“Plans to introduce a nationwide age verification system for online pornography have been abandoned by the government after years of technical troubles and concerns from privacy campaigners. The climbdown follows countless difficulties with implementing the policy, which would have required all pornography websites to ensure users were over 18. Methods would have included checking credit…

Before we dig into this week’s superb essays and other writings on human sexuality around the world, I have to say something. This past week, the Washington Post published a series of articles on the topic of porn, for its “In Theory” series, which “takes on a big idea in the news and explores it…

VB note: For great Overwatch porn examples, check out OverwatchHentai and artist Eddy Productions. ““I was drawn to do Overwatch porn because its characters ooze, well, character,” said an artist who goes by the handle Tsoni, who claims to have gotten into the video game porn scene because of an interest in 3D animation. A…

“Gov. Gary Herbert wants the world to know Utah’s position on pornography: It’s a public health crisis. “We realize this is a bold assertion and there are some out there who will disagree with us,” Herbert said at a Tuesday news conference. “We’re here to say it is, in fact, the full-fledged truth.” Herbert ceremonially…

“It was very strange in some respects, because I was in this space where I felt safe and accepted, but other people perceived it very differently,” she says. In fact, Jo Broughton more often felt threatened by the world outside of the porn studio at that time than the one inside it. She says that…

“Forget boring drivel about where to put a semi-colon. Playgirl’s guide was 13 pages of printouts offering a thesaurus of sorts: slang terms for every genital, sex act, STD, orientation, and bodily function — with phraseology like “Neapolitan bone ache” trotted out as an acceptable stand-in for “syphilis.” All 276 ‘Playgirl’-Approved Terms for Penis From…