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A new nationwide study (pdf) of anonymised credit-card receipts from a major online adult entertainment provider finds little variation in consumption between states.

“When it comes to adult entertainment, it seems people are more the same than different,” says Benjamin Edelman at Harvard Business School.

via ABC News: Porn in the USA: Conservatives Are Biggest Consumers.

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Was it good for you?

If you’re like a lot of men, chances are it wasn’t. At least, the sex wasn’t as good as you think it could have been.

You were addled with anxiety, plagued by concerns over your performance, and worried about the worthiness of your physique during lovemaking. Even if the act achieved the idealized heights of a Hollywood screenplay — she melted at your touch, you thundered like a stallion, you writhed in unison to volcanic climax — you still harbor suspicions: You’re pretty much certain you’re not getting it as often as everyone else.

via Great Sex Unzipped.

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Orgasms are natural, so you’d think women would have no trouble experiencing one any time they wanted one… or two… or 10. Still, about 70% of women fake it at some point. What gives? Here are 10 tips to get to the “big O.” Plus, how much do you want it? Rate your sex drive with our quiz…

Maybe you’re too stressed out to enjoy a climax. Perhaps your partner’s not all that, ahem, stimulating.

Whatever the cause, it’s time to stop going through the motions and start getting the big payoff.

Here are 10 ways to help yourself have amazing orgasms:

via Orgasms 101: Priming for the ‘Big O’ | Lifescript.com.

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"Nurses" box cover

DIGITAL PLAYGROUND’S “NURSES” PRODUCES FEVERISHLY HIGH SALES NUMBERS

News release: February 27, 2009 — VAN NUYS, Calif. — On February 24, DVD and Blu-ray™ copies of Digital Playground‘s latest hit movie “Nurses” flew off of store shelves as soon as it became available for purchase.  “Nurses” stars Digital Playground contract girls Jesse Jane®, Stoya™, Katsuni, Riley Steele™, Gabriella Fox™, and Shay Jordan™, as well as Jenna Haze, Sasha Grey, Shyla Stylez, and Shawna Lenee.  Acclaimed director Robby D. shot “Nurses” as the latest addition to his red hot vocation series, which includes “Babysitters”, Adult DVD Empire’s 2008 Best Selling Title, and “Cheerleaders”, AVN’s 2008 Best Selling and Renting DVD.  Early sales figures from distributors projects “Nurses” to surpass both its predecessors, remaining at the peak of sales charts throughout 2009.  “Like ‘Babysitters’ and ‘Cheerleaders’ before it, customer appreciation of ‘Nurses’ has been high,” says Shannon Nutt, Adult DVD Empire Editorial Director.  “The release has already found a spot among our current bestsellers, and we anticipate it taking over the top spot in a matter of days.”

The DVD trailer for “Nurses” is available at www.digitalplayground.com/mov/nurses.html

The Blu-ray trailer for “Nurses” is available at www.digitalplayground.com/mov/nursesbd.html

Alexandra H., PR Manager for adult retailer IVD says, “Digital Playground is one of the studios that sells exceptionally well for us.  Our customers love Digital Playground productions and can expect high quality.  ‘Nurses’ definitely fits into that category.  We anticipate it being a great seller for IVD.”

The sexy nurses of Coos County General Hospital are patient care experts of the most feverish kind. Digital Playground’s “Nurses” stars the industry’s sexiest performers in eight intense scenes.  Riley gets a lesson from her idol Jesse Jane in how to best assist Dr. Ferrara.  Stoya gives James Deen the examination of a lifetime.  All the nurses work together to find the cure for Erik Everhard’s sex addiction. With these hot nurses bathing, pampering, and tending to patients’ every need, it’s easy to see why no one wants to check out.  AVN’s Peter Warren writes, “Far and away the best installment yet…’Nurses’ is the veritable epitome of what most could possibly want out of a fuck flick…You can be sure this puppy will be maintaining a comfy spot high atop bestseller retail displays a long, long time.”  Don Houston of XCritic.com adds, “Highly recommended…a lot of fuck for the buck!”

Samantha Lewis, Digital Playground’s CEO states, “We strive to have a greater quantity of pre-orders for every new title we release, but you can’t stop there.  Superior production value and the most breathtakingly beautiful girls in the world guarantee that sales of titles like ‘Nurses’ will continue to grow exponentially.”

“Nurses” on DVD (two disc set) and Blu-ray includes a behind the scenes featurette, photo gallery, and trailers to hit Digital Playground films and upcoming releases.  The DVD version also includes a slide show.  “Nurses” is presented in 16:9 widescreen format with 5.1 digital surround sound and no regional coding.

To download the box cover, visit
http://stream.digitalplayground.com/press/downloads5/Nurses_BD_FC.jpg

About Blu-ray™:
Blu-ray, also known as Blu-ray Disc (BD), is the name of a next-generation optical disc format developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association, and is supported by more than 170 of the world’s leading consumer electronics, personal computer and media manufacturers, video game and music companies, and major movie studios.  The format was developed to enable recording, rewriting and playback of high-definition video, as well as storing large amounts of data.

About Digital Playground:
Digital Playground is the world leader in adult filmmaking and interactive formats boasting the largest HD library available.  Since the Company’s inception in 1993, Digital Playground has earned almost 300 awards, currently garners more than 80% of high definition sales within the adult market, and is a leading provider of Blu-ray™ titles, with over 25% of the market.  Female owned and operated, Digital Playground emphasizes quality first, employing fastidiously high production values in erotic film for women, men and couples.  Digital Playground’s commitment to excellence, innovative technology, brilliant full-length productions and exclusive Contract Stars are the secrets to its success and makes Digital Playground the most highly demanded supplier of content for hotel, IPTV, cable, pay-per-view and mobile networks worldwide.  For more information visit www.digitalplayground.com , www.myspace.com/digitalplayground , or www.twitter.com/dpxxx

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“Nurses”
Release Date: February 24, 2009
Formats: DVD and Blu-ray™
Length: 3 Hours, 17 Minutes
Rating:  XXX
Studio: Digital Playground
UPC Code: 787-633-016-782 (DVD)
787-633-016-805 (Blu-ray)

Miss Atom, the beauty contest for the Russian nuclear industry, has earned a fair amount of press, in part because of the now-infamous photo of a post-Soviet hottie posing in front of some cooling towers. But the anti-nuke crowd has its own contest: The Environmentals.

The rules? “Use real nuclear power plants as backdrop for fashion or glamor shots! No lab montage or Photoshop!” Clothing, as this shot from the decommissioned Trojan nuclear power plant in Oregon demonstrates, is optional. (Some of the originals, obviously, are NSFW.)

Thus far, the contest has received only seven entries; Miss Atom, on the other hand, has dozens of contestants. Voting is still ongoing at Miss Atom, by the way. Yulia Nechayeva of Polyarnye Zori is in the lead with 1,149 points; DANGER ROOM favorite Alyona Kirsanova is in fourth place.

via The Anti-Nuke Beauty Contest | Danger Room from Wired.com.

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She was a 16-year-old California girl looking for trouble on MySpace; he was a 22-year-old self-described pimp who liked the revealing photos she posted to her profile. Three weeks after they met on the social networking site, they were arrested together in real life outside a cheap motel in Sacramento, 50 miles from her home. She was turning tricks. On her arm, a fresh tattoo showed bundles of cash and her new acquaintance’s street moniker in 72-point cursive.

Last week, Marvin Chavelle Epps was held without bail on federal child pornography charges over a video found at his arrest, in which the girl is seen performing a sex act on him while he calls her “bitch” and slaps her in the head with a roll of bills. Though the girl, identified as “S.M.” in court documents, denied to police that he was her manager, by his own account Epps is a new kind of pimp — a web-savvy exploiter who uses sites like myRedBook and Craigslist to broker his women.

“I don’t put girls on the blade,” he wrote an associate in a chat log recovered by police. “It’s Y2K pimpin’.”

via Pimps Go Online to Lure Kids Into Prostitution | Threat Level from Wired.com.

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Strippers and strip clubs are one of those polarizing gender phenomenons that divide men and women almost squarely down the middle. (We’d venture even more so than porn, actually.)

Most men (at least once in their lives, stop lying fellas) have been to and thoroughly enjoyed their stay at a strip club. Perhaps even shelling out a wrinkled $20 or two for a lap dance (or four). No judgements here!

On the flipside, a lubed-up, g-string dressed man asking a group of ladies to part with any of their cash so he can shake his butt in their face is an excellent way to earn a laugh. Believe us, we know. Ladies get strippers for a party and we get a good giggle. Men get strippers for a party and pray they don’t finish in their pants.

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A porn star draping boobs over an employee’s head. Lapdances on the company dime. $50 million in back taxes. These are just some of the charges Penthouse publisher FriendFinder Networks is facing from an ex-employee.

Natalie Cedeno, the company’s former HR director, says that company executives retaliated against her for pointing out violations of labor laws. She was a top executive at the Internet side of the business, deeply involved in its operations for eight years, before FriendFinder fired her without cause in January, she says. She claims the company then tried to withhold the two years of pay she was owed under her contract unless she agreed to stay silent about FriendFinder’s misdeeds — a move her lawyer characterizes as “extortion.” Cedeno plans to file complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and California‘s Department of Fair Employment and Housing next month.

And a juicy complaint it will be. FriendFinder Networks used to be called Penthouse Media Group before it acquired Various Inc., the operator of Adult FriendFinder and other online personals sites, in 2007 for $500 million. While they’re both porn companies, the office cultures of Florida-based Penthouse and Silicon Valley-based Various Inc. — where Cedeno worked before the merger — couldn’t have been more different. That became obvious on May 2, 2008, when the ex-Penthouse executives, now in charge of the combined business, decided to ship in a passel of Penthouse Pets to the old Various offices.

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Philip José Farmer, a prolific and popular science fiction writer who shocked readers in the 1950s by depicting sex with aliens and challenged conventional pieties of the genre with caustic fables set on bizarre worlds of his own devising, died Wednesday. He was 91 and lived in Peoria, Ill.

His official Web site, pjfarmer.com, announced his death, saying he had “passed away peacefully in his sleep.”

Mr. Farmer’s blend of intellectual daring and pulp-fiction prose found a worldwide audience. His more than 75 books have been translated into 22 languages and published in more than 40 countries. Though he wrote many short stories, he was best known for his many series of multiple novels. These sprawling, episodic works gave him room to explore the nuances of a provocative premise while indulging his taste for lurid, violent action.

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Maybe the answer isn’t getting rid of porn, but exposing ourselves to more of it. And not just porn, all things sexual. Toys, workshops, bodies. Let me explain: I spent a weekend at the Adult Video Network Adult Entertainment Expo and Awards Show. I was exposed to vibrators that look like rubber duckies and masturbation devices for men, girls in bikinis blowing up balloons until they popped and films made to titillate that showed only bare feet. I saw women wearing nothing but paint, dancers sliding up and down slick poles, film stars signing autographs while wearing little more than a smile.

As I flew to Vegas, I have to admit, I wondered how all of it would make me feel—I imagined a short, average looking 38-old in the middle of all this skin and glitter. Would I feel ugly? Grossed out? Uncomfortable? Sad? Angry? Truth be told, I felt it all at one point or another throughout the weekend. It’s a lot to process. But more than anything, believe it or not, I felt sexy.

No, really.

via Could More Porn Actually Make Us Healthier? – YourTango.

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