If we codify the category of "porn addiction," everyone will more accurately appreciate the potential power of porn to condition sexuality (brains are most plastic as teens, so be careful) and perhaps most importantly, porn users will be more precisely differentiated under the porn addiction umbrella.

“It made me think that some people are only comfortable with porn people when they’re on their computers, and not in their immediate vicinity.” One of Ronson’s quirks is that he describes porn actresses and actors not as “stars” but as “porn men” and “porn women,” an oddly charming and childlike turn of phrase that evokes images of erotic Lego figures.

On Thursday's post about whether it's fair for artists to engage in so-called "ruin porn" by photographing Detroit's plight, Tony Comstock discoursed on porn, in all its various forms, irritated with the very designation, "ruin porn": It'svery important that all photographic depictions that are bothcompelling and disquieting be labeled as "porn".

Her show's sideways commentary on porn's impact has now become fodder for the porn industry itself. But Richie Calhoun, the actor who plays the Adam character in the new parody, explained in a Tumblr post Friday afternoon that he "dig[s] GIRLS' discussion of the effects of porn on sex in society." He added: "I was certainly influenced by porn in my teenage years and early twenties.

Michael Wilkerson, director of arts administration programs at Indiana University, Bloomington, has an idea that he thinks could funnel more money to the arts and lessen the influence of politics on the funding process: Use a small tax on the arts to pay for arts grants.

Gadget porn, food porn, space porn   The Perfect Fit: Dudes, bros, and gentlemen.  Why?

Some have suggested that, given the option of condom only-porn or no porn at all, the straight-porn market could similarly adapt, with consumers more willing to pay for latex-infused scenes.

Women (and men, too) who want to read porn on the Kindle don't want to be buying their porn from some place that screams porn!

The data isn't perfect: For example, the report says that it "looked at bachelors degrees in music, drama and theater arts, film, video and photographic arts, art history and criticism, studio arts, and visual and performing arts"—which would mean that folks like me with a creative writing degree aren't counted as having arts degrees, even though writers are counted by the survey as working artists.

See also: Food Porn, Supply-chain Porn, Poverty Porn, and of course Pornography itself.

Three days after it launched at the start of 2013, John Biggs of TechCrunch wrote about “Vine’s Porn Problem,” noting that searching for #porn delivered, well, porn, as if that’s some sort of big surprise.

We just ran a piece in The Believer, and there was some mention in it of porn just being for men, and one of our editors flagged it, and she's in her 20s, and she really took issue with this, and she's a really, really feminist-minded person, and she saw this as an anti-feminist statement, that only men enjoy porn, that women can't enjoy porn, that there is no such thing as porn for women.

According to a 2014 State of the Arts report, 20 percent of New York City public schools have no full or part-time arts teacher, 16 percent have no arts or cultural partnerships, and 10 percent have no dedicated arts room.

So, perhaps it’s no surprise that, for those who crave the more drastic masturbatory aid, the Internet offers easy access to a Grand Guignol of the outright bizarre (Midget Porn, Clown Porn, Girl-Fight Gang-Bang Porn).

Amanda Hess profiled the 25-year-old porn prince at length in a recent issue of GOOD magazine, sparking an important conversation about sex and sexism in the porn industry. In a post for Slate's XXFactor called "Porn That Women Like," J.

According to Wilson, Internet porn's power to sustain arousal with mass numbers of novel mates at-a-click has sensitized many people's brains to porn sex rather than real sex, leading to a wave of porn-induced brain-based sexual dysfunction.

Porn leaves out the best parts—the kissing the cuddling, the talking, the laughing.” Klein issued a list of porn literacy checkpoints for parents to go over with their kids that includes emphasizing that most people don’t have bodies like porn performers, that many recurring images in porn (like threesomes, anal sex, and spontaneous sex unprompted by conversation) are theatrical devices and don’t reflect what many men and women want from sexual encounters, and that most women don’t want violence or rough play during sex.

The natural conclusion to leap to, of course, is that the neediness and the porn career are inextricably intertwined: that Carrera entered porn because she needed to be loved, and/or is so unsure of herself because she's ashamed of her porn career.

I only watched a few hours of porn a week and haven't watched porn in years, but it continues to negatively affect my life -- so for some, the threshold isn't that high before Internet porn causes problems.

Lots of online porn meets community standards of obscenity, and so “It wouldn’t be that difficult to close down a lot of the relatively visible websites that are used for the distribution of pornography, if they’re in the United States." But that would leave plenty of offshore porn sites which Volokh said would require “a mandatory filter set up by the government or by the service." Or, as Nelson, suggests, "the government could also prosecute individual citizens who view porn, and already has the legal authority to do it." So, yes, a simple plan to get rid of porn.

Today, it must deal with young Internet competitors Artsy and Artnet.

As Artnet reports, Trump and Kushner have sold just one artwork from their collection.

Los Angeles may be the epicenter of porn production, but San Francisco, San Diego, and Miami are home to their own hardcore porn scenes and will remain unaffected by the regulations of Measure B (as, of course, will Europe, where quite a bit of hardcore porn also happens to be shot).

Maybe if this is officially recognized, I'll know if I'm a recovered porn addict, a porn abuser, or an early-stage recreational user experiencing an internalization of porn-based eroticism that has profoundly impacted what sexual stimuli I find salient (still searching for that shorter term).

Alfre Woodard, the Emmy-winning actress and producer who may be best known for her work in True Blood, said, “When you go to legislators and make a case for how crucial an arts education is—that education is not only incomplete without it, but that arts actually facilitate learning in science and math.” Woodard, like Woetzel, sat on the President’s Committee for Arts and the Humanities, which authored the document “Reinvesting in Arts Education,” calling to unify and focus efforts to expand arts education offerings to underserved students and communities.

BuzzFeed's John Herman brought our attention to this pornification of Pinterest, with its cheeky nod to the type of porn the type of social network like Pinterest has attracted: Infinite Porns of Pinterest, which presents a list of 33 types of not-so-naked porn found on the newish social network: Food Porn, Word Porn, Robert Downey Jr.

On the larger goal, though, can Porn Studies articles like "Gonzo, trannys, and teens – current trends in US adult content production, distribution, and consumption" or "Fair-trade porn + niche markets + feminist audience" or "Porn's pedagogies: teaching porn studies in the academic–corporate complex" or "Deep tags: toward a quantitative analysis of online pornography" actually deepen the way people talk and write about pornography?  I don't know.

An art advisor, Alex Marshall, helped the couple to build their collection, Artnet reports;

"I believe that watching porn corrupts people, and many of the crimes that happen to women, girls and children, such as sex-trafficking, are mostly related to pornography," he tells The New York Times's India Ink blog.  This is the logic, apparently: Rapists who have been caught watch porn, so porn is one of the major factors in the rapes ...

For instance, in her 2005 review of a documentary about Deep Throat (a movie that in today’s world of porn might be rated PG-13), Northwestern University professor Laura Kipnis compared porn to science fiction: “Like sci-fi, porn replaces existing realities with wild alternative universes (against which to measure the lackluster, repressive world we’ve inherited).” But instead of a sexual ecosystem populated by an overheated species of Amazon women and ponytailed men, the Internet porn aesthetic verges on unvarnished realism.

Amazon's advantage as a seller of porn is precisely that it sells lots of things that aren't porn, and that it is known primarily for selling things that aren't porn.

Porn may have helped make the Kindle successful, but a big part of the reason that the Kindle is so perfectly made for porn is that it doesn't look like it's made for porn.

Although it had already been mentioned on smaller tech blogs, the Vine porn problem started to become widely known after New York Times reporter Nick Bilton tweeted, "Friend: 'So are people using Vine for porn yet?' Me: "'Nah, I don't think so.' Friend: 'Check the hashtag #porn." Both: "Holy ****!'" And the thing is, he's totally right.

Earlier this month, The New York Times Magazine published “WhatTeenagers Are Learning From Online Porn,” a feature that probed the frontier of sex education: a 10-hour course for high schoolers titled, “The Truth About Pornography.” The course aims to make teens in this age of ubiquitous porn “savvier, more critical consumers of porn by examining how gender, sexuality, aggression, consent, race, queer sex, relationships and body images are portrayed (or, in the case of consent, not portrayed) in porn,” the Times reports.

“It’s particularly heartbreaking because it’s youth from lower-income neighborhoods that the arts have the highest impact on,” Alphons says, citing a 2012 National Endowment of the Arts report on the arts and at-risk youth.

The first issue of Porn Studies, an academic journal exploring "pornography, and sexual representations more generally," has debuted.  The mere fact of its existence, which became public in mid-2013, was occasion for a media event. But the journal's articles are serious articulations of the intersection between the concerns of media studies and those of pornography. Porn Studies is not a joke, though it seems to provide everyone with some relief to treat it as one.  That's because so many people look at so much porn: HuffPo noted last year that porn sites get more visitors than Netflix, Amazon, and Twitter combined.

One of its creators, Emily Rothman, explained that the curriculum “is grounded in the reality that most adolescents do see porn and takes the approach that teaching them to analyze its messages is far more effective than simply wishing our children could live in a porn-free world.” While the conversation that ensued focused on porn’s place in American life, the story struck me as a useful point of comparison for a look back at sex-ed 50 years ago.

“It is our belief that an early life spent in the creative arts actually creates a type of thinker … that is very supportive of innovation,” she said, citing students with a background in traditional arts, visual arts, music, creative writing, choreography, and screenwriting.

For example, they would simultaneously watch really violent porn and post really violent porn, and then also say men are being emasculated by all the porn they watch and they’re not making babies.

As reporters at Artnet discovered, Kushner, a senior White House advisor, failed to report the couple’s extensive art collection in required financial disclosures.

A recent analysis conducted by the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project, an organization run out of Indiana University that surveys those who attended arts institutions, found that only about half of the respondents who graduated from arts high schools currently hold a full- or part-time career as an artist.

We were skeptical when writer Paige Williams declared this Flavorwire post that collects photos of "gorgeous and innovative" bookshelves  "bookshelf porn." Sure, the meaning of "porn" has gotten fuzzy as sites like foodporndaily.com have likened the aesthetic beauty of non-fleshly images to that of porn, but this Flavorwire's collection of photos is actually, as it turns out, aesthetically appealing enough to merit the description.

such facts as “Porn hates families,” “Porn leaves you lonely,” and “Porn addiction escalates.” The group made national news in late 2015 when it plastered San Francisco with more than 100 billboards that said, “Porn kills love.” The group denies a formal affiliation with the Mormon church, though as journalist Samantha Allen notes, its founders are all Mormon, and its facts rely on claims from Mormon author Donald Hilton’s He Restoreth My Soul: Understanding and Breaking the Chemical and Spiritual Chains of Pornography through the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

At the same time, former softcore porn start Danni Ashe is suing the Daily Mail for using a photo of her next to the headline, "Porn Industry shuts down with immediate effect after 'female performer' tests positive for HIV."  Ashe was not the female performer who tested positive for HIV and says she hasn't been in porn since 2004.

The U.K porn ban includes more than just porn, according to participating ISP providers that spoke with the Open Rights Group.

Hard-core porn, which is what Internet porn largely traffics in, is undoubtedly extreme.

At the time, the porn industry campaigned against the law, claiming that porn with condoms doesn't sell as well. 

In addition to the opt-in requirement for porn, ISPs will also automatically ban a slew of other content areas that have nothing to do with porn.

(It’s also worth mentioning that upwards of 80 percent of revenge porn victims are women.) The harms caused by revenge porn websites are very real—people featured on these sites receive solicitations over social media, lose their jobs, or live in fear that their family and future employers will discover the photos.    Moore may have been the “King of Revenge Porn,” but he wasn’t the first contender for the throne.

It's also a convenient way for anti-porn activists to make their arguments about porn's dangers.

As Artnet reports, Trump and Kushner have sold just one artwork from their collection.

Today, it must deal with young Internet competitors Artsy and Artnet.

An art advisor, Alex Marshall, helped the couple to build their collection, Artnet reports;

As reporters at Artnet discovered, Kushner, a senior White House advisor, failed to report the couple’s extensive art collection in required financial disclosures.

Tomorrow, as Artnet notes, the main contemporary event will feature several works priced over $20 million, putting the auction house in position to rake in $500 million in sales.

2015: The Year in Nostalgia The 15 Weirdest and Wildest Art Stories of 2015 | Artnet“An art and design collective made a black-and-white striped bouncy castle with Nicolas Cage’s face on it (Cage in a cage, get it?), and it’s kind of terrifying.”

The American left is in for a long, wretched period of irrelevance if this is its idea of striking back.” Along the same lines, Artnet quotes a Facebook post from the artist Daniel Keller saying of the strike, “This is so pointless and anyone who doesn’t realize this is completely oblivious to the current political climate and of art’s utter irrelevancy within American culture.” But the strike is partly a reaction to the specter of irrelevance—and has goals other than sending a message to the president-elect and his followers.