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the manther

29 August 2009
Image of Burt Reynolds via Reeves-fan. I was thrilled to hear about last night's local event the National Cougar Ball, which took place in Palo Alto -- I really wanted to go. But only women over 40 were allowed, and even if I tried to sneak in as press it was […]
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a couple exclusives from Nostalgia

28 August 2009
I can tell Courtney Trouble is really excited about her new film "Nostalgia" because she emails me about it often -- and I'm happy for it, because she keeps feeding me these exclusive stills form the film. If it looks like they had fun making the film, I can tell […]
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new galleries from ifeelmyself

27 August 2009
I really love it when the Australian amateur all-girl site ifeelmyself.com has updates. I've got a selection from their most recent galleries after the jump; all images link to their site, where you'll see a hot new trailer. Enjoy! (more...)
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China becomes more aggressive in the sex toy market

27 August 2009
It's always been paradoxical that most of the world's sex toys are manufactured in China, notoriously conservative about sex and nervous as hell about sexual propriety. And it's never been a secret that the garden-variety sex toys stores (and distributors, such as Pipedream) have their toys made in China for […]
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Italian HIV awareness campaign

27 August 2009
This disturbing though effective image brought to you by LILA, a national Italian organization fighting for the rights of AIDS/HIV patients. Via copyranter (thanks, Praemedia!)
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I missed Art Of Restraint, too

26 August 2009
Photo by sigkate. For the recent installment of Art Of Restraint I was asked to come as press and share the experience -- with the usual boundaries and respect for those who don't want to be outed, of course. A gift and a privilege, right? Except this time I didn't make […]
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gayness only lasts a couple episodes

25 August 2009
My new favorite online show is Bryan Safi's That's Gay! Above, he explores the bizarre world of made-for-TV lady kisses. You will LOL and maybe even ROFL. Get some Kleenex for the tears and drool. It is second only to Connor Knighton's work, the crowning glory to date of which […]
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the sex-positive link shoterner: vb.ly

21 August 2009
Screenshot of vb.ly, original photo by dotBen. "Bravo!" --cNet Last week I launched vb.ly -- the world's first and only sex-positive link shortening service. Scott at Laughing Squid added in his announcement post that it was built by dotBen and hosted on Laughing Squid's new awesome cloud hosting service. We're floating in […]
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Friday Nibbles: Serial Numbers on Breast Implants, Craigslist Sex Crime

21 August 2009
Image of Conie from this gallery. It's a sex news roundup, after a very busy week of sex news... A gruesome murder and gender hysteria are just the beginning. * I've been following the discovery of missing swimsuit model, Playboy pinup and Howard Stern model Jasmine Fiore -- her body was found […]
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neuroscience and sex

21 August 2009
Another great photo by Curtis Joe Walker. Last month (thanks to, and with my friend Ed Hunsinger) I got exclusive access (more thanks to CerebralHack) to try a NeuroSky headset and video game that I controlled with my mind. I'm not joking -- read more in this post (cerebralhack.com). As you […]
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viva NakedBooth

21 August 2009
I had no idea that DailyBooth ("Your life in pictures") had a division called NakedBooth. Until someone told me, that is. Amateurs of all genders having fun being sorta -- or totally -- naked, or being silly trying to cover up. Adorable! Now there's a social networking startup I'll stand […]
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porn studios in line of fire over condom use

21 August 2009
Image by Richard Kadrey / Kaos Beauty Klinik. Down the page you'll see the post "porn workplace safety" -- my post with an article about HIV, STD testing and the porn industry that I think is one of the most honest, unflinching and comprehensive articles I've ever seen written on the […]
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it’s SXSWi panel voting time!

20 August 2009
Image by malecution. It's not until next year, but the voting opened for panels at South By SouthWest Interactive 2010. There are a good number of sex and porn panels up for votes, though I'm not in them! I'm excited to ask you for a vote on our panel (which includes […]
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uber-erotica

20 August 2009
Image from Übersinnlich: Cato Van Ee in Vogue Germany September 2009. I've been working on upgrading all the second and third level pages on this site for several weeks; today is a huge milestone. Behold the freshly-fluffed, multimedia-rich new erotica page, and all the pages it links to. Phew. And -- […]
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this week’s SF Chronicle column: sperm facials in high-end NYC salons

19 August 2009
Image by the amazing Stuntkid. In this week's column, I explore the (not so) brave new world of New York spa delivered "sperm facials." It's called The Skinny on Spermine: Not Exactly Snake Oil - Violet Blue: Straight guys getting sperm facials "for science." It's a wrong, wrong, wrong comedy of […]
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Mistress Deanna’s big pepper

19 August 2009
Image by Curtis Joe Walker. Today many things happened. I launched vb.ly (more on that in a minute). I got an angry letter -- really a signed letter sent via an assistant's email -- from the owner of Good Vibrations telling me all the ways I am wrong. And a dear […]
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pretty girl — wednesday

19 August 2009
Image of Iga from this user-created gallery. I usually do a "pretty girl friday" but I've got so many free galleries of remarkably pretty girls in my inbox, I've just got to share. I go through galleries and sift out the ones I like the most on a regular basis; the […]
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not that we really care, but…

18 August 2009
I'm sitting here debating what sex act(s) Lady GaGa is simulating in her new wanna-be fetish/Goth photo shoot (thesun.co.uk/bizarre/usa, the pic above, specifically). Anyone? It's subtle. Well, as subtle as Lady GaGa hirself...
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porn workplace safety

18 August 2009
Image by Richard Kadrey / Kaos Beauty Klinik. Don't miss: the fantastic, fascinating and chilling piece about porn workplace safety "The Unabashed Queer’s Cut: Workplace Safety for Porn Actors" written by Matt Siegel at The Advocate The Unabashed Queer*. I highly recommend that you take the time to read it. The […]
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Courtney Touble’s “Nostalgia” Now on Sale

18 August 2009
Courtney Trouble emailed me yesterday with the hot, exclusive images in this post and a message saying that her film "Nostalgia" is now on sale. Congratulations, Trouble! It's still a funny feeling to look at these pics and see my own apartment in many of them... It's almost like waking […]
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