Month: January 2010

Image of two sex dolls by the amazing Stacy Leigh. Happily not attending the AEE porn trade show or AVN (trade magazine) porn awards, and watching the meltdowns and sadness from afar, I’ve been pruning through what little press there’s been about it this year. Attendance for AEE/AVN (same difference) is way down and sales…

Image by Malecution. Firefox has long been the ruler of the ‘porn mode’ space when it comes to browsers that make protecting your privacy and history easy — especially with Pornzilla. Safari also has a “porn mode” and so does Internet Explorer if you know where to look. I’m currently primarily a Firefox user —…

This week’s SF Chronicle column was an examination at the ‘bromance’ controversy brewing around feature film “Sherlock Holmes” versus how loboto-exciting the “Avatar” so-called ‘deleted’ sex scenes might be. What I didn’t see coming was that the “Holmes” controversy was on smaller gossip blogs when I researched it, but when my column published, the conversation…

Image by artsy_j. Now this is more like it. Leave it to The Onion to be hot on the trail of cutting edge sex studies this week, in the spirit of the recent headline-grabbing UK G-spot study. In Politics: Nation’s Nipples Severely Under-Clamped, U.S. Bureau Of Masochism Reports: WASHINGTON—A new study released this week by…

Image of Jiz Lee by SE Photoimaging. Today is January 4 — the day that final rule goes into effect, finally lifting the US embargo on HIV+ non-residents, and removing the requirement that immigrants and aliens undergo required HIV testing to come to this country. Welcome to America, finally. Today, the HIV entry ban repeal…