If you have stepped outside of the rules of “normal” for your culture, you have probably become attuned to language that reinforces those rules.
For example, I never realized how monogamy-centric the majority of American fiction is — books and movies — until I delved into adult communities online. There, many people explore alternative relationship [...]

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Debby Herbenick gives the iPhone 4 and FaceTime video chat a turgid, throbbing thumbs up as a cybersex platform. I’ve been taking another look at the current options for teledildonics, so of course my first thought was “sounds great, and will it work with the OhMiBod?”

I figured it would, as the OhMiBod toys vibrate [...]

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iPhone users have more sex partners than Droid users.

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I noticed that polyamory author Jenny Block is gettin’ all coupony with Good Vibrations, so I negotiated a discount code for my readers too — at EstaNoche.com though, because that’s MY client. I’ve written everything in the Community section so far, and I’ve even filled in on the blog while our star blogger Elvira is [...]

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I’ve never set my relationship status on Facebook or any other social media. As you have noticed, I am an extremely private person, never willing to share any details about my romantic life, reluctant to open myself up to other people’s commentary about — okay, okay, you caught me. Yes, I am a private person [...]

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I suppose this isn’t on-topic as it is sex science related to animals, not people. Also, it’s sad — if I am reading it correctly, the discovery process involved vivisection. But it’s worth reading, just to be able to quote a scientist every time a problem crops up in the future.
Super squid sex organ discovered
The [...]

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The sex.com domain is for sale again, along with two trademark registrations, reports CNET blogger Lance Whitney.
But before you whip out that credit card, you might want to consider the history of the domain. First it was stolen from Match.com founder Gary Kremen by con man Stephen Cohen. Cohen exploited the domain for millions [...]

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Apparently 37 percent of the Web is porn. I don’t know if they mean pornography literally or if they included all sex-related content – I will have to do some digging to find out.
According to the report, which looked at a representative sample of around four million extracted URLs, adult content on the Internet increased [...]

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Interesting post over at Gigaom about the opportunity for porn companies to take advantage of Apple’s use of HTML5 instead of Flash for its mobile devices. And, to complete the “which came first, the porn or the tech” cycle of engineering, how porn’s adoption of HTML5 will push HTML5 into the forefront of multimedia authoring [...]

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If you have ever obsessed about a flame, an ex-flame, or an ex-flame’s new flame, then you have probably noticed how close the Facebook people search box is to the status update box.
Have you ever accidentally typed your obsession’s name into the status box and published it? What happened next?

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I’m sure that “people use vibrators!” isn’t news to you, but here are some honest-to-goodness statistics with which to wow your skeptical friends and to help a shy partner open their hearts to toys.

New Research on Vibrator Use.
…researchers Michael Reece and Debra Herbenick along with colleagues from Indiana University (and one self-interested researcher from Trojan) [...]

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I interviewed Ronen Gabbay one rainy morning about his mobile application PPX-to-Go, which finds you a sexually compatible person, a convenient getting-to-know-you activity, and a list of potential venues to do it in — and then plots it all on a map so you can spend more time on the activities than on the logistics. [...]

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One of the fun things I’ve been doing lately is joining four sex educators — Jamye Waxman, Tristan Taormino, Deborah Sundahl, and Megan Andelloux — in talking about g-spots with Je Joue. While not technically “tech,” it is science. And you know me, always willing to make sacrifices for science. *dramatically brings hand to forehead*

Je [...]

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My sympathy goes out to French first lady Carla Bruni, whose 1996 appearance on a talk show has come back to haunt her via YouTube. Yes, that’s right — she had a fun time on television 14 years ago, joking about hooking up in different countries and reading pick-up lines in multiple languages.
How that moment [...]

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This Washington Post article raises some interesting questions about the role of pharmaceuticals in sexuality:
FDA considers endorsement of drug that some call a Viagra for women
A German pharmaceutical giant wants to sell a drug with the decidedly unsexy name “flibanserin,” which has shown prowess for sparking a woman’s sexual desire by fiddling with her brain [...]

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