Sex

During my freshman year at Berkeley (that’s 2000), I wrote an article for The Daily Californian about how Pleasures, a sex toy shop in Alabama, was being supported by Berkeley’s own Good Vibrations. Good Vibrations, a Berkeley sex toy store, is supporting the cause of Sherri Williams, owner of Pleasures, a small chain of sex shops in northern Alabama, whose business may be in jeopardy. In 1998, the Alabama Legislature passed a bill that added a ban on the sale…

Go read this article about asshole extraordinaire and scum of the earth Joe Francis, the founder of the “Girls Gone Wild” empire. Bravo to Claire Hoffman of the L.A. Times for doing such a fantastic piece of journalism. L.A. Times: Eventually, Szyszka [an 18-year-old girl recruited at a Chicago night club for a GGW video] says, Francis told the cameraman to leave and pushed her back on the bed, undid his jeans and climbed on top of her. “I told…

Mark Pilgrim‘s blog has taught me two things today: 1) HOWTO make the perfect fruit salad and get laid 2) On storage, from the comments: My uncle works for NASA. Years ago, he was called in to consult for the government on how to store some important data. Tape drives? CDs? (This was before DVDs.) His response was this: “If you write it on papyrus and lock it in a pyramid, we know it will last a few thousand years.…

This just came over the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alum listserv: Managing Editor, Penthouse Variations. The Penthouse Media Group, a bi-coastal publishing and multimedia company globally recognized as a premier brand in adult entertainment seeks a managing editor to join its dynamic Editorial Team. This is a rare and ideal opportunity for a talented individual to become part of something special. Assist Executive Editor with editorial production on a daily basis, as well as trafficking monthly production components.…

So the whole Boing Boing vs. Secure Computing saga (my radio piece is here and NYT coverage is here) has gotten just a touch weirder. From the NYT piece: In an e-mail message to Xeni Jardin, another of Boing Boing’s chiefs, Tomo Foote-Lennox, a director of filtering data for Secure Computing, asked why the bloggers were starting a war. “We discussed several ways that you could organize your site so that I could protect the kids and you could distribute…

Slashdong: Amazon Sells Sex Toys: A Sex Toy Modder’s DREAM 79 CENT VIBRATORS. 7 FUCKING 9 CENT VIBRATORS. Who CARES if you fuck it up, the motor inside the thing is worth more than 79 cents! Buy a bunch! Mod your brains out! AND YOU CAN BUY BACON THERE TOO! Bacon and Sex Toys, together at last! Also of note: SF Chron (Aug. 19, 2005) on Amazon selling sex toys. Regina Lynn on Slashdong. (June 3, 2005)

Why should I join? What, that isn’t reason enough? Fine. I suppose you could use your valuable time to do work, get good grades, get ahead in life and make something of yourself. Or you could be having mind-blowing sex. An article on groupware discusses the philosophy of writing social software, and boiled it down to one simple principle: “How will this software get my users laid” should be on the minds of anyone writing social software At theAssbook, we…

SF Chronicle (courtesy Wonkette): Welcome to F–forforest.com (FFF), a porn site with a difference. Along with raw, explicit images and videos with scenes like the one described above, FFF is well stocked with facts about the world’s forests. On the Web site, naked sylphs share space with graphs of forest loss over time and exhaustive lists of the benefits tropical rain forests provide to society. It’s a novel approach to eco-activism, certainly, but one the duo hopes will help save…