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  Ballsy Women Gathered in DTLA for the Dick Pic Art Show [NSFW]

  Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 11:41 a.m.

  For all the things they're OK at, men can't seem to understand that women don't want random penises emailed, texted and Snapchatted to them. With the traveling art show "I Didn't Ask for This: A Lifetime of Dic Pics," organizer Whitney Bell wants to make one thing clear — consent is key.
  
  The images in the show, which took over Think Tank Gallery on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 6-7, are all sourced from dick pics sent to women without the consent of the receiver. Unless a woman has specifically asked for a snapshot of a man's penis, assume she doesn't want to see it. We don't want to see them if they're large, we don't want to see them if they're small, we don't want to see them with a remote control, we don't want to see them in a hot dog bun. We do not want your dick pics, Sam, we do not want them — they're worse then spam.
  
  It's a serious message, but it was presented in a playful way at Friday night's opening party. In a space designed to look like a woman's apartment — in which photos of random penises have been framed and hung with care — a DJ duo spun '90s tunes at the Doc Johnson–sponsored Butt Plug DJ booth, women got their pictures taken in the 200-dildo photo booth, and some even sat to get $20 tattoos from a selection of feminist flash. On the "Speak Up Wall," women vented their frustrations about unwanted sexual advances and more. Plenty of men and gender-fluid people were spotted in the crowd too, because allyship is key. Proceeds from the opening night party benefited the anti-harassment nonprofit Hollaback!.
  
  All photos by Star Foreman.
  
  

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  Millennials Are Having Less Sex but Getting More STDs

  Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 7:01 a.m.

  Why are STDs on the rise in L.A. County? Here's one theory.

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  Inside the Koreatown Dojo Dedicated to the Art of Japanese Rope Bondage

  Monday, October 9, 2017 at 7:32 a.m.

  Mention anything bondage-related and Zetsu Nawa reflexively geeks out. A casual reference to a dotted gag in one of his thousands of drawings and photos of bound women launches him into a mini-lecture about its “humiliation factor” in modern Japan. It’s just a dishtowel, he explains. “It’s like he...

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  There's More to This Dick Pic Art Show Than Pointing and Laughing at Penises

  Tuesday, October 3, 2017 at 12:18 p.m.

  On Christmas Eve six or seven years ago, I was driving on the freeway from Atlanta to may parents' home in northeast Florida when I felt a vehicle pacing me in the lane to my left. I looked over and sure enough a black Toyota SUV was riding alongside me...

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  The Strange, Forgotten Story of O.J. Simpson's Sex Tape

  Friday, August 4, 2017 at 6:31 a.m.

  Whether or not the sex tape was made with O.J.'s knowledge is the matter of some dispute.

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  Porn Star Kayden Kross Reflects on the Decade That Changed the Adult Industry Forever

  Wednesday, July 12, 2017 at 7:32 a.m.

  “The Internet is for porn!,” the puppets from the hit off-Broadway musical “Avenue Q” gleefully proclaimed in 2003. And, sure, it was. But back then — in an age of slower computers, lower bandwidth and expensive storage drives (and no Facebook) — what the puppets meant by “Internet porn” was...