BDSM going mainstream?

April 17, 2003

Isn’t it funnny how niche groups tend to influence the majority when their ideas are thrown into the giant mixing pot that is society? This is particulalry true, I think, of all things related to sex, be it related to sex toys, clothing, or bedroom activities. Lately, though, it seems people are getting less fidgety [...]

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6 * u * 2L + 5h * i * t

January 29, 2003

I don’t know how it is that people think human emotions boil down to simple formulas. I will admit that there’s likely a very scientific explanation for human emotions, but I don’t shy away from the idea that such an explanation requires hundreds, thousands, if not millions of variables. Let us take the idea of [...]

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Sex doll family.

January 22, 2003

Some years ago, a few entrepreneurs decided a realistic sex doll, complete with poseable limbs and multiple “access points” would make a killing on the market. Not too long after, Realdoll was popular enough that it warranted a segment on the Howard Stern Show. Celebrities aside, the modern-day Realdoll comes in a variety of shapes, [...]

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Semen: drink of the healthy.

June 20, 2002

Normally, I fail to link to bad studies because they are, well, bad. However, a particular study done involving sex, lesbians, and the University of Albany caught my attention, because I’m familiar with the University of Albany, I love sex, and lesbians are, as my friend Cliff would attest to, “cool”. To get the crux [...]

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Cyborg strip-searched in Canadian airport.

March 15, 2002

Steve Mann, a professor at the University of Toronto who wears a web of wires and computers as part of an ongoing experiment on Wearable Computing, was recently subjected to a three-day interrogation and strip search after trying to board a plane in Newfoundland. Apparently, Dr. Mann refused to put his equipment through the x-ray [...]

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pr0n: timeless.

November 15, 2001

When people tell me that the media, Internet, TV, and other technologies are desensitizing us to violence, I always like to point out how far Western society has come. No longer do we watch gladiators kill one another in mismatched fights, no longer do we cheer to beasts ripping apart members of a particular religious [...]

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