- “Michael Stabile‘s documentary short Smut Capital of America is about this very phenomenon. The eponymous capital is San Francisco — where else? — which by 1970 became the first city nationwide to allow hardcore pornography. The film screens this Sunday and will appeal to connoisseurs of all things NSFW.” “Smut Capital of America” Restores the Sticky-Coated Veneer to SF’s Porn Past (SFAppeal)
- “Just in case you didn’t feel like the game had adequately rubbed your nose in its horrific depiction of women, Duke Nukem arrives at a point where two nude ladies promise to lose their pregnancy weight from bearing their alien children, and they plead with you to let them live. (These are the same characters who performed fellatio on you during the beginning sequences of the game.) The only way past this section of the game is to kill both women.” Duke Nukem Forever: barely playable, not funny, rampantly offensive (Ars Technica)
- “1 in 6 women in the U.S. will be raped in their lifetime. An estimated 1 in 10 rape victims are male, and studies have suggested that 1 in 2 transgender people will be sexually assaulted. But unless a rape fits the FBI’s 82-year-old definition, “The carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will,” it will never be counted in the FBI’s annual Uniform Crime Report (UCR).” Rape, Rape-Rape, and What Sex Is (The Measure – Petition: Tell The FBI Rape Is Rape)
- “Last week, Fits.Me announced that it had finally developed a Female FitBot. The bot’s expected to launch at Hawes & Curtis, the British clothing retailer that debuted a male FitBot last May.” Sci-Fi Femme-Bot Tries On Clothes For You In Virtual Fitting Room (Co.Design)
- “Award-winning designer, Ofer Zick, didn’t intend to be a green advocate when he founded ‘ThinkingOfYou – Erotic Icons‘, but his grown-up T.O.Y. provides sustainable pleasure nonetheless (read more to learn more about what makes adult toys green). As an industrial designer, his specialty is medical devices…” Ofer Zick Creates Elegant Functional Erotic Art (Green Prophet)
- “Simply put: your risk of catching HIV during receptive vaginal intercourse is about 0.1%, while the risk during receptive anal intercourse is about 3%, which is about 30 times higher (insertive anal and vaginal sex are about 0.1% as well). Of course these are just averages, there are different factors (…)” Just Say No to Unprotected Anal Sex (No Place to Sit)
- “For example, in Estonia a national sexuality education programme was introduced and linked with accessible, youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health services. Between 2001 and 2009 some 13,490 ‘health events’ were averted in the country, including nearly 2,000 HIV infections, at a potential lifetime cost of US $67,825 per patient, approximately 4,300 unintended pregnancies and more than 7,000 sexually transmitted infections.” UNESCO: Sexuality education for young people highly cost-effective (unaids.org)
- Kimberly Kupps earlier this month was booked along with her husband on 13 counts of “wholesale promotion of obscene material” for content on her namesake site. The Polk County Sheriffs Department had been investigating the big-boobs model and performer for three months after a deputy paid an initial $19.95 membership fee to her website. Later, Florida Judge Reinaldo Ojeda reviewed clips and signed off on arrest warrants after he deemed the content obscene. Walters to Defend Kimberly Kupps Over Obscenity Charges (XBIZ Newswire)
- “As much as we would love to say, ‘No, you human pile of excrement, you absolutely cannot fuck the American flag,’ it simply would not be consistent with the basic tenets upon which this nation was founded.” Disgusted Supreme Court Can’t Believe It Has To Rule Having Sex With American Flag Protected Under First Amendment (The Onion)
- The one consistent finding for all participants was with empathy. For all participants empathy was significantly related to all measures of sexual enjoyment, although not equally, as empathy was more strongly associated with regularity of orgasm than with liking giving or receiving oral sex. Does Empathy Make Us Orgasmic or Do Orgasms Give Us Empathy? (sexuality.about.com)
- “As a skilled sexuality and relationship educator with a very visible platform, I think she has a responsibility to acknowledge that her very powerful message isn’t relevant for every single person on the planet, and to use language that makes room for that.” Nicole Daedone and the Invisibility of Asexuality (Dr. Charlie Glickman)
John, I do appreciate that you brought up the NIBRS data that we’ve had (albeit from limited sources) for a few decades, but it simply isn’t enough when that data doesn’t make it into the UCR report which is what the FBI publishes, as shown in http://www.sott.net/articles/show/227919-US-The-FBI-s-Restrictive-Definition-Of-Rape , going on to point out that only 44 percent of local law enforcement agencies use NIBRS in the first place and that the upgrades are prohibitively expensive and not subsidized by the federal government.
God damn! As if women didn’t already have enough reason to despise us. As a “guy” all I can say is I
DO NOT condone this sort of idiocy. It is very frustrating to me to see this sort of thing. At a time when many people are desperately trying to reconcile differences between the sexes we really don’t need this sort of ignorance being proliferated. I have actually seen ads promoting this misogynistic garbage on Chicago El stops and buses. Jesus Christ, what the f**k is wrong with people?
Jim
The issue of the UCR rape definition is an urban legend–the UCR definition was replaced by the NIBRS definitions several decades ago. Here are the current definitions used by the FBI:
NIBRS General definition of a Sex Offense:
Any sexual act directed against another person, forcibly and/or against that person’s will; or not forcibly or against the person’s will where the victim is incapable of giving consent (FBI, 1992, p. 21).
NIBRS Group and Definition – Group A Forcible Rape:
The carnal knowledge of a person, forcibly and/or against that person’s will; or not forcibly or against the person’s will where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of his/her temporary or permanent mental or physical incapacity (or because of his/her youth) (FBI, 1992, p. 21).
NIBRS Group and Definition – Group A Forcible Sodomy:
Oral or anal sexual intercourse with another person, forcibly and/or against that person’s will; or not forcibly or against the person’s will where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of his/her youth or because of his/her temporary or permanent mental or physical incapacity (FBI, 1992, p. 21).
NIBRS Group and Definition – Group A Sexual Assault with an Object: To use an object or instrument to unlawfully penetrate, however slightly, the genital or anal opening of the body of another person, forcibly and/or against that person’s will; or not forcibly or against the person’s will where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of his/her youth or because of his/her temporary or permanent mental or physical incapacity. An “object” or “instrument” is anything used by the offender other than the offender’s genitalia (FBI, 1992, p. 21).
NIBRS Group and Definition – Group A Forcible Fondling: The touching of the private body parts of another person for the purpose of sexual gratification, forcibly and/or against that person’s will; or not forcibly or against the person’s will where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of this/her youth or because of his/her temporary or permanent mental or physical incapacity (FBI, 1992, p. 21).
Fuck. I actually enjoyed that game’s prequel. I wish they’d stuck to jumping the shark. >.>
I am still reeling after reading that arstechnica article about Duke Nukem… who works for that company? Are they sane?