Fluxx Studio & Gallery is celebrating International Fisting Day on Oct. 21 and you should too.

October 21st marks the THIRD annual International Fisting Day, where bloggers, artists, activists, journalists, and fisting lovers all over the world come together to celebrate this beloved and controversial sex act. We hope that International Fisting Day gives you a day to feel pride in your favorite sex act, no matter how misunderstood or shameful they have made you feel in the past.

There's a NSFW Fisting Day tumblr blog that's dedicated to the event. The blog is encouraging everyone to write about fisting experiences on their blog and submit it to the fisting tumblr site. The blog is accepting art, photos and videos devoted to this global event. All the submissions will be collected and displayed on NSFW sex websites Courtney Trouble and Jizlee.

Sex Box is a new sex talk show with a difference; a panel discussion about the real sex lives of people, with one exceptional twist. In a unique television format inspired by the work of sex researchers, three couples have sex, then talk about it afterwards, while the feelings and sensations are still vivid and truthful.

They discuss their experience with the programme's host, agony aunt Mariella Frostrup, in front of a studio audience and with a panel of experts: internationally syndicated sex columnist Dan Savage, sex body language and relationship expert Tracey Cox, and psychotherapist, broadcaster and author Phillip Hodson.

Welcome to the world of BDSM.

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Feminists Organized to Resist, Create, and Empower is presenting Censored Series- The World of BDSM 6:30 p.m. Oct. 8 at the U of A Women's Resource Center located in the Student Union Memorial Center, 1303 E. University Blvd suite 404 (in the CSIL).

This new educational outreach program aims to bridge the void between curiosity and factual/practical knowledge through Q&A discussions among UA students and community experts.

It is not another lecture, but a relaxed environment where students are able to learn, without judgment, about restricted, taboo, and unconventional topics, which include, but are not limited to, sex.

I'm pretty ignorant to this world, and I feel like this is a good place to have an adult conversation about a very broad topic that I'd like to understand better. The event page promises free pizza and drinks.

For more information click here to get more information and RSVP on the FORCE Facebook event page.

We’re right in the middle of Banned Books Week in America, so be sure to break out a copy of The Kite Runner, Beloved or (if you’re not all that motivated) Captain Underpants, all of which were on the Top 10 list of books that were challenged in 2012 by the micro-brains who fear the power of the written word.

Or you could pick up a copy of Christina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban, which was recently the target of such Tea Party ire in Sierra Vista that Buena High School administrators are celebrating Banned Book Week by banning a book. Way to get into the spirit things, Buena!

The National Book Award finalist, published in 1992, has a minor sex scene that outraged at least one Buena parent, who raised enough of a stink to get the book pulled from the high school’s curriculum.

Ready for the offensive passage? We'll do it after the jump so as to not corrupt our younger readers.

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When I pay outrageous prices for a cheap scare I want those poorly paid actors to scare my pants off. Literally.

It looks like the folks at Shocktoberfest in Sinking Spring, PA have the right, sick and twisted idea. The haunted house is hosting an after hours nude tour for adult exhibitionist looking for a good scare. Who doesn't want to run around in the flesh with rotting flesh eating zombies chasing you?

There are some rules however:

Disclaimer: Shocktoberfest has created this experience so their customers can explore a new level of fear. This is about fear and pushing oneself out of their comfort zone. This is not about sex. No sexual misconduct, inappropriate or disrespectful behavior will be tolerated.
*Please note there is an additional cleaning charge if we scare the p*ss out of you!

That's a deal breaker.

What if I want to reenact a scene from one of my favorite horror films but not have the real fear of dying? I hope someone from the Slaughterhouse or Nightfall is reading and makes this a reality and takes it a step further. Tucson has to be more creative than Sinking Springs? It's like the underwear party but with a naked Leatherface swinging a chainsaw and more strobe lights. I want to go bloody streaking. Who's with me?

Pornhub, a YouTube-like site for pornography that many people reading this post will refuse to admit they've gone to, is no stranger to putting themselves in the public eye, as seen by their attempt to donate money to the Susan G. Komen Foundation with money raised from video views last October.

Now though, they're looking inwardly (ew) by tracking pornography stats from each state in the country.

Unsurprisingly, as Arizona is a melting pot of cultures and tastes, our citizenry apparently prefer to watch the melting pot of porn (ew ew ew): clip compilations, which one would assume get to the "good" stuff and get out just as quickly as they went in.

Apparently, Arizonans also prefer "creampie" and "teen" porn, which I'd rather not have to look up and explain to you all.

Something that might be pride-worthy to Arizonans, regarding their porn-viewing habits: they average more time at Pornhub than more than half of the country, around 10 minutes and 59 seconds, which dwarfs the measly 10 minute average for Rhode Island, but is beaten by Mississippi's substantial 11 minute, 59 second average — A FULL MINUTE LONGER. Apparently, they've got some staying power in that region of the south.

Unfortunately, unlike the last porn survey we found while performing perfectly legitimate web searches, this one doesn't log web searches as much as it does pay attention to the tags that people apparently dig, such as Nevada's preference for anita queen, Wyoming's searches for porn related to smoking, California's love of asian and massage porn (separate terms there), and Hawaii's preferred search term of hawaii. 
If you want to dive into this research yourself, Pornhub has you and your deviant research desires covered here.

Also, in case you're not familiar with how to do so, you can open private browsing in Google Chrome by pressing Control+Shift+N — though that won't keep you from getting busted at work. Just saying.

Finally, a video on sex that's safe for work (although I suppose it depends on where you work) and educational, all because of the wonderful use of food to explain the differences between porn sex and real sex.

Oh, John McCain. It's like you're getting even cheekier in your old age.

Sen. McCain, along with a handful of other Congressmen and Senators, is one of the backers of the COINS Act, which calls for the elimination of the $1 bill, replacing it with a $1 coin, as seems to be the trend in many a western nation these days.

Last year, The Hill's In The Know blog noted that at least one D.C.-based gentleman's club owner feels that the switch to coins might hurt business — both for him, and his dancers — saying that "you can’t put a coin in a garter belt," and "I think it would be very awkward for everyone involved. How much more would a coin weigh than a dollar bill? It would be very hard."

One would argue that varying degrees of hardness is the exact point behind strip clubs, but that's neither here nor there.

McCain, however, feels differently:

When pressed about the predicament facing scores of the country’s skin-baring and bill-collecting women, McCain responded without missing a beat, “Then I hope that they could obtain larger denominations.”

The 76-year-old lawmaker began answering another reporter’s prying questions before cracking a smile and hollering to ITK down a Capitol hallway, “Fives, tens, one hundreds!”

I'm with Johnny Mac (which I now contend to be McCain's preferred name when he's making it rain in the nation's gentlemen's clubs): Let the market sort out which strippers deserve to be "pocketing" $5 bills and larger, and which should be getting hailed upon with Sacs (which I now contend to be the appropriate name for the Sacagawea dollar coins).

Women, do you just not feel that special spark when you're by yourself, trying to experience spending time with, uh, "yourself"?

Well, believe it or not, there's an app for that. Or at least, it's coming.

HappyPlayTime is an app that's designed to help women experience the joys of self-love with the help of an electronic aid that you probably won't have to hide in a nightstand!

From the HappyPlayTime mission statement:

Sexuality is one of the most basic instincts of human beings. Being comfortable with your own sexual pleasure is a prerequisite to both being able to healthily accept pleasure from others, and pleasing others. How can you exchange pleasure with someone else if you don't understand what your own body likes? That's why masturbation, and learning how to masturbate is such a fundamental life lesson.

Unfortunately for many women, there has been a cultural stigma that blocks access to self-stimulation. HAPPYPLAYTIME is here to eliminate this barrier as much as possible. By talking openly and lightheartedly about female masturbation, we are taking the first step to becoming truly sexually liberated.

And the first step, apparently, includes a cartoon vulva named Happy, showing you how to touch yourself properly.

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• Choice quotes: "You make me moist!" and "Oh my, I'm getting all hot and bothered."

The game is still currently in development (it's in its alpha build right now), but if you feel like giving it a quick run-through, head to HappyPlayTime.com to sign up to help test the game.

[h/t: Kotaku and Gamification]