Image of Morgan Mae and friend from this explicit gallery. Though provoking, edgy and controversial is what I’m calling Peter Suderman article for Reason Magazine, Does Porn Make Society Better? It’s about time we start looking at these questions head-on, but I object to the argument’s basis: conflation, or rather comparing as two equal values,…
Month: July 2009
Revealed: The (sex) writer’s tech arsenal
I’m excited to tell you that I’ve joined Jonathan Coulton, Gina Trapani, Alex Payne and more uber-geeks in The Setup — a tell-all about our personal hardware and software habits and tools, and our dream setups. Here’s a snip from mine: Who are you and what do you do? I’m an author, columnist, speaker, sex…
Yeah, I shop American Apparel’s website for the *clothing*
Actually, I don’t buy much American Apparel unless it’s got some counterculture art on it from friends/street artists. But I like to think of AmerApp like Playboy, whwew if I did spend some time on the website pretending to shop, I’d be… pretending to shop while ogling the mostly nekkid models. Say hello to the…
Sex ed in the UK: Actually about sex
Image of my pal Katie West two days ago at the Salton Sea. We remain hopeful, but we know the state of sex ed in America is a flattened, empty deserted war zone of sexlessness. It’s been lain to waste by ideological forces who promote abstinence with government funding versus information about reproduction (science, or…
Like father, like son, like — yikes
Image of the O’Farrell Theater as it looks now, by neuraln0ise. People who know American porn history are likely familiar with the story of the Mitchell brothers: they directed Behind The Green Door, ran the legendary strip club the O’Farrell Theater (here in San Francisco, once managed by Hunter S. Thompson), and possibly most famously…
Exclusive: preview of Eon McKai’s “Content”
“Madison Young was excited to be in one of my films. Until she found out it was just content.” That quote sums up the detachment that happens when authenticity meets the porn formula, captured eloquently in the message underlying my dear friend Eon McKai‘s new film Content (due out on the 22nd). Buy it here…
A day in the life: Sex crisis hotline counselors in this week’s Chron column
Self-portrait. In this week’s SF Chronicle column, I describe a day observing counselors for a sexual health crisis hotline/front line volunteer service here in San Francisco. Yes, like SFSI. Here’s a snip: I’m on my way to visit the offices of a locally-based, national sex crisis hotline; to get there, I decide against a detour…
The porn industry blames the Internet…
Image by elaisted. In the short NYT piece Lights, Camera, Lots of Action. Forget the Script. they discuss the gradual demise of scripted porn movies and the increase of all-action porn. In the article they talk to Steven Hirsch at Vivid, who blames the short attention span of Internet porn consumers. But I don’t think…
Why Japanese phone porn will rule the world
Image by Osada Steve. I read this Bloomberg article with great interest: it’s full of all kinds of interesting tidbits. For instance, the numbers on porn consumption and production in Japan. Compare them to American stats, and we look way, way less pornified than they do. Because if the self-disclosed (and oft-cited) statistics from the…
Cropped and highly entertaining
It’s another damn Tumblr blog, so I’m almost positive the images on 69 are all stolen and not credited*. But they’re cropped cleverly, very explicit and quite hot, overall. Please accept this and the next few posts as slightly higher-minded apologies for the last video I made you watch… (thanks, Zhaira!) * Update: most of…