Category: Culture

Image by alibaba0. This is quite a coup of an interview, especially if you are a Lenny Bruce / Paul Krassner fan. Here’s a snip from Paul Krassner’s Unstoppable Indecency – Violet Blue: America’s leading satirist opens up about porn, Lenny Bruce, and why being “indecent” is more important than ever: Even the word “indecent”…

Image of Elisabetta Canalis by Ms.KaT0. Lux’s post directed my attention to Mr. Hotter As He Gets Older, George Clooney’s newest girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis — and her sexiness, to me, makes him seem ever more alluring. And she’s seriously drop-dead gorgeous. Lux has this collection of a few topless pics, but Ms. Canalis is a…

Image by Daan Pluijms for Littlesins. The sex party enterprise Littlesins is a European-based business (parties in Rotterdam, etc.). But lately they’ve been making waves with their elaborate, private, exclusive and very expensive parties in the UK. A quick Flickr search brings up all kinds of very juicy looking event photos, and add to these…

Chron column: Marquis fetish ball comes back to SF

Image of Jade Vixen and Sandy by Christine Kessler. In this week’s SF Chronicle column I have an exclusive interview with legendary Marquis Magazine’s Erik von Gutenberg, plus a gallery. Known for heavy rubber, beautiful models and extreme couture, it’s going to be one hell of an event: this Saturday, Marquis Fetish Ball comes back…

Image of Morgan Mae and friend from this explicit gallery. Though provoking, edgy and controversial is what I’m calling Peter Suderman article for Reason Magazine, Does Porn Make Society Better? It’s about time we start looking at these questions head-on, but I object to the argument’s basis: conflation, or rather comparing as two equal values,…

Self-portrait. In this week’s SF Chronicle column, I describe a day observing counselors for a sexual health crisis hotline/front line volunteer service here in San Francisco. Yes, like SFSI. Here’s a snip: I’m on my way to visit the offices of a locally-based, national sex crisis hotline; to get there, I decide against a detour…