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Second Life: Complaints Spark Creation of 'Red-Light District'

You walk into a dimly lit lounge with posh bar stools and leather couches. The bar doesn’t seem that busy yet, but you know it’s still early. There’s a couple at the bar sipping on martinis and sharing a private joke.

Journalist or Panderer? Framing Underage Webcam Sites

Teen-run Internet porn sites make young people the producers, stars and victims, as policy and discourse race to catch up with technology.

My Robot, My Love

The day is coming when many people will be engaged in intimate relationships with robots. The very idea of this strikes different people in different ways. Some regard the concept as totally outlandish, arguing that sex can be a meaningful and enjoyable experience only with another human being. Some skeptics raise religious objections, based

eActivism

Sex workers have been using technology both to enhance their work lives and to organize as a movement. For example, sex workers used listservs, blogs, and online video to address the scandal involving Randall Tobias. The administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Tobias had enforced the policy requiring that U.S.-based

Love at Your Fingertips

Texting is changing the rules of traditional courtship in the Philippines. Is a similar phenomenon happening in the United States?

Slide show: Sex in Design

Will a time ever come when women are as obsessed about vibrator design as they are about handbag design? Can a cheap object with a sexual motif ever not be tacky? Can Americans handle explicit sexuality in design? These are some of the questions we probed in this Q&A interview with Lou Andrea Savoir, author of Sex in Design.

Feministing.com's Third Wave Feminist

On a balmy evening last month, we sat down with Samhita Mukhopadhyay, an editor at Feministing.com, a smart, gutsy, and increasingly influential feminist-focused blog. Samhita talked about her years growing up in New York state, her riot grrrl phase, and her "coming out" (despite the fact she dates men). She also gave us a quick "feminist history

Plastic Surgery and the New Standard, Unnatural Beauty

Sixteen was a particularly hard year for me. And not because I was still almost five feet tall, stuck in an Elita, my mouth paying eerie homage to a small cityscape during the industrial revolution. It was because sixteen was the year my mother’s daily suggestion to remove the make-up off my moustache, the unkind effect of stale

Low Tech People, High Tech Love

Cell phones, SMS technology, and message manuals are altering romance and sex among Southern China's migrant workers.

Look Who's Googling

In our age of extreme cyber snooping, your new acquaintances and secret admirers may already know all about you

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