Call For Submissions -- Humm Magazine: Cybersexuality (Second Life)

[dr_mabeuse]

We're starting a magazine in Second Life called Humm, a magazine of cybersexuality, and are accepting submissions of fiction (5K words or less), essays (same), and poetry (1K or less). The theme should be related to cybersexuality. (The mag also has art and photography, but that doesn't concern us here.)

You can query me as to article and story ideas via Lit PM, but check with me before submitting the work itself to make sure we're in the same ballpark as to theme.

Cybersexuality is anything related to sex as experienced via a computer or media device. It not only includes cybersex itself, but emotions tied to video games, interactive DVD's, sexual role playing, virtual affairs, phone sex, sex with alts, e-gender bending, etc. etc.

SInce I discovered SL, I've come to realize that we're creating a huge, entirely new class of sexual potentials and possibilities conducted in cyberspace, and that this needs to be explored, imagined, and examined. Lives are being changed, possibilities realized, techniques developed, all at a blistering pace. I want Humm to be at the center of this, a guide book to the cybersexual.

Yes, yes, I know... Just a bunch of nerds beating off to their PC's. If that's all you have to offer, don't bother.

In the first issue we have a story about a woman's cyber fantasies bleeding into RL, an account of a virtual 3-way BDSM relationship involving 2 people and an alt, and an essay by a man who has sex as a woman in SL on how he does it and what he's learned.

So of you've got any fiction that fits the bill, or an idea for a story or article, I'd like to hear it.

As I say, querying me here is probably the easiest way of contacting me. Or you can e-mail me at dr_mabeuse@yahoo.com.

We now return you to your usual palavering.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Second Life? Is this a give-away or are you starting a business in SL?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

The pay is zero, right?

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

The pay is zero, right?

That's what I'm thinking, James

 

[Austin8]

The pay is zero, right?

The OP makes it sound like a paying gig, what th hell is SL? Says a magazine...

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

JJ

There's an epidemic of THAT going around.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

The OP makes it sound like a paying gig, what th hell is SL? Says a magazine...

SL or Second Life is an animated chat community. http://secondlife.com/

Their only major competitor is Utherverse (AKA Red Light Social Center) http://www.redlightcenter.com/

I understand the two are very similar with the exception that Utherverse has more fucking.

 

[Austin8]

SL or Second Life is an animated chat community. http://secondlife.com/

Their only major competitor is Utherverse (AKA Red Light Social Center) http://www.redlightcenter.com/

I understand the two are very similar with the exception that Utherverse has more fucking.

O o ok so virtual people, virtual magazine, virtual dollars, weird

 

[Stella_Omega]

If I come up with anything Doc, I'll get in touch Cyber-sexuality is very potent stuff. Us humans are mighty symbolic critters.

(On my screen, i see one top post and then SIX closed-up posts in a row. Funny, but I bet I know what they are saying...)

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

O o ok so virtual people, virtual magazine, virtual dollars, weird

Yeah. But it can be a nice diversion occasionally.

Note: Second Life is the older site. It seems to be more stable than Utherverse, but more expensive.

 

[Verdad]

We're starting a magazine in Second Life called Humm, a magazine of cybersexuality, and are accepting submissions of fiction (5K words or less), essays (same), and poetry (1K or less). The theme should be related to cybersexuality. (The mag also has art and photography, but that doesn't concern us here.)

You can query me as to article and story ideas via Lit PM, but check with me before submitting the work itself to make sure we're in the same ballpark as to theme.

Cybersexuality is anything related to sex as experienced via a computer or media device. It not only includes cybersex itself, but emotions tied to video games, interactive DVD's, sexual role playing, virtual affairs, phone sex, sex with alts, e-gender bending, etc. etc.

SInce I discovered SL, I've come to realize that we're creating a huge, entirely new class of sexual potentials and possibilities conducted in cyberspace, and that this needs to be explored, imagined, and examined. Lives are being changed, possibilities realized, techniques developed, all at a blistering pace. I want Humm to be at the center of this, a guide book to the cybersexual.

Yes, yes, I know... Just a bunch of nerds beating off to their PC's. If that's all you have to offer, don't bother.

In the first issue we have a story about a woman's cyber fantasies bleeding into RL, an account of a virtual 3-way BDSM relationship involving 2 people and an alt, and an essay by a man who has sex as a woman in SL on how he does it and what he's learned.

So of you've got any fiction that fits the bill, or an idea for a story or article, I'd like to hear it.

As I say, querying me here is probably the easiest way of contacting me. Or you can e-mail me at dr_mabeuse@yahoo.com.

We now return you to your usual palavering.

Thanks for the notice, Doc. I don't suppose you want any darkly dystopic essays?

 

[Darkniciad]

I have four or five ( a couple might even be within the word limit ), but there's no way I'm going to try to foist off my lame-pedestrian skills on you. I've seen how well you write. *laugh*

 

[Guest]

If I come up with anything Doc, I'll get in touch Cyber-sexuality is very potent stuff. Us humans are mighty symbolic critters.

(On my screen, i see one top post and then SIX closed-up posts in a row. Funny, but I bet I know what they are saying...)

Same here, Zoot. My schedule is a bit hectic but if I can I'll get in touch.

I love the potential of this.

Well done.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Wendall slammed the fist wrapped around his enormous beef stick hard one last time and was rewarded with a great spew of cum that splattered in the face of Gabriella who watch intensly from the computer monitor. "A perfect Cyber Facial, if I do say so myself," Wendall told himself as he began wiping off his screen.

 

[glynndah]

submissions of fiction (5K words or less), essays (same), and poetry (1K or less). The theme should be related to cybersexuality.


Cybersexuality is anything related to sex as experienced via a computer or media device.

Wendall slammed the fist wrapped around his enormous beef stick hard one last time and was rewarded with a great spew of cum that splattered in the face of Gabriella who watch intensly from the computer monitor. "A perfect Cyber Facial, if I do say so myself," Wendall told himself as he began wiping off his screen.

Fiction, under 5K and cyber. A perfect match, Jenny!

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Ahhhhhhh NOW I know what Doc's been up to!

 

[Stella_Omega]

Fiction, under 5K and cyber. A perfect match, Jenny!

Not erotic though.

Still, two out of three ain't ba--

Actually, two out of three equals no cigar.

 

[glynndah]

Not erotic though.

Still, two out of three ain't ba--

Actually, two out of three equals no cigar.

It says "spew of cum"!!! How much more erotic can she get?

 

[Huckleman2000]

Sounds interesting! I went through an extended period of playing Everquest, which also had cyber-societal issues.

How can we get a copy to read?

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

It says "spew of cum"!!! How much more erotic can she get?

Actually, after reading Dr M's Pharaoh's Boat some years ago, I'm humilated by his writing. I can only write "readable" not "well".

 

[DeeZire]

Doc,

My Earth Day Story, "The Browning of America" is about virtual sex in the year 2019, (through the use of a computer virtual reality simulation and various hydraulic devices) but it's 10K words. If you want to try to edit it down to 5K, be my guest.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Second Life is far more than a chatgroup. Its a virtual world with a population of around 1.5 million and a gross site product of about 500 million dollars US.

In 2008, Second Life users spent more than $360 million on virtual goods ranging from land to designer shoes to lavish homes. The Second Life economy almost doubled in size - 94 percent up - between the second quarter of this year and the same period in 2008. User-to-user transactions now amount to nearly $50 million per month, Linden Lab said in a press release.

--San Francisco Business Journal, Sept 22, 2009


Second Life has made a bunch of millionaires (beside the site founders) and businesses can routinely show gross profits in the thousands of dollars US per month. People are getting rich in the virtual economy. Everything is totally laissez faire, and things are booming.

Those 1.5 million avatars all need clothes and shelter and toys, not to mention the huge chunk of the economy that's devoted to sex, and shopping is a major passtime. I did a profit analysis of a few SL magazines and found they turn a quite handsome profit, all through advertising. (The mags are all free) Merchants there are frantic for advertising venues.

We're starting this magazine on a shoestring so we're asking our contributors to accept deferred payment until we show a profit, and then we'll offer either a flat rate of around US$25-$35 a story or a percentage of profit. Payment is in the currency of the realm, which are Linden Dollars, but are convertible to USCash at a number of exchanges.

There are several sex mags already published in SL, but we can do a lot better. None of them provide fiction, and most of them are based on the Playboy Magazine model and are pretty simplistic.

The main problem with the magazine business in SL is distribution and publicity, and we think we have a way around that. We intend for Humm to become the erotic information hub of Second Life, the arbiter of taste, and the guidebook to the erotic. If we succeed, it will be huge.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Thanks for the notice, Doc. I don't suppose you want any darkly dystopic essays?

Sure we'd take darkly dystopic essays. I would like to see more essays, in fact, exploring the implications of cyber sex and cyber identity.

One of the articles I'm looking forward to reading for the first issue is by a man who cybers as a woman, on what he's learned about men and women both by swapping genders.

One rumor has it that 85% of the women in SL are actually men, but I'm convinced that number is way too high. It's more like maybe 10-15%.

No idea on the number of women who cyber as men, but I did talk to one woman who was n a 3-month affair with a man who finally confessed to being female in real life. This woman was crushed because, in the course of their relationship, she'd really fallen in love with him/her and now didn't know what to do. (In the end she broke up with him. Not because of the gender thing, but because of the dishonesty.)

Stories like this (and weirder) are coming out of cyber space all the time now and are just crying out to be examined in fiction and essay.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

DOC

Phil Hendrie used to have a radio show where he impersonated women, blacks, hispanics, gays, children, etc. All the impersonations were 'guests' on his radio talk show and all of them made outrageous claims that provoked angry calls from the audience. Hendrie is talented!

 

[dr_mabeuse]

DOC

Phil Hendrie used to have a radio show where he impersonated women, blacks, hispanics, gays, children, etc. All the impersonations were 'guests' on his radio talk show and all of them made outrageous claims that provoked angry calls from the audience. Hendrie is talented!

It's not just people crossing genders. People are crossing species too, and even levels of reality. In SL you can be whatever you want, of course, and so there are a lot of vampires and werewolves (lycans, they call them), fairies and elves, and a whole subculture of people who want to be animals--cats especially. These are called Nekos and they usually have human bodies but cat paws and feet and cat faces and ears. They even sell cat penises for male Nekos to use.

The penis market in general is pretty big. Besides getting a human penis (the free default avatar they give you when you sign up for SL is Barbie-gendered--no organs at all--so if you want to have sex, you pretty much need to turn to the penis market), you can get vampire penises, lycan penises, female penises, you name it.

Came across a store that sold anuses too the other day. The name of the place was--appropriately enough--"Assholes". They only cost like US$0.20, so I bought one, but then lost it.

I'd like to buy a shop next to Assholes and sell Elbows, but I know most people wouldn't be able to tell the two places apart.