Archive for 'Sex, Cybersex and Beyond'

Multi-Media Luv

Destroy Television and Pixeleen Mistral dating by Denise Levertov, Gossip QueenPixeleen and Destroy – special friends Which two avatars where caught in a steamy embrace at last night’s Herald Birthday party? None other than Pixeleen Mistral and and the Electric Koolade Sheep girl-about-town, Destroy Television! Wowzers!!! Destroy crashed the SL media scene this week and [...]

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Laura Erlanger – Post 6 Grrrl

[Editor’s note: Recently, I had the good fortune to be introduced to Marilyn Murphy - one of Second Life’s true artists and pioneers in avatar erotica. After some tense negotiations - well actually, I just begged - the Herald is delighted to resume our relationship with Players, SL’s in-world erotica magazine. Even more exciting is [...]

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SL Residents Protest New Members

SL’s third birthday celebration was not without its excitement and controversy today — although it wouldn’t be SL if it had been, would it? To voice their dissatisfaction with the new registration requirements — or lack thereof — put in recently by Linden Lab, a group of residents got together to protest what they say [...]

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Undercover SL Pregnancy Hits Slashdot

Thanks to Slashdot, the blogosphere is abuzz with news of this report from SF Weekly in which a male reporter finds out what it’s like to get pregnant and carry a child in Second Life. In episode one, a fairly asexual conception: “Your Tummy whispers: Connecting to baby.” Two more episodes to come.

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Forbes Associated Press: Peeping Tom Linden is Watching You

There is an interesting article in Forbes online from the Associated Press about the new crop of sex games, reported ages ago here in the Herald. But what is really truly interesting is what the article has to say about the “relatively successful” platform Second Life: “The game is not designed to be sexual in [...]

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We R Teh SeXXy at SXSW

The Herald editorial staff takes itself off to the 2006 edition of the South by Southwest Interactive Festival tomorrow, where we’ll be blathering on about all kinds of things while we’re not gorging ourselves on free food and stumbling around from party to party. The Herald’s Editor Emeritus, Urizenus Sklar, will be appearing on a [...]

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Post Six Grrrl Rebel Hope

The Herald is happy to introduce this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Rebel Hope!  Rebel is a noted clothier in SecondLife, who together with her husband, RH Engel, runs RH Designs!  Thanks to Daphne Molinari, creator of Daphne’s Delights, for this week’s Grrrl.

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Interview: The Playboy of the Online World

by Jeannedellalune Prudhomme, Special to the SL Herald “MrC” (right) tells all. There’s more to cybersex than poseballs, according to one of SL’s more accomplished Don Juans. The right word at the right moment will go much further to guarantee a satisfied partner than relying on a TS3 or Resolution sexball to do the job, [...]

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Post Six Grrrl(s) Revisited: Queenie Extraordinaire and Daphne Molinari

For this week’s Post Six Grrrl feature, I’m very pleased to present to you a Post Six Grrrls Revisited feature, focusing on Queenie Extraordinare and Daphne Molinari!  Both Queenie and Daphne were Post Six Grrrls back when Marilyn Murphy was doing the feature for the Herald (click on their names to see how they used [...]

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“Ship-to-Ship” Services Now Available

The Herald staff had wanted more time to study the deep ramifications of this story, but now that Kotaku is reporting on sexual services available in EVE Online, it was clear that an editorial decision needed to be made. Kotaku reports on a chat-based cybersex service that has made its way into EVE. But if [...]

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