Thomas Roche's first novel, The Panama Laugh, is a gonzo military science fiction zombie apocalypse that has been compared to the writings of Jim Thompson and Hunter S. Thompson. He is also a widely published author of sex-positive erotica and the occasional purveyor of horror and crime-noir short stories, and a commentator on sex, crime, culture and politics.
Being sequestered up here in the valley, I was unable to attend Slutwalk San Francisco, which happened today. I would say I was there in spirit, but that’s just a little too Victorian for me; my tables don’t knock unless I’m knocking them. As of this writing, there’s no Tweets at all about San Francisco…
The Suquamish are a Native American tribe living in Kitsap County, Washington, west of Seattle, where the Port Madison Reservation has about 6,500 residents. Monday, “The Suquamish Tribal Council formally changed its ordinances to extend marriage rights to same-sex couples,” making it, as far as I can tell, the second Native American tribe to officially…
In an eerie example of synchronicity, Australian scientist Vanessa Woods’ book Bonobo Handshake (great review here) just showed up in my inbox the day I spotted her post over at Psychology Today on who invented the blowjob. Now, the last time I discussed Psych Today, the veins on my forehead were later said to have…
A Senator in Zimbabwe wants the government to do research “into a substance that will make men lose appetite,” to curb men’s “insatiable greed for women,” because, the Senator says, when designing “these parts we use for mating” God didn’t know about HIV. Zimbabwe is a landlocked East African country of 12.5 million people where 1.6…
An old-school radical anti-porn, anti-prostitution activist known for criminal antics is in the news again, portraying a heavily biased anti-sex-work survey as science, when in fact it’s the same message Melissa Farley has been screaming her entire career. Sadly, press outlets like Newsweek, Reuters, Jezebel and the Sydney Morning Herald are taking the bait, ignoring…
Remember back in mid-May of this year when Florida lawmakers finally passed that anti-bestiality law they’d been working on for three legislative sessions — partially because of the legislators’ reluctance to discuss the bill because children sometimes attend legislative sesions? Remember more recently, when (according to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune) “a state representative was chastised for…
At Big Bear High School in San Bernardino County, somebody waited until the yearbook had been distributed before pointing out that one of the book’s photos featured a high school boy with his hand up his dance partner’s dress. Rather than doing what school administrators would have done back in my day– which is completely…
A bogus story about Nazi sex dolls from 2005 or before has surfaced again…and it’s ladling out the dopamine with lots of croutons. And, dopamine-drunk, the blogosphere keeps reposting it. A report in the New York Daily News references as fact the urban legend that during the Nazi occupation of France, The high command sent…
I had already written off Naomi Wolf’s most recent wave of anti-porn nausea, but every time I turn around, someone new is uncritically reposting it. In light of Erica Jong blaming the internet for motherhood today in the New York Times, I have to say something about Wolf’s transparently pseudoscientific anti-porn, anti-sex-work stance, especially since…
I’m willing to cut Erica Jong, author of the landmark feminist classic Fear of Flying, lots of slack — after all, she invented the zipless fuck. She’s an O.G. of women’s sexual liberation, and in many ways a personal hero of mine. But that only gets you so far, in my book. I can’t even…