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Fixing The Visual Strip Search

For a while it seemed like stories about the TSA body scanners and the “enhanced pat-down” procedures were in the news everywhere. The body scanners create 3d images of the body using either Millimeter Wave Technology or Backscatter Technology. Some travelers object to what is described as a “visual strip search”  and do not want to be scanned. Continue Reading →

Checking The Box: Gender And Social Networking

Facebook has had a tremendous impact on the way that people use the internet but it has had its own fair share of growing pains. As privacy, data mining, and censorship issues come into debate many people have been eagerly awaiting another option. Although it has been slow in its development, Diaspora has been lauded as a contender in the world of social networking for the changes it promises in the way that user information is stored and used. Out of all the possible critiques of this site as it crawls towards a launch it was interesting to see one blogger abandon the project because it uses an open text field for gender rather than a selection system with limited options. The author summarized his article saying: Continue Reading →

Peeing On Your Phone Could Be Good?

I never thought I would hear news saying that putting a liquid on your cell phone could be a good thing, especially something that could improve your health. I have insurance on my current cell phone because I am a very clumsy person, and might have once accidentally dropped a previous phone into a beverage. Long story short, that phone died a very sudden death (despite trying leaving it in a container of rice for a day). So, when I read several articles all talking about how technology should soon allow people to use their phone to test for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), I’m a little hesitant. I mean, pee? Continue Reading →

Sperm Killing Laptops

A new study recently published in the journal Fertility and Sterility studied lap top usage in men and scrotal temperature. It found that even using a laptop for 10-15 minutes raised the temperature of men’s scrotums to an unsafe range for sperm production. Laptop pads placed between the man’s goods and the computer didn’t seem to have much of an effect either. Continue Reading →

Everything I Know About Sex I Learned From Star Trek

A few years ago, I heard the best pick-up line I’ve ever heard uttered in real life. Some friends and I were paying nerd homage at Quark’s Bar in the Start Trek Experience in Vegas and we overheard a woman trying to chat up a man on the other end of the bar. In a sexy, low voice (and in all seriousness), she purred, “So… Do you speak Klingon?” I laughed so hard, my Risa Colada nearly went out my nose. Still, I had endless respect for the incredible geekiness we were witnessing, and it warmed my heart to see people find such compatibility. Continue Reading →

Chatroulette Loses Its Erection

According to Ryan Tate over at Valleywag, Chatroulette is on its way out. And according to me, the graph above of its declining use kind of resembles the pelvic area and thighs of a man who is laying down masturbating, perhaps on chatroulette. The tallest point is his erect penis, the bump below the scrotum. And those little up and down ridges? Those are his fingers, tugging at his scrotum. Continue Reading →

A Duke Grad’s Little Black Book Goes Public

In what probably started off as a well-planned inside joke, a recent graduate of Duke University emailed a Powerpoint (NSFW) entitled “An Education Beyond The Classroom: Excelling in the Realm of Horizontal Academics”. As these things go, her virtual “sex-list” went from being a joke between friends to a viral, public, internet phenomenon. Continue Reading →