lawsuits
Craigslist has announced that they are suing South Carolina Attorney General
Henry McMaster "seeking declaratory relief and a restraining order with respect to criminal charges he has repeatedly threatened against craigslist and its executives." It's on, people.
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websites
Utah, that's which state! Or so says Harvard researcher Ben Edelman, who "analyzed subscriber data from an unnamed 'top 10 seller of online adult entertainment.'" When comparing broadband subscribers,
Utah comes in first with an average of 5.47 per 1000. In second place is Alaska with just over 5.03 per 1000, and coming in third is Mississippi.
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whoops
Michael writes in with an unfortunate coincidence:
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amazon
Imagine the outrage from parents if the first returned product on Amazon in a search for 'movies' returned a hardcore pornography DVD. Adam, a fan of the Japanese cartoon stories known as 'anime,' has
noticed something perhaps even worse: Searches for 'anime' on Amazon return results for 'hentai,' or
adult, X-rated anime films. The top result [as pictured] is for a hentai film called 'Princess 69,' which as a reviewer describes as such:
If you're into non-con, excellent animation, girls going down on girls... you might like this. I don't much care for the enema or watersports parts of this film, but the facial expressions are priceless and lovely. These girls have the most wonderful "I am shocked, my mind has cracked by what is being done to me" expresions, they cry tears, they are bound, taped, mildly electrocuted, made to "initiate" new members, and brutally given sex.
Now we have absolutely no problem with Amazon selling Japanese animation for adults; We know that some cartoons are made with adult themes for adults' enjoyment. But what we don't understand is why Amazon needlessly conflates anime and hentai. Many anime fans, often already scorned as creeps by those not familiar with the range of themes offered by mainstream anime, are worried that Amazon's lack of distinction between anime and hentai will both further the perception that all anime fans are also fans of hentai, as well as put children looking for traditional anime titles in an awkward position.
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shopping
In all the Gawker Empire, only one website is as forgotten as we:
lovely Fleshbot. Of course, the difference is that Fleshbot is hugely popular and we're not, but we support our comrades all the same. We pink websites have to stick together.
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Consumerist
