This is one of those instances where it really pays to track down the story source. And these photos taken inside a Chinese condom factory require explanation – as well as the interesting story behind Reuters’ visit inside the Safedom condom factory in China on February 6. Buzzfeed has a big post up today with most of the photos and no explanation or timestamp, and it took me some tracking to find out what’s going on here and why. I hate it when people post sex items and just leave us guessing…

To see all of the compelling photos from inside a Chinese condom factory taken this month – with captions explaining what is is each photo and all of the photos, visit How Are Condoms Made? Manufacture of Chinese ‘Safedom Condoms’ (International Business Times).

To read the full story as to what happened when Reuters visited the factory just before Valentine’s Day, read The long and the short of it by David Grey (Photographers Blog, Reuters).

Snip:

(…) Safedom turned its back on the low-margin, guaranteed-business sales to the Chinese government’s family planning program 11 months ago, and decided to shift to where the money is: the higher end of the general public market.

Claiming to be the fourth-largest condom maker in China by revenue, after three foreign brands [VB note: Safedom sold over 200 million condoms in 2011], they are hoping to sell one billion condoms this year with the launch of its “Take Me” condom, aimed at women consumers, and partnerships with French, Italian, German and UK condom makers. (…read more, blogs.reuters.com)

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Dj Premier ft Nas, Apathy, The Berklee Symphony Orchestra – Regeneration (Rmx)
Stahhr – Hold On
The Militia ft Reef The Lost Cauze – New York Started It
Shabaam Shadeeq – Crank
AZ – Still Alive (Cream Of The Planet Blend)
Alpha Faktion ft Skeezo – Clean
Sadat X – The Fake Out
Troy Ave ft Mr Mf Exquire, Action Bronson, Maffew Ragazino – Home T.E.A.M.
Rapsody ft Freeway – A Cold Winter
J. Period ft Black Thought, John Legend, Rakim – In The Ghetto (Wake Up!)
Doom – Coco Mango (Redef Boy Scout Rmx)
LMNO – Overtime
Big Shug ft Dj Premier – Spit Six
Copywrite ft Jakki Da Mota Mouth – Swaggot Killaz
MSG, Jim Jones, Kool G Rap, Uncle Murda – New York City
Oak Lonetree ft Blacastan, CheckMark – Promoters
JD Cuellar ft Reks – Prevail
Saigon ft Inspectah Deck, Beka – The Raw (M-Phazes Rmx)
Add2 ft Dj Juice, 9th Wonder – Going, Going, Gone
Pesti Mash ft Dj Majestik – Micsoda Egy Környék

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Kasko set:
A.T.V. Ft. DJ Eloheim – Point Blank Period
Burke, Torae, Side Effect & Dj Waxwork – Another Classic (M-Phazes Rmx)
Whatson ft L.E.G.A.C.Y., Cas Metah, Rasco & Dj Sean P – Introducing
Melodious Monk & J Dilla – The Clapper
Blacastan – The Booth
Mobb Deep – Win Or Loose (KK Rmx)
Brown Bag Allstars ft Aki Bermiss – Kin
Whatson ft Braille, Verbal Kent & Reef The Lost Cauze) – All The Way
Blacastan ft Emilio Lopez, Outerspace, V Zilla – Sand Storms
Ras Kass ft Doc Hollywood – Heidi Klum
J57 ft Meyhem Lauren, Action Bronson, Maffew Ragazino, Rasheed Chappell – The Main Event
Roc C – Stoned Genius
Truck North – Bring Me Back

Brokenfinguz & Blood Orange set:
Pesti Mash ft Barbárfivérek – Vágod?
DJ Revolution ft Chino XL, DJ Craze, DJ Infamous & DJ Melo D – 4+1
Grand Agent – Know The Legend
The Last Emperor feat. Tiye Phoenix – The Banger
DJ_Vadim ft La Methode – Maximum (Bassnectar & Ill Gates Rmx)
Pesti Mash ft DSP & Fura – Pesti Slepp
Large Professor – Blaze Rhymez
Mobb Deep – Feel My Gat Blow
Pete Rock – ‘Til I Retire
Brokenfinguz Instru
BeOnd – She Drug (Prod by Brokenfinguz)
Pesti Mash ft. Bigmek – Apró
DJ Revolution ft. Rakaa Iriscience – Casulties of Tour
A-Bless – That’s Bless
Freddie Foxx aka. Bumpy Knuckles – Bumpy Knuckles Baby
BeOnd – Silence is Golden (Prod by Brokenfinguz)
Apathy ft Motive – Slave
OGC – No Fear
Smif-N-Wessun – Bucktown
DJ Revolution ft DJ Babu – Copycat Killers
Pesti Mash ft Norba – Bűnös Utcák
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LMNO ft Madlib – Headlock
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Pro’Verb ft Lyriciss – Write Brothers
Lil’ Fame of MOP – Misery
Termanology ft Reks – Live From ATL
El Da Sensei ft Tame One, Dj Kaos, Rah Digga – Everyday In The Street
Bishop Lamont – Sodom & Gomorrah
Eversor presents Ruste Juxx, Comet & Blaq Poet – NY State Of Grime
V-Zilla of AOTP – Most Incredible
ChrisCo & Young Knox ft Evidence, The Alchemist – Skywalkers X Step Brothers
Koncept ft Royce da 5’9 – Watch The Sky Fall
Gensu Dean ft Large Professor – Forever
ScarcityBp ft Powder, Mordekai, Mark Deez – Ruthlessness In The Harmony
Born Unique – One By One
El Da Sensei ft Cimer Amor – Nu World (iStandard Rmx)
Gangrene – Vodka & Ayahuasca
Doomstarks – Victory Laps (Madvillainz Rmx)
Blown Celeb ft R.A. The Rugged Man – Say Aahh
Lyric Jones ft Dj Raydar Ellis, Esperanza Spalding – Loss On Repeat
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A Nixon bemutatta legújabb modellét, ami a Wit névre hallgat. A karórát három színben tervezték, és már megérkezett a Nixon viszonteladóihoz. mashPONT: 8/10

További képek a folytatásban.

kép és info: Nixon

Következzen néhány munka a clevelandi Oliver Barrett illusztrátortól.

Képek a folytatásban.

kép és info: Oliver Barrett

• Yes, that’s Kink.com, San Francisco (and Lorelei Lee) in the above trailer for Cherry. The two competing Linda Lovelace biopics aren’t the only movies about the porn industry that will be arriving in theaters soon. There is also Cherry, the new film from writer/director Stephen Elliott that includes James Franco, Dev Patel, Lili Taylor, and Heather Graham.
  First Trailer For Porn Drama Cherry, Starring James Franco And Heather Graham (CinemaBlend)

• The Spermcheck Fertility Home Sperm Test (spermcheck.com) is over-the-counter, fast, FDA-approved and claims to be 98% accurate.
  The First FDA-Approved Home Sperm Count Test Is Now Available (Gizmodo)

• A British couple raised their child as “gender neutral” to avoid stereotypes. Why are people so upset about it?
  Parents Who Hid Child’s Gender for Five Years Now Face Backlash (TIME)

• Former head of the International Monetary Fund Dominique Strauss-Kahn is to be formally questioned about his alleged links to an illegal prostitution ring and the misuse of company funds. In just nine months he has been publicly embroiled in three sex scandals; in May 2011 he was charged with sexually assaulting a New York hotel maid.
  Dominique Strauss-Kahn quizzed about sex and fraud allegations (Guardian UK)

• Despite the myriad serious issues the U.S. faces, the top item on Rick Santorum’s “Issues” page is “Enforcing Laws Against Illegal Pornography.”
  Rick Santorum’s Top Issue: Stopping Porn (Think Progress)

• Superb sex journalist Chris Hall writes, “​One of the things that sets my teeth on edge about what an old friend calls San Francisco’s ‘Kinky Konfederacy’ – the loose affiliation of queers, kinksters, fetishists, swingers, pornographers, sex workers, and perverts who band together under the ethic of sex positivity – is the idea that sex should somehow be “spiritual.’”
  Why Sex Is Not Spiritual (The Exhibitionist, SF Weekly)

• Vulture chatted with Portlandia’s cerebral stars who speak in the earnest, enunciated tones of NPR commentators — but are totally game to also elaborate on the finer points of sex scenes and the creative crush on Werner Herzog.
  Portlandia’s Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein on Awkward Sex Scenes and Pining for Werner Herzog (Vulture)

• Adult film producers in Los Angeles, the home of America’s multi-million dollar pornography industry, have threatened to boycott the city in response to new rules forcing its actors to use condoms while performing in erotic films.
  Porn industry threatens to boycott Los Angeles over new condom law (Telegraph)

• Kimberly Kane writes at VICE Mag, “The gay porn industry is largely condom-only but doesn’t require testing. If the straight industry adopted these same standards, performers would be less safe because condoms break.”
  This Porn Star Doesn’t Think Much of the LA Condom Law (VICE)

• Jon Hamm, best known for playing Don Draper in 1960s advertising drama Mad Men, took on several different jobs as he struggled to land acting work, with his stint as a set designer on adult movies among the most memorable.
  Jon Hamm had porn job (NZCity)

Következzen néhány kép Christophe Jacrot, francia fotós Winter in Town című sorozatából, amit Párizsban, Chicagoban és New Yorkban készített.

További képek a folytatásban.

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A héten láttuk az első adagot a HUF tavaszi kollekciójából, ma pedig bemutatjuk a lookbookot, amit Los Angelesben készítettek. Az Alana Paterson által fotózott lookbookban a HUF család három tagja (Cody Koester, Sagan Lockhart, Tony Huffnagle) szerepel.

További képek a folytatásban.

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A The Magnificent Map of Rap Names egy nagyon részletes és aprólékos útmutató a rapnevek világának. Összesen 636 rappernek a nevét sorolja fel, illetve csoportosítja azokat, olyan közös témákban, mint pl. Audacious Misspelling, Dogs & Doggs & Dawgs, Improper Use of K, és Similarity to a Cartoon Character. Az 100 x 69 centis printből 1000 darabot nyomtak, amit részletesen át lehet nézni a Pop Chart Lab oldalán, ahol meg is vásárolható.

kép és info: Pop Chart Lab.

Hydropods on IndieFeed Performance Poetry.  Show number 984.

• Connie and Aaron (above)
• Eufrat and Silvie
• Carmen – poolside

Maybe don’t put your nuts there. Video: Вот для чего нужно ходить в спортзал женщинам (via)

Above is the video for freshly updated BAMBI Magazine (its brand-new issue #9), and this delicious video is the first thing you see when you enter the website (sound alert on all bambimagazine.com links).

Holy melting cupcake frosting – seriously, if you watch any dirty videos this week, please do make sure to click play on the one above. It is rubber and oil foreplay of the finest kind.

BAMBI Magazine features scores of erotic fashion photographers and a good variety of models – mostly nude, of course (otherwise I wouldn’t bother sending you there) with a heavy framework of refined eroticism. And let me just say that fans of Ellen Von Unwerth’s style will love this new issue.

Cat Brogan on IndieFeed Performance Poetry.  Show number 983.

Oh, you naughty avant garde 1960s sex kittens… how I love you! And how I love Helen Mirren. This lesser-known video of Mirren is a scene from the movie Herostratus (1967), directed by experimental filmmaker Don Levy. This is beautiful-at-any-age Dame Helen Mirren in one of her first movie appearances.

Just found this sexy tease of a video, Jizz by Jason Last (also: here is Jason Last’s website). It features model Carmen Solomons in jewelry by Bliss Lau (OMG WANT) and music by Isaiah Toothtaker.

This is a big Sex News post, with a lot of links worth looking at. We had to do a little server maintenance this week, and I apologize for the backlog (but now we’re sleeker than ever on the, er, back end).

• In case you were wondering, the photos from a Chinese sex doll factory Reuters released as a slideshow for Valentine’s Day are different than the Reuters photos from a Chinese sex doll factory in 2007.
  Sex doll factory (Reuters, above image via)

• Facebook censorship policies leaked, Reddit is backed into a corner over sexualized images of children; an Iranian developer is about to be executed over suspected porn website work, Pinterest gets porn clones, Sears goes NSFW, YouPorn goes Redis, we see data from a year in adult apps and more.
  Sex Tech: Facebook Guidelines Leaked, YouPorn Redis, Sears, Reddit, Pinterest Porn (ZDNet)

• Fleshbot has been “sold” to its current editor. FWIW, I was its second employee and ran the site off and on with the original editor until we both left in 2008. Needless to say, it was the opposite of what Reuters calls an “industry mouthpiece” when we ran it. In my opinion, interpreting the site’s fate as indicative of the profitability of porn blogs is genuinely misinformed.
  Gawker Media jettisons its porn blog (Felix Salmon, Reuters)

• Rick Santorum thinks that your sex life should be a matter of public policy. His version of what he thinks is right for your sex life, that is.
  Rick Santorum Wants Your Sex Life to Be ‘Special’ (The Atlantic)

• Public abduction role-playing fantasies gone terribly wrong: A couple in Portland, Ore., was arrested on Tuesday and charged with disorderly conduct after police responded to a report of a car with a naked woman bound in the back and duct tape covering her mouth.
  Valentine’s Sex Role-playing In Subaru Ends In Arrests (Fox News)

• Newsweek made several versions of their cover for “The Politics of Sex” issue; the rejected ones are entertaining, though somewhat uncomfortably caucasian. However, here’s hoping Newsweek learns to title their Tumblr posts better in the future.
  Rejected Newsweek Contraception Covers (Newsweek Tumblr, image via)

• Claire Sinclair says she won’t press charges against 21-year-old son of Playboy legend Hugh Hefner, who was arrested for domestic abuse Sunday night, as long as he tells everyone he’s sorry.
  Hugh Hefner’s son slapped with restraining order from Playmate of the Year girlfriend he allegedly attacked (NY Daily News)

• An entrepreneur in South East England is fighting New Forest District Council’s bid to shut down his swingers club after the authority said the hotspot was attracting too much traffic and blighting rural Hampshire. The JCT2 club in a private house has two well stocked dungeons, which can be rented, with items including a grope box and spanking benches.
  Sex club ban for the king of the swingers (Get Reading: Reading Post)

• A research team has found that HIV-resistant sex workers in Africa have a weak inflammatory response in their vaginas – a surprise for the researchers, who were expecting the contrary considering the women’s high exposure to the virus.
  Some African Sex Workers Are Naturally HIV Resistant (Newswise)

• To help people avoid fucking up on Valentine’s Day, San Francisco-based magazine The Bold Italic made this graphic comic.
  Love Is(n’t) (Buzzfeed)

• Internet dating sites claim to have brought science to the age-old question of how to pair off successfully. But have they?
  Sex and love: The modern matchmakers (The Economist)

• Welcoming Eros Blog into the sex blog decade club this year is a joyful thing. (Tinynibbles is now 11 years old!) Herewith: Anil Dash, the Spice Girl who enjoyed a good sex spanking, carrots and candy where it doesn’t belong…
  10 Years Of Sex Blogging: Best Of ErosBlog 2002 (Eros Blog)