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 [...]
Posted in del.icio.us, sex on Nov 30th, 2009
R-Wipe & Clean – CNET Download.com – We like this system-cleaning utility's feature set and flexibility. Naturally, R-Wipe & Clean can erase your browser's cache, cookies, temporary files, and typed URLs. In addition, you can securely delete any file via the right-click menu in Windows Explorer. You can perform common system deletions as well, such [...]
Posted in del.icio.us, sex on Nov 13th, 2009
SHPANK, CRØSS & STÖCK: Flat-pack on your back — Bookkake – Fake ikea instructions for bondage gear
Where The Party’s At: The Real Stars Of The Fleshbot Awards –
Bad Reputation: Doing Damage Control on Your Internet Profile | TechCoquette – If you find that you’re not pleased with how the internet reflects you, there are [...]
Posted in sxsw on Aug 29th, 2009
SXSW Interactive “features five days of compelling presentations from the brightest minds in emerging technology, scores of exciting networking events hosted by industry leaders and an unbeatable line up of special programs showcasing the best new websites, video games and startup ideas the community has to offer.” I’ve never been there, but it sounds like [...]
Posted in internet on Jun 4th, 2009
Sarah Seltzer:
The last time a doctor was murdered in cold blood for providing abortion care to women, we were not in the digital age. While the pro-choice community in the 90s reacted to Dr. Bernard Slepian’s murder with the same outrage and hurt as it has this week to Dr. George Tiller’s, the Internet has [...]
Posted in internet on May 21st, 2009
Which brings me, finally, to the next generation of attenders, the so-called “net-gen” or “digital natives,” kids who’ve grown up with the Internet and other time-slicing technologies. There’s been lots of hand-wringing about all the skills they might lack, mainly the ability to concentrate on a complex task from beginning to end, but surely they [...]
Posted in sex on May 15th, 2009
A meddlesome hussy takes on the enemies of sexual sanity: Furry Girl has a new blog: Feminisnt.com.
Karina Longworth reviews The Girlfriend Experience:
“On the whole, Soderbergh seems less interested in what it feels like to be a professional girlfriend, and more interested in what it looks like to be in any kind of relationship in a [...]
Posted in kinkforall, sex on Mar 12th, 2009
The inaugural Kinkforall was a smashing success!
I remember reading the Tweet worrying whether we’d get 40 attendees. Turns out 100 people turned out for 45 presentations. Tremendous energy, lots of different conversations, lots of folks from different organizations and lots of new folks. I know there was was poo-pooing about this event and I was [...]
Do you Tweet during sex? You might moan or squeal, but even if you’ve never heard of the free, minimalist social networking service that allows users to write, send and post to the Internet short messages via devices ranging from phones to laptops via SMS (text). This might sound like an “only in San Francisco” [...]
Posted in legal on Jan 21st, 2009
The Child Online Protection Act, now a decade old, appears to be permanently, completely, and otherwise absolutely dead now that the Supreme Court has rejected Bush Administration pleas to consider reviving the law one more time. According to the Associated Press, the rejection was made without comment by the justices.
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Congratulations to Elizabeth Wood on the publication of her article about sex blogging and the need for a “sex commons”!!
Consciousness-raising 2.0: Sex Blogging and the Creation of a Feminist Sex Commons
Abstract: In this article, I develop the notion of a `sex commons’ on the internet as one way to help women build more satisfying [...]
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. [...]
Posted in sex, social media on Sep 17th, 2008
Tancer, general manager of global research at Hitwise, an Internet tracking company, said one of the major shifts in Internet use in the past decade had been the fall off in interest in pornography or adult entertainment sites.
He said surfing for porn had dropped to about 10 percent of searches from 20 percent a decade [...]
Posted in Twitter, internet, social media on Sep 7th, 2008
An article about social networks, but mostly about Twitter – Viv
by Clive Thompson
. . . Social scientists have a name for this sort of incessant online contact. They call it “ambient awareness.” It is, they say, very much like being physically near someone and picking up on his mood through the little things he does [...]
