Eros Daily Musings and Digressions

Driven by Boredom, via Fleshbot.

Found on Nudes Puri

Peta decided not to put this on billboards after all, but it would have been fun. Yeah, maybe Tiger should be neutered. Or maybe he should just agree with himself on what he wants.

Found on Attugirls.

I came across this excellent inter-scene title card from one of those pre-code movies, and figured it was worth investigating further:

The movie turns out to be The Naughty Flirt (which sounds promising) from 1931. I figured, rightly, that Chross would have a listing in his Movie Spanking Database; complete with a movie clip link [...]

LINK quote [I am a Nude Photographer].
(via Sexoteric Blog)

LINK quote [Shipley & Halmos jacket and pants, Original Penguin shirt and tie, Burberry belt, Nooka watch, Fred Flare cup].
[More about clothing at Unscathed Corpse]

quote [This cat will take over the world one day].
[More cats at Unscathed Corpse]

Image from this gallery.

I’ve been researching the history of sex and the internet to prepare for my NPR / All Things Considered interview (might go on the air tomorrow). I just got off the phone with the producer and had opened up my notes; I realized I did the entire call with my desktop looking like this! It’s always fun when people walk into my office… ahem. In my defense I was trying to find some girls on the beach in bikinis after hearing that the Eastern US has been slammed with more snow and thinking that you all probably wanted to see the *opposite* of the last post right now.

Here’s a very loose timeline that I pinged my conversation off of; does anyone have anything to add? Corrections? I’d love to make this a working timeline. The three primary areas under consideration are:

• Help, information & advice
• Chat / meeting people
• Pornography

late 1970s-early 1980s ASCII porn in BBS communities
1990 – First commercial provider of Internet dial-up access – world.std.com
1992 – Term “Surfing the Internet” is first heard
1993 – Don’t Ask Don’t Tell introduced by President Bill Clinton.
1993 – World Wide Web goes live.
1994 – Sex.com was registered by Gary Kremen
1995 – Sex.com was stolen by Stephen Cohen
1995 – Salon.com launches
1996 – SFSI.org sex crisis helpline launches online
1996 – Playboy.com launches
1997 – DVD introduced
1997 – Peter Acworth begins Hogtied.com (Kink.com)
1997 – Domain name business.com sold for $150,000
1998 – Viagra introduced
1998 – ISNA.org launches
1998 – OutProud.org launches (LGBT)
1999 – PlannedParenthood.com launches
1999 – Planned Parenthood’s Teenwire.com launches
1999 – Domain name business.com sold for $7,500,000
2000 – Sex.com was given back to Gary Kremen after a legal fight.
2000 – AEBN launched first VOD site
2000 – American Express stops accepting porn transactions
2001 – Yahoo begins adult Groups purge; removes porn banners from search engine
2001 – Eros Blog launches
2003 – Paypal stops processing adult transactions
2003 – Gawker Media launches Fleshbot.com
2003 – Penthouse files bankruptcy
2005 – Video iPod introduced
2006 – Sex.com sold for a reported $12,000,000
2006 – YouTube style porn sites invade the Internet
2006 – Google resists court order for porn search results
2008 – Kink.com has over 12 websites
2009 – DVD porn sales officially declined 50%

By R Young.

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