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Porn star Stormy Daniels, the star of such films as ‘Operating Desert Stormy,’ launches a ‘listening tour’ next week, to ‘meet with Louisiana men and women and listen to the issues and concerns they struggle with every day’

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Saturday, May 02, 2009

Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana is facing a potentially risque challenge next year. Porn star Stormy Daniels is considering running for the Republican‘s seat in 2010.

Daniels, the star of such films as “Operating Desert Stormy,” launches a “listening tour” across the state next week, to “meet with Louisiana men and women and listen to the issues and concerns they struggle with every day.”

Daniels is not affiliated with a political party, but her listening tour will focus on the economy, working women and child protection.

via Porn Star Considers Bid Against U.S. Senator Linked to Sex Ring – Presidential Politics | Political News – FOXNews.com.

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It’s just before lunchtime in the sunny, high-tech headquarters of Facebook in Palo Alto, Calif., and Simon Axten is cuing up some porn. A photo of a young couple sloppily making out pops onscreen. It’s gross, but not against the rules, so Axten punches a key to judge the image appropriate. Next up: a young woman in panties only, covering her breasts with her hands. “That’s pretty close,” Axten says, pondering the image. There’s nothing arbitrary about his judgments: at Facebook, they have developed semiformal policies like the Fully Exposed Butt Rule, the Crack Rule and the Nipple Rule. In this photo there’s no visible areola, he decides, so it stays. The next photo is a male clad only in a black thong and angel wings. Utterly nonplussed, Axten OKs the picture. After delivering a verdict on 75 of the 438,848 outstanding photos flagged by Facebook users—buff guy soaping up in the shower (OK); girl blowing an epic cloud of pot smoke (he deletes it); an underage user drinking from two liquor bottles at once (ditto)—Axten is off to a meeting. It’s just another day at the office of the world’s fastest-growing social-networking site.

At Facebook, Axten isn’t some fringe employee doing unmentionable work. The 26-year-old Stanford grad is one of some 150 people the young company employs to keep the site clean—out of a total head count of 850. Facebook describes these staffers as an internal police force, charged with regulating users’ decorum, hunting spammers and working with actual law-enforcement agencies to help solve crimes. Part hall monitors, part vice cops, these employees are key weapons in Facebook’s efforts to maintain its image as a place that’s safe for corporate advertisers—more so than predecessor social networks like Friendster and MySpace. “[They were] essentially shanghaied by pornography and sexual displays,” says David Kirkpatrick, author of the forthcoming book “The Facebook Effect.” It’s a tricky job: by insisting that users sign up under real names and refrain from posting R-rated photos, Facebook hopes to widen its user base to include upscale professionals, but at the same time it’s aware that too much heavy-handed censorship could upset its existing members. “If [Facebook] got polluted as just a place for wild and crazy kids, that would destroy the ability to achieve the ultimate vision, which is to create a service for literally everyone,” Kirkpatrick says—and then its potential for profits would disappear, too.

Internet companies have long grappled with illicit postings. As far back as 1993, AOL‘s “community action teams” were reviewing e-mail and chat-room activity. Craigslist has long been beset by ads for prostitution; in November, the site began cooperating with attorneys general to curb posts to its “Erotic Services” section, and last month Boston police apprehended a med-school student later charged with murdering a woman who’d placed a “massage services” ad on the site. In 2005, as user-generated content platforms exploded at sites like YouTube, Flickr and Digg, the need to screen content grew rapidly as well, increasing demand for online cops.

via Facebook’s ‘Porn Cops’ Are Key to Its Growth | Newsweek Enterprise – Technology | Newsweek.com.

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This week’s Sf Chronicle column Manufacturing Outrage – Violet Blue: Why the SF Weekly should be ‘whipped and gagged’ brings together years of a local weekly paper insulting and deriding all of the the non-mainstream sexual communities that exist within San Francisco, brought to a head by the recent piece by SF Weekly’s Matt Smith. It’s out of control, and yes, I’m being publicly personally attacked (again ***yawn***) by the Weakly’s Ben Wachs (remember him?). Please read the column; I tied in the shockingly lengthy arrest record of the anti-porn pundit whose repeatedly cited in anti-Kink media, did a big update on the state of things, and got some really quite serious commentary from Acting Director, UC Berkeley’s Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic Jason Schultz. Many are calling for a boycott of the Weekly (including a few LGBT community biggies) and people are making anti-Weekly shirts. Although a negative situation, I think the reaction of people by and large is a positive sign of the times in terms of acceptance, tolerance and embracing diverse sexual cultures as part of the fabric that makes us who we all are as San Franciscans, Americans and citizens of the world. And fuck those dudes for making fun of me for being depressed on my own blog on the past few months. How low. Here’s a snip, click through for all links:

via violet blue ® :: open source sex | when a local weekly paper hates sex and the city: this week’s Chron column.

22-year-old Jennifer Sorbello got an extra-special welcome to Chuck E Cheese when William Thigpen, dressed as Mr. Cheese, reached out and groped her breast. Sorbello is suing the restaurant, claiming she has been “damaged in the form of emotional distress and humiliation.”

The suit says it happened Aug. 2, 2008, at the restaurant at 720 South County Center Way.

“He looked at her, reached out, grabbed her breast and moved along,” said Mark Potashnick, Sorbello’s attorney. “Her jaw dropped in shock and disgust.”

via Lecherous Mascots: Chuck E Cheese Entertains Kids With Sexual Assualt.

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Self-love won’t cure swine flu, but that’s pretty much the only shortcoming we can think of:

1. Getting a grip on yourself helps teach you the pattern of your own sexual response: What you like, what you don’t like, and what you hate more than anything else in the whole wide world.
2. Friggin’ your riggin’ helps you gain control over when and how soon you come: Once you can recognize the point right before the point of no return, you can put on the brakes and avoid premature crashes.

via 15 Reasons Why Everyone Should Masturbate | Em & Lo: Sex. Love. And Everything in Between..

A furious fiancee dumped her boyfriend after catching him fondling another girl’s boobs on Facebook just days before their wedding.

The angry fiancee, named only as Valeria A. by Italian media, plastered posters all over the Italian capital Rome when she saw snaps of her husband-to-be, identified only as Antonio M. by Italian media

via ‘Traitor pig’ fiance’s boob fondle caught on Facebook | Metro.co.uk.

Everyone, pay very close attention. The greatest movie straight to DVD movie of our time, One-Eyed Monster, has been officially released. According to IMDB, the movie’s plot is as follows: “A hostile alien wreaks havoc on the cast and crew of an adult movie. Amber Benson, Charles Napier, and Ron Jeremy star in an homage to “Alien”, “The Thing”, and porn.” Curious as to how low budget this movie is?? Good news — there’s a trailer online!

And like any fabulously low-budget alien horror film, the stars of the movie all came out to celebrate its launch last night. Which is where we discovered that porn stars look like complete maniacs in the light of day. Here’s Mary Carey and Ron Jeremy, who look like two dead gypsies found in the Romanian woods:

via Best Week Ever » Blog Archive » Porn Stars Look Insane In The Light of Day.

A church may face being kicked out of the school auditorium it uses for holding sermons, after it advertised a series of services entitled ‘Great Sex for You.’

The New Hope Church, of Melbourne, Florida (it’s always Florida) sent out 25,000 fliers to local households advertising the services in the school, promising that attendees could ‘learn how to have the Great Sex that God created you to enjoy!’

The fliers, which were emblazoned with the question ‘Is Your Sex Life A Bore?’, prompted complaints from parents, and attracted the ire of the school district.

via Florida school not happy about church’s sex sermon | Metro.co.uk.

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Style Buzz Summer’s almost here, ladies! Are you ready? And more importantly, is your vagina ready? If it’s not, you better get your hands on the Cuchini – a brand new pad that “eliminates camel toe.”

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Men’s health expert Sheldon Marks, MD, on how your lifestyle can affect the quality of your sex life.

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