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...
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...
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,...
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...
Dusty Horn, Sunday, August 29, 2010 - 10:42am
The voyeuristic rush of watching porn is not unlike the thrill of perusing the checkout line tabloid. These sensationalist mediums allow knowledge of intimacies that polite society keeps behind...
Charles Gatewood, Wednesday, August 18, 2010 - 7:00am
In 1970, photographer George Gardner invited me to join him on a trip to photograph Mardi Gras madness in New Orleans. We drove there in George's old Pugeot, and slept in the car for a week. It...
Theresa, Tuesday, August 10, 2010 - 2:03pm
Anyone who tries to reduce burlesque to nothing more than flaunting nudity onstage is missing the point. Burlesque does involve stripping, but not all stripping is burlesque. The expression of...
Liz Farsaci, Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - 3:45pm
Strolling down a San Francisco street one day, photographer David Steinberg noticed two gorgeous women up ahead of him. Abruptly, they turned and disappeared into a bar he had never seen before....
Liz Highleyman, Tuesday, December 1, 2009 - 2:55pm
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...
Dusty Horn, Thursday, November 26, 2009 - 11:44am
Now, I love me some fag porn. As usual, I've given a lot of thought to—why? Well, I do identify with some seriousness as a lady faggot diva queer kinky slut so it follows I have unpredictable...
Liz Farsaci, Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - 12:21pm
For a couple of weeks, I had been looking forward to ArtUndressed, an erotic art exhibition held at the California Modern Art Gallery on Market Street last weekend. The day finally arrived and, as I...
Lauren Wissot, Monday, October 5, 2009 - 2:38pm
In Begging Naked Karen Gehres documents her friend Elise, a painter and sculptor and former Times Square stripper, as she succumbs to mental illness and homelessness. What struck me most about this...
Lauren Wissot, Monday, September 21, 2009 - 1:20pm
I met Amsterdam-based director Jennifer Lyon Bell in person this past February at a Sunday brunch at Monkey Town, a performance space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn where we were both screening our...
Chris Hall, Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 4:00pm
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Liz Farsaci, Tuesday, August 11, 2009 - 4:32pm
Some of you may have read my article on nude modeling, and how it has affected the way I view myself, sexuality, art and society. However, being naked is a very different experience for individual...
Lauren Wissot, Monday, August 10, 2009 - 4:58pm
As a freelancer who writes almost exclusively for online film publications I often find myself wearing more than one mismatched hat. Sometimes I'm a critic picking apart larger than life images, and...
Theresa, Wednesday, July 22, 2009 - 3:07pm
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Greta Christina, Friday, May 1, 2009 - 5:56pm
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Kingfish, Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 3:17pm
Newspaper articles reporting on burlesque shows and the burlesque revival frequently pose the question, "Why do you think burlesque is so popular now?" As the producer of San Francisco...
