Category Archives: Dating 2.0

Twitter, Twitter, Twitter.

“Months later: another date, another guy, another technological incompatibility. This time she was out with someone who wanted to text . . . everyone. ‘He kept talking about Twitter.’ Fishkin rolls her eyes. ‘Ashton Kutcher. Twitter, Twitter, Twitter.’”
Twitter. Twitter! Twitter.

Keely Kolmes Soothes Geek Hearts: An Interview on Mental Health 2.0

More Sex @ SXSWi, this time with Keely Kolmes, Psy.D. Keely is a clinical psychologist in private practice in San Francisco, who has worked part-time as a Staff Psychologist at Counseling and Psychological Services at Stanford University for the past five years. Keely says, “I have been living my life online since 1993. Prior to [...]

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)

Online Dating: Still Pathetic?

No, it doesn’t make you pathetic. Please. Even at our worst, Sexerati is just not that judgy.
But seriously, I cannot describe my identity (hint, actually, that can be a hard question) & desire with a series of pulldown menus:

And nor can I find satisfying answers even after a never-ending flood of questions. Scientific sluttery [...]

Breaking Up In 140 Characters Or Less

Please, please, please, fortheloveofallthat’smodern, stop. Stop keeping us hanging on. Stop giving love a bad name. Stop kicking my heart around. And STOP USING TECHNO AS A PREFIX FOR ANYTHING. Today it arrives in the subtitle to the book (via our new internet girlfriends at Jezebel) The Joy of Text: [...]

Breaking Sex Nerd News: Twitterdildonics

A few minutes ago, Jackson West warned the twitterverse that qdot, of the premiere teledildonics resource slashdong, would be demo’ing ‘twitterdildonics’ at the Lifehacker party at South by Southwest, like, now, in Austin.
Just in: vibrating pants are go, and now says Scott Beale,
Twitterdildonics shaking things up at Lifehacker. SMS induced orgasims [sic] for all.
(Via twitter, [...]

Finding the Online Iraqi Dating Scene

Via boingboing, we get a story from the LA Times on the rise of online dating in Iraq. I love this graceful pointing to the sorts of intimacy the net can stimulate…
Reem, a striking 28-year-old with long dark hair, heavy makeup and lots of gold jewelry, used to meet regularly with a tight-knit group [...]

The Chronicle, All Up In Our Emerging Tech Business

There’s few things I can thank the San Francisco Chronicle for when it comes to increasing the value of the luxe side of my love life. The same could be said for O’Reilly Publishing, copyright-holder apparent to such things 2.0 — just no Sex Hacks there, and not too likely to extend Sexerati [...]

We Have the Internet to Rebuild Us: Why Our Generation Does it Better in Public

There’s so much to return to and do a (as my favorite sex profs said in University) deep reading of in this feature from this week’s New York magazine, Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy — which so touches (in all the right ways) on the sex & the internet zeitgeist we’ve been [...]

Romancing AIM: When An Ellipsis is Just an Ellipsis

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 [...]