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 [...]

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 2011, of a book by the same name.

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