SINGAPORE — Lovense has partnered with VR studio SexLikeReal for the release of the fully integrated Calor, a new masturbator for penis-owners with a heating feature and depth sensors.

The integration also supports the Lovense toys Gush, Max 2 and Nora and “promises to bring incredible sensations and a sense of full presence in the hottest scenes from SexLikeReal,” explained a rep.

The integration works through the Haptics Connect app, available on Google Play and the App Store. SexLikeReal premium members will now be able to connect Calor and Max 2 masturbators, Gush glans massager, and Nora, touted as the first female sex toy integrated with VR porn.

“These interactive videos have a built-in script that makes toys react in sync with the action on the screen. The library of interactive videos on SexLikeReal includes over 650 titles suited to every fancy,” the rep said.

Calor is compact with a squeezable grip that accommodates most sizes and “stimulates while you stroke,” said the rep. “Depth-control sensors provide another unique experience; the deeper you’re inserted, the more intense the vibrations are.”

The heating feature provides “an even more realistic feeling through warmth.”

SexLikeReal CEO Alex Novak added, “Interest in interactive VR porn has been growing at a lightning speed in recent years, and our team is working tirelessly to make this experience as smooth and exciting as possible for our fans. We are incredibly excited to partner with Lovense to offer sensual and immersive VR experiences to an even greater audience.”

Calor joins the Lovense LDR line that also features Max 2, Mission and Nora.

“This is our first gift of the new year for our fans,” said Lovense CEO Dan Liu. “Partnering with the amazing SexLikeReal team to give an incredible new interactive experience to Lovense toy owners, including those who grab our new and shiny Calor, is our next step towards greater interactivity and expanding the variety of services Lovense offers.”

Calor is IPX7 waterproof and programmable with three vibration levels and up to 10 patterns and is fully integrated into the Lovense ecosystem. It can be remote controlled from any distance and syncs with multimedia content through the Lovense Remote App.

The toy supports the Lovense music feature and it is compatible with 3DXChat and Wildlife Demo games and allows users to download patterns from the free Lovense pattern library.

Click here for additional details about Calor and find details about the SexLikeReal integration here.

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SEATTLE — Ball & Chain has announced the company is fully stocked for the Valentine’s shopping season.

“I know many companies are having a hard time getting the stock levels they need to supply their distributors; we have dealt with the same issues here in Seattle over the past several months,” noted company principal Dawn Phillips.

“However, Ball & Chain is now fully stocked with all the Valentines games you’ll need to make your customers happy,” she added.

Top-selling games available to ship include “Bedroom Blackjack,” “Bedroom Dice,” “The Bedroom Game,” “Bound By Love,” “Bring Sexy Back,” “Bedroom Truth or Dare,” “Foreplay in a Row,” “Full Disclosure,” “Get Nasty,” “Strip Bedroom Blocks,” “Naked & Naughty Dice” and “Sex Around the House Dice.”

For additional details, and to place an order, visit BallAndChainFun.com, email ballandchaindawn@gmail.com or call (253) 735-6217.

SAN FRANCISCO — A California appeals court sided with Salesforce last week and dismissed a lawsuit by 50 “Jane Does” claiming that the cloud-based software company was liable for their alleged sex trafficking because it had provided services to the now-defunct classifieds site Backpage.com.

The ruling dismissed the plaintiffs’ appeal on the basis of Section 230 protections.

The lawsuit, the Mercury News reports, had been “first dismissed in March 2020 in San Francisco County Superior Court, [also] on the basis that Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act protects websites from liability for third-party conduct.”

Backpage.com was shuttered and seized by the FBI in 2018, shortly before FOSTA-SESTA was signed into law by President Trump. The prosecution of its former owners, Mike Lacey and Jim Larkin, is ongoing and resulted in a mistrial late last year.

The Jane Does allege that “pimps and human traffickers” had placed ads on Backpage.com advertising sexual encounters with them.

Using Lawfare to Create Chokepoints Against Adult Content

The Salesforce lawsuit’s dismissal is a step back for War on Porn and anti-sex workers’ rights crusaders, who have been determined to use different forms of lawfare to create chokepoints against anyone operating a sexually-oriented website.

By targeting purely technical contractors like Salesforce, the lawyers and lobbies fomenting the constant litigation against platforms for user-generated content were hoping to find more deep-pocketed, supposedly liable parties who would then think twice about providing solutions to adult websites.

Eric Goldman, a Santa Clara University law professor who studies Section 230 issues, spoke to the Mercury News about the case.

“It’s the right conclusion,” he said. “The plaintiffs in this case are alleging that pimps engage in sex trafficking, and that they were helped in doing so by running ads on Backpage, and that Backpage was helped in its operations by Salesforce.”

“The victims are three steps away from Salesforce,” Goldman added.

Goldman also explained that Section 230 protections are currently “a really murky area,” and that a another lawsuit in Texas against Salesforce resulted in a ruling “saying that Section 230 may not fully shield the company from legal liability.”

“No single ruling is going to clean it up unless it’s from the Supreme Court,” he concluded.

LOS ANGELES — A late-2021 U.K. survey of top parental control apps on Google Play found that practically all of them were blocking LGBTQ and sex-education sites as “adult content.”

Ninety-two percent of the 12 leading parental control apps surveyed by the U.K.-based Top10VPN review site effectively “blocked sites of leading LGBTQ organizations, including Stonewall, The Trevor Project and LGBT+ Switchboard,” Forbes magazine’s Jamie Wareham reported.

The apps that blocked the most LGBTQ content, according to the survey, were ESET Parental Control and MMGuardian, which blocked “trusted U.K. charities LGBT Foundation, Mermaids, Stonewall and Switchboard LGBT+.”

“Strikingly, despite blocking many LGBTQ sites, the apps had a 90% failure rate for specifically filtering out websites centered around conspiracy theories or misinformation, such as InfoWars,” Wareham wrote. “They also had a 73% failure rate for blocking extreme ideological content, such as the ‘r/TheRedPill’ subreddit and the racist far-right British National Party’s website.”

“Twenty percent of the apps also wrongly blocked educational content on subjects from government-recommended websites such as Planned Parenthood and NHS Sexual Health,” the article revealed.

The Lucrative Business of ‘Filtering’

Siyang Wei, policy coordinator at LGBT Foundation, told Forbes that “the over-censorship of LGBTQ+ content is a well-documented feature of private tech companies’ attempts to filter ‘safe’ content, whether this is done by parental control apps or by platforms themselves. This not only discriminates against LGBTQ+ content, but prevents young people from accessing information, services and communities that could be vital to their wellbeing.”

“As it stands, the [U.K. government’s proposed] Online Safety Bill would further incentivize this kind of discriminatory over-censorship, and codify it into law,” Wei added. “These findings add to the mountain of evidence suggesting that without a clear definition of ‘harm’ and written safeguards developed in consultation with representative organizations and communities, the Bill risks promoting rather than preventing harm to marginalized people.”

In the U.S., War on Porn crusaders have been campaigning for the default activation of parental control apps — known as “porn filters” — on every device that can access the internet. A Utah law instituting such a requirement passed last year, with an unusual amendment specifying that it would go into effect if a number of other states passed similar laws. A Mormon legislator in Arizona recently introduced a copycat bill.

“Porn Filters” are sometimes developed by overtly faith-based businesses, with the result that mandatory filtering laws pushed by religiously-inspired politicians end up generating lucrative government and private contracts for fellow anti-porn crusaders.

Jan 25, 2022 1:39 PM PST

NEW YORK — As part of her latest New York City media tour, Sexy Vanessa appeared on the podcast “The Bi Guys” hosted by Zac Amico and Ian Fidance.

In addition to playing a game called, “Guess the Butthole,” Vanessa discussed being the “first MILF” and the group talked about why people are attracted to older women. The interview also explored Vanessa’s time as a phone sex worker, as well as her varied career in adult.

On a more serious note, Vanessa also discussed how some performers have bigoted attitudes while she, in contrast, has open mindset and a love for variety.

“I had such a fun time on this show; Zac and Ian are so funny,” Vanessa said. “Plus, I won ‘Guess the Butthole.’”

Her episode of “The Bi Guys,” running approximately 67 minutes, can be found on YouTube and Gas Digital Network.

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PARIS — Jacquie et Michel has announced the launch of new cryptocurrency Jimizz (JMZ).

The Jimizz token promoted by the French studio will be initially available on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC).

The company is promoting the Jimizz as “the cryptocurrency that solves today’s problems” in the adult sector, including the encroaching limitations advanced by the traditional banking sector, fighting access by minors to adult content and confidentiality related to the access and purchase of content.

“It is to solve these structural problems and give new impetus to the sector,” a rep told French crypto site Au Coin du Bloc.

Jacquie et Michel — a marquee studio in the French market, alongside Dorcel — is counting on its millions-strong Francophone customer base as potential adopters.

The Jimizz token can be deposited in the Livret X (X Notebook), a smart contract on the blockchain. Based on the idea of “staking,” the Livret X will allow holders to participate in DeFi.

The Jacquie et Michel crypto ecosystem also includes Club 69, a closed club that requires holding one of 69 NFTs gradually put on sale on the MarketPlace NFT.

The NFTs will allow buyers to receive a percentage on purchases of services in Jimizz on the J&M ecosystem, to obtain unlimited access to all of the group’s websites, and other bonus benefits.

Expansion plans also include a collectible card game known as K-hard Game, allowing creators to directly offer their own content in order to monetize it, and which combines the NFT system and gamification.

Part of the K-hard Game will include options allowing users to interact directly with models.

Another feature is “Crowdfunding with Cum-unity.”

“Similar to crowdfunding sites,” the rep explained to Au Coin du Bloc, “a model can, for example, offer the community [the chance] to finance one of their videos and set up incentive levels. This will allow holders of the Jimizz cryptocurrency to support content creators and participate in the ecosystem. With such a system, creators will no longer need to rely on banks to start their activities. In addition, Jacquie et Michel will be able to buy the most popular content and offer it on the sites they own.”

For more information, follow Jacquie et Michel’s Jimizz on Twitter.

Jan 24, 2022 4:02 PM PST

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Doc Johnson is celebrating its win as “Manufacturer of the Year” from the 2021 Sign Magazine Awards.

“Doc Johnson is without a doubt a pioneer in terms of product manufacturing in our industry,” Sign Magazine Director of Sales & Marketing Patrick Mallaise said. “Not only the decades of experience passed down in the family business, but also the sophisticated manufacturing process that takes place primarily in the company’s homeland, the United States, set Doc Johnson apart from others. Their impact on the industry, and especially the millions of products sold worldwide, definitely speak to the company’s success.”

The award follows two consecutive wins as “Pleasure Product Company of the Year.”

“As an American-based company, Sign Magazine is one of the most-important ways we stay connected with our European customers, especially now while we cannot travel to see all our customers and friends face-to-face,” Doc Johnson VP of Sales and Marketing Scott Watkins said. “Apart from the award, it’s very humbling to know our colleagues in Europe are still enjoying our products.”

The Sign Magazine Awards, bestowed by the Euro-based trade magazine, annually honor outstanding achievement in the pleasure products industry.

For additional details about Doc Johnson, contact a preferred rep, email sales@docjohnson.com or visit B2BDocJohnson.com.

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Jan 21, 2022 6:22 PM PST

NEW YORK — The latest episode of “The SDR Show” with hosts Big Jay Oakerson and Ralph Sutton welcomed “Naked News” reporter Laura Desireé to host a game of “Password” and deliver her Gas Digital News reports.

“Definitely a wild ride seated in the damn middle of that table,” Desiree observed. “I’ll forever enjoy the disarming effect nudity has at a clothed gathering; fun was had by all.”

Desiree’s 62-minute episode of “The SDR Show” can be found on YouTube; follow the broadcast on Twitter.

Follow Laura Desiree on Twitter and find her premium social media links here.

Jan 21, 2022 6:17 PM PST

LOS ANGELES — ATKingdom has released its latest title, “Elsa Jean: Creampie Vacation Vol. 2.” 

This second installment of the vacation-themed adventure takes viewers on “a series of fantasy trips,” noted a rep, with Jean in the role of the viewer’s girlfriend.

“We released this title less than a month ago, and it’s one of the hottest new sellers on VOD and from our distribution orders,” ATKingdom Executive Producer and VP Jimmy James said. “Our products always offer a unique experience, and given the state of the world and travel restrictions, this is an opportunity for people to not only virtually travel but also role-play a fantasy POV with one of the hottest girls in the industry.”

Click here for a preview and additional details; direct sales and distribution inquiries to ed@exiledist.com.

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Jan 21, 2022 6:10 PM PST

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Flourish Amateurs has released a new vignette starring Gia Lov3ly opposite Brick Cummings.

The pair waste no time getting together in what a rep called “some of the hottest amateur action you’ve ever seen,” noting they were “so well-matched and enjoyed each other so much that they did an impromptu POV scene.”

Cummings added, “Gia is a lot of fun, has plenty of energy and is easy to work with. I would definitely work with her again.”

Lov3ly said she is “quite amazed” by how much TheFlourishXXX has grown and how [director] TJ is “doing his own thing, not the usual basic strategies or structure the rest of the industry has going on. They are branching out and showing new faces of women that have earned their place in this industry, and I applaud that.”

Find Flourish Amateurs online and on Twitter.

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