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The Rise of the MILF Fantasy

Friday, December 28th, 2007

The Village Voice has an interesting article from a few weeks ago called “The Rise of MILFs and Mommies in Sexual-Fantasy Material”. In the article, the author charts the rise of the MILF (Mother’s I’d Like to Fuck) phenomenon from it’s explosion in popular culture after the American Pie movies, right up until the present, […]

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Literotica Feedback Portal Public BETA

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

Hi Everyone -
The end of the year is getting really really close, but I wanted to get at least one more thing out the door in 2007. So, here goes…
The BETA version of the Literotica Feedback Portal is online now!
If you have a few spare moments, please click over and take a look. The entire […]

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Happy Merry Christmas 2007

Tuesday, December 25th, 2007

Dear friends,
I hope that you all have a great Christmas. May you get whatever gifts you asked for from Santa!
This time of year always leads to reflection on the last 12 months. When I look back on recent history in regards to Literotica, there have been a lot of big changes, though many […]

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Literotica Forum Upgrades

Friday, December 7th, 2007

I already posted this on the forum, but I thought I’d mention it here as well. Tomorrow (Saturday night, December 8th), I’m going to work on upgrading the Literotica forum to the most recent version of vBulletin. Because the upgrades will involved some changes to the databases that Lit runs on, we will probably have […]

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“Add To Favorites” Feature Launch

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Today on Literotica, you should start seeing the appearance of the “Add To Favorites” feature. It isn’t actually a feature on its own, but a small improvement (we hope) of the already existing Literotica Favorites feature. It may take a few days for this upgrade to appear on all story and member pages.
The already existing […]

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The New Literotica Search

Monday, November 19th, 2007

The first of the new features that I want to discuss with you and get feedback from you on is the new Literotica Search.
The new Literotica Search was first launched a few months ago in BETA mode. Since then, thanks to a lot of feedback from users, we’ve released several upgrades and bug fixes. We […]

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First post after the WP upgrade

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

Ok, Wordpress is upgraded to the latest stable version and I’ve added the ReCaptcha plugin for new comments. The spammers were running wild, so had to add the captcha. Sorry about the hassle, but it seems pretty readable. Let me know if you are having any problems posting or reading Planet Manu now that we’re […]

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According to various online sources, Scooter Libby (the top aide to the vice president on the United States) published a racy novel called “The Apprentice” in 1996. Some of the content in the novel is raising eyebrows. The NY Daily News reports:
“The main female character, Yukiko, draws hair on the ‘mound’ of a little girl,” […]

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Story Tags Feature On Literotica

Saturday, July 23rd, 2005

Many of you have already seen the Story Tags feature we have launched (currently in BETA) on Lit. We have always used a keywords system to help readers find stories via search, but this update takes that feature one step further. Literotica is inching closer to having 100,000+ submissions published and the pace of […]

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Sam Sugar over at the SugarBank blog has an article about the approval of the .xxx domain extension and how bad it will be for those who support free speech. He suggests, as many other have, that a .kids domain would be a much better solution.
Here is a preview of what Sam and many in […]

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