For some reason, AVN pulled their link to this article.

Cytherea is alive, well, human and the subject of a good article in a local paper: Cytherea’s Rise, Fall, Rise, Et Cetera.

I wish our own porn “journalists” would write something like this about individuals in the industry, and knock aside some of the hype.

From TheAtlantic.com,

To everything (turn, turn, turn) … there is a season (turn, turn, turn) … and a time … to every purpose … under heaven.

So true, Bible. So true, Byrds. What the truisms neglect to tell us, however, is that “every purpose under heaven” includes not only planting and reaping and laughing and weeping, but also, apparently, performing porny Google searches.

We know this, now, because of the plantings and reapings of Science. According to a paper just published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, Internet pornography — like so many storms, like so much kale — is seasonal. Porn’s peak seasons? Winter and late summer.

Researchers at Villanova examined the Google trends for such commonly-searched-for terms as “porn,” “xxx,” “xxvideos” … and other, more descriptive phrases that, because I am looking at a portrait of James Russell Lowell as I write this, I will let you look up in the paper itself. Once they’d gathered those terms, the authors examined them in Google Trends. And what they found was a defined cycle featuring clear peaks and valleys — recurring at discernible six-month intervals. The cycle, as you can see in the chart above, maps surprisingly well to the world’s calendar seasons.

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Unemployment in Spain is over 50% for those under 25. That means big competition for Porn Valley, even if Berth Milton isn’t personally hiring - and the worst is yet to come.

This photo is of young Spaniards - male and female - lining up for a single porn shoot in Madrid. What will these young people do for money that you won’t do?

Full article: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/04/spains-unemployment-level-outrageous/51634/

Since, according to Gene Ross and AVN, we in the adult industry are big readers of any article out there about child pornography, child molestation, rape, sexual murder and just plain stalking, here’s an article about an app that will creep most people out, but will probably sexuall fulfill Gene Ross and AVN.

It is located at CultOfMac.com:

This Creepy App Isn’t Just Stalking Women Without Their Knowledge, It’s A Wake-Up Call About Facebook Privacy

“Boy, you sure have a lot of apps on your phone.”

“Well, it’s my job.”

“What’s your favorite?”

“Oh, I couldn’t choose. But hey, want to see one to set your skin crawling?”

It was the flush end of a pleasurably hot day — 85 degrees in March — and we were all sipping bitter cocktails out in my friend’s backyard, which was both his smoking room, beer garden, viticetum, opossum parlor and barbecue pit. I was enjoying the warm dusk with a group of six of my best friends, all of whom seemed interested, except for my girlfriend… who immediately grimaced.

“Girls Around Me? Again?” she scolded. “Don’t show them that.”

She turned to our friends, apologetically.

“He’s become obsessed with this app. It’s creepy.”

I sputtered, I nevered, and I denied it, but it was true. I had become obsessed with Girls Around Me, an app that perfectly distills many of the most worrying issues related to social networking, privacy and the rise of the smartphone into a perfect case study that anyone can understand.

It’s an app that can be interpreted many ways. It is as innocent as it is insidious; it is just as likely to be reacted to with laughter as it is with tears; it is as much of a novelty as it has the potential to be used a tool for rapists and stalkers.

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From  erikachristakis.wordpress.com:

A modest proposal: the case for fair trade porn

This post was originally published at Huffingtonpost.com.  It was also published, in a slightly different form, in the Boston Globe.

We have fair trade coffee and humanely raised pork. So why can’t we create a market for ethically sourced pornography? A couple of decades ago, people didn’t give much thought to their food’s provenance. We didn’t care about carbon footprints or the working conditions of the poor Africans who sold us our coffee beans. Slowly, however, consumption habits began to shift under the weight of scientific evidence and cultural change. We’re becoming a little more selective in our consumer choices.

Yet not with that multi-billion dollar white elephant: pornography. We hear rumblings here and there about the sexual trafficking of women and children, and it’s always a relief when a criminal ring is busted for what’s euphemistically called “abuse.” It’s reassuring to know that whatever was going on in the far reaches of a few sick minds has little to do with our own primitive — but relatively harmless — impulses.

But do porn consumers ever think about where their porn is sourced? What a downer! No one wants to hear about drug-addicted runaways or Albanian teenage sex slaves. Nobody wants to imagine STD infections on movie sets or the life circumstances that would impel a woman to engage in physically punishing sexual acts on camera. (And just Google the word “bukkake” if you want a quick education in the mainstreaming of fringe sex acts.)

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