Susan Quilliam, who recently revised the hirsute 1970’s classic, The Joy of Sex, describes her understanding of the internet’s role in shaping sex: “There are two things to be said about the Internet: The first is how wonderful it is and the second is how terrible it is. I stress both. There’s Internet pornography, there’s infidelity, but at the same time, the freedom it gives to form relationships is wonderful.” As she next goes on to say we ought not learn about sex from prostitutes, I think it’s fair to guess she’s blaming porn for the internet’s terrible terribleness. (via Sex in the Public Square)
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Links
- Laura Agustin / Border thinking
- Ars Technica
- Kate Bornstein
- Bookkake Blog
- Bound, not Gagged
- Susie Bright
- Center for Sex & Culture
- Tracy Clark-Flory / Salon
- Coilhouse
- Heather Corinna / Femmerotic
- Lena Chen / Sex and the Ivy
- Clayton Cubitt / The Constant Siege
- Debauchette
- Maria Diaz / one sharp broad
- Fimoculous
- Gina de Vries / queershoulder
- Genderfork
- Information Aesthetics
- Jezebel
- La Petite Claudine
- The Midwest Teen Sex Show
- Debbie Nathan
- Techspolitation / Annalee Newitz
- Open the Future
- Tracy Quan / Jet-setting callgirl
- Audacia Ray / Waking Vixen
- Rhizome
- Amber Rhea
- Bonnie Ruberg / Heroine Sheik
- sexuality.about.com
- Sex & Blogs
- Sex, Art, and Politics
- Sex in the Public Square
- The Sex Carnival
- Shameless
- Caty Simon / marginalutility
- $pread
- Synthetic Pubes
- Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
- The Rumpus
- This Recording
- Tomorrow Museum
- Voices of American Sexuality
- We Make Money Not Art
- worship the glitch JoAnn Wypijewski / The Nation