Covenant Eyes was created by evangelical Christians, and is designed to minimize all the temptations the web has to offer—specifically, porn. For $10 a month, you can get an Internet Accountability report sent to your spouse, a friend, or anyone who would understand your struggles with erotic desire. This report is customizable, so you can set it to only report what times you went online, or the most “highly mature” sites you visited. (The website provides a sample report.)
You can also add filtering services to your account. One person, designated the “Filter Guardian,” chooses an age-appropriate level of internet restriction for family members, and Covenant Eyes blocks domains they deem unacceptable. As the website notes, “Any attempts to get past the Filter will appear on the Accountability Report, which allows those moments of weakness to be discussed.”
Oh God, there’s also a “Panic Button” you can hit when you’re feeling like you can no longer be trusted to restrain yourself. All Internet access will be shutdown until you speak to someone from Covenant Eyes personally. They will turn your Internet access back on after you confess to them you wanted to look at porn.
Apparently, husbands all over the country are calling in experts from IT departments to find ways around this app. What’s funny is that the same IT departments will then get a call from the wives asking them to NOT TURN OFF the Covenant Eyes app.
P.S. Covenant Eyes should be the name of a horror movie. That’s how creepy it is.
Their site now sometimes goes by the unfortunate nickname “Khan Academy of the clit,” which gives you the idea. Tastefully designed and well-produced, OMGYes uses infographics, videos, and statistics to do what even the best how-to books rarely do: give data on how to get off. “It’s this epidemic where women’s pleasure is taboo, partners aren’t asking and women aren’t telling, it’s omitted from sex education, and there’s a lot of misinformation,” Perkins says. “When we put a call out to women to share and set the record straight, we had an outpouring of support.”
Most striking, though, is the part of the pitch that says nobody else is working on the science of pleasure, of what actually helps and doesn’t help women have orgasms. Depending on the survey you read, only about a third of women have orgasms from penetrative vaginal sex alone (though a vastly higher number do when you add in clitoral stimulation). And about 10 percent of women don’t have orgasms at all. If you ask OMGYes, nobody’s really studying how to optimize all that and bring those numbers up. If clitoral stimulation is the key, what kind of clitoral stimulation? What patterns? What rhythms? The people demand answers.
OMGYes aims to give women better, bigger orgasms, or you know, any orgasm just to start with. It’s pretty cool and they’re definitely on the right track if y’all are having trouble with the all mighty clit. On an unrelated note, when I was younger I thought Silicon Valley earned that particular nickname because of all the people with silicon breast implants that lives there. At the time I didn’t know silicon was, you know, a tech thing, with all those wires and whatnot.
In every social interaction, consent — permission for something to happen — is key. Though the concept itself is simple, consent becomes quite complex in daily life. It takes many forms and is constantly being renegotiated.
Porn production is one instance wherein consent is exceptionally complex. From booking a scene to endless iterations of on-camera sex, performers are navigating various dimensions of consent, often moment by moment. These negotiations occur within a subculture operating under its own set of unique norms, as well as within the context of a wider society that continues to stigmatize professional sex work.
You can currently stream the discussion at mindbrowse.com. I haven’t watched it yet, so I can’t give you my personal opinion on the talk, but it’s definitely an important discussion to have, especially in light of what has recently happened.
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