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by Viviane on 12/16/2024

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  • The Female Gaze Does Not Exist? – I think my frustration also occurs because decrying terms like “porn for women”, “female friendly” and “the female gaze” (however flawed they are) can have the effect of denying straight women their own space in the pornosphere. As I said in this post two and a half years ago, these phrases are about creating a space in an overwhelmingly male-dominated industry.
  • How to get birth control privately when you’re a teen & keep condoms from breaking | Scarleteen – To review, you are old enough to seek health services at a clinic and obtain hormonal birth control options without parental consent, for potentially reduced cost. Plus, we had a bonus discussion about correct condom use because it is important to keep on protecting yourself against STIs even if you have another method of contraception, and condoms make a great birth control backup if something goes amiss with your other method.
  • Gmail Gains Delegation Feature: Who Wants To Answer All My Email? | Techcrunch – By way of a new feature in settings, you can grant another Google account holder access to your email account. This allows another person to both send and receive emails on behalf of your account.
  • It is not just violent clients who hurt sex workers | Audacia Ray | Guardian.co.uk – In Uganda and many other countries, they are denied access to HIV treatment, stigmatised by authorities and brutalised by police
  • Transsexuals Are Edging Into the Mainstream – Is 2010 the Year of the Transsexual? – NYTimes.com – Not since the glam era of the 1970s has gender-bending so saturated the news media. The difference now is that mystery has been replaced with empowerment, even pride.
  • Sarah Mei » Disalienation: Why Gender is a Text Field on Diaspora – The “gender” field in a person’s profile was originally a dropdown menu, with three choices: blank, male, and female. My change made it an optional text field that was blank to start. A wide open frontier! Enter anything you want.
  • Why you shouldn’t give to the Salvation Army this holiday season | The Bilerico Project – While many think of the group as just another charity, in truth the group is a religious sect that is notoriously anti-gay; you shouldn't give to the Salvation Army this holiday season if you support gay rights.

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  • China’s latest scandal is counterfeit condoms – latimes.com – Health officials warn that inferior contraceptives can spread the diseases they are supposed to protect against. Some of the brand-name knockoffs have reached the U.S.
  • La Figa » Trans Speaker Receives Threat Over Appearance at Yale “Sex Week” – The threat, received through Angel’s Facebook account via a sock puppet, was relayed to Yale, and organizers have arranged 24 hour security for the transman porn actor.
  • Courting Attention: Covering Calif.’s Marriage Trial : NPR – In California, lawyers are two weeks into a landmark federal court case challenging California’s Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage in that state.Margaret Talbot has been blogging about the trial for The New Yorker’s Web site, and she has written about it in this week’s issue of the magazine.
  • The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures « OkTrends – In looking closely at the astonishingly wide variety of ways our users have chosen to represent themselves, we discovered much of the collective wisdom about profile pictures was wrong.

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  • Text Scarleteen | Scarleteen – To ask Scarleteen a question via text, just text 66746 and start your question with the keyword ASKST.
  • it’s not rope: couture Shibari in Exit Magazine | violet blue ® :: open source sex –
  • Film Festival Secrets: Programmer Profile: Lisa Vandever of CineKink – Nothing wrong with a little titillation – or a lot – the CineKink audience has also become used to works that take an intelligent approach to sexuality, to depictions that move beyond the clichés, to portrayals that don’t denigrate or preach. They also join us for the sense of community you can get from experiencing a film in the company of like-minded others. And, of course, for some really killer parties!
  • This American Life | Ira Glass | Chicago Public Radio – Episode 393: Infidelity
  • Consumer Reports on condoms | violet blue ® :: open source sex – They also — frustratingly — gave me a password to view the subscribers’ only results of which condoms they tested and the results but told me I could not reproduce the findings. ARGH! I will tell you one thing I saw, however and hope it’s not a breach of their request: never, ever, ever use glow in the dark condoms. I’ll also add that I’m dismayed to see the best performers in their stress tests are condom lines that have additives and desensitizing lubricants on them: they’re apparently rated for performance, not body safety.

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  • Sexy Biz: Durex, Lifestyles, and Trojan lead in Consumer Reports condom test | Examiner.com – Consumer Reports tested 15,000 condoms for its most recent report, representing 20 models from different brands. The most reliable? While all of the condoms tested met minimum reliability standard requirements for volume and pressure, there were four different models from Trojan, two from Lifestyles, and one from Durex that all had perfect scores, including Consumer Reports' most stringent strength measure, in which condoms are filled with 25 litres of liquid.
  • Porn Industry Debates Mandatory Condom Use – ABC News – James is now campaigning to make condom use mandatory in adult films. He predicted years ago that his infection would not be the last the industry would see. In June of this year he was proven right when another performer was diagnosed with HIV.
  • Obama Lifts 22-Year-Old Ban on HIV-Positive Persons Entering the US | Carnal San Francisco – As of today, 22 years of a discriminatory policy against people with HIV has ended. Today, Barack Obama signed the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 2009. The bulk of the bill is devoted to providing health-care services to low-income people with HIV or AIDS, but it also ends the decades-long policy of forbidding HIV-positive people from entering the United States, either for travel or immigration.
  • Sex and the 405 | what your newspaper would look like if it had a sex section. – Sex and the 405 is what your newspaper would look like if it had a sex section.

    Here you’ll find news about the latest research being conducted to figure out what drives desire, passion, and other sex habits; reviews of sex toys, porn and other sexy things; coverage of the latest sex-related news that have our mainstream media’s panties up in a bunch; human interest pieces about sex and desire; interviews with people who love sex, or hate sex, or work in sex, or work to enable you to have better sex; opinion pieces that relate to sex and society; a raunchier kind of celebrity gossip.

  • Symposium: Trafficking in Sex and Labor: Domestic and International Responses | University of Pennsylvania Law Review – November 13th and 14th, 2009 at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, PA. The University of Pennsylvania Law Review Symposium will address trafficking in persons—the transportation of people across national borders, often through the use of force, coercion, fraud, or duplicity—from a domestic and international perspective.

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There’s also outtakes at the Superfad site.

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Linkage for 11-24-08

by Viviane on 11/24/2025

in sex

Tony Comstock has raised the alarm on Google’s Sex Ghetto:
“Somehow he (I’m going to have to assume this engineer is a man,) when confronted with the vagaries English language, was able to write an algorithm that allowed 30 million “safe” returns for [penis]. But when faced with the same problem for [clitoris] he found it easier to simply put clitoris on a list of banned words.”

Susie  Bright writes about the word clitoris being on the Google banned words list:
The people suffering from being firewalled and banned aren’t commercial porn-makers with some gonzo to pitch — they’re educators, healthcare professionals, midwives, nurses, doctors, researchers, artists, writers, filmmakers, political activists, critics and analysts— all of whom find their interest in women’s lives to be shrouded in the great Internet burqa of “safeness.”

TastyTrixie can’t find her clit on Google!:
“My guess is that banning “clitoris” has very little (if anything) to do with a campaign to censor feminist thought and information and women’s bodies, and a whole lot more to do with thoughtlessness along with this thing Bill Maher talks about, with men trained to bow to “feminized”/feminINE values that anything that makes them erect is BAD.”

Rachel Kramer Bussel has an article on the Frisky about unprotected sex:
“So how is it that just a week ago, I switched places with these guys and became the one to instigate condomless sex?”

Rachel Maddow on Conan O’Brian (video):
“That is the single best thing about coming out of the closet, is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you just told them.”

Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks one aspect of the Obama marriage we should all emulate:
“Specifically, if you watch their body language carefully, you’ll see that Michelle and Barack communicate with each other in a way that is rare among presidential couples: when Michelle Obama is speaking, Barack makes eye contact with her and listens with interest to what she’s saying.”

OMG boobies: CBS has an official site for the Victoria’s Secret fashion show. (via Mashable).

David Denby of the New Yorker liked Gus Van Sant’s Milk:
“Van Sant wants to tell the political story accurately and in detail, but “Milk” is anything but starchy. The righteous march of events is warmed by the banter, the casual sex, and the candor of the gay milieu of the giddy seventies, the period just before AIDS, when life was free and easy. . .The gay leader becomes a superb pol with a human-rights agenda, and the movie offers a mildly subversive suggestion: attracting the electorate is not all that different from picking up a young man in the subway.”

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Yes you read that right. In order to thwart the spread of HIV in India, the “condom a cappella” ringtone has been released by the BBC World Service Trust. Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation it’s part of a three-year ad offensive aimed at making condom use there more socially acceptable. Somewhat “Swinglish” in sound the music is the repetitive singing of the word condom and really is a pretty cool a cappella piece. I wonder who arranged it? Listen or download the ringtone (mp3) at www.condomcondom.org

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