, porous materials chock full of phthalates and other unpronounceable scourges.
  The frisky new world of non-toxic, cruelty-free, eco-friendly sex toys (Hopes and Fears)

• Fun article: A growing cohort of Torontonians are indulging their wildest fetishes – and negotiating every slap, spank and lash of the whip.
  The Kink Club: inside the secret world of BDSM (Toronto Life, thanks, Viviane!)

• The group of eight women sing, dance and enact poetry as getting-to-know-you exercises, but the themes written on the whiteboard reveal the deeper nature of the work: “Misconception, whore, mother, domestic violence, abandoned-thrown out, rebirth.” These are big motifs to tackle, but that’s what the San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival (now in its ninth year) is about — asking difficult questions.
  Sex workers act out in S.F. theater workshop (SF Gate)

• An Egyptian court has ordered Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb to impose a ban on pornographic websites. A similar decision taken two years ago denounced pornographic content as “venomous and vile,” but failed to come into force. The Wednesday ruling is to be immediately enforced.
  Egypt Court Bans Online Adult Content (XBIZ)

• Warning for survivors of sexual assault and trauma. Author Cathy Young writes: “To me, this crusade against “rape culture” over-simplifies the vast complexity of human sexual interaction, conflating criminal sexual acts like coercion by physical force, threat or incapacitation—which should obviously be prosecuted and punished whenever possible – with bad behavior.”
  Feminists want us to define these ugly sexual encounters as rape. Don’t let them. (Washington Post)

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• On the 27th of April, The Singing Sailor Underwater Defense System was installed into the sea in the archipelago due east of Stockholm. The Singing Sailor is a subsurface sonar system sending out the Morse code: “This way if you are gay”. For any submarines passing close by, The Singing Sailor also features the message “Welcome to Sweden. Gay since 1944.” (the year Sweden legalized homosexuality) as an animated neon sign.
  The Singing Sailor (svenskafreds.se)

• While the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling left intact most of 18 U.S.C. § 2257, the recordkeeping regulation for producers of sexually explicit content, the decision is a victory in many respects. Diane Duke, the CEO of trade industry group Free Speech Coalition, remarked that today’s decision prohibits “the routine, warrantless inspections, which were the hallmark of the original regulation. The 3rd Circuit’s decision struck down the recordkeeping inspection as unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment.”
  FSC Responds to Today’s 3rd Circuit Ruling Over 2257 Regs (XBIZ)

• Marlon Wayans (Scary Movie and A Haunted House) has announced that a parody of Fifty Shades Of Grey is in the works. The Hollywood star confirmed that he has taken on the challenge of reworking the film adaption of EL James’s S&M trilogy for a new audience. The project, entitled Fifty Shades Of Black, will be a comedy co-written by and starring the White Chicks actor. Wayans is teaming up with filmmaker Rick Alvarez once again for the forthcoming movie.
  Fifty Shades Of Grey to be given Scary Movie treatment by Marlon Wayans (IB Times)

• The HBO documentary Thought Crimes aired last weekend, about the so-called “Cannibal Cop,” a Queens-born NYPD officer convicted of conspiring to kidnap, cook and consume young female targets). I’m in it commenting about extreme fetishes, though you don’t get to hear me talk about vore/cannibalism fetish, and the importance of context with extreme/disturbing fetishes. It’s a great, but frustrating (and disturbing: warning for survivors) documentary.
  The 60-second interview: Erin Lee Carr, director of ‘Thought Crimes’ (Capital New York)

• A federal jury is hearing opening arguments next week in a civil case where Continental Airlines’ baggage handlers are accused of humiliating a gay couple by causing a sex toy to be exposed when released on a baggage claim carousel.
  Sex Toy Gets Exposed at the Airport; Couple Sues (XBIZ)

• Mic spoke to Lust Films director Erika Lust, porn creator Ms. Naughty and MakeLoveNotPorn.tv content curator Sarah Beall about what it’s like to create porn for women. For Lust, Beall and Ms. Naughty, feminist porn wasn’t a business venture so much as it was about creating a social change and providing material women might actually find sexy.
  6 Empowering Things Feminist Pornographers Can Teach Us About Sex (Mic)

• From Norway comes a frank sex ed series for preteens, to teach kids the science of the birds and the bees. Line Jansrud, a medical doctor and host of Newton—Norway’s science show for 8 to 12 years olds—is French kissing a tomato. “This tomato does not have a tongue, but it feels roughly the same,” she says. The program is a new part of the sex education that third graders get in Norway, via NRK, the Norwegian public broadcast channel and NRK Super, the largest Norwegian website for children.
  Are These the World’s Most Graphic Sex-Ed Videos? (Daily Beast)

• It’s not just penises that are taking Instagram’s backchannels by storm, it’s all manners of sexy bits: 15-second jerkoff videos, exposed anuses, a bevy of braless breasts. Though nudity is banned by Instagram’s community guidelines, a cottage industry of illicit hashtags has sprung up to find and share these photos.
  Inside Instagram’s Long Guerrilla War on Porn—and the Users Who Keep Coming Back (Talking Points Memo)

• With the launch of its new blogging platform nearing, adult search engine BoodiGo is calling for adult performers, bloggers and webmasters to start reserving subdomains now. “BoodiBlog will offer adult bloggers a stable, adult-dedicated platform on which they can write about and promote whatever they wish.”
  BoodiGo Taking Name Reservations for New BoodiBlog Platform (BoodiGo)

• In a decision that’s being hailed as “historic,” a judge in California has ruled that health classes focusing exclusively on telling students to remain abstinent until marriage fall short of the state’s comprehensive sex ed requirements.
  ‘Historic’ Ruling States That Abstinence-Only Sex Ed Isn’t Sex Ed (ThinkProgress)

• It’s hard to look at this and believe that AdWeek isn’t trying to create controversy by reminding brands they now live in a world where not everything is under their control, and that user platforms are for users.
  Here’s Why Twitter’s Porn Problem Freaked Out Brands (AdWeek)

• Kate Peters’ collaborative project Cam Girls is a terrific portrait series. Her pixelated images are photographs of a computer screen, and the women on them make their living offering online sexual performances.
  Portraits of Sex Cam Girls, Captured Through Skype (NSFW) (Wired)

• Though it requires STD testing for every straight-sex scene it films, Kink.com’s precautions for gay actors contributed to the spread of HIV, an actor claims in court. Plaintiff John Doe says he notified Kink.com immediately when he tested HIV-positive in May 2013, but that studio bosses kept his status quiet until shooting wrapped, leaving regulators in the dark and causing a delay that potentially resulted in HIV exposures for two performers.
  Porn Actor With HIV Pins Blame on Kink.com (Courthouse News)

• “Sadly, the decline in free speech at American universities, and the proliferation of ludicrous “trigger warning” mandates for books and courses, are topics covered largely by the right-wing media, so often I must hold my nose as I examine their sources.”
  Life Is “Triggering.” The Best Literature Should Be, Too. (New Republic)

• Warning for survivors of sexual assault, trauma, abuse. For psychological reasons, Angel Perez does not call what happened to him rape. But he vividly recalls being taken to Homan Square, a warehouse used by the Chicago police for incommunicado detentions, where police inserted something into his rectum.
  Homan Square detainee: I was sexually abused by police at Chicago ‘black site’ (Guardian)

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• “Ek Paheli Leela” has sparked all kinds of conversations, jokes and a small skirmish involving at least two prominent Indian politicians on Twitter. That’s because it stars Sunny Leone, a.k.a. Karenjit Kaur Vohra, the Indian heroine and reality-show personality who is also a popular American porn star.
  The Porn Star Sunny Leone’s Bollywood Makeover (NYT)

• The November 1972 issue of Playboy is the magazine’s best selling issue of all time. This is due to the proliferation of one iconic image from the magazine: that of centerfold model Lena Söderberg. The original image was digitized by researches at the University of Southern California Signal and Image Processing Institute (SIPI) in 1973.
  The Playboy Centerfold At The Center Of Computer Science (Digg)

• When entrepreneurs Alexandra Fine and Janet Lieberman of Dame Products launched a crowdfunding campaign via California-based Indiegogo to bankroll a high-tech sex toy last year, they knew investors might be squeamish. Fine and Lieberman’s effort became the most highly funded adult product in the history of online crowdfunding, surpassing even their “stretch” goal of $200,000 by 375 percent (they raised nearly $750,000). Indiegogo recently named Eva the most successful campaign ever run by an all-female team.
  How A Sex Toy Set Crowdfunding Records On Indiegogo (Forbes)

• This is both funny, and really, really bad. It’s time to call shenanigans on what is, without a doubt, the biggest failed social experiment of our time: Wikipedia.
  Gland Slams (Adult Mag)

• Along the murky border of China and Myanmar, the stringent morals of both countries give way to a no-man’s-land where prostitution is unchecked, gambling is rampant, and the tiger bone wine flows freely.
  A Border Town Built for Vice (Narratively)

• Porn stars are supposed to be the epitome of sexiness, which to most people means young and tight-bodied. But to be a porn star takes more than just good looks—sex appeal is more than just an impulsive physical attraction. “People’s desires start out as a dream, desire starts in the brain,” says Norma Stitz. “And that’s why I am still sought out at the age of 57.”
  The Plight of the Over 50 Porn Star: Why Age Is Just a Number (Daily Beast)

• Have you wondered what it’s like to get fucked by the Apple Watch? Canadian erotic author Leonard Delaney did. This article is fun, though keep in mind the writer is clueless about erotica, and is unfortunately so titillated that they miss observing some of the really cool, pointed, and freakish things in Delaney’s writing.
  The Writer Behind the Weirdest Tech Erotica You’ve Ever Read (Gizmodo)

• We can still count on Vice for the deeper investigative stuff. “(…) when I was made aware of Private Gym, a program that claims to be ‘simply the world’s best personal trainer for your pelvic muscle system,’ and ‘as good as Viagra,’ I was intrigued.”
  I Tried a Four-Week Workout Regimen to Strengthen My Dick (Vice)

• North Las Vegas police got the case after the mayor asked the department for help removing what he believed to be child pornography from his personal iPad. A detective helped out but didn’t check any of the mayor’s other electronic devices or press Lee on why his story didn’t make sense in light of evidence found, a police report filed last year shows.
  Police Chief: North Las Vegas mayor got special treatment in child porn investigation (Las Vegas Review Journal)

• Near the end of the latest “Clueless Gamer” segment on Conan there’s a glimpse of one of The Witcher 3’s sex scenes: It takes place on a stuffed unicorn, because apparently that’s something that happens in the actual books the games are based on.
  The Witcher 3 Lets You Have Sex On A Unicorn (Kotaku)

• A 33-year-old South Africa man says three women forced him into a car at gunpoint Tuesday, then made him drink an unknown, erection-inducing drug and raped him. According to the Star’s South Africa correspondent, Stephanie Findlay, “local news organizations have reported women at the Zimbabwe border selling semen to sangomas, traditional healers who then use the substance in their popular rituals.”
  Man Claims Three Women Drugged and Raped Him, Then Bagged up His Semen (Gawker)

• I have long awaited the day I have an excuse to finally send the wonderful Mr. Bruce Schneier traffic from this blog. “This scam is particularly interesting, because there are good chances that the victim will never realize that he’s been scammed — in fact, he probably had a good time.”
  Online Dating Scams (Schneier on Security)

• Dr. Tim Spector, professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College, London has found that menopause may not decrease a woman’s sex drive as we once thought, giving hope for sexual satisfaction and activity into old age. Time has the original report, but I found Bustle’s overview to be the best of the lot.
  Menopause May Not Lead To Lower Sex Drives, Says New Study (Bustle)

• Adult erotic drama “Marriage 2.0” is a legitimate cinematic achievement with a dialog-driven plot, moving performances and stunning cinematography of our beautiful Bay Area — as well as some attractive people boning. Marriage 2.0 (sound alert) had its official premiere at the Victoria Theatre (San Francisco) at a gala event with all the film’s stars on hand in what producer Magnus Sullivan called an attempt to “reestablish adult as a relevant cinematic medium”. < Interesting footnote: The Victoria Theatre's owner was a vocal opponent of Kink.com moving into The Armory, itself only a few blocks away from the theatre.
  Porn Stars And Fans Glam It Up At ‘Marriage 2.0′ Premiere At The Victoria (SFist)

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