Sunday Sex Reads: Best of the week

“Showrunner Melissa Rosenberg added that since Kilgrave’s rape of Jessica Jones was a key part of the season and her backstory, showing that Jones’ sexuality wasn’t defeated by him was important. “Balance dealing with rape while having her sexually active, the word ‘survivor’ is the important part of that. Certainly the assault has become a part of her psyche, but it has not defeated her. I think she is fiercely her own person. …”
Jessica Jones team on why show’s unprecedented sex scenes are important (EW)

“Some people dig degradation. Others dig latex. Others wear a special leotard no one knows about under their clothes. But today, in honor of the holiday, we celebrate four of the most obscure fetishes — formicophilia, vorarephilia, eproctophilia, and mechanophilia.”
What It’s Like to Be Sexually Aroused by Insects, Farts, and Machines (Fusion)

“Adult film studios and their stars face more and more scrutiny from social networks, even when the content they post is not explicit. Conversely, social networks like Instagram and Facebook have increasingly targeted users for sharing nonsexual nudity. .. Like their big banking counterparts, social media’s big boys are prudes in the truest sense, and their enforcement of nudity and decency policies doesn’t seem to follow any sort of logic.”
Sex censorship breeds a fetish-focused social network (Engadget)

“Stelling’s Instagram post had barely been up before the members of a private Facebook group for women in the L.A. comedy community identified Hartmann by name and began discussing next steps. For nearly two years, Facebook groups like this one have been a place for the city’s female improvisers, sketch performers, and stand-up comedians to vent about how sexism is intertwined with professional opportunity. Last year, they decided to do more than talk — they started naming names, and they got results.”
Standing Up To Sexual Harassment And Assault In LA’s Comedy Community (Buzzfeed)

“Earlier this week, the adult film star Stoya — who in late November accused her ex-boyfriend James Deen of rape on Twitter — once again tweeted frankly. This time, she wrote that she had sold her interest in her latest porn venture, TrenchcoatX, to her business partner; that she would not be attending next week’s porn expo, AVN; and, she wrote, “I wish I could get out of hosting XBIZ.””
James Deen Accuser Stoya Sidesteps Controversy At The XBIZ Awards (Buzzfeed)

Gerhard Strasser: “We also have — and this I found surprising — a mention, and a rather serious one, in the Kama Sutra, in India, from about the 4th century. We actually have a reference in the 44th and 45th chapters that men and women should practice cryptography. …”
How Encryption Technology Can Be Traced Back to the Kama Sutra (The Atlantic)

“Buck Angel is an adult film producer, activist and trans man whose work as an educator fights to sexualize the trans body and break down stigma surrounding the spectrum of trans male identity. He initially made a name for himself in the world of adult entertainment, pushing the industry to rethink their relationship with transgender actors and create visibility for trans and gender non-conforming men.”
Buck Angel, ‘The Man With A Vagina,’ On The Role Sex Plays In Living Authentically (Huffington Post)

“As we learned from Rocky, “women weaken legs.” But without any compelling evidence to prove that having sex the night before will hinder athletic performance, it seems likely that any adverse effect it can have on athletes will manifest itself not in the body, but in the mind.”
Myth or Fact? Does Having Sex Impede Athletic Performance? (Alternet)

“The millionaire futurist Martine Rothblatt is often described as transgender even though she self-identifies as transhumanist. This may seem a minor distinction, but when you’re rich enough to commission an artificially intelligent robot version of your wife and loose yourself from the constrictions of biology, it’s not a minor distinction at all. Rothblatt contextualizes her sexuality with technology rather than historical gender roles because that makes more sense to her.”
It’s Time to Make Sex Education Robotic (Inverse)

“Though Tamara’s date likely wouldn’t take kindly to being written off as dumb, she raises a good point. While empirically attractive men aren’t an endangered species quite yet, it’s no surprise that the advice of the century has become to just date nerds, a trend that’s on pace to become the new normal. But has that sexual enlightenment come at a cost? By gaining marketable partners, are we losing quality of sex?”
Dumb People, Smarter Sex (Maxim)

“VR porn movies and software go hand-in-hand with the teletildonics industry, which creates connected, devices for sexual pleasure. Companies like Pornhub are trying to combine VR and teledildonics with efforts like the Twerking Butt VR system. SimilarWeb confirms that the debut of that device was a success with 910,000 people visiting the Twerking Butt website.”
Porn is already deciding VR’s future (VentureBeat)

“According to a new study published in the Journal of Sex Research, ‘porn’ apparently means very different things to different people. In this study, more than 2,000 adults were recruited online to complete a survey about how they define porn. … Specifically, those who were more religious and those who were married rated almost everything as more likely to be porn.”
What Science Gets Wrong about Porn (Playboy)