An award-winning adult film star has died at just 35 years old after battling Crohn’s disease and suffering a life-threatening infection.
Raven Alexis died last Wednesday in , her husband confirmed in videos posted to and one day later.
He said she was brought to a local hospital on March 20 ‘with some complications and some stomach Crohn’s/colitis issues she had dealt with.’
Crohn’s is a chronic autoimmune disease that causes inflammation and irritation in the digestive track. The most common form affects the small intestines and the beginning part of the large intestines, according to the
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‘It was a great ride, and they have a terrific business model for themselves, and I was fortunate to make some amazing and wonderfully selling movies in my time with them.’
But Alexis continued to see success even after she parted ways with Digital Playhouse, going on to star in a string of high-profile projects like Exile Pictures’ The Graduate XXX: A Paul Thomas Parody, Third Degree Films’ The Official Revenge of the Nerds Parody and Axel Braun’s This Ain’t Ghostbusters XXX3D for Hustler Video.
In 2011, she was nominated for an award in the Best New Starlet category at the AVN Awards and won a pair of trophies for her scene in the Digital Playhouse film Body Heat with Riley Steele, Jesse Jane, Katsuni and Kayden Kross – the Best All-Girl Group Sex Scene and the Fan Award for Wildest Sex Scene.
She was famously seen at the awards show in a red leather dress with crutches, after she said she climbed onto a shelf to grab something high up in her house and injured her hip.
That same year, Alexis also appeared on the Adult Swim show Children’s Hospital as the ‘Porno Nurse.’
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But soon Alexis became embroiled in controversy, after telling Jon Lieberman on Sirius XM’s The Howard Stern Show that she had been diagnosed with stage four liver cancer.
She said in the September 2011 episode that the cancer had spread to her brain and claimed, ‘Chemo is hard … not eating is really hard.’
In 2011, Raven Alexis guest starred in an episode of the Adult Swim show Children’s Hospital as ‘Porn Nurse’
The show starred Megan Mullally as Chief, Malin Akerman as Valerie Flame and Erinn Hayes as Lola Spratt
Alexis’ death comes after the adult film industry was shocked by the death of transgender pornporn star Angelina Please, whose real name is Francesca Montalbano.
Shedied alone in her apartment after doing ketamine and was ‘unrecognizable’ when police found her four days later.
Her mother Stephanie told DailyMail.com that she reported her missing on March 15 after not hearing from her for several days.
She is believed to have died on the 11th – the last time anyone heard from her.
Stephanie Montalbano said that while an official cause of death has not yet been provided, her daughter had been doing ketamine the night she died and that she believes she died from a ‘bad batch’ of the drug.
She was alone and her apartment was locked when police found her body next to drug paraphernalia.
Angelina dabbled in ‘party drugs’ like cocaine and ketamine, her mother explained, adding that while she did not approve of her drug use, she wanted to know about it.
The family has now raised more than $20,000 on GoFundMe to bring Francesca’s body back to Chicago, where she grew up, for burial.
The Sex and the City cast (sans Samantha) crashes into a brave new 2022.
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Spoiler alert: The last few paragraphs of this story contain spoilers for the finale of And Just Like That.
If one adjective describes HBO’s And Just Like That, it’s “cringey.”
In the late ’90s, the original Sex and the City was an edgy show about single women’s sexual independence. Decades later, And Just Like That not only contains minimal sex, it misses major opportunities to explore the complexities of sexuality. How is a series that once broke a mold now so… square?
In the reboot, Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) resurfaces with an abridged entourage of Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), each shuffling through a midlife crisis: death of a spouse, parental alienation and erotic self-awakening. Samantha (Kim Cattrall), the character who pushed the most sexual boundaries, with a DGAF spirit and refreshing wit, left for greener pastures.
And Just Like That is a story about Gen Xers trying to navigate what feels like a foreign new world. In the first episode, Carrie gets flustered over the mere mention of public masturbation on a sex and dating podcast. Later, she awkwardly asks her long-term partner, Big, whether he… ever tickles the pickle.
Carrie and Co. also struggle to understand nonbinary characters: Rock, Charlotte’s kid, and Che Diaz, Miranda’s love interest. When Miranda reveals that she and Che had mind-blowing sex (in her words, “a finger”), Charlotte wonders if her friend is suddenly gay, bluntly concluding, “You are not progressive enough for this!”
Sex and society have a complex relationship. Mainstream television often either reflects that complex relationship or overlooks it. TV tells us what audiences desire and what is acceptable, acting as a moral and cultural barometer, according to the authors of the 2012 book .
So what does And Just Like That say about today’s sexual norms? For one, Carrie’s squeamish approach to masturbation makes her the most noncredible sex columnist ever.
“It’s a shocking sign of how much we’re just indicating conversations around sexuality versus really having them,” said sex coach , who’s developing her own drama series, , Bokep Terbaru which she hopes will push the country toward new pleasure-filled dimensions.
And Just Like That can’t get it up
Representations of sex on TV have exploded since the time of I Love Lucy, when showing pregnancy on TV was considered too risqué. Janet Hardy, sex educator and co-author of the book , remembers married couples on television sleeping in separate beds. Today “a popular mainstream show like Modern Family can show a gay family lovingly and without judgment,” said Hardy, who grew up at a time when same-sex sexuality was against the law.
The Golden Girls paved the way for casual sex talk during brunch.
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In the 1980s, The Golden Girls laid the foundation for women talking openly about casual sex and gay issues — even topics like AIDS — on mainstream television. (They were in their 50s, around the same age as the characters in And Just Like That.) After Sex and the City’s last season in 2004, The L Word gave visibility to lesbian sex, and Girls invited us to view messy relationships that came with shame and vulnerability. Today, HBO’s Euphoria and Netflix’s Sex Education teach us not only about a multitude of gender identities and relationship models, but also consent, violence and disability — and the main characters are in high school.
Compared with those shows, And Just Like That feels, for younger viewers, like a remnant of a bygone age. Generation Y (millennials) and Z (zoomers) have access to almost every sexual proclivity, via social media and through internet porn. As sexual representation becomes more inclusive and fluid, some people from older generations feel alienated, according to Habie.
The estrangements in the Sex and the City reboot aren’t only about sex and gender. Race, which was barely dealt with in the original show, is inserted in a forced and tone-deaf way. Miranda can’t comfortably navigate a university classroom where there’s a Black professor with braids. And Charlotte tries to appear “woke” for a party with Black acquaintances, so she and her hubby preplan which Black artists and authors to name-drop.
These painful scenes seem at least somewhat self-aware — the Black dinner party episode is called Some of My Best Friends. When an ideal is turned on its head and painted as absurd, that makes for parody.
“I’m very much reminded of ,” said , a New York City-based HIV prevention specialist and psychotherapist. The 1995 film took the wholesome Bradys from the original 1970s sitcom and transported them into the modern world. Outside of their idyllic bubble, the popular family appears silly and naïve. Could the creators of And Just Like That succeed by inviting fans to mock their favorite characters’ outdated narrative?
Women don’t really come from Venus
When Sex and the City premiered in 1998, it had a winning formula. The main characters were well-off, white, heterosexual and cisgender New Yorkers. Sure, they talked about blowjobs over brunch, but they were also glamorous and didn’t seem to be impacted by gender inequality — in the bedroom or the boardroom. Their fantasy world was palatable to a broad array of viewers, from soccer moms to curious teenagers.
The dominant guide to relationships at the time was by relationship counselor John Gray. The piece of pop psychology sat high on bestseller lists for years (as well as on my parents’ bookshelf), describing men and women as members of “the opposite sex” — an archaic term assigning two fixed biological categories, each with innate behaviors.
Less widespread was The Ethical Slut, a groundbreaking guide to relationships outside of conventional monogamy, which appeared a year prior to Sex and the City’s debut. Talk of open marriage or polyamory was socially rejected then, but Hardy said 1997 had cracked open a few doors in mainstream depictions of sexuality — Ellen Degeneres came out of the closet publicly and Buffy the Vampire Slayer depicted a powerful heroine having vampire sex. Still, she said, “I can’t think of any television show that showed a fully sexual woman without judgment at that time.”
That’s why Sex and the City was considered cutting-edge and revered by so many, including gay and queer men, according to Jacobs. “For the first time you had this fictional depiction of people talking frankly and openly about sex in a way that promoted agency and empowerment,” he said. The series — which had gay creators and writers — came out in the shadow of the AIDS crisis, when many people deeply feared the consequences of being sexually active.
Oh, how we miss you, Samantha.
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The characters, chiefly Samantha, gave license to talk about sexual desire without shame or worry. Coinciding with the emergence of antiretroviral medications and treatment, the show rarely mentioned condom use and never dealt with HIV or AIDS. Jacobs, a great admirer of the show, appreciated how Sex and the City helped normalize conversations around pleasure. “It represented in my cohort this fantasy of freedom that we didn’t really have,” he said.
More colors of the rainbow, but no spectrum
Though Sex and the City had a large queer following, the show approached and tokenism: Carrie’s gay bestie, Stanford, is more of a decoration than an independent person with lived experiences, and is presented as mere experimentation and confusion. All these years later, And Just Like That hasn’t done much better.
Though Che plays a central role in the new series, Jacobs points out that the audience doesn’t learn about them through their own scenes or storylines. Beyond the show’s discussion of preferred pronouns, there’s only a shallow exploration of the issues facing trans, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming individuals. It’s more like box-checking. We never hear, for example, what it’s like for 12-year-old Rock to come out as nonbinary at school, or to face the disappointment of their heteronormative parents.
Euphoria digs deep into the gender and sexual identities of its characters.
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Habie notes that neither the original Sex and the City nor the reboot depicts the gender and sexuality spectrum, which spans a multitude of identities and orientations. And Just Like That tries to step out of its antiquated boy/girl divide by simply adding the “other” label. “Now you have your triangle — you have one more option,” Habie said. Case in point: Che’s podcast is called X, Y and Me.
Younger generations truly get the idea of spectrum in a way that some older folks don’t, according to Habie. Youth have been exposed to a flood of sexualized content, and though not all of it is sex-positive or authentic, it’s far from the buttoned-up social norms that shaped pop culture before the sexual revolution. Plus, they have access to modern, science-based books about sexuality, like Emily Nagoski’s , which recognizes the wide range of women’s tendencies and preferences.
Young people are also sharing more about their sexuality publicly, giving us a glimpse into their lives that’s made its way to popular television. , a show about teenagers dealing with drug addiction, sexual abuse and trauma, has a complexity and expansiveness other shows don’t, said Habie. The young characters are represented as unique individuals who just happen to be on journeys exploring their sexual and gender identities — they aren’t unique solely because of their sexual and gender identities.
Hardy appreciates not only because the teenage characters are empowered to make adult sexual decisions — the show also emphasizes accurate and sensitive education as the key to sexual happiness. “Sex isn’t treated as a bargaining chip or a status marker; it’s shown as a way to give and receive touch, affection and pleasure,” Hardy said in an email. And the show “does not judge anybody’s kinks or orientations.”
Sex Education has a lot of sex and a lot of education.
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The best sex of our lives
Miranda’s sexual storyline in And Just Like That is the most authentic, and the most deserving of more depth. Her relationship with Che is a catalyst for a journey of self-discovery that involves coming to terms with stasis in her marriage. At 55, Miranda realizes she’s given up a part of herself, including her own sexual agency.
The struggle to maintain desire in long-term relationships is real. It’s a topic addressed by Jacobs in his practice as well as by renowned psychotherapist . “The challenge for modern couples lies in reconciling the need for what’s safe and predictable with the wish to pursue what’s exciting, mysterious and awe-inspiring,” Perel writes in . Miranda couldn’t find passion inside her monogamous relationship, and maybe she didn’t want to.
But the show only glosses over these common challenges. As a result, instead of empathizing with Miranda’s choice to pursue her own happiness, viewers have bemoaned that her husband Steve was left in the dust — even earning the beloved character hashtag. Though the show acknowledges the existence of open marriages, the final episode follows a conventional template: a powerful sexual awakening is reduced to an affair, and the primary relationship terminates in divorce.
Che initially assumes Miranda is in an open marriage, but it’s never discussed as an option.
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Still, the finale reveals how the three main characters are open to embracing change. “The future is unwritten,” Carrie says on her podcast, as she transcends her grief to find romance as a widow. Charlotte learns to accept Rock’s determination to be unlabeled, and Miranda allows herself to be vulnerable. Personal transformation at any age is a valid story that deserves to be told.
In Habie’s view, if a show were to accurately address the sexuality of women in their 50s, it would focus on the role of psychological arousal — things like masturbation, role playing and fantasy, which become more pivotal as women age and their hormones change. “Good sex is about expansiveness, discovery and curiosity,” she said. Older women often go through a second puberty as they tap into their eroticism, leading many to the best sex of their lives.
It would be good for youth to see how sex changes as we mature, just like it’s good for their parents’ generation to learn how attitudes about gender, sexuality and relationships are evolving. Until we have more genuine stories being told, the younger generation is leading the way. Said Hardy, “I’m really looking forward to seeing the kind of world they create.”
OnlyFans will continue to allow porn, bokep indonesia reports say.
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OnlyFans has , which had caused outrage and upset in the adult creator community. The company has now secured the assurances it needs to continue paying creators who make sexually explicit content, the company said in a tweet on Wednesday.
The ban on sexually explicit content was and was supposed to come into force in October. It was reportedly being introduced that made it difficult for the company to pay its creators. By going public with the issue, it seems to have resolved the issues that were forcing it to implement the ban.
“Thank you to everyone for making your voices heard,” the company said on Twitter. “We have secured assurances necessary to support our diverse creator community and have suspended the planned October 1 policy change. OnlyFans stands for inclusion and we will continue to provide a home for all creators.”
OnlyFans said it would follow up with more official communication on the matter with creators.
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Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has taken her attacks on fellow Republicans to a new level, accusing a trio of longtime senators of being ‘pro pedophile’ for backing President Biden’s pick for the .
She launched her attack on hours after the three Republicans joined on a procedural motion, putting Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on track for confirmation, although by a historically tight margin.
‘Any Senator voting to confirm #KJB is pro-pedophile just like she is,’ wrote the Georgia lawmaker, in a political attack that drew some condemnation on Twitter for being out of bounds.
Neither Judge Jackson nor the GOP senators who said they will back her are pro-pedophile.
Greene referenced a political attack several Senate Republicans, including Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley mounted at the Judiciary Committee, where they accused the member of the D.C.Circuit Court of Appeals of being ‘soft’ on crime for the way she handed down sentences of people convicted of child porn offenses.
Rep.Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) called three Republican senators who are backing Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson ‘pro-pedophile’
Democrats shot back that the sentences were in keeping with what parole boards were recommending, even if they were sometimes below sentencing guidelines.
‘There are MANY more qualified black women judges, that actually can define what a woman is, but Biden chose the one that protects evil child predators.And then Romney, Murkowski, and Collins vote for her,’ wrote Greene, who was forced to give up committee assignments after a series of controversial comments.
She singled out Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, even bringing up his grandchildren in the attack.Romney joined Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Maine Sen. Susan Collins in announcing their support for porno the judge.
‘How would you feel if this was one of your children or grandchildren @MittRomney?’ she wrote.
‘You are either a Senator that supports child rapists, child pornography, and the most vile child predators.Or you are a Senator who protects children and votes NO to KJB!’ she added.
Utah Sen. Mitt Romney announced he would back Biden’s nominee
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) was the first Senate Republican to announce her support
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska was among the three Republicans Greene called ‘pro-pedophile’
Ketanji Brown Jackson said during her confirmation hearing that she couldn’t define what a woman was since she is not a biologist
‘We came from Adam’s rib.God created us with his hands. We may be the weaker sex, we are the weaker sex, but we are our partner, our husband’s wife,’ she said
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Twitter suspended Greene’s personal account following posts it said violated its policies on COVID misinformation, but she maintains her official account.
Her latest missive drew some condemnation on Twitter, including from former Trump White House Director of Strategic Communications Alyssa Farah Griffin, who is now a CNN commentator.
‘I’m a conservative.I disagree with Judge Brown’s jurisprudence & some sentencing decisions. But goodness – this statement is stupid, reductive, offensive, unpatriotic, and beneath the office Greene holds,’ she wrote.
Attacks on Democrats as protecting ‘evil child predators’ have their origins in a bizarre conspiracy that accused prominent Democrats of running a child sex ring out of a pizza parlor before the 2016 election.
Greene last year apologized for past support of QAnon conspiracy theories, although her comments recalled a past QAnon tale conspiracy theory Donald Trump was leading an effort against a Demoratic-linked child sex trafficking ring.
Her Twitter smear came a day after she tried to ridicule Biden’s nominee for failing to directly answer the question when asked during her confirmation hearing to define what a woman is.
Greene said at an endorsement event in Georgia: ‘I’m going to tell you right now what is a woman,’ the congresswoman said.’This is an easy answer. We are a creation of God. We came from Adam’s rib. God created us with his hands. We may be the weaker sex, we are the weaker sex, but we are our partner, our husband’s wife,’ she said.
