Yearly Archives: 2009

Porn comes all over TED’s face

Seriously, what’s going on at TED?  A site called makelovenotporn.com was launched there today, which, aside from the ridiculously presumptuous name posing porn and love as oppositional, is just the kind of shoddy deconstruction of porn one might expect from someone who has already decided that porn is a monolith that can be deconstructed at [...]

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First Blumenthal Came For Erotic Services

Who’s going to defend prostitutes and sex offenders, right? No one — that’s what Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is banking on. Blumenthal was the one behind the united Attorneys General sabre-rattling that resulted in Craigslist creating a new set of regulations to govern their Erotic Services sections nationwide, that advocates for sex workers (myself [...]

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Maria Diaz Overshares And Also Doesn’t: An Interview on Growing Up Online

Sex @ SXSWi Interview #1 is Maria Diaz.  Maria is a freelance writer living in San Francisco. She writes for bitchbuzz and is a television writer for b5media. Most of her blogging is currently confined to Tumblr. Here she gets into her panel, “A History of Growing Up Online,” so it is not oversharing to [...]

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“We Live In Public” x2

Film critic Karina Longworth has an early review on this doc about Josh Harris, Pseudo.com, & the webcam phenom he drove with “We Live In Public”: “Harris and his girlfriend Tanya moved into a loft outfitted with motion control cameras in every room, broadcasting their relationship 24 hours a day to an audience of eager [...]

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Sex @ SXSWi

From March 13 - 17, the internet’s going on spring break to Austin for South by Southwest. SXSWi, the Interactive festival, is a four or fiveish day blur of panels you meant to go to, people you hope you remember, and parties and parties and parties. The goto app last year for managing the mad [...]

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Missed connections infoporn

Condensed and sorted state-by-state: craigslist Missed Connections USA. Separate maps were made for w4m, m4w, w4w, and m4m. (via Metafilter)

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Still more time to sex::tech

There’s still a few more days to submit an abstract to sex::tech — the deadline has been extended to January 15th.
Also for your consideration: Audacia Ray has rounded up more sex, tech, and feminist media conferences — four this spring alone. (Video above by Wreck and Salvage)

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An archive of broken hearts

At the online archive of The Museum of Broken Relationships, users/artists may upload photos, emails, and texts from lovers past, with an option to lock these messages until they have mended enough to share them with others. A physical museum has launched in Singapore, and will be traveling the world with its relics — cell [...]

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Porn is code for dissident

A follow-up on China’s demands to Google and other search engines to block Chinese citizens access to web porn: PRI’s The World reports that Chinese activists believe this crackdown has far more to do with intimidating dissidents than going after porn. Not only is Google being held responsible for regulating material they do not control, [...]

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More danger than joy in her sex.

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 [...]

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