Articles tagged "future sex"

Pornography isn’t any one thing.

And I’ve already been contacted by a freedom-fighter right here in New York.

Let Cat Marnell be a drug addict if that's what she wants to be. If she gets paid a boatload of money to talk about it, who cares?

If and when Plan B does become available over the counter for women of all ages—possibly as early as May; the FDA can still appeal the ruling—the effects could be enormous.

On Friday, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced a new in the Grand Challenges for Global Health: $100,000 to build a better condom.

We all know that tropes of women exist in video games. What we need to think about is why.

We need to thoughtfully consider what the Ada Initiative's essential aims are, but also allow for the ability for people to respectfully discuss sexual topics.

It's our inability to talk rationally about pornography that harms us the most.

Your ex is probably hacking your email right now.

Who owes what to the victims of online pornography?

Four decades after Roe v. Wade, where are we?

Here's hoping 2013 will be the year of moving forward.

This week the _New Yorker_ has published an "in-depth account of the rise of an antibiotic resistant strain on gonorrhea":http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/10/01/121001fa_fact_groopman. How terrified should we be?

When George Carlin released his famous monologue, "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television," in 1972, it didn’t include the word "pussy." Although his list didn’t reflect _all_ the words you couldn’t say on TV at the time, the ones he chose were…

Yesterday we all learned "about Offbeatr":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/8/9/the-future-is-bright-for-offbeatr-the-kickstarter-for-porn, the new, Kickstarter-inspired site dedicated to crowd funding of pornography. At its core, the site represents

By now we’ve all read the recent ESPN story on all the crazy, hard-bodied sexual shenanigans of the Olympic Village. A notable face includes the sheer number of condoms purchased for use at the Olympic Village (100,000!). Well, today, Olympic swimmer…

In August of 2011, Savannah Dietrich went to a party. She drank too much and passed out. While she was unconscious, two young men sexually assaulted her, photographing themselves as they did it; they then used the Internet to send these pictures to t…

Abby Ellin’s newest "trend piece" for _The Times_":http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/03/health/more-women-seek-over-the-counter-sexual-remedies.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all details the growing market for over-the-counter sexual aids for women experiencing d…

Nearly forty years ago American futurist writer Robert Anton Wilson penned an essay, The Future of Sex: Cybernetics, Bio-Feedback, Neurology and Plenty of Old Fashioned Dickie Dunkin’ outlining his predictions for human sexuality in the coming genera…

You know what is the worst thing? Nicotine withdrawal. Actually, it’s definitely not "the worst thing," but it is the worst thing that is happening to me right now. When you withdraw from nicotine, your brain gets all fuzzy, and the more you try to c…

Relationship contracts are the hot new thing, apparently. I mean, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan had one, and now they’re married billionaires! These contracts such a thing that even The New York Times has deemed them a trend. It could happen to…

From a reader: My boyfriend’s lease just ran up and he’s staying with me until he’s able to find a new place. The situation has essentially become a trial run for us moving in together, since my lease is up soon too and we could get a bigger place…

*Welcome back to Future Sex, Motherboard columnist Kelly Bourdet's look at love and the social web. This week she's answering questions from readers. Have your own question? Write Kelly at futuresexquestions@gmail.com.*