At the urging of goodvibes-mag, I'm taking this survey on attitudes towards lube. It is rather silly.

Let me see if I can paste some of it over here...

17. Who approves of you using lubricant alone during masturbation? What people or groups of people might support you?

I can't think of a single human being on this planet who might give a shit.

18. Who ( Read more... )

I was thinking recently about the strange fact that the US, unusually among industrialized nations, still considers women's* chests to be obscene, such that exposing one to the public is a criminal act.

( I haz a theory! )

At Kramerbooks today, I thumbed through Do Androids Sleep with Electic Sheep?, a book about the intersection of SF and porn (and wasn't Re/Search publishing dissolved at one point, when the people doing it broke up? Anyone know the backstory there?). Looking through it, I immediately noticed the names Thomas Roche, Annalee Newitz, and Violet Blue. ( Read more... )

According to the USDOJ, in 2005, 757 Americans were murdered by the person they were married to. How many of those people used the internet to arrange their weddings is much harder to calculate. However, a cursory search of the internet turns up numerous websites shamelessly devoted to peddling the services of matrimony panderers (or, to use the ( Read more... )