''Nerve'', or Nerve.com, was an American

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dedicated to sexual topics, relationships and culture. Founded by Rufus Griscom and Genevieve Field, Nerve published articles and photography on its website and several books, in partnership with

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. It also hosted

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s (one of the first sites to do so without fees), forums and a section for personal advertisements. Although they originated on ''Nerve'', Nerve Personals eventually became part of a larger network of over 100 websites and print publications. In 1999, ''Nerve'' was nominated for the Webby Award for "Print and Zines" while under the editorship of Jack Murnighan. In 2005, under editor-in-chief Michael Martin, ''Nerve'' was nominated for the National Magazine Award for General Excellence Online. The other nominees were ''

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'' and Style.com. Of the nomination, ''

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'' said ''Nerve'' was "the only original online publication in the bunch ... The judges' write-up called Nerve 'brainy and brash' with a 'youthful spin on sexuality ndstyle' ... It's not only redefined the model for profitable niche publishing, it's also one of the freshest editorial voices to come along in years." Under Martin's editorship, the site was nominated for a 2007 National Magazine Award for Best Interactive Feature, a 2007 Webby Award for Best Copy/Writing (alongside ''

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'') and another National Magazine Award for General Excellence Online in 2008 for its spinoff publication, Babble.com. Nerve was one of the first publications to publish photoblogs. They followed a number of young photographers daily, including Clayton James Cubitt,{{cite web , url=https://claytoncubitt.com/blog/2013/3/29/on-always-on , title=On Always on , date=29 March 2013 Naughty James, Ryan Pfluger and Cate & Camilia. In January 2014, ''Nerve'' was acquired by

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, which was in turn purchased by InterActiveCorp (IAC) less than six months later.{{cite web, last=Roberts, first=Daniel, website=Fortune, title=HowAboutWe buys Nerve.com, url=http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/01/29/howaboutwe-buys-nerve-com/, date=January 29, 2014, access-date=February 19, 2018{{cite news, last=Isaac, first=Mike, newspaper=The New York Times, title="Digital Love, Consolidated: IAC Buys HowAboutWe Dating Site", url=https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/14/digital-love-consolidated-iac-buys-howaboutwe-dating-site/, date=July 14, 2014, access-date=February 19, 2018 After a long period without updates, the Nerve.com archives were taken offline on January 9, 2018, and the domain began redirecting to www.datehookup.com.{{cite web , title=Wayback Machine: www.nerve.com , url=http://www.nerve.com , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220505212615/https://www.nerve.com/, access-date=May 27, 2022 , archive-date=5 May 2022 , url-status=dead

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