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• Sofi S – Perfect Beauty by Natasha Schon
• Gabrielle B – Inspiration by Raphael
• Boleyn A – Exposed by Sebastian Michael
• Amie – Rural Fun by Oliver Nation

• Engelie & Kiki – Sexual Attraction (video autoplay alert)
• Silvie – Bushy Days (video autoplay alert)
• Tereza – Body Rock (main post photo, above; video autoplay alert)
• Dominika C – Labia and Leather (video autoplay alert)

• Alexis V. – Premiere
• Zara D. – Premiere

• Amy A – Pale Ginger by Rylsky
• Mila F – Beauty by Leocont

• Elle Alexandra, Malena Morgan, Rilee Marks – The Beach House (pic at right)
• Rilee Marks – Just Us

• Raffaella – Allettante by Arturo
• Micca – Rosso by Arturo

• Little Caprice – Surprise
• Little Caprice – Turn me on
• Random Watch4Beauty gallery (changes daily)
• Kasumi Matsumura

• Landysh by Rylsky – Bonbon
• Fleur A – Nagual by Tony Murano

Big Poppa E on IndieFeed Performance Poetry.  Show number 1018.

• Sexy Jedi Body Wash Commercial, directed by Seth Green! (above; via Buzzfeed)

• John Travolta has an eight-inch cock – really? Two masseurs are suing the Hollywood titan for sexual assault as they were attempting to give him massages, and the lawsuit is quite explicit in their charges.
  The Worst Of The John Travolta Lawsuit (Buzzfeed)

• Earlier this year, Mitt Romney promised Morality in Media, the “leading national organization opposing pornography,” that he would go after porn for them. On Reddit commenters are discussing a plan to “swift-boner” Mitt Romney with ads on porn sites advocating that masturbators do not vote for Romney.
  Reddit thread: “Swift Boner” campaign (Reddit, thanks to everyone who sent me this link!)
  See also: Reddit Plots to Protect Porn From Mitt Romney (Daily Intel; who lamely doesn’t link to Reddit)

• The UK has lost its collective mind, and is now filtering internet content to consumers by default – based on a moral panic about porn. Campaigners have claimed a victory in their effort to force broadband providers to block pornography websites by default “to protect children” after David Cameron pledged to consult on the issue.
  Campaigners celebrate Cameron’s web porn blocking move (Telegraph)

• Fantastic post from Down Under: “The ABC’s 7.30 Report last night ran an inflammatory report, ramping up the bogeyman of porn addiction. For reporter Rebecca Baillie, an 800-person survey of self-identified problem porn users can easily be applied to the entire porn-watching population. Worse still, she then went on to suggest that a compulsive use of adult porn led to an inevitable use of child abuse material.”
  Porn On Australian Current Affairs Shows (Ms Naughty’s Porn For Women)

• Austin Chronicle has an in-depth writeup on the family – yes, it’s a family operation – behind popular men’s masturbaiton toy, the Fleshlight. Includes history, manufacturing and past/current/future marketing schemes.
  Pressing the Flesh (The Austin Chronicle)

• Be VERY CAREFUL reading current headlines misstating that New York has made child porn legal. This is not true. The court ruled [in a child porn case] that while possession of (and creation of, etc.) illegal images was a crime, simply looking at illegal images online is *not* a crime. Big, BIG difference. Also, this is *only* on New York state, and not on a Federal level.
  Viewing Child Porn Not a State Crime: NY Appeals Court (Reuters)

• The Lusty Lady Theater, San Francisco and the world’s only strip club cooperatively owned and operated by the women entertainers themselves, stands in danger of coming apart at the seams. As Uptown Almanac reports, the Lusty Lady’s head Madam and all but one member of the club’s worker cooperative board have quit.
  The Lusty Lady Threatened By Worker Disagreements (SFist)

• It’s hard not to be affected by an article titled “Kids Raped, Sodomized on Facebook Pages,” the first of a four-part WND series about child porn and Facebook. While it’s good that WND is bringing attention to the general problem of online child pornography, it’s unfortunate that it is focusing only on Facebook.
  How Facebook fights child porn (CNET)

• A judge in northwest England is set to sentence nine men for luring girls as young as 13 years old into sexual encounters using alcohol and drugs — a case that has stirred racial tensions and sparked claims that authorities are failing to protect vulnerable children in state care.
  9 convicted in racially sensitive UK sex ring case (ajc.com)

• A recent list compiled by Men’s Health magazine crowns Orlando, Florida the porniest city in America, a somewhat dubious distinction for a town more widely known for family-friendly fare such as Walt Disney World and Sea World.
  Give Orlando a hand: Men’s Health ranks city as ‘smuttiest’ in America (NY Daily News)

• Perfect 10 has filed a lawsuit against Tumblr for copyright violations. In a complaint filed in New York, Perfect 10 alleges that Tumblr failed to respond to repeated requests for takedowns and–perhaps, more damningly–that “Tumblr employees have posted infringing content to Tumblr’s servers to help start the business.”
  Perfect 10 Sues Tumblr For Copyright Infringement Over Nude Photos (Betabeat)

• Anna Paquin is tired of the misconceptions surrounding her sexuality. Admitting that there are some individuals who opt to identify as bisexual because it “feels less scary than making a statement that they’re gay,” Paquin still shoots down the popular notion that bisexuality is a choice.
  Pregnant Anna Paquin: My Bisexuality Is Not “Made Up” (Us Magazine)

If you’re not massive Game of Thrones fan like I am, then you’ll have to excuse me as I spin like a gleeful loon in my office chair upon discovering Maisie Dee’s My Life and Porn blog.

Clever clever spankophile girl Pandora Blake recognized Dee on the show as a fellow spanking aficionado and porn performer, and found Dee’s fun, sex-positive blog. We’re especially glad for this discovery, because Dee is an exhibitionist gem and she blogs about working in the sex scenes during filming of the show.

Maisie Dee plays one of Littlefinger’s sex workers, one that has been servicing the Lannister castle under the despicable and corrupt Court of Joffrey. On her blog she details getting hired for the show, her impressions of the actors (spolier: they’re awesome people), and what it’s like to work on sex scenes for this amazing production. She’s fabulous at talking about her scenes without giving away what happened to her character after the last white-knuckle sex encounter she was in.

Being a real-life porn performer has enhanced her performances and she talks about that, too. She also talks about the notorious spanking (beating) scene she did, and that she did actually take the belt a bit, rather than the prop.

Spanking fans will love Miss Maisie Dee, and so will porn-positive fans of the show. As an added hardcore bonus, Dee likes to blog still from her hardcore performances as well. Dee’s blog is a treat all around.

Here’s a snip from her work during the beating scene:

(…) we shot the scene in order, sometimes using the full real belt sometimes having to chuck it aside for the soft props one. (…)

Once we got into the spanking scene proper I felt less like an imposture as that was the bit I was qualified to do after all! It was strange having to have that level of intensity for such a long day it was very draining trying to live it each time – get me I sound like I was trained by Stanislavski! I will add that at the time we shot this I had no idea that the actor who plays Joff was over 18. He looks so young and obviously is 14 in the books. So I spent the whole day feeling a bit weird around him as I was sure I technically shouldn’t have been naked so near to him.

The best bits of the day was laying bent over the bed while the makeup lady bruised up by bum! The makeup girls were ace and I spent some time telling them how to fake cum shots for future productions as apparently it comes up more than you’d think. (… read more, masiedeehasablog.blogspot.com)

• Lily and Richard (above)
• Miela – Blonde Ambition
• Candy and Caprice
• Zoe and Reena

Plus: one of my favorite models is (finally) back in this solo pinup set: Jenya D.!

Double plus: Justine Jewel – a girl in glasses, hooray!

Carlos Andres Gomez on IndieFeed Performance Poetry.  Show number 1017.

Oyster (directed by Marie Schuller, starring Anita De Bauch) was filmed on the London Underground.

The new edition of Factice is mostly fashion porn, but it’s still hot. If this is your fetish today, go go go.

A friend (she’s a mainstream porn performer) asked me what the Feminist Porn Awards / dot-XXX issue was all about.

This is how I explained it.

Dot-XXX is a story I have been covering and working to expose for years in my mainstream media work. I’m sure you can imagine my surprise when I found small, indie and queer-positive sex toy store Good For Her and their yearly event the Feminist Porn Awards wrapped up in the middle of this ever-expanding ICANN scandal.

The Feminist Porn Awards gave an award this year to a website that is a front to drive traffic and search engine reputation rank to one of dot-XXX’s pet domains.

Lewis Thomas – the man behind FPA-awarded DaneJones – (Thomas is his porn ‘nym) is a garden variety pornographer from the UK that occasionally makes porn under a female name when it profits him to have a female directed product (all of which is mostly shot in the Czech Republic).

Somehow he was in the handpicked, exclusive pool of people that got to obtain dot-XXX URLs that were never made available to the public. This means he has direct ties to dot-XXX’s owners ICM Registry. Thomas, a minor player in adult, circumvented big businesses and top adult players that wanted to be in the “Founders” pool of prime domain name buyers.

The domains he got are now the top trafficked dot-XXX sites. The problem is, numbers were just released showing that the traffic for dot-XXX sites is really really bad. No one is going to them. This makes ICM registry look bad and hurts non-defensive sales of .XXX sites – and doesn’t look good for ICM’s bids to get dot-adult, dot-sex and other sex related gTLD’s they’re now trying to get from ICANN.

They’ve done everything they can think of to drive traffic to Mr. Thomas’ sites, castingdotxxx and orgasmsdotxxx. As you may know, aside from SEO and various other tactics, if you want to get traffic and Google juice you need to have your site linked to from as many other sites as possible with a high reputation “score” from Google (algorithm-wise, the linking sites should be within your topic/genre). No one knows these DaneJones dudes, and the dot-XXX extension is brand new, so both the website and TLD (extension) are “starting from zero.” In racing terms, they’re handicapped.

This is where the FPAs come in.

What better way can you think of to get a porn site linked to from the most reputable blogs, news sites, individuals and businesses in the sex space?

Win an FPA award.

Everyone links to the winners, no one questions the decisions, everyone just blindly links.

I don’t know how DaneJones ended up on the FPA radar, and I really don’t understand why they picked them for an award. There are many other sites like DaneJones, and DaneJones looks fishy to even me as a drive-by. A far better pick would have been BobbiStarr.com, but that’s just my personal opinion.

Finding out that DaneJones appears to be expressly created to push traffic to orgasmsdotxxx made it look even shadier.

I tried to contact FPA/GFH last week when I was working on my CBSi article, and they ignored me. The day *after* I published my post and article, they @ replied me on Twitter and acted like they’d never heard from me – when I had honestly tried more than one way to reach out to them.

So I’m angry at the dot-XXX sleazebags for using the feminist porn communities (and wider ones it touches) to further their business agenda. I’m also really mad that they succeeded, and that they did so very easily. For some reason, the FPA’s were a pushover.

Maybe GFH/the FPA’s don’t know what they’ve done. Yet – they posted a response to my post to them over the weekend. They defended endorsing the dot-XXX front site saying,

Danejones.com won because we thought it was an excellent example of high production quality, natural bodies, easy to navigate website, female pleasure, and lots of content.

Indeed. Wait, huh?

Anyway, they’re standing behind their decision. It’s their system, their game and their rules. But I would think DaneJones would be more worthy for an AVN than an FPA, for DaneJones are the opposite of feminist porn and above-average women-centric porn. Except AVN *wouldn’t* give them an award knowing it was essentially the same as endorsing dot-XXX.

As for GFH/FPA, I feel sad about the whole situation. The awards have been important, really important – but this has been handled really carelessly so I feel like I need to be careful around their endorsements now. And they mismanaged their communication with me so badly. If they wanted to respond to my queries and reaching out to them, they would have – instead they chose to ignore, then dismiss me, then insist I re-reach out to them, all on Twitter. Unnecessary.

So this is their problem to fix (or not), and it is not mine to fix.

I’ll keep working on watching those dot-XXX scammers. I’m an outsider to the institutions mentioned here anyway. I was just alarmed to see dot-XXX get close to my world and the people I care about.

Keep calm and carry onward.

Just over a year ago, Brian Conley found himself teaching workshops on new media reporting in a divided Libya.  While Gadaffi clung to power and a war was fought, Brian and his team improvised their way around and experienced part of the excitement, fear, frustration, and joy.. not to mention all the other emotions that this very difficult conflict brought about.  This month, one year since those first journeys around Libya, he is returning to pick up where he left off.  These are his stories, setting the stage for a new adventure, one where his actions will help bring about a better future for a hopeful nation.

Buddy Wakefield on IndieFeed Performance Poetry.  Show number 1016.

In an effort to save money and increase productivity, Portugal is getting rid of some holidays that people don’t really celebrate anymore.  Among the obsolete days of non-work, the day the nation dumped the monarchy and became a republic, October 5th, 1910.  More than 100 years since that significant moment in history, no one alive remembers it, and few are the voices that think its worth hanging on to as a holiday.

Here in the Netherlands, this past Friday was Remembrance day, which includes the 2 minutes of silence which takes place every May the 4th in memoriam of all the victims of WWII (though more recently it has been expanded to include victims of all military conflicts, its still more famous for WWII victims).  A friend’s grandfather, who lived through the occupation of the country and the war that caused so much pain and destruction, finds the 2 minutes of silence un-necessary – after all, he lived through it. But WWII is much more recent and much more significant in the lives of present day people in the Netherlands that the establishment of the republic is for today’s Portuguese. The reasons probably seem obvious.

But it occurs to me that 100 years from now, WWII remembrance day may also get put aside for economic or social purposes.  At some point enough time passes that these significant moments that some lived through and others know all-to-well from stories and history books, even these seemingly vital rituals will not be seen the same way.  This is not to say it is a good or bad development, they moments in history and holidays can fade over time.  It is, if anything, just an odd characteristic of us as a species.  We may record history, but over time, to some degree, it becomes natural to forget.

Imagine that. The era will come where WWII is referred to in the same far-off spirit as today we look at the war of 1812 or the wars during Roman times. September 11th will no longer be remembered as it is today, nothing special will take place at the sight of the World Trade Center, life – like time – just keep moving along.

If you have any vested interest in any capacity or regard to a healthy open and free internet – especially free of racketeering and cronyism – and domain names, ICANN, fairness in domain registration and maintenance processes, porn, dot-XXX and TLDs, the business of sex, and feminist/queer porn, then you’ll want to read my new piece:

• Numbers show dot-XXX sites are a sham

A calm title belies a concise teardown of numbers just released by ICANN and dot-XXX’s ICM registry showing that triple-X domains are a shell game for the history books.

The numbers don’t add up.

But worse, in tracking numbers and sites six months into dot-XXX I found that several of the ‘patient zero’ top-ranking porn sites for .xxx stem from one source: danejones.com/orgasms.xxx.

Interestingly, Dane Jones is the name of Mad Men/X-Men actress January Jones’ son, Xander Dane Jones. The baby was born in September 2011, and DaneJones.com was first registered November 22, 2011 by British pornographer Lewis (known as Lew, aka female porn persona Viv) Thomas.

The relative – obfuscated – unknowns behind DaneJones (aka “Really Useful Ltd.” aka Ruseful) got special access to buy prime XXX domains before anyone else. Dot-XXX is performing like shit, but Ruseful’s domains are currently the top ranking .xxx sites.

And here’s the thing: no one has heard of them – not outside old boys’ porn anyway, and not in the post-alt era of actual porn for women. Yet somehow they (as DaneJones.com) just won a 2012 Feminist Porn Award. This earns them a massive reputation buy-in that gets them linked to from female porn sites on good faith that Good For Her has vetted them.

I can’t get Good For Her to respond to me about who “DaneJones” (aka orgasms.xxx, aka casting.xxx) is to them, why they won an FPA award, or how they made the award happen. Good For Her/Feminist Porn Awards has not responded to my inquiries in my official CBSi/CNET queries or as myself.

When the article was published I was contacted by people who had linked to “DaneJones” on blind faith. For them the links are coming down until Good For Her explains what’s going on.

I would like to urge anyone that has linked to DaneJones or their sites, especially as endorsed by Good For Her, to remove the links until we can ascertain that not only is endorsement legit, but that this is not part of a linkscam. Seriously: we’ve worked too hard for anyone to trade off our reputations and values. Gently unlink. Personally, I’ll be unlinking and withdrawing all endorsement for Good For Her until I have satisfactory answers.

Read the article and you’ll see that the “DaneJones” / orgasms.xxx entitiy seems to be a moving part in the wider multi-million-dollar dot-XXX scams.

Posting my article, I stated that ICANN has a lot to answer for in this mess.

Right now, so does Good For Her, and the Feminist Porn Awards.

• This post of sizzling male-male imaginings of coupling between BBC’s Sherlock and John Watson arrive just in time for the US to see the saucy, excellent second season. It’s ridiculously hot. But – why is John *always* the top? And where oh where is my true love, Moriarty (red hot Andrew Scott)?
  The Most Erotic “Sherlock” Fan Art [NSFW] (Buzzfeed)

• Even after a coroner’s verdict, it remains a mystery: A naked spy found dead in a locked bag, lurid details of a kinky sex life and allegations that someone in Britain’s spy agencies may have been involved in his death.
  Naked body in bag: awry sex game or spy killing? (AZ Central)

• A Japanese Twitter user has decided to take voluptuous actress Aoi Sola — best known from the movies “Big Tits Zombie” and “Revenge: A Love Story” — to court because she continuously refused to acknowledge his existence on the popular blogging website.
  Rejected Twitter User Sues the Object of His Affection (WebProNews)

• According to the press release from the Manhattan DAs office, the father-son pimps “doled out only a few dollars a night” to the women and branded them with tattoos depicting their street names, and at least one of the women was tattooed with a bar code as well.”
  NYPD Pursues Father-Son Sex Trafficking Ring + Its Johns (Feminist Law Professors)

• Mike Stabile writes, “This week in downtown Los Angeles, the federal government tried Ira Isaacs, a fetish film producer, on five counts of obscenity. I watched two of the movies, Hollywood Scat Amateurs #10 and Japanese Doggy 3-Way, when the prosecution screened them as evidence yesterday. It’s not an experience I’m eager to repeat.”
  Community Standards (The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History)

• The trailer for Christian anti-porn “horror” film Harmless is about a dad, his cardboard box of porn, and his right hand. Truly terrifying.
  A Christian Horror Movie Trailer About Porn (Buzzfeed)

• Web wanderers are more likely to get a computer virus by visiting a religious website than by peering at porn, according to a study released on Tuesday.
  Religious sites ‘riskier than porn for viruses’ (Information Week)

• In the UK: BT has been forced by a High Court judge to use technology designed for blocking child pornography to block a website that points people towards places that they can find copyrighted content on the web.
  Conflating copyright infringement with child porn is a dirty, dangerous game (Wired UK)

• The manufactured outrage over Dan Savage’s remarks about the Bible that inspired what appears to be a staged walkout at a high school journalism conference may appear on its surface mostly to be a last stand of the anti-gay movement to regain ground by attacking one of the most compelling pro-gay activists in the country.
  The flip out over Dan Savage is part of a larger agenda to silence pro-gay discourse. (Slate)

• A pornographer answers obscenity charges in court by saying he’s an artist. It’s a classic argument, but there’s actually a better defense.
  If Porn Isn’t Art, Does It Still Have a Right To Exist? (The Daily Beast)

Rochelle D'Silva on IndieFeed Performance Poetry.  Show number 1015.

I went to the gym today. It wasn’t like this.

I totally go to the wrong gym.

• Tess – Fitness centre (pictured)
• Angelica Kitten – Airbed
• Danielle – First time
• Margot – Souvenir

I’ve been busy covering the 2012 San Francisco International Film Fest over the past week and a half, and it’s been a *great* year for the fest. It’s coming to a close tonight: as of today I’m all done reviewing films and attending stuff.

My favorite films were Headhunters (Jo Nesbo, with Jamie Lannister) and Tokyo Waka (documentary about Tokyo’s clever crows). I said biting things about Francis Ford Coppola’s new vampire film Twixt. Sexwise, Stephen Elliott’s Cherry was a peach. My last film was the Sony Classics release Hysteria – which you may recognize from previous posts here in which I chirped with excitement about this Victorian-era tale about the first vibrators, starring Maggie Gylenhaal.

My review for Hysteria just went live on SF Appeal. I enjoyed the chance to professionally comment on a mainstream feature film where I could also apply my expertise on sexual technology, among other things. Sadly, I think you’ll find my review more entertaining than the film itself.

(…) Set in Victorian London, out of work doctor Mortimer Granville (Hugh Dancy) finds a job in a private practice under the tutelage of older doc Dr. Dalrymple (Jonathan Pryce). Granville soon finds that he’s required to administer Dr. Dalrymple’s unorthodox treatments to lessen the symptoms of hysteria among his numerous female patients – a labor-intensive patient-by-patient manual labor job.

Now, of course the in-joke is that hysteria was the medical diagnosis for a variety of symptoms as applied to women for, well, basically being women. Medical science of the time did not consider female genitalia capable of experiencing pleasure, and so when proper married women would act strange or exhibit various ills, they could be diagnosed with hysteria and locked up, given hysterectomies, or treated by massage to “hysterical paroxysm.”

I’m guessing that too many women had this “problem” stemming from their nethers to all be locked up or butchered. At any rate, some docs would give weekly treatments to ladies; they would jack the women off. The brilliant thing about this from a business perspective is that the patients would both never get truly sick, nor would they ever get “better.” And so a cottage industry was born.

Unfortunately, an in-joke isn’t enough to sustain a feature film, but that’s exactly what happens here. (…read more, sfappeal.com)

Unlike the usual format of Eye Candy posts, this special – nee, well-endowed – edition focuses on sexy men and combines hardcore porn featuring hot guys with tasty stuff I’ve been finding in my online travels. Enjoy!

Tease:

• Sexy anon man stripping for bitcoins
• Homotography’s Get Wet board on Pinterest
• Gendry from Game of Thrones – Tumblr tag
• Oh. My. G- Eye-popping denim editorial (image at right, below)
• Alberto Giraldo & Julian Gómez by Joan Crisol
• Cory Bond by Arnaldo Anaya-Lucca
• Bigger Splash by Matthias Vriens-McGrath
• A little strip tease

Male cheesecake from gay porn studios:

• Workout
• Bad boy in the loo
• Smiley and uncut
• Unnamed amateur
• Another unnamed amateur

Boy-girl, where the boy is extra hot:

• Tobias and Subil
• Tobias and Subil (second set)
• Seth and Angie
• Seth with Leila and Carmen
• Tommy and Maria
• Tommy with Nikki and Heather
• French performer Tito with two women
• Tito and Angel

BDSM male hotties:

• Jack Hammer, dominated
• James Deen with Charley Chase
• James Deen with Moana Lee
• James Deen with Ashli
• James Deen and a “French maid”
• Here is an entire model tour featuring lots of all-orientation sexing with hotness Jack Hammer
• Patrick Rouge with Chloe Camille and TS Danni Daniels

Top image via: Robert Assmann by Sean & Seng | Love to Crash.

Michelle Alina Dabrowski featuring Evan Xen Ochren on IndieFeed Performance Poetry.  Show number 1014.

• “Breasts have served as a gateway drug for vaginas.” In a humorous op-ed, Martin Robbins submits the most modern and progressive view about pornography Guardian UK has ever published (though someone should tell him about the Potter Stewart quote…)
  Porn panic! (Guardian UK)

• Hustler founder Larry Flynt confirmed that the magazine has photos of Dania Suarez, one of the sex workers who outed Secret Service agents in Columbia and told XBIZ, “We have pictures but are still working on putting a story together.”
  Hustler Magazine to Run Secret Service Hooker Story With Photos (XBIZ)

• In Tennessee today they passed a bizarre abstinence law – Lawmakers Pass “Gateway Sexual Activity” Ban. Respected sex educator Cory Silverberg has a few thoughts…
  Stopping It Before It Starts: Banning Talk of Gateway Sexual Activity (About Sexuality)

• A new study published online looked at men who are aroused by women as well as men who have had sexual experience with at least two people of each gender. Men had to watch videos of male and female same-sex intimacy while genital sensors monitored their erectile responses. The study reported that bisexual men responded to both the male and female videos but gay and straight men did not.
  Bisexuality proved: Scientists reveal why some people are happy swinging both ways (Mirror Online)
  See also: BI UK (via Dr. Petra)

• Kate Bornstein‘s new book, A Queer and Pleasant Danger, was published this week. The Voice has an amazing interview with, and story about, Bornstein’s incredible life.
  Text Archive Kate Bornstein’s Amazing Voyage (Village Voice)

• Pamela Haag writes, “Whenever I hear a headline like, “Marriage Ruined by Cheating,” or “An Open Marriage Fails—It Just Never Works,” I’m tempted to point to a divorce somewhere else and declare, “Marriage Ruined by Monogamy.”
  A Marriage Ruined by Monogamy (Big Think)

• McDonald’s Double Cheeseburgers for sex? Indecent proposals by some everyday folks – even a judge and a former “Sheriff of the Year” – made FindLaw’s Top 5 list of strange things traded for sex.
  5 Strangest Things People Have Traded for Sex (Legally Weird)

• Domain Name News takes a look at .XXX domain traffic and stats overall since its launch – and a year later we see that the numbers are pathetic.
  .XXX domains, The Hard Numbers (Domain Name News, thanks Mike!)

• Randy Jones, the original cowboy from the legendary disco group the Village People, tells Village Voice, “Everything I’ve done has been with a wink, a wiggle, and a wave, and wanting you to laugh along. I could never have gotten up and sang a song called ‘Macho Man’ with a straight face. Think about it!”
  Village People’s Randy Jones Starts A New Club Night! (Village Voice)

• Psychologist James Pennebaker recorded and transcribed conversations that took place between people on speed dates. He fed these conversations into his program along with information about how the people themselves were perceiving the dates. What he found surprised him. “We can predict by analyzing their language, who will go on a date — who will match — at rates better than the people themselves,” he says.
  To Predict Dating Success, The Secret’s In The Pronouns (NPR)

• According to a lawsuit filed in San Francisco this week, Henry Wolf says his BMW motorcycle’s ridge-like seat gave him a “severe case of priapism,” otherwise known as a really, really long (lasting) erection.
  Local Man Claims BMW Ride Gave Him a Permanent Boner (SF Weekly)

• Sex-positive speaker, writer and female sexuality activist Alyssa Rose recently gave a talk on sexism in tech, and published it on her blog. More food for thought…
  Brogramming: Sex & Sexism in Tech Startups (Just Alyssa)

• San Francisco-based Good Vibrations will stage its “San Francisco Sex Summit” Oct. 27 at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis. Organizers say the summit “will examine the relationship between sex and the media, health, pop culture and politics.” (I found out about this event by being ‘invited’ to buy a ticket on Facebook.)
  Sex summit coming to San Francisco in October (Examiner.com)

Main post image via Cabin Fever by Sebastian Faena.