Monday, June 4, 2007

The Morning After: Love 2.0, Classy Smutty Hotels, and Do It For Science

Quick hits that hit what we weren’t hitting when we were hitting the sheets:

• Love 2.0: the video: “I’m running love 2.0 for you, it’s still in beta but it’s running pretty smooth.” (Valleywag)
• San Diego’s Ivy Hotel pushes jet sex with utter capitalist shamelessness: “It’s an adult playground, but it’s not cheap.” See also: mandatory sociologist trotted out to tell us how this all is just more evidence of our culture’s pornification: “there’s more people on the Internet now!” Because no one fucked in a hotel when it was just ARPAnet. (LA Times)
• Washingtonienne Jessica Cutler radiant on Coney Island: nothing lasts forever. (365 Portraits)
• Our hero Laura Kipnis on the eloquence of pornography: “Pornography should interest us, because it’s intensely and relentlessly about us. It involves the roots of our culture and the deepest corners of the self. It’s not just friction and naked bodies: pornography has eloquence. It has meaning, it has ideas. It even has redeeming ideas. So why all the distress?” (Reverse Cowgirl)
• The University of British Columbia’s Department of Psychology is seeking participants for a study, “Sexual Behaviour: The Roles of Sexual Arousal Regulation and Sexual Drive.” Give up an hour for science; lab coat optional (may skew sample, even). (Viviane’s Sex Carnival)

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