This is a list of the current, past, and sadly defunct projects Bonnie has taken on at one time or another. They tend to fall outside of her paid work, which means they often don’t get finished. She also tends to get really passionate about them for a really short period of time. Pretty much she wishes there were seventeen of her, one to do her professional writing, fifteen to have a blast with the projects listed here, and one to go off and learn how to use a sewing machine. She’s always wanted to know that.
Cybersexy, currently working.
Inspired by the culture of sex blogging, Cybersexy is a blog about Bonnie’s online sex life. In it she chronicles her cybersex encounters, her qualms as a sex writer, and her occasionally hilarious stories about awkward internet hookups.
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Beautiful Stranger, currently working.
An OkCupid user, an intelligent human being, and a cybersex enthusiast constantly challenged to find good online dates, Bonnie decided to start Beautiful Stranger, a social network for smart, civil internet users who also happen to be looking for pixelated booty.
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Game Cakes, currently working.
A few years ago, driven by her irrational love of video-game-themed cakes, Bonnie joined Tracy John from MTV Multiplayer and Michael Fahey from Kotaku in starting GameCakes.com. That site has since died, leaving Bonnie with no choice but to post random confections on the sparse but up-to-date GameCakes.tumblr.com.
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Perfect Pixel, currently working.
As previously mentioned, Bonnie has way more ideas than hours in the day. One of things she’d love to do is start an internet culture blog, something that tracks memes and business and generally looks at our life on the web. Until she figures out how to turn that idea into an actual assignment, she’s posting relevant links at her second Tumblr blog.
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BDSM Ethnography, currently meaning to work.
This is a project I’ve been meaning to put together for a special issue of Culture of Virtual Worlds. In theory I would go into Second Life and do direct observation, Tea Room Trade. Sadly, time constraints are make this one look less and less likely.
Sexual Safety in Children’s MMOs, currently meaning to work.
As someone who’s done a lot of first-hand work on sex in virtual worlds — even virtual worlds meant for minors — I really think it’s time the people who build MMOs start approaching sexual safety as an issue of mechanics. Expect an upcoming Gamasutra article on the topic… when I learn to freeze time and get extra work done.
Divine Marquise, currently looking for a home
Like all over-educated twenty-somethings, I love NPR. I’ve also started listening to podcasts. Add those things together, and it makes me want to start a podcast of my own. I’d like it to be a collection of audio interviews with various people in different sexual situations, like the This American Life of sex. Fingers crossed it gets picked up… somewhere, and that I learn how to use podcast software.
A new Sex in Games Conference, currently looking for a home
It’s time for writers and thinkers who are interesting in sex and gender themes in games to get together for a good, long talk. Of course, that’s easier said than done.
Translating Gisèle Prassinos, currently looking for a home
As part of my senior thesis back in school, I worked with the writing of an author who had been fourteen during the height of the Surrealist movement. These days she’s 88, strangely enough my buddy, and in need of a translator to make her work available in English.
Details on past projects still to come…
Bonnie Ruberg is a sex, technology, and video games writer with a hankering for cultural investigation. She can be reached at her first name AT heroine-sheik DOT com. Read more about her