about

I am a culture writer and photographer. I co-edit digital publications for the New York Museum of Sex (archive) and publish RioChromatic.com.

Reach me  @jruv / on LinkedIn

BRAZIL

• Scenes From Carnaval, the ‘Largest Street Fair on the Planet’ - The Atlantic Cities, 2.11.13

• Rio’s Biggest Prostitution Crackdown in a Generation - The Atlantic Cities, 9.07.12

• Greed, Greenwashing and Brazil’s Hail Mary for a Green World Cup  – on the greenest soccer stadium on the planet,  Forbes.com, 3.05.12

• Operation Carnaval - RioChromatic, 2.28.12

• Bye-Bye Brazilian Blowouts: The Next Big Brazilian Hair Trend is Beleza Natural – Forbes.com, 1.23.12

• Rio’s Unprecedented New Surveillance System - The Daily Beast,  10.15.11

DIGITAL SEX CULTURE

• Sex Trafficking on Backpage.com: Much Ado About (Statistically) Nothing - TechCrunch, 10.06.12

• How Cosmo Stole the Clitoris: Plagiarism in Print - The Museum of Sex blog, 9.01.12

• Sex, Lies and Suicide: What’s Wrong with the War on Sex Trafficking - Forbes.com, 6.26.12

• The Other Problem with Sex Trafficking - a talk at the Personal Democracy Forum, 6.13.12

• “If You’ve Got it, Charge for it”: The Feminism 2.0 Manifesto - Forbes.com, 9.11.11

• How Much of the Internet is Actually for Porn? - Forbes.com, 9.07.11

• The Emergence of Hookup Mentorship Among NYC’s Lady Digerati - Forbes.com, 7.18.11

• The Internet is for Porn (so let’s talk about it) - Forbes.com, 5.20.11

• Why Advertising Won’t Save Online Dating Sites – AdvertisingAge, 3.21.11

PICKUP

• This Is The Most Unpopular Opinion On Child Porn You’ll Ever See — And I’m Asking You To Agree With It. - Sara Critchfield for Upworthy, 6.15.12

• Only Four Percent of the Internet’s Top Sites Are Actually Porn. What? – Kwame Opam for Gizmodo, 9.14.11

• How Much of the Internet is Porn? Less than You’d Expect – Graeme McMillan for Time.com, 9.13.11

• Would You Date Online if it Wasn’t Anonymous?  -  Anna North for Jezebel, 3.21.11