I’m fascinated with the way obscenity is monitored in other cultures, most especially countries like India, with their huge entertainment industry and (our) outsourced workforce. I’ve often spent fruitless hours trying to find Indian porn for Fleshbot, or Indian women for the times I’ve done Best of Babelogs posts. I seldom find anything credible, free…

* Health SciTech article: Women’s Brains React Surprisingly Fast to Erotic Images. Snip: “Previous research indicated men are more aroused by erotic images than women, so Anokhin and his colleagues expected women to respond with lower levels of brain activity compared to men. “‘But that was not the case,’ Anokhin said. ‘Women have responses as…

Did you know I have a PVC Batwoman costume, complete with cape and utility belt? Some night I want to ride my motorcycle in it, maybe this Halloween. Check out this article at BBC News: “Comic book heroine Batwoman is to make a comeback as a ‘lipstick lesbian’ who moonlights as a crime fighter, a…

I just read Who’s Counting: Sexonomics — Prostitutes’ Incomes (popup warning) at ABC news and my brain snapped like a rubber band. I’m going to the gym (today, definitely the punching bag) and I’ll be back after I cool off, but if anyone wants to send me comments on this, please do. I’d love to…

Contra Conception is a very chilling article in the New York Times today. Snip: “Many Christians who are active in the evolving anti-birth-control arena state frankly that what links their efforts is a religious commitment to altering the moral landscape of the country. In particular, and not to put too fine a point on it,…

* New York Times writer and star of my post when a man hates a woman sent me an epic email yesterday, but prefaced the whole thing with “this is off the record”. One wonders, why bother? What do you think, dear readers — should I post *my* responses to his “off the record” crit…

* Sean Bonner and Wil Wheaton write for Suicide Girls — got a problem with that? Apparently a few people do, for some curiously old-fashioned reasons *like the site’s name*, and Sean excerpts and comments on Wil’s eloquent responses here. And here I thought no one liked SG for being obsessively litigious or for refusing…

Today I’m quoted in the ‘Merc about portable porn; it’s called, Smut goes wireless; critics sound alarm, and as usual, my opinions clash with mobile porn critics…

* First off, congratulations to the Stockroom and Steve Diet Goedde for being on The Colbert Report! In the segment “Better Meet a Founder”, Colbert interviews Ben Franklin and attempts to one-up the founder with his own groundbreaking inventions — one being a sex sling (the 4-point stand with leather swing), image from the Stockroom…

* San Francisco sex luminaries lose favorite San Francisco eatery: yesterday at 8:30pm a Buick plowed into Carol and Robert’s favorite restaurant, Cafe delle Stelle. Fortunately they were not in their customary window seat; all injured are in stable condition. * Blame it on the valet: a lesson in choosing your valet wisely, a la…