geeky new adult social networking site

by Violet Blue on December 12, 2006

My inbox is a constant erotic treasure-trove; were it a plate of cupcakes I’d be sitting in it right now… I just got an email from the people who made Playful Bent, an extremely interesting, 2.0 buzzword-compliant, adult social networking site that has a lot of smarty-pants features for us UI (user interface) nerds. Hookups and thoughtful tech? Oh, fetishes, how I love it when you’re together.

The people from Playful Bent write me saying,

“- It’s kink and pansexual friendly. It’s been created by bisexual and polyamorous folk, and tries to make no assumptions about sexuality and gender.

- Unlike a lot of adult sites on the net, It’s actually up to date web technology. Written in Ruby on Rails, loaded with ajax, and other UI niceness.

- It’s an attempt to be creative with *software*, rather than with *content*. We think that we’re promoting interesting and unique (and hopefully kinky and flirtatious) interactions between our users.”

I was skeptical about their site until I checked out their really fun looking striptease feature, where each time you look at more of another person’s photo set, it enables them to see more of yours — and I found a striptease or two I’d love to see, including this sexy blonde working on her motorcycle… Looks like it’s still in some sort of beta with ‘coming soon’ features, but it already has a space for exquisite-corpse style erotic story making… Nice.

Violet Blue

The London Times named Violet Blue "One of the 40 bloggers who really count" and Self Magazine named TinyNibbles one of the “Best Sex Resources for Women.” Blue is an autodidact and pundit on sex and technology, hacking and security, porn for women, privacy and bleeding-edge tech culture. She is a journalist for ZDNet, CBS News, CNET; she's an educator, speaker, crisis counselor, volunteer NGO trainer, and the author and editor of over 40 award-winning books.

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