Happy Humpday! Welcome to the midweek stretch. It’s the week before Memorial Day, which means that we only have to get through a few more days before we can be swept away on a delicious three-day weekend adventure. It also means that the unofficial start of summer is nearly here!! Can you tell I’m excited!!! So, let’s not waste any more time with introductions when there are celebrations to be had – onward to the Link Love!
- Finally, sex toys (one of the last of the unregulated industries) are being called on the not-so-hot results that may occur. Whether it’s due to shoddy toy designs, low quality materials or lack of education, bunches of folks head to the emergency room each year with sex toy related injuries (or retrieval needed), and until now there hasn’t been any way to keep track of specific toy issues. Now SaferProducts.gov, run by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, includes sex toys on their public database. Sure, there are still lots of toys leaching phthalates all over the place, but this is definitely a win for people who love good sex toys!
- Speaking of sex toys (kinda), would you spend $56 for a box of condoms? Even if they were made of super thin latex, featured extra slick hypoallergenic lube and designed to fit perfectly? Naked condoms are $5 a pop, where as Trojans are $1. What are your thoughts? (via Em and Lo)
- In sad news, porn star Cynthia Gillig-Stone (aka. Echo Valley) died in a car accident on Saturday night. It’s reported that she was not wearing a seat belt due to her large breasts (third-largest in the U.S. at a whopping 65NN measurement!) and was ejected from the car. She would have been 57 years old on May 29th.
- A new study on sex and secularism by Kansas University has found some interesting, and very controversial, findings. So controversial that I’m just going to link without commenting.
It’s mid-morning brain explosion time! Guess who looked at the news this morning…
Gay men who are seeking asylum in the Czech Republic are being put to a ‘sexual arousal test’ to insure that they are, in fact, gay. What is the “arousal test,” you ask? Well, the men are hooked up to a machine that monitors the amount of blood-flow to their penis and are then shown straight porn. And if you get an erection, it’s back to persecution for you!
WHAT!?! This is the most fucked up thing I’ve ever heard! Porn is porn is porn! The whole idea of porn is to get folks hot and bothered. That’s its purpose. The notion that people will only be turned on by watching the kinds of sex they have is downright ridiculous – and, in this case, totally scary that someone would base a person’s safety on that basis. In fact, I would even go to say that it’s rarer for people to only ever get turned on by viewing the porn that coincides precisely with their own sexual actions. Hell, nearly all the lezzie ladies I know love getting off to gay male porn. Gasp! What would the Czechs say about that?!?
Luckily I am not the only one that thinks this method is highly problematic (understatement of the year). The Fundamental Rights Agency is up in arms over this procedure as well, stating that the practice could violate the European Convention on Human Rights “since this procedure touches upon a most intimate part of an individual’s private life.” Seriously!
My apologies for the pre-noon rant, but I couldn’t just sit back and let morons sully the relationships people have with porn. Fuck that noise.
For those of you who may not be quite as embroiled in porn industry news as we are, on Tuesday, Oct. 12, the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation(AIM) announced that an anonymous adult performer had tested positive for HIV. AIM has since taken action contacting and quarantining all performers who could have possibly been exposed to the virus. As well a number of porn studios (including Vivid, condom-mandatory studio Wicked Pictures, Hustler and more) have halted production for the time being while everything is sorted out. For more info, check out our brother site HotMovies.com’s blog.
In the wake of this sad news, let’s all be reminded that HIV and STI testing is still an important part of being a sexual person. Take a look at our guide to safer sex practices and go get your test on!
It always sucks to have to write about bad news here on HM4Her. I mean, who wants to come looking for porn and have to deal with a screen full of sadness? But unfortunately life is not all threesomes and orgasms, which itself is super sad, so here goes…
Last week adult legend Jaime Gillis succumbed to his battle with melanoma. After fighting the cancer for 4 or 5 months, Gillis passed away in New York City on February 19th, 2010.
Gillis was one of the most well known porn stars of the ’70s and ’80s, winning a whole host of awards and accolades for his work, including classics such as “The Opening of Misty Beethoven” and “Through The Looking Glass.” He even made it to the AVN Hall of Fame!
In recent years, Gillis had been working closely with adult historian Benson Hurst on Hurst’s documentary about the birth of the New York hardcore porn scene. Check out AVN to read more about Hurst’s experiences with the actor, as well has a more detailed picture of his history in porn.
And definitely take a look at some of Jamie Gillis’ awesome porno classics.
We all do stupid things when we are tired or lazy… or just have more sex toys than you can shake a 16″ silicone dildo at. It was a little bit of columns A, B and C that attributed to the stupidity that I exhibited recently. What did I do, pray tell? I left my Sedeux Flare dildo on the floor next to my bed. I know, I know, sex toys should be washed and put away after you use them, but sometimes you are just lazy. Well, don’t be… especially if you have a dog.
I tell my story to teach all of you a valuable lesson. Don’t be like me. No more casualities, no more fallen silicone. I was going to take a real picture of the pieces, but I thought better of disrespecting it’s memory (ok, that and I couldn’t I find my camera and my phone takes shitty pictures).
Rest In Piece Sedeux Flare. You were one of the good ones.
By now everyone in the world has probably heard the news of Michael Jackson’s death yesterday. I was sitting at my desk working on backstage stuff when I got a text from my friend that said he died. I hopped on the internet to get the details and found out that it was only TMZ annoucing it, which is questionable, but after about an hour or so, CNN finally independently confirmed his death for real. So sad!
All day I’ve been trying to think of a way to blog about how sad it is and even remotely connect it to porn, and luckily the folks over at Fleshbot found this awesome clip of porn star Wolf Hudson busting out his MJ dance stylings and totally hitting the mark.
Hudson, who is apprently a huge Michael Jackson fan, also video blogged about the tradgedy yesterday as well.
What a crazy week. For more MJ, check out this Mixtape Rewind from a few months back.
While most sex and porno news is pretty fun, unfortunately it’s not always the case. Sometimes it’s downright sad.
Porn legend Marilyn Chambers was found dead yesterday at age 57 for reasons yet to be known. One of the most notable stars of the 1970s, Chambers was touted as the first porn ladies to shave her pubic hair, which we all know is pretty much the standard these days. Chambers started as the face on the Ivory Snow soap box and made her foray into adult in 1972′s Behind The Green Door, one of the most famous pornos of it’s time. And to round out her career, she also ran for President of the United States in 2004, on the Personal Choice Party ticket! Gotta love a resume that includes poster child for being pure, porno queen and presidential candidate. Love it! Marilyn Chambers will be missed.
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