ValleyWag Unzips AdultFriendfinder Scandal

jss | March 2, 2009

As a reporter in Silicon Valley, you probably can’t have a LOT more fun  than breaking a story involving Penthouse Pets serving ice cream and investment bankers getting lapdances in the middle of Security and Exchange Commission “quiet period” on a proposed $500M initial public offering.
Not unless Steve Jobs has a hangnail or something, anyway.
But [...]

Adultfriendfinder.com NSFW in Florida

jss | February 12, 2009

Not surprisingly, “cubancigar107″ is nowhere to be found on Adultfriendfinder.com today. That was allegedly the AFF user name of former Florida Republican State Rep. Gus Barreiro of Miami Beach, who was fired from his job at the state Department of Juvenile Justice in January. Investigators said yesterday that they found adult pornographic images on his state-owned laptop.

Obama Inaugural Sex Scandal

jss | January 20, 2009

Obama Inaugural Sex Scandal
Well, there had to be one, right?
DC hotel caves to pressure, cancels sex party
Anti-gay group calls effort a victory

Sex and Hard Times

jss | January 2, 2009

Are, for example, sex.com and kasidie.com — both now in beta, both free sites that look more like MySpace or FaceBook for the non-monogamous masses — do they represent Sexual Networking 2.0, beyond AFF?

Something to Sneeze at: Adultfriendfinder

jss | January 1, 2009

Those who do NOT know it well think that AFF is a porn site, if they have heard of it at all. And it is, but it’s so much more.

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 2010, of a book by the same name.

The author and editor? Jeff Schult | DWM | 52 | New England | ... We've dispensed with pseudoanonymity.