Sex News: The Government Stole Sex, Exxotica, & Revenge Porn

• How the Government Stole Sex (Reason)

Fornication. Sodomy. Adultery. Not so long ago, the U.S. criminalized pretty much all sex outside of marriage. As these laws have been struck down by courts or allowed to settle into obsolescence, it would seem that sexual liberty has been vindicated as an important American value. But while the courts have been busy ushering the government out of our bedrooms, it’s been creeping right back in under new pretenses. Gone is the language of morals, tradition, and order—the state now intervenes in our sex lives bearing the mantles of safety, exploitation, and sex discrimination.

Boo the government.

• Dallas defends its Exxotica porn expo ban with a sexually explicit response (The Dallas Morning News)

Late Friday, attorneys representing Dallas responded to Exxxotica’s request for a temporary injunction with a thick legal document that probably should have come wrapped in brown paper. It’s decidedly not safe for work.

One month ago, and against the advice of its own attorneys, the Dallas City Council voted 8-7 to ban the porn expo from returning to the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in May, insisting it’s a sexually oriented business that shouldn’t be able to set up shop in a city-owned facility.

The city’s response goes to great lengths to prove that point, offering extremely detailed examples of “lewd behavior” captured on video and in photos that have been filed under a separately sealed document. The document discusses incidents of “erotic touching of human genitals” and simulated masturbation.

Boo Dallas and it’s Exxxotica ban.

• Microsoft took action on 63% of ‘revenge porn’ requests (Venture Beat)

Both Microsoft and Google announced new policies last summer to remove “revenge porn” from their search engines if the victim fills out a form and requests it. Microsoft will even take the photos off of the internet entirely if the content is within its reach, like if it’s been shared via Xbox Live or its OneDrive cloud storage service.

But it turns out Microsoft doesn’t automatically say yes to every revenge porn request, just like it doesn’t agree to every request made for other reasons to remove content.

Out of 537 revenge porn requests in the second half of 2015 (the first few months since it enacted the policy), Microsoft agreed to take down or block the content in question 338 times, or 63%, it says in “Content Removal Report.”

Yay Microsoft, sort of.

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