Yearly Archives: 2009

“Of course it’s great when you can turn people onto some scientific information or break through a religious charade of sexual dishonesty. Very worth it. I’ll always be happy to share the basics. But so much of sexual life is determined by politics, which not enough people get involved with— or by hormones and electrical [...]

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Not Asking Men About How Often They Have Sex In the Interest Of Pageviews, but

Now that we’ve got some analysis of the sex survey results from the men who click over at men.style.com (spoiler: methodology, what methodology?), what other beloved online publications would we like to see incredibly scientific sex polls from?

Talking Points Memo
Ars Technica
Pitchfork
The Awl (not the biggest sample)
Kottke

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And now the media not being totally freaked out that teens use the Internet for sex ed

A rare little bright wet spot in media coverage of teen sexuality, sex ed, and the internet: Scarleteen and the Midwest Teen Sex Show get fair mentions in this ABC-Chicago “special report” (remember when those used to come on the late evening news and you just knew they were going to be about bad things?). [...]

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And No Changes To America’s Biggest Online Sex Toy Store

Amazon buys Zappos. No, you cannot get free returns on Amazon purchases you just “tried on once” at home.

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“Zuckerberg. Mark Zuckerberg. LOOK IT UP.”

Typical is a scene in which we see the young Mr. Zuckerberg, determined to swipe the ­member pages of a Harvard student house, sneak into the building intending to plug into its local network. But then he has to hide with his laptop behind a piece of furniture as an amorous couple begins cavorting nearby. [...]

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The fifty years of lit smut that wasn’t (thank you, Mr. Lawrence)

Fifty years ago today, the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of Grove Press’ right to distribute Lady Chatterley’s Lover — “A novel, no matter how much devoted to the act of sex can hardly add to the constant sexual prodding with which our environment assails us,” argued Grove’s lawyers — striking down obscenity laws [...]

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“I wouldn’t kick Steve Jobs out of bed!”

“It’s not romantic to have an iPhone in the bedroom. Brian once said that every time he goes online, he feels like he’s meeting a bunch of friends. Well, I don’t want a bunch of friends in our bed.” - Lisa Katayama, the new boingboing gadgets Advisor. (see also: American gals love creeps!)

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Anticipating Comedy Central’s Awkward Embrace of Teen Sex Ed

From a 19 year old fan on her sex education before finding The Midwest Teen Sex Show (who are now off in Los Angeles shooting a pilot for Comedy Central): “[sex education in middle and high school] consisted of little more than being shown pictures of STI-infected genitals. It taught me that I really, really [...]

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Dita von Teese will have none of your being offended at pole dancing

On a little visit to LA morning tv, Dita deftly turns the conversation away from why she’s not “offended” at people thinking she’s a stripper and towards how much success she’s had taking inspiration from naked girls in history. Her new Cointreau-sponsored show debuts in Hollywood on Wednesday, July 22.

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“The idea at the time that gay men would use condoms was ludicrous.”

Sex Positive, a documentary on the life of safer sex educator and activist Richard Berkowitz in the early days of AIDS, is out now in Manhattan. The Times calls it a “sad, useful film,” with Berkowitz possessing “the aura of an army veteran who served on the front lines in a war that took the [...]

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