Features
  • Saturday, February 6, 2010 - 11:39am By EditrixAbby
     Courtney Trouble is the self-described “Maven of Queer Porn.” directing for, Reel Queer Productions, one of three lines in Good Vibration's video production and distribution company, Good Releasing, which also features Pleasure Ed and Heart Core...
  • Thursday, February 4, 2010 - 3:49pm By EditrixAbby
    Exotic hardwoods are the raw materials behind Nob Essence, an “intimate sculpture” company formed in 2005 by the husband and wife team of Alicia and Jason Yoder. The couple's individual backgrounds make for an interesting combination: Alicia is a...
  • Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 1:12pm By Clarisse Thorn
    In Africa, many sex educators use what has become known as the ABC strategy to talk about HIV/AIDS prevention. There are three components to the strategy: Abstinence, Be Faithful, and Condoms. In this series, Clarisse Thorn, an American sex...
  • Monday, January 25, 2010 - 4:34pm By Christian Rudder
    This is the first in a series of articles reprinted with permission from OKTrends the official blog of OKCupid.com.   Hello, old friends. I am back from dark months of data mining, here now to present my ores. To write this piece, we...
  • Saturday, January 23, 2010 - 1:41pm By Mary Gilbert
    Billboard on 52nd Street posted by YaVaughnie Williams after she was scorned by still-married lover Charles Phillips, Oracle Exec. Ho hum, yet another tycoon disappointing his family, pissing off a mistress, losing a wife. So what’s new? Not...
  • Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 1:56pm By Clarisse Thorn
    In Africa, many sex educators use what has become known as the ABC strategy to talk about HIV/AIDS prevention. There are three components to the strategy: Abstinence, Be Faithful, and Condoms. In this series, Clarisse Thorn, an American sex...
  • Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 12:50pm By Clarisse Thorn
    In Africa, many sex educators use what has become known as the ABC strategy to talk about HIV/AIDS prevention. There are three components to the strategy: Abstinence, Be Faithful, and Condoms. In this series, Clarisse Thorn, an American sex...
  • Thursday, January 7, 2010 - 12:59pm By Clarisse Thorn
    It's one thing to know that you live in a place where homosexuality is locked up, locked down, punished by draconian laws and vigilante "justice". It's another to, well, know. When I first moved to southern Africa this year to do...
  • Tuesday, January 5, 2010 - 2:28pm By Chris Hall
    Porn has a not-entirely-undeserved reputation as being a disposable genre. Most people, from media critics to fans of the stuff, would rank the cultural value of porn as being slightly above that of the styrofoam peanuts that fill the boxes the...
  • Thursday, December 31, 2009 - 4:50pm By Chris Hall
    Even in our age of electronic information, where everything is tweeted, blogged, torrented, and kindled, books haven't completely lost their power. Not only are they a low-tech, portable way of storing information, they make much better gifts than...
  • Tuesday, December 29, 2009 - 12:20pm By Morgan Weinert
    The glamorous lives of the filthy rich hold an overwhelming appeal. Teenagers, especially, are drawn to the bright light of high-fame. Teens are old enough to know the true appeal of money, material goods and lots of sex, but too young to understand...
  • Thursday, December 10, 2009 - 1:42pm By John Ozimek
    LGBT activists in the UK are up in arms this week as government plans to reduce the legal protections already afforded to those communities came one step closer to becoming law. The offending proposals are contained in an Equality Bill, which last...
  • Wednesday, December 9, 2009 - 3:39pm By Theresa Ikard, Tim McElreavy
    It's that time of year again! While everyone else is focused on nice gifts for nice people, CarnalNation's editors definitely prefer the naughty to the nice. We're sure you can find plenty of things at the mall that can be safely opened in front of...
  • Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 11:50am By L. Z. Hansen
    “Lizzy, your eight o'clock is here. Room three. Hurry,” Ingrid yelled from the office. I'd been lounging in the living room with the other women. I stubbed my cigarette out and pulled myself up from the couch "On my...
  • Tuesday, December 1, 2009 - 1:55pm By Liz Highleyman
    Over the course of four decades, HIV has gone from being a near-certain death sentence to a "manageable illness." Treatment has evolved from handfuls of marginally effective tablets and capsules (and sometimes injections and infusions) to...