Sweet reader Sean sends me these two ads for GuySpy, a Grindr-like gay male hookup app and social network website / online magazine. Neither of us can decide if the ads featuring corn and meat are icky, funny or cute – or all three. One thing’s for certain: subtle they aren’t. Still, I love the…
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3D lingerie hologram girl in after hours Paris lingerie shop Empriente
A hologram Tupac was one thing, but the hologram hottie cavorting in a closed Parisian lingerie shop after hours might have been my favorite use of the 3D technology yet. Recently at Place Vendome, Paris, after 9pm at the flagship concept store for Empriente Lingerie a special private show could be watched through a street-level…
[Video] Next Media Animation reports on android sex workers
For the uninitiated, Next Media Animation is a Taiwanese animated news outlet that covers just about anything and everything, and focuses on the item of the day it thinks is bound to be the most viral. Viewers count on quite a bit getting lost in translation, resulting in bizarrely humorous retellings of current events that…
Happy Birthday Fucking Machines: 12 Years of Machine Sex Online
This month, Kink.com‘s legendary sex machine site Fucking Machines turns twelve years old. It’s kind of hard to believe that it’s been around that long, though it was the second website in the Kink (then “Cybernet”) empire. Fucking Machines isn’t old enough to visit itself, but it did get a shiny new look. A lot…
Sex at SXSW 2012 – The Ultimate SXSexy Guide for Sexy Geeks in Austin
It’s time for the world’s largest internet conference, SXSW Interactive 2012 in Austin, Texas. I will be there from (today) Thursday March 8 through Wednesday, and I am there primarily to be a brat. I’m also doing stuff like interviews and podcasts with various media outlets (like MSNBC, who did great coverage of my huge…
PayPal Censors the Erotic Content of Indie Ebook Publishers
I jumped into erotic e-books as a writer and small publisher at the very beginning. My hope was to have free and open distribution of erotic lit that was not determined by anyone except those who wanted to write it and those that want to read it. I think this new development with PayPal is…
A Year In The Business of Adult Apps
When Apple shut out several thousands of app developers from the IOS market in 2010, then-fledgling adult app company MiKandi welcomed devs with open arms. Since then MiKandi has become the leading adult app maker and has energized the space with its own third-party app market. This had a number of interesting effects on the…
Sophisticated Sex Toy App for Your Valentine: OhMiBod with Closer ToGetHer
When the first generation of OhMiBod vibrators came out, I’ll admit that I wasn’t terribly impressed. I reviewed OhMiBod’s Naughtibod for MacLife in 2008, and found it to be a somewhat clunky (and loud) iPod vibe. Like other similar toys, the Naughtibod connected to an iPod and pulsed to the beat of whatever song you…
The New Ads for ICM Registry’s Dot-XXX
Hmmm… What’s insulting, reductive and straight-up shitty about the new ads for .XXX? Maybe that porn is not, in fact, moving its prime .com real estate to .XXX? Maybe that women are not pieces of sexualized furniture? Maybe that the women in porn are people – not objects 24-7? Maybe that a representation of a…
[Video] Robot Sex at Sundance 2012
OFFICIAL SELECTION 2012 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL: Mike Sullivan has been shooting an epic stop-motion robot sex film in his apartment for the last 10 years. Obsessed with constructing miniature robot porn stars, his apartment overflows with thousands of figures. The short film Meaning of Robots, screening at Sundance later this month, tells the story of…