New York Times Reports Stale Sex News, Stiffs SF Weekly
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The story is certainly a fun read, but if you happen to work at the SF Weekly, the fun sort of nosedives in paragraph 13, which includes this sentence: "The group has drawn scant attention during its four and a half years...although there was a brief sensation when The San Francisco Chronicle wrote about the group's naked (nonsexual) yoga classes." Scant attention? Really? I could have sworn that the SF Weekly dedicated a cover, along with more than 4,000 words, to One Taste almost two years ago. Beyond that, One Taste has made appearances on Yelp.com, SFStation.com, and plenty of other sites. It's no giant secret.
I can understand that Times' readers in other cities might get a kick out of yet another wacky, over-sexed San Francisco institution, but One Taste has been around practically forever. Are the San Francisco-based Times reporters really just finding out about it? And why not throw a little credit toward the SF Weekly for its in-depth story that, in all likelihood, the Times reporters read? (If they didn't, that raises questions about the thoroughness of their research).
This seems to be just another example of a struggling newspaper throwing sensational content out there and claiming all the credit in an effort to establish that it still has value. Too bad this story has the opposite affect.
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SF Weekly, you rock. Not only did you scoop the Times by 2 years, your story was, as I recall, alot more substantial. Not just more words, but more insight too.
The Times article reminds me of a tourist venturing beyond the safe confines of their small world all the way to... exotic and sensual San Francisco, where the natives do such strange things in the name of community, spirituality... and sex! Oooh!!
Kind of like the way middle america viewed Paris in the days of Henry Miller: at once scandalised and titillated and clueless.
On the one hand, I'm impressed that the New York times can widen its scope to topics so clearly beyond its usual "Sex and the City" sensibilities. On the other, wishing they could discuss these things without falling back on the familiar and reductionist frame of reference of... a Woody Allen movie. I mean, was that a killer concluding sentence or what? Ewww.
While giving credit where credit is due, here's an article that appeared almost 2 years ago, by Bill Sofkty:
Hacking sexual pleasure: a hard, slippery problem
www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/28/make_hack_not_war/print.html
keep up the good work,
-K
Posted On: Tuesday, Mar. 17 2009 @ 12:40AMI have to say I agree, this is old news in San Francisco, and if you google you will find the SF Weekly article. If this is big news in New York, than I guess we are really spoiled by the wide availability of good information and teaching on sexuality and sensuality in the bay area.
On the one hand, "hooray" for the nice folks at OneTaste - I was over there a couple of weeks ago and it feels like their place is really coming together after 4 years of experimentation and research. But what the goal of the NY Times piece? You have to ding them for such poor research.
I also have to say I wish the NYT had given a bit more credit to the Lafayette Morehouse folks who originated "do-ing" [aka 'deliberate orgasm] and taught all these folks about extended orgasm. And that guy who was sweating - someone should tell him to relax - he'll enjoy himself more.
Posted On: Saturday, Mar. 21 2009 @ 4:41PMVic Baranco founded Morehouse and do-ing, but the Welcomed Consensus are the ones that use "deliberate orgasm", and where the One Taste folks not only lived, but got their extended orgasm training.
Posted On: Thursday, Apr. 2 2009 @ 7:49PM
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