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Would you swap bodies during sex? Hell yeah!Today

Last month I prepared my L.A. house to rent out and moved to northern California in 17 days. (The other 10ish were spent out of town working full time onsite hours for day job clients.) Suffice it to say, I’m crawling back to blogging somewhat battered and bruised, but landed in the new place with the DSL set up.

If I were still writing Sex Drive for Wired, I would have written about this story for this week:

Strange Experiments Create Body-Swapping Experiences

…the cognitive neuroscientists at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet succeeded in making subjects perceive the bodies of mannequins and other people as their own. The illusion also worked even when the two people differed in appearance or were of different sexes. It also worked whether the subject was immobile or was making voluntary movements. However, it was not possible to fool the subjects into identifying with a non-humanoid object, such as a chair or a large block.

A year ago, scientists achieved the illusion of an out-of-body experience in subject

A look back at how sexrev2.0 startedNovember 20

For those of you just now stumbling into the sexrev2.0, here’s a bit about how and why it began:

Plugged into sex & technology

My threesome article, finished at lastNovember 17

Here’s that piece I kept Twittering about, finally finished after a month that included a death, a wedding, and the beginning of my move back to northern California.

My Computer Made Me Gay
A computer game introduces one woman to bisexual experimentation—and a girlfriend. By Regina Lynn.

“I see an exciting adventure in your future, a new sexual experience that forever changes you,” she said, tracing the sole of my foot with one soft fingertip. Her husband grinned at me from the bed. I sat half-naked in the overstuffed armchair and trembled with nerves.

This is not how I’d imagined my first — or any — threesome. I’m not bisexual, and I can count the number of times I’ve been physically attracted to a woman on one hand, with two fingers left over.

Yet here I was in a cute little southern California inn with a couple who have been married for 25 years, playing an adults-only computer game that would have us girls riding double before dinnertime. [Continued at Tango...]

Dr. Marty Klein gives Obama a sex-positive checklistNovember 6

Got this in my Sexual Intelligence newsletter this morning and thought it was pretty good, so here it is with my notes:

Dear President Obama:

For months, I’ve been predicting that when you win, nothing will change regarding sex. I’ve said you won’t stop the government’s War On Sex; you won’t demand respect for sexual rights as human rights; you won’t prevent religious fanatics from controlling non-believers’ sex lives.

You now have your big chance: prove me wrong. Here’s what you need to do:

* End funding for abstinence-only training in public schools.

* End the Department of Justice’s war on adult entertainment. Keep the war on child porn. Make it clear they’re two different things. [[Regina's Note: Notice Marty's semantics here - adult entertainment vs child porn. Absolutely right to use different words for two very, very different things. Go Marty!]]

* Decriminalize all consensual sex that teens have with other teens. Decriminalize teens sharing photos of themselves having sex. [[Regina's Note: Tech enables us to extend our sexual behavior, as well as create "new" sexual behaviors. I agree with Marty that teens sharing photos with their peers is not a criminal act -- and that their lives should not be forever wrecked for the "crime" of being young and hormonal. Besides, sharing pics is robably the quickest, most effective way to learn discretion and to think about one's own limits and

Review: Tanni MachineOctober 29

The Tanni Machine is a lightweight, lovely functional art piece made of oak that makes it possible to penetrate yourself without an awkward reach. It costs about $200, comes in Natural or Black, and while it doesn’t match the smooth, hands-free glide of the Monkey Rocker, it’s also a quarter of the price.

The comparison is inevitable. Both machines are hand-made. Both aim for a subtle aesthetic, not an industrial or high-tech vibe. And both have caused me to re-think the role of dildos in my sex life, partnered and solo. I’ve always leaned more toward vibration and could take or leave the dildo … but not having to crank my hand around at an awkward angle and pump makes a huge difference.

The Tanni, like the Fantasy Glide (aka Jack Hammer Johnson, reviewed in this Sex Drive column), puts the “handle” of the dildo within easy reach. Unlike the Fantasy Glide, it has no spring. It does translate a small amount of hand motion into a larger amount of vaginal or anal p