Category Archives: Technology

Best of SMS Livedating: Twitter Breaking News Again

We’ve spent too much time this week actually dating to liveblog our dating, but something we first were tipped to via Twitter — you remember, Nick Douglas’s stirring endorsement of condoms — we hear again now via Twitter (on Lux’s phone, to be exact, standing next to me) that the San Francisco Chronicle has picked [...]

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, [...]

Bubble Hotties: Dating In Public

Like many of the great sex and romance axioms of our time, this one was born out of Instant Messenger.
Goes a little something like this: once, there were clearer markers of what was public and what was private, who has celebrity and who’s just climbing a ladder to the stars, and what to expect [...]

Bubble Hotties Roundup

Oh no they didn’t. Valleywag gives aspiring bubble hotties a HOWTO for faking your own hotness, should it have failed to kick in with your series B funding. They’ve got a case study and everything. Amazing. Trashy, yes, and amazing.
A surefire way to score with bubble hottie-chasing scenesters is to gently [...]

Best of SMS Livedating: Twitter Still Waiting To Bring Sexy Back

We’re still feeling out Twitter’s utility for reporting sex and pre-sex (and the post-game, too) live.
Based on these samples from the ramp-up to the weekend (and the comedown from Thursday’s hangovers), I wonder, is all the action going down among “updates only to friends right now”, or is the eros of Twitter elsewhere?

True, there’s [...]

The Future of Getting Sex Done

What’s worse than letting the workaday world get in the way of making time for sex? Letting the ways we manage our sex lives take more of our time than time spent having sex.
This week’s Future of Sex (appropriately, this week’s late Future of Sex) offers up a few simple suggestions for how to best [...]

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 [...]

The Only Way We Can (Tell You That) We Know VC’s Use Vibrators

We just wish that the sort of VC’s who invest in sex toy startups (even super-sexy bar-raising ones like jimmyjane) weren’t also the type to fund questionable pay-per-post shilling-cum-blogging companies. Because as much as our toy shelves are buckling under the weight of the latest-greatest, fair blogging ethics are what really get us off at [...]

The Sexerati Guide to Unpersonals, Old School Edition: LiveJournal and Make Out Club

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.
Let’s all go meet [...]

The Pink Ghetto: No Place Else To Go But Slut

(This is part two in our series, The Pink Ghetto, on writing and working sex on the Internet.)

When thinking sex online, porn operates as the great dividing line. As those who work sex online, that’s the frame we’re issued — are you porn, or not porn? Explicit, or non-explicit? Adult, or “family [...]