February 2008
Watch Cunts for Fags (by Fivestar). Hear from gay men about what they know and want to know about “the innies of the genital world” in a hands-on class. Plus you get to see supreme Sex Nerd Dr. Carol Queen in action, and I can never get enough of that. (Thanks, S., for the big tip!)
January 2008
“He’s not what you’d expect at a place like this. Or maybe you do. Maybe he’s...”
– parisian underground (ii.), by debauchette
WatchEpisode #13 (Porn), of The Midwest Teen Sex Show
“Eventually there were suspicions. There was one occasion I was in our house in...”
– Second Life: Depressed, Estranged Spouses Find Stability In Virtual Fantasy World
“Any sense of prurience is relieved by Mr Kahr’s prose, which is...”
– Sexual fantasies, via Economist.com, on Sex and the Psyche, a survey of 18000 adults’ sexual fantasies. I adore when The Economist assures us that sex isn’t all rubbish, honest.
“What we have are two industries grinding up against each other and trying to...”
– Editorials from Hell’s leading daily newspaper, The Dis Brimstone-Daily Pitchfork, re: Letters from Working Girls & Bound, Not Gagged’s commenters (via dacia) [The elephant in the room here, especially re: whores who would be writers, is that some of us reserve the right to be the...
“The 26-year-old, who started as a reporter at Gawker in September, said she...”
– Gawker’s Sheila McClear Shopping Peep Show Memoirs to Agents | The New York Observer (or, when you are known as a Gawker writer first and not a whore, this sort of thing — “I’m working on a rewrite! I’m looking for an agent!” is actually news?)
Love Rollercoaster: Dating with bipolar disorder,... →
Jessica Gold Haralson: “Snark: Did Nerve decide to publish this after the bitching and moaning on Gawker over Julia Allison’s outing of spurned ex Jakob Lodwick as bi-polar?
“New York Area Bisexual Network: wondering why some in mainstream gay and lesbian...”
– MySpace.com (via dacia)
“David Colby was one of corporate America’s most admired executives before...”
– Ex-WellPoint Exec Accused of Womanizing
“Sex is a topic that people are always interested in, and always will be, yet...”
– Rachel Kramer Bussel: Sex Doesn’t Need to be Sensationalized - Living on The Huffington Post
“New York Press editor David Blum has some of the worst instincts we’ve...”
– Nypress: Up On Going Down? The ‘NYPress’ Has A Sex Column For You If You Want It
WatchA man asks anti-abortion protesters: If abortion is made illegal, how should women be punished for illegal abortions?
(Happy Belated Birthday, Roe v. Wade. -M)
via kaela via livejamie via gtmcknight via nickdouglas
It wasn't sexual assault because he didn't touch... →
“The girls, 15 and 16 years old at the time, said Henry showed them examples of women with “clumpy” white cream on their faces and then blindfolded them. The girls said they heard heavy breathing and Henry say, “It’s coming,” and then felt a thick, warm substance applied to their faces. They said he took photos, paid them $10 a piece and convinced them to make...
“But Julia, no one wants a relationship with a brand. They may want to use you! ...”
– Julia Allison’s dad (File under: relationships in public, blogebrity)
Liveblog: sex::tech -> Sexual Health Technology:...
Mark Schoen,
Sexual Health Filmmaker
The content of early sexual health films was largely dictated by commercial interests, not sexual science. Gone are the days when we’d show a 16mm in a darkened classroom, and maybe wed have an audience of 25 or 30. Put that film on YouTube and you have that audience in half an hour.
Film has the possibility to combine impact and science.
Clip #1:...
A Little Liveblog About Sex Panics
(Experimenting with tumblr as a liveblog from sex::tech — I have ace supervision in the person of Regina Lynn of Wired.)
SexPanic: How New Technologies Focus Public Fears About Sex
Marty Klein, Ph.D
Internet was not the first technology to drive sexual development
Young people as early adopters
Society has always feared technology will get out of control
Twin fears of the...
“In sex workers use of the web, I see the living results of the feminist axiom...”
– Me, writing at Bound, Not Gagged
Confessions of a student who sold sex to live and... →
Thanks to the internet, many women students are being tempted into occasional paid sex to cope with living costs that can no longer be met with part-time jobs, Laura says.
In Mes Chères Études (My Dear Studies), she describes the trap into which she fell soon after starting university at an unidentified city in 2006.
Talking to The Times, Laura was scornful of claims by prostitutes’ rights...
“In the Poetics, Aristotle takes on Plato’s desire to toss all performers out of...”
– Terri Senft
“Seriously though, a lot of dudes think sex workers have all sorts of fucked-up...”
– Old Whores: On Heidi Fleiss And Why Sex Workers Are So Wise
WatchIn the “Sexy Sexpert” genre…
Watch“Myth: Intercourse is the Most Enjoyable Sexual Activity”
I’m a little shocked to find this on Vimeo.
“Internet dating companies bear a responsibility to their customers to provide...”
– Reason Magazine - It’s Okay to Look… if You Want to Die
“There is nothing so riveting as oneself reflected in another, is there? I spent...”
– The Reverse Cowgirl
“Also, I want to mention that I am replaying Princess Maker 2 for anyone who...”
– So-Called Girl Gamers That Really Need More of a Mic When It Comes to Online Games Journalism (via Nick, at Gawker)
The adult industry and twitter
“Already I’m thinking they should embed their link in every tweet they do. (True for other businesses too, or just the internet lookin’s?)”
-How will porn penetrate Twitter?
I think that’s a little too heavy-handed marketing for Twitter. A lot of the people I know in the adult industry who use Twitter don’t do it strictly for marketing purposes, it’s very much a...
Sexerati Looking for a New Home
I’m “hosting” Sexerati-as-it-is-now here on tumblr, as I take some room to experimentally push it against the wall, rough its skirt up, and imagine what shape to bend it into next, but the archives are still all over at Dreamhost. I think that has to change soon, re: the apology note I just got for a billing error, which, though sort of sweetly submissive, is unacceptable.
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