Category Archives: Insidery

The Morning After: What Links Were Watching Us From Bed

The Morning After, an irregular roundup of the tabs lain open and neglected in Firefox after a week when fortune and folly took us. Enjoy, and don’t forget: the future of sex includes you, too.
Debauchette returns, with this on Gawker’s sex worker obsession of late:

The fact of the matter is that this kid, who’s [...]

Lazysexweb: Spankwire, The Vimeo of Porn

An actually social social porn site? With user comments that closely resemble full-on sentences? Spankwire starts with the YouPorn/PornoTube model (upload, tag, rate smut) but somehow ended up with users smarter, sweeter, and more committed to actually providing guidance to the good stuff.
Like this helpful lad:

Or this reminder:
this is the kind of video [...]

Web Porn Zen: Wikipedia, You Have the Right to Objectify Me

As found on the blog of postmodern pornstar Tatum Reed: “I, Tatum Reed ackowelege [sic.] the public domain and license of the above photograph taken in New York City, May of 2007.” Is Reed still working out her notoriety with Wikipedia users? Her argument for her entry’s continued existence is that her media [...]

The Cult of True Prostituted Womanhood

Why do debates around prostitution fall apart so completely? Laura Agustin, author of the new book Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry, offered this in an interview with Susie Bright this week:
Traditional prostitution debates are theoretical, focusing on the abstract question of whether selling sex can be considered a [...]

Sex is The New Awkward: Neal Pollack on Threesomes

From our never-ending search for yet more socially iffy erotic adventuring, this morning, on possibly the worst threesome fallout a well-sexed liberal can fathom:
I came first, with a massive, desperate roar. As soon as I finished, I withdrew, shivering. I wanted to vomit. Of course, we were all equally culpable in this situation. But I [...]

No, Really, We Internet People Fuck Better When You Think Of Us

(Hello, Nerve readers. I hope you enjoyed the only bit of sex advice I’ve ever given on the internet. Now I don’t usually do that. Or this, either. For you, just for today, an excerpt from my own journal.)
Triumphant, triumphant, joyous, raucous sex. Some virtue in it, to accept that [...]

You Like Sex, You Really Like Sex: Sexerati Nails “Best Sex Hacker”

Next week, we’ll be getting dolled up for our first awards ceremony as Sexerati, when I (tricky, eh, with the pronouns?) and my escort take to the de Young Museum to accept the San Francisco Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award for “Best Sex Hacker” — ! (The de Young, by the [...]

Moment of The World’s Longest Boa Zen

(via brainy burlesque bombshell Jo Boobs Weldon)

The Morning After: Love 2.0, Classy Smutty Hotels, and Do It For Science

Quick hits that hit what we weren’t hitting when we were hitting the sheets:

• Love 2.0: the video: “I’m running love 2.0 for you, it’s still in beta but it’s running pretty smooth.” (Valleywag)

• San Diego’s Ivy Hotel pushes jet sex with utter capitalist shamelessness: “It’s an adult playground, but it’s not cheap.” [...]

ISO: Sexy Librarians’ Sex Advice

Jessica Gold Haralson, newly of Nerve and longtime sex blogger, kindly requests the following:
Calling all librarians!
I am currently interning for the sex and pop culture magazine Nerve.com, and looking for the librarian folk amongst you who would be willing to be interviewed.
The interview would be for “Sex Advice From,” a popular series in which a [...]