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...
Chris Hall, Thursday, September 30, 2010 - 4:48pm
For sex workers, getting their stories out to the public in an honest and respectful manner is always a huge problem. In any given news story as presented in the mainstream media, there are only a...
Chris Hall, Friday, September 3, 2010 - 12:46pm
I'm in a meeting room on the ground floor of San Francisco's Armory Building, the headquarters of Kink.com. Porn director Maîtresse Madeline is at the head of the table, explaining to the design...
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...
Clarisse Thorn, Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 12:20pm
When I was in my late teens and early twenties, I really felt uncomfortable with and uneasy about porn. I believed it was something that "all men watch" and "all men like". I didn't yet realize...
Greta Christina, Friday, August 13, 2010 - 6:00am
Why do smart, strong, feminist women get hot for rogues and Lotharios, sexy but selfish bad boys who use women and throw them away?
The new season of Mad Men is upon us: the brilliant, beautiful...
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...
Chris Hall, Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - 5:48pm
Some people cling to their ignorance with the determination of a three-year-old who just won't let go of his or her teddy bear. This Wednesday The View's Elisabeth Hasselbeck, gave a good example...
Greta Christina, Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 6:00am
Are queers just like everyone else?
Are queers just ordinary human beings, with the same hopes and fears and neuroses and dreams as everybody? Or are queers fundamentally different from straight...
Greta Christina, Tuesday, June 8, 2010 - 9:30am
Honestly? It would have been a lot easier to write the Marxist/ anti-capitalist review of Sex and the City 2 than the sex review. And I'm not even a Marxist. There is a bizarre dearth of sex in Sex...
Greta Christina, Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - 10:30am
I realize that I'm late to the Lady Gaga party. (Hey, I'm 48 years old. Cut me some slack.) But I gotta say—I'm impressed.
If I just listened to her music, I'd only be moderately interested. I...
Simon Sheppard, Monday, May 24, 2010 - 11:41am
So just how gay is too gay? The issue rages as, from the Supreme Court to Broadway, questions of queerness have taken center stage.
The shit hit the theater fan a few weeks back when a Newsweek...
Greta Christina, Thursday, April 29, 2010 - 1:46pm
Chances are you've heard about Boobquake. It went viral pretty fast.
In case you haven't: Iranian Muslim prayer leader Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi was recently quoted as saying, "Many women who do...
Simon Sheppard, Monday, April 19, 2010 - 12:19pm
Those of you who've been following this column might be under the impression that I do nothing but sit around with a scowl on my face, figuring out new ways to slam the Catholic hierarchy. But that...
Simon Sheppard, Monday, March 22, 2010 - 2:38pm
The last couple of weeks, I've wrapped up watching the fourth season of the HBO series Big Love, a high-end soap opera about Bill Henrickson, a Mormon fundamentalist with three wives. It's a really...
Sinclair Sexsmith, Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 4:27pm
“Have you seen the Dockers ads?” someone asked me recently at a conference, after I told them I write about masculinity. "A friend told me he liked those ads, because he is so unsure of what it...
Monica Shores, Friday, November 20, 2009 - 2:35pm
Blogger Belle De Jour's coming-out press parade has been an ugly glimpse into how the public responds to well-educated sex workers who act with apparent awareness and agency. When Brooke Magnanti, a...
Liz Farsaci, Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - 10:49am
The fuss over Meghan McCain's recent booby photo on Twitter (and I seriously wonder how much of it was manufactured) pissed me off to no end on a number of levels. However, I don't want to give her...
Lauren Wissot, Monday, September 7, 2009 - 1:28pm
Summer in NYC is always the sexiest time of year, so to me it made hot and sweaty sense that following on the high heels of Shakespeare in the Park's Anne Hathaway Bard vehicle Twelfth Night, arrived...
