Year: 2010

This week’s SF Chronicle column was an examination at the ‘bromance’ controversy brewing around feature film “Sherlock Holmes” versus how loboto-exciting the “Avatar” so-called ‘deleted’ sex scenes might be. What I didn’t see coming was that the “Holmes” controversy was on smaller gossip blogs when I researched it, but when my column published, the conversation…

Image by artsy_j. Now this is more like it. Leave it to The Onion to be hot on the trail of cutting edge sex studies this week, in the spirit of the recent headline-grabbing UK G-spot study. In Politics: Nation’s Nipples Severely Under-Clamped, U.S. Bureau Of Masochism Reports: WASHINGTON—A new study released this week by…

Image of Jiz Lee by SE Photoimaging. Today is January 4 — the day that final rule goes into effect, finally lifting the US embargo on HIV+ non-residents, and removing the requirement that immigrants and aliens undergo required HIV testing to come to this country. Welcome to America, finally. Today, the HIV entry ban repeal…

Self-portrait by The Internet’s Girlfriend (and my friend) Dana DeArmond. I in no way intend to trivialize the situation with this comparison, but it’s really hard not to look at the tally of porn crackdowns and arrests in China last year and compare them to Princess Leia’s memorable quote from Star Wars, “The more you…