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April 28, 2014 Andy Cush

Chase Bank has allegedly closed hundreds of accounts held by adult entertainment industry workers, offering no explanation for the closings. Perez Hilton broke the story, publishing a letter the bank sent to porn star Teagan Presley. “I called them and they told me that because I am, I guess, public and am recognizable in the adult […]

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March 31, 2014 Reed Dunlea

Emma Kohlmann’s art is an abstract, hyper-sexualized version of Raymond Pettibon. Like Pettibon, she is very much connected to the current punk scene; she has done work for Thurston Moore/John Moloney, HOAX and Natural Law. Unlike Pettibon, she is a strong, young 2014 woman, and her work exhibits sexual taboos of a more consensual nature, as […]

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March 25, 2014 Andy Cush

Digg and Pornhub created this interactive porn infographic, which plots the favorite XXX subgenres of several major U.S. cities. What do we learn? The most popular search term across the country is “massage,” which seems pretty weird. Also, people really like Lisa Ann (aka Sarah “Paylin”). City-by-city, the results skew towards national trends, with stuff […]

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February 25, 2014 Marina Galperina

PornMD — a search engine that lets you search multiple porn sites for very specific XXX content — has launched a new feature. You can now see what people are searching for, in real time. It’s horrifying, enlightening and kind of inspiring. So, ANIMAL has just commissioned several digital artists and published authors to write us […]

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February 12, 2014 Andy Cush

The most romantic thing on the internet today is Endless Porno Kisses, a single-serving site that infinitely loops giant GIFs of actors kissing in adult films. Just kissing. It’s mesmerizing to watch. Each click brings a new couple, passionately licking each other’s tongues — men kissing men, women kissing women, women kissing men. Damjan Pita, one […]

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February 6, 2014 Andy Cush

The porn-centric big data project Sexualitics created Porngram, a nifty tool that lets you chart the frequency of terms that show up in pornos uploaded to xHamster between 2007 and 2013. Just enter two terms — “MILF,” and “teen,” for instance — and you’re given a simple line graph showing how their popularity shifted over […]

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February 3, 2014 Andy Cush

You watch a tremendous amount of porn. You already know this. But you probably took a break from your filthy habit for a few hours last night to watch the Seahawks thoroughly spank the Broncos, especially if you’re from either team’s home city. PornHub did one of its statistics dumps today, charting the citizens of […]

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January 14, 2014 Marina Galperina

There are many films about porn, but Ninja Thyberg’s fictional short Pleasure is different. Starring Jenny Hutton, it’s an explicit look behind-the-scenes of a porn shoot, particularly at the non-sexual and clinical preparatory routine before some extremely physically-challenging maneuvers. The film plays at Sundance Film Festival later this week, in the Shorts Competition. It has already won the Critics’ Week […]

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September 24, 2013 Andy Cush

File this one under “so stupid it works, by the grace of god.” Matt Heath, a writer and ad man, created “Porn Comments on Instagram Pics,” a Tumblr that is, well, exactly what it sounds like. Yes, there’s already @BESTPORNCOMMENTS, but there’s something about the juxtaposition with these nicely composed images that makes comments like […]

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September 19, 2013 Yossera Bouchtia

Brooklyn artist Evan Desmond Yee didn’t know that the vintage reels he bought at a California flea market contained porn starring ’70s XXX starlet Annie Sprinkle. Yee preserved these artifacts from “the Turn of the Age of Pornography” as altered sculptural objects in light boxes. “I wanted to create something that looks like an advertising-fetish object and still retains its historical […]

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