This is the weekly Lust news roundup: catch up on the week’s sex-tech, sex-politics, feminism, and industry news here every week.
Monday 28 October – Sunday 3 November
News Roundup:
Earlier this month Thinx debuted their first ever TV ad, imagining a world where cisgender men also had periods to answer this question, “if we all had periods, would we be more comfortable talking about them?”. One scene shows a man walking through a locker room with a tampon string hanging out of his boxers, this was apparently enough for several major TV networks to refuse to show the ad unless they replaced this scene. Major TV channels banned an advert with a tampon string in. [Cosmopolitan]
The recent implementation of new content policies by a number of sites have disproportionately affected sex workers. How the social media censorship of sex workers affects us all. [MTV]
When Powerful Men Laugh, It’s No Joke —“The evidence of the crime that they leave — the laughter, the ellipses — are a sign to one another of how clever they are and how much fun they’re having. They’re performing for each other and the punch line is us.” [The Cut]
Intimacy coordinator Ita O’Brien, who has worked on Netflix’s “Sex Education” and HBO’s “Watchmen”, speaks about how sex scenes are shot in movies and TV shows [Insider]
“Underlying the new sex toy revolution is a movement that believes pleasure and satisfaction should be a human right” – the first story in a four-part series on sex hacks for the digital age; We’re in a sex toy revolution. Here’s hot you can join. [Mashable]
It’s very likely that school sex education will not teach about pleasure, never mind the clitoris. So if you don’t know where to start here is a masturbation 101, How to Masturbate if You Have a Vagina: Fingers and Toys Tips [Teen Vogue]
This Week’s Lust News:
I Was Selected as One of BBC’s 100 Most Influential Women of 2019 [The Erika Lust Blog]
All About My First LustCinema Original: The Intern – A Summer of Lust [The Erika Lust Blog]
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