If FaceBook was Uncensored …

jss | May 28, 2009

The Girls of FaceBook? The social network may censor nipples and porn, but that doesn’t prevent the competition to be hot …

Female Chauvinist Pigs

jss | May 16, 2009

I’m reading, lately, Ariel Levy’s Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture, and am alternately deconstructing and enjoying it. I like her writing and reporting style. But pervasively, I think she overestimates the extent to which raunch is at the heart of American culture, even sexual culture. Raunch is more … an accoutrement, an activity, a slice of life, than it is a way of life for most women I know who might embrace it to some lesser or greater extent.

There’s a Dearth of Straight Male Sex Bloggers

jss | January 3, 2009

Where are the male hetero sex bloggers? Too busy whacking off to Internet porn to actually write about it?

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?

2008: The Year in Sex

jss | December 31, 2008

We could try to do this in song, in Billy Joel “We Didn’t Start the Fire” style:
Carla Bruni, Sarkozy
settle for monogamy
Spitzer with his pants down
Call girl finds some brief renown
John Edwards is a lure
National Enquirer
Elizabeth, blown away, stays married to him anyway … what else do we have to say?
Etcetera.  But this is a First [...]

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.