News
'I Will Cut and Kill You:' New Lawsuit Against Pornhub Alleges Girls Do Porn Threatened Victim’s Life
Kristy Althaus is suing Pornhub and its parent company, seeking a jury trial for accusations that it contributed to her abuse from Girls Do Porn.
Squirting Study Finds Pee Myths Are Ruining the Fun
Lots of people squirt during sex, but years of myths and stigma have gotten into people's heads, a new study shows.
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: 'Magical' AI That's Human Labor, Sinister Chatbots, and Damage Control
This week, we got some good business coaching from an unlikely place, and pulled back the curtain on a 3D modeling company.
Viral 'SmashorPassAI' Is Just a Guy Making Hot AI-Generated Women
A site that claims "The more you rate, the hotter it gets!" is just a carousel of .png files and a dude manually generating AI images of women in bikinis.
They Deepfaked a Beer: Complex Feelings About a Non-Alcoholic IPA
A review of the Flying Dog beer named after the face-swapping technology.
Texas Judge Sides With Pornhub In Last Minute Ruling Against Age Verification Law
The law would require adult sites to verify users’ ages and display a “Texas Health and Human Services Warning” on their websites in 14-point font or larger font.
ACLU Urges FTC to Investigate Mastercard’s ‘Unavoidable Harms to Sex Workers’
The complaint claims that Mastercard caused “substantial, unavoidable harms to sex workers with no demonstrable benefit, and is within the purview of the FTC’s enforcement authority.”
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Launch Week and Instagram's Illegal Ads Problem
We discuss launch week, stress, making a website, and Instagram’s big illegal ads problem.
News
‘Life or Death:’ AI-Generated Mushroom Foraging Books Are All Over Amazon
Experts are worried that books produced by ChatGPT for sale on Amazon, which target beginner foragers, could end up killing someone.
Features
The Community Pushing AI-Generated Porn to ‘the Edge of Knowledge’
A small group of AI porn hobbyists are generating grotesque images that defy physical reality, and baffle academics.
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Why Are Sex Toy Vibration Patterns So Terrible?
The quest for answers about how vibrator modes are tested and designed.