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Tuesday, December 8, 2009 - 1:26pm By Megan AndellouxLast night I received a phone call from a dejected and broken medical resident friend of mine. He admitted to me that he was close to tears from having to make life and death decisions for patients on a daily basis. I listened sympathetically to his...
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009 - 2:55pm By Liz HighleymanOver 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...
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Saturday, November 28, 2009 - 12:19pm By Simon SheppardBigger Than Life: The History of Gay Porn Cinema From Beefcake to Hardcore By Jeffrey Escoffier Running Press $24.95, 368 pp. Though I'm not, I confess, much of a consumer of commercial porn videos (I much prefer to jack off to still photos and...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - 11:26am By Margaret WadeIt might have taken humans a while to figure out the male's contribution to procreation, but the science of it took even longer. Yet even before the Western scientific world had determined sperm's part in the happy event, Eastern cultures had...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - 10:40am By Liz FarsaciAn autumnal chill is in the air, and many store displays now boast Halloween costumes and decorations. I often dress up as a witch—it's easy (although every year I vow to put more thought into my costume!), it's sexy and slipping on that...
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Saturday, September 19, 2009 - 1:37pm By Chris HallScarlett Takes Manhattan By Molly Crabapple and John Leavitt Fugu Press $12.95, 48 pp. It's a little intimidating trying to write a review of Molly Crabapple and John Leavitt's graphic novel Scarlett Takes Manhattan while comics writer Warren Ellis'...
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Saturday, August 29, 2009 - 10:54am By Angie DellThe East, the West, and Sex By Richard Bernstein Knopf $27.95, 336 pp. There is an undeniable sensuousness to "the East" as Richard Bernstein describes it, addressing an expanse of exotic locations in Asia, the Pacific Islands, Northern...
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009 - 3:13pm By Liz FarsaciHaving worked as one of New York City's famous madams in the Swinging Sixties, Xaviera Hollander—often known as the Happy Hooker (and portrayed in the 1975 film of that name by Lynn Redgrave)—has learned a lot about sex, and what people...
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 6:57pm By Chris HallPresident Obama posthumously awarded Harvey Milk the Presidential Medal of Freedom today, along with tennis player Billie Jean King and 14 other people. The list of honorees is a diverse and distinguished one, but the inclusion of Milk and King...
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Saturday, August 1, 2009 - 9:00am By John LeavittThe Forbidden Apple By Kat Long Ig Publishing, 288 pp. Sitting here, right now, at the kitchen table, I can count no less than eight books detailing the various histories of New York City. Gay histories, Black histories, Irish histories, Women's...
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Friday, June 5, 2009 - 4:00pm By Audacia RayMargo St. James is one of the most well-known advocates for the rights of sex workers in America. In 1973, she founded COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics), the first prostitutes' rights group in the United States. She is also the co-founder of...
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Monday, June 1, 2009 - 10:48pm By John PettittFrom the NY Times City Room The Stonewall uprising that began 40 years ago this month in Greenwich Village has come to be seen as a defining event in the development of the gay rights movement, but little visual evidence has survived from the six...
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Friday, May 15, 2009 - 3:06pm By Chris HallThere's all kinds of astronomical figures of speech about sex: it was out of this world, you got launched into orbit, and so on. But there's very little literature on sex habits that are literally out of this world. If astronauts are regularly...
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009 - 5:58pm By Mark KliemThe following essay was originally published on Lavender Lounge's blog. All links should be considered NSFW --CarnalNation As part of the group blogging effort with a gaggle of journalists, gossip columnists, movie reviewers, bloggers, and gadabouts...
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Monday, March 23, 2009 - 6:19pm By Lauren WissotThough I've been to many underground sex parties in NYC I can't say I find them all that sexy. Hilarious—quite often; sexy—not so much. Maybe this is because I come from the BDSM world, which means I'm usually the biggest perv in the...
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