Greta Christina, Friday, October 8, 2010 - 1:10pm
Well, my goodness.
Things certainly have changed since I was a girl.
And thank God for it.
This, more than anything else, was what kept drifting into my mind when I saw Howl, the new film...
Charles Gatewood, Wednesday, October 6, 2010 - 10:57am
People often ask about this photograph. Where was it taken? What was happening? I'm always happy to talk about this image, because of all the photos I've taken, "Miriam on the Waterbed...
Amy Marsh, Thursday, September 30, 2010 - 12:06pm
After the fall of original sin, Adam and Eve wore aprons of fig leaves to cover their naughty bits. In Western art the effect of this biblical story is so pervasive that we accept the convention of...
Charles Gatewood, Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - 11:52am
People often ask—am I a voyeur?
Well, yes I am. Obviously, I like to watch, especially when explosive subject matter pops my eyeballs. But that's just one level, one of many. A voyeur...
Simon Sheppard, Monday, September 27, 2010 - 9:55am
It's not that I'm hopelessly nostalgic for the 1960s—sorry, aging Deadheads, but I got rid of my last tie-dyed T-shirt long ago. (Though I do have a fetching Nehru-collared day-glo paisley shirt I...
Greta Christina, Friday, September 24, 2010 - 12:35pm
"It's sort of awful. Yesterday for lunch? Spinach... and some seeds."
"I swear by almost nothing for breakfast. Mugs of hot water!"
"The other day I realized as long as I'm in this business, I'...
Arielle Loren, Thursday, September 23, 2010 - 1:36pm
In popular culture, the stereotype of black men continues to resemble the Big Bad Wolf. Imagine a black man. What do you most likely see? He's tall, muscular, uber-masculine, darker in skin...
Charles Gatewood, Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 12:50pm
On November 4, 1968, a sassy new tabloid newspaper appeared on New York newsstands. Screw cost twenty-five cents and was devoted entirely to sex and porn. Because of the growing demand for...
Mike Stryker, Friday, September 17, 2010 - 3:10pm
Pretty much undoubtedly the biggest ‘geek’ movie of this Summer was the Michael Cera vehicle Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, based on a Canadian indie comic book that blended slice-of-life romance...
Chris Hall, Thursday, September 16, 2010 - 2:01pm
Everyone who has ever watched a porn film—or even done so much as pick up a dog-eared copy of Penthouse—knows the archetypal lesbian fuck scene as envisioned by mainstream pornographers....
Charles Gatewood, Wednesday, September 15, 2010 - 10:58am
In 1969 a "serious documentary" called Pornography in Denmark opened in a New York movie theatre and didn't get busted. That opened the door to other explicit films, like Sex USA and...
Kitty Stryker, Thursday, September 9, 2010 - 5:33pm
Number one rule that was hammered into my head my first Burning Man, and the solution to most physical and emotional problems on the playa.
Piss clear.
If you aren’t pissing clear, you’re not...
Charles Gatewood, Wednesday, September 8, 2010 - 1:07pm
Back in New York after shooting Mardi Gras, I got a call from Trixie, a six-foot drag queen (and fellow New Yorker) I'd photographed on Bourbon street. "You invited me to your studio,...
Chris Hall, Tuesday, September 7, 2010 - 2:25pm
In America, it wasn't that long ago that the idea of having condom commercials on television was hugely controversial. It was only in 1991 that Fox (of all channels) broadcast the first commercial...
Greta Christina, Friday, September 3, 2010 - 1:31pm
A young woman is talking to her newborn baby.
"I love sex," she says. "And some people thought it was a bad thing. But I've learned that a slut is just a woman with the morals of a man."
Sudden...
Chris Hall, Thursday, September 2, 2010 - 10:57am
Recently, I did a short, informal history of efforts to merge video games and sex, inspired by a news item about Mojowijo, a company that's trying to sell vibrating attachments for the Wii. Today I...
Suzanne, Wednesday, September 1, 2010 - 5:34pm
The biggest news in erotic cinema is happening Saturday, September 18th, through Thursday September 23rd, as legendary Bay Area pleasure product retailers and educators Good Vibrations present the...
Charles Gatewood, Wednesday, September 1, 2010 - 12:51pm
I learned a lot about homosexual culture by reading C.A. Tripp's book, The Homosexual Matrix. I was especially interested in Tripp's ideas about the nature of sexual arousal. Erotic...
Simon Sheppard, Monday, August 30, 2010 - 8:00am
No, I'm not Shirley Sherrod, not anything like her. I don't work for the Department of Agriculture; I write porn. I'm a queer secular Jew, not a religious black woman. My dad wasn't killed by...
