* Over at the Gate, Mark Morford has an excellent article (with lots o links) about high-end vibrators, including the 24k gold one Kate Moss just bought. It is my responsibility to note that I have a huge chapter on high-end sex toys (+ reviews, and not just vibrators but ebony butt plugs and all)…

And the episode of Open Source Sex #34, “Richard’s Secret”. Text: One long story — a quickie, with benefits! Saskia Walker graciously permitted me to read her hot story, “Richard’s Secret” from Taboo: Forbidden Fantasies for Couples. In it, a couple share a very kinky sex slave for a night (with a twist), including explicit…

It’s been about a year since I stopped reviewing sex books and videos for Good Vibes, but I was there long enough to watch the world of sex and art coffee table books go through a revolution. And Taschen, publisher of all kinds of those glossy, tasteful and gorgeous books, was one of the biggest…

When I went out to lunch with Thomas last week, he made me stop at his car to let me ogle, touch and generally drool over a new photo book called Girls, Guns and Ropes by Josef Botello. It’s a deadly-hot collection of his black and white photographs with sexy Texas girls wrapped up like…

My friend Jack Boulware wrote a fascinating, well-researched and somewhat personal article for Salon about the fake writer JT LeRoy — who, as many of you know, is really a rich older lady who sold a bunch of lies as a memoir, even going so far as to say the “author” she concocted had HIV/AIDS…

Hooray for Girl With A One-Track Mind, who won the 2006 Bloggie award for “Best British or Irish Weblog”! It’s such great news, as she’s a really cool chick (I had a beer or five with her in London last year), and it’s right before the release of her upcoming book (Girl With A One-Track…

Beer + new Logitech headset + hot erotica + friday night melancholy = late night podcasting! Quickie: “The First Stroke” by Erica Dumas, from my new book Lips Like Sugar: Women’s Erotic Fantasies. Here, a woman tries out her new strap-on and takes control with her boyfriend for the very first time. Yum. * Link…

I’m totally losing my mind writing a book on a really rough deadline right now; I’m a disheveled, sexless shut-in (and my landlord wants all my tools and motorcycle stuff out of the garage *now* so it looks like I’ll be apartment hunting after I struggle over the finish line on this manuscript that I’m…

I *finally* don’t sound like Suzanne Pleshette anymore, and took my first (maybe awkward) stab at the iLife 06 podcast suite — the text: My too-long hiatus from a sore throat is ended with Cate Robertson’s “Just Watch Me, Rodin”, an intense story about an edgy modern girl’s compelling power-exchange relationship with a male artist…

The pope (Joey Ratz!) is totally going to put a fatwa on my head: the Spanish translations of my fellatio and cunnilingus books are out in print! Yay and hooray for El Arte del Sexo Oral: Felacion and El Arte del Sexo Oral 2: Cunnilingus la Guia Definitiva. The publisher is in Spain, so the…