Wednesday nibbles

Image by Curtis Joe Walker.

Enough little bites that I need to serve us up a whole post…

* First up: open call for Apple iPhone developers who have made a racy/naughty/adult iPhone app to contact me. Have you been rejected from the store… or not? I’m working on an article for an industry magazine: please email me — violet at tinynibbles.com.

* I love the company LifeStyles Condoms — they always answer my picky sex educator questions right away and share neat information with me. For instance, they estimate that 87 condoms are used each second in the U.S. on Valentine’s Day. And just as I was writing this, they pointed me to their nifty sex survey in conjunction with Harris Interactive stating that U.S. women are more likely to want to have sex than receive cards, flowers, chocolates, jewelry and lingerie on Valentine’s Day. Yes! And thank you. (lifestyles.com, harrisinteractive.com)

* I sincerely hope that martyrdom is what Max Hardcore wanted; it’s making for bad news for everyone. Convictions upheld in Max Hardcore porn case “Pornographic materials sold over the Internet may be considered obscene in one community and perfectly acceptable in another. A federal appeals court says communities that find the materials objectionable are within their rights to prosecute the pornography producers, even though the items were not specifically directed at those communities.” (www2.tbo.com)

* Here in San Francisco, I really want to take these Valentine’s Day Cocktail Classes — if not especially because I want to write a HOWto, I want to learn what they have to offer, and my sweetheart does not drink. You read that right: I want to learn about sexy cocktails for non-drinkers, too. (elixirsf.com)

* Last night when the news hit the wires I tweeted that hackers had launched “Operation Titstorm”, an attack by Anonymous on the Australian government over their proposed censorship of small-breasted porn. I blogged about Australia’s pornography censorship proposal here, where clearly the government only wants porn with big knockers, and on Twitter I had a reply linking me to Electronic Frontiers Australia’s response to the hacking — they think it hurts the cause. It’s quite a mess. Good job, Australian censor board. (channelnews.com.au, efa.org.au)

* I will be the first one to say that the mouse-over hotspot diagrams of the Real Touch‘s inner workings make me wonder what it would be like to have a penis and stick it in a pasta machine. Is this where penis pasta comes from? (realtouch.com, amazon.com)

* Helen Croydon wrote a really interesting article How to Flirt: Lessons for Women in the Guardian UK where she went out for real-life flirting workshops for women in London, and reports back on the scene. I find it fascinating that the women PUAs (pick up artists) avoid the other gangs of male PUAs. Why? Do they think the men will take them down? Were it me, I’d see how many male PUA’s I could make into notches on my spiky bootheel… Wouldn’t you? (guardian.co.uk)