Logic Magazine: Intriguing Reads at Intersection of Technology and Life

Logic is a print-first magazine "with a small digital footprint." (Eventually all content gets online; the most recent is 2017.) The articles are well edited and political in the general sense. I’ve learned a lot browsing their back archive. Two examples from Issue 2 on the theme of Sex:

“Freaks Like Us”: A Conversation with Garth Greenwell on Queerness and the Internet

But what disturbs me most about online cruising, and especially location-based apps like Grindr, is that it seems like a gentrification of cruising. The revolutionary thing about traditional gay cruising is that it is a space that allows for people from radically different backgrounds and classes and categories to come together outside the gaze of any kind of civic authority.

When I think about the kind of people I met cruising in Cherokee Park in Louisville, Kentucky — these were people that everything in my life was organized to keep me from meeting. I think a lot of the radical potential of queerness inheres in its tendency to scramble the usual lines of identification.

https://logicmag.io/sex/garth-greenwell-on-queerness-and-the-internet/

Cracking the Clit by Laura Frost

A new sextech site aspires to solve the “problem” of female sexuality. But why is female sexuality still a problem—and where do its “solutions” come from?

So in stroking virtual vulvas, am I an orgasm warrior storming the barricades under the banner of the sextech revolution? Is sextech a resurgence of feminism through “disrupting” orgasms?

Not exactly. The modern interface and shrewd packaging aren’t the only differences between sextech and second-wave feminism—the politics are different too. Second-wave feminists didn’t just rage against women’s alienation from their bodies, they also clearly identified the culprits: capitalism, patriarchy, and the American legal and medical establishments.

https://logicmag.io/sex/cracking-the-clit/