A minor sex ruckus is going down in Canada, between Telus, the first North American mobile service provider to make pay-per-download porn available over their network, and the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver, who is calling for a boycott.
On the one hand, there’s the Globe and Mail, trotting out as many stereotypes as they [...]
We just wish that the sort of VC’s who invest in sex toy startups (even super-sexy bar-raising ones like jimmyjane) weren’t also the type to fund questionable pay-per-post shilling-cum-blogging companies. Because as much as our toy shelves are buckling under the weight of the latest-greatest, fair blogging ethics are what really get us off at [...]
It’s my birthday, and a film crew from SexTV is currently all up in my apartment, so The Future of Sex is going to be a few hours late today.
Until then: Harvard nerds storm AVN:
(via Elle, of Sex and the Ivy)
What you don’t want to hear when playing with electrical sex devices: “it might be arcing out on some underwires.”
(via Gizmodo, who we have to beg to differ with a bit: electrosex causing pain is fine, just so long as it’s the pain you signed up for)
Reason #87557 not to have emo conversations over AIM: the dreaded ellipsis as you wait for a response to any number of potentially devastating questions. Worse yet, the ellipsis appears, then disappears, appears, then disappears. Then, finally, maybe: a message.
And repeat.
This is why they preferred clay tablets once.
thanks to my ichat demo fellow [...]
Just back from Macworld in San Francisco, where there is a veritable shrine erected to tech fetish (our favorite kind) all in honor of the iPhone.
Gentleman, start your cameras.
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It’s not like it’s a naked girl or anything.
(Oh, who are we kidding. Steve’s done it — and doing it, and doing it well [...]
Sexerati’s internet boyfriend Warren Ellis’s first Second Life sketch for Reuters is up today, reporting on the fallout from a prank of penises unleashed on a female SL property magnate during her in-SL press appearance:
The interview was broken up by a group who caused a rain of giant penises to plunge down on the stage, [...]
Jamais Cascio, founder of WorldChanging, writing at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies on emotional companionship and the probability of lovebots over sexbots:
The notion of human-looking robots made for love has a long history, but—perhaps unsurprisingly—by far the dominant emphasis has been on erotic love. And while it’s true that many emerging technologies get [...]
iBuzz, the makers of an iPod vibrator attachment, have been all over the media lately, first trying to go viral with their video demo (you know, in time for the holidays), and now, you can only picture the happy dances going down at the their (presumably, from the URL) UK HQ, as they join the [...]
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For our first Sexerati: The Future of Sex special report, I interviewed Claus Dahl of imity, at the Nordic Exceptional Trendshop in Copenhagen, where he was showing off this timely (and sexy) social networking app that uses one’s mobile phone to sense people around you. Once the user logs in to imity, [...]