Image of my pal Katie West two days ago at the Salton Sea. We remain hopeful, but we know the state of sex ed in America is a flattened, empty deserted war zone of sexlessness. It’s been lain to waste by ideological forces who promote abstinence with government funding versus information about reproduction (science, or…
Year: 2009
Like father, like son, like — yikes
Image of the O’Farrell Theater as it looks now, by neuraln0ise. People who know American porn history are likely familiar with the story of the Mitchell brothers: they directed Behind The Green Door, ran the legendary strip club the O’Farrell Theater (here in San Francisco, once managed by Hunter S. Thompson), and possibly most famously…
Exclusive: preview of Eon McKai’s “Content”
“Madison Young was excited to be in one of my films. Until she found out it was just content.” That quote sums up the detachment that happens when authenticity meets the porn formula, captured eloquently in the message underlying my dear friend Eon McKai‘s new film Content (due out on the 22nd). Buy it here…
A day in the life: Sex crisis hotline counselors in this week’s Chron column
Self-portrait. In this week’s SF Chronicle column, I describe a day observing counselors for a sexual health crisis hotline/front line volunteer service here in San Francisco. Yes, like SFSI. Here’s a snip: I’m on my way to visit the offices of a locally-based, national sex crisis hotline; to get there, I decide against a detour…
The porn industry blames the Internet…
Image by elaisted. In the short NYT piece Lights, Camera, Lots of Action. Forget the Script. they discuss the gradual demise of scripted porn movies and the increase of all-action porn. In the article they talk to Steven Hirsch at Vivid, who blames the short attention span of Internet porn consumers. But I don’t think…
Why Japanese phone porn will rule the world
Image by Osada Steve. I read this Bloomberg article with great interest: it’s full of all kinds of interesting tidbits. For instance, the numbers on porn consumption and production in Japan. Compare them to American stats, and we look way, way less pornified than they do. Because if the self-disclosed (and oft-cited) statistics from the…
Cropped and highly entertaining
It’s another damn Tumblr blog, so I’m almost positive the images on 69 are all stolen and not credited*. But they’re cropped cleverly, very explicit and quite hot, overall. Please accept this and the next few posts as slightly higher-minded apologies for the last video I made you watch… (thanks, Zhaira!) * Update: most of…
Men’s underwear ads from hell
My friend (?) Praemedia sent me this via The Daily Swarm, DJ Hell Designs Line of Underwear. Captain Gigolos is no stranger to the fashion world — guy has provided the sound track to many couture shows and even produced a mix compilation for Chanel. And that’s basically how this Wendy&Jim collaborations came together —…
How you like me now?
Upgraded. Moved. New options on each post if you want to share stuff, I’m going to start playing with Apture which looks truly awesome, and an age check page that is *for each post* so anyone can link to anything on my site and be guaranteed an age check warning for new visitors. Mainstream sites…
Pardon me while I freshen up
I’m about to flip a switch behind the scenes here — which I equate to stepping out for a sec to freshen my lipstick, etc. — and the blog is going to lie still for (no more than) 24 hours. If you try to comment while this is going on, your comment may get lost:…