As you may or may not know, the typical vibrator motor is a simple affair. Most vibrators just have an electromagnetic wheel that spins; a weight on one side makes it spin slightly off-kilter. How strong the vibrations are depends on how fast the wheel spins, how big the wheel is, how heavy the weight…
For my CBSi/ZDNet weekly sex and tech column (it’s a new feature added to my Pulp Tech column), I took a look at the big stories in sex and technology and picked ten biggies. Not all of them were widely reported in mainstream media (like Porn Wikileaks, which got coverage but most of it was…
Tucked into CNN’s Lilly Workneh’s “Top 10 Most Bizarre Tech Stories of 2011” are two amazing new devices from Japan that I somehow missed this past year. I won’t dispute that they’re bizarre from one perspective. But I get a full-on robot chubby seeing devices adapted for this level of technoaffection. The first invention is…
San Francisco – my hometown – plays host to a number of big-league technology conventions, with one of the biggest being OracleWorld. Last year I pointed out that OracleWorld had earned the local nickname “OralWorld.” That’s not because the attendees can’t quit smoking, constantly chew on pen caps, or deplete local supplies of Doublemint gum.…
My goal here is to proceed with care around judgment and sexuality, and to handle cultural sexual differences with grace and an open mind. And occasionally humor. Enter: the Dick Blender. Okay, maybe you won’t want to enter anything I’ve named Dick Blender, but I can’t help but think about Will It Blend when I…
The images collected in Manchester UK based photographer Mishka Henner‘s new book No Man’s Land are haunting, to say the least. Henner has compiled candid, incidental shots of rural sex workers as seen through the eyes of Google’s Street View cameras as they drive up and down all the back roads and main streets of…
I’m being asked through various channels if I’m on Google+ – yes, indeed. You can find me at: gplus.to/violetblue Currently, G+ is not very sexy – though I did terraform with a few sexy photos in my galleries. Don’t get me wrong, it’s fun and has some great functionality, but I haven’t charged into it…
This is a post about sex, gender and tech – but it sadly has no hot sex in it. Skip this post if you hang out here on TinyNibbles for the porn; it’ll be back after this intermission. Last week, I went to events for Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference, a very expensive and exclusive…
The image above is not, as you might be hoping, a tag cloud indicating what you can expect in the men’s room vs. the ladies’ room of your local dive bar. On the contrary, it’s part of a fresh crunch of the famous/infamous OkCupid data about online dating, as detailed in this piece in the…
A few months ago, I was asked to do consulting for a National Geographic Producer and Director. They wanted to do a full documentary on trans life, and were inspired by Becoming Chaz. What did I do? Got them to trans people asap to learn from trans people themselves. I provided the NatGeo P/D with…