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 [...]

Swingtown Epitaph

jss | January 17, 2009

My girlfriend and I were at a swingers’ “Meet and Greet” party at a bar in Rocky Hill, Connecticut, on Saturday night. The cover charge was $25 per couple, enough to keep the sports bar’s regular clientele at bay for the evening, and perhaps a hundred couples showed up – a typical crowd for this sort of thing in north central Connecticut. I asked around. If they hadn’t watched “Swingtown,” they’d sure enough heard of it and were going to tune in …

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.