I guess now I know why no one tries to pick me up in Facebook. According to Top 10 Social Networking Pickup Tips on AskMen, you are all avoiding me because I don’t list a relationship status in my profile.
“Anyone who has ‘it’s complicated’ or worse yet, doesn’t list a status at all, might have [...]

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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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Russian-based adult chat site Chatroulette says it may implement penis-recognition software to filter out unsolicited cock pics for the rest of its users.

Chatroulette Enlists Shawn Fanning In The Fight Against The Masturbators
Can Chatroulette become something more? Look for feature changes soon that will try to send all those penises to the background. The service may [...]

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Professor Liu Yunhui leads a team in Hong Kong that has produced an internet-enabled robot hand. Connect the hand to a network and it will perform movements on one end of the connection based on the commands it receives from the other end.
In other words, it’s another consumer-level entry into the realm of internet-enabled [...]

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In the aftermath of the Adult Entertainment Expo last weekend, one of the rumbles making its way through the bloglands is “are we sure we want to see porn in 3D?” Or, on the performers’ side, “I’m damn sure I don’t want to make porn in 3D! HD is bad enough!”
Objections range from the glasses [...]

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The Freudian Send can get you fired, but it could also get you dumped. Gmail has added a feature — in the Labs, not in full release yet — that tries to give you One More Chance to quintuple-check your recipients before you hit Send.

New in Labs: “Got the wrong Bob?”
Ever included Bob (your boss) [...]

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Franklin Veaux, inspired by XKCD’s Map of Internet Communities, created a Map of Human Sexuality last year. Then with input from his friends, lovers, the Sex Drive forum, and some people who are all three, he finalized it as much as anything online can be “final.”
The interactive version lets you put green pins in all [...]

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I keep getting press releases that assure me that while all other retail is slumping, sex sales are doing just fine. The number and somewhat forcedly gleeful tone of these makes me suspicious — but I also am a firm believer in positive thinking. If retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers and producers of sex stuff want to [...]

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The Calgary Herald has a nice introductory piece about consumer-grade teledildonics:
Sending good vibrations over the Internet
Cyber sex isn’t just the late-night pastime of techno-tarts, sex addicts and pedophiles.
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“That mental and emotional connection you make during cybersex, even when you’re just typing words or sending emoticons or photos, makes the body respond. Now there’s a physical [...]

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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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I’ve resisted Facebook since it launched, despite personal and professional (including day job, gasp) reasons to sign up. But I think I have to, now, ’cause LoveHoney introduced the “world’s first personalised Facebook sex toy!” about an hour ago. Richard Longhurst, the gentleman who keeps me apprised of LoveHoney’s doings, says:

The Love Bunnies [Facebook] app [...]

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I’m nostalgic for Sex Drive Daily today.
The Explorers Blog announces that Canadian sex ed site Sexuality and U is now using Browsealoud, software that reads the site content aloud for you. You can also record the audio to MP3 for later listening — sort of like TiVo for your sex ed.
Young women outnumber young men [...]

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My editors let me slip a blow job into the column this week. Thanks guys!
Boyfriend X Misses the Mark
The scary part about taking your sex-tech project to the mainstream is that on the long, hard journey from quirky to safe, you risk wrecking the very thing that made you special.
Then, when the Bowdlerized version doesn’t [...]

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