Year: 2009

Image of Laura Jackson by Romy Suskin. Over at The Rumpus, there’s a great interview series that just started about sex work and the recession: Recession Strippers 1: The Laura Jackson Experience. In it, Jackson talks about why she can’t quit dancing and the effects of the recession on her job. It’s a very unexpected…

Praemedia sent me a link to Sociological Images’ post about using sex to sell — autism awareness. The videos above are particularly surreal, and the Rethinking Autism video page has a few more from the campaign. They’re intended to counter misinformation about autism; Leeann Tweeden, Playboy model and FHM cover girl is friends with parents…

Image by CoreForce. This week’s San Francisco Chronicle column is a brief and ridiculous history of people trying to make the iPhone into a sex toy, sex phone apps, and a mixture of dismay, bemusement, hope for the Android, and a sigh of resignation that no one’s going to be imaginative enough to really make…