The BBC has an interesting story today about stepped-up pressure on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICANN, the international agency that oversees the Net‘s address system, to decide on the proposed .xxx domain for adult content.
via The Web Doesn’t Need .xxx Porn Domain – PCWorld.
PORTLAND, Ore. – Pornography on the Internet is almost as old as the Internet itself. That said, there is a new wrinkle in the online skin game, and it has a dark side.DIY Do It Yourself porn, also known as amateur porn, is a fast-rising genre that is attracting more viewers – and often desperate participants.
via DIY XXX: The thrill – and the dangers | KATU.com – Breaking News, Sports, Traffic and Weather – Portland, Oregon | Special Reports.
by Sean Macaulay
Former porn star Jenna Jameson‘s home life was shattered this week by accusations of physical violence and drug abuse. Sean Macaulay on the rocky transition from adult film to domestic bliss.
Back in 1995, I saw porn star Jenna Jameson when she won the Newcomer of the Year Award at the Friends of X-rated Entertainment Awards (FOXE) in Hollywood. She was fresh-faced and charming, and only on her first set of implants. A writer for The New Yorker was also there that night. He was the only guy wearing a sweater and trying to congratulate Jenna over the noise of the crowd. “You have a very special quality,” he shouted.
via Life After Porn – Page 1 – The Daily Beast.
A new virus is making the rounds, and this one employs a startling new tactic for making a mess out of the lives of those unfortunate enough to get infected.
Known as Kenzero, the infection originated in Japan and, in its initial attack phase, is targeting users of a file-sharing service called Winni, which claims about 200 million users.
When Winni customers use the site to download illegal copies of games in the adult, animated “hentai” genre, their PCs are becoming infected with the Kenzero virus, which makes a copy of their Web-browsing history and posts it online, where it is visible to the public. The Kenzero virus appears on Winni as a standard game installer, deceiving its victims.
via New virus extorts cash from porn fans – Yahoo! News.
With all of the porn stars coming forward in the Tiger Woods and Jesse James sex scandals, we’ve started seeing some striking similarities between several adult film stars and some of Hollywood‘s biggest names.
Check out the porn stars who could get second jobs as stand-ins for some of your favorite legit celebrities.
via FOXNews.com – 10 Celebrity Porn Star Lookalikes – Slide 1 of 11.
Want to see the best in snowfall creations? Come to New Jersey, where we don’t merely make snowmen and igloos when faced with a foot of good packing snow. Uh uh. We get down and dirty. Or artistic. Depending on your point of view.
The latest (no, not the first) is the Venus de Milo in Rahway. (Or is it Jenna Jameson without limbs?) Either way you look at it, no one can say it’s not freaking good.
via Naked in the snow. Pornography or art? – cindy capitani – Open Salon.
Let me get this out there right upfront: I do not want to take your porn away. I am against the exploitation and objectification of women, but I am also against censorship and Puritanical bullshit, and porn tangles all of those issues up in such a way as to make me feel uncharacteristically dispassionate about the whole mess. My official position on porn: Whatever.
So if I saw a compelling argument that porn is good for society, I would probably not go out of my way to nitpick it. But Milton Diamond‘s article at the Scientist, in which he discusses data that shows more porn is correlated with lower sexual assault rates, is not that argument. “[I]n every region investigated,” he writes, “researchers have found that as pornography has increased in availability, sex crimes have either decreased or not increased … Surprisingly few studies have linked the availability of porn in any society with antisocial behaviors or sex crimes. Among those studies none have found a causal relationship and very few have even found one positive correlation.”
Interesting. And if you’ve been going around saying that increased availability of porn causes an increase in sex crimes (or at least, that it did through the 1990s; Diamond doesn’t cite more recent findings on this subject), maybe you should stop. But speaking of the difference between correlation and causation, isn’t it kind of a big leap from that to “More porn equals less rape”?
via Stopping rape with smut – Broadsheet – Salon.com.
SAN FRANCISCO — The adult-entertainment industry is in a tailspin, shattering the notion that it is one of the few recession-proof industries.
The slump is especially stinging because technology — which helped adult-entertainment enterprises reap riches through innovations such as video streaming, webcameras and online payments — is contributing to the misery.
DVDs and online pay sites, which make up the majority of porn-related sales, are in a free fall largely because of the rise of so-called tube sites.
via Free porn on ‘tube sites’ puts a big dent in industry – USATODAY.com.
Jeff Bertolucci, PC World
Feb 20, 2010 4:14 pm
It appears Apple is embarking on a new anti-smut crusade to rid its iPhone App Store of “overtly sexual content.” According to news reports, the targets of Apple’s ire include relatively tame adult fare, many of which manage to incorporate the word “boob” into their titles.
Apple’s actions are designed to appease customers who’ve complained in the company’s support forums and elsewhere about adult content in the App Store. According to Information Week, Apple developers have also griped about the sex-themed apps, which they say are proliferating in some App Store categories and making other apps harder to find.
At first glance, Apple’s move appears either prudish or hypocritical or both. Sexually-explicit content was already verboten in the App Store, and some of the newly banned apps were about as racy as the Sport Illustrated swimsuit issue.
via Why Apple’s Porn Purge is a Smart Move – PCWorld.
For the past several decades, a debate has raged as to whether or not pornography yields deleterious effects at the individual and/or societal levels (e.g., increased negative views toward women; increased rate of sexual crimes against women). In many instances, those who have sought to link pornography to countless ills have been ideologically motivated, as the aggregate scientific evidence hardly supports such conclusions. See chapter 6 of my book The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption (p. 228-235) for some relevant references on pornography.
In today’s post, I’d like to briefly report on two recent studies that shed light on the matter. In a paper published in 2009 in the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, Milton Diamond reviewed a very broad number of studies that have explored the supposed ill effects of pornography. Subsequent to his extensive review, Diamond concludes (p. 312):
“Indeed, the data reported and reviewed suggests that the thesis is myth and, if anything, there is an inverse causal relationship between an increase in pornography and sex crimes. Further, considering the findings of studies of community standards and wide spread usage of SEM [sexually explicit material], it is obvious that in local communities as nationally and internationally, porn is available, widely used and felt appropriate for voluntary adult consumption. If there is a consensus against pornography it is in regard to any SEM that involves children or minors in its production or consumption. Lastly we see that objections to erotic materials are often made on the basis of supposed actual, social or moral harm to women. No such cause and effect has been demonstrated with any negative consequence.”
via Pornography: Beneficial or Detrimental? | Psychology Today.
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