Feel Like Makin’ Love

People have long used the Internet as a tool to facilitate hook-ups, both real and virtual. But aside from a few assertive oversharers, keeping track of one’s love life has been an offline pursuit for the most part. Recently, though, a slew of new websites has emerged that allow us to keep tabs on our encounters online, often with a Microsoft Excel-like precision. While the thought of using the web to chronicle our most intimate exploits makes us cringe a little (okay, a lot), this trend may be just a natural outgrowth of sites that already allow us to categorize and classify every other detail of our lives, from our finances to our shoe collections to last night’s dinner.

Conquest Tracking: The nuts and bolts of your latest romp can be recorded at Bedpost, a free site whose tagline is “Ever wonder how often you get busy?”. Users enter in details about their latest sexual encounter – when it started, how long it lasted, who it was with, a brief description of it – and rate it on a scale of one to five. The site then generates a map of sexual activity, as well as statistics tracking averages. Bedpost claims that the information users upload is for their personal use only and will never be shared (don’t hold your breath for the Facebook app, in other words). Still, that doesn’t mean it has no impact on life outside its password-protected walls – a Bedpost poll revealed that 70 percent of its users thought about the site right after having sex, and sometimes even during.

Safe Sex Documentation: The concept of nOOkist (formerly MyBlackBook.com) is virtually the same as Bedpost. Users can describe their sexual experiences in the kind of detail that would make Cosmopolitan’s editors blush, from which the site creates stats, charts and reports about their sex lives. But unlike Bedpost, nOOkist encourages such information-sharing in the name of safe sex. A tool called VDNote (Venereal Disease Notification), accessible to all members, allows users to calculate their risk of sexually-transmitted infections based on their sexual activity, store STD test results and, through a partnership with getSTDtested, easily access STD testing resources.

Love Making Mapping: If you’re looking for a little less privacy, turn to I Just Made Love, a kind of Foursquare for the bedroom. Users tell the site where they’ve just done the deed (using Google Maps to mark the exact location), indicate whether the sex was indoors or outdoors, and which of five positions they engaged in (handy graphics represent each one). Users can create personal “love maps” and compare their numbers with others. Global sex maps allow all visitors to the site – not just users – to gauge the level of “action” in any location in the world, from their own street to, say, Kuala Lumpur. * References to products and services in trendcentral do not imply our endorsement, but rather are intended to provide objective insights into emerging trends and examples of those trends. trendcentral is published by The Intelligence Group, a trend research and consumer insights company focusing on youth culture. For more information on our services, or to subscribe to our syndicated Cassandra Report studies, please contact Noelle Weaver at 212-277-5244 or via email at nweaver@intelg.com.