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Violet Blue has a story about which major sites were suckered into publishing that press release. Slashdot FAIL.

The task force also found no strong evidence that circumcised babies grew up with more urinary difficulties or sexual problems.

Did they actually bother to ask them about this properly? Because an awful lot of the studies which proponents of systematic circumcision have come up with to prove that circumcised men have managed to screw this up. (For instance, the African studies asked men about their level of satisfaction with their sex life - something like 99% of all men rated their sex lives as "very good", which doesn't exactly make for a terribly sensitive measure of how it affected them.) Meanwhile, a very clever Danish study found that not only did circumcised men have more difficulty orgasming, their female partners had a whole bunch more problems than the partners of uncircumcised men.

The one that goes by the name of Violet Blue.

Now... being that according to Forbes

"Violet Blue is (...) nearly omnipresent on the Web"

and that I have just now heard about her for the first time... apparently I have lived under a rock all these years.
Then again... I was never in need of sexual education, at least not the on-line kind. Or a tutorial for porn-surfing. Warning: NSFW!
So I guess I was just a tad out of the demographic that is her audience.

Webnation: "Violet Blue is the leading sex educator for the Internet generation."
The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies: "America's leading (very) public intellectual sexologist, Violet Blue."
* Named: Wired's Faces of Innovation 2008
* Awarded: SFBG's Best of the Bay 2008
* Named: Forbes Web Celeb Top 25 2007

Besides not being a MacGuy, not even when it was required for the job.

 
Seems to me rather like a case of a big fish in a small pond.
What was the size of the pond again, 8% of all the ponds?

The violet blue in Macheads is the writer, not the porn star. If you're thinking of Noname Jane, think again.

In respects to the pornography, no it wasn't as readily avalable, but large numbers of children found their parents stash or got the material from somewhere, or even seen their parents having sex. Realisticaly, the attitude that we as a civilization have towards sex, especialy in the USA is counterproductive to the point of it being life threatening. Take for example Nebrasca banning the words "sex" and "sexual" in state program public media, including AIDS media (http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2007/07/n ebraska_considered_harmful.html - NSFW), or the Mormon Church banning masterbation (causing more than one teenager to commit suicide) (Disclaimer - I used to be a member of the aforementioned organisation).

However, in citys such as Amsterdam, thease things are taken as the norm, and not treated as anything special, giving sexual advice about protection and sexual prositions even in the citys sciance museum. This allows for people to grow up understanding what to do on their wedding night, understanding that a crisp packet or a menthos mint is NOT a form of contraceptive.

As far as I can see, it is America that has got it all worng about sex, and is trying to push its stunted and misguided views onto the rest of the world, and if we were more open about this kind of thing, then there would be fiewer unwanted pregnancys, aids cases and maybe even rapes.

I'm so moving to Amsterdam.

My apologies - I mistyped. I meant to say "hardcore porn is not inherently violent". The two aren't equivalent, you're quite right there. I still think you're wrong about hardcore porn being violent - that is, while it's a common thing, it's certainly not a requirement.

That statement is so abstract as to be worthless. Let's replace 'women' in that sentence with 'snowflakes'.

Photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/roboexotica/

Video:
http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/12/10/roboexo tica-2006-in-vienna/ ..and more:
http://tinynibbles.com/violetblue.html

I'm sure she is lurking here and taking it all in stride. An accomplished journalist, she writes about techno-sexuality herself all the time--just take a look at some of her published pieces:

• Why We All Need Pornography
• On the Go Porn: What the Cellphone Porn Industry Didn't Learn from ASCII Pr0n
• If Code is Free, Then Why Not Me? Some open-source geeks are as open-minded about sex as they are about hacking.
• More Bang for Your Buck: The Ins and Outs of Great Group Sex Web Sites