Category Archives: Design for Sex

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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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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Design for Jet Sex: Jimmyjane + Tank Girl Artist

Envisaged as haut pervere for the globetrotting club set, Jimmyjane’s beautiful but improbably lithe classic has been given a cartoony facelift by Tank Girl and Gorillaz concept artist Jamie Hewlett in their new ULTIMATE MEMBERS line.

Yes, it’s stunning, and a fashion-forward concept, very international media convergence, to merge jet set + jet sex. [...]

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Marital Aid Through The Ages

To think there was once a time when just scanning past an advertisement for the euphemistically-named “videos for married couples” would evoke a tingle of curiosity. What, then, does it say for Designing for Sex at the turn of the last century to get a rise out of readers with the following:

(from Lucifer the [...]

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From the Awkward Sex Files

Special to the “Awkward Safer Sex Activism” Department:

(thx, mister.)

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Jet Sex: Condoms in Taipei

Changing planes in Taipei, I fell in design love with this condom display in the very front entrance of the airport pharmacy. I selected a box (of twelve, thanks for asking) to bring home for field testing.
After a brief moment of consumer panic — that I had unwittingly chosen some lubricated with nonoxynol-9 [...]

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Safer Sex, Coming To a Bus Shelter Near You

Sexerati is a bleeding (Pan Am-esque) heart, you know. While visiting the offices of Better World Advertising yesterday in downtown San Francisco, we couldn’t help but be struck by how much hotter and smarter public health campaigns around safer sex are — and more effective — when introduced by the likes of the Healthy [...]

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