Category: Culture

Daily Kos: Sex and politics, there’s no shame in that

Image by Tanguero. Reader DB points me to S-E-X at Daily Kos, which is a fantastic buffet of sex, politics, “fellationships” and current events. It’s great Sunday reading. Snip: We are a sexually schizophrenic nation. We don’t talk about it in polite company. It’s something to do behind closed doors, shades drawn. We blush and…

The lie of unbiased reporting, again: CNN and Japanese sex culture

Image by exquisite vk photography. It’s my opinion that one of the intersections in which we can truly see when big news outlets misbehave is when the subject is sex. This it not only my opinion, it’s my experience. I’m referring to when I worked at The San Francisco Chronicle (SFGate.com) and they ran an…

Revealed: The lusty bedroom behavior of Victorian-era women

Image via Photography Paradiso. I didn’t think this article was going to be interesting, and then I was fixated once I got into the salacious details — it’s almost certain that everything we thought about Victorian-era women being cold, sexless prudes was absolutely untrue. In fact, according to research that has just been revealed in…

Stunning photo by Matthew Burditt. Some posts here get a lot of attention: these are the most commented on, shared, popular, controversial and highest-read blog posts recently here on Tiny Nibbles: open source sex. The comment community here is fantastic, vast and diverse — feel free to join in anytime! You can also follow the…

Whenever I’m asked in interviews why people sexualize technology, I have a number of reasons on offer: tech is incorporated into our lifestyles, it gives us new ways to connect and communicate with others and that can be emotional or intimate, it offers privacy, allows us to explore our inhibitions, we can seek answers to…

Image by the amazing Exey Panteleev. Women’s magazines have a bad rap these days. They get ridiculed for being out of touch with today’s woman, overusing sex to sell units, promising sexual tricks they can’t possibly deliver, missing the mark by oversimplifying male sexuality, and trading on female insecurities to move magazines. We’ve had a…