We're unveiling a bit of a programming experiment later tonight (at 11:59 p.m., ET, to be precise) on Salon. And, I must warn you, it involves the most tedious of subjects, the spinach of story ideas, the NyQuil of news, and I'll forgive you if you stop reading about all this right now. Yes, that's right: I'm talking about sex.
Or, precisely, coverage of sex on Salon. We've had a long tradition of writing about sex with more zest and rigor than our starchier peers, precisely because we've always felt that a subject that consumes so much of our mental energy deserves real attention. A year ago, I sprang Salon's Tracy Clark-Flory to cover the subject as a regular beat, and her fascinating reporting and deeply researched weekly advice column, Am I Normal?, has garnered a smart, devoted audience. We also, frankly, get more great submissions about sex than we know what to do with -- people seem as eager to write about it as they are to read it.
But over the course of a typical day, it's often tough to give adequate real estate to the subject, when urgent news takes over. So we're turning our late-night site over to libidinal curiosities. The content will pop up around midnight, and drop down the cover before sunrise. We begin tonight, with a revealing personal essay and an amusing interview and slideshow, and will continue every night, Monday through Friday, with one or two stories. This pop-up, mini-section, will be assigned and edited by Thomas Rogers.
I'm looking forward to the reactions -- so let me know what you think.
Emily Holleman
Mignon Khargie
Scott Rosenberg
Thomas Rogers
Rebecca Traister
Dan-onymous
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salon -- after dark
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"This pop-up, mini-section, will be assigned and edited by Thomas Rogers"
Pop-up, mini-section??? Tell Thomas there's a cure for that!! Seen it on late night television, Maximum XXX 9000. Makes that "certain part of a male" get huge!!! Maybe that should be the first story!!!
Teehee!!
~wanders off to smoke crack and masturbate to The Weather Channel~
rwnj: Coming from flyover country, I know they care about sex, too.
hj: Thanks!
HUGGGGGG
http://open.salon.com/blog/designanator/2012/02/14/the_first_post_for_salon--after_dark
Don't know, don't have any!
"Wanna talk about sex?"
Sure! Whatcha wearing?
And
"SEX? IN THE HOUSE OF GOD? GET OUT OF MY CHURCH YOU DAMN CAT!!!"
:D
Behave . . .
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Thursday morning @ Salon's
weekly staff O.S. meeting . . .
Kerry ask:
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"How was Your weekend?"
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Goes to get Vanity License
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The mule wagon buggy read:
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Honk if You a `horny editor.
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the Open Salon` editor-poster
Visits the DoJ and`DMV in NYC
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a editor request
purchasing vanity plates
stating BLESS U
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I don't have a sense of what the experiment is and suppose I will find out soon enough, but gotta tell ya, it doesn't inspire confidence and excitement.
Just don't invite and organize and cheerlead misogynistic titillating shock and awe is what I am asking. That is permeated into our culture way too much already.
And midnight ET means 9:00 prime time on the West Coast. Lock up your daughters zanelle, Linda S, Kevin A, femme et al. And quite the breakfast treat for our Euro bloggers.
Thomas will have a very interesting time. Hahahaha!
Such dishonourable behaviour says much about the management of Salon and Open Salon.
Pfffffffffffffffttttt!!
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I could not restrain myself.
Beth Mann and 'bumped"
and I followed @ 9:28
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the kindergardener (acts like?)
attempting to gift wrap
a bullfrog
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happy after V.D. Day
smile . . .
I goo to V.A, & Hop
I no get cut up`gin
It's minor surgery
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I'm assuming you're working on Pacific Time. So the east coast can expect to see it at from around 3:00 AM to 8:00AM; those of us in the Chicago time zone will see it first at 2:00 AM, and Mountain Time at 1:00 AM, right? Hmmmm. I'm not thinking we'll notice much difference, but it's an artful concept.
You don't need to wait until the wee small hours to do this when Crazy Jane is posting this sort of thing about me on her page morning, noon and night.
Please do something about this situation. She is beyond out of control all over Open Salon. This is the disgusting post that she just published on her page about me in which she twists the fact that I was sexually abused by my father as a child. She is so beyond offensive that I don't see how this can continue here.
I understand that you have certain parameters with the terms of service, but perhaps you need to evaluate on a case by case basis when it comes to an individual like this who is constantly harassing a writer here.
Please at least consider what I'm saying.
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FEBRUARY 16, 2012 10:01AM
my name is hope's diary, and i had an affair with my father
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"i like to talk about my eventful childhood as often as possible.
i like also to say "super eventful childhood," cause that gets even more attention.
i talk about how my father raped me many times, but i am still a virgin.
you do the math.
i say, "i want to be chaste till i am married."
except i dont know the meaning of the word chaste, as evidenced by my constant attempts to get sexual attention. i like to talk about "fucking my future huband's brains out, anally and every other way, for at least the first year of our marriage," regularly.
i try to elicit sexual responses from men constantly. with virtually every word i write.
technically, according to websters, that isnt chaste. that is neither "pure in thought and deed," nor "modest."
also, i do not like women my age, at all. i mean, a situation like mine creates some real sibling rivalry with one's sisters, that carries over into every female relationship you ever have. not that i want female company, believe me.
this is how a girl who fucked her dad for a decade is. ok, it was longer than a decade. it continued into my adulthood. its why my sisters despise me.
when i was 16 and my mother found out, she asked my father to leave our home. i went with him.
i stayed for many years. he was always so kind to me, and so gentle.
thats the real reason i worry men wont love me. not because i am a victim of childhood sexual abuse - plenty of women are that, and society knows not to judge them. but the affair i had as an adult with my father will put off many men. i know this. and i don't want to be alone forever.
i wish daddy hadnt died, cause then i would still have him.
right now i am wearing a calvin klein sheath dress. it shows the rise of my ass and the indent of my sweet spot very clearly.
now, here is why some people think i am a gay man, rather than a woman: here is where i tell you the brand of my tights and sunglasses. now, most people feel that an actual woman will know that no man cares about the brand of tights or sunglasses. so they think i get it wrong, when i "pull this act" of being a sexy woman.
well, truth, of course i am not a sexy woman. i am morbidly obese and wear sweats all the time. the combat boots twirling in the snowflakes i wrote about the other day dont exist. i wear old fleece clogs, cause they are easy to get on and off my feet, and i dont have to bend over to tie them.
tho i do like to bend over for other things, if you catch my drift."
Are you serious?
Personally I'm not interested.
But, that's just me. I represent the over 50 age-group of contributors/readers. So, you have to decide if you want this to be a forum just for the youngsters amongst us, or if you want input from the more-- what is the right word-- "experienced" of us.
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Ok ok don't push...I can leave on my own.
Or did I mean to say, "someone"? Can't be so sure these days.
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