The vibrator was a Victorian gift to women, new film Hysteria reveals

Maggie Gyllenhaal will star in a movie that takes a humorous look at the invention of sex aids as a mechanical cure for presumed 'hysteria'. 

Location shooting in London is under way on Hysteria, and the jokes are flying thick and fast. In fact, the film industry is "buzzing" with the news that rival claims to the invention of the first vibrator are to be settled in its screenplay.

The film, in which the Oscar-nominated Maggie Gyllenhaal will appear alongside a British cast including Jonathan Pryce, Sheridan Smith, Ashley Jensen, Rupert Everett and Gemma Jones, is to tell the story of the accidental discovery of motorised sex aids in Victorian England. The film will support the contentious claim that, around 1880, a Dr Joseph Mortimer Granville, played by Hugh Dancy, was the first to create an electromechanical vibrator and that his invention was followed in 1902 by the patenting of a device later retailed by the American company, Hamilton Beach.

"It's set in 1880 and it's based on fact," said Pryce, who plays a physician, Robert Dalrymple, father to Gyllenhaal's character. "There are humorous elements, for sure, but ultimately it's a film about female emancipation and liberation."

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Pornstar Devon James confesssed! The supposed sex tape with Tiger Woods is fake.

His golf game may still be off, but Tiger Woods' luck could be starting to change.

A porn star who attempted to sell a sex tape she claimed showed her and the golf champion has admitted it is a fake, RadarOnline.com reported. 

Melinda Janette, a.k.a. Devon James, added a disclaimer to the web page where she sells the 62-minute tape shortly before it was set to ship conceding it was a "spoof."

The price for the footage, which can be bought via credit card or PayPal, has also been lowered to $19.99 from $25.95.

In June, Janette’s ex-husband told the gossip website that had made a deal with a DVD production company to sell the tape, from which they expected to make $5 million in sales.

They also claimed that Woods' lawyers had contacted them and threatened to sue - a charge the golfer's lawyers denied.

Woods never denied having relations with Devon James, an admitted prostitute, who said she met the golfer when she was 19, but her claims of a sex tape were always considered shaky.

Nor was it the first time she tried to score money from the embattled golfer.

In June, Janette claimed Woods had fathered her 9-year-old child, Austin T. James - a claim even her own mother, Sandra Brinling, wouldn't back up.

Brinling, who had custody of the youngster, told the Daily News her daughter knew exactly who the father was.

"All she is looking for is to get money," she said.

On Sunday, Woods finished an arduous PGA Tour, where he managed only three top-10 finishes. It was his first PGA Tour season in 15 years without a victory.

The interview in question:

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Now Showing at MMIA: Nude Images of Passengers

Lagos — The 3D full-body scanners procured for thorough body check of passengers at the nation’s major airports for security reasons are now being abused by security officials from the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), THISDAY can confirm.
They use the machines, installed in the wake of the Farouk AbdulMutallab affair, to watch the naked images of female passengers for fun.

The controversial body scanners have been dubbed “e-stripping” in advanced countries because of the way they expose the nakedness of those being screened.
THISDAY discovered that during off-peak periods, the aviation security officials, who are trained on the use of the scanners, usually stroll from the cubicle located in a hidden corner on the right side of the screening area where the 3D full-body scanner monitors are located.
They do so to catch a glimpse of some of the passengers entering the machine and immediately go back to view the naked images, in order to match the faces with the images since the faces are blurred on the monitors while passengers are inside the machine.
The face that appears on the scanner’s monitor is usually blurred so that the operator viewing the full body will not recognise who passes through the machine.
But by coming out to see the passenger in person and then going back to see his or her image, the objective of protecting the privacy of the passenger has been defeated.

THISDAY observed this development first-hand when it visited the screening area, passed through the conventional screening machine at 3pm last Saturday and observed that passengers were reluctant to use the new 3D full-body scanner.
To compel them to use it, one of the conventional scanners was put out of service, leaving the ones at the left end and another very close to the new scanner.

A FAAN senior official expressed shock in an interview with THISDAY, saying: “It is a breach of privacy. I will deal with it immediately I return to Lagos.”
The official informed THISDAY that the actual passengers the scanner was meant for were US-bound passengers, who travel with Arik Air and Delta Air Lines.
But when THISDAY visited the airport last Saturday, these airlines were not checking in passengers.
In fact, it was only Emirates that had opened its check-in desk and passengers were just trickling in and passing through the screening machines.
“In Lagos, we ensure that passengers going to US through Arik Air and Delta pass through the full-body scanner. It is not compulsory for all passengers, but in Abuja all passengers meant for international flights pass through the full-body scanner,” said the FAAN official.
THISDAY also learnt that two out of the four scanners at the Lagos airport are working, while the other two are not working because of non-functional monitors.

So far, only one 3D full-body scanner is working at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
FAAN recently ordered and procured 10 of the machines, which would be deployed in the four major airports in the country.
Since the failed underwear bomb attempt of US airliner by AbdulMutallab, in Detroit, Michigan, major airports in the world have deployed the 3D full body scanners for total body screening of passengers and crew to ensure safety in air travel.
However, there is anxiety over passengers’ complete cooperation with the new screening method as some of them express fear that the radiation from the screening equipment is capable of causing health disorders like skin cancer.
Also, another class of passengers are resisting going through the screening machines for religious reasons, insisting that it is against their religion to expose their nakedness.


An aviation security expert told THISDAY in Lagos:  “The scanner is capable of detecting and revealing substances that could pose security threats concealed on a person’s body that other screening devices, such as metal detectors, cannot detect. The scanner can even reveal very small quantities of liquid explosives, non-metallic weapons, and plastic explosives that could be inimical to aviation safety.”
The new device is expected to boost security operations at the nation’s airports, as it helps to eliminate the threats posed by terrorists, drug carriers, and it will help to improve the image of the country on security.

Cultural Exchange: 'Sex Talk' documentary lets Egyptians discuss a taboo topic

An intersting article from the Los Angeles Times:

"Reporting from Cairo — Take a glimpse across Egypt'ssexual landscape and you'll see the devil's ploys, unrequited passions, mundane marital rhythms, tempestuous affairs, the threat of God, the shame of society and, in one wrenching scene, a village girl circumcised by a man wielding a knife.

Sex in most cultures is balanced between sanctity and sin, that precarious, often titillating, terrain veering from the virtue of the family to a bondage fetish captured on a cellphone and dispersed across the Internet. We become the hidden strands of our desires. Sexual tastes around the world navigate religion, rigid gender roles, centuries of tradition and fears over the allure of Western permissiveness. But in Islamic countries, such as Egypt, these lines are more constrictive and firmly drawn.

You can read the whole article here.

Sandra Iron: From a PornStar to a Webcam Model

Being a pornstar is not always as fun, as you might imagine. For the Hungarian Sandra Iron it was more like work. She stopped doing porn movies seven years ago, and now she only shows her beauty behind the webcam. She had some time for us for a little chitchat…

PornStar Confessions:
You are a well known and successful porn star in Hungary and beyond. You made many XXX movies. Why have you stopped?

Sandra Iron:
I stopped, because I had enough. I won what I wanted, I got what I wanted from porn shooting, and I wanted to have a family. Husband, children… I don’t plan to shoot any other film; I have no time for that while caring for my three children. I have only time for the webcam work from home for a few hours daily.

PSC:
When and how did you start to make adult movies?

SI:
I started to make porn when I was 26. I simply went to an agency and I asked for model work. I don’t remember the name of that agency. Well they offered this kind of work instead. Since I didn’t had any boyfriend at this time, it was fine for me. And it was a good salary…

PSC:
Was it hard for you for the first time when you started to act in porn?

SI:
No, it wasn’t hard for me. I did what they told me and I could manage that without problems.

PSC:
Was the name Sandra Iron your choice, or was it thrust upon you?

SI:
Antonio Adamo gave this name to me. I trusted him and I didn’t care about my name. He was the producer and he had to know what’s the best name for me.

PSC:
Was it important for you who was your partner or who was the director while shooting a movie, or it didn’t matter at all?

SI:
It didn’t matter for me. I thought of this as work only, so I didn’t care about my partners. I didn’t look for a sex partner or a boyfriend at the shooting. I didn’t go there for having sex. I went there to work. If you work in a bank you don’t care about who is the customer, who wants to open an account… And I never had any problem with the directors.

PSC:
Is there a straight line for you between “I am doing porn” and “I am making love”?

SI:
For me to „make porn” is not „having sex”. So yes, there’s a straight line. You cannot compare those two at all. That’s why I never watch porn. I don’t find it arousing. It’s so “anatomical” for me.

PSC:
How your boyfriend/husband feels about you doing porn and the adult webcam?

SI:
Sometimes he makes a home video, when we have sex but only for himself. He likes what I do now, he finds me sexy during my work and he’s not jealous.

PSC:
Does this happen, that your boyfriend/husband is on the set of the shooting of a porn movie? If yes, doesn’t it feel awkward?

SI:
No, because when we started to date, I already stopped doing porn about five years ago.

PSC:
If you could choose another career, what would you do?

SI:
I would manage an agency if I had the time for that. And teach the girls and boys.

PSC:
Which was the strangest, most interesting or funniest place for you to shoot porn?

SI:
The scene „sex in the rain” at night under tap water outside. It was very cold and both of us got very sick after the shooting.

PSC:
What do you like or hate the most about your porn star partners? Smell? Behavior? Appearances?

SI:
All of it.

PSC:
Do you work with girls too, or men only? And in private life?

SI:
I worked with girls and boys too. In private life I am of the monogamous type and I had only boyfriends. Now I am with my husband only and I always had one man at the same time.

PSC:
Why have you started to perform via cam?

SI:
Well, I needed the money, and I searched for a work which I can do on the Internet from my home only for a few hours, and actually this was the very first I found…

PSC:
Is this easier or harder than making porn movies?

SI:
It’s sometimes easier and sometimes harder. In porn movies you know exactly your salary and there are no empty rides. Also in porn movies there are no charge backs because of the credit card cheaters. In porn I earned much more money, but I had to stay on shootings all days long and now I stay online only for a few hours. In porn you can get sick because of sexual diseases. On the webcam it‘s safe sex all the way. At the porn shooting you meet nice people, who are kind to you, if you do a nice job. There is no stress and everybody tells you that you are beautiful and sexy during the shootings to motivate you for the perfect job. Here you can meet people who are not so kind, and people who want to hurt you. And you have to keep smiling to all of this. At the beginning it wasn’t easy, but nowadays I don’t care about these people.

PSC:
How much time do you spend daily behind the camera?

SI:
I’m here two times daily for 1-1 hours or 2-3 hours maximum. It depends on the members and my mood.

PSC:
What was the strangest or funniest thing somebody asked to do from you in a cam show?

SI:
Well, it was private, so I think that I have to keep that secret for both us.

PSC:
Does the fact, that you are a past porn star make you more popular than other girls?

SI:
It’s true, that a lot of guys comes here because of my name, but a lot of guys also comes here because I talk a lot and my room is not boring. There are young boys who don’t know me at all. They search for me on the net and they come back satisfied with the thing they found. The fans know that I’m a professional and I can give them exactly what they want. They can ask strange things too, which won’t scare me. If somebody knows my work he knows that he is on the right place in m room. They can get even answers about the shootings of one my porn movie.