By: Mark Kernes
Posted: 08/07/2008
PITTSBURGH - Karen Fletcher, the Donora, Pennsylvania woman who ran the RedRoseStories.com Website, which the government charged contained obscene text pieces involving sex with and torture of underage characters, today pleaded guilty to six counts of “using an interactive computer service to distribute obscene materials.”
Fletcher, whose site had 29 subscribers worldwide and [...]
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House Overwhelmingly Passes SAFE Act on Obscene Images (Engadget)
Posted in censorship, child porn, engadget, internet, legislation, obscenity on Dec 6th, 2007
Look, kiddie porn and terrorism are bad. Obvious. But what better way for a government to push through controversial legislation quickly than to harness their emotive properties? After all, what self-respecting member of the US House of Representatives would vote against legislation called Securing Adolescents From Exploitation-Online, or SAFE? Only two, it turns out (Rep. [...]
The Life and Death of Jesse James: An Internet Love Mystery (LA Weekly)
Posted in internet on Oct 14th, 2007
Be careful out there, kids.
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by Josh Olseon
I met Audrey back in the nascent days of the Internet, when we were both on AOL, regular contributors to a message board devoted to screenwriting. I was just starting out as a writer, and might have optioned one or two things for a few hundred bucks (if [...]
Are our relationships defined by our online habits? (Pew Internet)
Posted in internet, relationships on Sep 24th, 2007
Alexandra Rankin Macgill writes:
Everyone has a friend or two who takes that much longer to respond to emails because they just don’t ever check their accounts, who don’t want to join social networks and who never pop up on IM and gTalk. What happens when you fall in love with someone like that?
A friend in [...]
Please do some activism on behalf of sexual freedom between consenting adults. Do it now before September 10th.
The federal government is proposing regulations that would effectively kill adult social-networking sites. This is being done under the guise of fighting child pornography. The proposed regulations would force adult social-networking services to obtain [...]
Jiang Ming of Chengdu city promised his wife, He Ling, that he would not go on the internet anymore, and would instead spend more time at home to take care of their newborn son.
But after a short time he started to sneak into nearby internet cafes again to have video chats with girls.
“I was on [...]
Women are more likely than men to search online for health information, search for more health topics, seek online support for medical issues, and search on someone else’s behalf. Our reports on these data sets had observed the gender difference, but this study proves the case beyond a reasonable doubt. (more. . . )
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Lovers’ Digital Trails Capture Relationships’ Ups and Downs (Wired)
Posted in internet, relationships, research on Aug 24th, 2007
by Regina Lynn
The internet has become a proving ground for trying out relationship styles, and anyone who’s ever done so knows just how serious online relating can become — even if all you intended was a quick look to see what all the fuss was about.
These relationships can and do become the catalyst for drastic [...]
Getting Naked on the Internet Is Risky, but Rewarding (Regina Lynn)
Posted in audacia ray, cybersex, internet, onlinedating, porn, reginalynn, sexbloggers, sexwork, women on Jun 4th, 2007
“You know you spend way too much time looking at internet porn when you Google ‘cream pies’ and are surprised when the top results are all recipes for banana-and-chocolate cream pies,” writes Audacia Ray, whose book Naked on the Internet: Hookups, Downloads and Cashing In on Internet Sexploration hits stores Friday.
Ray interviewed more than [...]
Sam Sugar writes:
In the world of porn the implications reach far. Personal ads, adult site memberships and social networking profiles can all contain potentially damning information, and may all enter the public record. For the cost of a second-world data-miner anyone can connect the public and private dots which link our physical and electronic identities [...]
Audacia Ray’s Naked on the Internet available 6/1
Posted in audacia ray, audacia ray, book, events, internet, nyc, sanfrancisco, sexbloggers, sexblogs on May 5th, 2007
You can pre-order it from Amazon.com.
Here are her upcoming appearances:
June 2: C*lick Me netporn conference & European debut of The Bi Apple, at Paradiso in Amsterdam
June 4: SMUT reading, Galapagos Art Space, 8 pm at 70 North 6th street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
June 5: Bluestockings Bookstore, 7 pm at 172 Allen Street, NYC
June 6: [...]
Blogswarm: Take Back the Blog!
Posted in TBTB, harassment, internet, stalking on Apr 19th, 2007
Crablaw has announced a blogswarm. They’ll be hosting Take Back the Blog day on Saturday, April 28th, “in support of the rights of women to participate fully in all aspects of our society, including specifically online in the world of blogging but indeed everywhere and at all times, day and night, without fear of harassment, [...]
‘Juxel’ shows up in the public timeline with ‘Hot bubble booty chicks gets a hardbangin orgy’http://twitter.com/juxel
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Sabrina reminds us:
Today, March 9, is the last day to comment on the proposed .XXX domain extension.
.XXX domains would cost $60 per URL per year
The new extension would be voluntary, punishing businesses that choose to self-regulate and not addressing the vast majority of adult webmasters using .com, .net, or international extensions
Defining adult content, commercial or [...]
HOW TO: Remain Private in Public. (Sexerati: Smart Sex)
Posted in internet, privacy, sex, sex blogs, sexbloggers, sexblogs on Mar 5th, 2007
Lux Nightmare writes:
People think I’m not a private person. There’s good reason for that: at different points in time, I’ve written about my sex life, posted naked pictures of myself, written about my history with depression, written about therapy, written about self-injury, written in detail about my relationships. There’s very little that goes on in [...]
Tech’s younger generation leans on Web 2.0 for love (SFGate)
Posted in Consumating, Flickr, MySpace, advice, dating, internet, love, relationships, web on Feb 14th, 2007
Jessica Guynn, Chronicle Staff Writer
While it may be tough for the middle-aged of Silicon Valley to find a perfect partner, it’s never been easier for the young and the restless in the high-tech industry to make a love connection.
Members of this uninhibited generation can hit the launch-party circuit or hook up with the opposite sex [...]
Internet exhibitionist: May Ling Su (Asian Sex Gazette)
Posted in internet, maylingsu, media, sex, sexbloggers, sexblogs, video on Feb 4th, 2007
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You don’t call, you don’t link…
Posted in bloggers, blogging, internet, robertscobe, violetblue on Jan 29th, 2007
Chelsea Girl, Tony Comstock and violet blue aren’t the only ones pissed that they don’t get linked to.
So is blogger and technical evangelist Robert Scoble, who says big gadget sites don’t link to blogs and to give proper credit:
Pissing off the blogosphere…
Big gadget sites don’t link to blogs
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Violet Blue named one of Forbes’ Web Celeb 25!
Posted in advice, bloggers, blogging, forbes, internet, relationships, violetblue on Jan 25th, 2007
Forbes’ first annual listing of the biggest stars on the internet. It includes my favorites Xeni, Cory, Merlin, Markos and Violet.
“Sex educator Violet Blue is the best-selling, award-winning author of over a dozen books on sex and sexuality, as well as the sex columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle. She’s also nearly omnipresent on the [...]






































