Month: August 2013

Parody novel Bound for Disappointment by Sheri Savill unleashed its scathing BDSM insider-baseball satire upon the literary world July 10, but this thing’s painfully, hilariously timeless. Savill’s brilliant short novel manages to lampoon whingey female submissives, cloying sex culture personalities, a variety of cringeworthy male dominant stereotypes, tepid BDSM, and the public’s annoying hunger for…

Sex-simulation software developer ThriXXX announced it has integrated the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset into its soon-to-be released Chathouse3D product. It’s described as a peer-to-peer 3D chat client that lets adult-only users socialize in private virtual spaces, virtually date, and engage in multi-player sexual role play fantasies while plugged into a “Matrix” or “Avatar” movie-like…

Above: Ladie Lane by Driven By Boredom. In my last Sex News post, I included the abysmal treatment of erotic photographer Driven By Boredom by Instagram, when the company abruptly deleted his account without notice, taking away the community he’d built with thousands of connections and years of work that only existed on Instagram. I…

Sex News: ‘Lovelace’ sued, NSA sex harassment, Boob Jam for coders, Database pr0n, sex and apps

Image via Vitruvian Man in Socks (Design You Trust) How the pressures of the shipping industry have shaped everything about the maritime culture of Filipino Seafarers. Right down to their penile implants. The Strange Sexual Quirk of Filipino Seafarers (The Atlantic) An NSA recruit describes failing the polygraph test in a fit of shameless sexual…

This is the art of Pixel Mixer, aka Eugen Schmidt. At the moment, the Russian artist is having their stuff reblogged in all the usual source-credit-outside-our-business-plan-is-for-suckers places (Pinterest, Tumblr, etc.) – and it’s an exercise in frustration to find information about them, or more info about their work. Can I also add that it doesn’t…

The newest Agent Provocateur video launches its first spinoff label for an Autumn/Winter 2013 campaign, designed by Penélope and Mónica Cruz; the L’ Agent video was written and directed by Penelope Cruz. It’s actually her directorial debut, and it stars Irina Shayk and Javier Bardem. The L’Agent website has more, including a behind the scenes…