Posted in del.icio.us, sex on Feb 16th, 2010
Buzz off: Disabling Google Buzz | Webware – CNET – Instructions on purging your profile, blocking followers, then turning off Google Buzz.
Google Says Buzz Needed Wider Testing, Issuing Fixes This Week – google buzz – Lifehacker – In one week, Google's Buzz social network has moved through a splashy launch, a quick fix, a major [...]
Posted in del.icio.us, sex on Nov 16th, 2009
I want you back, says Belle de Jour’s lover | News –
Generation B – Anything He Can Do, She Can Do | NYTimes.com – IN September 1998, David Buechner, then 39, a prominent classical pianist, came out as a transgender woman, explaining that from then on, she would live and perform as Sara [...]
Posted in del.icio.us, sex on Oct 30th, 2009
160 Handy Twitter Tools and Resources | Social Media Strategies and Tools Explained –
FWD/Forward – FWD (feminists with disabilities) for a way forward
Richmond High School gang rape: Cops arrest 2 in attack on Calif. teen girl; Bystanders did nothing | NY Daily News – The 15-year-old Richmond High School student hospitalized in stable condition [...]
[ November 1, 2009; 7:30 PM to 10:30 PM. ]
Where: Collect Pond, 45 Berry Street, corner of N 11th St, Brooklyn (Google Maps: http://bit.ly/derivtheat)
Cost: Pay what you can, suggested donation $15 includes snacks
Presented by Derivative Theater Company
RSVP: Seating is limited! Please, RSVP to booking AT sbearbergman DOT com with your name and and the number of people.
Multiple award-winning writer, performer, gender-jammer and instigator [...]
Posted in books on Oct 28th, 2009
I’m reading and really enjoying the second book by S. Bear Bergman, The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You (Arsenal Pulp Press). It’s a collection of essays about gender and identity. I think we first met when ze taught at Dark Odyssey a few years ago. It’s also interesting to see how these writings have [...]
Posted in Events, transgender on Jul 29th, 2009
[ July 30, 2009 to August 2, 2009. ] Location: Dixon Place
316 Chrystie Street, New York NY, 10002 [map]
Tickets: $20 general / $15 students & seniors
Online Tickets: www.hotfestival.org;
https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/171
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After taking San Francisco by storm with an extended sold-out run, standing ovations and critical praise, Sean Dorsey’s acclaimed Uncovered: The Diary Project is coming to New York! [...]
Posted in submissions on Jun 8th, 2009
Call For Submissions
Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation
Kate Bornstein & S Bear Bergman, eds
Deadline: 1 September 2009
In the fifteen years since the release of Gender Outlaw, transgender narratives have made their way into cultural locations from the margins to the mainstream and back again. Today’s trannies and other sex/gender radicals are writing a radically new world [...]
Posted in lbgt, legal, transgender on Dec 1st, 2008
By Joel Stashenko
New York Law Journal
November 28, 2008
ALBANY – A transgender individual should be allowed to legally assume a new name to reflect her identity as a woman, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday.
In Matter of Earl William Golden III, 504992, the Appellate Division, Third Department, reversed the finding of Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey A. [...]
Posted in legal, transgender on Sep 22nd, 2008
From the Associated Press:
A former Army Special Forces commander passed over for a job as a terrorism analyst at the Library of Congress because he was changing genders won a discrimination lawsuit. Judge James Robinson of Federal District Court ruled that the Library of Congress had engaged in sex discrimination against Diane Schroer of Alexandria, [...]
Posted in transgender on Sep 16th, 2008
. . .Preece, who was 51 at the time, worked then — as she does now — for the Library of Congress, where she helps make hiring decisions for the Congressional Research Service (CRS), the U.S. Congress’s analysis agency. She had decided to recommend an ex–Special Forces colonel named David Schroer to be CRS’s terrorism [...]
Posted in sex, transgender on Aug 22nd, 2008
Dressing like a harlot isn’t the half of it on Village stroll
By Laurie Mittelmann
On Staten Island, 20 wigs crowd the public housing unit of transgender model and prostitute Shawn Rachel, 28.
In the West Village on a recent late night/early morning, long, straight black hair, pushed back with Dolce & Gabbana sunglasses, framed her face. It [...]
Posted in del.icio.us on May 29th, 2008
The End of Innocence and Making It Big: The NYTimes spins yet another lost girl tale of innocence, regret and discreetly hot sex | BlogHer
Is there truly any less foolproof way to sell the Sunday issue that to get huge viral buzz from a damsel in distress story played out in that most modern of [...]
Posted in del.icio.us on May 24th, 2008
WCBS NEWSRADIO 880 – Aphrodisiac Kills New York Man
Health officials are warning New Yorkers to stay away from an illegal aphrodisiac made from toad venom after the product apparently killed a man.
(tags: health nyc)
Funky and Free: Sex in the Real World : NPR
The Sex and the City movie is almost here! While the show resonated [...]
Posted in legal, nyc, transgender on May 14th, 2008
A family court does not have the authority to compel New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services to pay for a foster child’s sex-change operation, an appellate court has ruled. In an unsigned, unanimous opinion, the Appellate Division, First Department, held that while Social Services Law §398(6)(c) requires the agency to provide “necessary medical and [...]
Posted in del.icio.us on May 5th, 2008
pretty dumb things: on my 2,500 mile booty call
It was the vanilla custard of sex, and it made me recall how vanilla custard can be quite tasty. Vanilla custard can, in fact, hit the spot. Which this did, thank you very much…And when the custard hit that spot, and my hips up-arched like a Roman [...]
Posted in del.icio.us on Apr 30th, 2008
Law Blog – WSJ.com : Fallout from L’Affaire Spitzer: ‘Kristen’ Sues ‘Girls Gone Wild’ Founder
But the legacy of “Kristen” (a/k/a Ashley Alexandra Dupré), the prostitute whom Spitzer hired, lives on. The latest: Dupré is demanding $10 million from Joe Francis, the founder of the popular “Girls Gone Wild” series, for a video that Dupré ap
(tags: [...]
Posted in Sex2.0, del.icio.us on Apr 14th, 2008
The Japanese Art of Sex: 5 Mind-Blowing Oral Sex Techniques
For her book The Japanese Art of Sex: How to Tease, Seduce & Pleasure the Samurai in Your Bedroom, author Jina Bacarr studied the craft of the geishas, those legendary courtesans whose very image has been making men weak in the knees (among other places)
(tags: oral+sex)
BOINKOLOGY [...]
Posted in del.icio.us on Apr 2nd, 2008
The Daily Poll: Should Craigslist Shutdown its Erotic Services Sections?
Last week, Connecticut’s Attorney General sent a letter to Craigslist demanding the site cleanup what he described as “widespread public reports of prostitutes using the site,” according to Thomas Claburn at Infoworld
(tags: craigslist)
The Missing « Bitchy Jones’s Diary
It’s the look on his face when he’s being [...]
Posted in sex on Mar 25th, 2008
How I Use Twitter to Promote My Blog
I ask my following in Twitter for love three times: once when I post the blog, again if it takes off well in the comments section, and sometimes a third time if I want to really amp the traffic via StumbleUpon
(tags: blogging Twitter)
Labor of Love | Advocate.com
when a [...]
Posted in sex on Mar 17th, 2008
Against Sexual Scandal (Lauren Berlant | The Nation)
Instead, what stories like this really do is to damage the reputation of sex. Whenever there’s a sex scandal, I feel sorry for sex.
(tags: sex)
WNYC – The Brian Lehrer Show: Revelation Number Nine (March 11, 2008)
Eliot Spitzer’s governorship is in turmoil. What are the implications for New York [...]
Posted in sex on Mar 5th, 2008
Hobo Stripper » Stripping Trends
There are trends, little moves or postures, that come and go in the collective stripper unconscious. You know, the little things you do without thinking when you’re killing time by the pole.
(tags: stripping)
Time Out New York: My secret life
You think you know someone—and then you find out they’re a half-naked go-go [...]
Posted in sex on Feb 26th, 2008
Lori Gottlieb: On Settling for Mr. Good Enough – The Huffington Post
I suggest settling specifically for women in their thirties who don’t want to be alone for the rest of their lives and/or want the kind of traditional family in which there are male pubic hairs on the toilet seat in the master bathroom.
(tags: marriage)
sexegesis: [...]
Posted in Tristan Taormino, tristantaormino on Jan 15th, 2008
Congrats Tristan!
New York, NY — On January 16, 2008, Village Voice Media (VVM) will publish the 200th installment of Tristan Taormino’s popular sex column “Pucker Up.” To celebrate this milestone, VVM has recently expanded Taormino’s reach and is now syndicating “Pucker Up” to LA Weekly, SF Weekly, and Seattle Weekly. “Pucker Up” debuted in The [...]
Posted in audacia ray on Jan 7th, 2008
Audacia has a 2007 wrap-up piece up at Eden Fantasys, entitled Ten Hot Sexuality (And Gender) Issues of 2007. The Sex Carnival gets a mention!
Here are the ten topics:
Pole Dancing: For Fun, Exercise and Empowerment
Porn Goes Public: The Rise of Porn Film Festivals
Print vs. Online Erotica
Teen Sexuality: A Laughing Matter?
Social Media and Sex
Sex-Positive: Revolution or [...]
Posted in del.icio.us on Dec 10th, 2007
Convert YouTube Videos for Your iPod Apple TV and iPhone
Tutorial: How to Copy Files Off YouTube and Convert them for your Video iPod, Apple TV, iTunes or iPhone (thanks, Rascal)
(tags: mp4 ipod youtube video porn)
Rachel Kramer Bussel: The Case For Open Relationships (Huffington Post)
“monogamy has become fetishized as the only answer to a large degree, [...]
Posted in del.icio.us on Dec 4th, 2007
Berlin Porn Film Festival, Event Review (ErosZine)
Now in its second year, the Berlin Porn Film Festival screened 150 dirty movies over five days in late October.
(tags: porn audaciaray berlin movies events)
Domme-dar, Slave-dar and Black Rose (Unspeakable Axe)
We met a few friends for dinner and the subject came up of Domme-dar, the ability to detect someone [...]
Posted in del.icio.us on Nov 29th, 2007
Psychologist: Public Masturbators Are “Insane” (Fleshbot)
Earlier this week, we asked what it is that drives some people to want to masturbate in public and also document their conduct for posterity.
(tags: masturbation)
Waking Vixen » Seeing straight ahead: the porn industry’s sexuality blinders
Between these two award shows, there is ONE category for bisexual films
(tags: porn sexuality bisexual [...]
Posted in Events, Fetish & Kink, san francisco on Nov 28th, 2007
Touring writer, activist, and performer Bear Bergman will be teaching at Center For Sex And Culture in their new space at 1519 Mission. All classes are pay-what-you-can.
Saturday, 1 Dec, 4pm-6pm
A Re-Introduction To The Only-Mostly-Dead Art Of Chivalry
(Now! With 200% More Feminism!)
Everyone’s heard the stories: men who get kneed in the balls for [...]
Posted in del.icio.us on Nov 20th, 2007
Naked man suffocated in condom | Metro.co.uk
Gary Ashbrook was discovered naked on his bed alongside three empty cans of nitrous oxide he used to blow up the contraceptive.
(tags: sex condoms)
Not chosing monogamy: Why exclusivity doesn’t matter | (Susan Mernit) BlogHer
What really seems important to me in relationships these days, is not choosing monogamy, but choosing [...]
Posted in del.icio.us on Nov 9th, 2007
Club Tantra: Where sexy spirits come & play
GRAND OPENING Sunday November 11,2007
(tags: events nyc)
Barbara Nitke: fine art photography
Picture of the Week: Lolita and friend (taken at Dark Odyssey)
(tags: barbaranitke photography bdsm lolita+wolf dark+odyssey)
Waking Vixen » Feminist porn wars (new and improved!) (not really)
What I do care about is: does that performer want to be there? [...]
