The magazine was glossy with four-color printing and featured articles, interviews, reviews, erotica, and erotic photography celebrating the zeitgeist of technological revolution, body modification, sexual liberation, and the mainstreaming of sexual proclivities previously considered taboo—from bondage to fetishes to "teledildonics."

[1] According to Jack Boulware from Salon, "Future Sex epitomized creative, offbeat, kinky, goofy, pro-sex San Francisco.

"[2] On the other hand, the magazine was criticized by many insiders on the emerging cyberculture scene and on the San Francisco sex-positive scene for being too mainstream considering its subject matter; as Boing Boing founder and Net Chicks author Carla Sinclair put it, "The women are attractive...and the pictures are artistic.

Lisa Palac, who also made contributions to the 3-D sound erotica album Cyborgasm followed after Shirley's short reign in the position.

Writer, dancer, and Taste of Latex founding editor Lily Burana took over the helm following Palac.