Sam Biddle @ VALLEYWAG:

Since acquiring Tumblr, Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer began circling around Tumblr’s billion dollar GIF vortex, we wondered what Yahoo would do with the nasty stuff…

The brilliant, inelegant solution? Build a giant wall around the naked-sex-touching, and build it so tall that it’s hard to get around it: blogs with pornographic or even simply risqué stuff won’t show up on Tumblr tag pages (a popular way to navigate), or might be excluded from search engines.

This will also make it just as hard for you to find porn on Tumblr, which is a really big deal for millions of people who use Tumblr. The same millions of people who Yahoo! wanted so badly to buy access to, in order to advertise to them. But no one will want to advertise to them if they’re cruising for boobs. The problem here sounds confusing, but it’s not: Yahoo! bought Tumblr to be cool. Tumblr was cool, in part, because you could stumble upon boobs or some kind of freaky-ass GIF or whatever the hell. It was a free-thinking weirdo zone free from marketing prudes or content control charts. But once you start to build an internet red light district, the rest of town feels a lot less exciting.

The internet will never smile when you make it harder to masturbate.

READ THE FULL STORY HERE @ VALLEYWAG
also read the shutting down of Tumblr NSFW sites HERE

Where The Bears Are – Season 2: Episode 12 JAIL BEARS from Where the Bears Are on Vimeo.

When Nelson, Reggie and Wood are arrested and booked for breaking and entering, frantic calls to Todd go unanswered and the Bears are left to rely on Wood’s obsessed Colt fan George Ridgemont (George Sebastain) to bail them out, but the cash-strapped dentist only has enough funds to spring one of them. Nelson: Ben Zook. Reggie: Rick Copp. Wood: Joe Dietl. Jail Guard: Jonathan Retamonza-Davila. Little Orphan Tranny: Kevin Rhodes. Hooker: Emily Vrendenberg. Jail Officer: Kyle Kramer Cartieri. Police Chief Frank Coley: Tim Hooper. Jail Interviewee: Gregory Doyle.

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Where The Bears Are – Season 2: Episode 11 BREAK IN BEARS from Where the Bears Are on Vimeo.

Nelson, Reggie and Wood break into Danny Pendleton’s campaign headquarters to dig up evidence for their latest theory that Elliot’s opponent was sleeping with his wife’s personal trainer Turbo and seduced him into knocking off Elliot thereby eliminating his stiffest competition, but a sexy bear security guard (James St. James) interferes with their plans. Nelson: Ben Zook. Reggie: Rick Copp. Wood: Joe Dietl.

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POZ.COM: In 1997, Tony Valenzuela was an up-and-coming LGBT rights activist, open about his HIV-positive status and viewed by many as a beacon of the movement’s future. But the goodwill soured when, during an impromptu speech at the Creating Change Conference, he talked about the gay sex that dared not speak its name: barebacking. “Naively, I did not believe it would be controversial to discuss openly what I knew many of us were experiencing privately,” he recalls. But controversial it was. Valenzuela was both pilloried and praised—which landed him in 1999 on one of POZ’s most memorable covers, riding a horse, sans saddle. Meanwhile, the term “barebacking” became branded, indelibly, into our discourse.

Much has changed on the HIV landscape since then, but our attitudes about gay sex remain stuck in the age of the dial-up modem. Just this year, New York City researchers Luis Freddy Molano, MD, and Renato Barucco released the results of their survey on the sexual habits of gay men who seek partners via hookup apps like Grindr. One finding made headlines as if it were a national scandal: Nearly half of them didn’t use condoms.

READ THE FULL STORY HERE!