This is the weekly Lust news roundup: catch up on the week’s sex-tech, sex-politics, feminism, and industry news here every week.
Modern Porn Education Is Totally Unprepared for Modern Porn — Courses to train young people to be ethical consumers of porn have a hugely complex task ahead of them according to sex-positive educator Justine Ang Fonte. After being dismissed from an elite school Fonte reflects on the difficulties of teaching young people about the reality of porn. She stresses the importance of getting youth to think about who is on the other side of the screen. The adolescents who consume free porn from streaming sites aren’t “thinking about the politics behind it, the economics behind it, and certainly not the ethics behind it,” she said. [Forbes]
Norwegian women’s beach handball team fined for not wearing bikini bottoms — The Norwegian handball team fights a sexist rule by wearing shorts instead of bikinis during the European beach handball championships. The team is fully supported by Norway's Handball Federation (NHF) who have said they will cover the €1500 fine (€150 per player). The women also have the support and attention of women around the world as they fight this double standard. [The Independent]
How This Woman Spearheaded Crayola's 24 New Colors Representing 40 Global Skin Tones — Mimi Dixon is the woman behind Crayola's newest inclusive crayon set. Dixon, manager of brand equity and activation at Crayola, spearheaded the initiative that has won multiple awards, including Toy Of The Year award for most creative. ¨As women, minority women as well, there’s going to be a lot of areas where it’s still uncharted for us. Just because you don’t see footsteps before you or around you doesn’t mean that it’s the wrong thing to do.”
Instagram adds new controls for limiting ‘sensitive’ content in the Explore tab — Instagram's new ´Sensitive Content Control´ is meant to give users more control over what they see in their feed. The new feature appears in the settings menu and lets users choose to either allow more content that could be “upsetting or offensive,” limit that content or “limit even more.” Instagram is notorious for over-policing content they deem sexually inappropriate.
Alex Odgen-Clark takes over this week's Fucking Playlist — The Fucking Playlist Takeover: Alex Odgen-Clark aka Lipglosslezza
The LUST guide to sex in the water because wetter is better! Out of Bed & Into The Wet: A Guide to Sex in Water
Whether you´re a beginner or expert in BDSM Erika celebrates BDSM day with a resource round up BDSM Resource Roundup For Beginners, Intermediate Players & Experts
Lola Jean fills you in on everything you need to know about being a brat in this weeks Kink XXX-plainer! Brat BDSM: Everything You Want to Know About Brats
New XConfessions film ´The Nude Muse´ The Nude Muse: An Art School Obsession on XConfessions
The second season of Casey Calvert´s series Primary is here! New Lust Cinema Original: Primary Season 2 by Casey Calvert
Every day I receive your anonymous sexual fantasies on XConfessions and I use them as my next screenplay. This is my favourite confession of the past week. Head to XConfessions now to tell me your fantasy!
There's a strong medium sized wooden table, with a voluptuous busty, long haired woman at one end, wearing nothing, but a Gothic black lace Basque. A sexy man sits at the other end, wearing nothing, but a white cotton vintage shirt, with frills on the cuffs. I am naked, and lying down in the centre of the table.