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.
The image above is not, as you might be hoping, a tag cloud indicating what you can expect in the men’s room vs. the ladies’ room of your local dive bar. On the contrary, it’s part of a fresh crunch of the famous/infamous OkCupid data about online dating, as detailed in this piece in the…
UPDATE: See the note at the bottom about porn’s legal status in Australia. As Violet mentioned in a Nibble earlier this week, anti-porn crusader Gail Dines‘ May 18 piece in the Sydney Morning Herald got negative responses not just from many of our fellow sex-positive writers but from commenters at the Herald itself. From the…
The reprehensible “anti-gay” bill in Uganda has been dealt a blow by that country’s brave LGBT activists and the world human rights community. In a nation where homosexuality was already illegal, and punishable by 14 years in prison, this law would have made things even worse, establishing the death penalty, among other things, for having…
In the central California town of Clovis, near Fresno, a group of parents believes the school district’s seventh-grade sex-ed curriculum “illegally emphasizes abstinence and fails to provide accurate medical information.” They’ve taken their complaint to the California Department of Education. The Department forced school districts in Selma (also in Fresno county) and Dinuba (in adjacent…
It’s one of the many strange things about sex and the law in the United States that sex between humans and non-human animals isn’t illegal everywhere. It’s specifically illegal in 32 states, of which 16 make it a felony; the other 18 don’t have laws against it. Some animal welfare advocates see the dearth of…
Sock puppets are a huge annoyance to anyone who runs a forum or manages comments on any public site that allows them. A sock puppet or “sock” is an account or username created to obscure the identity of its user, so that person can comment on threads or edit materials – usually relating to them,…
A while back, CNN’s resident anti-porn commando Ian Kerner came up with the term SADD, or Sexual Attention Deficit Disorder, to describe what happens when a guy watches too much internet porn and then doesn’t care whether or not his lady-friend gets the attention she deserves. Though Kerner has annoyed me with his sensitive new…
The Czechs just discovered the world’s first gay caveman. Problem? He’s probably not gay and definitely not a caveman. She may not even be much of a tranny. The Telegraph and The Daily Mail both reported with utter credulity the claim of Czech archaeologists that a male skeleton has been found buried in a manner…
I submit that in every unfunny, sex-negative rendition of the broke-ass “Porn For Women” joke, there’s a Sexy Geek List or a Hot Guys Reading Books struggling to be born in the flames of a super-dirty all-girl threesome between the engorged clitoris, the frontal lobe and the limbic system. Sure, some women out there may…
This past week, New Scientist reported that Restless Legs Syndrome may be improved by masturbation. But the science NS reports on is neither science nor new. That puts me in the truly bizarre position of having to hold down the anti-masturbation side of this debate — which, if you know me, is pretty freakin’ weird.…