That was Then, This is Now …

jss | April 28, 2009

Back then, I guess it really did look like a priest protecting and standing behind a young person. They’ve done a lot of damage to the ol’ brand, haven’t they.

Pakistani Bondage Barons

jss | April 27, 2009

The New York Times today features AQTH, a company in Pakistan that has carved out a niche in the $3 billion Western market for fetishwear and bondage gear.

Craigslist Murder Victim Might be Free Speech

jss | April 23, 2009

Yes, it was a horrible crime.

But it wasn’t the Internet’s fault. It wasn’t even Craigslist’s fault.

Masters of Sex

jss | April 19, 2009

I think Thomas Maier’s new biography of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the premier physiological sex researchers of the last century, is going to go to the top of the pile when it comes in … but I’m going to have to get over my slight annoyance at the tone of the Newsweek article that serves as the coming-out party for this Big, Awaited Book. It’s not so much that a 26-year-old wrote it. Andrew Romano did not do a bad job, considering.

Lindsay Lohan on EHarmony

jss | April 14, 2009

I would have guessed that Lindsay Lohan had a sense of humor. And maybe even that EHarmony might be able to pay someone to have a sense of humor. But I never pictured them together.

Lindsay Lohan’s eHarmony Profile from Lindsay Lohan

Mel Gibson’s $500M Affair

jss | April 14, 2009

It’s my current, perhaps desensitized, opinion that extramarital sex is so commonplace as to be almost not newsworthy; but when it’s Super Christian Mel Gibson and the ensuing divorce might be worth $500 million to his soon-to-be ex-wife, it’s hard not to notice.

You've Been Tempted.

Shadowy "Into Temptation" is a usually-but-not-always safe-for-work forum about evolving social-sexual networks and how they have changed and are changing lives. It will also loosely chronicle the research, writing and publication, I hope in 2011, of a book by the same name.

The author and editor? Jeff Schult | DWM | New England | ... We've dispensed with pseudoanonymity.