• virtual worlds

    Google's prude curtain wrapped around Lively

    Lively, the latest experiment from Google Labs, is yet another part of cyberspace where the Mountain View search company has decided that exploring sexuality is officially verboten. The 3D virtual world is Web-friendly, but sex-hostile. The no-sex-please-we're-Googlers policy began with Web search, where, by default, the company's SafeSearch filters which block explicit content are turned on for all users. Then came YouTube, where the company refuses to manually police for copyright infringement but employs a staff to keep women's nipples from ever appearing. And now Lively, where the community standards state: More »

    11:40 AM on Tue Jul 15 2008
    By Jackson West
    821 views, 1 comment

    Latest by MikeTy: Well, before getting their hands dirty, they should work on Lively's gameplay. From this report [tinyurl.com] you can see that more »

  • crime

    Sex, drugs, and violence: The 10 surprises in Henry Nicholas's indictment

    Nothing former Broadcom CEO Henry Nicholas did is particularly remarkable to anyone who's enjoyed Brett Morgen's The Kid Stays in the Picture biopic about the life and times of Robert Evans. What's remarkable is that it was a technology CEO in Orange County and not someone in the abnormally amoral entertainment industry. As cynical and jaded as we may be about the foibles of the ultrarich of the Valley, even we were surprised by some of the stunts detailed in the allegations, if only for their naïveté. More »

    3:40 PM on Fri Jun 6 2008
    By Jackson West
    3,032 views, 9 comments

    Latest by DanLar75: MY HERO! When you smoke enough to give your pilotes a contact high and YOU ARE NOT IN THE COCKPIT more »

  • sex

    Got some pull at YouTube? We have the girl for you

    Are you a single Googler with some pull at YouTube? Looking for love some raunchy sex? We have the girl for you. Check out this Craigslist posting from a classy lass with a problem. Can you help her out?

    Google Guys / Friends of Google Guys - w4m
    Reply to: pers-591790503@craigslist.org
    Date: 2008-02-29, 8:55PM

    First off, to all the dipshits who made me have to do this over and over: I'm fucking real so keep your fucking cursor off the fucking flag button.
    Fuck. Damn this ad is weird. OK well here goes:

    If you don't work at google or personally know anyone who works at google/youtube, you need to hit the back button now because you won't have a chance at sexing me. I warned you this was a weird ad.
    Basically one of my youtube videos was disabled because of some douchebag and I'm trying to get it re-enabled. I've sent complaints, emails, everything, but damned if they can fucking hear me. This isn't some shitty little home video either, it got 300,000+ views and thousands of ratings and I WANT IT BACK. So bad that I'm willing to sex you if you can make it happen.

    She continues: More »

    10:54 PM on Fri Feb 29 2008
    By Jordan Golson
    20,764 views, 15 comments

    Latest by Kounji: @Kounji: I was just going to ask if this was on craiglist, but in reading the ad I'm not surprised more »

  • rock star

    Gene Simmons sex tape leaked on Web (NSFW)

    "Watch the sex tape Gene doesn't want you to see," GenesSecret.com promises. The website purportedly hosts a NSFW sex tape of Kiss frontman Gene Simmons. Leave aside the question of whether anyone wants to see Simmons in flagrante. Does Simmons himself really object to the site? Nothing revives the Q factor of an aging rocker like a bit of scandal. Since he's no longer recording, just touring, he doesn't have a skittish label to appease. And thanks to the Internet, he doesn't have to rely on the tabloids to get his name out. Welcome to the age of DIY career makeovers. Is it really Simmons? Judge for yourself from these excerpts in which his face is most visible: More »

    5:06 PM on Tue Feb 19 2008
    By Owen Thomas
    937,347 views, 89 comments

    Latest by PurpleClouds: Ok, is it just me, or is Gene Simmons really PAST IT :-S :O!? There was a time, long ago, more »

  • book excerpt

    Who made blowjobs legal in California? Willie Brown did

    It's hip to hate former mayor Willie Brown in San Francisco. How stupid. "Da Mayor" is far too smart, too charming and too awesomely impressive at political hardball to dismiss over a few foibles. The guy makes Machiavelli look like a wuss. My Slate pal Jack Shafer has noted Brown's nearly freakish IQ among dimbulb politicians. My wife says he's as sharp a dancer as he is a dresser. And oh yeah, he also passed some of California's key civil rights legislation. Basic Brown is his new memoir, cowritten with local gossip writer P.J. Corkery. The book contains this first-person account of how Brown and future martyr George Moscone tricked the California state senate into voting to abolish laws that banned common sex acts — straight, gay or otherwise. Good thing they had a helicopter handy. More »

    3:20 PM on Thu Feb 14 2008
    By Paul Boutin
    4,725 views, 6 comments

    Latest by UnklStinky: I got a "helicopter handy" one time. Cost me 100 bucks in Reno. more »

  • justin.tv

    Nude webcams okay when looking for money, not when you get it

    Justin Kan, the original lifecaster behind Justin.tv, hyped his company on the prospects of seeing him naked or, better yet, in flagranti delicto. But if that was the draw of the site for you, forget it. Over the weekend, Justin.tv banned a would-be lifecaster after a single day of risqué broadcasting, and has since revised its community guidelines. Kan knew that appealing to the sensational side of lifecasting would draw interest, but now that the startup is attracting investors, sensationalism also brings potential controversy. And nothing chases away money like controversy. But what about the adherents to lifecasting? Won't they, too, be chased away if "lifecasting" is redefined as only including the parts of your life that would make it past network-TV censors? More »

    4:44 PM on Mon Oct 8 2007
    By Tim Faulkner
    18,469 views, 10 comments

    Latest by Troyallan: I am sorry but Justin.TV is just full of pervert and pedos. Every channel with a girl is constantly being more »

  • justin.tv

    How webcam sex nearly saved the world

    NICK DOUGLAS — Last night, just as thousands of fans desperately desired, Justin.tv protagonist Justin Kan got laid. At least, we all assume that's what happened when the 24/7 camboy ended a second date (with a girl known to viewers as "J") by taking off his hat-mounted camera, turning off its microphone, joining J in her room, and turning off the lights. Why did this much-anticipated moment manifest as such a letdown? And why is it such a blow to the hope of humankind? More »

    6:50 PM on Wed Apr 11 2007
    By Nick Douglas
    17,399 views, 11 comments

    Latest by pillsandpez: Oh God. Now you're talking about him having sex? Wasn't it enough that he was freaking naked with the Cool more »

  • hypewatch

    Bad week for backlash

    Second Life has been taking it on the puss this past week or so, with more dogpiling on the economic questions, not to mention the whole nuking Reebok thing. And we enjoyed our own foray into supposedly popular SL locales and a first try at sex shopping. Speaking of first-timers, the account by Drew of "Toothpaste for Dinner" fame is one of the funniest things you'll read this month, so get to it. Thanks to those who sent in suggestions for SL places to visit, which we'll get to directly. Of particular interest are real-world entities, groups, or people that have SL presences. Drop us a line if you have tips for same.

    UPDATE: Brilliantly amusing Warren Ellis post on Reuters about fighting off sexual infestations on his Second Life land.

    12:00 PM on Fri Feb 23 2007
    By Chris Mohney
    1,305 views, 1 comment

    Latest by World of Warcraft Map Guy: Although Toothpaste guy couldn't find a way to hit people, it appears that you can shoot other people and nuke more »

  • hypewatch

    Sex shopping in Second Life

    As promised earlier, a first-timer's experience when sex shopping in Second Life warrants its own post. I'll tell you right up front that my immaturity levels do not speak well of me as a sex correspondent. Chris Peterson's Second Life Safari at Something Awful puts quite a bit more thought and action into the topic. That said, with even the Dutch getting lathered up about virtual child porn (and not in a good way), Second Life's burgeoning sex industry is almost politely underplayed when everything else about the service is praised to the skies. So let's go penis shopping, shall we? NSFW, if you haven't guessed. More »

    4:00 PM on Wed Feb 21 2007
    By Chris Mohney
    18,421 views, 4 comments

    Latest by Randolf: Please keep this series going. There's oh so much more to roast. I think SL is kind of an intersection more »