Tag: SEX

For many women, strolling down the streets of Cairo is no walk in the park. Whether it's in the form of catcalls, leers or gropes, sexual harassment has become increasingly common in Egypt, where strict social norms and widespread public negligence have offered little recourse to female victims. A forthcoming site called Harassmap, however, may provide Egypt's women with a new voice -- and, ...

Share According to documents filed in a California court this week, Escom LLC, the former owner of the website sex.com, has reached an agreement to hand over the domain's keys (and handcuffs) to Clover Holdings Ltd. -- a mysterious company based in the Caribbean. The final price? $13 million. This isn't the first time, of course, that the domain name has changed hands. Match.com founder Gary ...

When Karen Owen put together a mock senior "thesis" on her sexual conquests at Duke University, she thought it would provide some innocent amusement for her and her friends. Once the 42-page PowerPoint presentation found its way to the Web, though, the 22-year old's personal joke quickly became a viral sensation -- much to the embarrassment of those involved. In her presentation, titled "An ...

Tyler Clementi, an 18-year-old Rutgers University freshman, is believed to have jumped off the George Washington Bridge after his roommate and another Rutgers student broadcast a hidden live-stream of Clementi having sex, according to WPIX. Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei, both 18, were charged with invasion of privacy for setting up a webcam to view an encounter between Clementi and another person on ...

Google's auto-complete search feature has always provided a unique window into the Web-surfing habits of other Google users, but, with Google Instant, a single typo can now result in a full page of results you probably never wanted to see. Launched earlier this month, Google Instant reveals search results as you type, no longer requiring you to press 'Enter' to search. So, in order to protect ...

When Craigslist suddenly decided to block its adult services section earlier this month, many speculated that the site was only trying to draw more public attention to its legally protected right to host such activity. As it turns out, however, Craigslist wasn't bluffing, and has now decided to permanently close the controversial section. During a hearing on sex trafficking of minors held by ...

Practitioners and patrons of the world's oldest profession will no longer be able to conduct business on Craigslist, as the classifieds site has now censored all of the pages under its famed 'Adult Services' section in the U.S. On Friday, pages offering or seeking adult services were suddenly replaced by a giant 'CENSORED' bar. The site still has yet to comment on the decision. A group of 17 ...

We all know that iPhone users struggle to place or receive calls on their smartphones -- except, apparently, when said calls are of the 'booty' variety. According to a recent survey from OKCupid, iPhone owners, on average, have more sex partners than either Android or BlackBerry owners. In a survey of 9,785 smartphone users, OKCupid's team of statisticians found that the typical male iPhone ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/07/29/abstinence-avatar-game-teaches-kids-how-to-avoid-sex-winning/'; Now, this is exactly what we've been yearning for: a video game that teaches us how to be abstinent. With avatars. Because real gamers usually have dates galore, right? Researchers at the University of Central Florida have created just such a game, in the hopes of encouraging kids to ...

What do you call a porn-free Internet? Here, we'd say "our worst nightmare," (bad-um), but for Indonesian web surfers, they might soon have to call it "reality." That's because the world's most populous country of Muslim majority is planning on invoking an anti-pornography law to restrict any online fun smut that might soil its citizens' computers. Gatot Dewa Broto, a spokesman for Indonesia's ...

Share Spurred on by Apple's rethinking of how a computer should look and act, several new companies have launched pleasure items that aren't as obvious as the adult novelties of bygone days. What this means, of course, is that clean, minimalistic design has infiltrated all sectors. The pleasure objects of yore have lost their flesh tones and garish neon hues, because, honestly, no one wants ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/03/30/high-tech-toys-in-babeland-inside-a-sex-shop-for-the-21st-centu/'; Spending a morning in Babeland, one of the country's most forward-thinking, pro-sex (and pro-women) toy shops, is one of those moments that simply makes us love our jobs. Sure, we got to squeal at the Skweel, and get our finger, er, caressed by the Tenga Flip (better than, say, a ...

Video games have long been the scapegoat for many of the social ills plaguing our youth. Violence, drugs, swine flu -- you name the problem, and there's a game to blame. Perhaps foremost among the moral pestilences that gaming perpetuates is, of course, sex. While most of the sex portrayed in video games has hitherto adhered to the same old formula based on vacuous, physical allure and busty ...

We reported last week on Apple's booting of several sexually suggestive apps after Business Insider identified them in a roundup -- a move that has left many developers irate. In an interview with the New York Times, however, Apple's head of worldwide marketing Philip W. Schiller claimed that the company's rationale for banning said apps was due to "an increasing number of apps containing very ...

Everybody knows that technology, particularly social networking, has done nothing more than make hooking-up easier than ever (not that we'd know from personal experience). Still, it usually involved some work. But a new iPhone application does all the heavy-lifting for you by pinpointing your nearest booty call on a map. According to CNET News, the app 'PinPointsX' places the location of ...