This is the third time I face this decision. The first time, my phone broke beyond repair, and I went to the store to get the replacement (free, as it was still under warranty). That’s when I found out that when I splurged on ringtones, I was buying a license to use that song snippet [...]

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This pro athlete has not lost his job or been otherwise publicly punished for his racy Facebook photos, although of course he’s had to apologize and pretend it’s a big deal when it really shouldn’t be. The boss’s statement doesn’t sound too hysterical or condemning, either. Could this be a sign that we’re already starting [...]

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The funny thing about this Yahoo News story about developing physical interfaces for virtual worlds is that it doesn’t make any quips, cracks or cheap shots about cybersex.
Making ‘Second Life’ more like real life
Now, technology from Japan could help make navigating online virtual worlds simpler by letting players use their own bodies � or [...]

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I love the concept of a “kissing phone” you can use to send and receive kisses. It’s the kind of thing I expect would catch on faster than vibrator teledildonics, because it’s cute and silly and fun and you can use it in public. Most partners who live together aren’t going to reach for internet-enabled [...]

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This week’s Sex Drive column:
Teachers Should Blog, Tweet and Flirt Online Like the Rest of Us
What would you do if your employer told you not to use MySpace, Match.com and Second Life because those sites are “too dangerous” and “inappropriate” for you?
If you’re a teacher in Ohio, you’d better think twice before you answer, because [...]

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Interesting story in the Chicago Tribune about Alzheimer’s patients who seek romance and intimacy and touch, long after they’ve lost their memories and have progressed well into dementia.
Alzheimer’s: Intimacy found after all is lost
The family of former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor cast a rare spotlight on this sensitive situation last week [...]

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Sometimes our sites say things about us that aren’t really about us. It’s hard enough when we experience professional difficulties due to our sexual explorations online — but when our site has been pornohacked and we just let it stay that way, we earn a reputation for poor judgment at the very least, and much [...]

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I just had a whole conversation (on camera) with the Wired for Sex documentary producers about robots and sex, and where I think we’re headed. I’m afraid I have a very boring perspective on it all: sure, we’ll have sex robots, like we’ve always adapted technology for sex. But it’s not going to replace anything [...]

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Graydancer (of Ropecast fame) made me breakfast this morning, and as he cleared space on the table–that’s The Table On Which All Things Eventually End Up — we noticed just how many tools of our trade were in the pile.
So he took a picture and created a contest.
It’s more difficult than it looks, so good [...]

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If women walk in the least sexy manner when they are fertile, and the most sexy manner when they are infertile, does that mean those of us who are on the pill cannot help but develop a sexy walk?
Silly me, I always thought that gait related first to conformation and then to contraptions (high [...]

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From a college newspaper:
The naked truth about porn
Some people hate porn because it goes against their religious beliefs. Others hate porn because it degrades women. And as Gross pointed out during the debate, women hate porn because they cannot live up to its expectations. Due to the latter issue, I am not a fan of [...]

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Eric Reuters reported on a study showing fewer people have cybersex in Second Life than people generally assume.
“Noble Pierre-Etienne (Second Life: Wolkam Winger) and Angelica Ortiz (Second Life: Angelyka Klata) surveyed 657 residents about their Second Life usage. Only 13.6 percent said they �often� or �always� practice cybersex,” he writes, although the study found that [...]

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Having just written a rather tongue-in-cheek piece on “how to be bisexual on the internet” for my new book — and fearing that the tongue-in-cheek part isn’t coming through, and everyone will hate me, this great post over at Bisexuality and Beyond caught my eye:
Bisexuality and beyond: Tila Tequila and the MySpace bisexual
You couldn�t make [...]

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A new Sex Drive column is up:
Court Does Right by Social Sex Sites
Just three business days after my last column explained the futility of subjecting adult social-networking websites to the same record-keeping requirements as porn productions, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a slip opinion agreeing with me.
No, I don’t feel smug, why do [...]

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…but for those of you about to write, we salute you.
National Novel Writing Month
If you work sex-tech into your novel, send me the title and your wordcount on December 1st, and I’ll post a list here.

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