“Erotic capital,” broadly defined by Catherine Hakim, the senior research fellow in sociology at the London School of Economics who coined the term, is:
a nebulous but crucial combination of physical and social attractiveness. Properly understood, erotic capital is what economists call a “personal asset,†ready to take its place alongside economic, cultural, human and social [...]
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Listen to this All Things Considered episode called “Thank Sex for Making the Internet Hot” featuring Violet Blue.
A tidbit:
Breaking news: Sex is popular online.
“Sex had played a major role in driving many technologies,” says Jonathan Coopersmith, a technology historian at Texas A&M.
The example most people are familiar with, he says, is [...]
While we’re talking about pap smears (and who should buy one for whom), it seemed appropriate to bring up something actually useful — how to find a doctor with whom you’re not afraid to talk about sex. Or, if you’re not afraid to bring it up, per se, how to find a doctor who will [...]
She wasn’t around for long, but Penny Flame was a delight to watch on-screen. Cute as a button, smart, funny, and super-sexy, she quickly became one of my favorite porn stars, and I’m not the type to seek out a movie purely based on its actors. So imagine my chagrin when I found out that [...]
Ooh yeah baby, show me that Google spreadsheet.
Ok but seriously, there’s something both super-hot and super nerdy about cataloging your sexual activities and proclivities in a personalized database, no? And leave it to Violet Blue to collate these resources for us laypeople.
My personal fave is nOOkist:
Their main ideology is safer sex, but when you see [...]
Violet Blue interviews voluptuous porn actress April Flores about her experience getting molded for a sex toy replica of her own vulva, what she thinks of people using it, and the art show she created using the toys as canvasses.
Read the interview at SFGate!
Perhaps you’ve all heard of the sex pamphlet put out (heh. put out.) by Britain’s National Health Service for adult educators of teens? The one that says these educators should include discussions of pleasure and the complexity of human relationships when talking to teens about sex? What a concept. And yet, predictably, US finger-wagglers are [...]
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