Image above via The Female Gaze on the Nude opens Tuesday in Tribeca (White Hot Magazine). My dear friend of 15+ years Charles Gatewood passed away. A warm, pervy and transgressive spark lives forever in my heart for him. We first bonded over ways we’d crossed paths with William Burroughs, and then pretty much everything…

“US District Judge John Ross ruled that [Ashley Madison] plaintiffs have to use their real names: no “John Doe” may sign on. Forty-two plaintiffs had filed under pseudonyms such as that “to reduce the risk of potentially catastrophic personal and professional consequences that could befall them and their families” should they be publicly identified as…

“Feeling conflicted over this line between performance art and porn was one thing, but adding the unpaid sexual labor women perform constantly through small gestures to the equation, the lines become more blurred. How is a woman explicitly exchanging sex for financial security any different, besides bearing the heavily stigmatized label of “sex work”? Sex…

“Gov. Gary Herbert wants the world to know Utah’s position on pornography: It’s a public health crisis. “We realize this is a bold assertion and there are some out there who will disagree with us,” Herbert said at a Tuesday news conference. “We’re here to say it is, in fact, the full-fledged truth.” Herbert ceremonially…

“It was very strange in some respects, because I was in this space where I felt safe and accepted, but other people perceived it very differently,” she says. In fact, Jo Broughton more often felt threatened by the world outside of the porn studio at that time than the one inside it. She says that…

The government has voiced concern that more young people are trying anal sex – as part of a push to regulate pornography. The UK’s Department for Culture, Media & Sport, overseen by Culture Secretary John Whittingdale, is currently consulting on proposals to make age verification mandatory for online pornography. The consultation document lists a number…

“If you’re going to fuck a total stranger, you’re probably going to want them to be attractive, so Heaven Circle vets its guests, even operating a tiering system with extra special parties for the sexual elite. A “sex olympics” is currently being planned, where the best performers from parties around the world will come together…

“When the 10 participants touched the robot rather than pointed at it, their physiological arousal rose. And for 90 percent of participants, arousal increased the more “off-limits” the body part got. Touching a robot’s hand or neck elicited a less significant response than touching the eye or buttocks, for example.” * Touching robots can turn…

“According to psychologist Judith Herman, in order for society to function as it does, certain narratives are promoted while others are suppressed. As a result, people with underrepresented stories are often purposely misunderstood, misrepresented, and treated in an unfairly harsh way. Over the years, I’ve gotten countless letters from people whose lives, like mine, were…