Year: 2011

I am so proud of Apple for admitting that they released a product before it was finished. (Meanwhile, Siri still thinks rape is a domestic dispute, and no one notices.) And no, I’m not done with this topic yet. Apple Says Siri’s Abortion Answers Are a Glitch (NYTimes.com) Lady Gaga really bares all for Annie…

Lovely: Tim Burton Burlesque. The show started with full versions of Frankenweenie and Vincent, two of Tim’s earliest works. Performances by the burlesque dancers followed clips of the most notable Tim Burton movies, such as Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Alice In Wonderland. Tim Burton Burlesque Gallery (LA Weekly; annoying pageview gallery) With polyamory,…

Cyber(Sex) Monday: Top Sex Toys to Give and Get

Last year when my friend Veronica expressed her disappointment that “Cyber Monday” was not, in fact, about cybersex, I was inspired to begin this annual post: Cyber(Sex) Monday. If you’re looking for a Cyber Monday post for tech and gadget fetishists (without the sex but including Kindle Fire cases, nerdy cat toys and more) check…

The Russian Sex Wars: “Let’s Do It Together.”

If you lose sleep worrying, as I sometimes do, that Russia’s nascent democracy has been torpedoed by the rising tide of Neoliberal oligarchs and centralized political power within a small ruling elite with total disregard for human rights and egalitarian democracy, let me reassure you that, “Well, maybe they’re not really democratic over there in…

A new “School of Sex” is opening near Vienna. Ylva Maria Thompson, the school’s Swedish headmistress, announced the opening of AISOS (also on Twitter), the Austrian International School Of Sex, the world’s first school of practical sexuality. World’s first ‘school of sex’ opening in Austria (My Fox) Auberon Waugh, Literary Review’s former editor, founded the…

Some Fascinating Argentinean LGBT Rights PSAs

The above Argentinian PSA got me all verklempt. It shows a series of transgender Argentinians talking  about how it feels to have the name on one’s ID not match one’s identity. It’s in Spanish, with English subtitles added after-the-fact by Blabbeando (the link comes via Charlie Glickman at Good Vibrations). With its perky, music, straightforward…