A writer whose stories include graphic depictions of the sexual abuse and murder of children is being charged with violating obscenity statutes, even though she only posted text and not pictures to her website.
Federal obscenity case singles out Internet writer
PITTSBURGH � Sometime early next year, Karen Fletcher, a 56-year-old recluse living on disability payments, [...]

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When I was growing up, my parents never forced me to stick with any one thing. When I got bored, I could quit. And then try something else.
So while my peers had all the love of music pounded out of them by being forced to “stick to” piano lessons, I took about six months [...]

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I like what Cory Silverberg said yesterday:
Am I Normal?
n the years that I�ve made talking about sex my job, I�ve been asked this question in a hundred thousand variations. Working at a sex store, a common opening line from customers would be �you must see a lot of weirdos working in a place like this� [...]

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Brian Shuster over at Red Light Center proudly showed me this chart today, noting that traffic at RLC (an adults-only virtual world) has surpassed traffic at Second Life (I’m unclear if this includes both adult and teen grids, or just adults) for the time being:
Alexa Ranking
That’s a link to the dynamic chart, so by [...]

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I just FTPed the entire manuscript of my book to my editor. The “writing” stage is done. Now we enter the “editing” stage — which, from the author’s perspective, looks a lot like “more writing.”
But meanwhile … I sent an excerpt from an erotic novella I’m writing to an erotica podcaster and he chose [...]

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I haven’t decided how to pose yet this year. It’ll be bare, of course; I want you making those donations (not that you’d just be there to see moi, of course). The Boobie-Thon is taking photo submissions now for the fundraising event, which runs the first week of October.
For more info:
2007 Blogger Boobie-Thon
The sixth annual [...]

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I’ve never met him — yet — but this comic strip author won my heart long ago.
Here’s another episode that made me laugh and added to my conviction that Randall is one of my soulmates. Unfortunately, if his wikipedia page is correct, he’s two years too young for me based on the Standard Creepiness Rule.

I [...]

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This week’s column:
Don’t Dismiss Online Relationships as Fantasy
Last month, three unrelated stories challenged the idea that internet relationships are just fantasy and therefore less important, less powerful and less real than offline relationships.
They aren’t.
First, I read the Wired magazine piece about Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two in New York state. Montgomery invented two [...]

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From the UK:
Study: Women and elderly lead internet charge
This year’s edition of the regulator’s annual UK Communications Market survey shows that, in the age group between 25-49, the internet is used more by women than men. Fifty-five percent of total internet use in the 25-34 age range is female, while among 35-49-year-olds, the figure is [...]

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From this month’s issue of Dr. Marty Klein’s excellent newsletter, Sexual Intelligence:
Bathroom Blowjob Bust
So they caught Idaho Senator Larry Craig supposedly offering some vague sex act to someone in the men’s room.
The police report–all over the internet–is a primer on how guys apparently do this: you put your left foot in, you put your left [...]

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On the twelfth day of book deadline, my editor gave to me
A cover for all to see

And now I need your input! What do YOU do with sex-tech in your relationships? Do you flirt by text? Have sex in Second Life? Blog together?
I’m adding pullquotes and examples to the manuscript now and I want to [...]

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