Thanks to LifeLube reader Geoff of San Francisco for turning us on to this very cool site - dotMen. Find fun stuff there for your tool bars - like powering your Manhunt and BigMuscle searches with Google!
[From dotMen]
The ever-increasing importance of the internet shapes all of our lives, independent of any one individual's knowledge, skills, or access. While some may stake the claim that the net inherently lends itself to social detachment and unhealthy behavior, we believe the web and other forms of computer technology need not be isolating, cold, impersonal, or destructive. It is our goal to continue developing this site in collaboration with others to create a tool for change.
For decades, gay, bi and trans men have found creative ways to find each other in a world that has never been safe for us to do so openly without the fear of violence, punishment, and shame. Use of the internet is simply the latest embodiment of our history of sexual innovation. The very act of logging in to a cruising site to find other men is as much political as it is sexual.
The sexual networks we create online, consciously or not, will continue to transform our desires, our bodies, and our communities. This site is provided as a toolbox in the hope that it can enable men to better connect with one another.
dotMEN is more than just this web site. As a program of STOP AIDS Project in San Francisco, the name and concept of dotMEN represents a collection of efforts in community organizing among men who use the internet to find other men for sex, to support and celebrate our sexuality, to keep each other healthy and safe, and to unite rather than divide us.
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