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Friday, December 29, 2006

‘The Future of Sex’: How To Start a Love Club

filed under: Podcast: Future of Sex by Melissa Gira | 3 Comments

In this episode of The Future of Sex, just in time for what I’m sure will be a fabulous new year, learn how to engineer your very own Love Club, a social/sexual experience where you and your (closest, and if not yet, then after) friends can explore the future of safer sex together.

We also speak with Steen Schapiro of the fetish sex club, Manifest, in Copenhagen, on how to throw a party for 500 of your kinky friends.

Accompanying this educational film is a PDF chart and checklist to help you make your love club’s guest list and assemble all the appropriate and necessary supplies for a good time had by all.

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Nerd Love, Overheard

filed under: Dating 2.0 by Melissa Gira | Leave a Comment

At the pretty-much-over “polytechno” night (no, that doesn’t mean it’s all slutty Marin types) at 111 Minna (you may have been here partying in the name of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, perhaps with slutty SF types)…

Her: I’m always happy to fuck around with PHP.
Him: Maybe afterwards we can fuck around with your ass.

See also, as I was attempting to get a photo from a friend’s phone to the browser on this desperately fucked to drunk grape iMac, which involved digging way, way back into old email accounts, dead del.icio.us tags, and finding some app someone wrote about once (what else), a similarly drunken dude pulls up to tell me…

You have too many tags.

and:

You could be Steve Jobs’ daughter.

(This post, with love, goes out to Lux Nightmare, the original alt.porn superstar made good. Who blogs you, baby.)

Friday, December 22, 2006

Jet Sex: Sex Shop in Sao Paulo

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(via flickr/bernadettebernadettebernadette, right now)

Friday, December 22, 2006

Bad (Sex) Education

filed under: State of Sex Ed by Melissa Gira | Leave a Comment

I don’t mean to be on a kick of documenting the “stupid” of sex, but some quotes, you just can’t let slide when they float across your newsreader:

“I never had a class in my life on that and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure it out,” board member Bill Schumacher said at Monday’s school board meeting, adding he wonders if eighth-grade is too soon for such matters.

The matter that Bill Schumacher presumes even rocket scientists are so schooled in (though I can’t point to that data at the moment, and am not sure it even exists) is how to use a condom.

Apparently the eighth graders in his district in Cowlitz County, Washington are showing “skyrocketing” STI rates, and the school’s Superintendent would like to re-instate instruction in condom use, which was cut from the middle school curriculum two years ago. The County Health Department is for it, the health teachers are for it — pretty much anyone who has actual contact with actual people facing questions around how to have sex and stay safe.

Aside from making me want to go find the numbers on how many school administrators know how to use a condom properly — again, like ‘rocket scientists,’ an under-studied population — in order to make a point, that we are so quick to scrutinize how easy-to-control and traditionally disempowered folks have sex — like young people, queer folks, young men of color, the incarcerated, and sex workers — really, I’m just yearning in general for less of these stories to document on a daily basis.

Santa, screw the stocking-stuffers — just send me the good sex ed news.