- “[Well-established] Swiss performance artist Milo Moiré (see also) has been arrested in London after allowing strangers to stroke her genitals for her latest performance piece. The project, titled “Mirror Box”, saw the artist walk around various European cities with a large reflective structure covering her body. Using a megaphone to attract attention, she would then invite strangers to stick their hands in the box, and fondle either her breasts or vagina for a 30-second period.”
* Artist arrested for getting strangers to stroke her genitals (Dazed Digital)
- “Luxury sex-toy manufacturer LELO wanted to reinvent the condom. But by making Charlie Sheen their pitchman, they could end up tanking their own reputation instead.”
* Charlie Sheen’s LELO Condoms Get the Shaft From Sex Workers, Feminist Bloggers (Daily Beast)
- “First, the psychologists noted that women who read the story about a sexually dominant male endorsed benevolent sexism more than men. That’s right — female participants who read the male-dominated erotica expressed more sexist beliefs than male participants. … Interestingly, when men read about a sexually dominant female they came to value female dominance more. Meanwhile, men in the other groups did not value having a sexually dominant partner at all. In other words, men became more accepting of the idea after reading about it in a story …”
* Psychologists Flipped the Gender Roles in Erotica—and Here’s What Happened (Fusion)
Don't be fooled by @PayPal new store category for "Digital Adult Content" They'll close your store as soon as you pick the category. 😡😡
— darling delføxi (@delphoxi) June 22, 2016
- “Despite being barred from sponsoring professional teams in Riot-run tournaments, Team YP [YouPorn] isn’t showing signs of slowing down when it comes to picking up esports squads. Their latest acquisition comes in the form of an all-woman League of Legends roster, the organization announced.”
* Team YP picks up all-woman League of Legends team (eSports/Yahoo)
- ““We have truly all different kinds of sex,” [Channing] Tatum said. “Sometimes it’s like, ‘You got to get this done, I got to go to work,’ and that’s a real thing. To me, that’s us being completely open and being like, ‘I don’t have the energy now. You just get yours and I’m gonna go to work.’ But then we have full-on, totally connected otherworldly connection sex as well.”
* Channing Tatum Tells All About His Sex Life With Wife Jenna Dewan-Tatum (SELF)
- Note for anti-BDSM perspective. “Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch had a trove of child and bondage pornography uncovered by police officers who raided the estate, according to a report.”
* Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch had child porn, report says (Huffington Post)
- “Better work tech is more highly valued than having a better sex life for 37% of working Americans. … Interestingly enough, priorities varied a bit when age or gender was taken into consideration. A better sex life was more important than better work tech to 69% of Gen X respondents, ages 36-51, compared to 60% of Millennials, ages 18-35, and 62% of Baby Boomers, ages 52-70.”
Sex vs. tech: More than a third of working Americans prefer better work tech over a better sex life (TechRepublic)
Sex workers & their allies: $pread the word. @violetblue @jizlee @swopusa @VICE @kittystryker pic.twitter.com/8V5TiKlnKR
— Andre Shakti (@AndreShakti) June 23, 2016
- VB note: I’m starting to wonder how many people even store porn anymore. I mean, the trend is going to a site, doing your biz, and moving on… “A new K-9 has joined the ranks of Weber County Sheriff’s Office is jokingly called Utah’s first “porn dog.” The 16-month-old black Labrador named URL, is the state’s first electronic detection K-9. The dog comes from the same trainer as the K-9 who played a role in the arrest of former Subway pitchman, Jared Fogle, according to a press release from the sheriff’s office.”
* Utah’s first ‘porn dog’ can detect electronic storage devices (Fox 13 Now)
- “In a survey of 51 heterosexual men between the ages of 19 and 61 published in BMJ Open, researchers found that men’s intentions to use a condom during casual sex varied based on the perceived attractiveness of their potential partner. Specifically, the more attractive a woman seemed to each participant, the lower their intention to use a condom during sex.”
* For men, the importance of safe sex may depend on how hot their partner is (Ars Technica)
- “The reigning Miss Great Britain, Zara Holland, has been stripped of her title after having sex on ITV2 reality show Love Island. Wednesday’s episode of the show, watched by around a million viewers, featured the two in bed together and what one insider described as a “look of delight” on Bowen’s face.”
* Miss Great Britain loses title after having sex on ITV2’s Love Island (Guardian)
