Originally written by qDot for mmorgy.com

Well, 1 update every 3 months ain't bad. But, to kick it off in true MMOrgy form, here's some smut.

This is Sadako Shikami, and she wants your hot, hard (earned)... cash.

I've talked before about porn derived from virtual worlds, it's not anything new by a long shot. Hell, our last post was about LARP porn of WoW for fuck sake. However, I'm not really sure (outside of fetish sites) that many others have tried to take their market out of the virtual world and onto the web, which is exactly what Sadako wants to do. For a mere $4000L (Right now, around $15US) per month, she'll provide you with member access to her galleries. Which is normal. However, the custom content is what sets this service apart. You have the right at any time to request custom sets or stories, for MUCH less than you'd have to pay to get a "real" model to perform. Well, and really, who else can offer things like:

Sometimes, I turn into the Egyptian cat goddess Bast. When that happens, you can saddle me up and ride me throughout SL, which includes flying. You get the controls.

We were so going to try and pull off a porn studio here at MMOrgy, but I kinda lost interest in the project early due to the absolutely MASSIVE amount of work it would be, not to mention, I have some serious doubts about sustaining this stuff. So, stay tuned for my article on analysis and predictions of structure in virtual world porn business models, which may happen either tomorrow, or like, 4 months from now, if I keep my current track record.

Click the more link for the full press release

From http://www.sadakoshikami.com/blog/?page_id=31

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Contact: Second Life user Sadako Shikami
Company: "Sadako Does SL"
Email: touchme@sadakoshikami.com
Website: http://www.sadakoshikami.com

**Virtual Model/Escort Declares Virtual Porn As Good As the Real Thing**

Second Life, Colonia Nova, January 9, 2007 — A Second Life user
using the pseudonym Sadako Shikami, who works in-world as a model and
escort, has bridged the gap between virtual reality and web reality by
opening her sex life to the world via a website, blog and gallery.
That's not a shock. What's shocking is she hopes to make a living by
pushing pixels.

Virtual porn can be just as, if not more, satisfying than the real
thing, asserts Ms. Shikami, putting emphasis on Second Life's
sex-related users , scripts and objects as being the pinnacle of
today's virtual, interactive sex. Regarding the current state of
virtual porn online, "even though a real person created it, it’s
just a picture, a painting, a special effect. The main difference
between hentai anime or Poser porn and Second Life porn is that
there’s a real person behind the avatar, or the furry, or the
cartoon," maintains Sadako. "You can life out your wildest fantasies
with a real person who shares them."

Sadako's services in-world are somewhat unique, in that she's living a
sexual lifestyle that allows her to bring quite a bit of reality and
variety to her in-world experiences. Her website is the second of its
kind, CardieMahoney.com being the first. Cardie is Sadako's in-world
coworker at xXx Fantasy Escorts, in Phasma, and her original
inspiration. "The moment I saw Cardie's site, I asked if she minded if
I tried one too. She said okay. We're not really competition, because
she offers a girl-next-door, classy quality in her pictures. I'm more
of a down-and-dirty, tomboy, gritty reality girl. I could try to be
classy, but I remember reading 'Private Parts' by Howard Stern, and
how he didn't become popular until he acted like himself. So I have to
be me," says Sadako confidently.

Using a simple blog and gallery as a jumping board, Sadako soon
realized that the market for selling virtual porn - such as hentai
anime and 3D erotica - is vast, growing and a bandwagon worth jumping
upon. "It's safe ... no one catches an STD, no one gets pregnant, no
one is raped or exploited," says Sadako. "I can be completely
anonymous, I can work at home, and I can earn a good living having fun
and serving a need that's out there. What's safer sex than
masturbation?" she laughs.

Anonymous client J. says, "Sadako is real. I mean, really real.
Capital-R real. I know she's in the room with me. I know she cares
about me getting off. No video is going to [care] about me. Even phone
sex falls short, because I can watch Sadako do what I ask, I can tell
her what color I want her hair to be. Men are visual people. We need
that."

At $4000 Linden per month (approximately $15,00 U.S., depending on
Second Life's "Linden" currency exchange rate), her site is comparable
to most hentai and 3D porn sites. Given that she offers personalized
services such as custom photo shoot requests, custom erotic story
requests, and even personal appearances in-world with members of her
site, her new venture looks to fill a brand-new niche in the online
sex industry - complete virtual interactivity. Second Life's
popularity, and their recent decision to release their open source
code, will give Sadako and others like her a constantly growing,
expanding market to capitalize upon.

As a work-at-home mother, graphic artist, web designer, writer of
erotic fiction and budding Second Life photographer, she certainly has
quite a balancing act. "I'm finding this job to be very fulfilling,
because I get to do what I love - photography and modeling - without
leaving home. My boyfriend loves it, he thinks it's fun dating a porn
star," she laughs. "I think this kind of 'virtual but real' porn is
going to catch on big time. I mean, when is the last time a Jenna
Jameson fan could call her up and have her come over to their house?"

Sadako Shikami's website, "Sadako Does SL," can be found at
http://www.sadakoshikami.com, and the author can be reached by email
at touchme@sadakoshikami.com or instant-messaged in Second Life.

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(Head shot and body shot images are at the URL at top of press
release; permissions given to reproduce them.)

Science of Sex

And while we're at it, 3 students from the Columbia Journalism school have completed (like, months ago) a huge project on the interplay between sex and science. Covering the complete mating ritual, from reasons we're attracted, to how we find each other, to where technology has become a part of the recreation process, there's lots of neat anecdotes and stories taken from source like Nick Yee, Noche Kandora, and there's even a sentence from me!

Pornography and Technology at 23C3

Woooooooooooo more presentations involving me sex and technology! Tina Lorenz did a great presentation at this year's Chaos Communication Congress on the history of porn and technology. Includes a lot of interesting stories, going through the ways and means of getting the first porn to the people up through modern pornography and technology.

Video of the presentation

PDF of slides from presentation

Battery Boys Session in Mountain View, CA - February 4th, 2007

It's that time again!

The Battery Boys (made up of Uncle Abdul and Tom, who have more years of experience in electrostim than I have in like, life in general) are holding another build session for their new YUM-1 toy! No prior building or electrostim experience needed! The session is on February 4th in Mountain View, CA, from 2pm-5pm in the afternoon. Registration is only $50, which is a hell of a lot cheaper than buying a premade stim unit (though the theatre alone is worth the price).

I went to one of these session back in October which I still need to write up. It was an absolutely awesome experience, and I highly recommend going. You'll laugh, you'll learn, you'll build things to shock yourself in the nuts with. All the good things in life wrapped into one afternoon.

opendildonics.org - Now under new management

MINE ALL MINE HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... er... hi.

Way back in the days of January 2005, a site called OpenDildonics opened their doors with a tutorial on running a vibe motor from a parallel port. This came up right as I was getting ready to launch Slashdong, and almost discouraged me from starting the page at all. However, I went ahead and put this place up anyways, and the rest is history. Unfortunately, outside of their forums, OpenDildonics.org went quiet. I got an email from the wonderful people at Brum2600 offering me the domain last month, and I knew I had the perfect project for it.

For those of you that were alive waaaaaaaaaay back in May, I quietly announced the creation of the Slashdong wiki, and then proceeded to do absolutely nothing with it, due to moving across the country and then getting acclimated to new job, new natural occurances, and new experiences in general. However, now that I'm back in the building mood, I find it much easier to document my projects and thought process in wiki form versus article form like I do here on slashdong.

So, here's what I see happening:

• Slashdong is not dead, not by any means. I've spent way too long building the brand amassing my army of zombie army through mind-control tags in my RSS feed working on this page to let it go that quickly. This will still be a blog, and something I can hopefully get back into the habit of updating with a little more frequency than I have in the past 6 months. I'll most likely keep up with the article format on my projects on here, because I have fun writing the entertaining version of the development process. In addition, I also plan on doing reviews of toys from that special soul-sucking, "You could have sex with it but it's more interesting to take it apart" engineering perspective that I seem to have a knack for. Not to mention, since it's a blog, I don't feel quite as bad about being a judgemental fuckwad here.
• The Opendildonics wiki will be for long term history and project documentation. I've watched a ton of pages go up and then back down since I started running slashdong, and even though archive.org never forgets, I'd really like to have a centralized clearinghouse for sex tech info. I plan on moving all of the articles on slashdong over to the wiki at some point. The original articles will be preserved, though I may also post more straight forward explanations of them for conciseness sake.

Please note that this wiki is meant to be as open as I can make it without the asshats of the internet fuckering it. I don't have time to do wikipedia style mediation, nor do I think I'll have enough dedicated people who care to do that, either, so while account creation is open, it's limited to talk, and if that gets spammed (much like our poor message boards), I may have to regulate that somehow, too. However, if you are interested in adding information or helping out on the project, or if you have something you'd like documented (of your own work or else already GPL'd or CC'd or whatever open license), email our tips address (tips at slashdong dot org).

I'm really excited about where this project could go. I've met a ton of amazingly smart people in my time running slashdong, and being able to work with them to add information instead of just blogging about them is something I'd always wanted to do. Here's hoping for the best.