Today’s Boinkology TV segment was on the best places for sexual information, sex blogs and porn. And we got a very nice mention. Thanks, Lux!
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SXSW (which stands for South By Southwest) is a week-long annual music, film and “emerging technologies†festival that takes place in Austin, TX. The SXSW Interactive festival celebrates the creativity and passion behind the coolest new media technologies. It’s held in Austin, Texas, March 7-11, 2008. What’s hotter than smart geeks talking about sex?
There are hundreds of panel submissions. There’s a panel picker to help you select and vote for your favorites, but I’ve made it easy for you to vote for these (registration required), and send some really smart bloggers and pals (Elizabeth, Lux Nightmare, Cory Silverberg, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Chris Hall, Lisa Vandever, Audacia Ray and Violet Blue) who write and think about sex and sexuality to the conference:
- Elizabeth Wood’s Pink Ghetto Blasters: Destigmatizing Sex via Online Community Building with Chris, Rachel, and Lux.
- Cory Silverberg’s The Future of Sex in Interactive Narrative
- Cory Silverberg’s When No Means 01001: Sexual Ethics and Interactivity
- Lisa Vandever’s The Porn Police: Know the Rules
- Violet Blue’s Sexual Privacy Online
Voting is currently scheduled to end at 11:59 pm on Friday, September 21. Please go register and vote. And please help spread the word, and get the vote out.
I want to go. . . so many conferences, so little time. I’m planning on going to Arse Elektronica and Sex 2.0.
I didn’t tell them, but we’re all sharing a room. Should be fun! ;-D
Lux Nightmare has a new site, Boinkology. “Because sex rocks, and we should talk about it.”
Congratulations Lux, and see you soon!
The pseudonymous Lux Nightmare burst onto the alt porn scene as a college student at Columbia where she launched the naked-guy-and-girl site That Strange Girl, featuring stills and video of herself and numerous other models who looked like they could be her fellow classmates. At a time when Suicide Girls and Burning Angel were coming to prominence, That Strange Girl (who, full disclosure, this interviewer posed for) was a homegrown, indie entry in the genre. Cut to the present, where Nightmare has since folded her XXX business and is a member of Gotham Girls Roller Derby, teaches sex ed to teenagers in East Harlem, and runs the smarty-pants sex site Sexerati, where she conducts interviews, explores Dating 2.0, and explains terms like “the pink ghetto.” (Warning: many of the links in this interview are NSFW.) Currently, the “non porn star” is working on a book proposal about her time in the alt porn trenches.
You say on your site that you’ve been obsessed with sex since 1982. How has your sex obsession grown and changed over the years?
I’ve been interested in sex, in one way or another, for as long as I can remember. My parents were pretty good about being honest about sex and sexuality (my first book about sex: Where Do I Come From?, featuring illustrations of fat naked people and information on sex, baby making, and orgasms) and I never really got the message that sex was something I should be ashamed about or afraid of talking about.
I started doing work around sex at the age of fourteen, doing HIV/AIDS education for the Red Cross as part of a peer education program. When I got to college, I continued work in the sex education vein (working at the health education center, working as an HIV pretest counselor), but also started to branch out into other areas of work around sexuality. College was where I really started to get interested in the “sex positive” movement: I got involved with queer culture, and learned a lot about sex-positive feminism—and, in some ways, that was what really paved the way towards my work in porn.
These days, I’m more interested in being academic about sex, and examining sex and sexuality as a part of our culture as a whole. I find sex endlessly fascinating: no matter where you look, or what subject you’re discussing, there’s probably some way that sex has an effect, an impact. I find that pretty awesome, and still don’t quite get why it is that people think I’m odd for wanting to devote my life to the study of this topic.
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Lux Nightmare writes:
Even when it’s not porn, it’s sex: and sex alone is enough to earn the label NSFW. Sex, even academic sex, is something we can’t always discuss in polite company. Trying to build your life, your career, around a discussion of sex means accepting that you will always have a fringe identity. That no matter how academic, how smart, how clean you keep it, you will always be on the edges of polite society. You will always be in the Pink Ghetto, and you will never be able to escape it.
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