Week two of charting sexual intelligence at digg yields another piece of the Web sex media puzzle: that as we begin to think about sex in community and by way of social media, we need a shared vision of what we even mean by “thinking sex.”

When highly dugg stories on sex are so often like those of the last 48 hours, to include cocks lopped off by rogue surgeons and a mother who made herself the subject of sex ed by taking her son to the gynecologist with her, and when not-so-dugg are news on a 95% effective algae-based anti-HIV microbial gel developed in Brazil, or when the posts on sexual health and culture are really more adve-torial than instructional or educational, what does that say for digg as a tool for sex? For the sexual savvy of digg users, heavy or casual? For the ways we talk about sex, period?

One strategy to better look at sex & digg might be to lobby digg to get sex news out of “Offbeat” — which, honestly, is where most of the wires file it, so this seems to be a tactic better considered on that wider scale of sex media. (Who wants to contact their guy at the AP on this? Reuters?)

But does giving sex its own space even help us to have better access to the sex data of the moment, let alone that of lasting quality? Back when Netscape launched its new homepage with user-submitted stories, the Sex section got yanked within a few months for being overloaded with porn affiliate links and other hot sploggy action.

After all, what gets on digg it all is a reflection in part of what can be easily found, and there’s just so much noise in web sex system. What we face isn’t just an information overload, but an avalanche of sex-negativity and sex-stupidity that of course discourages many people from looking to the web as a resource for sex (beyond, of course, again, porn). We need to think about how we categorize sexuality information if we want the good resources that are out there to rise to the top.

For those not in the field of sexuality already, for those who just want to keep abreast so to speak, what resources are there? Where is someone who didn’t even know they were looking for it going to stumble onto a great bit of sex news? Good hunting for sex online requires a level of sophistication about the ways we categorize sexual information that is still largely the province of those who work sex professionally, be that as educators, health care providers, activists, artists, or entrepreneurs. Not too shocking: social search itself is still an arcane field, and combine that with the pretty depressing status of sexual literacy in our culture and you can see how, when you get to sex on digg, it’s not an amplification of highly-filtered and qualified cultural bits so much as a highly concentrated pool of socio-sexual detritus that, as much as we’re titillated by it, we’re still developing the tools so we can go there and come back with something meaningful to say of our discoveries, and better, put that into sweet action.