Porn Sparks Love Campaign

A new website, PornSparksLove.com, launched today, dedicated to combatting anti-porn efforts and propaganda. Developed by adult e-tail site GameLink.com, GameLink was founded in San Francisco in 1993. Today it is the leading online distributor of adult content through its website which provides an enhanced user experience with cutting edge functionality. The Porn Sparks Love campaign highlights the positive impact of pornography on love and relationships around the world through expert and viewer testimonials, as well as scientific studies and media articles. Garnering the support of the adult industry and its millions of fans, the de-shaming initiative supports openness, creative self-expression, and all forms of sexuality. GameLink’s new campaign is a positive response to an anti-porn smear effort by Fight the New Drug, a Salt Lake City-based conservative group with Mormon ties. Scores of billboards have recently begun popping up in San Francisco and other cities, which read, “Porn Kills Love; Fight For Love.” The website PornKillsLove.com is posted at the bottom of each billboard.

“It’s sad to see so much negativity against the adult industry based purely on ideology. It’s not an accurate depiction of adult content, and we want to show a truer view through this campaign,” said GameLink.com representative Tera Reynolds. “Our message promotes dialogue, intimacy, sex, and enhancing people’s love lives. Most of all, it supports openness and one’s ability to express themselves sexually in a healthy and consensual way.”

PornSparksLove.com includes links, testimonials and information from consumers, adult industry representatives, celebrities, and medical professionals detailing how porn has positively impacted relationships. The website serves as a vehicle to shed a positive light on porn's proximity and inclusion of love and relationships, while debunking myths and misconceptions about the adult industry. The site’s developers also hope to gain traction on social media using the hashtag #PornSparksLove. The biggest part of the site is the tab “Porn Myths”, where it lists a lot of the random myths about porn. With each myth you click on you will find a link to a credible source that debunks said myth. Testimonials are broken up into 2 sections: One section from fans and Supporters and the other section from people in the industry. 

“We are reaching out to the adult industry, fans, celebrities, and professionals, as well as all those who have enjoyed a positive impact from adult entertainment, to submit to us their own testimonials and stories about how porn has made a difference in their love life and relationships,” Reynolds said. “We want to hear from everyone who has improved or enhanced their relationships thanks to porn and adult entertainment. We want to help share all those amazing stories with the world!” 

PornSparksLove.com outlines its opposition to the anti-porn campaign with the following statement:

“Repressed and fearful people want you to believe porn kills love. They would have you believe pornography promotes disrespect, exploitation, abuse, and selfishness, when the truth is actually the opposite. Gamelink, and its hundreds of thousands of supporters, know better, and as a leading adult e-commerce company which avidly supports openness, creative self-expression, and all forms of sexuality, we are here to share with you how #PornSparksLove. Anyone can compile a bunch of random stats to make a case, but we prefer to rely on first-hand stories and accounts of “real” people. We spoke to people who live both inside and outside of the adult entertainment industry – people who are employed in porn, who balance real life situations and relationships, who have great “real” sex lives, and who are in love.  We also spoke with people who fell in love, or deeper in love, as a result of their time sharing adult entertainment with one another. Please allow us to show love’s perspective from another side – one where sexuality, sensuality, eroticism, romanticism, wants, needs, desires, and supports are not separate, but intricately intertwined”.

Those interested in submitting their stories, unique testimonials, or offers of support may e-mail Testimonials@PornSparksLove.com

To learn more, please visit www.PornSparksLove.com.

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Review: OSTEO Corps #1

Written & Created: Steven J Cyr, MD
Illustrator: Thiago A. Silva
Colors: by Together Studio  

OsteoCorps is an all ages educational comic book based on science and health. It is a way to help educate children on their injuries and illnesses in the world of superheroes and super villains. It’s a way to take away the fear and stigma that many kids have of hospitals and to help them find the courage they made need to face things head on.

The creator of the OsteoCorps Steven J Cyr M.D., also known as Ian Cision, is a spine surgeon from San Antonio, Texas. When asked by a close friend and pediatric surgeon to join his practice, he was inspired by the idea of creating an environment for kids where they felt a sense of empowerment. He felt an environment based on the world of superheroes would be the best way to convey that message. From there the superhero team OSTEOCORPS was born. The Children’s Orthopedic and Spine Center is considered to be a superhero fan’s paradise. The mentors of the OsteoCorps are likenesses of Dr. and Mrs. Cyr.
The story begins with Dr & Mrs Cision successfully creating the Genesis serum, a serum that has the ability to transform diseased tissue into normal tissue by manipulating stem cells as well as heal and correct bone abnormalities. They felt confident enough that the serum would work that they tested it on themselves with no effect. Considered a failure they called it a night, but unbeknownst to them their children, Cade, Alexia, and Colt were playing hide n seek in the lab and accidentally knocked some of the serum off the table causing them to be covered in it. The next morning when they awoke they found that the serum had changed them in very dramatic ways. While at first the serum had no affect on Dr. & Mrs. Cision, they come to find out that their abilities were much more subtle but still impressive. They also included their most trusted friend and partner Eli to join the super powered club and his results were astounding. With their new found powers and abilities they formed the OsteoCorps and embark on a training montage. Of course hidden in the shadows are 2 of Dr Cision’s colleagues, Dr’s Adsin & Nakamura, decide that Dr Cision has had his time in the sun for way too long and decide to steal the formula for themselves. After stealing it they try it as well and it turns them into twisted versions of who they really are and thus forming MalUnion.

The artwork and style in this book are amazing. It is really well done. The book itself is high quality printing and embedded logo. You can tell Dr. Cyr went all out for this series. The pacing of the story is very fast paced and reads like an old school origin story. Scientists create something wonderful and somehow it gives them or some random person superpowers thus creating the newest ally for justice. Since it is geared towards kids that may be the reason behind that pacing. With all the terms being used it is very helpful that he put a glossary of terms in the back of the book. That really helped with the story. Since it is the first issue, not every character is fully fleshed out, but when they become superheroes and start their training he really does a great job in defining each hero and their abilities. In later issues I hope that we get a better sense of each hero and their role as a person and a hero. My favorite part in this first issue is that in their training montage they are teaching everyone not only how to use their powers, but how to actually fight. Which a lot of super powered heroes tend not to learn because they rely on their powers a bit much and end up paying for it.

Dr. Cyr conceptualized every character personally, their powers, arch enemies, and battles based on injuries, illness, and treatment of the muscular and skeletal systems. The idea is to teach children about their conditions and the science behind the source and treatment of each condition without it being obvious. He wanted to create unique characters imbued with special powers that were in line with those needed to treat their injuries and disease states. Ultimately, it's a battle between health and illness (good vs bad) but in a totally new frontier. The characters can adjust their cell sizes and thus, their bodies, to be nanometer sized or normal sized. They can fight in the body or in the outside world. The battles are limitless as are the types of cells and diagnoses facing humans. In the back of the first issue a glossary of terms that are used throughout the story can be found which really shows the reader just where the names originate from as well as understand the medical terms that doctors use.

OSTEOCORPS is definitely worth a pick up. There is no set schedule yet on when the newer issues will be released, but you can buy the first issue and keep up on any news on the website. The book is mainly to help educate kids on what’s going in their bodies when they are sick and injured, which it does well. I like that they are doing so in the comic book route which makes it easier to understand. It may not be on the level of an Amazing Spiderman comic book story, but it’s on a level that will definitely keep kids entertained and even create a fan base among the average comic reader.  

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Comic Books by Adult Film Stars

Porn has always been about fantasy of sex. So when they branched out into XXX-Parodies of famous movies and TV shows, it was no real surprise that how well those features did. Like Rule 34 says on the internet, if it exists there is porn of it. Porn companies have dabbled in the world of comic books as a way to promote their own studios or girls. 

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BEYOND20 Principal Erika Flora Selected as Women in Technology's 2016 Leadership Foundry

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- BEYOND20 announced today that its Principal, Erika Flora, has been selected as a member of the 2016 Women in Technology Leadership Foundry program. Flora, a founder and managing partner of the ITSM consulting firm, is one of eighteen women selected for the class of 2016. BEYOND20 is a technology-enabled services firm focused on transformative Project Management and IT Service Management solutions to support the practical implementation of Best Practice. BEYOND20 is a Cherwell Preferred partner, with several of the world's largest and most complex Cherwell Service Management implementations to its credit. The company's experienced team has developed numerous customer solutions leveraging Cherwell's Codeless Business Application Platform, and was awarded "Most Innovative Use of Cherwell" at the 2014 Cherwell Global Conference

"The majority of purchasing worldwide is done by women, and yet less than 20% of Forutune500 companies have women serving on their corporate boards," said Erika Flora. "It's something that needs to change, and it's exciting to be part of a program that equips women with the skills to contribute to the conversation and make a positive impact."

The Leadership Foundry program, developed by Women in Technology (WIT) was designed to prepare women for corporate board service in furtherance of their commitment to advance women "from the classroom to the boardroom". Each year, a group of 15-20 experienced women executives are selected to be a part of the program. Women in Technology (WIT) is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of Advancing Women in technology—from the Classroom to the Boardroom—by providing advocacy, leadership development, networking, mentoring and technology education. With nearly 1,000 members in the Washington, D.C. area, WIT is the premier organization empowering women to be architects of change in the technology industry.

For more information, please visit, www.womenintechnology.org or connect with us via: Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter (@WITWomen).

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Women's Roller Derby Teams Compete for 10th International Championship

The top women's roller derby teams in the world will compete for the sport's highest honors, the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) Division 1 and Division 2 Championship titles, Nov. 6-8, 2015, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Thousands of roller derby skaters and fans from around the world will pack Saint Paul's Legendary Roy Wilkins Arena as 16 teams enter a fierce battle to take home the trophy and the title of WFTDA Division Champion.

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