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Return From Austin/SXSW: Marc Ecko’s Mixed Message on Corporal Punishment

17 March 2011
I am finally home in San Francisco after a long week in Austin, Texas for the big SXSW tech conference; I apologize for the delay in approving comments today (flight delayed FIVE hours) - and the lack of updates around here. We're about to get back to normal! I missed […]
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SXSW Sexy Geeks: Erotica, Sex Survival Tips, Safe Sex Charts, Audio and More

11 March 2011
UPDATE: Great coverage by MSNBC, who apparently attended my talk! Read Technolog: SXSW: Sexual Survival Guide for Geeks. I am glad that she included the fact that SXSW (this year, for the first time) blocks convention access to TinyNibbles, and mentioned my experience doing press afterward and having a CNN […]
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Autocorrect Is Dirty (via Damn You Autocorrect)

11 March 2011
It's really funny to think about how hard Apple is trying to maintain a sanitized, childrenized environment in its universe - when you look at how many entries on Damn You Autocorrect are explicit and raunchy. It was a gentle nod from Eros Blog that tipped me off to the […]
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Wednesday Nibbles: Dr. Phil On Training Your Kids Not To Be Gay, Bartending In A Strip Club, More…

9 March 2011
I'm about to leave for Austin, Texas SXSW Interactive conference for this but will be following the strict Airtoons Safety instructions such as the one shown at right so that I travel safely. (airtoons.com) Interesting read (not sex-positive in tone, yet not awful) about the current state of heterosexual swing culture […]
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[Video] Erika Lust’s New Erotic Short Film “Room 33″

7 March 2011
The new short Room 33 by feminist porn director (and "Good Porn" author) Erika Lust is drop-dead sexy. I want to stay in that hotel. No - I want to stay in THAT hotel, the one in the film. The above short is an excellent example of the searingly hot chemistry […]
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[Video] Completey Naked’s “Flashing Bodies” and “The Casting”

7 March 2011
Ha, okay: I got their press release in Catalan (Spanish)... But I'm glad it helped me discover Completely Naked, a really cool and interesting erotic performance art group based in the UK. I should have found them a long time ago; established in 1999, they have done many performances, videos […]
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[Audio] Open Source Sex 82: Making Him Dominant, Vaginal Looseness, Adult Wet Dreams, Unexpected STD Concerns

5 March 2011
New podcast - Open Source Sex 82 is nonfiction sex advice. This is an episode of sex answers. Tonight's topics include a woman who wants her boyfriend to be more dominant, a lady who is worried about vaginal looseness, a man who has wet dreams as an adult, and a […]
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Saturday Night Nibbles: Sex Research Hoaxes 101, More Fucksaw Debacle, The Only Sheen Item I’ll Post

5 March 2011
* File under INVALUABLE. This should be required reading for every journalist and blogger that gets near a sex story of any kind: How To Spot an Internet Sex Research Hoax (The Sexademic) * It's okay to stop sending me links about this, and please do note that I've previously posted […]
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Agent Provocateur’s New Madison Avenue Store

5 March 2011
After the New York Times just published some really inappropriately shitty and kinda backhanded things about Agent Provocateur's brand-new Madison Avenue store ("ready to underclothe the hooker fantasies of a whole new class of shopper"), and since I had this post in drafts waiting, I thought it would be nice […]
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New Pics from “Rough Sex” Videos by Tristan Taormino

4 March 2011
Tristan Taormino just added a hot new set to her growing collection of explicit still galleries for her film series Rough Sex, so I thought you might want to see them all in one feature. Taormino makes mainstream porn for Vivid - and it's not like any other mainstream pr0ns. […]
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Thursday Nibbles: Facebook Quietly Disallows Sexual References, New CDC Sex Study, Gaming’s Rape Culture, Uni Sex Machine Demo

3 March 2011
A CDC sex study spanning 2006-2008 has been released with the results of interviews of 5,300 people between the ages 15-44 - but so far, mainstream media seems to think it's only about teens. Ignore the teen sex hype, this piece is the best on data points so far: Young […]
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Midori’s “Flower Fresh” Performance for the Arizona Fetish Ball

3 March 2011
Earlier today, sex educator and columnist Midori tweeted the link to a gallery of the bondage and suspension (Shibari) performance she did at the recent Arizona Fetish Ball - and the images are mind-blowing, I don't want you to miss them. Midori bound and suspended sexy subjects that became the […]
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Eye Candy: Pretty Girls from The Life Erotic

3 March 2011
When I see new galleries go live I usually click them right away and store them for later - the new ones from Life Erotic stopped me in my tracks. Fantastic. * I've sworn myself off blondes, but... Mathea (above) is painfully beautiful * Explicit lesbian activity: Riesa and Eve in the […]
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SXSW 2011 Talk: Sexual Survival for Geeks

1 March 2011
It'll be like explaining how to survive a zombie geek sex apocalypse in the hallways, parties and sessions at SXSW. And I can't wait. On Friday, March 11 at 5pm in the Austin Convention Center, I'll be giving the talk and presentation, The Sexual Survival Guide for Geeks. In it, […]
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Erotic Mad Science: Sex and Science and Robots, Hooray!

1 March 2011
There are so many fun posts over at Erotic Mad Science I don't even know which ones to direct you to first - just teleport over and enjoy yourself. The images are explicit and fantastically curated, in addition to the fact that Dr. Faustus has been commissioning work from artists […]
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Tuesday Nibbles: Porn Machete Murders, Porn Copyright Trolls, HIV Muggings, Sex Addiction, Anti-Masturbator Caught Masturbating

1 March 2011
* This one is getting a lot of traction because it is so over the top: a New Orleans pastor who crusaded against gay *anything* and decried such things as 'the evils of public masturbation' got caught -EW - jacking off in his van outside a kids' playground: Anti-Decadence Pastor […]
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Open Game: Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” Video

28 February 2011
Born This Way video posted for graphic sexuality, latex couture, nipples, and Gaga's cute bouncing boobies. Also for the cult factor. This post is TOTALLY open to comment and crit. The video... has got a lot of wet vagina-stroking in it. I have a few thoughts but I'll withhold unless […]
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Finally I Have A Reason to Dust Off The Wii: “We Dare”

28 February 2011
LOVE this commercial! Spank him! "Ubisoft's new Europe based Nintendo Wii game "We Dare" encourages exercise and activity in front of the TV...and in the bedroom." Ubisoft describes We Dare (ubi.com), "We Dare is a sexy, quirky, party game that offers a large variety of hilarious, innovative and physical, sometimes kinky, […]
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Monday Morning Eye Candy

28 February 2011
Hoping to start the week off sweetly, especially with three galleries that include my current fave French model Jasmine Arabia. * Jasmine and Angel * Jasmine and cucumber * Jasmine in an Exquisite Arte sampler * Bonus: Met Art model Eufrat doing a hardcore scene with a man
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Kink Your Kindle: Selected Explicit Novels

27 February 2011
As much as I devour Jon Krakauer books and period noir, I'll confess that I love explicit erotic novels: I know that statement reeks of "Harlequin romance" but hear me out. There is something really engrossing and arousing about sinking into a book that makes your attention compete between an […]
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