If you’re in San Francisco, tonight there’s going to be a free book event that is going to be really interesting: Oriana Small, AKA Ashley Blue will be reading from her new book Girlvert: A Porno Memoir tonight, August 18, at The Booksmith (1644 Haight Street) from 7:30-9pm, also featuring Dave Naz and Carol Queen. I wrote a review of Girlvert that includes an interview with Small on SF Appeal – here’s a snip: Most porno-...

Meet The Mayhems is an indie porn and sex culture site run by porn star couple Maggie and Ned Mayhem, and it’s not like any other porn site you’ll find online. They’re doing something I think is smart, hot, fan-savvy, and more cutting edge than anyone seems to realize. Porn star couples are a popular staple and oft-desired item by porn consumers. Why? I think it’s because while we can all easily find porn that pushes our ...

Long-time Kink.com porn legend Lorelei Lee has co-written a mainstream movie about the porn business. It’s due out in 2012, and Gram Ponante has the scoop: With the completion of the movie "Cherry," a story about the porn industry that she co-wrote with "Adderall Diaries" author Stephen Elliot, Lee is poised to quietly overtake Sasha Grey, Tera Patrick, and Jenna Jameson in bringing an adult industry narrative to the general public. The m...

"My Plaything" is an intriguing series from Digital Sin that's been around for ages (Jenna Jameson did two in the early Aughts) and features one girl in a variety of interactive porn situations. Audrey Bitoni's isn't flawless, but there are some great moments that really make it worthwhile. More »

This is a twist. Some of you may know the blog High On Sex (new URL) from the times over the years I’ve mentioned them here; it is a very opinionated sex blog that is loved by many, a blog somewhat along the lines of famed Synthetic Pubes. After over five years, it seems that Google has quietly and abruptly deleted the entire Blogger blog – and with no explanation, recourse or response to queries by the editor. I wonder if it was a g...

This is a post about attribution, with digressions; but it also has a damned fine photograph in it. Let’s start with the photograph, in the degraded condition that I first found it in. It was a large-format version of this: What are your first impressions of this photo? I’ll tell you what my first and second impressions were. First impression: It’s a very attractive pic, despite being fully-clothed and very soft-core, becau...

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...

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There are many different ways to rank the popularity of pornstars: through fan-powered popularity polls, measurement of website traffic, number of Twitter followers, DVD sales...but RealTouch has come up with what may be the most fascinating one of all. For those who don't remember, RealTouch (or the robopussy, as we like to think of it) is a super high tech sex toy for men; one that works to simulate the feel of an actual, factual pussy (or ass,...

Perhaps one of the most salient features of Digital Playground's latest release, "All Stars 2," is that we don't recognize a single girl in it. Which begs the question: does Robby D possess the gift of prescience?It would explain a lot if he did—for example, his string of incredible hit movies spanning several years now. Face it, Robby D is to your sex drive what John Hughes was to awkward teens struggling with their identities in the 80's:...