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Jamais Cascio of, Open The Future and Worldchanging, suggests in the comments, “for men who work in the sex culture field the damning term isn’t ’slut,’ but ‘pervert.‘”

Elizabeth Wood, of Sex and the Public Square, points to a discussion in the Wordpress user forums, where bloggers whose work is getting tagged “mature” debate the relative meaning(lessness) of the label. Elizabeth: “The illogical effect of being reported as mature is that one’s blog is apparently unlisted from the tag pages that would be surfed by people looking for mature content.”

“The Pink Ghetto” itself is getting around, thanks to Rachel Kramer Bussel, then on to Susan Mernit and Amy Gahran, and today at BlogHer in the Business section, no less. Again, all this is begging the question, and no, we never beg: “Whose work aren’t we safe for, again?”