Yearly Archives: 2007

“As Long As We Raise Our Eleven Children to be Strong, Pro-Life Citizens…”

Veracfier posts its first On The Ground report from the Values Voters Summit, protecting women from abortion and Americans from The Gay Blood and The Gay Media one voter eleven newly born assumed-to-be pro-life future baby voters at a time.

Update: The New York Times was there, too. But which am I going to spend [...]

That Facebook App for Sex We Were Asking For?

Only 5% of the Facebook users who actually installed it are actively trading Naughty Gifts, but that’s nearly 200,000 people, just saying. And no one is ever just saying, so consider: there is a social function in these app-driven gestures. Already the poke has been graphed for it’s sexual possibilities:

(img: Dave McClure)
So what, [...]

Blue Monday: If Sex Educators Could Make a Living Wage, Would We Sue to Protect Our Brand?

In the “Power, Corruption, and Lies” Department: on Monday, October 22, San Francisco based sex educator & author Violet Blue filed suit against porn star Violet Blue, seeking damages for violation of the the trademark “Violet Blue”, filed in March 2007, and to block the porn star from doing business as Violet Blue Inc.
As reported [...]

Re[2]: How To Build a Better Sex Blog, and How We’ll Do It, Do It, and Do It Well

(img: Your author, right now, writing this, predictably at a wifi cafe in San Francisco. Without makeup, except for my eyebrows, which I fill out with a MAC pencil. I haven’t done anything with my hair yet today, either. Shot quick on my iSight. This is the fourth shot I took. [...]

Lazysexweb: Spankwire, The Vimeo of Porn

An actually social social porn site? With user comments that closely resemble full-on sentences? Spankwire starts with the YouPorn/PornoTube model (upload, tag, rate smut) but somehow ended up with users smarter, sweeter, and more committed to actually providing guidance to the good stuff.
Like this helpful lad:

Or this reminder:
this is the kind of video [...]

Looks Like We’ll Be Waiting Another 43 Years For Robohusbands

Artificial intelligence researcher (and possibly lover) David Levy, in his recently defended thesis, “Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners,” at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands, argues that human/robot marriage will first be introduced in Massachusetts in the year 2050. But no need to wait for the state-sanctified confines of matrimony for robot sex; [...]

Web Porn Zen: Wikipedia, You Have the Right to Objectify Me

As found on the blog of postmodern pornstar Tatum Reed: “I, Tatum Reed ackowelege [sic.] the public domain and license of the above photograph taken in New York City, May of 2007.” Is Reed still working out her notoriety with Wikipedia users? Her argument for her entry’s continued existence is that her media [...]

The Cult of True Prostituted Womanhood

Why do debates around prostitution fall apart so completely? Laura Agustin, author of the new book Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry, offered this in an interview with Susie Bright this week:
Traditional prostitution debates are theoretical, focusing on the abstract question of whether selling sex can be considered a [...]

[re:] To Build a Better Sex Blog

Susannah Breslin (Reverse Cowgirl):

“Something more than one more portal to free porno. Something other than one girl’s Dear Diary of zipless fucks. Something without pseudonymous erotica, bad porn ads, and half-naked self-portraits via cellphones…
Something post-feminist and politically incorrect, unabashed and unashamed, what girls talk about where boys aren’t.”
 

Bubble Hotties: “Let’s Join a Social Network Built Just For Two”

Everybody’s former internet-boyfriend ze frank, who was there for us every day until not too long ago, wakes us up this morning with this self-portrait of a love song…

“and omg i would luv that picture of you
taking a picture of you
holding the camera for me
in the bathroom mirror…”
I’m not the only one reminded of ze’s [...]