Category Archives: We Are The Sex Media

Anticipating Comedy Central’s Awkward Embrace of Teen Sex Ed

From a 19 year old fan on her sex education before finding The Midwest Teen Sex Show (who are now off in Los Angeles shooting a pilot for Comedy Central): “[sex education in middle and high school] consisted of little more than being shown pictures of STI-infected genitals. It taught me that I really, really [...]

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Porn, condoms, trouble

Miss Calico, a BDSM porn performer and sex worker advocate, points to a adult film director Ernest Greene’s reponse to the coverage of a reported HIV case among US porn performers. When it comes to porn, notions of privacy, confidentiality, and rights get secondary play over outdated and just flat wrong figures on how hugely [...]

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The inevitable #amazonfail infographic

(via National Coalition Against Censorship)

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Amazon coder: “someone internally” tagged thousands of titles “adult”

Frustrated with the misinformation swirling about hackers claiming responsbility for the removal of hundreds of sexuality & GLBT related titles from front page search results and the deletion of their sales rankings from individual book listing pages, and even more frustrated with Amazon’s lack of coherence on whether this was an internal error or an [...]

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Updates: Amazon removing queer, sexuality titles from front page search

More on Amazon’s ushering of queer & sexuality titles into a dirtier, ill-lit corner of their shelves: the LA Times blog asks why American Psycho remains indexed as any other book when Running with Scissors is buried, Edrants calls for a boycott, and Heather Corinna blogs at Amazon wondering why clearly marked explicit porn titles [...]

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Amazon removes sales rank from sexuality, queer titles

Rachel Kramer Bussel & Audacia Ray discovered this morning that Amazon no longer lists a sales rank for a number of their books. For a time today, Ray’s Naked on the Internet was displayed without cover photo or reviews. Heather Corinna notes that the feminist anthology on sexual assault, Yes Means Yes, has also been [...]

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Sexting Suicide? Don’t Do It.

Elizabeth Wood deftly shreds MSNBC for laying the blame for a teen woman’s suicide on “sexting”:
I’m furious about the way this young woman’s story is being reported. Jesse Logan killed herself last July not because of the “dangers of sexting” but because of the dangers of sex stigma and “slut shaming.” She had sent some [...]

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Channel 4’s Sex Ed Show: Clever, Cute, and Why Can’t We Embed It?

The sharp folks at Channel 4 has been running The Sex Education Show since September. Those of us outside the UK can watch on YouTube or on their website, but we can’t share the sex ed as freely as we ought to be able to: no embedding. Come on! This is the kind [...]

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The end of sexpertise

“Untitled (We won’t be our own best enemy),” Barbara Kruger
It’s one thing to get laid off from a writing gig: it’s another thing to watch that layoff turn up in a trend piece. And another. And another. My editor and I used to joke, it takes three to make a trend, but two in a [...]

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You Can Tell Now That the Sex Bloggers Have Arrived

Stigma, said sexuality & kink educator Graydancer, of one of the first sex podcasts, Ropecast, checking in from BlogWorldExpo.
Graydancer’s sum-up details how conversations he struck up with other bloggers were shyly broken off, how one of his models — previously down to be tied up for a performance at a conference party — declined at [...]

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