Tag: ADULTENTERTAINMENT

Today's high-end prostitutes book their own appointments on BlackBerrys and rely on Facebook, rather than pimps or madams, for self-promotion. That, in a nutshell, is what Columbia sociology professor Sudhir Venkatesh discovered while doing research for a Wired report on New York's sex workers. Venkatesh spent a full year following some 290 sex workers in the city, and made careful observations on ...

From the Consumer Electronics Show to the Adult Entertainment Expo, we looked at the forward-thinking objects meant to bring (and create) pleasure. At Switched, we are big proponents of rethinking the way women (and men) can use technology for pleasure, and the days of anatomical, phallic sex objects -- for us at least -- are over. These gorgeously designed devices are intuitive and feminine, ...

If you really want to get to the bottom of a particular subculture, you've really got to immerse yourself in it. With this in mind, then, a group of five security "researchers" studying the online porn industry recently decided to live the dream bite the bullet, and create their very own adult site. In their paper, which will be presented at The Ninth Workshop on the Economics of Information ...

While we salivated over the latest, greatest products at CES, TrueCompanion unleashed a little bomb of its own over at the Adult Entertainment Expo (across the way from the gadget expo in Vegas) with the announcement of the world's first sex robot. Depending on your kinky quotient, the Roxxxy TrueCompanion marks an exciting revolution for sex toys or a despicable new low for society. Either ...

CES wasn't the only convention packed with gadgets this January: The AVN Adult Entertainment Expo, which takes place alongside CES every year, was filled with the latest lovemaking technology from wireless iPod pleasure enhancers to adult videos in HD and 3-D. We teamed up with adult entertainment icon (and AVN Awards official presenter) BellaDonna to check out the new sex toys for 2009. First ...