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In Woman’s Day Magazine: How To Get A Raise At Work? Clean Your Vagina

26 August 2010

Yes, you read that title correctly, and no it's not The Onion spoofing anyone: via the Meeting Boy Tumblr, I found Want a raise? Wash your vagina (dailykos.com). In a post today, Daily Kos's dhonig points out that one of the nation's top-read conservative women's magazines Woman's Day is running […]

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The Tron-a Sutra

26 August 2010

I'm sorry Tron fans; and no, this item is nowhere near as hot as Olivia Wilde in her Tron Legacy costume. But I have to show you the Tron-a Sutra (wonderhowto.com, via Our Kitchen Sink). They shot 20 positions plus a video (sadly not embeddable; yes I know this non-sharing […]

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Jasmine at Girls Out West

25 August 2010

[caption id="attachment_5715" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Jasmine at Girls Out West: vibrator Samurai"][/caption] With the globally enforced utensil embargo on Australia, Jasmine at Girls Out West (gallery) must combat the threat of starvation with only the crudest of tools at hand. Girls down under sure are fierce. (Alt: vibrators and melons may satisfy, but […]

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The InDecent Bed – Perhaps If You’re British?

24 August 2010

[caption id="attachment_5707" align="aligncenter" width="487" caption="The InDecent Bed"][/caption] No one enjoys seeing Brits being scandalized and spilling their tea to shriek "but that would be indecent!" more than me. But with this one, I'm actually having to squint to see what's indecent. Today the British InDecent Bed launched to the tune of […]

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Craigslist Lettered by US Officials Over Adult Services – Sweden has a Lesson

24 August 2010

It's an end-of-the-day story, but today attorneys general from 17 US states sent a joint letter demanding that Craigslist remove its Adult Services section "because the website cannot adequately block potentially illegal ads promoting prostitution and child trafficking." NPR reports in Craigslist Asked To Drop Erotic Services Ads, (...) "No amount […]

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Exquisite Agent Provocateur Video: Kirsty Hume is a Female Voyeur in “Betty Sue”

24 August 2010

Agent Provocateur had me re-upping my fangirl card with their recent retro-sexy video campaign to promote the Autumn/Winter 2010 collection, "Private Tapes." Released and announced this morning, "Betty Sue" however, may be the best AP has created yet -- and I wish it was an embeddable video so I could […]

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My Fave Gnomedex Talk: Oatmeal on Viral Marketing, Dating Unicorns and Bad Kissers

23 August 2010

You are already familiar with the work of evil genius (and total sweetheart) Oatmeal -- he is the creator of infamous and unsettlingly hilarious online memes such as 10 Reasons it Would Rule to Date a Unicorn, The 8 Phases of Dating, How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting […]

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Opinion: An Essential Part of a Straight Man’s Guide to Hotter Sex

23 August 2010

Quickies and loving couples who occasionally like to "make fuck" aside (as compared to "making love"): for some guys it's going to boil down to understanding the difference between a quick-and-dirty come-on -- versus a bit more teasing, cat-and-mouse. However, there's a little bit of ca-ca to step around first. Sex […]

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My Talk at Gnomedex: On Life, Sex, Tech and Social Media

22 August 2010

I'm still reeling from the way my talk at Gnomedex came out; it was pretty much an unplanned 20 minutes, with the goal of talking about... well, exactly what I ended up talking about. But I just kind of let go... And to my amazement, I got a standing ovation […]

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FleshDrive: 1 out of 1 Sex Blogger Preferred Over the “Lady Java” Video

20 August 2010

Watch the Lady Java video if you must: do not bother unless you are the one person who totally fapped to Christina Aguilera's Not Myself Tonight video. I'll get my geek on to peep the FleshDrive* news item instead -- and all I will say is, $39.95, really: "Hundreds of adult […]

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Craiglslist Motorcycle Ad for the Win

20 August 2010

It's just the best no-apologies San Francisco Honda owner motorcycle ad ever pecked out on a keyboard. Excerpted below because things this good just never last... And here you thought the Inception-rimming ad was genius. No so. (thanks, Korntee!) Frankenstein Honda CB 750 cafe-ish womanizer/ Or parts bike - $700 (richmond […]

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Euro Porn Company “Private” Embraces Pirating — or Not

20 August 2010

Well, this is a twist that no one expected; with another twist. European porn company Private announced a few days ago that they are totally cool with "pirating" because they see it as free advertising for services they want to develop that will be made of content that people *actually* […]

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The Scissoring Distraction

19 August 2010

I'm so upset and worried about the Facebook/Foursquare/Gowalla marriage from hell where you can't get your home address deleted once it's posted unless you get enough friends to "flag" a check-in that I'm quitting Foursquare and Gowalla -- for starters (that link is to a friend asking Mark Zuckerberg how […]

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The Our Porn, Ourselves and Facebook Update

18 August 2010

It's pretty safe to say that many people use Facebook, and most of the users hate it. That's just weird. Your website users should not hate your website. Despite this, thousands of people miss the Our Porn, Ourselves Facebook page. In this update post, I explain everything that has happened […]

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The True Blood Three-Way Cover (Rolling Stone)

17 August 2010

This image is without the words in the way. Yay! Stupid words. The gallery is here. I think there are more words that go with this but I will pretend to read them when my boyfriend walks back into my office later. (rollingstone.com, thanks, realmms!) Update: I also love the True […]

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Great Post: No, iPhone Users Don’t Have More Sex

17 August 2010

Can you imagine AT & T as a sex partner? At the foot of the bed, while you clutch the sheet to yourself in disappointment *again* as they promise you it won't happen again, I swear, I'll be able to keep the call up until you're done, this time I […]

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Cue the Dueling Banjos, and Observe Seven Homemade Sex Toys for Men

17 August 2010

How To Make A Homemade Toy - Watch more Funny Videos The above video is "How to Make a Fifi" and -- it should be noted to avoid cultural misunderstandings -- the video is a special, delicate slice of rich cultural American heritage that Brits (or other overseas visitors) may understand […]

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Look Away: More Lady Gaga Fangirling

16 August 2010

I get a free pass to post Lady Gaga's boobies this week because @dotBen scored us two VIP tickets to see her in concert tonight in San Jose -- from SF Craigslist for less than half price!!!! Photo: Lady Gaga by Nobuyoshi Araki in Vogue Hommes Japan (homotography.blogspot.com, thanks, Nosnikta!)

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Girl Camera Mirror + Guys With iPhones

16 August 2010

I haz de sekrit innernet formula. It is Girl / Camera / Mirror plus Guys With iPhones. Add LOLcat sauce for invincibility. (thanks to Praemedia for GCM) Update: that was fast and tragic. The website has been pwn3d by a redirect/paysite of crap :( -thanks for the heads-up, Don.

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Bad Boys and Mad Men: Why Is Don Draper So Hot, and So Wrong?

15 August 2010

If you're not caught up in the American TV series Mad Men, you might be inclined to skip this post. However, I'll posit that you may want to stick around for a few more lines of text as I look at just why a guy can be so stereotypically, pathologically […]