Year: 2019

Sex News: Alt-Right’s war on sex, BBC on Instagram discrimination, science on porn consumption, and more

A decade of corporations like Facebook censoring sex-positivity got us here: “Michael Kosta sits down with clinical psychologist Dr. David Ley, who traces the origins of the alt-right movement’s anger to its anti-masturbation stance.” * Why Is the Alt-Right So Angry? (Daily Show | Comedy Central) Kanye West, who wrote a song last year about…

Sex News: UK drops porn block, Girls Do Porn ran Porn Wikileaks, the horniest Yelp reviewer, STD rates have spiked

“Plans to introduce a nationwide age verification system for online pornography have been abandoned by the government after years of technical troubles and concerns from privacy campaigners. The climbdown follows countless difficulties with implementing the policy, which would have required all pornography websites to ensure users were over 18. Methods would have included checking credit…

Sex News: What sex workers think of Hustlers, Kickstarter approves a sex toy campaign, sex therapy on a cam site, what brain scans tell us about porn

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been really wondering what sex workers think of the new film, Hustlers. “Sex workers rarely see any of our experiences reflected on TV or movies. We are usually severely dehumanized, the character that gets “rescued,” the but of a tired joke, or getting murdered in the first five…

Sex News: America’s sex panic ramps up, that Porn Wikileaks story, bankings war on sex worsens, a smart way to write about PornHub

Moral disapproval has scrubbed the internet of rational sex content, and stories like these are harder to find than ever. Help keep this website alive through the storm with a Patron donation. We are not in the 1950s and this should not be happening. “Dr. Jennifer Gunter, a Canadian gynecologist who also contributes to the…

Sex News: BBC backs Louis Theroux exploiting sex workers, New Zealanders are eating sexy pavement lichen, Dr. Jen Gunter has a new book, and more

In 2012 Louis Theroux took his cameras to Porn Valley and created one of the most misogynistic, warped, and utterly misleading video editorials I’d ever seen. Turns out, this was completely on-brand for Theroux, who describes himself as “puritanical” and went on-record supporting Britain’s disastrous internet porn restrictions. Looks like this time he’s gone after…

Sex News: How Hollywood fakes sex scenes, the rise of anxiousexuality, Google’s lesbian search problem, PayPal bans sex abuse prevention site

I think this is what’s been going on with me. “I asked Dr. Justin Lehmiller, a Research Fellow at the Kinsey Institute, why some people might be more likely to give themselves over to temporary celibacy during times of high anxiety … But anxiousexuality is different than a dry spell. It’s more existential.” * Are…

Sex News: Sanders and sex work, Mnuchin wife sex thriller (sorry), Twitter backs off a bit, history of the trans internet, Epstein roundup

The sex work vs. trafficking issue is a clear signifier of understanding around pro-choice. If they can’t demonstrate they understand the difference between adult women having consensual sex and girls being raped on the “Lolita Express” (Epstein) then they can’t be trusted with lawmaking around female bodily autonomy. Our bodies, our choices. We do not…

Sex News: Deepfake porn study, Midsommar sex madness, hard facts about porn and erectile dysfunction, ongoing evil by Girls Do Porn

July 4th post photo by Roseography, who can be supported on Patreon and seen on Twitter (he just got banned by Instagram and his Tumblr was restricted). I featured him previously in 2016. ““Deepfake” porn perpetrators are being given a free hand to “shatter lives” because the law is unfit for purpose, a study has…

Sex News: UK porn block privacy timebomb, HBO steals Kink clips for Euphoria, right-wing panic over Teen Vogue, sex shadowbanning continues

“New age restrictions on pornography that are set to come into effect in the UK next month are a “privacy timebomb”, a new report has warned. “Due to the sensitive nature of age verification data, there needs to be a higher standard of protection than the baseline which is offered by data protection legislation,” said…

Sex News: NYT ignores misogyny in anti-porn feature, Munroe Bergdorf faces off with creeps, that Black Mirror ‘porn’ episode, unpacking the anti-sex business of tech

This is an interesting article, but even I am amazed how NYT managed to omit the key role misogyny and white-right campaigns against sex workers (like censoring ‘brigades’) has in this issue. “Amid the recent surge in hate crimes and shootings, some of the suspects in racist attacks and their supporters have invoked the societal…