Month: February 2011

I haz updates to Our Porn, Ourselves you definitely want to check out: In Response To The Atlantic’s “Hard Core” – then I look at the tropes! The so-called “harms of pornography” are evaluated in: * Porn Makes Men Into Rapists, Makes Men Sexually Aggressive, and Turns Men Into Child Molesters * Porn Degrades Women…

* AIM porn testing clinic has reopened, with a slight change: LA clinic that caters to porn stars re-opens (kswt.com) * This is not surprising: cable companies are pissed at newly-litigious pornographers, and for good reasons: Big Cable fed up with endless P2P porn subpoenas (arstechnica.com) * Sex and pregnancy demystified, nicely: Sex While Pregnant…

TV programming in the UK is vastly different than what we have here in the US – what I notice primarily is an honesty about talking about sex (sexual health and sexual situations) that domestic TV won’t even touch unless it’s to ridicule or exploit for ratings. For instance, I recently saw this Channel 4…

Costco Blames Sex Chapters, Bans “4-Hour Body” Book by Tim Ferriss

On January 31, TinyNibbles friend and author of The 4-Hour Body Tim Ferriss Tweeted, “Big news – Costco yanks The 4-Hour Body off shelves due to sex chapters! That’s precisely why the US needs those chapters.” For those outside the US, Costco is a big discount chain store that is a huge warehouse that buys…

* The big news is IAC’s Match.com Acquires OkCupid for $50 million. Then the bigger news is that OkCupid took down their legendary post that called Match.com a sham: Why You Should Never Pay for Online Dating (since it’s gone: here’s a .PDF of the removed post). Then: OKCupid: We Didn’t Censor Our Match.com-Bashing Blog…

This week New York Magazine has been on a porn blitz. I set aside “He’s Just Not That Into Anyone: Even, and perhaps especially, when his girlfriend is acting like the women he can’t stop watching online.” I think it’s worth a close look. The author’s point is that some modern guys (especially himself) think…

Very sexy galleries of very sexy women from Met Art this week, shot by some of Europe’s top erotic photographers – including two sets with my girl crush Jenya D. and a photo set from French photographer Roy Stuart (link: sound autoplay alert). Looking outside the mainstream market for explicit, natural pinups is so worth…

* The first condoms were made out of linen. Important Moments in Condom History (ashastd.org, via Scarleteen) * I, for one, can’t wait until National Porn Sunday and have lots of porn for you to celebrate. But in this piece we see what a stupid tool Ron jeremy is, and even the CNN commenters think…

When UK sex toy retailer LoveHoney decides to do something, they make sure everyone gets a happy ending. (I’m still a fan of their sex-toy-green-campaigns, like the Rabbit Recycling Program.) LoveHoney just announced their second annual Design A Sex Toy Contest, with a whopping prize of £1000 and the strong likelihood that your dream toy…