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Friday, October 26, 2007

That Facebook App for Sex We Were Asking For?

filed under: Design for Sex, Web Sex Index by Melissa Gira | Leave a Comment

Only 5% of the Facebook users who actually installed it are actively trading Naughty Gifts, but that’s nearly 200,000 people, just saying. And no one is ever just saying, so consider: there is a social function in these app-driven gestures. Already the poke has been graphed for it’s sexual possibilities:

(img: Dave McClure)

So what, then, does offering blue balls, whipped cream, and SILF’s mean, some people will have to know. Because the corresponding behavior offline is already so easily understood. Perhaps to be explored at three people-in-the-same room parties in the next week, organized by the app developer’s at Going.com (a social party sharing site, naturally), scheduled around Halloween: Friday for New York and Chicago, and in San Francisco on Wednesday.

Hip to the scene, or just hip to innovation, condom purveyor Durex, has their own Facebook app, Free Condoms, where you can receive actual physical condoms. Condoms are spread around, ha, virally, with users scoring “Bangin’ Bucks” for users they recruit to install the app. More later in what personal information one must open up to the app to get said condoms in hand.

Of course, their tagline?

“Poke safely.”

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Looks Like We’ll Be Waiting Another 43 Years For Robohusbands

filed under: Design for Sex, Pop Futures by Melissa Gira | 1 Comment

Artificial intelligence researcher (and possibly lover) David Levy, in his recently defended thesis, “Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners,” at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands, argues that human/robot marriage will first be introduced in Massachusetts in the year 2050. But no need to wait for the state-sanctified confines of matrimony for robot sex; that phenomenon is predicted to hit critical mass within the next five years. As to how it will be spread?

At first, sex with robots might be considered geeky, “but once you have a story like ‘I had sex with a robot, and it was great!’ appear someplace like Cosmo magazine, I’d expect many people to jump on the bandwagon,” Levy said.

Or, why wait for your robohusband of the future, when you can have your robot boyfriend today?

(via Irene Kaoru; img & inspiration: Trixie Bedlam)

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Design for Jet Sex: Jimmyjane + Tank Girl Artist

filed under: Design for Sex, Jet Sex, Sex Pop by Melissa Gira | 1 Comment

Envisaged as haut pervere for the globetrotting club set, Jimmyjane’s beautiful but improbably lithe classic has been given a cartoony facelift by Tank Girl and Gorillaz concept artist Jamie Hewlett in their new ULTIMATE MEMBERS line.

Yes, it’s stunning, and a fashion-forward concept, very international media convergence, to merge jet set + jet sex. Will the daughters of empire be getting off with these anytime soon? At that width, they’d sooner be doing lines with them. Perhaps even sharing a set of six in a bass-throbbing bathroom stall, starting at just USD$1650.

(via Pitchfork, thx, Kent)

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Marital Aid Through The Ages

filed under: Design for Sex, Retrosexual by Melissa Gira | 2 Comments

To think there was once a time when just scanning past an advertisement for the euphemistically-named “videos for married couples” would evoke a tingle of curiosity. What, then, does it say for Designing for Sex at the turn of the last century to get a rise out of readers with the following:

(from Lucifer the Lightbearer, “a journal of anarchism and sexual freedom”, via)