Comments on: Click Me: “Are Anonymous Mobs Reliable Sources for Sex Advice?”

By: Cheating Girlfriend

Cheating Girlfriend — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:09:59 +0000

She was hot but pretty stupid… I should have known better.

By: Bonnie Ruberg

Bonnie Ruberg — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:35:52 +0000

I’ll have to check Scarleteen out. I’ve never been. Have you had a bad experience yourself? It seems like maybe you have?

By: Magnetic Crow

Magnetic Crow — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:51:55 +0000

I feel Scarleteen is a pretty good place to go…
FAQs and expert advice from people who are LGBT friendly, prochoice (as in, choice to have sex, keep the baby, get the abortion, etc.)
Hopefully, poor lost and scared will find that instead of….eurgh….this.

It’s amazing how much damage something like that can do to someone.

By: Me

Me — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:12:52 +0000

another good site is http://midwestteensexshow.com/
it’s hilarious and the advice is really really good

By: Bonnie Ruberg

Bonnie Ruberg — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:51:15 +0000

I’ve always been curious what percentage of his mail Dan Savage answers. Also, while I think he’s awesome in the overall, there have been a few questions he’s answered where I’ve been like “Uh, no!”–like cybersex is always cheating, and 24/7 BDSM relationships should stop when there’s family around. He’s great because he gives strong answers, but when he takes an all or nothing stance on something complicated, he sometimes overshoots his points…

By: Courtney Taylor

Courtney Taylor — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:13:45 +0000

I personally go to Dan Savage for all my sex advice needs… and anything beyond that, I am comfortable going to my friends, because if you can’t talk to your girlfriends about sex, then who can you talk to?

By: Bonnie Ruberg

Bonnie Ruberg — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:09:17 +0000

It’s true, it’s a lot like Yahoo! Answers, with the difference that 1) there aren’t a million odd questions on there, so it’s not totally overwhelming and 2) the crowd is a lot older. On Yahoo! Answers, I’ve found the average age of people asking seems to be a whopping 16. At least on ReallyWorried we’ve got old British ladies :).

By: FrostDust

FrostDust — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:05:44 +0000

Not that I’ve used it much, but this sounds pretty much like an unrestricted Yahoo! Answers to me.

By: halfassured

halfassured — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:36:03 +0000

This looks like a more high-tech version of “ask on 4chan,” but it seems to produce about the same results. Oh well. I guess at least it’s instructive to see the breadth of opinions even if it doesn’t directly help out.

I feel this way most keenly when I need to ask people for help with technical/computer things — what programming language to use for a given thing, what hardware setup is good for a desktop machine, and so on. The internet is full of experienced tech-heads and they all have these violently conflicting religious convictions about it. That seems to be a subject of particular contention, but you see it with everything around here.

By: Bonnie Ruberg

Bonnie Ruberg — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:15:22 +0000

It’s true, it’s not just about sex. Sex just happens to be what I know well enough to know the advice is scary.

I think Rubin has a point, that people feel comforted by getting advice, but still…