Sex News: Overwatch porn takedowns, Comingle’s funeral, neurosex, Susan Sarandon responds to porn makers

• “A few weeks ago, PornHub gleefully latched onto the hype for Overwatch by noting the volume of searches for porn featuring the game’s characters. Now it appears that someone, possibly the game’s maker, is trying to shut down the genre of Overwatch erotica.”
  * Overwatch porn makers get served with takedowns (Polygon)

• “Pakistani authorities have banned all ads for condoms, as well as other forms of birth control and family planning products, from satellite TV channels and radio, stating that the ads could expose children to the issue of sex. The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) said in a statement that it received “complaints” from “the general public that is very much concerned on the exposure” of “the innocent children, which get inquisitive on features/use of the [birth control] products.”
  * Pakistan bans all birth control ads to shield ‘innocent children’ from sex (RT)

• “The report, which was published in the Lancet and is the result of a commission to look at health challenges facing young people worldwide, found that today’s teens are growing up in a world where preventable and treatable health issues, such as HIV/AIDS and unplanned pregnancy, abound. Among the most shocking findings of the report: For women between the ages of 10 and 24, unsafe sex is the fastest-growing risk factor for illness and death worldwide.”
  * Unsafe Sex Is Now The Biggest Risk Factor For Death Among Women Worldwide (Refinery 29)

• “We urge the government and the home affairs committee to take notice and follow Amnesty’s lead. Sex workers’ safety and lives depend on prompt action.”
  * MPs should heed call to decriminalise sex work (Guardian UK)

• Interviewed by Vice, cybersecurity and privacy professional Jessy Irwin said, “… if you’re a person and you’re sending nudes to anyone, you should be actively working to make sure those nudes — and any nudes you’ve gotten from anyone else — are secure. As part of their OpSec for sexting, some people refuse to send nudes that show their faces, but it’s important to remember that birthmarks, tattoos, piercings, and even objects around you in a photo can be used to identify you.”
  * How to Protect Your Nude Selfies From Vengeful Ex-Boyfriends and Trolls (Broadly/Vice)

• “Leave it to the founders of Comingle, the Atlanta-based sex-tech startup, to turn the company’s premature death into a cause for celebration. … After raising close to $60,000 via crowd funding and turning their Candler Park basement into a makeshift dildo manufacturing hub, the patent trolls came out of the woodworks. Unable to fund a costly legal defense, the Georgia Tech alumni officially closed up shop earlier this year. ”
  * Comingle, that beloved DIY dildo startup, is having a funeral and everybody’s invited! (Creative Loafing Atlanta)

• “Ian Yeoman, a scientist specialising in futurology, and Michelle Mars, a sexologist at the University of Wellington, co-authored a paper entitled “Robots, Men and Sex Tourism“. In the paper, they imagine an Amsterdam brothel in 2050.”
  * Amsterdam sex robot BROTHEL ‘will help prevent human trafficking’ (Mirror UK)

• “A queer filmmaker named Eric has co-created the series Neurosex Pornoia as a way of examining such possibilities. [Future of Sex] spoke to him about his creative undertaking and how likely his intriguing portrayal of “neurosex” is of becoming a reality.”
  * Neurosex: Sci-Fi Series Translates Sex Into Code Your Brain Can Download (Future of Sex)

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