Here’s a way to make online dating more fun:
Don’t serve this wine before you go online – What Were They Thinking – MSNBC.com
We all know the real world and the virtual one in cyberspace are increasingly overlapping, but singles bars eveywhere should be very alarmed at this development: A French winemaker is trying to help [...]

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Now here’s a smart way to protect the children.
TECH/SEX Conference Website
Inaugural STD/HIV Prevention Conference focusing on Youth and Technology
January 22 – 23, 2008 Hosted at SFSU’s Institute for Next Generation Internet, San Francisco, CA
About Sex::Tech
The Internet and mobile technologies have strengthened youth networks, provided new avenues for expression, and increased youth access to tools and [...]

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Cute link from Jim:
GPod vibrator hits high note with Japanese women | NEWS.com.au
The �gPod�, a phallic-shaped vibrator, is designed to respond automatically to sounds picked up by an accompanying handset, which can plug into anything from a telephone to a music player to a television.
The �25,000 ($243) gPod was one of a number of toys [...]

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Today’s column:
Online Therapy: Like a Diary That Writes Back
Earlier this year, I became so mired in personal crisis I couldn’t see any way out. I struggled against depression and desperation and barely managed to produce columns, much less keep up with my day job or my book.
My distress peaked one night and I found myself [...]

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If you’re in NYC this weekend, here’s an interesting date movie:
PASSION and POWER: The Technology of Orgasm
PASSION and POWER: The Technology of Orgasm
This documentary film offers surprising new information which calls into question all we thought we knew about our own bodies, our own pleasure, and ultimately, our own power.
Premiering at Lincoln Center in NYC
Saturday [...]

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I want to propose a petition to Save Sex in Kansas, after reading this:
Kansas.com | 07/16/2007 | Grand juries to determine what’s obscene
OLATHE, Kan. – Separate grand jury investigations in two Kansas counties are expected to decide what’s too obscene for businesses to sell.
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In the next several weeks, the jurors could decide what is and [...]

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Brian Alexander, whose card I can’t find and therefore whom I can’t email in person until I track him down through mutual friends OR he sees this and writes me, hint, has an interesting column up about the opening of the San Diego Sexual Medicine this week.
The sex doctors will see you now
I’m delighted at [...]

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Violet writes:
…the results of a study about sexual motivations started to hit the wires; the psychologists thankfully eschewed the typical “biological imperative” argument and really dug into people’s reasons for fucking. I have no idea how diverse their definitions of sex were, nor if they only sampled heterosexuals, but it was interesting nonetheless — and [...]

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Today I’ve been consciously smiling at strangers all day: walking, driving, at the barn, from the front porch.
Every single time, the stranger has smiled back, whether male, female, old, young, child. Sometimes they looked pleasantly surprised and other times they just smiled.
I love days like this. Also, I got to say things all day like [...]

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Cross-posted from the forum …
Having confirmed with my neighbors that they will be available to receive packages if my Harry Potter book requires a signature of receipt, I can now commit to being on Digital Village this weekend.
You can listen online at:
http://www.kpfk.org/index.php
(Or if you’re in the LA area, on FM at 90.7)
Digital Village
10am to [...]

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Update: Digital Playground NSFW changed the EXIT links on both sites to point to Yahoo. Thank you daedae for pointing this out in the comments, and props to DP for fixing it so promptly.
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If you go to porn site Digital Playground and click the EXIT link (to say you’re not 18 or you’re not interested [...]

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Another article on the Eros case that actually explains the product at issue as something other than a “virtual sex bed” which is how the earlier news stories were describing it (wrongly):
Lawsuit May Bring Reality To Virtual Community
TAMPA – Can what happens between made-up characters in virtual reality have real-world, legal consequences?

I wonder … is [...]

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a little off topic jaunt today …
i saw harry potter movie last night. and while the kids are (finally) legal, at least by UK standards — and fred and george must be over 18 by now, right? — i still feel a little odd having little flutters about daniel radcliffe. he’s like this sapling, [...]

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I could not sum up hundreds of years of copyright law in this column, and by skating over it vaguely to provide context, it’s going to make all you lawyers and law groupies (guilty as charged) roll your eyes. But let not your heart by troubled. For a deeper, more involved look at the legal [...]

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And again, the most romantic blog post on the entire internet today is at xkcd:

xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe
Randall, I love how you think. And feel. Thank you for making the world a better place.

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