Month: June 2010

* You’ll understand this week’s headline when you read Female Genital Mutilation at Cornell University, where Dan Savage discovers and reveals something horrifying going on behind closed doors: A pediatric urologist at Cornell—Dix Poppas—has been operating on little girls with what he judges to be oversized clitorises, cutting away important clitoral tissues, and then stitching…

Last night I announced the winners of the Our Porn, Ourselves contest and I don’t want you to miss them! They win ten dream packages from these incredible sponsors and businesses who support us: Babeland, MadisonBound.com, Femina Potens, For the Girls, Tantus, Carnal Nation, Art of Blowjob, NoFauXXX, Cleis Press, Digita Publications, I.G. Frederick, Bliss…

* Above is a side-by-side of censored and uncensored panels from the award-winning print graphic novel that Tom Bouden based on Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Ernest.” Slate’s The Big Money reported that Apple had censored the gay kisses while leaving this explicit heterosexual sex scene from “Kick-Ass” as is. It took media controversy…

Stumbling across the three-part Asperger’s Syndrome Sex series on Carnal Nation presented information that stopped me in my tracks: suddenly so many tech, geek and nerd relationships I’ve seen go from geek love to tragedy made so much sense. It was like having a light turned on in a dark room where many of my…