Friday, July 13, 2007
A Little Bit 21st Century Slut, A Little Bit Cloistered Girl
filed under: We Are The Sex Media by Melissa Gira
Three quick links for the weekend, dears, all care of the National Sexuality Resource Center:
• Look Who’s Googling, on managing online identity in the New Dating Age. I’m sure we can build even more so on the privacy suggestions offered (i.e., avoid posting your last name, email address, phone number, or where you work).
• Queer Connections Before Craigslist: How gay men got in touch pre-Internet times, which delivers some beautiful retro gay culture kitsch:
In 1946 Bois Burke, a resident of Berkeley, California, placed a personal advertisement in a new magazine called The Hobby Directory… But he was hoping to do more than initiate the sort of platonic exchange that was the norm for pen-pal clubs and correspondence societies of his day. Instead, Burke and the other members of The Hobby Directory, which included an overabundance of “florists,” “hair stylists,” and “male nurses,” desired a decidedly queer sort of contact: They wished to connect with others they perceived to be like themselves but whom they had difficulty locating in the regular passage of their everyday lives.
• Nightline on “Hooking Up,” with such high-larious moments as “So, what does ‘hit it and quit it’ mean?” — but watch it for San Francisco State University professor Deb Tolman smartly countering the whole Hooking Up phenom — no, getting educated & jobs did not make women total whores. And so what if it did?
Now go out there, flirt & hook up, get a little retro gay, resist the urge to Google each other, and have a great weekend.
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