I don’t care to read about sex-positive sex sites any more than I’d spend an afternoon reading about feel-good organic farms or cub scouts cleaning up vacant lots. Yes, it’s great that abbywinters.com treats its models with respect. Must everybody write a feature about it? And kudos to you Bonnie for being one of the last sex crits standing, but it’s a little ironic – for all your gifts, you make cybersex sound like the dreariest, least sexy thing imaginable. Second Life sounds even worse than my local meat markets.

Yes, I’m overgeneralizing. Yes, all of these writers have written great work. Regina Lynn has opened my mind and my eyes many, many times. But we need a little more “fetishistic man bites dog.” I’m with Sarah Hepola: we need to write about sex as a challenge. I hate to point to a man when so many women are losing their jobs, but Dan Savage has stayed engaging for years because he prints stories from other people – and they usually don’t know what they’re doing. There’s a reason the forbidden pleasures hold up: they’re more fun to sink your teeth into.

Eric, I hope you’re wrong, but it sounds like gaming might be in a similar boat. The difference is that game writers work for game-related publications, whereas sex writers tend to work for more mainstream outlets.

i wonder when we’ll start to seeing widespread firings/lay-offs with gaming blogs.

Seems like a silly argument on the part of those executives/decision makers.

Sorry to hear about all the lay-offs. It’s crap when you see your industry falling apart through no fault of its own.