Thursday, January 4, 2007
What We Don’t digg About Sex
filed under: Web Sex Index by Melissa Gira
Finding good sex news on digg is a drag, with so much of it being tales of bad things done to women’s bodies, or just “sex” showing up in the description of wares both hard and soft (not the worst problem, but really), or Google AdWords masquerading as blog posts. See also: why are the majority of sex stories on digg filed under “Offbeat News”? Where might be a better place to log our mapping of the future of sex?
So let’s test digg’s sex smarts by checking in periodically and comparing what rises to full front page glory, and what totally wilts (but given a second chance, hey, and some talking and getting-to-know-it, right, could be really good…)
As a sample, today’s most under-dugg sex stories:
• MySpace Users Slightly More Gay Than Facebook Users
Coming out of a Harris Interactive poll on social networking sites, Facebook users emerge as the least gay. This one has an actual real blog entry behind it, too. Amazing! See also: Are Heterosexual Internet Users Antisocial?, which links to an annoyingly ad-ridden blog.
• Study: Abstinence-Only education leads to anti-homosexual discrimination
This SIECUS study is exactly the kind of thing worth getting out there, but 1 digg in 6 hours? Does science = boring? Or is because the article links to a PDF?
• Men, show your [sic] nerdcore and win a prize! The men of nerdcore
Strike a pose, boys. Pimp yourself for $50 and geek gender equity. Of course, if there were tits involved it’d higher on the page, but…
• Bisexual fruit flies show new role for neurochemical
1 lowly digg at the moment, compared to this story on gay giraffes with 1316 diggs right now (filed under Science, ps). Are digg users biphobic, or do they just prefer mammals?
• Citizen journalism website seeks sex trade worker to cover Pickton trial
Another sex story posted maybe for a joke, or to promote some dubious website, but touches on a deeper sex bias: ha ha, hookers who write, are like, so funny (or at least can, like other sex ladies, drive your traffic up). Maybe it’s better no one dugg it?
• Rise of the Retrosexual: Retro Not Metro
Or, as one commenter adds, ok, so… “Retrosexual” just means… a normal dude? …that’s so gay [smiley face redcated]. This one just provides fuel for the Masters’ thesis autogenerator: track digg users’ attitudes on gender and sexual orientation based on both ethnographic interviews in private and the comments they leave in public. Now go!
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