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Featuring the exact moment when a dad finds out he’s going to be a grandpa, the cutest li’l headbanger in the world, and a strikingly literal interpretation of the phrase “food porn.”
Meowing cat motions, bored-looking backup dancers, and what some are interpreting as cultural appropriation? Yup, Avril Lavigne's new single "Hello Kitty" is easily the most cringeworthy music video so far this year. (3:19)
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YouTube user Jessica Hickey captured the exact moment her dad found out that she was expecting. His reaction was beyond adorable. (0:49)
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Hundreds of adult performers are believed to have been affected.
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Watch porn, save the planet.
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The porn site said over 12,000 trees have so far been planted since Arbor Day on April 25.
This Arbor Day Pornhub will do what it does best and give America some serious wood by donating 1 tree for every 100 videos viewed in our Big Dick category.
The more videos that are viewed, the more trees we will plant!
While you're watching some nice pieces of ash, you'll also be helping spruce America up! (Bushes are optional).
Although, Pornhub’s PR director has apparently told The Daily Dot the site is considering three environmental groups.
So, there's no need to feel so guilty about watching so much porn anymore. You're saving the planet.
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“Lights, camera, action” has a totally different meaning. NSFW, because DUH.
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Six women discuss pornography, its place in our lives, and what a perfect porn future would look like.
Conversations about porn are too often conversations about men's desires and women's objections. In reality, real women have desires, opinions, and their own varied relationships with pornography. This is an online conversation between six women about what porn means to them, how it's affected their lives, and what could make it better.
Who are you and what's your relationship with porn?
Tracy Clayton: Hello! I'm Tracy, staff writer at BuzzFeed. I'm very interested in issues of race, sex, and class, and porn is an amazing arena to watch it all play out. My relationship to porn these days is primarily scholarly, watching to see how trends change and wondering at what those changes could mean on larger scales — and cosmetic because I really need to learn how to nail that porn smoky-eye look.
Alex Tauchman: Hi. I'm Alex, and I like to tweet a lot about porn, sex, and feminism. I have been interested in porn for about a couple years now and recently attended the Feminist Porn Conference in Toronto in my capacity as a big fan of porn and feminism.
Julie Gerstein: Hi! I'm Julie, the style editor at BuzzFeed. I was a women's studies major in college, so I studied porn in a scholastic setting — mostly in the context of feminist porn and then vis-à-vis anti-porn feminists like Andrea Dworkin, who felt that porn was violence against women. But I don't really watch it in my personal life.
Conz Preti: Hi! I'm Conz, the editor for BuzzFeed Espanol and Brasil. I watch porn regularly and have been able to understand more of what I'm into and not throughout the years.
Lara Parker: Hi! I'm Lara, staff writer at BuzzFeed. I have experienced vaginal pain/extreme pain with any sort of penetration and tampons since I was about 14 years old. Therefore, porn makes me incredibly uncomfortable and I feel like it sets a standard that I will NEVER live up to. (I don't watch, mostly because it brings me to tears.)
Aurora Snow: Hello! I'm Aurora, retired adult actress and current freelancer for The Daily Beast. I worked in the adult industry for 11 years, saw it change dramatically, and now work to educate others about it.
Picking up on what Aurora just said about how the industry has changed dramatically — is porn more interesting to you now that the landscape is changing? Is the landscape changing that dramatically yet, or is it still a small movement?
CP: Yup, definitely see the change and have been more into the things I find. Before there was a lot of time spent looking at things and going, "Nope, nope, not liking it," and now there's more of a celebration of normalness in sex and sexiness in women. Maybe I JUST came across it, but I've been seeing it a lot more lately.
TC: My interest in porn has waned over the years; I don't watch much now because I guess I'm kind of burned out and bored by much of what I see. I think that I somehow know or assume that things have changed, but I don't readily see those changes, I think. Like, I know that there are more woman-centered options out there, but I still have to look for them explicitly. Big, popular sites, like YouPorn and Xtube, for example, are still largely (from what I see) full of the same old, same old. But I know that there was a time when searching specifically for something different was a chore, and it doesn't seem to be as big a hassle now.
JG: From my perspective, I'm amazed that there is a movement at all, because I haven't kept up with what's happening in porn at all, since the earliest burgeoning feminist porn makers like Tristan Taormino and Susie Bright and such. To know that there is actually a feminist porn thing happening now, amidst all the other crap out there, is actually kind of heartening, though I wouldn't know the first thing about finding it.
AS: I think the movement itself is rather small, but small as it may be, receives a disproportionate amount of media attention. It's still a lot of the same, but with more women in powerful roles, it is changing. Even with porn aimed at women, made by women, the porn still has to appeal to men in order to find a distribution company unless the same producers are also the distributors. When you get to the top, it's still some of the same people running it that have been doing so for the last decade.
AT: I want to pick up on what Aurora just said because it reminded me of a portion of the keynote speech that Courtney Trouble gave at the Feminist Porn Conference. Courtney said that their porn "Trans Grrrls" has been their best-selling so far, and they originally figured it would be more a labor of love than anything, because men, or "the casual cis guy," as Courtney referred to them, wouldn't watch it. I am delighted that porn that increases sexual representation is finding audiences in "the casual cis guy," and I think that is perhaps a harbinger of the possibilities for more crossing over between "mainstream porn" (i.e., large-budget porn made by men for men, presumably) and feminist/queer porn.
JG: Does it matter, Alex, though, if cis men are watching that porn in a genuine way, or not, though? Does how it's viewed matter, or just that it's viewed?
AT: I think that any time the casual cis guy, or whoever, is able to see porn that is earnestly made by people who want to publicly show how they have sex and what they like, that's a step in the right direction.
So that would be a boycott of all the films ever made, then.
Jackson answered simply "RedTube," to the amusement of the audience and his co-stars.
However, his endorsement has led to a backlash from the porn industry.
I would gladly send a catalog of adult movies I have directed to Mr. Jackson if he would be so kind as to recant the comment.
I have a stack of porn for him to help him see the error of his ways.
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Don’t worry, everything here is SFW.
The porn site launched a competition encouraging users to send in their versions of what the SFW adverts should look like, with the winner being employed as PornHub’s creative director on a one-year contract.
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Alyssa Funke killed herself with a shotgun weeks after a video she made for CastingCouch-X was discovered by classmates.
Kelly Shibari is the first plus-size woman grace the cover in the magazine’s 40-year history.
The former roadie broke into porn in her thirties, and also works as a sex educator. She has a line of vibrators, and proudly considers herself a feminist. "My feminism doesn’t come from my size," she explained. "My feminism comes from me not waiting for a guy to help me."
"Right now it’s the 'it' thing to talk about, both in mainstream fashion and television, with people like Melissa McCarthy and Margaret Cho and Rebel Wilson," she told Refinery 29. "The plus-sized female entertainer is very popular in mainstream culture right now, though mostly still in comedy — in sitcoms or as the comedic sidekick. The plus-size woman is not allowed to be the sexy person or the ideal for a romantic love interest."
They tried so hard…
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SALAD IS GOD. SALAD IS LIFE.
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Can you make it through this without your mouth watering?
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“Before I had any idea what sex was, I thought it was some kind of secret club that only had a couple members, including my parents and some movie stars.”
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Update: Coolio’s porn-based comeback is sadly not going to happen. He was just taking part in a video shoot.
In return, the site is providing him with porn stars to appear in a gaudy promo video, of which TMZ has behind-the-scenes footage.
In the clip, a voice from behind the camera can be heard telling the women to "smile, look like you're having a good time" as Coolio pours water over them.
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