Sex News: X-Art’s reprehensible piracy mess, Oakland police scandal, Hillary Clinton on revenge porn

• Some of you may have been wondering why this is the first Sex News item about this story, which has been in headlines for some time now. I wanted to wait until we heard the story in her words. “Celeste Guap, the 18-year-old Oakland sex worker who had sex with over a dozen Oakland Police Department officers as well as a half dozen in the Richmond PD, and allegedly three in the SFPD, sat down for an exclusive, on-camera interview with ABC 7 reporter Dan Noyes in which she reveals some new information in the case.” < only three of them paid her! Assholes. * Sex Worker At Center Of Oakland Police Scandal Reveals How And Why She Went Public; Three SFPD Officers Involved Too (SFist)

• This film looks cool… “A former CIA contractor, who has faked his own death, forms an unlikely bond with a self-employed sex worker while awaiting the arrival of his new identity. She involves him in a deadly conspiracy that puts them both in the cross-hairs of a Russian pimp, a corrupt police detective, and a Honduran drug cartel.”
  * Exclusive SOLE PROPRIETOR Red Band Trailer: A Sex Worker Meets a Man Without an Identity (Screen Anarchy)

• Or, why I stopped linking to, endorsing, and telling anyone to consume X-Art’s porn years ago. X-Art is awful. Now their repugnant shakedown scheme, which has used the threat of outing people, is coming home to roost. “For years now, a porn studio called Malibu Media has filed more copyright lawsuits than any other company. Malibu, which produces adult content under the brand name X-Art, sues hundreds of “John Doe” Internet users each month, accusing particular IP addresses of illegally downloading its movies using BitTorrent networks.”
  * Porn studio that sued thousands for piracy now fighting its own lawyer (Ars Technica)

• “A man who has to give police 24 hours’ notice before he has sex despite being cleared of rape is to go on hunger strike. The single man, in his 40s, admitted to previously having an interest in sado-masochistic sex and used to visit a Fifty Shades Of Grey-style fetish club with an ex-partner. He has accused North Yorkshire Police of “sour grapes” after his acquittal for rape at a retrial, having spent 14 months on remand.”
  * Man banned from sex without giving police 24 hours notice goes on hunger strike (Mirror UK)

• Hillary Clinton did a livestreamed town-hall event this week; revenge porn survivor Chrissy Chambers (BriaAndChrissy) asked Clinton about fighting revenge porn. Disappointingly, it appears that no one has briefed Clinton on the topic whatsoever.
  * YouTube Star Asks Hillary Clinton How She’ll Help Stop Revenge Porn (NY Mag)

• Warning for survivors of sexual assault. “Rolling Stone is facing one less lawsuit over its since-retracted story about a woman’s alleged rape at a University of Virginia fraternity after a New York federal judge granted a motion to dismiss the suit. Three members of Phi Kappa Psi sued the magazine in July, claiming its infamous story “A Rape on Campus” implicates them in a crime they didn’t commit.”
  * Rolling Stone Defeats Defamation Lawsuit From Virginia Fraternity Brothers (Hollywood Reporter)

• Advocate looks at a new study on porn’s influence on safer-sex behavior, which finds that while viewers perceive that porn influences their safer sex behavior, “Interestingly, more frequent or compulsive porn consumption did not necessarily track to more condomless sex.” Keep in mind while reading this that the article’s author doesn’t seem to want to believe the study’s conclusions.
  * The Impact of Bareback Porn (Advocate)

• “The high IQ society Mensa has tapped Kelly Shibari to coordinate the inaugural adult industry track for this year’s annual Mensa gathering.”
  * Kelly Shibari Tapped For Adult Track at Mensa Gathering (XBIZ)

• “Michelle Weber says that when her boyfriend wanted to take Viagra, his insurance paid for it, no questions asked. So when she wanted to take the new “female Viagra” for her sexual problems, she figured that would go smoothly, as well. But it didn’t.”
  * Insurance won’t pay for women to have pleasurable sex (CNN)

• “A religiously-motivated hacker using the title ‘ElSurveillance’ has defaced nearly 40 websites that offer escort services and claims to be on the verge of leaking data on 100,000 registered users.”
  * A religious hacker is targeting escort websites in the name of Allah (IBTimes UK)

• “It could take years to learn how long men infected with Zika are capable of sexually transmitting the virus, which can cause crippling birth defects and other serious neurological disorders.”
  * Zika Sex Research Begins Despite Congress Funding Impasse (Scientific American)

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