Month: April 2006

I took a day off from the computer to see friends at the incredible Maker Faire yesterday, and I got to meet lots of cool people. had a shopping accident in the craft tents, where I spent a lot of money at Last of A Dying Breed (Gun Hoops, Silver Knuckle Necklace, Mini Cuff Anklet;…

The first of many interviews I’ve been doing at NPR, text: A compelling interview with Adam Zimbardo, MFT, a 16-year veteran from San Francisco Sex Information and the front lines of nationwide anonymous sex advice; a sobering state of the nation address on sex ed in America. Do you have safe sex? No one is…

Image: me with Michael Soldier on NPR last week in the window at ATA. Today, I’m off to give an oral sex lecture with Thomas Roche for SFSI students — or as someone put it, I’ll be “discussing deep-throating in front of 35 puppy-dog-eyed newly-minted superfreaks.” After that I’m off to do the radio show:…

* Over at the Gate, Mark Morford has an excellent article (with lots o links) about high-end vibrators, including the 24k gold one Kate Moss just bought. It is my responsibility to note that I have a huge chapter on high-end sex toys (+ reviews, and not just vibrators but ebony butt plugs and all)…

What I wouldn’t give to see this auction (and lemme tell ya how weird it is to write *those* words). Apparently a huge collection of erotic art is going under the hammer at Christie’s in Paris next week, including an original manuscript of Story of O, over 100 autographed notes from the Marquis de Sade…

I just took a short trip to the Castro and saw two very cool things I didn’t buy but might go back for; one was the IOU Sex check set from Chronicle Books, which is the best treatment of erotic coupons I’ve ever seen. (They look ugly on Amazon’s bad scan, but great in person.)…

Things sure are different (at the Academy Christian Church) in Colorado Springs. She’s the church whipper (also more here). Don’t forget the Burka Shirker, which is somehow even more blasphemous. Thank you, Noel. We miss you in SF.