Category Archives: We Are The Sex Media

Re[2]: How To Build a Better Sex Blog, and How We’ll Do It, Do It, and Do It Well

(img: Your author, right now, writing this, predictably at a wifi cafe in San Francisco. Without makeup, except for my eyebrows, which I fill out with a MAC pencil. I haven’t done anything with my hair yet today, either. Shot quick on my iSight. This is the fourth shot I took. [...]

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[re:] To Build a Better Sex Blog

Susannah Breslin (Reverse Cowgirl):

“Something more than one more portal to free porno. Something other than one girl’s Dear Diary of zipless fucks. Something without pseudonymous erotica, bad porn ads, and half-naked self-portraits via cellphones…
Something post-feminist and politically incorrect, unabashed and unashamed, what girls talk about where boys aren’t.”
 

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“Slate” Can Be Sexual Too

Sex and more sex: Slate does a special sex issue, which I’m taking with my tea. Start with their Sex Ed 2.0 video, proof positive that sex video online would come to a grinding halt without the Prelinger Archive to sample “hygiene” films from.
What’s completely endearing is the prospect of, like the snip of [...]

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Speaking & Teaching Sex Outside the Bubble

The challenge with the democratization of media-making has been just that: you know, democratization, getting voices and stories from outside the social media saturated echo chamber (San Francisco, New York, hello) out into the Great World Beyond. Which might be why finding a show like The Midwest Teen Sex Show is still shocking:

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Sex 2.-OH NOES!!1!!!

Nobody’s famous!, is really all the headline ought to have read in the Times (UK)’s latest technology bit on internet celebrity. Of course, we know that the virtue in having total, always-on infamy available to everyone (oh, except those pesky people still living without highspeed web access or GPRS, or cameras, or [...]

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A Little Bit 21st Century Slut, A Little Bit Cloistered Girl

Three quick links for the weekend, dears, all care of the National Sexuality Resource Center:
• Look Who’s Googling, on managing online identity in the New Dating Age. I’m sure we can build even more so on the privacy suggestions offered (i.e., avoid posting your last name, email address, phone number, or where you work).
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Sex, The Internet’s Own Wasteland

The nymphs are departed.
And their friends, the loitering heirs of city directors;
Departed, have left no addresses.
- T. S. Eliot

I don’t mean to lay the blame at your feet, internet, but I am. How abysmal, how easy. In the morning there are sex bloggers on both America’s coasts (and in the middle, too, but [...]

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Viral Sex Education is Taboo

I’M TABOO is a d.i.y. media advocacy campaign organized by Sex, Etc., promoting comprehensive sex education that addresses not only disease and risk prevention, but pleasure and positive sexual self image. Aimed at high school aged folks, the project encourages young adults to make their own videos about what’s so taboo about wanting to [...]

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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 [...]

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Gird Your Loins — And Your ‘Intravagina’ — From ‘Penis Power’

Circulating today: Alexyss Tylor, host of this Atlanta cable access show, illuminates how “not all penises are created equal,” why women use vibrators as an expression of submission to the penis, what it’s like for men to “ejaculate all over your brain,” and other non-sex advice. Oh, do we need to be keeping an [...]

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