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Today Calico asks why, if the ubiquity of internet porn is (supposedly) desensitizing people to sexual imagery, so many Netizens still go nuts every...

When it comes to what ‘should’ be permitted in terms of sexually-explicit depictions, it’s hard to get much looser on the subject than me.

Having returned to the world of dating again, I am now a regular on dating apps like Tinder (my favourite) and Happn. I would dare say I’m an expert at Tinder.

If it seems like there’s a new porn-related stat reported by some media outlet with each passing day, it’s probably because there IS a new porn-related stat reported by some media outlet with each passing day. Whether it’s highly questionable information about porn industry revenues which cite no source in particular, any number of claims made by the marketing “data analysis” crew over at Pornhub or claims about the percentage of divorces in which porn is listed among the root causes of the split, media consumers everywhere love a good porn stat – or writers, editors and producers believe they do, at least. Sometimes these stats can be hard to square with other stats we hear reported. For example, how can all three of the following things be true: One, there’s more porn easily available now (I don’t think many people would argue the contrary), two porn is has become a leading cause of divorce and three, the overall divorce rate is falling, as it has been for the last few decades? The easy answer, of course, is that all three of the above cannot be true at the same time. Personally, my hunch is what’s really at issue is more people are citing porn as a cause in their divorce, which is not quite the same thing as porn “causing” divorces – and clearly not the same thing as porn causing an increase in the rate, since by all available measures, the divorce rate continues to decline. Other porn stats are not such a mystery, so long as you pay attention and connect the dots. It was recently reported, for example, a survey commissioned by the security firm Blue Coat Systems revealed that among the eleven countries from which survey respondents hailed, China was the one in which the highest percentage of respondents admitted to watching porn while on the clock. This factoid has a lot of people scratching their heads; why would roughly twice as many Chinese workers (19%) watch porn compared to English (9%) workers? The theories I’ve seen range from speculation China doesn’t do as much to block and scrub mobile networks as fixed ones, so Chinese porn fans are surreptitiously using their phones to take advantage of the relatively light mobile oversight. By all accounts, though, the Chinese mobile networks are just as heavily regulated and redacted as the fixed ones, so this theory doesn’t get too far. I think I have a much simpler explanation, however: These Chinese workers are watching porn at work simply because that’s what they get paid to do. In the WAPO article linked above, it’s reported one four-man team “watched more than 700 pornographic DVDs from beginning to end” in a single week. At 175 DVDs per man, that’s one hell of a porn-heavy week. Given that the rationale for paying bureaucrats to watch porn is furthering the government’s decency-regulation of China’s not-so-free-market system, you can bet your bottom Yuan similar teams of increasingly blue-balled Chinese men are poring over hour upon hour of online porn, as well – and unwittingly skewing Blue Coat’s workplace porn-watching numbers in the process. Far from being corporate time wasters or inefficient slugs, these teams of indecency investigators are a model of professional commitment – albeit an involuntary, at-the-point-of-a-gun kind of commitment. “When you’re in this job, even if you don’t want to watch anymore, you have to keep watching closely,” said Liu Xiaozhen, a 70 year-old who works for the Hunan Office Against Pornography and Illegal Publications. On the bright side, it sounds like some of the porn Liu and his coworkers are forced to watch in Hunan’s Little Sweatshop of Censorship might be pretty decent, if Liu’s physical reaction to watching them is any indication. “My face and ears often turned red, and my heart would often skip a beat,” Liu said, although to be fair, this might have something to do with the entire staff being required to watch porn in the same office. Granted, even if I’m right about why China tops the pornographic edition of Blue Coat’s Behaving Badly list, employers in Mexico (10%), the UK, Korea (8%) and India (7%) might want to take a closer look at how their employees are spending their time, and/or make an effort to push the percentage down to the respectable (by which of course I mean American) level of a mere 5%. Actually, now that I think about it more, someone really needs to get the U.S. Congress on the case here, maybe even call in a special prosecutor to find out why the U.S. is lagging so far behind its peers in workplace pornography-consumption. After all, it used to be the only place where it was OK for China, France, the UK and India to finish ahead of the U.S. was on a soccer field – but now that we’ve seen the kind of resentment and litigious lashing out decades of playing second-fiddle on the pitch has produced, I think we can all agree this discrepancy needs to be addressed before someone indicts half the leadership of the Federation Internationale Du Pornografia….

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Whenever a story hits the news about a man fucking something which probably ought not to be fucked, like a hole in a tree, a slice of Swiss cheese or Ann Coulter, we’re all quick to make a rush to moral judgment. (We’re even quicker to come up with a bunch of cheap jokes and bad puns aimed at the perverse perpetrator, but that’s both perfectly normal and obviously beneficial to society at large.)

Many years ago when I was feeling sorry for myself over some dumb crap (the exact nature of which has long since escaped my memory), my mother sat me down for a talk about life, privilege, struggle and a host of other things I had been hitherto too self-absorbed to contemplate, much less comprehend.

by Coleen Singer at Sssh.com Porn For Women As the mainstream media and search engines continue the relentless cloaking and banning of adult content, it...

On the evening of Monday, February 23, a select group of users of Google’s Blogger platform received an email with the anodyne subject line “Blogger Content Policy Update.” For the Blogger users in question, it might as well have read “GTFO, Pervert.” “We're writing to tell you about an upcoming change to the Blogger Content Policy that may affect your account” the email begins. “In the coming weeks, we'll no longer allow blogs that contain sexually explicit or graphic nude images or video.”

Other Porn Critics Take Note: THIS is Reasonable Porn Criticism - Calico Rudasill, Sssh.com Porn For Women “Oh boy,” I thought when I read the headline....

By Coleen Singer at Sssh.com.  I tend to keep an eye on new developments on the internet, particularly with regards to fighting against Google censorship...

by Coleen Singer at sssh.com.  It wasn't THAT long ago that television programming was pure as the driven snow as far as any sort of...

A German study suggests that watching porn may be linked to reduced activity in certain areas of the brain by Coleen Singer at Sssh.com This morning...

by Coleen Singer at Sssh.com By now, you've probably noticed that due to the ever increasing corporate cowardice on the interwebs, that it's just darned...

Popular Twitter-based sex chat program Sex Talk Tuesday (#SexTalkTuesday) will boost the number of chats from biweekly to a weekly chats to keep up with the demands of Twitterverse. Because the successful new chat series continues to gain followers, chat coordinator Sssh.com added more chats to the program. #SexTalkTuesday will be hosting an exciting new guest moderator every Tuesday from 4 PM to 5 PM EST.

Being mostly ensconced in the adult entertainment industry which continually faces censorship attempts, attacks by conservative groups like Morality in Media, and is generally shunned by mainstream media outlets, the thought occurred to me, "Hey! where did the X-rated rating go"? It seemed like a handy enough little flag to alert viewers of the level of sexuality in any given film and was a pretty dandy way of self-labeling and self-regulation for the porn industry.

As the year draws to a close, we are all bombarded with lists of the year in review and predictions of what is to come in the following year, but this public "wish list" to porn directors stands out from the crowd, hits the nail on the head for some of the parts of being a porn actress that are downright annoying (and even dangerous), and ties it all up in a tongue-in-cheek "Memo To Porn Directors" of some things they could do to make things better in the coming year.

by Coleen Singer at sssh.com Two members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot, who were serving two-year jail terms for their part in a performance...