In this episode of The Future of Sex, just in time for what I’m sure will be a fabulous new year, learn how to engineer your very own Love Club, a social/sexual experience where you and your (closest, and if not yet, then after) friends can explore the future of safer sex together.
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At the pretty-much-over “polytechno” night (no, that doesn’t mean it’s all slutty Marin types) at 111 Minna (you may have been here partying in the name of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, perhaps with slutty SF types)…
Her: I’m always happy to fuck around with PHP.
Him: Maybe afterwards we can fuck around with your ass.
See also, as [...]
I don’t mean to be on a kick of documenting the “stupid” of sex, but some quotes, you just can’t let slide when they float across your newsreader:
“I never had a class in my life on that and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure it out,” board member Bill Schumacher said at Monday’s [...]
In a truly ‘bad design for sex’ story out of Virginia, a 41-member task force investigating child pornography has released its findings and suggestions for how to combat “the dangers of the Internet.” Virginia State Attorney General Bob McDonnell, speaking with the usual smarts of politicians trying to make sense of the… what did [...]
As an experiment, and not because they are kicking me a dime or anything (really), I’ve put a widget over on the right sidebar for Consumating. The widget displays only those folks who are tagged “sexnerd,” so either tag yourself or your crush and see who else is messing around with tagging for purely [...]
Sexerati fave and tartstar Molly Crabapple is touring the East Coast early in 2007, bringing with her the cabaret/artschool collision that is Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School, where participants can get properly soused (or caffeinated) whilst sketching beautifully barely-clad models in a slightly salacious environment that puts the life (and then some) back into “life modeling.”
Molly [...]
Susie Bright interviews sex & relationships psychologist (no, don’t run screaming) Esther Perel, author of Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic, and it’s too good not to quote them both excessively…
Esther argues that erotic passion— to a certain but critical degree— is built upon distance and ambiguity. In her view, transparency is [...]
Jamais Cascio, founder of WorldChanging, writing at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies on emotional companionship and the probability of lovebots over sexbots:
The notion of human-looking robots made for love has a long history, but—perhaps unsurprisingly—by far the dominant emphasis has been on erotic love. And while it’s true that many emerging technologies get [...]
iBuzz, the makers of an iPod vibrator attachment, have been all over the media lately, first trying to go viral with their video demo (you know, in time for the holidays), and now, you can only picture the happy dances going down at the their (presumably, from the URL) UK HQ, as they join the [...]