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, 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...
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...
Suzanne, Monday, August 16, 2010 - 5:23pm
I have a huge problem with the ever-increasing use of the word "play" to describe both BDSM activities and sex acts in the BDSM community. "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what...
Nell, Sunday, August 1, 2010 - 12:00am
When I arrived in San Francisco a year ago, one of the greatest draws to the city for me was its well-established kink community, which I'd heard so much about. I was eager to dive into the local...
Violet Blue, Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - 12:00am
If you’re a girl who has never really seen pornography, admitting to yourself that you want to watch porn or explicit sexual imagery may take some — or a lot of — forethought. And if you think that...
Simon Sheppard, Monday, May 31, 2010 - 6:00am
Familiar with the phrase "gay as a goose?" Well, how about "sodomitical as a swan?"
It's been weeks since I ran across an article on a same-sex pair of British swans, and yet an utterly...
EditrixAbby, Sunday, March 7, 2010 - 6:17pm
Better Than I Ever Expected:
Straight Talk About Sex After Sixty
By Joan Price
Seal Press
$11.00, 267 pages
I’ve never been one to plan ahead, especially when it entails something I find...
Amy Marsh, Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - 11:54am
A box of tissues and a capacious wastebasket—these are essential tools of my trade, second only to my cell phone and laptop. Handing out tissues is part of my job. People cry. I encourage them....
Margaret Wade, Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - 10:56am
The Exaltation of Inanna is a prime example of early religious writing. It was written by a high priestess named Enheduana, whose works, according to some scholars, are the first known written...
Margaret Wade, Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 11:57am
It's probably too late to get that perfect reservation at the hippest restaurant in town for Valentine's Day. But it's not too late to make your post-dinner experience juicier than ever...
Margaret Wade, Wednesday, December 16, 2009 - 3:20pm
It's the time of year for lots of talk about miracle births, gifts from God, and family, friends, and other loved ones. The place where all these ideas intersect is, of course, sex.
It's possible...
Charles Moser and Janet Hardy, Friday, December 11, 2009 - 11:53am
Well, let's start out by saying that one of us wrote a whole book about this (Health Care Without Shame: A Handbook for the Sexually Diverse and Their Caregivers), and that if you're gay, lesbian, bi...
Delilah Night, Monday, December 7, 2009 - 12:14pm
It has been a year since my daughter, the Little Mistress, was born at the ungodly hour of 5 AM in November of 2008. Celebrating her first birthday was an opportunity for my partner and I to take a...
Margaret Wade, Wednesday, December 2, 2009 - 6:10pm
It's December, and in some Christian churches that means that Mary gets three holy days this month. Yep, three of 'em: the Immaculate Conception, the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and Christmas...
Amy Marsh, Wednesday, December 2, 2009 - 12:28pm
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicavolcanoconiosis. I just found the longest word in the English language, along with some of the shortest and most frequently used, among the pages of my youngest child...
Charles Moser and Janet Hardy, Friday, November 13, 2009 - 10:18am
The earth moved. No, it wasn't an orgasm. I mean the earth moved!
Neither of us has ever been in flagrante during a quake—which, given that we both live in San Francisco, probably tells you something...
Amy Marsh, Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 12:24pm
“Hi! Let me start out by saying that I am an amatuer [sic] at this. I am currently enrolled in college and me and my roomates [sic] are trying to earn a little extra money to pay for our...
Amy Marsh, Wednesday, November 4, 2009 - 11:34am
“What makes a man, well known (though not always kindly) for his self-determined and stubborn will, what makes him turn belly up to off-brand voices in the sky?”
From a chapter in his New...
