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Sex Toys That Will Change Your Life / Violet Blue: Can a sex toy change your life? For many, the answer is yes
Dec 23rd

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Having an orgasm used to be so arduous and difficult, it’s no wonder many old people have never had one, or if they have, they seldom talk about it or tell their spawn about having one. In times of yore, before YouTube videos and electricity, rubbing one out was akin to deciding to make a trip from New York to San Francisco in a covered wagon. You could get halfway there, but if something broke down and it was winter, you might have to eat something horrifying to make it out alive. With your pants down, bandits could attack you at any moment. There were vibrators, but they were made of wood and powered by pedaling, or frightened rodents running in little exercise wheels. Everything had to be done by hand. There was no lube until 1910, so if the friction didn’t kill you, fire was always a concern. You had to use corncobs as freshwipes. People had to make their own amateur porn.
The horrors of the past are mostly behind us. Now that we’re more civilized about our sexuality, we no longer have to suffer achieving orgasms through primitive methods, carving our dildos out of root vegetables or whatever porn starlets did in caveman times. Now we have technology. Now we have plastic. We have batteries. We have bandwidth. And fortunately, we have handcuff keys.
And this has all changed the way we, er, come together. And not necessarily for the holidays. Sex toys are now, for many people, life-changing items. When I idly asked the Twitter and the Facebook what sex toys had changed people’s lives, I didn’t expect the overwhelming response; now that people are more sexually sophisticated they’ve traded shame for sexual savvy, and over a hundred people stepped right up to volunteer to me which toy, when used with amour, made their view of the world a little brighter.
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Twitter Extends Its Reach Around Adult Industry – XBIZ.com
May 3rd

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LOS ANGELES — Peter Housley puts it simply: Twitter is a tool.
“The biggest problem with Twitter is that people log onto it and say, ‘What the heck is this?’ It’s not a user-friendly tool like Facebook, but it’s a tool.”
Housley has cashed in on the Twitter-mania with a network of sites that aggregate adult industry twitter activity and operate under the corporation NaughtyTweet.com. He’s the CEO. In all, Housley told XBIZ that his sites rack the daily goings-on of almost 600 performers, executives and other industry members.
via Twitter Extends Its Reach Around Adult Industry – XBIZ.com.
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Facebook’s ‘Porn Cops’ Are Key to Its Growth | Newsweek Enterprise – Technology | Newsweek.com
May 2nd

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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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Facebook | Videos Posted by The New York Times: World: A Pakistani Underworld
Apr 27th

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Despite a threat from Islamists, two Pakistani brothers stealthily manufacture fetish and bondage wear, earning more than $1 million a year from their Western customers.
via Facebook | Videos Posted by The New York Times: World: A Pakistani Underworld.
Stripper Impersonates High School Alum: Classmates Learn About Reunion Prank on YouTube – ABC News
Apr 21st
Andrea Wachner Asked a Pole Dancer to Impersonate Her at Her 10-Year Reunion
Walking into a roomful of past acquaintances can elicit nail-biting anxiety, especially when the No. 1 question on everyone’s lips is: “What do you do?” Wachner, a freelance comedy writer, was no exception.
So, rather than attend her reunion, Wachner, 31, sent someone else in her place, a stripper, and made a documentary about it.
“I Remember Andrea” wasn’t picked up by the film festivals this go-around, but Wachner did find a manager who took interest in her project. They are shopping it around as a reality TV show or a narrative feature.
via Stripper Impersonates High School Alum: Classmates Learn About Reunion Prank on YouTube – ABC News.
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Mona Gable: Coping with Sexting
Apr 18th
Now that we’ve gotten those infernal tea-bagging parties out of the way, let’s get to what’s really important: sexting and teens.
I hope I don’t need to explain what this trend is, because I’d just as soon leave that to Urban Dictionary or to Good Morning America, which recently held a no-holds-barred Town Hall meeting with parents and teens on the issue. One of those parents was Cynthia Logan, whose 18-year-old daughter was named Jessica.
Maybe you remember the story? Jessica sent her boyfriend a nude cell phone image of herself. After they split up, being the generous guy he is, he decided to pass the photo on to 100 close friends. Faster than you can say Facebook, Jessica’s life became the modern-day equivalent of The Scarlet Letter. She was taunted, shunned. Called vicious names. The abuse was horrific. Trying to do something positive, the Ohio teen appeared anonymously on a local news show and talked about her plight. It didn’t help. She was so torn up she took her own life.
“America s Hottest College Girl 2009″ Contest – CollegeHumor – Pictures of hot girls from colleges across America.
Mar 15th

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CollegeHumor is on an epic quest to find the hottest college girl in America. We’ve weeded through thousands of applicants and narrowed them down to the 64 hottest. Now, we turn to you. With your votes we can find the hottest college girl of them all. Cast your votes wisely, the girl you all choose gets 5,000 dollars.
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WTF: Porn star Twitter – Broadsheet – Salon.com
Mar 10th

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I remember being surprised when I first visited Amsterdam’s Red Light District. Visions of outrageous prurience were replaced by a banal reality: Prostitutes talking on the phone, painting their nails and generally doing what we all do when killing time (except, you know, the sex for money part).
Now, you can experience the same phenomenon online, with Porn Star Tweet. Just when you thought it was safe to embrace Twitter, along comes a feed that will, well, bore you back to Facebook and gchat. The site boasts that you can “follow the regular and not so regular daily goings on of your favorite pornstars as they twitter away about their lives.” Hmmm, does this sound interesting to you?
via WTF: Porn star Twitter – Broadsheet – Salon.com.
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“Loose” women to send knickers to Hindu group
Feb 13th

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MUMBAI (Reuters) – Thousands of Indians, many fuming over a recent assault on women in a pub, are vowing to fill bars on Valentine’s Day and send cartons of pink panties to a radical Hindu group that has branded outgoing females immoral.
A “consortium of pub-going, loose and forward women,” founded by four Indian women on social networking website Facebook has, in a matter of days, attracted more than 25,000 members with over 2,000 posts about the self-appointed moral police.
The women said their mission was to go bar-hopping on February 14 and send hundreds of pink knickers to Sri Ram Sena, the militant Hindu group that has said pubs are for men, and that women should stay at home and cook for their husbands.
“Loose” women to send knickers to Hindu group.
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Details Blog on men.style.com: revenge porn
Oct 22nd

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Jared Wolny,24, and Tessa Komer, 21, started dating in July 2007 while attending the University of Georgia. The relationship was a whirlwind Soon after discovering each other on Facebook and hooking up they moved in together and according to Wolny bought a Great Dane and exchanged promise rings. But their union unraveled just as quickly as it had begun and they broke up in January. Then things really went wrong. Police say that after Komer started dating another man in the spring, Wolny hacked into her MySpace account and posing as her sent bogus messages to her new boyfriend.
Wolny also allegedly installed spyware on Komer’s computer to monitor her Web use and eavesdrop on her online conversations and stole the IDs and passwords she used to access certain websites. But the alleged act that precipitated the situation and may turn out to be Wolny’s undoing was his vengeful posting of nude photos of Komer on his Facebook page.
Wolny was arrested in May soon after the pictures appeared online and charged with 32 misdemeanors including 14 counts of computer theft 14 counts of computer invasion of privacy and an identity-fraud charge for his alleged impersonation of Komer on MySpace. Currently free on $6 400 bond Wolny is awaiting trial. “I don t want to go to jail just because we had a bad breakup ” he told one reporter.
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