A number of people have sent me links to this news item throughout today. I had to run to another one of these meetings (which was actually way funner than Kelly’s video) so I’m only getting to blog this now. Which is good because in the meantime, Jacob Sullum at Reason Magazine’s blog summed it…

Two 6′ tall sculptures by Takashi Murakami — at left is “My Lonesome Cowboy”. Images via Jean Claude Bourdais. * All the “Sex and the City” movie hype makes me want to ralf. Like, yay: a movie made from a 10-year-old TV series about women being sexual in a way that seemed ten years old…

People are literally dancing in the streets in my hometown tonight! The ecstatic emails are flooding my inbox. Today, California recognized what is not a privilege of only a certain class of people, but what is a right for every citizen who loves, cherishes and devotes their lives to another. Today California legalized gay marriage.…

Update 05.14: Image of the formerly hacked site here. Nina’s site is back in control of whoever runs it for her, and is currently just a splash page assuring viewers that they’ll be up and running in a few days with “exciting plans” for the site. Weird. They didn’t proofread their text, either. Nina Hartley’s…

I read two articles of note this weekend about porn laws you should check out: one is the curious case in which it’s entirely possible that swingers — those happy, freewheelin’ “wife swappers” we all know and love — may actually be the ones to break the idiocy of 2257 wide open. The other notable…

Image “My First Time” by Annie Ominous. In this week’s SF Chronicle column Death of the DC Madam Hits Home, I explore the death of the DC Madam with a local sex worker — sex worker and high level sex work blog contributor Karly Kirchner (Bound, not Gagged), and I examine the state of sex…

Image of Cyan from Zivity by Merkley??? whose h4wt book you should really buy. Named after the always soothing Best of Babelogs: Hump Day Edition, <strike>which will be up any minute now… Until then,</strike> Still, I encourage you to read the sex blogs *for the articles*. * They can’t do this before I make it…

Image: “Finale” by C Ray Dancer. A lunchtime quickie, soon upstaged by more substantial pre-weekend fare this afternoon… * Oh fucking yay. I see in my inbox *just now* that Abbywinters.com has nonconsensually added both my SFGate email address and my Tiny Nibbles email address to their mailing lists, at the same time. Rude, with…

Self-portrait by my adorable new Flickr friend, Bathroom Adventures! Before I follow up on the fallout from today’s column, before I give you the post featuring my picks for this weekend’s local Maker Faire in San Mateo (hint: I’ll be working there on location breaking *and* making things and livecasting, and seeing lotsa friends)… I’ve…

Image by my friend Capatio from Captive Culture. In the Orwellian near future (next week), a bill outlawing “extreme pornography” will be made into law across the UK — that’s *possession*. So, if you have files from Kink.com on your computer and you live in London, looks like if this truly ignorant bill passes you…