I’m continually being made aware of sex resources and good/urgent sexuality causes that need attention, so I’m starting an irregular (because that’s apparently how I roll) feature, the Public Service Announcement post. Here are your three today: * Kink Aware Professionals — a resource for finding psychotherapeutic, medical, and legal professionals who are informed about…
Month: July 2008
China’s Olympic-sized sex and gender problems
Image via sumimazen1973. I actually had this much sexier ‘unbearable lightness of being Chinese‘ Tao Li Jing photo to go with this post about my SF Chronicle column (on SF Gate), but given that the original way female “gender suspects” were rounded up and examined in 1968, this image seemed more appropriate. And they’re cute…
Homegirl makes good! SF Bay Guardian’s best of the bay 2008 = me!
I’ll admit I Flickr’d it before posting the brag-gasm here (spank as you please), but here’s my ecstatic comment, “they called me “beloved”! it was quite a surprise, even the photog couldn’t tell me what it was for. I just went for it and hoped for the best… (in print and web).” I do take…
Oakland teen draws fire at NPR for saying straight teen barebacking is the ‘new engagement ring’
Image of a different kind of bare back by spiritus.molenuex. Last thursday on NPR an Oakland (CA) teen talked about what’s up with his generation’s take on sex and condoms(MP3 link, three minute segment), saying that when a teen couple decides to go bareback — condomless — it is the serious sign of commitment for…
Naked winery looks tasty
Image by the brilliant Rudi Mentaer, whose site is here and blog is here. Superb marketing: Babeland’s thursday New York event includes wine by family-run West coast winemakers Naked Winery, producers of Dominatrix Pinot Noir, Missionary Cabernet Sauvignon, Naked Merlot, Climax Chardonnay, Bareback Chardonnay and a very Dirty Dozen mixed case. Pricey and I have…
Using browser history to calculate gender
Vivian, shot by by that Kadrey miscreant. Fleshbot makes you a guy. Gizmodo = twice as likely to be a guy. More women read Engadget than the Giz, though. BB is a sausage-fest, but I blame the mods. YouTube rates as gender neutral (HUH!?), while Apple is for the femmes. Okay, it’s all based on…
A moment of brag: “Obama should ‘end war’ on sex education”
Today I had the uberly dorkily giddy thrill of being (re)published on the very prestigious RH Reality Check website with my piece Obama or McCain’s National Sex Ed Program — and the editor asked me to be a contributor, bestowing me with a blog! I was featured on the front page all day, along with…
There’s just not enough sex in advertising
Sex sells, but only if you do it right. Image via Unblogged. I was having a lovely drink with the lovely (in a guy way) Steve Hall the other day, and we pretty much wept openly into our cocktails about how sex doesn’t really sell as much as everyone thinks it does, and how sad…
Having trouble getting an election?
I’m not sure the Election Protection line of condoms now being sold at Condomania will help with election dysfunction. Or maybe they will. They also have ones with Nixon on them which puts a whole new meaning to the concept of “Watergate”, and the store kindly offers both Republican and Democrat variety samplers. So, where’s…
Bedpost: Stats and averages for your sex life
Image by friend Richard Kadrey. Over at Shake Well Before Use, my close friend Ariel Waldman shows us Bedpost, which is still in alpha but endeavors to give users a utility to utterly, possibly scarily geek out with your very own DIY sexual experience data aggregator. It’s either “yay!” or “yikes!” but I think Bedpost…