I’m not sure which kept me awake more last night — the fact that I’m on the Derek and Romaine show tonight reviewing porn (5:15 PST), or the fact that I got to test drive The Thrillhammer for an hour in prep for my Dorkbot SF presentation June 1. Either way, I woke up to discover that I’d been sexblo.gs’d and slashdong’d. Yay!

Now here’s where I show my true geek colors — for me, testing the machines and connections is always the really fun part. Last night I wasn’t actually having sex with anyone in New York (though I got a few emails because the rumors were flying about what, exactly, I was testing). But I was thrilled to be sitting in my San Francisco office on the phone with the inventor in Seattle, and operating the machine via my laptop — able to see through ond operate the webcams planted in the Museum of Sex in New York (warning: overdone Flash site, groan). Granted, the museum was closed so it was a bit dark (the museum lights were off), but working the bizarre, Geiger-esque gyno-sex-throne was a lot of fun. I ran it through several sequences, could see it vibrate, rotate and played with the cameras… it sure will be different when there’s a real live girl sitting in the machine!

I haven’t done an official announcement about it yet on my site because I’m not sure who our girl will be yet (I’m not doing the hiring), and I’ll want to put her URLs and stuff in the promo info. I think the museum might make an event out of it in New York; it will likely be after hours in the museum, and well, it’s sex. I think it will be very strange to have sex with a girl I don’t know (especially in front of a lot of people)! I’m also going to try and arrange a demo with The Sinulator. It should be a lot of fun.

But for now, check out my newest podcast, which I did yesterday morning live in Dolores Park here in San Francisco — Open Source Sex 12 (MP3). And if you’re around later, tune in to the Derek and Romaine show tonight on Sirius (also free on the web with registration). Right now, I need to go watch a few porn videos that I want to talk about tonight.

Isn’t that Paul Sarkis photo hot? Rachel’s boob looks so yummy. Read her deliciously dirty and rather excellent) article on sex and food, Eating for Arousal.

* A lot of readers wrote in about the last post wanting to know what was going to happen. A cease and desist from the text’s original authors was being discussed when the blog printed an apology and gave proper credit. Again, no permalinks so I can’t link to the retraction post, but the blogger did take a few amusing sideways swipes at me and continues to do so in subsequent posts. One person wrote, “You fired a shot across his bow and he came about quickly enough. He is trying to make it sound like he was in a hurry, didn’t mean to do it, etc. I doubt that story. I think he never expected to get caught. I spend a lot of time every week re-writing news stories for a censorship update bulletin. Following fair use doctrine, I use quotes and facts freely from news stories but I never use someone’s clever words without attribution. It is not the sort of thing one accidentally does. Thanks again.”