- This is one of my favorite posts of the year, every year. Don’t miss Ms. Naughty’s superlative Porn For Women Retrospective 2014!
Porn For Women Retrospective 2014 (Ms. Naughty)
- The New Yorker dipped its toes into one of my arenas, visiting The Center for Sex Education’s (CSE’s) National Sex Ed Conference in December. Despite being at a mainstream, fairly conservative conf, the writer seems to be struggling with their own comprehension, and very sadly, misspells ‘silicone’ (as in silicone-based lube) more than once.
A Visit to the National Sex Ed Conference (The New Yorker)
- Illinois has become the latest state to criminalize “revenge porn,” crafting what its creators hope will become a model for federal legislation. Gov. Pat Quinn on Monday signed a measure making the “non-consensual dissemination of private sexual images” a felony offense in Illinois. The new revenge porn law will go into effect June 1, and will punish offenders with one to three years in prison and up to a $25,000 fine.
Illinois Makes ‘Revenge Porn’ a Felony (XBIZ)
- Warning for sexual assault survivors. According to court papers filed last week, Kayden Nguyen, a 23-year-old former model, filed a $1 million sexual trafficking and sexual harassment lawsuit against Steven Seagal. She claims he hired her as an assistant, but then used her as a “sex toy.”
Steven Seagal’s ex-wife, Kelly LeBrock, says she was ‘constantly raped and abused my whole life’ (NY Daily News)
That escalated quickly. pic.twitter.com/4EbB5Cj88k
— You had one job (@_youhadonejob) January 4, 2015
- ACT government figures show the number of stores licensed to sell pornography in the ACT has shrunk from 14 in 2007 to five. While it remains illegal to sell X-rated films over the border in NSW, the ACT’s strong regulation of the industry was partly to blame for the decline of the sex movie trade in Canberra, Australia.
Hard times for sex shops as business moves online (Business Day)
- Over the years, it has played host to supermodels, singers and playboys. The property was even the favoured venue for sex parties thrown by one of the Duchess of Cambridge’s erstwhile chums. Now 33 Portland Place, the Grade II-listed Georgian mansion owned by fraudster ‘fast Eddie’, is to be sold to an equally colourful character – [former] porn publisher David Sullivan.
Porn baron buys mansion used for sex parties by a former friend of the Duchess of Cambridge for £25m from a fake lord (Daily Mail)
- President of faith-based anti-porn advocacy group Morality in Media, Pat Trueman, said that 2014 saw significant strides in his organization’s fight against porn, citing Google’s decision to limit adult advertising. “Google was heavy into the pornography advertising business … and through a campaign with our coalition of phone calls, emails, meetings, etc., we convinced them to get out of the porn business,” Trueman said.
Morality in Media Discusses Plans for 2015 (XBIZ)
- Formerly known as adult superstar Katsuni (I love her!!!), French/Vietnamese actress Celine Tran is now embarking on a serious acting career, reinventing herself as a bona fide action heroine. Teaming up with French stunt team Cinemaction Stunts, Celine has been training furiously and produced a string of video shorts featuring a variety of different fighting styles.
Watch Celine Tran Slit Throats And Kick Ass In BURST (TwitchFilm; BURST is embedded above)
- Just as the name implies, r/taylorswiftarmpit is a place for “fans of Taylor Swift’s armpits” to join together and celebrate the shaved underarms of the pop starlet. Indeed, over a thousand of Swift’s fans have rebuked the traditional fetishizing of feet or breasts and embraced a less conventional lust for the silky smooth pits of the “Blank Space” singer. (If you want to understand fetishes like this, read my book Fetish Sex.)
Meet the online community obsessed with Taylor Swift’s armpits (Daily Dot)
The objective of #OpDeathEaters is an independent, international, victim-led tribunal/inquiry into trafficking and paedosadist industry.
— OpDeathEaters (@OpDeathEaters) December 15, 2014
- Highly targeted by the Anonymous #OpDeathEaters (@OpDeathEaters) campaign are Britain’s powerful political elite accused of raping, and in at least three cases murdering, underaged boys throughout the 1970s and 1980s. The British royals are in full-scale damage control with a rare double denial that Prince Andrew had sex with a 17-year-old ‘sex slave.’
Prince Andrew and the rise of Operation Death Eaters (Daily Dot) Buckingham Palace Disputes Sex Allegations Against Prince ‘Randy Andy’ (Daily Beast) Andrew ‘sex slave’ girl: My real story (Daily Mail)
- On her final day as an Air Force lawyer, Capt. Maribel Jarzabek figured she could finally speak out about the groundswell of opinion calling for a military justice system that would put lawyers instead of military commanders in charge of serious crimes like rape and sexual assault.
Lawyer in trouble for speaking out on sex assault policy (Air Force Times)
- Nevada health officials said this week they are considering enforcing the same regulations required of sex workers in brothels on the adult film industry, which has steadily migrated to the state.
Nevada may set same safety standards for adult film industry as for brothels (Los Angeles Daily News)
Transgender Teen leaves heartbreaking suicide note, about lack of support from family. Family deletes the entire blog, tries to hide it.
— Jason Scott (@textfiles) January 2, 2015
Was it archived? What the fuck do you think. http://t.co/u2Hz7CNeF8 – grab a copy, mirror, and remember.
— Jason Scott (@textfiles) January 2, 2015
- Leelah Alcorn, a seventeen-year-old transgender girl from Ohio, has committed suicide and left a suicide note detailing the bullying and abuse she received from her parents and peers. Along with deleting Leelah’s online suicide note, her mother went on CNN to talk about Leelah’s death, and to minimize Leelah’s identity. Her mother also refused to use Leelah’s correct pronoun, and — to the belief of no one — maintained ignorance about Leelah’s gender identity and agony.
17 Year Old Trans Girl Leelah Alcorn Commits Suicide After Parents and Community Refuse to Accept Her (Autostraddle) Leelah Alcorn’s mother speaks out about her child’s death (Gay Star News)
- In December, Li Yinhe, one of China’s leading experts in both sexology and the LGBT community, penned a blog post about living with and loving her partner of 17 years — a man who happens to be trans. Li Yinhe explains loving her trans male partner is not a radical act, but talking about it is.
Top Chinese Sexologist Opens Up About Her Trans Partner (Advocate)
- Interesting article, even though it’s annoyingly tainted with the author’s negative personal judgments about sex work. ‘In Western Australia, the sex work industry operates in a gray zone: prostitution is not illegal but activities associated with it, such as brothels and pimping, are. For years authorities have turned a blind eye to places like Langtrees. And, like the miners, sex workers have flocked to Perth from homes elsewhere, sometimes travelling from as far a field as Europe or South America, for the high demand and wages.’
Australia’s Brothel Boomtown (Roads and Kingdoms/Slate)
- “Running his business out of a Los Angeles mansion, he and his two business partners — his boyfriend at the time, Chad Shackley, and former child star Brock Pierce, who is now a board member of the Bitcoin Foundation — hosted lavish parties attended by Hollywood’s gay A-list.”
Found: The Elusive Man At The Heart Of The Hollywood Sex Abuse Scandal (Buzzfeed)
- Saudi Arabian authorities recently announced that they have hacked and disabled about 9,000 Twitter accounts associated with the publication of pornographic materials and arrested many of the handles’ owners.
Saudi Arabia’s Morality Police and ‘Ethical Hackers’ Are Targeting Online Pornography (Vice Canada)
- An adult breastfeeding sex work ring has been smashed in China with 15 people arrested for selling the services of young mums. More than 200 people from across the country paid for the breastfeeding and prostitution services advertised on websites, according to police.
‘Breastfeeding prostitution ring’ raided by police in China where men ‘pay to suckle young mums’ (Irish Mirror)
- Margaret Thatcher considered using an anti-pornography law to ban sex toys during a drive for tougher rules on public decency. Documents held by the National Archives also reveal that she was sympathetic to campaigners against obscenity including Mary Whitehouse, whom she met at least twice. In a note to the prime minister, Leon Brittan, the home secretary, said that there was a “strong case” for making sex aids subject to obscenity laws.
Tories toyed with possibility of banning sex aids (Times UK; paywall stupidity)
- Niche indie content producer Bacchus Entertainment has launched claiming it’s the world’s first bitcoin-only adult membership website. Husband and wife team creators Dennis and Saffron Bacchus said they went with the cryptocurrency because it allows them to keep the membership price low (no merchant fees), they don’t have to censor fetish videos to please credit card companies’ moral policies, and because bitcoin is fast, secure, and offers relative anonymity as it doesn’t appear on a credit card bill.
Bacchus Entertainment Launched as ‘1st Bitcoin-Only Website’ (XBIZ; pic of Saffron above via bacchusent.com)
