Posted in del.icio.us, sex on Jan 28th, 2010
China’s latest scandal is counterfeit condoms – latimes.com – Health officials warn that inferior contraceptives can spread the diseases they are supposed to protect against. Some of the brand-name knockoffs have reached the U.S.
La Figa » Trans Speaker Receives Threat Over Appearance at Yale “Sex Week” – The threat, received through Angel’s Facebook account via [...]
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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 [...]
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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 porn, research, sex on Sep 30th, 2008
. . .The question is not whether porn is dying or not — while piracy may be killing the big industries, I am sure that people will still be looking at online porn for a long time. The question is why are people so attracted to other things that are not porn at all? This [...]
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Posted in gay, sex on Sep 1st, 2008
. . . As a normative way of socializing for gay men, online cruising is a disaster. We need to recognize its effects — including its tendency to isolate us, encourage objectification, and diminish our sense of life’s nonsexual possibilities — as disasters. We need to recognize that too many of us, too much of [...]
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Posted in internet, legal on Aug 8th, 2008
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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