Some readers will remember I am a fan of Sissy Bounce (see: [Video] Queer Rapper Sissy Nobby’s Ass-Tastic Butt-Bouncing “Quack” from 2010). Here’s crazy awesome Nicky da B in “Go Loko” – sailing the giddy oversexed seas of uber-jiggly ass in 4 1/2 minutes of delirious WTF complete with SEIZURE WARNING. Via Jonno :)

* Nicky Da B – Go Loko – Directed by Clayton Cubitt

After over a decade of working with indie sex toy companies and sex educators, while warning and advising the public on unsafe sex toys, I’m giving a heavy endorsement to the Dildology project. My unsafe sex toys and products page was one among a few good starts – now some great people are taking this quest for sex toy health information and standards to the next level of scientific materials analysis and are operating with a transparent process. Say hello – and please consider a donation to – new nonprofit Dildology and their open sex toys database/Wiki.

• Dildology’s main donation page with multiple options is here.
• Vote to support the start of Dildology’s fundraiser at Offbeatr and learn how to donate here.
• Follow Dildology on Twitter for updates.

As mentioned in my last Sex News post, the majority of sex toys from mainstream manufacturers (Doc Johnson, Pipedream, Cal Exotics, Hustler, etc) are unsafe toys made in China – toys from toxic, untested materials, all with the escape clause as being sold “for novelty use only.” Most consumers have no idea.

Hey Epiphora (“Where sex toys go to be judged”) sums it up in their recent post, Once and for all: what’s in our sex toys? where they write:

Dildology is a brand new non-profit organization run by Dangerous Lilly, Crista Anne, and Val Orenda that will send sex toys to labs to have them independently tested. With this, there will finally be some accountability within the industry, and we’ll have a much better idea which manufacturers to trust — and which to side-eye.

Unfortunately, testing is not cheap. To the tune of $200-450 per toy. To remain unaffiliated and unbiased, Dildology won’t be able to sell advertising space, so they’re relying on donations.

Sex toys should not stink, melt, taste gross, be made of mystery materials, should not have misleading or false packaging, should not cause infections, or be made from materials known to be carcinogenic.

Dildology spells out their terms – and unlike certain tech bloggers, Dildology has strict policies already in place to cut bribery off at the pass.

Dildology.org intends to provide material verification services and maintain a public database of the results, adding transparency and oversight to the industry while educating the public about the science behind pleasure products. We stand on our own, uninfluenced, and we are dedicated to protecting the health and wellbeing of the dildo-loving population at large through education (and maybe a little entertainment). (…)

WE WILL:

* accept monetary donations.
* accept product donations from third-party retail stores and wholesalers.
* purchase products from third-party retail stores.
* choose products to test based on community feedback.
* send products to accredited labs for testing.
* compare the material composition of products to the manufacturers’ claims.
* share the results of lab tests with manufacturers.
* record the results of the lab tests in our wiki.
* make our wiki available to the public.
* provide other educational resources to the public.

WE WILL NOT:

* accept product donations directly from manufacturers.
* test second-hand products – only those acquired directly from retail stores and wholesalers.
* test any product manufactured more than one year ago.
* publish opinions about products or manufacturers – only facts.
* falsify data, for any reason.
* suppress or fail to publish the results of any test.

• If Yahoo! succeeds in its attempt to acquire Tumblr, it is most certainly doomed. Yahoo! will end up with one of the hottest Internet properties ($1 billion valuation), with access to the coveted youth market and a foothold in mobile – and a lot of porn. Tumblr’s terms of service are pretty clear: Sexual material is welcome. It just asks that such posts be tagged as NSFW, noting that its users include many people “from a variety of locations, cultures, and backgrounds with different points of view concerning adult-oriented content.”
  If Yahoo Buys Tumblr, What Will It Do With All That Porn? (Businessweek)

• Meanwhile, Tumblr appears to be lying to its thousands of NSFW blog users. “If you’ve got an adult blog on Tumblr, there’s a good chance Tumblr uses robots.txt to exclude the search engines from indexing it. If you’ve got an adult Tumblr, go look at your own settings. Do you see that first checkbox, the one that says “allow search engines to index your blog”? That checkbox is a lie. It’s nicely checked, it’s not greyed out, but if your blog is flagged “adult” it’s a lie.”
  Thou Shalt Not Seach Adult Tumblr Blogs (ErosBlog: The Sex Blog)

• Sex-positive porn star Jiz Lee discusses genderqueer identity and performance in Out! Jiz is the editor of upcoming anthology “How to Come Out Like a Porn Star: Essays from the Porn Industry on Family Matters.” Out Magazine features an excerpt from Jiz’s most recent essay in “The Feminist Porn Book.”
  Performer Jiz Lee in ‘The Feminist Porn Book’ (Out Magazine)

• “Gamers playing Nintendo’s Tomodachi Collection: New Life noticed that this latest iteration of the game, which is very much like The Sims, had the option for the first time to have their male characters marry other male characters and raise children together.” Nintendo responded by releasing a patch to fix the “bug”, which it says allows for “human relations that become strange.”
  ‘Bug’ Allows Same-Sex Marriage In Nintendo Game, Nintendo Releases Patch To ‘Fix’ It (Techdirt)

• If you’re a guy reading this, have you learned to pick and choose what aspects of masculinity work for you and which ones don’t? Yes or no, I promise you will find this post extremely interesting.
  The Performance of Masculinity (Charlie Glickman)

• In this puff piece, NY Daily tries to find an excuse to tie BDSM porn with recent psychopaths and serial killers in the news, first quoting an anti-porn buddy of Gail Dines – but finishes the article backpedaling and provide citations supporting the lack of connection between the two sensationalist topics. ::headdesk
  Kink.com CEO says fetish porn is not to blame for shocking sex cases (NY Daily News)

• Endlessly interesting, well-crafted essay: “A week after I arrived in San Francisco, I attended a Public Disgrace shoot. (…) The panda gangbang took place deep in the basement of the Kink armory, where rivulets of the long-suffocated Mission Creek still trace a path between moisture-eaten columns, and the air hangs heavy with a stony dampness. (…)
  What Do You Desire? (n+1)

• The above article was reacted to by The Atlantic. They ask, “Was the consent of all participants sufficient to make the porn shoot a morally defensible enterprise?”
  The Ethics of Extreme Porn: Is Some Sex Wrong Even Among Consenting Adults? (The Atlantic)

• Sucky, and kind of incredibly unfair: Linkedin updated its user agreement terms on Monday, adding to the section entitled “Don’t undertake the following,” LinkedIn now includes this statement:
  Upload, post, email, InMail, transmit or otherwise make available or initiate any content that: Even if it is legal where you are located, create profiles or provide content that promotes escort services or prostitution.
  LinkedIn Bans Users From Promoting Prostitution, Escort Services (Mashable)

• Not more than a week after launching a beta version of an app, LinkedIn is revoking its API access to social hook-up app “Bang With Professionals,” a site which aimed to connect potential bangers using LinkedIn’s professional network.
  LinkedIn Shuts Down “Bang With Professionals” Hook-Up App (AllThingsD)

• Bugs and Bang With Friends just doesn’t sound like something I’d want in association… “Not to spark about a thousand awkward conversations, but it turns out you can easily see which of your friends use the “discreet” hookup app Bang With Friends (BWF).”
  How to find out which of your Facebook pals Bang With Friends (Daily Dot)

• Recommended fundraising for an amazing indie, sexy-engineer run company: “Limon is the world’s strongest couples vibrator, with brilliantly simple squeezable control.”
  Minna Limon Couples Vibrator (Indiegogo)

• A prominent Japanese politician described as “necessary” the system by which women were forced to become prostitutes for World War II troops. It got worse when he invited U.S. Marines to use local sex workers, whose trafficking status is unclear.
  Japan WWII ‘comfort women’ were ‘necessary’ (BBC)
  Osaka mayor’s defense of sexual slavery angers Beijing (China Daily)
  Osaka mayor: ‘Wild Marines’ should consider using prostitutes – Bad behavior in the Pacific (Stripes)

• Reducing our collective sympathy for porn piracy to zero… Prenda law reincarnation “Anti-Piracy Law Group” has sent letters to people accused of pirating porn where the lawyers threaten to inform neighbors about what the defendants are accused of doing and watching, and threaten they will inspect defendants’ work computers.
  Copyright Trolls Threaten to Call Neighbors of Accused Porn Pirates (TorrentFreak)

• Under Chinese law, anyone found to be producing and distributing obscene material can get three years in jail. The country requires many pornography censors to find and censor content considered obscene: 70-year-old Liu Xiaozhen is one such porn censor, employed at Hunan province’s “eliminate pornography and illegal publications” office.
  Over the weekend Liu granted a rare interview to ND News, describing the stresses and perils of his job.
  The Lives Of China’s Porn Inspectors (Business Insider)

• Amazon review lulz crew strikes again… for semen cookbook Natural Harvest: A collection of semen-based recipes. Example from a reviewer’s helpful list of tips: “Seven: If you are on a low sodium diet, try english semen. They prefer EVERYTHING bland.” (Also – it appears there’s also a brand new Semen Bartender’s Handbook, already packed with equally hilarious reviews.)
  Natural Harvest: A collection of semen-based recipes (Paperback) (Amazon: Customer reviews; thank you to the person who Twitter @ replied me this item!)

• According to a 2010 estimate, 70% of sex toys produced in the world are made in China; 50% of those were imported to four U.S. companies — California Exotics Novelties, Pipedream, Doc Johnson, and to a lesser extent, Topco — that dominate American sex toy sales. While the others do the bulk of their manufacturing overseas, Doc Johnson is the only one manufacturing most of its products in the U.S. (They all sell predominantly unsafe sex toys and have misleading packaging.-VB) Deep Inside The Biggest Little Dildo Factory In America (Buzzfeed)

• I never ever ever want to go to Dubai. Australian Alicia Gali took a job in the UAE with hotel chain Starwood. Her drink was spiked and ahe awoke to a nightmare beyond belief: she had been savagely raped by three of her colleagues. Alone and frightened, she took herself to hospital. What Alicia didn’t know is that under the UAE’s strict sharia laws, if the perpetrator does not confess, a rape cannot be convicted without four adult Muslim male witnesses. She was charged with having illicit sex outside marriage, and thrown in a filthy jail cell for eight months.
  UAE rape victim jailed (Yahoo!7 TV)

• Based on the post below about clit hood variations and chart at right, I thought I’d show you the Foreskin Coverage Index – mind you, it’s only -pale-people- cocksock variations, but it’s a view into the spectrum.
  Foreskin Coverage Index (newforeskin.biz, link is not a site endorsement)

• A reader sent me this post with a clitoral hood variation chart, and I find the chart well worth sharing. It has its caveats, but I mos def found myself trying to size myself up…
  Have you seen your hood lately? (barreloforanges.com, link is not a site endorsement)

• Title misleads – this is not actually a how-to on fighting back against revenge porn. But it’s well worth reading: For those whose privately shared photos have made their way to the web, an argument of implied confidentiality may be a good bet.
  How to Fight Revenge Porn (The Atlantic)

• He’s been cyberstalked relentlessly for 2½ years, despite a court ruling ordering the material be removed and his ex-girlfriend jailed for contempt of court. Court documents show she retrieved nude photos of Clayworth that were in his computer — pictures she had taken — and posted them on several sites, and created profiles claiming he was a pedophile.
  Teacher ‘powerless’ to stop ex-girlfriend’s cyberstalking (CBC News)

• In the opening of new film about female porn stars “Aroused,” photographer Deborah Anderson promises great things: “This is not a movie about porn,” she says in her opening narration. “This is a story about women. Their dreams, their desires, and their lives.” While she does seem to genuinely respect the women that she’s interviewing, she doesn’t seem to have the same respect for their work.
  Aroused: New Female Porn Star Documentary Brings Up Same Old Stereotypes (SF Weekly: The Exhibitionist)

• The Feminist Porn Awards And Conference 2013 (YouTube)

• CNN Starting point calls “Domestic Affairs” by political consultant Bridget Siegel “The Fifty Shades of Grey of political novels,” which is definitely a stretch as it lacks any graphic sex scenes. Er, unless you think political-wonk journos are hot and being forced to read reporter sex gossip makes you feel like a bad, bad girl.
  Steamy Novel Mentions D.C. Journos (Fishbowl DC)

• The chief of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response branch of the U.S. Air Force was arrested and charged with sexual battery in Arlington. The story continues to develop and a July trial date has been set.
  Air Force Officer Accused of Sexual Battery (ARLnow)

• To celebrate its 10-year anniversary with a sex-toy design and innovation contest, LELO invites next-generation innovators, designers and artists all around the world to come up with new products.
  LELO Design Award 2013 (Lelo)

• Soon to be a musical entitled Les Miserables Idiotes: In the U.K. pornography is to be banned from public wi-fi networks by the end of the year, David Cameron’s children’s czar (and personal pet nutter/nut petter) Claire Perry said. But one of the country’s largest internet providers has threatened to throw a spanner in the works by warning that ministers’ plans to block porn from public wi-fi could be against the law.
  Porn set to be banned from public wi-fi this year to protect children (Daily Mail Online)

• According to a United Nations Entity for Gender Equality study, 99.3% of Egyptian women have experienced some form of sexual harassment. The top two instances of sexual harassment included touching (96.5%) followed by verbal (95.5%).
  Nearly 100% of Women in Egypt Face Sexual Harassment (Care2 Causes, thanks Paul!)

-Sorry for the delay between updates. The tendons in my arms went on required rest on doctor’s orders, but as you can see, are getting better. More to come over the weekend, and look for VB action at my CBSi gigs this weekend… ~xoV

Lisa M. Hayes has been making outrageous big-boob (almost crosses into BE*), strong-woman and fantasy character art and commissions as The Ultra Fem since 2005. I only just discovered Ultra Fem’s whimsical – explicit fetish – art world when a thoughtful friend sent me this link to Erin Esurance In Bondage. In Hayes’ archives you’ll find a range of female characters, hardcore scenarios such as Red She-Hulk x Lana Kane, and plenty of horny ‘futas’ (futa; from futanari -hentai- meaning combined male and female traits, fetish instance specific here for hyoooge boobs and gigantic cocks; also note that some consider futa a respectful reference instance use word for the dated, oft-insulting, yet still widely used term ‘she-male’). Like in this Mass Effect Futa Threesome.

You can find more Ultra Fem work at Hentai Foundry, Hayes has released her 2013 calendar and has a ton of her expertly executed and very specific fetish art in her store. She stopped doing commissions – except when she is doing live drawing art shows at her Ultra Fem Draws (Lisa’s Live Art Show) Tumblr (although it looks like she needs help finding a reliable vendor).

* BE = breast expansion fetish, it’s been around for ages. Overflowing Bra and BE Archive are well-known examples.

• Madison Young – Midori’s Expert Guide to Sensual Bondage (main post photo, above)
• Adrianna Nicole – Midori’s Expert Guide to Sensual Bondage
• Tristan Taormino’s Expert Guide To Oral Sex: Fellatio
• Chemistry 1 Directed by Tristan Taormino

• Simona – Desert Wind
• Carisha – My Kind of Woman
• Lorena G., Belinda – Dangerous Liasons
• Josephine – Wake Me Up

• Anna – Just for Me
• Kacy and Jessy – Sunset Lovers
• Tiffany and Mark – Cum for Me

• Zoey Paige – Passion HD
• Dani Daniels – Passion HD
• Holly Michaels – Passion HD
• Kennedy Leigh – Passion HD

• Eufrat Mai, Whitney Conroy – Jealousy (photo above)
• Carla Cox, Emylia Argan, Gabi de Castello, Grace C, Terry Sullivan: Snow Fun VI – Sexy Game

• Shae Snow – Restless
• Andrea P – Red and White
• Zoey Fox – Puffy Nipples
• Samanta R – Personal Touch

• Logan Pierce, Natalie Heart – Voyeur Joins In
• Alexa Diamond, Blue Angel, Brea Bennett, Kacey Jordan, Sasha Rose, Tanner Mayes – Beach Babes
• Cayenne – Chores

The newest video Year Of The Bush IV: The Rise Of The Phoenix stars Cam (Camille) Damage, who declared 2012 “Year of the Bush” and made lots of sexy media for the awesome webzine and video maker tsurofoto (aka Aaron Tsuru – is above. And there are more below.

Buy and help support sexy indie tsurofoto collaborations on Etsy; Flickr is here; Twitter is here.

Music: “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards” by Tame Impala; Film by Aaron Tsuru – tsurufoto.com & nudiezine.com.

Cam Damage apparently started it with this video:

Kate Sweeney mounted an uprising here:

There there was “Roarie Yum’s wrath”:

Super-sexy model, an artist in front of the camera, a Tumblr that is a total turn-on, and that’s about all we get to know… for now. Saccharine Slut has a lot of sexy friends, there is a lot of hardcore sex, much ejaculation (male), BDSM, threeways and girl-girl yumminess, and glorious lingerie.

Her Tumblr is Saccharine Slut. If anyone knows more cool stuff of hers to link to, let me know. <3

I quietly mentioned in a previous Sex News post that a new journal from British academics Feona Attwood and Clarissa Smith, and Routledge Publishing, entitled “Porn Studies” will publish its inaugural issue in Spring 2014.

I was invited to become a member of the Porn Studies Journal Editorial Board early this year. I gave it much thought, responded – and I received my “welcome to the Board” email four days ago. I am absolutely delighted!

As a Porn Studies Board member, I invite you to submit to the first official Porn Studies Journal: Call for Papers.

Please help distribute the Call for Papers to your networks, and spread the word.

Porn Studies is an interdisciplinary journal described as “the first dedicated, international, peer-reviewed journal to critically explore those cultural products and services designated as pornographic and their cultural, economic, historical, institutional, legal and social contexts.” Porn Studies will pay particular attention to “the intersection of sexuality, gender, race, class, age and ability.”

The Journal focuses on developing knowledge of pornographies past and present, in all their variations and around the world. Because pornography studies are still in their infancy we are also interested in discussions that focus on theoretical approaches, methodology and research ethics. Alongside articles, the journal includes a forum devoted to shorter observations, developments, debates or issues in porn studies, designed to encourage exchange and debate.

Porn Studies invites submissions for publication, commencing with its first issue in Spring 2014. Articles should be between 5000 and 8000 words. Forum submissions should be 500-1500 words. Book reviews should be between 800 and 1500 words. Submissions will be refereed anonymously by at least two referees.

In this first instance submissions, queries and suggestions should be sent to editorspstudies [at] gmail [dot] com

You can also help the Journal and its mission by:

• Circulate the Porn Studies: Call for Papers link to your networks and organizations of interest.
• Library recommendation: check if your institution has a subscription to the journal. If not, recommend it for the next subscription year.
• If you teach, consider adding it your students’ reading lists.

It is time to create a valid and constructive conversation on pornography, and in turn offer balance to irrational, fact-challenged and illogical statements about a topic that is key to understanding human sexuality and the well-being of individuals and their quest for self-defined, healthy sexuality.

And, happily, we’re all over the news:

• Routledge to Publish Porn Studies Journal (NY Times)
• Porn studies is the new discipline for academics (Guardian UK)
• Scholars: New Porn Studies Journal Will Consider Your Submissions Now (TIME)
• The academy goes XXX: ‘Porn Studies’ peer-reviewed journal to land spring 2014 (NY Daily News)
• Routledge Porn Studies academic journal is coming (UPI)
• Fifty shades of research: First ever journal dedicated to studying pornography to launch (Daily Mail)
• Porn Studies academic journal to begin publishing next year (Toronto Sun)

Main post image: Anais Pouliot by Richard Bernardin (NSFW full uncensored set here).

• Dani Daniels
• Holly Michaels (pictured)

More Eye Candy is always here.

Above: Geek X trailer for full 20-minute film Sex Note – Episode 1, starring Julie Valmont (a twist on the popular manga Death Note).

Seeing as I love and celebrate everything geek-sex-positive and sex/tech inclusive, new site Geek X (also: Twitter) looks like it’s worth keeping an eye on as their team adds new content over time. French porn maker Isaac Geek-X sent me an unexpected message today to tell me about the brand new website and its mission statement:

(…) A recent erotic film production firm, Geek X aims at honoring geeks. Often bullied on the subject of sex, they are now the main protagonists of a series of episodes published on the Internet.

“Geeks are always depicted as shy people, lacking self-confidence and ill-at-ease in social contexts. The idea is to be finished with the vision of the young man having nothing in his life but information technologies and video games. I mean to promote another image of ourselves, beyond caricature and clichés.

(…) Those short films (about 20 minutes long), will be distinct from mainstream “hardcore porn” by moving scenarios full of the “geek spirit”, and by offering images of which the sensuality could even appeal to women, more and more fond of erotica.

The films will be published once every two weeks, and will be sold on geek-x.com at a $3.99 price.

Once the video is paid for, the user will be able to download it and watch it over and over again on his or her member space.

Geek-X intends to internationally convey an ambition and know-how typical of the French, and will therefore offer English, Spanish, German, Italian, Finnish, Korean and Japanese subtitles.

The teaser from the first film – a parody of the famous manga Death Note – is now available.

“You think of us as virgins,
We will fight back once again.”

This quotation concludes the “Geek Manifesto”

• Congrats to my pals at MiKandi for their newly revamped adult app store! And a lot of success after iOS left porn’s money on the table (7K apps; 4 million customers).
  MiKandi Adult App Store V4 (YouTube)

• Great news! Porn Studies, to be published by Routledge starting in 2014, is described as “the first dedicated, international, peer-reviewed journal to critically explore those cultural products and services designated as pornographic and their cultural, economic, historical, institutional, legal and social contexts,” with particular attention to “the intersection of sexuality, gender, race, class, age and ability.” (Gleeful disclosure: I am on the Editorial Board! Please submit!)
  Routledge to Publish Porn Studies Journal (NY Times)

• Not everyone dislikes yummy human flavors, but if you do… Masque Sexual Flavors are orally dissolvable flavored gel strips (Listerine-like) that counter the salts, bitters, and proteins in semen. The pleasure-giver simply puts a strip on his or her tongue and lets it melt in mere seconds. Masque (their Amazon store) comes in strawberry, watermelon, chocolate, and mango, and the flavor will last for about fifteen minutes.
  Sexy Feast: Juicebox Gets the Juices Flowing, Flavorfully (Seattle Weekly)

• Federal prosecutors have charged 13 people in a sex slave ring they say forced young Mexican women into prostitution in New York and New Jersey.
  Women in NY, NJ Forced Into Sex 25 Times a Day (ABC News)

• Gawker Media boss Nick Denton hasn’t been paid for Fleshbot, the 11-year-old porn site he sold last year to former employee Noa Gottlieb, who is also known as “Lux Alptraum,” according to court papers. Denton alleges Noa Gottlieb signed a promissory note to pay $100,000 Fleshbot. The total would be paid in four installments that were supposed to begin May 1 of last year. Denton and his legal team claim that never happened. “Fleshbot made none of the $25,000 payments and despite repeated requests for payment still owes Gawker $100,000 plus interest,” read a court filing.
  Nick Denton in Fleshbot Payment Dispute (Fishbowl NY)

• Woman sues ex-boyfriend and four sites that allegedly hosted her nude pictures (including XHamster).
  “Revenge porn” suit targets generic porn sites, Web hosts (Ars Technica)

• They fucked us all and ICANN once, so why not let ICM Registry fuck everyone again? ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX top level domain (TLD) for online adult entertainment, announced that new .XXX domain registrations created from May 1 through May 31, 2013 will be available at .COM prices. ICM is currently positioning itself with its recent applications to operate three additional adult entertainment-related TLDs: .SEX, .PORN and .ADULT.
  dot-XXX Sale (ICM Registry)

• James Franco Celebrated His Birthday With This S&M Birthday Cake (Buzzfeed)

• Pharma’s race for a women’s ‘pink viagra’ finally has a winner, and the promises for it are grand. Osphena, as the recently FDA-approved drug is called, is the newest answer for post-menopausal painful sex.
  Will This Pill Fix Your Sex Life? (Newsweek and The Daily Beast)

• Sexism isn’t the problem at the so-called online encyclopedia Wikipedia. The real lie of Wikipedia is its culture of revenge and its legacy of distorting history and diminishing the lives, accomplishments and careers of women who have criticized Wikipedia. This is not new.
  Wikipedia’s shame (Salon)

• Racing to stanch a flow of criticism, the president of San Francisco’s annual gay pride celebration said Friday that U.S. Army private Bradley Manning charged in a massive leak of U.S. secrets to the WikiLeaks website will not be an honorary grand marshal after all.
  WikiLeaks Suspect Won’t Be San Francisco Pride Parade Marshal (CBS San Francisco)

• Such a beautiful post, and an incredible affirmation of love. “So it is here where I have found myself, a monogamous porn performer. Some people asked me “how it was possible to be monogamous, while having sex with other people?” For me, monogamy is about emotional commitment and having an established relationship with one person. To me, what truly defines the character of a relationship is our commitment to each other.”
  Sex, Money and Monogamy (crashpadseries.com)

• Love this!
  Hitachi Magic Wand (Oh Joy Sex Toy: A Sex Toy Comic Review Site)

• This article calls it creepy, but I think the polite flattery might be fun. Virgin America is offering a “Seat-to-Seat Delivery” feature to aid passengers in their efforts to flirt with fellow travelers. Seat-to-Seat allows passengers to send drinks, snacks, and meals to other passengers using the in-flight entertainment system.
  Virgin America to Let Travelers Send Each Other Flirty Drinks (Eater National)

• From May 2012 – February 2013, former Romney campaign intern Adam Paul Savader sent anonymous text messages using Google Voice numbers to 15 women stating that he had nude photographs of the women and threatening to distribute the nude photographs to the women’s friends and family members unless the women sent him more nude photographs of themselves. Savader sent some of the victims links to a photo-sharing website where nude pictures of the victims had been posted.
  FBI — New York Man Charged with Internet Extortion and Cyber Stalking

• “In the Human Rights study, sex worker Anastasia L., claims she had unprotected sex “many times” to avoid the risk of arrest. In the Pros study, a “56-year-old participant in Brooklyn” describes a situation where a police officer took her condoms. “No, these are for healthy people; hope you get killed tonight,” the officer told the participant, according to the report.
  ‘No Condoms as Evidence’ Legislation Up for Debate in Albany (VICE)

• This report describes a group experiment undertaken by 8 women curious about the potential effects of vaginal administration of drugs, primarily LSD and MDMA.
  LSD, MDMA, 2C-B, Ketamine, & Alprazolam – Cunt Odyssey: Search for Vaginal Datapoints (Erowid Experience Vaults)

• Gay of Thrones: Game of Thrones Ep. 3 Recap with Alfie Allen (Funny Or Die)

• A unanimous appeals panel of the New Jersey Superior Court has ruled that an out gay teacher forced to resign from a private boarding school is entitled to a trial on his claim that the school violated his rights under the New Jersey law barring anti-gay discrimination.
  Teacher, Accused of Webcasting Sex Tape, Can Sue (Gay City News)

• This short film from 2012 illustrates what it would be like if homosexuality was the “norm”, making heterosexuals outcasts. A powerful must-watch that deals with the trend of teen suicide and bullying. [Warning: graphic content]
  If “Heterophobia” Were Real (Buzzfeed)

• “What worries me is this constant battering Internet access and Freedom of Expression is receiving from some people, and from government authorities, and I’m afraid there is a move to make use of extreme cases like rape, defamation and pornography – as real as they are – to exercise some control over this seemingly uncontrollable space.”
  The Tricky Thing About Fighting Blocking Of Porn In India (MediaNama)

• Clashes broke out between protesters and riot police near France’s lower house of parliament late on Tuesday just hours after the country legalized gay marriage, with opponents of the law hurling projectiles at police, who responded with tear gas.
  Violent Protests In Paris After Same-Sex Marriage Law Passes (NPR)

• A major scandal in the Baltimore city corrections system indicted of 25 people — including 13 prison guards — on charges of drug conspiracy, money laundering and racketeering, all run through a prison gang operation in which inmates virtually controlled the jail in which they were incarcerated. Officials say ringleader Tavon White gave corrections officer Jennifer Owens a diamond ring and bought Mercedes Benz, BMW and Acura automobiles for Owens, Katera Stevenson, Chania Brooks and Tiffany Lender — all prison guards that he allegedly had sexual relationships with. These relationships, the indictment says, were used to influence the women who facilitated the operations.
  Racketeering, Smuggling, Sex with Guards: 25 Indicted in Massive Baltimore Prison Scandal (TIME)

• The encryption issue is front and center as a federal magistrate is refusing to order a Wisconsin computer scientist to decrypt his data that the authorities seized from kiddie-porn suspect Jeffrey Feldman. The reason is simple: The Fifth Amendment right against compelled self-incrimination protects even those suspected of unsavory crimes.
  Here’s a Good Reason to Encrypt Your Data (Wired)

• Stoya loves her job, and it shows: She giggles so exuberantly throughout her sex scenes that an early partner, Mick Blue, initially thought she was mocking him. “Her performances are ones of genuine pleasure,” says Jiz Lee, a genderqueer performer who once posed as Jack the Ripper while Stoya dressed the part of a Victorian prostitute. “It’s hard not to fall in love with Stoya,” says Lee. “I cannot help but be aroused by the joy she expresses while she’s fucking.”
  Stoya, Pop Star of Porn (Village Voice)

• How a revolution started. “We don’t give gay bars the respect they deserve. After several prominent bars in San Francisco started shuttering — victims of Manhunt and Grindr and time — I started mapping a city’s worth of shuttered gay bars. The project, part of the Pop-Up Museum of Queer History, shows a lost world of piano bars and bathhouses, butch-femme discos and beachside hustlers.”
  12 Bars That Made San Francisco Gay, In Chronological Order (Out Magazine)

• After Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s directorial debut, “Don Jon,” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, festivalgoers questioned whether the pornography-laden version of the movie would make it to theaters intact.
  Joseph Gordon-Levitt: I cut some graphic porn from ‘Don Jon’ (LA Times)

• Once a week, Daily Intelligencer takes a peek behind doors left slightly ajar. This week, the Woman Shopping for Nipple Clamps: Female, 21, Dallas, receptionist, single, bisexual.
  Bisexual Woman Shopping for Nipple Clamps (Daily Intelligencer)

• The proposed law [AB332] that would require condoms in porn throughout California passed a key committee in Sacramento; one more committee and the full Assembly, and then it passes, taking effect in January 2015.
  Statewide Porn Condom Law Passes Key California Committee (LA Weekly)

Tweet below, sexual trauma survivor warning ahead: presented in light that I have reported to police my very real death and physical violence threats over the years, and that the context of this woman fabricating, posting online and lying about an online sexual violence threat was the basis for her being the featured speaker at a ‘rape culture protest event’ – an event held based on her “threat.” How do we solve this problem?

• A man in Auckland, New Zealand has been jailed for watching cartoon videos of elves, pixies and other fantasy creatures having sex.
  Ronald Clark Jailed For Watching Cartoon Pornography (Stuff NZ)

• Rob Black’s porn put him in jail. Now he’s out and spilling porn industry secrets on a podcast. Unsafe practices on set, business arrangements that exploit performers, common sidelines such as porn talent agents working their charges on escort sites – the industry is in trouble, Black says.
  Rob Black, Porn’™s Dirty Whistlebower, Spills Trade Secrets (The Daily Beast)

I don’t know what took me so long to find her, but as of tonight I’m crushed out on model and makeup artist Beauty Foster (also @BeautyFoster, beautyfoster.wix.com for booking inquiries, and Formspring). ::swoon!

Above video: “beauty foster in heaven above you” recently featured in tsurufoto nudiezine #20 ($4). Image below via Beauty Foster.

Legendary erotic jewelry designer Betony Vernon has a new book out, The Boudoir Bible (Kindle; hardcover). I don’t have a copy yet, but the book has been described to me by friends as the Vernon’s own tome about making the most of a refined sex life, with Vernon’s pro-kink, sex-positive point of view throughout.

It’s no secret that I’ve always wanted pretty much everything Vernon makes. And what I think will be really cool is the book launch event coming up here in SF on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (PDT). The “Conversation & Book Signing with Betony Vernon” is with Jimmyjane + Arkitektura’s Design Assembly – and Vernon will be interviewed by Jimmyjane’s own Ethan Imboden. Vernon and Imboden are at the top of the high-end sex toy design genre, and I think it’ll be really interesting. Oh – and it’s free.

THE PLEASURE PALETTE: “Creating a new design language for sexuality”
Conversation & Book Signing with Betony Vernon
Jimmyjane + Arkitektura’s Design Assembly
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (PDT)
San Francisco, CA
Register here on Eventbrite.

In case you missed it: The site is NSFW Vine, twitter is @NSFWVine and tag is #NSFWVine – it is all user submitted. It launched in January and sadly hasn’t updated since February – but I see it has a low subscription base, so I wonder if they just didn’t get enough word out? As an Android user and Apple anti-adult-content conscientious objector, I find it highly amusing to see the latest iOS darling deliver unto us a channel of mostly hot, mostly amateur porn. Also, this is a PSA letting you know that if you see my name on Vine it isn’t me. As with Instagram, I can’t wait for the disappointment of seeing 50 versions of my username snarfed on Vine by people who barely post by the time Vine’s Android version comes out (and no, we droidies can’t pre-reg – nor can I see Vine’s ToS to find out if NSFW Vine was being naughty).

I was unable to blackout this website today for the CISPA Blackout due to a long, annoying-on-many-levels story involving *someone else* getting massively hacked. So I thought I’d do something to raise awareness and make a point. I think that the women in these galleries would agree with my feelings about CISPA for the following reasons:

* The women in these galleries have given clear, legal consent for their images to be shared. CISPA permits sharing of your data between companies (Apple, Amazon, Facebook, etc.) without your consent.

* The women in these images know what viewers are doing – hopefully enjoyably – when they look at, and think about, the images and women in them. There are hundreds of Federal agencies that can easily obtain your data under CISPA and companies have stated they cannot protect your data under the Act. It is unclear exactly what will be done with your data. At least the porn models know what you’re doing with their pictures.

• Anneli and Lara – Pure Sensuality
• Candace – My Favorite Chair

* The women in these images have signed contracts with the companies holding license to distribute the images and have legal standing to hold the companies accountable if the companies misbehave or act negligently with the images. CISPA grants companies immunity to share your data and information without your knowledge or consent.

* The women in these images want the images to be shared in the manner which they were initially agreed upon at the time of the shoot. CISPA facilitates unmonitored sharing and changes the data protection, privacy and data sharing Terms you agreed to when you signed up with, say, Google.

• Naomi, Yuliya – Winter Rendezvous (main post image via)
• Talia – Sensual Encounter

* The women in these images would be at risk in potentially serious ways if the data associated with them vis-a-vis their modeling work and their real-life online accounts was compiled into a dossier without their knowledge and passed around to Federal Government agencies without their knowledge and consent. Like porn, apparently Federal Government agencies apparently will know a cyberthreat when they see it: the terms used in CISPA to obtain info on individuals is not defined. Much like the term “porn” is used to label “things I don’t like” (See: Apple, China, Morality in Media) it is likely that “cyberthreat” will be used the same way.

• Galina – Presenting Galina
• Helen H – Impression
• Angelique – Levha
• Edwidge – Proshon

* The potential for the women in these images to be nonconsensually exploited (or worse) by U.S. Federal Government employees (from the TSA to Immigration, the FBI and more) behind closed doors is very real. Think about it. The TSA. All it takes is one bad person with this unchecked access to ruin a girl’s life.

• Noody – Thai Shag Rug (sound alert)
• Valerie – Leggings (sound alert)

The ACLU has pretty much the most badass rundown of what CISPA is in their CISPA Explainer series. Check out my article today explaining what you can do about it. This expose on Federal security practices is also worth reading.

• Scala D. – Add Me
• Milena E. – I Need You

You know how anonymity protects the lives and safety of at-risk individuals everywhere – journalists in Syria, female rights activists in Egypt, that gay or trans kid who might actually get killed after school, human rights activists in China, those who IWF (Internet While Female) or IWS (Internet While Sexy)… CISPA, and legislation like it, carves a huge hole out of the back of any safety net these people have.

This wouldn’t be so upsetting for me if the data the U.S. Government wasn’t just proven to be the worst at data security of any American industry.

I was so amused by the tweet below by my dear, longtime friend Steve Diet Goedde that I had to share the video with you – and I want to encourage you, of course, to follow him if it makes sense for you to do so :)

The song is “Louisiana” by Duke Ellington.

The follower thing has always been so weird. People get so emotional about it, and companies try to measure it. I’ve loved meeting so many new friends through it, but I’ve seen a lot of people do lame, even terrible things with what they think is a power they’ve been somehow been bestowed by entitlement. I’ve also had people get really mad at me for not doing what they think I should. And though the news stories about fake-like rackets are relatively recent, I can tell you that since the first person with the title of “Social Media Manager” hit the socials, followers and likes have been gamed to fuck and back, and most definitely for sale if you know where to look. So I don’t worry about it too much, and cherish the real connections I get to make through the medium. And I’ve always believed this:

It’s not how many. It’s who.

• Peter Acworth of Kink.com is already thinking about how his business could make the most of Google Glass a la Kink.com style. According to SVBD, “The heads up display will offer filmmakers discreet recording capabilities and point-of-view perspective, something that could be particularly useful for the adult entertainment industry, where “up close and personal” takes on new meaning.”
  How Google Glass will change porn forever (Silicon Valley Business Journal)

• A new smartphone app is on hand to help Icelanders avoid accidental incest. The app lets users “bump” phones, and emits a warning alarm if they are closely related. “Bump the app before you bump in bed,” says the catchy slogan. Some are hailing it as a welcome solution to a very Icelandic form of social embarrassment.
  New App Helps Icelanders Avoid Kissing Cousins (The Epoch Times)

• A third-party internet security firm in Beijing called Anquan recently posted an opening for the position “chief porn identification officer“. The company was started in 2010 to “combat bad information on the internet” and promote greater control of pornographic content on the web. Its partners and members include internet giants, like Baidu and Tencent, as well as government agencies that regulate the internet in China.
  Ad For ‘Chief Porn Identification Officer’ (Business Insider)

• Apple is in an article listing a number of websites and app stores investigated for providing pornographic content in China. Following a March call for a new campaign against porn a government regulator named Apple’s app store as a source of “obscene pornographic” content and ordered it to remove the content, submit a report about the violation, and take measures to prevent future violations. The Wednesday article has drawn Chinese Internet users’ speculation that the Chinese government is determined to push Apple out of China, its second largest market.
  Apple Named in China Porn App Investigation (WSJ)

• A new study shows that prostitution laws enable pimps and pimp-related violence. Researchers from the University of Ottawa have released the findings of a three-year study on “third parties” in the adult and sex industries, including their role in sex worker safety. Findings confirm that the current prostitution laws, often presented as protecting sex workers, work against their interests and increase sex workers’ vulnerability to violence, by targeting these third parties.
  U Ottawa researchers highlight sex industry “third parties” and sex worker safety (Health News)

• This will massively piss you off – as if CISPA wasn’t bad enough… A debate in Florida’s House of Representatives over a Republican-sponsored ban on race- and sex-selective abortions became extremely heated Thursday, causing several black women lawmakers to walk out in protest.
  Florida Abortion Bill Debate Causes Black Women Lawmakers To Walk Out (HuffPo)

• ATVOD, the authority that regulates video-on-demand in the U.K., has disclosed that three U.K. online adult companies were determined to have violated Rule 11, which requires that website operators make sure those under 18 can’t access hardcore porn.
  11 U.K. Porn Sites Found to Have Violated Age-Verification Rules (XBIZ)

• Time to stop buying Eden Foods products in my house… Michael Potter, the CEO of Eden Foods, has been outed by Irin Carmon at Salon as an anti-contraception crusader to his largely liberal customer base, and, to the delight of all watching, has an inability to grasp how incoherent he sounds as he keeps trying to explain what this is all about.
  Eden Foods CEO can’t explain what religious convictions are leading him to sue against the HHS contraception mandate (Slate)

• This one is just fun. Erotica writer extraordinaire Alison Tyler noticed that a diet splog is… promoting my fellatio book! Splogs may be unhealthy for the internet’s constitution, but I do believe it is highly recommended to combine diet *and* exercise… So maybe it evens out?
  A Healthy Diet of… (Alison Tyler: Trollop with a Laptop)

• According to Durax, “Fundawear is an innovation from Durex that allows touch to be transferred over the internet (above video). Unfortunately, their website for the promotion (durexperiment.com.au) currently redirects to Facebook, but check it out if you want…
  Durex Fundawear — Touch over the Internet (YouTube, thanks to everyone who sent/linked this in!)

• A California high school teacher has been fired for setting up porn sites, including one called mysluttyteacher.com, on her work-issued laptop. Heidi Kaeslin, 37, was fired last year from Stockton’s Lincoln High School over the incident.
  Calif. teacher fired for setting up porn sites on work laptop (NY Daily News)

• Holy shit, this is crazy. Pam Stenzel is a pro-abstinence speaker who gave her usual talk about how abortion causes cancer (and other insanities for the “Crisis Pregnancy Center” chain) at a high school in Charleston, WV last week. At George Washington High School, student body president Katelyn Campbell refused to go to the mandatory assembly where Stenzel gave her anti-sex, anti-contraception lecture, and the school retaliated against Campbell – so she brought in the ACLU.
  Sex, Lies and ‘Education’ (The Nation)

• As part of the growing movement to implement abuse prevention in schools and other youth-serving organizations, educators believe that teaching “standard” dialect for body parts — rather than euphemisms and colloquialisms — is important. Teaching children anatomically correct terms, age-appropriately, says Laura Palumbo, a prevention specialist with the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC), promotes positive body image, self confidence, and parent-child communication; discourages perpetrators; and, in the event of abuse, helps children and adults navigate the disclosure and forensic interview process. However, not everyone is okay with this approach…
  The Case for Teaching Kids ‘Vagina,’ ‘Penis,’ and ‘Vulva’ (The Atlantic)

• The Ohio House Finance Committee on Tuesday approved a budget that prohibits teachers from condoning “gateway sexual activity”. It prohibits teachers from discussing getting to “second base” in sexual education classes. The budget allows parents to sue teachers who promote or condone “gateway sexual activity,” which is defined as any sort of sensual touching.
  Ohio budget bill bans ‘second base’ from sex-ed class (The Raw Story)

• This is great news, and America should pay attention. The incidence of genital warts declined by more than 90% in adolescent and teenage girls in the first 4 to 5 years after introduction of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in Australia, investigators reported.
  Genital Wart Decline Tracked to HPV Vaccine (medpagetoday.com)

• Great advice here. Not all orgasms are loud, sweaty, ‘earth-moving’ experiences, says Dr Petra Boynton, who advises a reader that what you see in the movies is hardly ever like the real thing.
  Yes! Yes! No… when orgasms just don’t match up to porn (Telegraph)

Main post image: Tony Kelly Photography.

• Night – Fake View
• Tofana and Subil – Solace
• Sinia – Mavros
• Stoya and Skin (main post photo)

• If you look at a certain stretch of Australian highway in Google Street View you can see two people having a pretty good time – at least, you could yesterday, according to Buzzfeed…
  Here Are Two People Having Sex On Google Street View (Buzzfeed)

• Sperm out the nose. Braces. Barf…. and – I was so glad to see – just as many stories from blowjob givers, as from blowjob-receivers. Enjoy! Or… cross your legs…
  What are your bad blowjob stories? NSFW (Reddit)

• DC Comics told Wired that it will continue to expand the LGBT diversity of its superhero universe by introducing the first openly transgender character in a mainstream superhero comic. In Batgirl #19, on sale today in both print and digital formats, the character Alysia Yeoh will reveal that she is a transwoman in a conversation with her roommate, Barbara Gordon (aka Batgirl).
  DC Introduces First Transgender Character in Mainstream Comics (Wired)

• Hugh Jackman got quite the surprise while he was working out at Gotham Gym in New York City Saturday morning, when a woman threw an electric razor filled with her own pubic hair at him.
  Alleged Stalker Arrested for Throwing Razor at Hugh Jackman in Gym (E! Online)

• Spotted: Topless Girls Reading has an installment featuring the adorable model, pinup and cam girl Eve Cates reading from Excuses and Lies.
  Topless Girls Reading: Eve Cates (Woodrocket)

• After acknowledging the existence of an explicit film starring herself and male porn superstar James Deen earlier this week, Teen Mom star Farrah Abraham has sent a cease and desist letter regarding the tape to Steve Hirsch, head of porn company Vivid.
  Farrah Abraham Sends Porn Company Vivid Cease and Desist Over Sex Tape (Us Magazine)

• So glad to see that after I coined the term “Whole foods approach to porn” in 2010 (and reinforced and defined it over the past few years), this concept is finally making it into the mainstream. The sentiment is reproduced in this nice op-ed by Rachel Kramer Bussel.
  Organic, Fair Trade Porn: On the Hunt for Ethical Smut (The Daily Beast)

• Oodles of feminist language is the set dressing for this provocative piece, which makes some sobering points: “Both anti-porn feminists and feminist pornographers do what they do because they see something wrong with “conventional” pornography.”
  The Feminist Pornographers and the Anti-Porn Feminists Want the Same People to Listen to Them (LynseyG)

• Out Magazine‘s annual list, which ranks gay men and women “whose power and prestige is instrumental in influencing the way Americans think,” reflects a stunning lack of diversity and trans-inclusiveness — yet again.
  Out Magazine Highlights 50 Gay “Power Players,” Includes 4 People Of Color, 0 Trans People (Buzzfeed)

• A relatively new Pasadena City College class called “Navigating Pornography” – devoted to giving students a venue to study and discuss a touchy topic in an academic setting, according to its professor – has already prompted praise and concern.
  College Offers Course Devoted Entirely To Pornography (The College Fix)

• Sex workers in Silicon Valley use social media for effective marketing, while a survey from HuffPo and YouGov says that 1 out of 10 Americans would have sex with a robot (seems kinda low to me).
  Sex Tech: Tech-savvy sex work in Silicon Valley (ZDNet)

• Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Anne Hathaway, Charlize Theron, Rihanna, Audrey Tautou and Nicole Scherzinger feature in this ridiculous but nipple-tastic post about braless celebs on the red carpet.
  Is braless the new side boob? Perky Rosie Huntington-Whiteley leads revival of sexy seventies trend (Mail Online)

• I think this is one of the most frightening “pornography laws” ever: The Anti-Pornography Bill 2011 proposes that those found guilty of abetting pornography be fined up to 10 million Ugandan shillings (£2,500) or jailed for up to 10 years, or both. Simon Lokodo, Uganda’s ethics and integrity minister, who proposed the Bill, said: ‘Any attire which exposes intimate parts of the human body, especially areas that are of erotic function, are outlawed. Anything above the knee is outlawed. If a woman wears a miniskirt, we will arrest her.’
  Ugandan women wearing miniskirts face arrest under new anti-pornography laws (Mail Online)

• A Callery Pear, or Pyrus calleryana, is a deciduous tree that is common throughout North America. It blossoms in early spring and produces beautiful, five-petaled white flowers – that happen to smell like semen.
  Your Street Probably Smells Like Semen Right Now—But It Might Not Next Spring (The Awl)

• A gentleman has social-hacked his way onto Lulu (a website aimed at college women, where girls “review” men they have dated – for better and for worse). He has offered his hack up to Reddit so other guys can look themselves up and see if they’ve been “reviewed.” This is where I remind you of how very fucked up a website like Lulu -but for men to review women- would be…
  Weekend project: site to read what women have written about you on Lulu (Reddit: Technology)

• The premise is simple: simply suck the condom up your nostril and pull it out of your mouth. Kids have been doing this for a few years, but it seems to have taken off recently–for what reason, I’m not entirely sure. Just search for “condom challenge” on YouTube.
  Kids Are Snorting Condoms Now (Animal New York)

• Ms. Naughty has a detailed, fun and wonderfully descript summary of what it was like to attend the Feminist Porn Awards.
  Feminist Porn Awards 2013 (Ms. Naughty)

• Rick Santorum is convinced that straight people are going to stop having sex if gay dudes are allowed to marry. He really should be directing gay porn.
  Santorum thinks straights will stop having sex if gays can get married (America Blog)

• Yes, we fucking hate Hollywood celebrities pretending to be caught having sex on video. Maybe stronger, however, is my hatred for anyone who still calls these videos “tape.”
  The celebrity sex tape craze: Is it finally dead? (The Week)

• An estimated one in 1,500 babies is born intersex. The term is used to describe conditions in which a person is not clearly male or female. Not all intersex people are born with atypical genitalia. Sometimes the differences may be at chromosomal or gonadal (ovaries and testes) levels. So – what has been happening to these babies? The answers are upsetting.
  Intersex: Straddling the sex divide (Windy City Times)

• Animal New York presents us with an artist’s hypnotic CGI animation/test footage of an avalanche of fleshy, bouncy, shiny penis-dildo hybrids. It was created with Real Flow 2012 to simulate soft body dynamics. It took 62 hours. It is titled “I’m so sorry.”
  And Now, An Avalanche of Dicks (Animal New York)

• For April Fools’, sex toy maker Lelo introduced the Gäsm, a totally sustainable vibrator. But response to the joke was so strong that the company is considering creating a real version.
  This Eco-Friendly Sex Toy Was A Prank, But Now It’s Becoming Reality (Co.Exist)

• As a result of Measure B, the ballot initiative that mandates the wearing of condoms in adult video shoots in Los Angeles, the number of film permit requests in the county have dropped off a cliff. Yup: they’ve gone underground.
  Condom Law Leads to Porn Industry Mayhem: Who Could Have Seen That Coming? (Reason)

• An erotic photographer decided he’d had it with the way female erotic models are treated and characterized – and his blog post/rant is slow-clap, fucking 100% amazing.
  Models and Prejudice (Elegance Studios)

I came across one of Terby Wonder’s drawings last week on Flickr and saved the link; there are more splendid examples of his whimsical sexiness on his Tumblr. Light, flirty, fun – and some really cute girls!

• Penny Flame – Love, Marriage and Bad Ideas
• Lola Fellini – Life, Love, Lust (image above)
• Pierre Roshan – Tantra
• Sasha Grey – Expert Guide to Rough Sex

• Valeria – Casting Valeria
• Clover – White Chair

• Mia Sollis – Sonnetts
• Loretta A – Salon
• Macy B – Exquisite
• Grace C – Domatio

• Amirah and Mark – Young Love
• Anna – Just for Me
• Lucy and Valentina – The Director (image above)
• Sara and Scarlet – Intimate Shaving
• Holly, Alexia and Tiffany – Menage a Trois

• Presley Hart – El Matador
• Emily J – Lonely Day by Paul Black

• Layla S – Babe by Natasha Schon
• Melody Jordan – Exposed
• Annija – Self by Higinio Domingo

• Dominika C – Extraordinaire (sound alert)
• Kiki and Valerie – Pussy Power (image above, sound alert)
• Purr – Thai Petite (sound alert)

• Above: The Elegant Gentleman’s Guide to Knife Fighting: Porn OH&S (YouTube)

Update, April 11: Clarification and correction on the “Apple gay image censorship” story (below) from @ImageComics from @comiXology – apparently we didn’t have the whole story, and SAGA’s ‘response’ to Apple was… not completely clear.

• On Tuesday, mainstream news outlets covered the results from a small survey in Australia that polled just over 100 women about their sexual preferences. One headline atop an NBC story proclaimed, “Science proves women like men with bigger penises.”
  How The Mainstream Media Exploits ‘Science’ To Reinforce Gender Stereotypes (ThinkProgress; io9 has lulzy details and images)

• Despite what users may believe, it’s not some sophisticated Google algorithm that decides if questionable YouTube videos are porn and get shut down. According to Gizmodo, it’s simply human intervention that decides if a video containing sex and nudity is NSFW and gets yanked.
  Porn or Art Video? How YouTube Decides (XBIZ)

• Vivid Entertainment attorneys have filed a motion for judgment to invalidate Measure B, Los Angeles County’s voter-approved law that mandates condoms on porn shoots. Concurrently, Vivid’s legal team also has asked a federal judge to grant a preliminary injunction over the enforcement of the countywide law.
  Vivid Asks Federal Judge to Invalidate Measure B (XBIZ)

• Without My Consent‘s Weekly Roundup has a collection of headlines from the past week about the struggle courts are having as they take on legislating involuntary porn.
  Making Non-Consensual ‘Revenge Porn’ a Felony (Without My Consent’s Weekly Roundup; Disclosure – I am an advisor for Without My Consent)

• Clarification and correction on the “Apple gay image censorship” story from @ImageComics from @comiXology – apparently we didn’t have the whole story, and SAGA’s ‘response’ to Apple was… let’s just say not completely clear.
  Original post: SAGA (comic) co-creator Brian K. Vaughan wrote, “As has hopefully been clear from the first page of our first issue, SAGA is a series for the proverbial “mature reader.” Unfortunately, because of two postage stamp-sized images of gay sex, Apple is banning tomorrow’s SAGA #12 from being sold through any iOS apps.” (Preview it here.)
  A Statement on Apple’s Banning of SAGA #12 from Brian K. Vaughan (IMAGE COMICS)

• Amazing how a currently popular kind of feminist thinking essentially removes a woman’s right to consent… (And right now, tech/hacker communities are sadly worse for it.) In the Indian context – on which this article focuses – analysis by both scholars and activists has addressed the question of feminism’s ambivalent approach to sex work and sex workers, and the implicit lack of understanding of how choice and consent operate in this realm.
  The feminist and the sex worker: Lessons from the Indian experience (himalmag.com)

• Glass anal product company Crystal Delights made the lovely butt-plug Feminist Porn Awards trophies, and Kelly Shibari at Hot Movies for Her interviewed designer and company owner Shellie Yarnell.
  The Making of a Feminist Trophy: Interview with Crystal Delights by Kelly Shibari (Hot Movies for Her)

• So. Fucking… Bo-ooring. And we’re not surprised this “sex tape” bullshit is, and always has been, fake… James Deen tells TMZ he was approached by an unidentified porn company to shoot a porn film with “Teen Mom” Farrah Abraham over the weekend … and they did. He says the plan was to pass the porn off as a “sex tape,” but the plan fell apart.
  James Deen — Farrah Abraham Concocted Sex Tape Plot (TMZ)

• Toronto just hosted the Feminist Porn Awards, and even female adult-film directors aren’t sure if that term is an oxymoron.
  What, exactly, is ‘feminist porn’? (The Week)

• NBC News reports that Las Vegas strip clubs are going to prohibit patrons from wearing Google Glass inside, because the tiny onboard cameras allow for recording.
  Google Glass Already Being Banned from Strip Clubs (Betabeat)

• A small business in California called Origami Condoms is working on a new condom modeled after the Japanese art of paper folding which has won the approval of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for being the only design to radically change the contraceptive.
  Collapsible ‘origami’ condom wins praise from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Mail Online)

• Jon Hamm still does not seem to be wearing support-structured underwear.
  Jon Hamm and his hammster went for a walk (Seriously? OMG! WTF?)

• Thoughtful essay on Buzzfeed about male bisexual identity. “Sometimes it is easier to pretend I’m straight or gay than deal with people’s perception of my bisexuality.”
  I’m A Bisexual Man: Why Is That So Hard For Me To Say (Buzzfeed)

• TorrentFreak calls it “filth” but it’s actually Kink’s Ultimate Surrender showing up in the Vatican’s torrent tracks… So it’s really *nice* filth.
  Priests Watch DVD Screeners While Pirates Download Filth in the Vatican (TorrentFreak)

• Bacchus came across a beautiful 1933 album of erotic illustrations of the Russian alphabet, as painted by Soviet sculptor Sergei Dmitrievich Merkurov.
  Soviet Erotic Alphabet (ErosBlog: The Sex Blog)

There are many astonishing data points about Thom Puckey‘s sculptures, and (warning) some of you may find them disturbing. Most of his work over the past decade is life-size, realistically detailed female subjects with different kinds of guns – sculpted flawlessly in marble (often monochrome marble, to be exact). Puckey explains,

My project: marble figures, life size, female, nude, formally posed, and with attributes in the form of weapons (modern firearms and knives of varying types and sizes). My techniques are anachronistic, following closely those of the late 18th / early 19th century. (…)

The nudity in my work is the area where I allow two types of obsession with the female nude to overlap with each other. The ‘classical’ obsession and the cultural obsession which surfaced in the 1960s and which has grown and grown ever since then. The one where the taboo is disguised and allowed by ‘responsible’ artistic tradition, and the other where the taboo is pushed against and aside by ‘irresponsible’, incorrect, commercial and sexual interests. I play directly into these two types of approaches to the nude, I temper the particular obscenity of the one with the particular obscenity of the other. I allow posed 19th century-like formalities bring a kind of order to 20th and 21st century violent indecency. The presence of modern weapons in the sculptures makes them seem contemporary in a cheap kind of way, this I realise. I like this suggestion of cheapness, I play into it. Chicks and guns. At the same time I let the matter overlap with the threatened, threatening, violent female figure of history and myth, from the Papin sisters, through to Diana, Lucretia, Judith and so on.

He will be doing a solo exhibition of his work at the end of this year in Holland: Thom Puckey – Solo Exhibition. Stedelijk Museum ‘s-Hertogenbosch. New works in marble (November 2, 2013 – January 31, 2014). “The exhibition will feature several existing marble works from public and private collections in the Netherlands and abroad, as well as two completely new and ground-breaking marble sculptures, specially made for the show.”

It’s time… Best Women’s Erotica 2013 is on shelves both virtual and actual, and I’m delighted to see it has glowing 5-star reviews. My new book Voracious just came out, too! So starting right now, I’m looking for the best erotic short stories written by women for the 2014 edition of the leading series for explicit women’s lit: Best Women’s Erotica 2014.

I’ll update this post with a link to the official listing on Erotica Readers and Writers Association. It’s a tight deadline, and this is the open call. Please read the entire specs in this post; a few things are different from past years – and this will actually be my last Best Women’s Erotica. (I need a break, and I think the form factor needs a reinvention…)

But I’m so excited to put this one together! Tell all your writer friends, send me your hottest erotica…

Or – tell me about a super arousing short you’ve read (or written and have permission to allow a reprint) in a collection within the past year. I will consider it for the book, which is an unusual break from tradition; I really want the best of the best for this one.

Call For Submissions

Best Women’s Erotica 2014
Editor: Violet Blue
Publisher: Cleis Press
Deadline: July 1st, 2013

Please note: Publisher has final right of refusal on all submissions. Payment is upon publication, plus 2 copies of the book; pub date is November 2013.

Best Women’s Erotica is a legendary and groundbreaking yearly series, and it is the best-selling women’s erotica collection, period. Every year BWE raises the bar for explicit erotica written by and for women, penned by the most exciting female authors, from around the world.

This edition (BWE 2014) is selected and edited by Violet Blue (tinynibbles.com, about.me/violetblue, @violetblue). In this edition, we are looking for fictional stories that seek to push the boundaries of female sexuality, present realistic fantasies and situations, and break taboos. The sex acts depicted must be explicit and must be realistic in detail.

A strong focus on character, predicament, and compelling situations is desired – smart, literate erotic fiction. The desired orientation within the main sexual element of the stories is primarily heterosexual, yet bisexuality and lesbian encounters are welcome and encouraged. The primary focus of sexual activity must be on the female experience; female pleasure is the main element. A playful, clever approach is welcome, as are intense scenarios.

The BWE editions 2006 – 2013 edited by Violet Blue have won awards, and are very different from other women’s erotica books – please read a few stories from any of those years of Best Women’s Erotica or the introductions for examples of tone. The easiest way to do this is to read free chapters from Best Women’s Erotica on Amazon.com.

Established authors and new writers are welcome to submit.

Desired themes include: Women’s sexual fantasies and experiences of all kinds, such as taboo sex acts, fantasy scenarios (real or imagined), bondage, fetish, male anal penetration (such as strap-on play), first-time experiences, light S/M, exhibitionism, power-play, voyeurism, public sex, seduction, role-play, spontaneous sex, spanking, erotic punishment, sexual surprise, emotional honesty, desire, longing, lust, passion, female fierceness, power (and power struggles), deviousness, meaning, themes that involve the Internet and technology, and sublime humor. Above all, include explicit sex.

What not to send: Dark themes (such as breakup, jealousy, infidelity and death) must be exceptional in content for acceptance and are *least* desired. Do not send sci-fi, poetry, slash or fantasy fiction.

Paste your story submissions into emails and send to: cleisbook at gmail.com

Rules: If you send an attachment, I will delete your email immediately. I am not accepting paper submissions. Only three submissions per author. Word count: 2500 to 4500 words is the desired range. No simultaneous submissions (you will be disqualified with no hesitation if you submit the story to multiple publications). Reprints that you have rights to use and excerpts from already-published, full-length books will be considered.

Required: You must include your name (and pseudonym if you are using one), a short 150-word bio, mailing address and main contact email address with your submission. Payments are made by check or PayPal only; state your preference when you send me your stories.

Authors must be female; sorry, no male authors writing under pseudonyms allowed (female transgender authors are warmly welcome here). Please don’t hassle me about not allowing male authors: this is the format of the “Best Women’s” series, and the series belongs to Cleis Press.

Because of the volume of submissions every year (literally hundreds!) I probably won’t be able to respond to your submissions until August.

Please only use the cleisbook at gmail.com address for correspondence about this book. Emailing me at a different address, Tweeting or Facebook messages will get lost.

Best Women’s Erotica 2013 is incredible. I got to work with some truly amazing authors (and enjoyed publishing a few newcomers for their first time). BWE authors become part of my network of colleagues, and I invariably involve authors in extra publicity about the book and other book projects. Do understand that I get a lot of stories, and I do read each and every one. If you email and demand a confirmation email, you may not get one simply due to the volume of submissions I’m trying to get through. I appreciate your patience in advance!

• In the last five years prostitution in Brazil’s largest and richest city has had a makeover. A new type of brothel has proliferated – aimed at a younger, more funky, less reticent customer. Forget dirty old man, think guy-about-town. There are about 20 of these “luxury houses” in the city. It is no longer enough just to offer girls and a threadbare room in a sleazy backstreeet – these superbrothels are not even in red light areas; some have a restaurant, live bands perform and even the rooms are fancier, with saunas and flat screen TVs.
  Inside Brazil’s Upmarket Brothel Hotel Clubs (Sabotage Times)

• Porn star Aurora Snow surprised many with her candid confession to the Daily Beast regarding one of the last remaining taboos in the adult entertainment industry – specifically about porn industry racism (I covered this for the SF Chronicle in 2009 in Racist Porn and the Recession). The Root talked with black male performer Lexington Steele, and what he had to say is both eye-opening and awful.
  Porn-Industry Racism: What’s Behind It? (The Root)

• The trend of suing “John Does” over allegedly downloading porn movies began a few years ago, and Prenda Law has become perhaps the most vigorous—and certainly the most controversial—enforcer of such copyrights. Prenda’s strategy has been to file lawsuits naming thousands of “John Does,” push ISPs for subscriber information as fast as they can, and then push subscribers for quick settlements. This week, Prenda lawyers took the Fifth. And now, a federal judge will assume the worst.
  Judge smash: Prenda’s porn-trolling days are over (Ars Technica)

• Amid a rising tide of rapes and sexual assaults in India, three engineering students devise an electrified slip they hope will help protect women from attack called SHE (Society Harnessing Equipment).
  Electric undergarment fights sexual assault with shocks (CNET)

• Warning: news item may upset survivors of sexual abuse. A man has been apprehended in possession of one million images of children between the ages of six and 12 years old. Authorities believe the man to be “the number one person” distributing child pornography throughout the world.
  Cops nab king of kiddie porn (NY POST)

• This company emailed me to let me know they’ve launched; I don’t know them and I do not endorse them (I haven’t had time to investigate them or ask questions) but it’s a very unusual service: Sextingo claims it is a place to “Safely store your sexting pictures.”
  SEXTINGO (sextingo.com)

• As I’ve said before, it’s only a sex scandal if you’re scandalized by sex. Daily Beast writes, “The disgraced former governor of South Carolina is back on top, with his former mistress by his side. Here, a new road map to redemption for politicians caught in the act.”
  How to Survive a Sex Scandal: Mark Sanford Edition (The Daily Beast)

• Two sexuality conferences just announced: SwellCon, a conference devoted to critical conversations about erotic media (Minneapolis, MN, August 2-4, 2013). Looks fun! So does the Woodhull Sexual Freedom Summit (Washington, D.C., September 19-22).
  SwellCon and Woodhull’s Sexual Freedom Summit (The Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health)

• The Feminist Porn Awards 2013 held its award ceremonies last night, and coverage hasn’t hit yet – but in the meantime, you can skim the results in the FPA2013 Twitter hashtag. In tweets I’ve seen that Madison Young had the quote of the night, Best Kink film went to 50 Shades of Dylan Ryan; Jiz Lee won Heartthrob Of The Year; Forbidden Lovers won Steamiest Romantic Movie; Nan Kinney (Fatale Media) won the Trailblazer Award.
  #FPA2013 (Twitter)

• Pals over at Future of Sex have launched their Bizarre Bazaar, “Welcome to our “Bizaare Bazaar”, which showcases the products and services that represent various intriguing aspects of the future of sex.” Includes their listing of sex robots.
  Bizarre Bazaar (Future of Sex)

• Well worth a read, wherein New Yorker looks at the alarming, growing invisibility of transgender people in our national marriage equality discussion: “There is a question, however, in the language Clinton used, the particular lip service she chose to pay. The United States moves inexorably toward granting equality to the L.G.B., but in the process—while still pronouncing that satisfying final consonant—we often, in practice, drop the “T.”
  Transgender Rights in the Era of Same-Sex Marriage: Are We Forgetting the “T” in “L.G.B.T.”? (The New Yorker)

• That a former Bikram yoga teacher is accusing the infamous guru of sexual misconduct should surprise no one. We’ve been down this shameful road before, writes Benjamin Lorr.
  Shocking Bikram Sex Scandal Should Shock No One (The Daily Beast)

• Impending firestorm on the birth control front lines… A federal judge in Brooklyn, New York, has ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to make the morning-after birth control pill available to people of any age without a prescription.
  Judge orders morning-after pill available without prescription (CNN)

• FEMEN strikes again: Topless protesters staged demonstrations near mosques and Tunisian embassies across Europe on Thursday to express support for embattled FEMEN activist Amina Tyler.
  International Topless Jihad Day: FEMEN Activists Stage Protests Across Europe (HuffPo World)

• When TechCrunch founder turned venture capitalist Mike Arrington was accused last week of rape and abuse by an ex-girlfriend, many in Silicon Valley were shocked, but not entirely surprised. This is because rumors that Arrington abused women have circulated almost from the time he started his career in the tech industry.
  TechCrunch Founder Michael Arrington’s History of Abuse Allegations Includes an Assault Investigation (Gawker)

• USA based AT&T has been noticed having a rather unusual clause in its website password rules. While most websites make some requirements on password length or a minimum combination of letters and numbers, as the AT&T one also does… they also have a ban on “obscene language” in a users password.
  AT&T Bans Obscene Passwords (Cellular News)

• A strip club dancer (who has little tolerance for surgical augmentation) gives her view on strip club plastic surgery trends in her workplace. “When I started dancing fifteen years ago surgery was a rarity, now it’s the rule. Around eighty percent of the girls I see now have had some kind of conspicuous cosmetic procedure – lips (both sets), breasts, buttocks, Botox. (…)”
  The Psychology Of Strip Club Plastic Surgery (Sabotage Times)

Main post images via: Karo Mrozkova & Maritza Veer by by MIchael Donovan for Vision China