Right?Of course right.”The Sexerati Guide to Unpersonals” brings you this, the “So 2.0 It Hurts” Edition…Site Name: ConsumatingOstensible Purpose: A rounded-cornered place to meet people on the Internet that doesn’t suck.What It’s Really Used For: Masturbatory stimulation of that unnamed part of the human brain capable of composing a charmingly nervous come-on expressed in the form of a tag…. What’s more wondersome about Consumating is how it stalks you — when you’ve been tagged, when you’ve been passed a note, when people have given you the thumbs-up (they like me!).Bottom line: Nerd love chic — low-key, slightly awkward, and soft, rounded, and easy on the eyes in all the right places.Site Name: flickrOstensible Purpose: Sharing your photos with your friends, your family, or whoever else forms your personal, yet global audience.What It’s Really Used For: Cruising, duh.
Monthly Archives: January 2007
Stephen Colbert vs. Female Chauvinist Pigs
How, how, how did I miss this? (That’s right — by just getting my teevee from the Internet.)
The Pink Ghetto: No Place Else To Go But Slut
(This is part two in our series, The Pink Ghetto, on writing and working sex on the Internet.)I could say I’m only doing this — this sex thing on the Internet — to get somewhere else in my career, as a stepping stone to some supposedly elevated ground as real writer, a real journalist, a real contributor to society…. Where once upon a time, the story of sex for women was from virgin to whore, the story of the business of sex writing, there’s the chance of all us soiled doves to reclaim our purity by renouncing sex, relegating sex to “that crazy thing” we wrote about to get our start, revising not just our resumes but our passions — or at least, how we shop for work around those passions.The mainstream of the pulp-driven press, of what we tartly refer to as old media, of the legion of tell-all sex memoirs lining chain stores from coast to coast, has a special place for sex on its shelves and newsstands, and its no news itself that that place isn’t one with much value.
