Dildonics Flashback

Thank you slashdong for the time warp. Check out the state of dildonics ten years ago.


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Love affair in under 140 characters

OurChart, a kickass networking/blogging/multimedia showcase for queer women and their friends, is using Twitter (microblogging tool extraordinaire) in the most delicious way. UnCharted, a soap opera inspired love story in installments of 140 character or less, is being updated every 15 minutes. And because this love story is twittering on throughout the day, you can easily follow along on your phone.

Sneak peak for geeks:
"katrina: @allie: What's your special talent?"

"allie: @katrina: multi-tasking? right now i'm running a mtg, browsing threadless.com and flirting with you. is it working? wanna go out?"

...

Read the OurChart interview with Popnography blogger Shana Naomi Krochmal, or check our the All Things Considered piece on NPR for more.

Bowling pin vagina - any questions?

If anyone has any information on this one, I'm all ears. I can't quite connect the dots.

Virtual Vagina with VCS

Apparently: "7-motors simulate completely as of a women's mouth, hands and sensation of insertion as it interlock with images."

"Every stroke will be transmitted to the virtual vagina."

Update: This thing will cost ~200 bucks. I asked.

Micro-geo-insta-bloggers meet Prevention

Is there a use for microblogging tools in Public Health, particularly STD and HIV prevention? What can we come up with?

There's Yellow Arrow: "...a global creative community making a new M.A.A.P. (massively authored artistic publication) of the world." In basic terms, Yellow Arrow links a physical places with a virtual messages that are accessible to anyone with mobile text capability.

IDEA: Rachel Kachur, CDC, says: "I can imagine using this for an STD awareness campaign. Anywhere there is a yellow arrow with a certain code, people call the number, enter the code and get an STD message. 'If you are sexually active, your chances of having chlamydia are 1 in 4. Get tested.' Something like that. We could do a campaign on a college campus and see if it increases testing..."

There's Twitter: a new way to answer the question " what are you doing right now?" by text or computer and then have it broadcast to the web and to others' phones in your network.

IDEA: What are you doing right now? "Downloading a syphilis test." "Asking Dr. K a question." "Sending an InSPOT card." Would people share this info?

There's Dodgeball: I blogged it before. Basically Dodgeball relays texts to as many people as you want or alerts you by text when you are physically close to a "crush" or a "friend's friend."

IDEA: Could a location notify you when you are near IT? Rather than a person setting off your text alert, could you get a message when you are near a bowl of free condoms or a test site? I guess it's possible if there were a phone sitting in the bottom of the bucket or in the pocket of a test counselor.

There's Justin.tv (not a blog per se. More like a really bright idea): Laughing Squid said it best, Metroblogging said it next.

IDEA: Justin has been living on streaming video for 8 days now. You can text in what you'ld like to see Justin do. Maybe Justin should text the word SEXINFO to 61827 and show us all what happens. ... there's a lot of people watching. I'm going to ask him. Check in to see if he does it.

There's vlogging in general:

IDEAs: ?

Let's brainstorm. Public health and STD/HIV prevention does not have to live behind the curve.

I am a Nexus

Dallas, my buddy who blogs for Babeland is a massage candle. This quiz ,posted today,tells you which sex toy you are. I am a Nexus (pictured here).

At the end of the quiz it told me this: "Much like a tandem bike, you were built for two. You have a fiery and curious personality that comes out when you’re with the one you love. You have a way of connecting to their passion that makes you unique and often daring. Perhaps you will be the one to introduce them to a new way of loving? Still, you are a simple, sleek, and high quality individual through and through."

I especially love the last sentence.

I also found this porn choosing guide on the Babeland site, which unless you are buying previously viewed DVDs for $5.95 a piece, may come in handy.

HIV/AIDS Video Game

Kaiser Family Foundation and mtvU are offering $75,000 in development and marketing support and a $5,000 prize to a college student who can pitch the best HIV/AIDS awareness viral video game (application here).

"Successfull ideas must:

1. Raise awareness about the prevalence of HIV/AIDS among 15-24 year olds in the United States and educate about key methods of prevention and risk reduction.
2. Identify ways to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS, with a focus on personal action.
3. Address the silence, stigma and discrimination surrounding HIV/AIDS.
4. Be interactive and able to live and be spread online.

Keep the following in consideration:

1. Be hopeful and empowering.
2. Entertain and engage the audience.
3. Not stigmatize or stereotype high risk groups.
4. Be unique and not afraid to push the envelope.
5. Be original to entrants and not have been released commercially in order to be eligible for consideration in this contest."

To my knowledge, no video game has been shown to be an effective public health intervention. By taking advantage of the target audience, and harnessing their promotion powers (read: ability to click send) there may be a shot at creating some buzz. If the problem with most interventions aimed at youth has been that no one sees it, the viral approach a la "Where the Hell is Matt" or "Darfur is Dying" or any Snakes on a Plane hubbub is a good start, as well as partnering with MTV. Anything that says, in not as many words, "from your health department" will never be cool enough to share.

A game that could visualize kids' social/sexual networks with a creative HIV transmission dynamics overlay would keep my attention. But a 15 year old...? Who knows.

If you prick me, do I not bleed?

Computer chess expert, David Levy's new book, Robots Unlimited: Life in the Virtual Age explores the ethical issues we have to look forward to once (and if) people start having sex with robots (check out this great interview). These advanced 'dames de voyage' will apparently incorporate new technologies alloying the robot to distinguish between different levels of pressure and thus respond accordingly. Levy says that the sex bots could potentially serve as real-time sex educators, based on the same technology currently being researched in Japan and The States that would allow robots to be caretakers for the elderly (Look out!).

But he warns, we can't anticipate the reactions this potential practice will have. Will sex with a robot be adulturous? Will a culture of robot-swapping emerge? Will robots be off limits to minors? Will mom and dad promote abstinance by placing these virtual lovers under the Christmas tree?

I'm not too worried, especially if they look like this.

GVTV

You have to love sex dorks. You really do. Folks at Good Vibrations in San Francisco (Berkeley too) started a serious of Youtube shorts, with topics ranging from my personal favorite, Puppet Explain Fetishes to the Basics of Harnesses to Pot Meet Kettle. In Pot and Kettle, Good Vibes Bloggers, Pot and Kettle, answer eachother's questions about being a 'gay girl' or a 'gay boy,' which was how their blog was born (which actually shares some space on Carol Queen's blog).

Jerk off to NPR or Kenny G with OHMIBOD

Okay, now you can have a vibrator that plugs into your ipod and buzzes away to the tune of whatever you're listening to. It seems like if you are going to be stealth about the whole thing (somehow I keep picturing BART riders tickling themselves on their morning commute) the things should be a different shape...like one of those little butterfly vibrators that hug the goods a little closer.

The website is a bit cheesy...okay maybe a lot cheesy.

I think this will be a popular holiday gift. What do you think?

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