In this week’s Chronicle column, I discuss the essay in Best Sex Writing 2008 “How Insensitive” by Paul Festa (read aloud recently at a local reading), and go into the subject of circumcision. It’s a very tricky subject to cover because people are so divided about it, (no pun!) and the comments are already a…

Not sex related: I come across at least one thing online a day that makes me go eeek. It’s usually a private, quiet little eeek. I can no longer live in silence. Today’s case in point: The Cats’ Inn grooming page featuring “panty” shaves and “Lion Cuts”.

Image of the amazing award-winner Madison Young by Kelly Lind. I just had to ask… Especially since the Feminist Porn Awards are getting huger and more popular every year. We must know! What does it mean? And I may be stepping into yet another controversial minefield. But it’s important, and really interesting, especially with the…

Oh, Regis… see what happens when Kathie isn’t around to monitor your blogads!? This irresistable screencap is fresh off my friend (author, feminist, sex-positive pundit) Audacia Ray‘s new blog for the Village Voice, Naked City. In this post, she’s reviewing my online pal Porno Jim’s passion: The Porno Jim Show, his fun comedy act (and…

So I’ll be doing a lot of text posts for a while, until I get a new set of backwards-skating WordPress workarounds figured out — like sharing this scary-accurate retelling of what it’s like to be a porn reviewer: the highs, and oh, the lows… The Pro Circuit: Free Porn, A Nightmare could have easily…

Image by my friend Jack Shamama. This week’s SF Chronicle column is Hot gay sex is for homophobes: Psych study links homophobia and homoerotic arousal; Violet Blue wants Jay Leno to know he’s safe. The comments are already over 500 and my inbox is crammed with everything from comments like, “What a crock of Shit…

I just got an email from my friend who works at Kink.com, reading: When I got to work at the SF Armory this morning, [name redacted], who directs Behind Kink, asked me if Peter’s Assistant had found me yet. I said she had not, why was she looking for me? “To tell you about the…

Images thanks to Eon McKai: a few more can be seen with this Flickr guest pass (must be signed in) or in this album (no login required). Update 3/31: also read the glowing, yet different, review (with more explicit stills) in Fleshbot’s Rise Up: Eon McKai’s “The Doll Underground”. The Doll Underground, directed by wunderkind…

This week, I face down every SF Chronicle and SF Gate troll that called me a fat ugly skank for having an opinion about sex and scandal last week. Hater, please. Two am and the comments are already *flying*. In this week’s SF Chronicle column I asked Bombshell Betty in private emails (and she allowed…