CarnalNation : This Week’s Column!

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I’m excited that this week’s column is an interview with the driving force behind my favorite new online sex news and culture website, CarnalNation — I think it’s a must-add subscription for anyone who wants to keep up with sex news from an unbiased, sex-positive and straightforward perspective. (Or the shorthand version, their Twitter feedbag.) Great stuff, and very timely — they’re primed to rule the space. Here’s a snip:

Finding good porn sites? No problem. Hot and sticky sex blogs? I can uncover them with my eyes closed. But when I open them again I’ve got the yawn heard around the world when it comes to actually reading anything compelling about sex. I love culture and controversy, especially when it intersects with sex. But do we really need another f–ing frottage-du-jour online double-X “women’s” magazine, or contrived screeds about porn companies “narrowcasting videos depicting sexualized torture” (whatever that is) and taxpayer dollars?

The Internet is failing to entertain me, and it’s pissing me off.

Nerve.com (NSFW) hasn’t lost its nerve and is as fun and dirty as ever. TheSexCarnival.com (NSFW) blogs about sex, kink, and politics. Other than these and a few indie bloggers, the sex variety magazine has been waiting to happen — without a sneer or schoolyard joke, thank you very much. Enter recently launched CarnalNation. Locally run, it’s a new national sex magazine that’s starting from home base with Carnal San Francisco — with features like Andrea Nemerson’s sex and parenting “Now What” column, a column on sex disasters, sex horoscopes, and timely news features like Dead Wood: Hard Times Equal Flaccid Sales for Erotic Mags, Bigger Prices for Bigger Bras: A Bust in Britain, Doin’ It Doggie Style: French Company Making Sex Toys for Dogs and even Idaho Mayor Declares May Anti-Pornography Month. Yeah, how’s that working out for you, Idaho? Add an up-to-the-minute, ongoing calendar of local sex events on tap, and, well, I’ll tap that.

The link to CarnalNation is, in fact, safe for work — despite being censored by Facebook. Just sayin’.

Anyway, I got a minute to ask CarnalNation’s eeevil mastermind John Pettitt a few questions about the beginning and future of our very CarnalNation. (…read more, sfgate.com)