Author Archives: Melissa Gira Grant

Porn, condoms, trouble

Miss Calico, a BDSM porn performer and sex worker advocate, points to a adult film director Ernest Greene’s reponse to the coverage of a reported HIV case among US porn performers. When it comes to porn, notions of privacy, confidentiality, and rights get secondary play over outdated and just flat wrong figures on how hugely [...]

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Art porn from your inbox by Elliott Burford

(via kottke / archive at geekologie)

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Twitter, Twitter, Twitter.

“Months later: another date, another guy, another technological incompatibility. This time she was out with someone who wanted to text . . . everyone. ‘He kept talking about Twitter.’ Fishkin rolls her eyes. ‘Ashton Kutcher. Twitter, Twitter, Twitter.’”
Twitter. Twitter! Twitter.

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More on the tech sex ed front: The Birds and The Bees line, a service advertised on MySpace, where adult sex educators can answer teens’ questions via text. Predictably conservatives are throwing anger around on the premise that the program is run without teens needing permission from their parents to participate. Which is precisely the [...]

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The web and the death of pornographic context

The best bit of Nerve’s deceptively swift history of how sex drove the internet, from ARPAnet to gonzo pro/am sites: “Yet, as normalized as online pornography may be, the material itself has become increasingly stripped of any greater context or meaning… The digital revolution has accelerated this trend greatly — partially because bandwidth costs money, [...]

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1/5th of Facebook employees there to police 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 [...]

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The inevitable #amazonfail infographic

(via National Coalition Against Censorship)

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Eve Sedgwick, Marilyn Chambers, RIP

Two luminaries of sex culture that I would have paid dear money to see tangle live & in person on desire, performance, and politics passed away Sunday — queer theory provocateur Eve Sedgwick and All-American porn princess Marilyn Chambers. Sedgwick’s friend Cathy Davidson writes that Eve died at her partner’s side. 56 year old Chambers [...]

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Let’s not forget Jeff Bezos does like sex

Here is a photo composite of Jeff “not a sexless founder-entrepreneur” Bezos on a bearskin rug from my Valleywag days.
Because we need this now:

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Amazon coder: “someone internally” tagged thousands of titles “adult”

Frustrated with the misinformation swirling about hackers claiming responsbility for the removal of hundreds of sexuality & GLBT related titles from front page search results and the deletion of their sales rankings from individual book listing pages, and even more frustrated with Amazon’s lack of coherence on whether this was an internal error or an [...]

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