SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah school board which had ordered the removal of the Bible from certain school libraries when it was found in violation of Utah’s draconian new “anti-porn” law, reversed coursed on Tuesday after community pressure to exempt scriptural descriptions of incest, rape and other sexual matters from consideration.

The Davis School Board had previously determined that the Bible was age-appropriate for continued inclusion in high school libraries, but not in junior high or elementary school libraries.

As XBIZ reported, in December 2022 a Davis District parent decided to challenge the arbitrary, expansive nature of the state’s legal redefinitions of “pornography,” by flagging the Bible in an official complaint for its numerous instances of sexual content.

Calling it “one of the most sex-ridden books around,” the parent asked the school district to review the Bible for “inappropriate content.”

“Incest, onanism, bestiality, prostitution, genital mutilation, fellatio, dildos, rape, and even infanticide,” the parent wrote on Dec. 11, 2022. “You’ll no doubt find that the Bible, under Utah Code Ann. § 76-10-1227, has ‘no serious values for minors’ because it’s pornographic by our new definition.”

HB 374 — state legislation that cites Utah Code Ann. § 76-10-1227 — was passed in 2022 and bans books containing “pornographic or indecent” content from Utah schools and libraries.

The Bible became then entangled in a months-long process because Utah parents have ramped up their challenges of vast number of books they consider “pornographic” or “obscene.”

“We don’t differentiate between one request and another,” a school district spokesperson told the Salt Lake City Tribune in March. “We see that as the work that we do.”

The original complaint included an eight-page list of Bible passages including content involving sex, alcohol, nudity, rape and incest.

“Get this porn out of our schools,” the complaint urged. “If the books that have been banned so far are any indication for way lesser offenses, this should be a slam dunk.”

An Attempt at Draconian Censorship Temporarily Backfires

According to Utah’s new censorship rules, the challenged books also may not be left on library shelves during a review.

According to state attorneys, who acted in tandem with right-wing lobby Utah Parents United, those assessing the suspected material do not have to follow the “taken as a whole” provision established in 1973 by the Miller Test, which differentiates between obscenity and First Amendment-protected pornography.

“If there is a scene involving any of those acts, it should be immediately removed,” the Salt Lake City Tribune reported.

This week, however, under substantial pressure from community leaders, including LDS Church leadership, the Board of Education of the Davis School District “voted unanimously to allow the Bible to be included in school libraries at all levels (elementary, junior high, and high school), reversing a previous committee-based decision which restricted inclusion of the Bible to high school libraries only,” the Board announced through an official statement.

“Based on its assessment of community standards, the appeal committee determined that the Bible has significant, serious value for minors which outweighs the violent or vulgar content it contains,” the Board ruled on Tuesday, in direct opposition of how non-religious books throughout the state have been assessed since the passing of the new “anti-porn” measures.

The appeal committee “considers the Bible to be age-appropriate and recommended that it be retained in school libraries at all levels.”

The Board also absolved itself of any intimations that “the initial committee’s decision, or the district’s policy/process have been intentionally manipulated to undermine Utah’s sensitive materials law (HB 374).

“This is wholly untrue,” the Board declared. “The district has always acted with intent to uphold the law and maintain school libraries free from harmful material.”

An appeal to a similar challenge regarding the Book of Mormon is yet to be decided.

Main Image: Brigid Balzen portraying Biblical temptress Salome performing a sultry dance in the 1961 Hollywood religious epic “King of Kings.”

MONTREAL — Zero Tolerance is set to release its latest film, “Oiled Up Natural Tits 4,” this Saturday. Directed by Mike Quasar, the title stars April Olsen, Jazlyn Ray, Chloe Surreal and Jesse Pony.

According to a rep, “The sexy starlets get slick and slippery as they sensually celebrate their bodacious curves.”

Watch “Oiled Up Natural Tits 4” on ZeroTolerance.

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LOS ANGELES — The Le Wand Bow Stainless Steel Dildo has received commendations from Buzzfeed Shopping sex toy writer Negesti Kaudo this week.

The toy was described as “something that’ll make you weak in the knees and sweaty all over.”

In the article, titled “If You Don’t Have a Stainless Steel Dildo, I Think You Should Start With The Curved Le Wand Bow,” Kaudo praises the device’s weight, swirled ridges, dual ends and its curve.

“This dildo is the cherry on top of all my non-silicone sex toys, for three reasons,” Kaudo writes. “The weight alone — thanks, stainless steel — is nothing to laugh at and really delivers on that full feeling I’m always searching for. When you don’t have a person to stuff you, a weighted sex toy is next best.”

She continued, “The dramatic curve of this dildo offers effortless handling and the ability to reach and hit your favorite spots. The details — dual ends and the swirled texture leading up to the larger bulb — are fantastic for external massage around the clit, applying lube, or general teasing and foreplay.”

Kaudo also pointed out that Bow is “shaped like a smile and guaranteed to put one on your face if you’re into G-spot/internal stimulation,” and recommends it for both newcomers and experienced users, as well as solo and partnered play.

Read the Buzzfeed story here. 

For additional details about Le Wand’s Bow, click here and follow Le Wand on Instagram.

LAS VEGAS — Alex Coal is featured alongside Trap in the latest scene from InkedVixensXXX.

According to a synopsis, Coal stops by Trap’s tattoo parlor hoping to get a deal on some new ink. After telling Trap she doesn’t have any cash on her, Trap comes up with an alternative way for Coal to compensate him.

“Alex is smoking hot,” an InkedVixensXXX rep said of the scene.

Watch the scene at InkedVixensXXX.

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Jun 23, 2023 3:59 PM PDT

DENVER — Director/writer/performer Adam Christopher is featured in a new YNOT profile titled “Sex Is A Laughing Matter.”

Interviewer Alyssa Collins talks with Christopher about his start in the industry, using comedy in his adult projects and what continues to drive his adult work.

“I love writing, creating, sex and expressing that through film,” said Christopher. “I love the aspect of pre-production, planning, getting on set, hiring the talent, filming my friends having sex, editing, promoting; I enjoy the entire process of it. It’s like an addiction.”

Read the full interview on YNOT.

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Jun 23, 2023 3:50 PM PDT

EDINBURGH — Clinical psychologist, GSRD therapist and sex and intimacy coach Dr. Lori Beth Bisbey has been named by DatingAdvice as one of this year’s “Ten Best Sex & Intimacy Coaches.” 

Bisbey was specifically acknowledged by the site in the category of “Best for LGBTQ+ Folks.”

“Dr. Lori Beth is changing the conversation around sex,” the article states. “She creates a warm, safe and accepting environment for her clients to fully explore their erotic and sexual selves. No matter her clients’ sexual orientation, gender identity or kink interest, Dr. Lori Beth is honored to help them experience congruence in their sexuality and relationships.”

Bisbey enthused over the recognition.  

“This is truly an unexpected and delightful surprise,” she said. “It’s gratifying to have my work recognized and appreciated.”

View the complete list on DatingAdvice.

Find Dr. Lori Beth Bisbey online and follow her on Twitter.

Jun 23, 2023 3:39 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES — GoAskAlex is featured on CBC Radio’s “Now or Never” show, hosted by Ify Chiwetelu and Trevor Dineen.

In the episode, “Afraid to Show it Off? Here’s How to Love the Skin You’re In,” Alex discusses her life in the public eye as an ostomate.

Alex explains that after undergoing an abdominal colectomy in 2019 in which her entire colon was removed due to ulcerative colitis, she was left with an ileostomy, or a permanent medical device on her abdomen.

In the interview, she touched on how this event shaped her body image and confidence. 

“It’s difficult when so much of your career is in front of a camera and you’re so used to looking at modeling photos of yourself, editing your own videos and seeing your own body from every possible angle,” she said. “That is already a difficult thing to have to do — to be scrutinizing your body all the time — but then to see your body drastically change, whether that’s weight gain or a disability… seeing your body change and feeling like you don’t have any control over that is a difficult thing.”

Although happy to be relieved of the physical pain she’d been experiencing post-operation, Alex shared that she also felt insecurity about her new body.

“When you have these surgeries done, they give you a book of pamphlets on what it’s going to be like to have an ostomy and different medical devices, and there are some things they don’t talk to you about, one of them being sexuality,” she said. “It’s an assumption that disabled people are not having sex, or that we wouldn’t want to have sex, or that nobody would want to have sex with us because our bodies are not sexual, and they’re gross or wrong or damaged… and that’s just simply not true.”

She continued, “I didn’t feel like I was represented or that I had body-positive role models growing up, and as a woman with a disability I want young people to have those role models. I want to help create a world where people… have a better relationship with their bodies and can accept themselves as they are.”

Listen to the full CBC episode and read Alex’s article on the subject.

Follow GoAskAlex on Twitter.

NEW YORK — Writer and former performer Jessica Stoya discussed the current state of online porn culture and the attempts to censor it, in a conversation published last week by Document Journal.

Stoya spoke with Motherboard journalist Samantha Cole and Document’s Camille Sojit Pejcha for a feature about “coming of age online, the internet’s horny history and the shadowy forces that determine what kind of porn you see.”

The writers also touted Cole’s recent book, “How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex.”

Pejcha prefaced the discussion by noting that FOSTA-SESTA “incentivized social media platforms to crack down not just on problematic sexual materials, but all sexual speech. On TikTok, for instance, users have resorted to codewords like seggs and corn to share sexual education information without activating the censorship tripwire — an issue that poses particular challenges to sex workers and free speech advocates, but should be equally worrying to anyone paying attention.”

Stoya explained that when she first started spending time on the internet, it was “a very different, very uncensored place.”

“I remember I got all of my sex ed from the internet, in a very wholesome way,” she noted, adding that early access to adult discussions of boundaries helped her protect myself and “do less harm” when having sex with others.

“I just naturally picked up how to be, like, Hey, what do you like, is this okay?” Stoya recalled. “And I applied that to all of it — not just whips and chains and power dynamics, but like, Hey, do you wanna hold hands?”

Before Tumblr banned porn, Stoya explained, the site offered “amazing wealth of knowledge about sex and identity and sexual health.”

“That’s where I learned about asexuality; the community pointed me to resources,” she shared. “Tumblr was the place for people to learn and process together. Now, how are we even supposed to get that information out? That’s not going to rise to the top of the Pornhub algorithm.”

The retired performer and longtime writer on sex worker issues also repeated the oft-stated maxim that “porn is the canary in the coal mine.”

“We tried to warn you, but the coal mine’s on fire now,” she remarked. “We were screaming from the rooftops, but our warnings fell on deaf ears, because whores’ opinions don’t count, and there’s not enough squirting in the world to put it out — so I hope someone has an actual fire hose. Everyone should read Hannah Arendt and learn the history of fascism. Because we are multiple steps into a repeat of the previous century.

“If sex and porn and all these things are shadow banned, downranked, and deplatformed,” she added, “how do you even access that information?”

To read the Document Journal feature on internet censorship, click here.

LOS ANGELES — Amid speculation that Gwyneth Paltrow is planning to launch a “This Tastes Like My Vagina” chocolate line, as a follow-up to her successful “This Smells Like My Vagina” candle, the actor and Goop entrepreneur has applied for several risque trademarks.

Earlier this week, tabloids in the U.S. and the U.K. reported that Paltrow intended to release a line of chocolate and candy branded as “This Tastes Like My Vagina.”

On Thursday, a Paltrow rep told U.K. newspaper Metro that “Goop is not planning on launching any products in the chocolate category.”

According to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), however, Paltrow’s company, Heretic Beauty Inc., applied in May 2020 for the trademark “This Tastes Like My Vagina” under the category of “staple foods,” which includes “coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar, rice, tapioca, sago, artificial coffee; flour and preparations made from cereals, bread, pastry and confectionery, ices; honey, treacle; yeast, baking-powder; salt, mustard; vinegar, sauces (condiments); spices; and ice.”

A month earlier, the company applied for the trademark “This Tastes Like My Orgasm,” also for staple foods.

Both trademarks predate the “This Smells Like My Vagina” candle trademark.

The USPTO’s full report reveals that Heretic Beauty Inc. has also applied to trademark the following phrases: Dirty Coconut, Dirty Gingerbread, Dirty Vanilla, Dirty Gardenia, Dirty Laundry, Dirty Mango, Dirty Dish, Dirty Rose, Dirty Peach, Dirty Rose, Dirty Grass, Dirty Grapefruit, Dirty Banana, Dirty Santa, Dirty Chai, Dirty Bird, Dirty Lingerie and Dirty Books.

Paltrow’s company also applied to trademark the word “Pornament” in the category of “cosmetics and cleaning preparations” and several more generic names like The Spiritualist, The Mycologist, The Naturalist, The Arborist, The Herbalist and others.

Then, three months ago, Paltrow also filed a trademark in several categories for a design of a gingerbread person biting on a ball gag and strapped with BDSM restraints.

Although it is unclear at this point whether Paltrow and Goop plan to move forward with products matching these trademarks, the success of the “This Smells Like My Vagina” candle suggests that there may be more products on the horizon from Goop’s sex-branded lines.

Jun 22, 2023 4:13 PM PDT

MIAMI — MYLF has released a new MomSwap scene titled, “Revenge is Best Served Young.”

The scene stars Alexis Abbey, Barbie Feels, Parker Ambrose and Rion King in a tale that “embraces desire, friendship and the irresistible allure of forbidden pleasures,” teased a company rep.

According to a synopsis, Abbey and Feels are cast as recently divorced best friends in search of a fun way to embrace single life. Together with their stepsons, Ambrose and King, they embark on a weekend escapade in Los Angeles, where Abbey and Feels hatch a plan to get back at their cheating ex-husbands.

Watch the scene here and follow MYLF on Twitter.