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.
Sifting the imagined facts from the meaningless ones in the lengthy China Daily story “A Kiss of Life For Sex Toys” is even more work than doing that same task with articles about sex in the mainstream western media. The article in the state-run newspaper almost completely ignores China’s importance as a major producer of…
If you’re familiar at all with Bollywood films, you may already know the three most important things about them. First, if someone starts singing, expect them to take an inexplicable dancing tour through world history during the upcoming number, featuring lots of guys with mustaches. Second, while you shouldn’t expect sex, you should expect the…
Hillary Clinton needs to be applauded — and loud. During a speech at an event sponsored by the State Department and an LGBT employee group, she said meeting with and talking to sex workers was important as part of the global struggle to advance LGBT rights. But at Free Republic.com, “America’s exclusive site for God,…
A journalist named Mac McClelland covers human rights issues and politics for Mother Jones and other publications. I decided she’s extra cool when I saw her phenomenally ballsy, if problematic, piece about wanting to get fucked at gunpoint. That’s a gross oversimplification of what the article is about; basically, it’s about how her traumatic experiences…
Ohio State Representative Jay Goyal has introduced legislation that would make sex with animals a felony in Ohio, the state that tried to throw teens in Juvie for “sexting.” Goyal’s outrage stems from a May case in which a 31-year-old Ohio man named Peter Bower was alleged to have had sex with three pet dogs…
Even if Psychology Today has repeatedly hurt its credibility with such debacles as Satoshi Kanazawa’s phenomenally racist (and boneheaded) assertions, I still appreciate many of PT’s bloggers. I particularly like addiction specialist Stanton Peele — who, incidentally, tore into Kanazawa hammer and tongs before anyone else had shown up at the party. Peele has an…
It’s the kind of sleaze that makes me want to scrape my flesh with a strigil. And it looks like it may lead to the most collectible issue of Playboy in decades, which could conceivably hit the stands with the ex-future-ex-Mrs. Hugh Hefner on the cover with, erroneously, one of the ex’s missing. The Twitterverse…
Yesterday in Gay Teen Girl Abducted and Tortured at For-Profit American “Re-Education” School(s), we related the account, first posted to Reddit, of Xandir, whose story includes accounts of physical and verbal abuse, dishonesty on the part of staff, and a blatant program of brainwashing. Xandir will now be coming out about her story live and…
In a post that’s (hopefully) due to hit the mainstream press and cause public outrage, Reddit user Pixel8 posted the horrifying first-person story of a teenager named Xandir who was forcibly abducted from her home, publicly restrained, and transported to a program for “troubled teens” where she and others were psychologically and physically threatened and…
Often I see sex-related news stories, and I think: “There’s absolutely no way I would ever write about that, because it’s stupid.” As I’ve been informed by erotica writer Nikki Magennis, that’s because I keep reading the Daily Mail. The Daily Mail does indeed seem to be decidedly Foxy — it holds down the delirious-sensationalism…