The second life/ohmibod party starts at 10pm in-world time, which is Pacific time for those of you who only have a first life. *evil grin* I’m going to the in-person event since it’s only 20 minutes away, but if I can get on a machine, I’ll be there in SL too.
I asked Stroker Serpentine [...]

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I got this nice-but-also-sad email just now, from the Playboy Radio producers I work with:
First and foremost I want to say thank you so much for being a part of our team and doing our Sex in the News for so long. We’ve absolutely LOVED having you on! Due to our merger w/ [...]

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Here’s a badly cut-out screenshot of the OhMiBod HUD (“heads-up display,” or in normal-people talk, “controller”):

You can use the keyboard and drumpad (which looks like the Simon Says game) to create your own sounds for the OhMiBod vibrator to respond to, or bring in music tracks for a richer experience. I haven’t figured out yet [...]

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It seems like someone picked up the calendar by February and tilted it so that all sex-tech events fell into September: this Saturday in particular. I can’t get up to San Francisco for Arse Elektronika after all, for a variety of personal reasons (and I’m very sorry about that, I hate to miss you), but [...]

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Franklin Veaux, creator of the sex game Onyx, offered Playboy Radio listeners a discount code so you can register your copy for $29.

Onyx guides two to six players through hours of sexual exploration in a Monopoly-meets-Truth-or-Dare-meets-Cranium kind of way. Look for my full report in a month or two, when the magazine publishes my article; [...]

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Reason number 439 that I’m a better columnist than a blogger: I forget to post things ahead of time. I’ve known for almost a week that this week I’d do the Monday Sex in the News instead of Tuesday, but did I think to tell you? No. It’s not that I don’t love you. It’s [...]

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Yeah, yeah, whatever, there’s a sex machine in Dacia’s new short film, but LOOK AT THAT WALL OF BOOKS! *droooool*

Dacia’s Love Machine chronicles Audacia Ray’s efforts to sell a sex machine — namely, The Love Machine — on Craigslist. The 25-minute film costs $2.99 to download and is DRM-free.

What better way to celebrate the advent [...]

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My alumni magazine reports that a UC Davis professor of communications published a book about “applied interpersonal communication,” which here means “flirting and carrying on,” in which he found reasons for why a female “no” sounds like “yes” to many young men.

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Apologies for not posting show notes last week – the day went pear-shaped and then I never got back to it. And since this week’s could easily be 2000 words, I’m breaking it into two posts. And next week I might start spreading the posts out over several days, so I have more room to [...]

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CNN says that Philips is launching a sex toy in the UK and muses about whether other big electronics companies will follow.

You mean like Hitachi?

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I realized the only other sex-tech — not sex and sometimes tech, not tech and pop culture which sometimes includes sex — columnist I know is Bonnie Ruberg’s Click Me in the Village Voice.
[Personal aside: Click Me is both fun and achey for me to read, because she's covering a lot of the same [...]

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Sex in the News was on vacation this Tuesday but that doesn’t mean no one was making sex-tech news.
The BBC reports that Japanese geeks have tied ultrasound to computer images to engage the sense of touch. Think we’ll see it at next year’s Virtual Worlds Expo?
Takayuki Iwamoto and colleagues from the University of Tokyo have [...]

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One of the sessions at the upcoming Arse Elektronika* is “the erotic of the machine.” Which got me thinking about Sex Drive and sex-tech and my body of work and how people have often assumed that I am “into” machines.
I’m not. The machines, for me, are a means to an end: connection with another human. [...]

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If I were to combine all of my interests and projects into a brand spankin’ new career, I think I’d open a horse camp for broken-hearted women.

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Just in time for back to school, Dr. Klein’s book is FINALLY available in paperback. Not a light read, but an interesting one, and one that includes proposed solutions rather than simply ranting against the status quo.
America’s War on Sex
Contents
Forward: Nadine Strossen (President, ACLU)
1. You’re the Target; Why a War on Sex?
2. Battleground: Sex Education–Where [...]

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