Gore warning on the above trailer for Kiss of the Damned. JWZ provides a concise summary of The New Yorker’s *temporary* Facebook ban for showing illustrated nipples in a cartoon. I’m sorry, but – unlike the rest of us (April Flores, Ducky Doolittle, etc.) The New Yorker’s account was quickly reinstated so it will soon…

Mythical Proportions (above) was the winner of the Stranger’s HUMP festival, 2011, Best Humor prize. You have until October 5 to submit an entry to Dan Savage’s incredible film festival. Sexsomnia (sleepfucking), a woman rapes her boyfriend and the ever-entertaining Jesse Bering – it’s a capital installment of Savage Love. I recently sleep texted someone…

Vote like right NOW on the SXSW PanelPicker for a hell of a lineup: Dr. Carol Queen, Lisa Vandever (CineKink), Mike Stabile (Gay Porn Blog, my husband) and more want to converge on South by Southwest and present a panel on sex and tech. Register for the SXSW Panel Picker website and vote; I hope…

Despite being mostly old men, Republican pundits and legislators seem to know a lot about female anatomy. The Republican Guide to Female Anatomy (Nerve, via Dan Savage) This post about Cindy Gallop’s new porn startup – wherein she invents a genre that already existed – gets a massive slow clap from me. (I have no…

Sure to be a hot spot during the Republican National Convention? (Only mildly NSFW gallery.) 21 Revealing Photos From Inside Tampa’s Most Famous Strip Club (Buzzfeed) Tumblr is not censoring NSFW blogs, duh – it has an erotica community openly endorsed, and launched by Tumblr itself. Let’s hope that TechCrunch never changes, because someone still…

A former Texas high school English teacher and mother of three is on trial, accused of having sex with five male students. Teacher Accused of Having Group Sex With Students on Video (ABC News) Kink.com has stopped production temporarily and an industry-wide moratorium is being called for. The Los Angeles County Public Health Department is…

This post has been heavily shared and endorsed by many online sex-positive, progressive sex-ed, and pro-porn people: definitely read it. Brilliant: “Sure, we may play with, embody and embrace hyper-femininity, but we are no less ‘authentic’, or political, or real, because our lip gloss is hot pink instead of ‘nude’. We don’t need to ‘tone-it-down’…

Fetish model and producer Natali Demore (BondageOrgasms and SmotheredSlave) and her video editor Jack Banner were found dead on Aug. 4 at Demore’s production studio in Van Nuys, where they followed through on an apparent “consensual suicide pact.” Demore and Banner died of wounds from two shotguns found at the scene that were rigged to…