Feature image of Scout and Lew Pine in Crash Pad Series episode 227. All of the photographs in this NSFW Sunday are from the Crash Pad. The inclusion of a visual here should not be interpreted as an assertion of the model’s gender identity or sexual orientation. If you’re a photographer or model and think your work would be a good fit for NSFW Sunday, please email carolyn at autostraddle dot com.
Welcome to NSFW Sunday!
Morning masturbation can be great for anxiety:
“Masturbation allows me to completely empty my mind. I focus purely on the pleasure and sensation of what I’m doing. For a few minutes, there’s nothing else that requires my attention: no bills to pay, no deadlines to meet, no worries about the future.
Sure, I might occasionally need a little help in the form of toys, porn, or a partner whispering dirty secrets into my ear, but generally I’m only thinking about reaching my orgasm.
After an orgasm, I am also much calmer, and I’ve found that it’s actually a fantastic way to stimulate the brain. In the state of bliss that follows, I have come up with some of my best ideas.”
“Within the realms of fashion and beauty, a shift towards diversity in casting means that representation of varied bodies and multiple ethnicities is gradually improving. Within the worlds of dating and sex however, things are more staid; no matter how progressive we seem to be getting as a culture in the way that we view beauty, when it comes to individual desire we are often judgemental and discriminatory,” writes Amelia Abraham at Dazed.
Single, childless women are the happiest and live the longest.
Dating in a new city when it translates to saying yes to new social experiences can be a way to get to know your new home.
Being single is more expensive.
Here’s how to have a summer fling if you want one. Even though some summer flings suck.
What might be going on if you feel inadequate around your partner?
Surveillance of women’s bodies has gone to a new low with amateur facial recognition applied to porn and cross-referenced with social media used to allegedly identify over 100,000 porn stars. Some asshole whose name I will not publish has allegedly compiled a database that is, essentially, algorithmic harassment:
“Just as we saw with deepfakes, which used AI to swap the faces of female celebrities onto the bodies of porn performers, the use of machine learning to control and extort women’s bodily autonomy demonstrates deep misogyny. It’s a threat that didn’t begin with deepfakes, but certainly reached a public sphere with that technology—although in the years since, women have been left behindin the mainstream narrative, which has focused on the technology’s possible use for disinformation.
Danielle Citron, a professor of law at the University of Maryland who’s studied the aftermath of deepfakes, also tweeted about this new claim on [redacted]. “This is a painfully bad idea—surveillance and control of women’s bodies taken to new low,” she wrote.”
Sex toy wiretapping is a thing now:
“Like many Bluetooth-enabled sex tech devices, Lush can be connected via Bluetooth, through the company’s proprietary Body Chat app. This enables users to control their own, or their partner’s, sensations—or pair two of the vibrators together.
The lawsuit claims that Hytto has been surreptitiously monitoring a wide range of their users’ personal data, such as time and date of the device being used, the intensity and frequency, and then storing the data on their servers—all without informing their customers that they were doing so.”
