Monday, October 22, 2007

Lazysexweb: Spankwire, The Vimeo of Porn


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An actually social social porn site? With user comments that closely resemble full-on sentences? Spankwire starts with the YouPorn/PornoTube model (upload, tag, rate smut) but somehow ended up with users smarter, sweeter, and more committed to actually providing guidance to the good stuff.

Like this helpful lad:

spankwire

Or this reminder:

this is the kind of video you find mildly arousing when ur wanking. but as soon as you cum, you’re like “wtf did i just wank to!?”.

Or this social commentary:

^^It’s because of the connotations and connections the typical person has with Japanese people, as much I HATE to admit it. Although this is made to be a fantasy, I am still angered that people are out there that think that about the Japanese women. Makes me damn sick to even think about it, and that someone would think of Asians as sexual FREAKS. And the only time a schoolgirl outfit is worn that way is when girls wants everyone to have a good look at their goods.

All that said, though, the ending was hilarious.

Such caring users, in sharp contrast to what passes for “community” on other porn video sharing sites, can only call to mind their counterpart in the world of supposedly non-porn video community.

Or: Spankwire : YouPorn :: Vimeo : YouTube

Friday, May 25, 2007

ISO: Sexy Librarians’ Sex Advice


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librarian
Jessica Gold Haralson, newly of Nerve and longtime sex blogger, kindly requests the following:

Calling all librarians!

I am currently interning for the sex and pop culture magazine Nerve.com, and looking for the librarian folk amongst you who would be willing to be interviewed.

The interview would be for “Sex Advice From,” a popular series in which a select group of folks give their best advice about tricky sex questions. If you happen to blog, we’ll totally put up your links and publicize your projects in any way possible. If you don’t blog, that’s cool too!

Please e-mail jessica at nerve dot com ASAP if you are interested!

(Originally via Viviane’s Sex Carnival.)

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Crowdsourcing Sex: Midori Asks, What Does A Gentleman Keep Bedside?


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Sex educator and kink ambassador Midori posed the following in her blog:

What should a considerate gentleman-lover-about-town have for supplies around the bedroom and bathroom? Think of the best of the best lover who’s a ladies’ man or the fellow who’s single by design.

Condoms, lube, batteries, and fetching cleanup towels dominate the hundredish suggestions offered, but perfectly sweet surprises?

• “A spare umbrella in case it’s raining on her way out, and she doesn’t have one,”

• “a ‘one-size fits most’ stretchy dress (in basic black), for if she sleeps over without any clothes for the next day,”

• “Extra toothbrush still in its packaging. Just one though – keep the stock out of sight to maintain the mystery. Send it home with her to avoid the “keeping things at his place” conversation. (Especially important if it’s a weekday sleep over and she’s on her way to work)”

Granted, the suggestions are offered in a straightish context, but the territorial toothbrush thing? Really? Still? Of all the objects to be imprinted with relationshippy meaning.

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Lazysexweb: What Is The History of NSFW?


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Apropos of Susie Bright’s questioning of the overuse of NSFW…

NSFW is unmandated, unlegislated censorship — there’s no ballot to punch, no senator to harangue.

The great majority of NSFW warnings are the result of unconscious class bias, with the conceit of American ethnocentrism. It’s made a mockery of out of journalism and the First Amendment.

NSFW and its slippery slope of “assumptions” leads to stories and ideas of all kinds being banned, firewalled, off the grid in places from universities to major wire services.

… and doing a bit of research…

I have searched for a history of this term but can find nothing. Interestingly enough though it seems as though every page on the web, that I have encountered, which purports to explain the history of NSFW is actually search engine SPAM designed to raise the Google juice for gambling and viagra sites.

… and of course, consulting the usual suspects, I’m still not any more clear on the origins of NSFW. Tips, pointers, remedy for our gaps in web history? Lux and I were reminiscing just this morning on our days online back when nary a banner ad had popped, but for the life of us, we can’t put a finger[1] on when NSFW was first deployed.

[1] Jokes for old sex nerds.