Where Living Together is Against the Law …

| March 28, 2009

… Cohabitation is a criminal offense in Michigan, Virginia, Florida, Mississippi and North Dakota. Yes, in 2009.

Teen Posts Nude Pics on MySpace …

| March 27, 2009

A 14-year-old New Jersey girl has been accused of child pornography after posting nearly 30 explicit nude pictures of herself on MySpace.com — charges that could force her to register as a sex offender if convicted.

She’s been released into her mother’s custody.

It’s all over the news, as though she killed someone. Actually, it has probably gotten more attention than if she killed someone. The media eats this stuff right up. But you’ll never read about the resolution of this case. They’re on to the next thing.

Sexting Backlash: Students Sue Prosecutor

| March 26, 2009

Regardless of what you think of sexting, you ought to be rather afraid when the government starts ruling on the morality of what anyone can and cannot send over a cell phone. And in this case, we’re apparently talking about a photo or photos of girls who are not naked or posed provocatively, even. They are two-year-old photos that were taken at a slumber party.

Teen Sex and the Case of the Missing Double Standard

| March 23, 2009

There’s a journalism problem, though. Because the two teens, the boy and the girl, were sentenced before The Beast raised the double-standard question. And guess what? They got similar sentences. Neither is doing jail time.

Sex Tweets in Real Time

| March 21, 2009

So here, clickable and updating every five minutes for eternity or until people stop tweeting about having sex, whichever is sooner, are Real Time Sex Tweets. I may come to use them, with new phrases, as occasional punctuation or for cheap thrills on slow days.

Twitter Sex Search

| March 18, 2009

But yesterday, I discovered Twitter Search. And if you have any voyeur in you at all, you’ll want to go look, too.

Search for anything that you’d think that people would not talk about in front of their moms and you can find people twitting and tweeting about it, in real time. It’s like reading the text messages of complete strangers, over their shoulder, without any fear of being caught.

You've Been Tempted.

Shadowy "Into Temptation" has been a forum about evolving social-sexual networks and how they have changed and are changing lives. In other words, we talk about dating and sex.

The original intention was that this blog would also chronicle a book project on the same subject; but that is in flux, on hiatus, perhaps meant for another time.