Saw this on Craigslist but I haven’t called to find out more about it. If you end up participating, let me know how it goes!

Virtual Sex Project
Hey Guys…
You�re invited. Sex research is being conducted at USC. If you are a male who has sex with men, you may be eligible to participate. To [...]

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I couldn’t get up to San Francisco for the Sex Hacks show or the Maker Faire this past week — nor am I there today for the Masturbate-a-Thon like I’d thought I could be — but here’s a little piece about the Sex Hacks event:
Dominatrix steals ‘Sex Hacks’ show with live demo | The Register
San [...]

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More than ever am I glad I didn’t accept an offer to blog for SuicideGirls back in the day, if this latest example of SG’s business decisions is true. I need to investigate further before I can write a good column on this, but here’s one piece of the story:
altporn.net: Apneatic: Apnea Explains Lithium [...]

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Clive Thompson’s story on Wired illustrates one of my recurring themes — without mentioning sex or relationships at all, so now you know it’s not just me:
The Visible Man: An FBI Target Puts His Whole Life Online
If being candid about his flights could clear his name, why not be open about everything? “I’ve discovered that [...]

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We Blog Cartoons � Technology

Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.

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Oh, if only I’d (a) known about this and (b) time and money for a quick trip to New York:
ITP Spring Show 2007
Description
My thesis work involves building game controllers into undergarments so that games are played through players physically touching one another. The goal of this project was to research and create objects that challenge [...]

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If sex toys weren’t the focus of Alabama’s infamous anti-vibrator bill, then why did the bill include a line banning the distribution of “any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of the human genital organs”? The senator says he was trying to shut down the strip clubs — and if that’s [...]

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For months now, I’ve had a pair of Wickedly Delicious sex toys that attach to the vacuum cleaner, waiting to be tested. I am not sure why I’ve put it off, although for the first two weeks my Oreck was in the shop and then I was out of town for almost a month. I [...]

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Since I’ve been asked to focus the Sex Drive column more on big picture sex-tech and less on personal sex-tech, it has really hit me just how much of the sex-tech news is about fear — and about the same old things. Mainly child molesters and pornography, neither of which count as “sex” as far [...]

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I’ve always said there’s nothing worse than being forced to attend camp where the pseudo-adults playing counselor force you to make lanyards, but I was wrong.
Teachers stage fake gun attack on kids – Yahoo! News
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – Staff members of an elementary school staged a fictitious gun attack on students during a class trip, telling [...]

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As the military tries to find its balance about soldiers’ internet use, I wonder what effect it’s having on romance, marriage, sex. I hope those lovers are still able to reach across distance and be together as much as it’s possible to do — email, IM, webcam, Skype, teledildonics — probably too much to hope [...]

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After 20 years of online activity, journalist Bill Thompson feels more comfortable revealing “personal life” stuff online. It’s interesting how we share our politics, opinions on products, religious views and our reactions to the news, and so on but try to keep our “personal life” separate — as if our political and religious choices aren’t [...]

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What I find newsy about this press release is that “new media” — wireless, internet and VOD — only just now reached 50 percent of this company’s sales. It’s like being a web developer and forgetting just how many people in the world are on dial-up.
Private Reports New Media Now 50% of Sales NSFW
BARCELONA, [...]

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Maybe if people would stop using the Second Life platform to break laws, Linden Labs could spend more time and money fixing technical issues and less dealing with legal problems a small handful of residents cause for everyone.
Benjamin Duranske has a nice summary and commentary of the latest — allegations of actual child porn in [...]

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(These links are probably NSFW.)
Freddy and Eddy kindly sent me an Eroscillator a couple of months ago, and I finally got around to testing it.
Here is a rendering of its guts:

Wow. I’ve only managed one attachment so far, although you can get it with about a dozen; I’m sure the others are lovely but honestly [...]

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