Category Archives: SMS Livedating

Best of SMS Livedating: Epic Oh, My Smashed Up Memory Card Edition

Who else crashes their phone under the weight of saved text messages? Who else but we ragpickers of SMS, collecting your dating detritus for later publication once all appropriate statutes of sex limitation have, if not passed, become less important than say, the story that could be told. Let’s offer up to [...]

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Best of SMS Livedating: Pre(text of) (-)Dating Edition

Let this be not a warning to empty your phone of textflirts, lest some intrepid researcher, sex technologist, or promiscuous blogger thumb through looking for the best bits. No, instead, please send them in here, so we can savor the choicest, like this week’s Best of SMS Livedating: The Pre-dating Edition.
It began innocently [...]

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Best of SMS Livedating: The Twitter Vs. Text Edition

In a cab, barreling through Manhattan in the sleet and hail, Lux and I were competing for tweets. Rather, competing for who could most quickly get each other’s wit down into 140 or characters or less. (She totally ran away with my ‘losing queer girl cred‘ train of thought, while I nicked [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Best of SMS Livedating: Cross Country Ripple Effect Edition

Does the text-connection transmit, too, rippling waves of possible sex across the nation, nay, even, the world? We offer the following evidence:
10:26pm PST/1:26am EST
not on date: and?
1:43am PST/4:43am EST
on date: he’s a good kisser!
not on date: nice. i’m having weird dreams about sex parties.
… the next day …
on date: sex party dreams? [...]

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Best of SMS Livedating: Three Ways of Texting

In today’s installment of “My Phone’s on Vibrate for You,” Sexerati offers this time-shifted tale of three lovers in three ways…
On date: Off to [location redacted] to see [name redacted]. In cab. He’s late. Late?
On other date: Late boys are rare. And I’m sitting here thinking I need a boy who [...]

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‘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.
On [...]

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