The best bit of Nerve’s deceptively swift history of how sex drove the internet, from ARPAnet to gonzo pro/am sites: “Yet, as normalized as online pornography may be, the material itself has become increasingly stripped of any greater context or meaning… The digital revolution has accelerated this trend greatly — partially because bandwidth costs money, [...]
Two luminaries of sex culture that I would have paid dear money to see tangle live & in person on desire, performance, and politics passed away Sunday — queer theory provocateur Eve Sedgwick and All-American porn princess Marilyn Chambers. Sedgwick’s friend Cathy Davidson writes that Eve died at her partner’s side. 56 year old Chambers [...]
In a charming slap, Ainsley Drew of The Rumpus filed the interview she didn’t do with sex writer Susannah Breslin anyway. (The Rumpus is a smart new group blog salon founded by writer Stephen Elliot.)
Who are our master porn experts? We’ve had classy theorists (and class favorites might be Laura Kipnis and Linda Williams), activist thinkers (two from the Libertarian camp alone being Nadine Strossen and Wendy McElroy), and not the least of which, porn star philosophers (Carol Queen, Annie Sprinkle, and Nina Hartley make a representative triumvirate). [...]
I spent the night in bed with Writer of O, which is a sort of triple narrative: the revelation of the novel’s author, Dominique Aury, as a prominent intellectual, of her affair with another member of the literary establishment, and of how a novel can — sometimes — be a love letter.
“The mystery of sex [...]
“Want to watch some fetish this morning?”
“Mixed wrestling, that is rich. I wonder if am a monster, the people behind me who can see my screen are talking about Apartheid reconciliation.”
“Make that suggestion. More mixed wrestling.”
“Yes, Gandhi’s granddaughter, who I met, and was stewarding the effort in South Africa at the time, would, in [...]
Sexerati has been on summer vacation. Or, maybe, having a summer love affair. Since we aren’t Julia Allison, speculation of said possible affair won’t surface at Valleywag, though it’s not out of the question. For a few reasons. But actually, a Gawker property is partially to blame for our absence, though [...]
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 [...]
There’s no such thing as talking too much about sex in a sex-mad world. Sex educators, sex writers, and the sex media are so often in the business of talking and thinking sex, however, that we often forget to say along with that how much we heart sex itself — sex all for its [...]
(adorable Technorati graphic, perfect in this out-of-context)
Jamais Cascio of, Open The Future and Worldchanging, suggests in the comments, “for men who work in the sex culture field the damning term isn’t ’slut,’ but ‘pervert.‘”
Elizabeth Wood, of Sex and the Public Square, points to a discussion in the Wordpress user forums, where bloggers whose work is [...]