- This is just odd, considering how good and fast Facebook is at taking down sex-related content and nudity that should fall under free speech protections. “The child’s legal team took on the case after her photo appeared several times between November 2014 and January 2016. She alleged misuse of private information, negligence and breaching the Data Protection Act.”
* Facebook warned it faces legal action from ‘revenge porn’ victims (Guardian)
See also: FTC Takes Down Another Revenge Porn Site (TechDirt)
See also: Top U.S. Government Computers Linked to Revenge-Porn Site (Daily Beast)
- “Elon Musk responded Thursday to rumors that he attended a sex party hosted by a venture capital firm where attendees were allegedly taking an enhanced version of ecstasy and “stroking one another.” Musk disputes the description of the event, saying he didn’t see any inappropriate or illegal activities and thought he was attending a costume party.”
* Elon Musk Calls Sex Party Description ‘Salacious Nonsense’ (Daily Dot)
- “Fans of female-produced porn did a double-take when they saw Erika Lust’s XConfessions make a cameo in Season 4 of Netflix’s popular dark sci-fi show BLACK MIRROR. … While there’s been a lot of commotion and congratulations directed towards Erika and her company, we want to be sure that performers also get the credit they’re owed. After all, you can’t make porn without the porn performers!”
* Erika Lust’s XConfessions Cameo on BLACK MIRROR Season 4 “Crocodile” (PinkLabel.tv)
- “After demoing Harmony’s admittedly corny stand-up abilities, McMullen removed her wig exposing a mess of circuits, motors and wires. He then peeled back the silicone surface of her face to reveal a foam skeleton peppered with an array of small, round magnets. Those magnets will allow users to replace damaged faces or swap them out for different visages altogether. Within moments Harmony was someone completely different. She had a brand-new mug and a different voice to match. Just like that Harmony was Solana and that eerie feeling crept back in.”
* There’s a new sex robot in town: Say hello to Solana (Engadget)
See also: Turn Your Orgasm into a Work of Art at CES (Future of Sex)
- “Culver City, Calif.-based Intellectual Property Corporation (IPC), which specializes in TV and film documentaries, has been tapped to produce the business-of-sex series. IPC was best known for the docuseries, “Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath,” which investigated the Church of Scientology.”
* CNBC Is Developing a Business-of-Sex Docuseries (XBIZ)
- “San Francisco sex workers who come forward to say they’ve been assaulted, raped, robbed or extorted — or that they’ve witnessed such crimes — cannot then be arrested for prostitution or petty drug crimes under policies adopted by city police and prosecutors.”
* New SF policies bar arrest of sex workers who come forward to report violence (SF Gate)
- “Members of Overwatch‘s cast of heroes—D.Va, Mercy, and Tracer—snagged the first, second, and third place, respectively. These top three lady characters had over 8 million searches combined on Pornhub. Misty from Pokémon (2.6 million searches) beat out Tomb Raider’s Lara Craft( 2.2 million searches) for a fourth place spot and Zelda grabbed number six.”
* Pornhub Reveals the Most Popular Gaming Characters in Porn (Daily Dot)
- “A porn website stole a French karate teacher’s identity, founded a cryptocurrency for porn, then vanished. Fantasy Market billed itself as a cryptocurrency-powered live sex site and offered users “Fantasy Market Tokens” to request sex acts from performers on camera. Fantasy Market’s CEO “Jonathan Lucas” claimed to have raised nearly $5 million in FMT sales, the New York Post reported. But Fantasy Market was just that: fantasy. ”
* Porn Site Stole French Karate Teacher’s Identity in Cryptocurrency Hustle (Daily Beast)
- Someone please examine this alongside a certain kind of Silicon Valley white techbros’ exact same fetish. “The right-wing agitator Mike Cernovich, the writer John Derbyshire and an alt-right figure named Kyle Chapman (so notorious for swinging a lead-filled stick at Trump opponents at a protest in Berkeley, Calif., that he is now a meme) are all married to women of Asian descent. As a commenter wrote on an alt-right forum, “exclusively” dating Asian women is practically a “white-nationalist rite of passage.””
* The Alt-Right’s Asian Fetish (NYT)
- “According to common internet lore, most fake cum is methyl cellulose, a goopy gel used in old school K-Y Jelly lube, some cosmetics, and countless sci-fi and horror films as slime or spit. But just about every adult performer I’ve asked tells me they use the face cleanser Cetaphil.”
* Porn Stars Reveal the Secret to Massive Cum Shots (Vice)
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