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Calzo
11/14/09

In reply to Becoming a Sexual Cyborg (NSFW)
It's official. My penis is just for show.

*EDIT* I'm not going to stick a joystick in my ass and wiggle around. I'm not going to hold two liters while I screw someone over the internet.
I'm not going to make an Adam Frucci joke.
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Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected
11/14/09

In reply to Becoming a Sexual Cyborg (NSFW)
I don't know who you are, Dr. Debby Herbenick. But you need to post here more often. #sextoys
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Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected
11/14/09

@Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected: Wow, how did that warrant getting unstarred? I was praising her and her good article. Jesus. #sextoys
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B-low
11/14/09

@Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected: Know your editors better sir. #sextoys
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Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected
11/14/09

@B-low: What does that mean? That they'll do weird stuff at random? #sextoys
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B-low
11/14/09

@Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected: Actually she's not a real doctor so she probably had trouble figuring out how to reply and ended up unstarring you instead. What is a PhD in Health Behaviour? Do they study nose pickers? #sextoys
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Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected
11/14/09

@B-low: It wasn't her, it was Jesus.
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B-low
11/14/09

@Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected: Don't blame this on god... I'm kidding Jesus I know you're an editor please don't hammer ban me! #sextoys
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Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected
11/14/09

@B-low: I just find it weird. Did I say something bad? #sextoys
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met2art
11/14/09

@Mike Zuniga: Your original comment, in my opinion, was a compliment. I personally don't believe the content had anything to do with you being unstarred.

This may clear things up a bit...
[gawker.com]

Specifically:
"Now about those star powers. The editors are the only ones who can give you a star, and we'll be giving them out to the commenters we trust the most. This means that many people who have stars now will be losing them."

It's an older FAQ entry, and whether or not it is relevant to your situation, I do not know. But if so, my condolences. I can sympathize with the loss of a star. Good luck getting it back. You'd earned it. #sextoys
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robogobo
11/14/09

@met2art: personally, I think it's important to ignore ranking, starring, modding, rep, etc on boards. What are we, a bunch of asskissers? I'd rather say what I want and be dugg down (to cite the most obtuse modding- ever) than to forever try to find the right thing to say to make the hall monitors praise me. Don't sweat it, kid- there's a bigger world out there.

edit: (this is all fabulously ironic, I know, since Mike was indeed kissing ass).

In any case, the author completely misused "pun intended." I just wanted to point that out. Besides there being no pun in 'Ride On', if there were, and it was good, it would be obviously intended.
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orthorim
11/14/09

@robogobo: The whole star system is a load of BS. It's supposed to make Giz easier to read but it doesn't work. Instead if you don't turn on all comments -which everyone should do, not that this would ever get modded up enough that the people who it is addressed to hear it - then you get to see the same old people trying the same old jokes again.

Some of them are funny. But their comments would get modded up in a normal mod system anyway.

Star system = FAIL

It's really amazing, actually. I used to read Engadget but then their comment system was so hopelessly broken that I switched to Giz. It was good for a while, then the introduced the star system. #sextoys
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debbyherbenick
11/14/09

@Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected: Why thank you! I appreciate the sex-tech love. :) And P.S. the commenters below are correct; I have nothing to do with the star system as I'm not an editor - I'm just a research scientist who studies sexual health (& sex toys) and has the fun privilege of posting on Giz every now and then.
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itchytooth
07/17/09

In reply to The Desperate Times Before Internet Porn
And, of course, there was your parents' stack of polaroids, which I'm sure they left out for you to find, so they wouldn't have to have that conversation with you. Because that would have been awkward.
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alphanumeric1971
07/16/09

In reply to The Desperate Times Before Internet Porn
As a side note, Playboy is offering all of their back issues for free viewing on their website.

Downside: you need the silverlight player to view them.
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debbyherbenick
07/16/09

In reply to The Desperate Times Before Internet Porn
I actually find the older photos more sensual than much of what we have these days.
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Curves
07/16/09

In reply to The Desperate Times Before Internet Porn
It was about 1979 that Larry Flint got shot while being tried for pornography? Dont forget the effect Hustler had on middle America even before the nets existed.
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paperless
07/16/09

In reply to The Desperate Times Before Internet Porn
Best. Article. Ever
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Noobs-R-Us
07/16/09

In reply to The Desperate Times Before Internet Porn
Linda Carter, yum! I saw her about 15 years ago while at a movie theater on 2nd Ave. YUM!
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
07/16/09

In reply to The Desperate Times Before Internet Porn
Back then the biggest thing you had to worry about was paper cuts and/or the pages getting stuck together....
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The5thElephant
07/16/09

@Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: I never understood the whole pages getting stuck together thing. Did they not have paper towels or tissues then?

Just aim better damn it!
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
07/17/09

@The5thElephant:
What's not to understand? Hell, even today some men have trouble hitting the porcelain target without spraying everything else..
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Vishus
07/17/09

@The5thElephant:
An accidental meeting of magazine pages and splooge can prove to be a pretty sticky situation. The problem is only amplified when taking into consideration the hurried or urgent nature of the event in which such meetings were likely to occur.
See: 007 style porn theft and replacement operations.

And then there the people who would intentionally defile a magazine in a moment of sweaty passion and then wouldn't care enough to attempt to clean up the aftermath; leaving 20 pages to become 1 and in doing so, destroying and any precious booty that may have been contained within...bastards.
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92BuickLeSabre
07/16/09

In reply to The Desperate Times Before Internet Porn
I find it ironic that the three missing examples are the three that "helped" me through that time in my life.

1) The "somebody must've gotten married" porn dump. (In my case, a massive stack of Hustlers discovered while riding our bikes behind the grocery store, that we tore apart and hid single pages in our LPs).

2) The scrambled porn channels.

3) The one friend whose parents actually subscribed the Playboy channel. (That kid was pop-u-lar!)

(Although I guess the last two were really more a function of the mid-80s weren't they....)
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jibbly
07/16/09

@92BuickLeSabre:

1) YES, a hundred times, YES. My own experience involves a black trash bag loaded with Playboys at the dumpster behind the community basketball court (guys must have dumped their stash far away from home, just in case).

2) While I do concur on the scrambled porn channels, that didn't appear until way into the '80s I think, no?

3) See above.

(I totally skipped over your disclaimer in parenthesis and I'm too lazy to delete everything I just wrote...)

Oh I also should add:

4) NYC sidewalk used books/magazines/tapes/LP sellers. In high school, we had a guy that would sell us old Playboys and Penthouses on the upper west side.

5) Shady bodega/cigarette stands who would sell kids cyanide if that's what sold well.

6) Older siblings!
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92BuickLeSabre
07/16/09

@jibbly: It's hard to believe that the giant pile of porn is no longer a part of our nation's culture.

What a loss.
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jchasse
07/16/09

@92BuickLeSabre: 4)Your parents copy of "Joy of Sex"
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UnderLoK
07/16/09

@92BuickLeSabre: Strangely enough we used to find mags all the time at construction sites... Not sure why they had to get it up working with a bunch of guys, but hey, I don't judge.
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LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M
07/16/09

@92BuickLeSabre:

My parents had the playboy channel since I was born. Needless to say this was not quite 1979, rather 1981, and well....ummm growing up with that was interesting .
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92BuickLeSabre
07/16/09

@LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M: If I said that this explained a lot, would you hold it against me?
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jibbly
07/16/09

@92BuickLeSabre: It's like the modern version of a flint arrowhead or something supremely useful that was superseded by advancing technology.
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LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M
07/16/09

@92BuickLeSabre:

It does explain a lot. But you see, watching this your whole life desensitized me and made me worried, "how could I ever live up to this". Also, I filled in for my friend when she was hung over and filled in at her family's gyno clinic and saw horrific STDs at 17. The combo kept me a virgin till 21. But naturally all the porn gave me very high standards when I got around to it. I'm still very paranoid till this day, but naturally my mind is always in the gutter. So yes, now that you know a bit more background it is only fair that I would never ever hold it against you, you sweetheart, Buick!
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cletar
07/17/09

@92BuickLeSabre: Ah, yes, the dump. They weren't always marriage dumps--sometimes they were break-up dumps. There was a young couple in our neighborhood that was having some sort of fight. The man--who looked not unlike a slightly sadder Matthew McConaughey in "Dazed and Confused" fled the house in a hail of verbal abuse from his lady-friend, and sped off in his Trans Am. A weeping-with-rage Mrs McConaughey then brought stacks and bags of the dude's crap out to the curb, including a bunch of LPs and a mother-lode of Playboys and Penthouses.
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spider2544
07/16/09

In reply to The Desperate Times Before Internet Porn
back when i was a kid in the 80s most people just used the sears catalog bra section.
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Bruce Jones
07/16/09

In reply to The Desperate Times Before Internet Porn
The lovely brunette in the left hand photo is Cynthia Myers, Miss December, 1968--which makes her kind of early for this article. That issue of Playboy, in describing her, began "Wholly Toledo!" --Toledo Ohio being where she hailed from. Oh, you poor young pups who missed the 60's...
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Mackinstyle
07/16/09

In reply to The Desperate Times Before Internet Porn
He has it allllll yes she does....
He knows how to please in every detail...
He can do more... than you'd ever imagine
and do it with style
He does it with me,
oh yes He does...

Taboo 2 had the best porn song ever.
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Xeno
07/16/09

In reply to The Desperate Times Before Internet Porn
Even if the article wasn't funny as hell making it awesome, just having a pic of Linda Carter makes all it worth the effort. I submit that Wonder Woman should be photo shopped into all images henceforth.
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UnderLoK
07/16/09

@Xeno: Lynda who? Looking at this I feel like a kid again haha
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╠═CoolRiver45═╣
07/16/09

In reply to The Desperate Times Before Internet Porn
I don't see any brassiere ads among these pictures.

I know that's what porn amounted to when I was 12.
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
07/16/09

@╠═CoolRiver45═╣: Yep, when you were desperate for porn pre-internet days that was pretty much all you had. Catalogs and Sunday circulars advertising lingerie.
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