Category Archives: Design

Eve Sedgwick, Marilyn Chambers, RIP

Two luminaries of sex culture that I would have paid dear money to see tangle live & in person on desire, performance, and politics passed away Sunday — queer theory provocateur Eve Sedgwick and All-American porn princess Marilyn Chambers. Sedgwick’s friend Cathy Davidson writes that Eve died at her partner’s side. 56 year old Chambers [...]

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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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How the web made way for the $2000 vibrator

It’s women that were first responsible for driving the spendy vibrator market. When sex toy buying was left to males shopping for the latest in VHS porn, manufacturers could get away with selling items made from god-knows-what toxic, off-gassing neon pink material, poured into the shape of something one would imagine men would imagine ladies [...]

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“My stylesheet is where I want you to touch.”

(CSS how-to photomontage by exey, via Taylor McKnight)

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What Was The Future Once: “We Live In Public”

Counting down to the moment when webcam girls are the future again, but only if they’re unevenly distributed on MySpace and YouTube, let’s remember those depressingly prescient days in 2000 and 2001, when it looked like anyone could be naked and fuck in online public and it might not always be through the pay-per-lens of [...]

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The Birth of the Proto-Bubble Hottie

Name that year, kiddos:
The area has sprouted computer-themed art galleries, a billiard hall and a Gold’s Gym, where former geeks can acquire new muscles to match their beefed-up social status. There is even “Gulch Gossip,” a column in a local computer magazine. Its author, who writes under the name Jonathan E., says, “My attitude is, [...]

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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, [...]

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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; [...]

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Group Sex, for Science

Via Jezebel, the New York Times bookblog has unearthed a precious volume, Group Sex: A Scientist’s Eyewitness Report on the American Way of Swinging, bearing insight into the bygone days group sex in the last century.
Offers its author, Dr. Gilbert D. Bartell, Ph.D.:
Although my wife is not an anthropologist, obviously my investigations would have been [...]

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Menage a Trois Stocking Fetish, Before Breakfast

(via: our man at Yahoo)

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