The Bay Area’s craziest spoken word event celebrates its 10th anniversary, with an all-star lineup! When: Saturday, April 9, 2011, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM What: WRITERS WITH DRINKS TURNS TEN! Who: Rick Moody, Maxine Hong Kingston, Monica Youn, Regina Lynn, Keith Knight and the contributors to Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St. between Mission and Valencia, San Francisco How much: $5 to...

I estimate that at least half of the sex-tech entrepreneurs I’ve written about over the years are men who say they invented their product or service at the prodding of their wives and girlfriends. In many cases, the women keep their day jobs to support the household and prop up the business, and the men try to bring the product or service to market before the whole enterprise crumbles under the weight of financial ruin. (I mention this in c...

I’ve had a great email exchange with Brad at ThriXXX and am still following up on some details to see what I can and can’t publish about what’s coming up (so to speak), but for now: Yes, the plan will be to support simultaneous use of multiple devices. The Vstroker/Fleshlight is a USB device and the Kinect camera and other motion-sensing cameras are typically USB, so as long as there is a device driver for every USB device, we s...

I’ve had a great email exchange with Brad at ThriXXX and am still following up on some details to see what I can and can’t publish about what’s coming up (so to speak), but for now: Yes, the plan will be to support simultaneous use of multiple devices. The Vstroker/Fleshlight is a USB device and the Kinect camera and other motion-sensing cameras are typically USB, so as long as there is a device driver for every USB device, we s...

The month has been full of “OMFG when will someone develop a sex game for Microsoft’s new Kinect thingie” and I have not chimed in, because I don’t have one handy and I haven’t had time to find someone who does. (Also, that two-day-jobs thing really cuts into the rest of one’s life, has anyone else noticed this?) But. ThriXXX has been active in the 3D sex game space for years, and you might have already seen it...

Stem Cell Transplant Cures HIV In ‘Berlin Patient’. Timothy Ray Brown, also known as the “Berlin Patient,” received the transplant in 2007 as part of a lengthy treatment course for leukemia. His doctors recently published a report in the journal Blood affirming that the results of extensive testing “strongly suggest that cure of HIV infection has been achieved.” Brown’s case paves a path for constructing ...

Geekologie and about a billion other nerdy sites posted about a robot tentacle prosthetic today, saying it was designed by Kaylene Kau as part of a student project. It took me a while of clicking through the cross-linking to realize I’d have to Google to find out who Kaylene is. She’s a recent graduate from the industrial design program at the University of Washington, and she’s looking for a job. Had I known about this sooner, ...

Almost exactly five years ago, I wrote about a complex and interesting Bluetooth-enabled vibrator called The Toy. The one drawback of The Toy was the limited number of phones it was compatible with. But now, there’s a free Android app. I’ve downloaded it, but I have to charge my The Toy to see if it will work with the first production model. If not, I’m seriously considering spending the £140.00/$212.00 to get a new one. I text ...

I wrote about Sherri Williams v. Alabama in 2005 (“Do You Have an Rx for That Vibrator?“), describing the battle Sherri fought to keep her Pleasures stores open after Alabama banned sex toy retail “for immoral purposes” from the state. I wrote about the case again in 2007 when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to consider Sherri’s appeal (“Chaste Home, Alabama, Where You Can’t Buy a Dildo“). Now Sherri...

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This feels something like being thoroughly French kissed while wearing vibrating nipple clamps and having someone nibble the nape of your neck…. ~ from ‘A Game of Passion’ by Regina Lynn My story “A Game of Passion” is included in Tentacle Dreams, an anthology of ten — count ‘em! — tentacle sex stories from indie e-book publisher Republica Press. Available now in PDF, ePub, and MobiPocket from Repub...

It’s a little bit Rube Goldberg for both of the purposes people are talking about, but who cares. It’s a robot! (And reminding me of a Big Bang Theory episode about a robot arm…)

I just stumbled across my chapter from the anthology Naked Ambition, written five years ago, from a completely different life than I have now. I still really like it. (In fact, my first thought was, “wow, I hope I can still write like this.” Heh.) It begins thusly: Every week, I expose myself to a hundred thousand people online and invite them to discuss it in a public forum. They don't love me for my body. Hell, some of them don't l...