I can't get into POV porn: it doesn't show the best parts most of the time. However, Inside Amy Schumer shows how POV porn from the woman's perspective can be much more successful for all parties involved:

Society trains little girls to hope to be princesses and mothers, STEM education hopes they'll be engineers and engineers (the math kind and the train kind), but sometimes little girls want to grow up to be porn stars. Asa Akira is one of the latter: in her memoir Insatiable: Porn - a Love Story, Asa tells how she went from a good home and happy family to being a porn star. No, that's no spiral downward: if we know anything, it's that porn stars are generally well-rounded, and Asa Akira proves that in her book.

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It's no surprise that Larry Flynt uses his magical powers only to do good, and here's one example: Larry Flint has every new issue of Hustler mailed to every member of Congress. Congress, surprisingly, freaks out over the prospect of seeing boobs or a penis, and tried to get the mail to stop delivering it. The mail, unsurprisingly, said: "All we do with the stuff is deliver it, you handle your own mail how you like." Man, the perks of being in Congress are awesome!

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Vox, which is rapidly becoming the best online magazine ever, has a fun article where pornstars describe coming out about their careers. The story of Stoya explaining to her grandmother about how Grandma's real name is Stoya's stage name is the best part, but seeing how pornstars relate to their jobs (see also) is less dramatic than you'd think.

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WoodRocket - the people behind the "reading topless videos" - has added a new series: pornstars watching their own movies! If you ever wanted to see how the sausage feels about watching the sausage get made, here you go. One nice thing about WoodWocket's behind-the-scenes videos is that they really show pornstars as real people, with real jobs, that just do a lot of naked things for their paycheck. Sure, who wants to watch themselves at work anyway?

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Porn has finally found a practical application for making the world a better place! A fully-certified, licensed and bonded internet blogger has decided that, since the Internet usage has gone up a million-fold since 1990, and the internet has porn, therefore through the transitive property, the downward slide of church participation over that same time period is porn's fault. The math works out, people!

Well, for one, the increase in internet usage can only be a huge percentage, because the WWW didn't even exist before 1989. You might as well say the steady decline of the VCR and the tape cassette is the reason for the loss of religious faith today.

Next, conservatives blaming pornography for society's ills has been around a long, long time. Just watch that video, and ask yourself: if that were re-filmed, word-for-word, changing 'magazine' for 'website', would it surprise you today? The same rhetoric has been around since the 19th century -- If The Onion were published and shipped through the mail in its current form in the 1920s, they'd have been arrested for sending obscene matter through the mails. The presence of this material in easy reach today is a symptom of lessening moral confusion than it is the cause of it.

The problem is, you can't trust surveys about religious belief - people report how they wish they behaved. The fact that the self-reported religious belief is going down is simply that people are less afraid of seeming less religious.

The article I linked does make this connection, though, before going off the rails into correlation issues. The internet allows for communication and the spreading of free information, which allows people the opportunity to step outside the rigid restrictions of their close environment. This gives people an outlet where they can actually express their lack of religious feelings, rather than feeling pressure from all the people who are lying on religiousness surveys.

Sorry, pornography: I wish I could say you killed religion, but it turns out you're the symptom, not the cause. Just keep dressing this lady like a nun, and then undressing her like a nun, and then I won't complain.

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Suicide Girls has been around more than a decade, not really a porn site, but far from clean-cut, and its edgy and model-driven photosets have created a world of its own - but have you wondered what it's like to be a Suicide Girl? Here's one person's story, which really isn't surprising at all: take naked pictures, get paid.

Conner Habib is a porn actor, stuck between the very visceral opinions of his career choice by those both disconnected, and very intimate with, his life. But the studies show! when they are wrong...or just simply not the issue at all.

When you talk about the porn that takes the most artistic talent, you're probably thinking erotic lovey-dovey, or maybe orgies and BDSM, but it takes a lot more than funny wigs and soundalike names to make a porn parody. Apparently, the watershed moment was Not the Bradys XXX, which directly parodied a well-known and visible property, both blatantly and accurately.

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A while back I posted about a TV channel in Canada broadcasting 50% Canadian porn, but today I learned that it's not much higher than the normal requirement. Canada's CRTC requires at least 35% Canadian content -- even on the porn channels -- and some of the erotic video isn't meeting the minimum requirements. The porn channels claim it was a mathematical error (it sounds like they were aiming for 33.3%) but they'll do better next time. The other complaint was that there wasn't enough closed-captioning and audio description of the performance for the hearing impaired, which is a job I wholeheartedly volunteer for, if in lieu of pay I get Canadian citizenship, where I can watch all the Canadian porn they broadcast.

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As with the utter failure of traditional 3D TVs, the attempt to make 3D pornography the Way Of The Future is also a failure, a dismal, regrettable attempt to use futuristic technology to improve the industry. The best quote, which sums it up: "the things that can come at you are the things that a male viewer does not want coming at them." Well, what about the women? All the fun of getting sprayed by sperm without the messy cleanup - what's not to like? But, like non-porn 3D, requring a bunch of high-tech equipment to make it work is the downfall of 3D porn as well. Why would they think a format that requires a special TV would counteract the free porn glut on the internet?

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Cosmo gets it: porn is like a Hitachi Magic Wand for guys. Since Sex in the City it has been chic for women to have a plastic, technologically advanced penis available for their slightest sexual whim, while the idea of a guy masturbating to porn is still seen as 'cheating'. Maturbating is fun, having sex is fun, one doesn't necessarily need to take away from the other, so let's all just relax and let the orgasms flow. Yay!

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Ever wanted to become a porn star? Sound hot to fuck while people are filming or photographing you? Here's the skinny on becoming a porn performer! In short: being a porn star is a business -- in fact, pretty much everything they've said here applies to all work-for-hire jobs: negotiate contracts, don't do work that wasn't agreed to, pay your taxes, demand to be paid what the work is worth, walk if things look unbalanced against your favor. The STD parts also go for everyone who has sex (i.e.: everyone).

That said, James Deen and Nina Hartley are so fun to watch reading teleprompters they should be working for some 24-hours news channel.

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The numbers are in: porn traffic increased dramatically in Denver during the Superbowl on Sunday. Porn consumption dropped precipitously in both metro areas at the beginning, with Seattle turning to porn instead of Bruno Mars during halftime, but once it was pretty clear recovery was impossible for Denver, poor Broncos fans turned to their PCs for a little empty pleasure to offset the crushing defeat.

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Sorry if the headline got you excited: no, there's no Lego blowjob. Not anymore. The lawyers decided that Christy Mack's offer of a blowjob for the best lego creation was a bad idea. Last week, she innocently tweeted that she likes Legos, and she likes giving blowjobs, so why not put the two together? Legal liability, that's who, according to the lawyers. So, you're more than welcome to keep building things out of Legos, just don't expect a pornstar to suck your dick for it.

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In sad news, pornographers are pulling up their California roots and moving to Las Vegas over the condom laws. Is it really that big of a deal, that you'd move your entire business? I suspect the devil's in the details - people have been wearing condoms in porn a long time, there's more to the law than just that - but when your business is moving to a place due to its lax worker safety laws, you might want to think about that logic.

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Weltbild is one of the biggest publishers in Europe, and is partly owned by a number of German Catholic diocese. But -- Fox News is on the case: Weltbild publishes perfectly legal erotic and porn, thus making the Catholic Church one of the biggest pornographers in Europe. I knew that new Pope was awesome! However, apparently this is a problem for head-up-their-ass Conservatives who think that promoting Onanism by publishing such smut is the wrong direction for the Catholic Church. Whatever, jerks; this pornography is the work of God, who do you think you are to challenge it? Yeah, doesn't feel so good when someone else is telling that to you, huh?

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Did that well-meaning great-aunt give you Hobby Lobby, Home Depot, or Target gift cards for Christmas? Not want to step foot in those conservative companies? You can make better use of those unwanted gift cards by trading them for pornography! Porn purveyors Naughty America is exchanging short memberships in exchange for your unwanted gift cards. Well, not Hobby Lobby apparently; who wants to shop there anyway? The whole place is cheap-ass crafting stuff, grape vines twisted into weird shapes, and fake flowers. Hooters, neither -- but I'd say it'd be much more fitting to swap t-shirt covered boobs and a crappy beer selection for nice, naked boobs and masturbating in your living room. At the very least, if you look through the list of gift cards they accept, I'm sure you'll find plenty of politically-conservative stores to dispose of. Sure, the store got the money when the great-aunt bought the card, but you at least get the satisfaction of imagining porn stars using those cards to buy power drills and skilsaws at Home Depot.

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The UK is suggesting something horrible: husbands will have to discuss porn-watching with their wives. Not sure exactly why that's brought up, other than to maybe scare men who are too embarassed to discuss porn with their spouses, but any which way it's another reason the UK's hope to porn-block everybody is going to be trouble. If the guy's already chatting with his spouse about his porn, awesome, there's really not much of a big deal there. If he's scared to discuss porn, well, then there's something that's a bigger problem than having to ask your internet company permission to access porn. Best leave it alone and let people manage their own home's porn access, lest the government have to deal with a bunch of new divorces over the porn conflicts they're going to cause. Oh, wait: they have to block porn because TERRORIST, so it's best not to talk about it at all or James Bond will show up at your door to drag your porn-loving ass to Guantanamo.

Happy Turkey Day, porn conniseurs! Aw, who am I kidding, you're not on the internet. Porn viewing drops like a rock on Thanksgiving, probably because Grandma's in the next room, the cousins have taken over the gaming systems, there's no wifi at Mom's house, or you're driving like a zillion other people. Chin up, you'll get back to masturbating as soon as the holiday is over.

Twitch, a gaming video service, got integrated in the new Playstation 4, such that the PS4's cams can automatically create Twitch videos.

As with any new technology, porn is an early adopter: people are using their PlayStation IV to post pornographic videos of themselves online, which violates Twitch's "gaming only" rules. So, ladies, if you're going to show off your naughty bits, make sure you're weating a GTA t-shirt, or playing with a controller, or something - you wouldn't want to violate Twitch's terms of service.

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I'm not usually one to link to pages with just random meme images on it, but what the hell, this made me laugh: PornHub comments, put out-of-context on stock photos of men at computers. Just in case you needed to visualize who these commenters are.

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One of the culprits behind all those porn parodies flooding the adult video market did an AMA at Reddit, and disclosed his secrets. Namely, he's a screenwriter trying to make entertaining art. HOW DARE HE, doesn't he understand that this is PORN?!? There's no room for creativity and originality in porn. But, apparently he's the guy behind the American Horror Story parody "American Whore Story", which apparently has witches doing sex magic, so at least he'll be remembered for something.

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