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UC @ Buffalo

Dennis Waskul, the author of net.seXXX dropped me an email to chat about my review in the most recent issue of New Media & Society. He was happy with the review, and gave me some of the back story on the book. As an aside, he said I should check out the published version when […]
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Guardian Erototoxins

The Guardian had a silly article on Judith Reisman’s arguments that porn produces “erototoxins” and should be regulated as a dangerous drug. Today they printed a short note I wrote in response: Mark Pilkington (Far out, July 14) writes that Judith Reisman is concerned about “an addictive drug cocktail of testosterone, oxytocin, dopamine and serotonin […]
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Student evals for porn class

Brenda, who helped with the cyberporn & society class, emailed asking what the student evaluations ended up looking like. It’s really a mixed lot. I’m not unhappy with the overall evaluations, especially for a class this size. I know a lot of profs don’t care much for student evaluations, returning to the old “in what […]
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I’m unfamous

Ah, the fickle eye of the journalist. Last year, I was the self-Googling go-to guy. This year, I don’t even rank for a story on the topic in the Times. Instead, they look to me for quotes on child porn stories, a topic, to be honest, I know far less about. In any case, the […]
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