Category Archives: Dating 2.0

‘My Phone’s On Vibrate For You’: The Best of Livedating SMS

It happens to the best of us. Your phone is on vibrate, and…
Not on date: I hope you’re having a damn fine night and that’s why I’ve heard NOTHING.
On date: Nice. At a bar. I hope we fuck.
Not on date: Can I blog that as Best. Date. Check-in. Ever.
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And I’m Looking Forward to Getting to Know You, Now That We’ve Fucked

danah boyd (and wow, am I a pervert for getting off on her finding such good sex stories?) sifted this Salon piece on gay vs. straight dating from 2001 to the top of her del.icio.us links, and so this must bear repeating in some now-ish way:
See, a straight woman says, “I’m sorry, but I can’t [...]

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Nerd Love, Overheard

At the pretty-much-over “polytechno” night (no, that doesn’t mean it’s all slutty Marin types) at 111 Minna (you may have been here partying in the name of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, perhaps with slutty SF types)…
Her: I’m always happy to fuck around with PHP.
Him: Maybe afterwards we can fuck around with your ass.
See also, as [...]

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Tagging Redux: Find Sex Nerds Near You

As an experiment, and not because they are kicking me a dime or anything (really), I’ve put a widget over on the right sidebar for Consumating. The widget displays only those folks who are tagged “sexnerd,” so either tag yourself or your crush and see who else is messing around with tagging for purely [...]

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“Transparency is for politicians, not for lovers.”

Susie Bright interviews sex & relationships psychologist (no, don’t run screaming) Esther Perel, author of Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic, and it’s too good not to quote them both excessively…
Esther argues that erotic passion— to a certain but critical degree— is built upon distance and ambiguity. In her view, transparency is [...]

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The Future of Casual Sex

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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, [...]

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