Unpersonals. You know them. You probably even have an account on one of them, complete with sassy photos, lots of comments, and a multipage friends list. And of course, you’d never, ever use that kind of site to meet someone. Or stalk someone. Right?
Of course right.
“The Sexerati Guide to Unpersonals” brings you this, the [...]
The bubble — (blogging about) it’s so hot right now.
We don’t judge if you haven’t been paying attention to the bubble, but you’ve been reaping its benefits. It’s okay, users. No, I’m sorry, content makers. We’ll still respect you even if the thing ends up bursting its unseemly tech juices in the [...]
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 [...]
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.
On [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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, [...]