September 2009
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“Of course it’s great when you can turn people onto some scientific information or break through a religious charade of sexual dishonesty. Very worth it. I’ll always be happy to share the basics….
July 2009
8 posts
Not Asking Men About How Often They Have Sex In... →
Now that we’ve got some analysis of the sex survey results from the men who click over at men.style.com (spoiler: methodology, what methodology?), what other beloved online publications would I…
“Zuckerberg. Mark Zuckerberg. LOOK IT UP.” →
Typical is a scene in which we see the young Mr. Zuckerberg, determined to swipe the member pages of a Harvard student house, sneak into the building intending to plug into its local network. But…
And No Changes To America’s Biggest Online Sex Toy... →
Amazon buys Zappos. No, you cannot get free returns on Amazon purchases you just ‘tried on once’ at home.
And now the media not being totally freaked out... →
A rare little bright wet spot in media coverage of teen sexuality, sex ed, and the internet: Scarleteen and the Midwest Teen Sex Show get fair mentions in this…
“I wouldn’t kick Steve Jobs out of bed!” →
“It’s not romantic to have an iPhone in the bedroom. Brian once said that every time he goes online, he feels like he’s meeting a bunch of friends. Well, I don’t want a bunch of friends in our…
Dita von Teese will have none of your being... →
On a little visit to LA morning tv, Dita deftly turns the conversation away from why she’s not “offended” at people thinking she’s a stripper and towards how much success she’s…
Anticipating Comedy Central’s Awkward Embrace of... →
From a 19 year old fan on her sex education before finding The Midwest Teen Sex Show (who are now off in Los Angeles shooting a pilot for Comedy Central): “[sex education in middle and…
The fifty years of lit smut that wasn’t (thank... →
Fifty years ago today, the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of Grove Press’ right to distribute Lady Chatterly’s Lover — “A novel, no matter how much devoted to the act of sex can hardly add…
June 2009
2 posts
Porn, condoms, trouble →
Miss Calico, a BDSM porn performer and sex worker advocate, points to a adult film director Ernest Greene’s reponse to the coverage of a reported HIV case among US porn performers. When it comes…
“The idea at the time that gay men would use... →
Sex Positive, a documentary on the life of safer sex educator and activist Richard Berkowitz in the early days of AIDS, is out now in Manhattan. The Times calls it a “sad,…
May 2009
5 posts
Art porn from your inbox by Elliott Burford →
(via kottke / archive at geekologie)
Twitter, Twitter, Twitter. →
“Months later: another date, another guy, another technological incompatibility. This time she was out with someone who wanted to text … everyone. ‘He kept talking about Twitter.’ Fishkin…
The web and the death of pornographic context →
The best bit of Nerve’s deceptively swift history of how sex drove the internet, from ARPAnet to gonzo pro/am sites: “Yet, as normalized as online pornography may be, the material itself has…
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More on the tech sex ed front: The Birds and The Bees line, a service advertised on MySpace, where adult sex educators can answer teens’ questions via text. Predictably conservatives are throwing…
1/5th of Facebook employees there to police porn →
A photo of a young couple sloppily making out pops onscreen. It’s gross, but not against the rules, so Axten punches a key to judge the image appropriate. Next up: a young woman in panties…
April 2009
6 posts
The inevitable #amazonfail infographic →
(via National Coalition Against Censorship)
Eve Sedgwick, Marilyn Chambers, RIP →
Two luminaries of sex culture that I would have paid dear money to see tangle live & in person on desire, performance, and politics passed away Sunday — queer theory provocateur…
Let’s not forget Jeff Bezos does like sex →
Here is a photo composite of Jeff “not a sexless founder-entrepreneur” Bezos on a bearskin rug from my Valleywag days.
Because we need this now:
Amazon coder: “someone internally” tagged... →
Frustrated with the misinformation swirling about hackers claiming responsbility for the removal of hundreds of sexuality & GLBT related titles from front page search results and the deletion of…
Updates: Amazon removing queer, sexuality titles... →
More on Amazon’s ushering of queer & sexuality titles into a dirtier, less well-lit corner of their shelves: the LA Times blog asks why American Psycho remains indexed as any other…
Amazon removes sales rank from sexuality, queer... →
Rachel Kramer Bussel & Audacia Ray discovered this morning that Amazon no longer lists a sales rank for a number of their books. For a time today, Ray’s Naked on the Internet was displayed…
March 2009
5 posts
Karen Rayne & Karen Kreps Let Teens Self-Savvy: An... →
Sex @ SXSW is in its own full-swing: Sexerati has landed, been conservative for no decent reason about giving out promotional buttons (ask me for one!), and has had a chance to even bump…
#overshare →
Maria Diaz has asked us to follow along with her SXSW panel, A History of Growing Up Online, right now as it goes down via #overshare on Twitter. (Quote: “We were the forerunners of…
Sexting Suicide? Don’t Do It. →
Elizabeth Wood deftly shreds MSNBC for laying the blame on a teen woman’s suicide on “sexting”:
I’m furious about the way this young woman’s story is being reported. Jesse Logan killed herself…
Rebecca Fox Will Not Just Be Quiet, Please: An... →
Rebecca Fox and Rachel Sklar are next in Sexerati’s Sex at SXSWi series — for their panel, “Why Professional Blogging is Bloodsport for Women.” Rebecca is the Managing Editor at…
Keely Kolmes Soothes Geek Hearts: An Interview on... →
More Sex @ SXSWi, this time with Keely Kolmes, Psy.D. Keely is a clinical psychologist in private practice in San Francisco, who has worked part-time as a Staff Psychologist at…
February 2009
6 posts
Debbie Nathan, on the teen sexting panic (that... →
From her column at American Prospect, some smart cold water to throw on the the latest technological bogeyman, the mobile phone: “The sexual dangers to youth, online or off, may be less than we…
danah boyd on the MySpace sex panic that isn’t →
“The Attorneys General - mostly angry at me and other researchers - have spent considerable time trying to publicly reject the ISTTF report that was published last month,” writes danah boyd….
We Are Not Having Real Sex Anymore →
Edouard Leve, SÉRIE PORNOGRAPHIE, SANS TITRE, 2002 (via meaghano)
Porn comes all over TED’s face →
Seriously, what’s going on at TED? A site called makelovenotporn.com was launched there today, which, aside from the ridiculously presumptuous name posing porn and love as…
First Blumenthal Came For Erotic Services →
Who’s going to defend prostitutes and sex offenders, right? No one — that’s what Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is banking on. Blumenthal was the one behind the united Attorneys…
Maria Diaz Overshares And Also Doesn’t: An... →
Sex @ SXSWi Interview #1 is Maria Diaz. Maria is a freelance writer living in San Francisco. She writes for bitchbuzz and is a television writer for b5media. Most of her blogging is…
January 2009
21 posts
“We Live In Public” x2 →
Film critic Karina Longworth has an early review on this doc about Josh Harris, Pseudo.com, & the webcam phenom he drove with “We Live In Public”: “Harris and his girlfriend…
Sex @ SXSWi →
From March 13 - 17, the internet’s going on spring break to Austin for South by Southwest. SXSWi, the Interactive festival, is a four or fiveish day blur of panels you meant to go to, people…
Still more time to sex::tech →
There’s still a few more days to submit an abstract to sex::tech — the deadline has been extended to January 15th.
Also for your consideration: Audacia Ray has rounded up…
An archive of broken hearts →
At the online archive of The Museum of Broken Relationships, users/artists may upload photos, emails, and texts from lovers past, with an option to lock these messages until they have…
Missed connections infoporn →
Condensed and sorted state-by-state: craigslist’s Missed Connections USA. Separate maps were made for w4m, m4w, w4w, and m4m. (via Metafilter)
Porn is code for dissident →
A follow-up on China’s demands to Google and other search engines to block Chinese citizens access to web porn: PRI’s The World reports that Chinese activists believe this crackdown has far more…
Why not let prostitutes advertise online legally... →
Friendfinder Networks, home to Alt.com and AdultFriendFinder.com, filed its initial public offering with the US Securities and Exchange Commission at the close of 2008, but has found only one…
More danger than joy in her sex. →
Susan Quilliam, who recently revised the hirsute 1970’s classic, The Joy of Sex, describes her understanding of the internet’s role in shaping sex: “There are two things to be said about the…
Submit, come, and over-document sex::tech, March... →
Abstract submissions close on Monday for sex::tech, a conference focused on youth, sexual health & sexuality, and technology. I attended and presented at last year’s sex::tech, and just…
How the web made way for the $2000 vibrator →
It’s women that were first responsible for driving the spendy vibrator market. When sex toy buying was left to males shopping for the latest in VHS porn, manufacturers could…
“Hitachi Magic Interview”: with hope, a new video... →
Ace photographer and long-time (now former) Nerve contributor Siege has been working more in video these days. Here, model Justine Joli answers a simple question with one…
A cautionary triptych on Internet “fame,” or,... →
“That take-on-the-world morning, I was having coffee with Steven Levy, then of Newsweek, now of Wired, who challenged this whole idea of whether this “Sarah Lacy” brand was actually translating…
No sex ed ads for teens on Facebook →
If you’d like to place a Facebook ad promoting sex education & health, their ad guidelines stipulate that you must target it so that only users over the age of 18 to see it. No sex ed for teens: no contraception …
China to punish Google for porn they don’t... →
Claiming the need to “purify the Internet’s cultural environment and protect the healthy development of minors,” China is seeking to punish Google, Baidu — the leading search engine in China — and…
We know how badly the iPhone functions when... →
The iHand Massage app unlocks control of the vibrator inside your iPhone. (via sexuality.about.com, via Gizmodo)
Hacking gives us permission to speak of vaginas. →
After a round of phony Twitter.com links circulated this weekend in a pretty big phishing scheme, what’s left is a hot mess of hacked accounts, captured pre-deletion by Wired contributor …
You know someone will say Data is transgender. →
From sex, art, and politics, the most queer theory-packed of the smart sex Tumblr scene, comes a bit of intertextual courtroom teevee reading on the meaning of intercourse. Where cocks are…