Posted in del.icio.us, sex on Jan 14th, 2010
Dentist Helps Us Give Good Head | Sex and the 405 – Introducing the Blowguard, pthalate-free, one-size fits all silicone guard for the teeth much like the sort used in sports, only the Blowguard comes with one extra perk: a little vibrator.
UCSF Men who have Sex with Men Urology Health Survey – We invite you [...]
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Posted in del.icio.us, sex on Dec 19th, 2009
Man on Man: The New Gay Romance (LA WeeklyO – In many ways the growing popularity of gay romance represents nothing less than a tectonic shift in a culture that says women don’t (and shouldn’t) consume porn. Hot and steamy gay-romance literature is to women what Internet porn is to men: They get off on [...]
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Posted in del.icio.us, sex on Nov 30th, 2009
Keep Your Passwords Private–and Handy–With LastPass – PC World – To guard against password thieves, I use LastPass. The tool offers a free password-managing add-on for Firefox on Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X; Internet Explorer on Windows; and Safari on Mac OS X.
How to Use Twitter Lists To Create Reputation Management Problems – So [...]
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Posted in Blogging on Nov 16th, 2009
(…) A better example of someone operating on her own terms it’s hard to imagine. Anonymous bloggers everywhere can read Belle’s story and take heart in the fact that it really is possible to be both successful and anonymous in the Internet age.
There’s just one problem: it isn’t.
Let’s give Belle and the Sunday Times the [...]
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Posted in Blogging on Feb 18th, 2009
. . .These days I don’t have a lot of interest in writing about sex at all. Part of my erotica apathy stems from the sense that I’ve written a lot about sex. I’ve described it. I’ve intellectualized it. I’ve made it funny. I’ve made it emo. I’ve done it in a train. I’ve done [...]
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Posted in Blogging on Nov 21st, 2008
Intro To Sex Blogging
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: sex security)
Here are my slides from Monday’s talk at Conversio Virium. I spent much more time talking about sexual privacy than about setup and promotion. Thanks again to Elizabeth and MayMay for the opportunity to speak. This presentation is available on the Blogging page.
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Posted in Blogging, sex blogs on Nov 12th, 2008
This Monday, November 17th, I’ll be doing an “Intro to Sex Blogging” talk at Conversio Virium, the student BDSM education and discussion group at Columbia University:
What is a blog? Should I have one? How do I set it up? How do readers find me? Should I write as myself, or under a pseudonym? This introductory [...]
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Posted in del.icio.us, sex on Nov 3rd, 2008
Fresh Air has an interview with Cynthia Gorney about how abortion is playing out in this election cycle.
There is now Mad Men fan fiction. [via Fimoculous]
The color red turns men on.
It’s now legal to buy sex toys in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
A new study shows overweight women have more sex. Why yes, they do.
Ten things [...]
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Posted in sex on Oct 25th, 2008
Brad Balfour interviews Sam Rockwell about Choke. (HuffPo)
Alternet has an article on Sarah Palin and sex ed.
Bacchus warns us about Eden Fantasys.
Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks discuss relationship politics: the Obama relationship and body language of the McCain marriage.
Twanna Hines interviews Lust in Translations’ Pamela Druckerman on American political scandals.
The Black Phoenix playspace in Philadelphia is [...]
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Posted in Blogging, women on Oct 24th, 2008
. . . To bring Elizabeth’s argument back in: if the feminist marketplace of ideas cannot support a true diversity of sexual theory, and neither can the mainstream, then maybe blogging is a wonderful, messy middleground. Personal sex blogging may be (hopelessly?) marginalized to the hoary Blogspots of the the web, but within every [...]
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Cancel, unsubscribe, unfollow. Sort out how you want to react to the breakup only after you’ve canceled the relationship, unsubscribed from her Tumblr, or blocked him from Twitter. To undo a relationship that made it online in any form—whether you’ve got photos together all over MySpace or earned your own tag on Gawker—requires investing as [...]
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Posted in Blogging, bloggers, identity, internet on Oct 6th, 2008
There is a new phenomenon in today’s information society, the anxiety of which becomes pervasive when one realizes the dangers and fragility brought upon by the interconnected Web 2.0 sphere. This is the problem of online oversharing: the tension in finding the right balance of what parts of one’s subjective identity should be put online. [...]
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Posted in sex, sexblogs on Oct 4th, 2008
. . .If the sex-writing bubble is bursting, that isn’t entirely a bad thing – and I say this even as a victim of what’s been going on. I like reading and hearing lots of perspectives on sexuality, and delivering real information about sexuality is real work. But writing about sex also has a really [...]
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Melissa Gira‘s teaching a class on sex and blogging:
Blogging Sex
Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Center for Sex and Culture
1519 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA
Learning how to set up a blog is *so* not the same thing as learning how to deal with what you’re going to say on your blog. Especially if that’s about [...]
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Posted in Blogging, writing on Sep 24th, 2008
. . . If anonymous blogging is already writing for the drawer and this blog is a space for my most personal and difficult thoughts, then where do I write down the things that I can’t even say here? One solution is personal friendships. I have a friend that frequently sends me emails with pieces [...]
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Arse Elektronika 2008 — “Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep?” — will take place at CELLspace (San Francisco). September 25 thru 28, 2008.
Susan Mernit and I will be doing a panel:
Avoiding the Emily Gould Effect
Susan Mernit & Viviane
“Oversharing”, sex blogging & erotica. How to successfully manage your online identity, whether you’re pseudonymous or right out [...]
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Posted in sex, sexbloggers on Jul 8th, 2008
Jezebelism (Lizz Winstead, Huffington Post):
I don’t know if they came to the show drunk, or just ended up drunk by the time they hit the stage, but what I do know is that the discussion that ensued was deeply disturbing to me for a few reasons:
1. Because they had no regard for the people who [...]
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Posted in del.icio.us on Jun 6th, 2008
And Then There Were Three | FUNKYBROWNCHICK.com | sex. dating. relationships.
I had my first threesome with two friends last night. Needless to say, that is so tooooootally not how I expected yesterday evening / this morning to turn out.
(tags: sex sexblogs)
balanced on the tip of my tongue | Sugarbutch Chronicles
We talked. Safer sex, my history, [...]
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Posted in del.icio.us on Jun 3rd, 2008
The 25 Most Disturbing Sex Toys | Cracked.com
Where once it was simple shoulder massagers and turkey basters that had to be adapted to nefarious purposes, nowadays anything you can think of (and probably a few dozen things you could never think of) are out there to give some lonely shut-in the pleasu
(tags: sextoys)
BuzzMachine » The [...]
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Posted in housekeeping, sex on Jun 1st, 2008
We’re getting two new contributors to the Carnival!
The mad bad rascal, will be posting occasional videos. If Jefferson can do the Smut Turntable, this blog can have a resident DJ.
And the beautiful Meg, who no longer posts to the tales of a teacher (and slut), will be reviewing sex toys for the Carnival.
Please welcome them!
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Posted in del.icio.us on May 29th, 2008
The End of Innocence and Making It Big: The NYTimes spins yet another lost girl tale of innocence, regret and discreetly hot sex | BlogHer
Is there truly any less foolproof way to sell the Sunday issue that to get huge viral buzz from a damsel in distress story played out in that most modern of [...]
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Posted in del.icio.us on May 27th, 2008
The Jaded Hippy: Third Feminist Carnival of Sexual Freedom and Autonomy
(tags: carnival feminism LGBT military misogyny orientations patriarchy race sex sexwork)
Judy’s Story – Pt 5
“Mmm, Cindy… this looks good enough to eat,”, I said and Judy breathed in sharply. I leaned over and lightly brushed my nose and lips through her pubic hair. Judy practically [...]
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Posted in del.icio.us on May 14th, 2008
Twittergasms: The Real San Francisco Treat (Fleshbot)
A Twittergasm is a post to your Twitter profile indicating that you just had a real orgasm. You can use the codes ICSW (I came, so what?) and JOSW (jacking off, so what? related term to indicate you are jacking off), and we’ll track, count and include you
(tags: Twitter [...]
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Posted in del.icio.us on May 12th, 2008
Categories versus Tags – What’s the Difference and Which One? « Lorelle on WordPress
Here is a synopsis of the similarities and differences between tags and categories.
(tags: tagging blogging)
Hentai and Cartoon Porn Guide Blog
You guide to the world of hentai and cartoon porn (via theslackdaily.com)
(tags: porn)
$pread Blog » This Week in Sex Work
(tags: sexwork sex)
Feministing: Weekly [...]
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Posted in del.icio.us on May 7th, 2008
Sundance Channel : Green Porno
Isabella Rossellini’s Green porno videos , on the sex life of various insects.
(tags: sex)
JasmyneCannick.com » A Black Parents Guide on What to Do and NOT to Do When Your Child “Comes Out”
So with that said, I am going to leave this post open indefinitely to catalogue your input on what you’d [...]
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Posted in del.icio.us on May 3rd, 2008
Cybersquatting crisis-pregnancy centers | Feministing
Recently a faux-clinic in Wisconsin purchased a URL that was nearly identical to the URL for the website of Family Planning Health Services, the local women’s health clinic — so women who unwittingly typed in the wrong address were redirected to the anti
(tags: women abortion)
What Happens In Vegas Is Sexual Assault: [...]
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Posted in del.icio.us on May 2nd, 2008
Masturbation Celebration: Happy Masturbation Month! (Yes, You Now Have An Official Excuse) (Fleshbot)
…check out a few resources to help you experience National Masturbation Month to the fullest … not to mention the other eleven months of the year.
(tags: masturbation)
Being Amber Rhea » R.I.P. Deborah Jeane Palfrey
Bound, Not Gagged was started in the wake of the [...]
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Posted in del.icio.us on May 1st, 2008
Some Differences Between Pitching Mainstream Press and Bloggers | chrisbrogan.com
We’re obsessed with getting information out into the world. Desperate to be useful. I’d say that we’re like news junkies, only we’re really interested in how we can contribute to making the news.
(tags: blogging)
Lust in translation – Broadsheet – Salon.com
It’s a familiar scene: A guy and [...]
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Posted in Blogging, divorce, parenting on Apr 18th, 2008
This week, the potential of the Internet to expose and disgrace when marriages fall apart came into stark relief as Tricia Walsh Smith, who is being divorced by Philip Smith, a theater executive, put a video on YouTube announcing that they never had sex, and yet she found him hoarding Viagra, pornography and condoms.
Not surprisingly, [...]
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Posted in del.icio.us on Apr 18th, 2008
Renegade Evolution: No, Enough! No, This is Silencing.
So, I seems I might be uninvited to the forum at William and Mary. Why? Because apparently, Sam Berg, who has been booked as a panelist longer than I and is traveling further than I, is uncomfortable with me being there.
(tags: sexwork)
Yale Daily News – For senior, abortion [...]
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