From her column at American Prospect, some smart cold water to throw on the the latest technological bogeyman, the mobile phone: “The sexual dangers to youth, online or off, may be less than we think. Yet adults routinely conflate friendly sex play with hurtful online behavior…[e.g.] the San Francisco-based Family Violence Prevention Fund, which calls sending nude photos ‘whether it is done under pressure or not’ an element of ‘digital dating violence.’”
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- Coilhouse
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- 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
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- Sex, Art, and Politics
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- The Rumpus
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- We Make Money Not Art
- worship the glitch JoAnn Wypijewski / The Nation
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Great piece, hadn’t seen it! fyi, though, it’s by Judith Levine, not Debbie Nathan.
Thx, Rachel — fixing!