sex

Blake Nelson says "it's a lot easier to get laid in New York than in Portland"
I call bullshit on that, but I'm not really sure why.
Sexy podcasts
Cool I guess. The enclosure element will really take off, though, when it becomes the primay means of video porn distribution.
Low Ching Ling interviews Chloe, the Singapore blogger who posted a nude photo of herself, causing an uproar
If she's for real--she's now a big fish in a small pond, so the story is a little hard to believe, but I'm it the benefit of the doubt--then she seems to have a good understanding of white dudes. (Contains nudity.)

Nerds Only Think About Sex

First Craigslist got into the act, and now making the rounds is a New York Daily News article claiming that nerds make better lovers. Yeah, I call bullshit on pretty much all of it. For brevity's sake, let's just go through all the famous people and/or millionaires—with one exception, which is easily explained away—that are mentioned in the article. Most of them are actually guesses, since I don't know what went through the heads of anybody involved, so consider these hypotheses more than anything.

sidebar from a New York Daily News article claiming that nerds make better lovers
  • Marilyn Monroe didn't marry Arthur Miller because he was a geek. She married him because he wrote Death of a Salesman.
  • Christina Aguilera married music executive Jordan Bratman not because he's a geek, but rather because he's a music executive.
  • Scott Dennis of Brooklyn—whoever that is—did not land girlfriends because was a geek but because he is “former jock, drummer in a rock band”, as the article says parenthetically.
  • David Arquette married Courtney Cox because he's an actor, not a geek.
  • What the fuck is Tiger Woods even doing in that article, on the sidebar? He is definitely not a nerd.
  • Adam Brody is only “slightly geeky” (ouch), but overwhelmingly an actor.

So in other words if we are to use the above as the examples from which we can make a generalization, then rich, famous extroverts (or any one or two of the three) get girls. You'll note that the actual nerds who are approvingly linking to the article (as opposed to those who link to it and distance themselves from it, like yours truly) are themselves extroverts. Most egregiously, though, the article does not quote from Revenge of the Nerds, in which Lewis says to his pleasantly surprised partner, post-coitus: "Jocks only think about sports, nerds only think about sex."

I know that as a nerd I should be passing this article on to as many people and saying stuff like "well, what can I say?". It is, after all, in my direct interest to do so. But despite working for a company in which my nerdly skills are part of what got me the job, I'm still trying to defect from geekdom, because I still believe that nerds only think about sex, when I'd rather be doing it.

To Protect the Feelings of the Cuckold

Dave Pollard, writing in March about Against Love : A Polemic by Laura Kipnis: “Much of the latter part of the book is focused on the psychological gymnastics of all three (or more) parties in the polygon of adultery, from the rationalization that hiding the affair is to protect the feelings of the cuckold, to the feelings of self-hatred and self-flagellation of the 'sinner(s)'. She also discusses the awkward mechanics of the ultimate break-up of either the marriage or the affair (or both), and the degree to which children of the relationship become hostages, or excuses for deception, or excuses for the boredom that gave rise to the deception. Of course the book also talks about famous infidelities in high political circles, and the twisted hypocrisy of conservatives' opposition to same-sex marriage, as well as the equal-opportunity-for-misery desire of lesbians and gays to gain access to the sad and repressive regulation of 'official' marriage rather than 'settling for' merely the legal and resource rights that come with equivalent-to-married status. And there's also a discussion of the pragmatic phenomenon of "serial monogamy" -- the fall-back that there's nothing wrong with marriage per se, it's just that we were all married to the wrong person.”

Sexual views polled among Chinese women
[Insert joke about the percentage of Chinese women wanting to have sex with me here.]
The Single Guy's Guide to Sleeping with Unattractive Women
"Unattractive Women's Guide to Why Single Guys Sleep With Them" would be a more accurate title.
China's dangerous sexual ignorance
Between the extremes of not knowing that sex is required to produce children to not knowing of the protection options available.

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