Posted in news on Oct 22nd, 2007
Tom Carson reviews Andrew Wilson’s bio of Harold Robbins:
…So, duly making the beast with two hardbacks, Andrew Wilson — author of a well-regarded, as they say, life of Patricia Highsmith — has given us “Harold Robbins: The Man Who Invented Sex.” Besides answering nearly every question about its subject that any halfway brainy reader couldn’t [...]
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Posted in news on Sep 25th, 2007
Caroline Moorhead has an extensive article about sex trafficking in the New York Review of Books.
Chelsea Summers: All I Really Need to Know About Dating I Learned From My Computer.
Nerve (the first sex site I read, lo those many years ago), is having a free preview of their premium galleries site.
Tess sent Mormon calendar boys.
A [...]
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Posted in news, roundup on Aug 15th, 2007
Gothamist reports on the upsurge in syphilis cases in NYC.
The Journal of Computer Mediated Communication has a new study on blogger anonymity and self-disclosure.
Feministing’s Weekly Feminist Reader.
Sexoteric links to the 15 best songs on masturbation.
Gina Kolata of the Times does the math on the assumption that heterosexual men have substantially more partners than heterosexual women [...]
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Posted in news, roundup on Aug 10th, 2007
Towelrod has breaking news about the Gay American Heroes traveling memorial exhibition, which will honor LGBT people murdered in hate crimes, inform the public about hate crimes and inspire diversity [via Joe.My.God]
The Great Happiness Space, a documentary about young Japanese male escorts, is now viewable online.
SexTV has a feature on Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie’s [...]
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Posted in news, roundup on Aug 8th, 2007
When fetish diva Midori comes to town for her Rope Dojo, she’ll be speaking at MoSex and at LSM.
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In the Flesh is moving to a new night.
Amber Rhea interviewed Karen Abbott, author of Sin and the Second City for the Georgia Podcast Network.
Joe.my.God and Wonkette have posts about the arrest [...]
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Posted in google, news on Aug 6th, 2007
If you scroll down and look at the right side of the blog, you’ll notice an “In the News” section. It’s the Google News Bar, which lets me select which keywords I want, and displays snippets of timely news articles from Google News Search. And when I loaded it up, it thoughtfully linked to both [...]
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Posted in news, roundup on Aug 3rd, 2007
WNYC’s Brian Lehrer interviewed David Amsden about his New York magazine article about closeted gay men. Listen here.
Via Cinekinkster, the head of IFC has a blog post about the making of the Indie Sex series.
Cinekink is an event partner of the LA Erotica Film Fest.
Via Boinkology, a Village Voice article on the DIY of [...]
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Posted in news, roundup on Aug 2nd, 2007
Bacchus has a perceptive post about cookie cutter porn paysites.
IFC is screening the “Indie Sex” mini-series, which examines “how filmmakers, the film industry, and special interest groups have attempted to both regulate and set free the images that filmmakers create and who gets to see them.” Lisa says last Fall’s Cinekink kickoff party is [...]
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Posted in news, research, science, sex on Jul 31st, 2007
By JOHN TIERNEY
Scholars in antiquity began counting the ways that humans have sex, but they weren’t so diligent in cataloging the reasons humans wanted to get into all those positions. Darwin and his successors offered a few explanations of mating strategies — to find better genes, to gain status and resources — but they neglected [...]
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Posted in news, roundup on Jul 31st, 2007
I’m finally getting back to posting - I’ve been saving up a lot of links.
Pornology New York will be shown tonight at the Pioneer Theatre.
WNYC’s Brian Lehrer interviewed Dr. David Buss about his new study, Why We Have Sex.
Openly gay NY City Council Speaker Christine Quinn appeared yesterday on the Charlie Rose show (video).
Feministing’s Weekly [...]
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Diah (Hegre)Sex blogger files for bankruptcy (Yahoo)a star-spangled booty (pretty dumb things)Big numbers!Danae (Met Models)We’ve been nominated for the Erotic Awards 2007 Who Sleeps Around? Scientists Know (Yahoo) Lara Is Not A Porn Star (Violet Blue, SFGate)NYC Weekly Leather Dates May 31-June 6 Another bad penny turns up again: Naomi Wolf on porn (Figleaf’s Real [...]
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Posted in abortion, feminism, news, women on Apr 18th, 2007
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court upheld the nationwide ban on a controversial abortion procedure Wednesday, handing abortion opponents the long-awaited victory they expected from a more conservative bench.
The 5-4 ruling said the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act that Congress passed and President Bush signed into law in 2003 does not violate a woman’s constitutional right [...]
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Posted in media, news, teenager on Apr 2nd, 2007
Apparently some Hampton Roads, Virginia parents are not too thrilled with their high school age kids penning a sex section of the school newspaper:
…Several said they were especially offended by a photograph of two women kissing under the headline, “Why men love women who love women,” a quiz question about anal sex, and an interview [...]
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Posted in abstinence, media, news, politics, roundup on Mar 5th, 2007
Sex-saturated media arrives in China (Dallas Morning News)
Doyle turns down $600,000 in federal abstinence money (TwinCities.com)
Angry Ex Distributes Explicit DVDs Using Old-Fashioned Windows (Sex Drive Daily)
Weekly Feminist Reader (Feministing)
Attack of the Red-Carpet-Munchers! (Simon Doonan; NYO)
My Date with Ann (Steven Weber; HuffPo)
The Age of Mesploitation (Sugarbank)
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Posted in feminism, media, movies, news, roundup, sex on Feb 26th, 2007
Sorority Evictions Raise Messy Issue of Looks and Bias (NYT)
Weekly Feminist Reader (Feministing)
What a Bad Museum Exhibit Can Teach You About Blogging (ProBlogger)
MARIE AND JACK: A Hardcore Love Story receives an NC-17 rating from the MPAA (Comstock Films)
RKB Need interviewees - “straight” women who’ve slept with women
Uncircumcised pupils sent home (BBC News)
This advert isn’t sexist. [...]
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Posted in Korea, bdsm, bondage, news on Feb 12th, 2007
The mother of a 13 year-old middle school girl, “K,” was overcome with shock one day when she discovered her daughter was operating an online club about sadomasochism. The mother blamed herself for not having given her daughter the usual amount of attention, on account of the fact her husband had been ill.
However, the [...]
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Posted in news on Feb 6th, 2007
From the NY Times:
DENVER (AP) — One of four ministers who oversaw three weeks of intensive counseling for the Rev. Ted Haggard said the disgraced minister emerged convinced that he is ”completely heterosexual.”
Haggard also said his sexual contact with men was limited to the former male prostitute who came forward with sexual allegations, the Rev. [...]
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Feisty, take-no-prisoners columnist (she nicknamed President Bush ‘Shrub’) and author Molly Ivins, passed away yesterday, after a long battle with breast cancer:
The 62-year-old writer was a rare commodity in Texas – a liberal – who wrote a twice-weekly column that appeared in at least 300 newspapers. Based in Austin, her commentary appeared in national magazines [...]
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Posted in news, scandal, sex on Jan 26th, 2007
President Katsav of Israel, facing accusations of rape, was fighting last night for his political life after the Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, demanded his resignation.
Responding to an announcement by the Attorney-General that there were sufficient grounds to prosecute the President for rape and sexual harassment, Mr Olmert said: “Under these circumstances there is no doubt [...]
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Posted in girlsgonewild, joefrancis, news, porn on Jan 23rd, 2007
LOS ANGELES, Jan 22 (Reuters Life!) - The founder of “Girls Gone Wild” videos featuring young women who take off their tops was fined $500,000 on Monday for violating rules designed to prevent exploitation of minors.
Joe Francis, 33, also was ordered by a federal judge to perform 200 hours of community service and was placed [...]
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Posted in London, bloggers, ethics, journalism, news, nicholas hellen, press, privacy, sexbloggers, sexblogs on Jan 3rd, 2007
Having the Sex Carnival has allowed us to post about a wide range of subjects and concerns, depending on our whims: sex and sexuality, news, local events of interest, blogs and blogging, security and privacy.
And you know privacy and protecting a blogger’s identity is a big concern of mine.
Which is why I am [...]
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