Today Apple launched their new music social network Ping (basically a clone of Last.fm), and in Apple's promotional image for the new feature, they very obviously removed a thread of Tweets from Lady Gaga's timeline where she clearly spoke out celebrating being pro-gay, about California’s anti-gay marriage legislation, Prop 8. Seriously. Apple, we see you. ::pause for the scream of WTF on loop in my head thinking about my gay friends who w...

Watch the Lady Java video if you must: do not bother unless you are the one person who totally fapped to Christina Aguilera’s Not Myself Tonight video. I’ll get my geek on to peep the FleshDrive* news item instead — and all I will say is, $39.95, really: “Hundreds of adult movies in the palm of your hand” is the motto behind New York-based FleshDrive, a new company selling USB thumbdrives filled with porn. The small...

About a year and a half ago I brought up the example of author Anne Rice in a a post here about the role that religion (Roman Catholicism in particular) likely played in the development of many people’s erotic consciousness — Rice’s in particular. The post was provoked by a discussion of Rice’s highly public conversion to Christianity. Well, as of a couple of weeks ago, Rice has decided she’d had enough. I quit be...

That’s MetModel’s pic of the day (above), which is different than Met Art. I have an overabundance of pretty girls and free porn in my inbox, a touch of snark (as usual), and the free galleries from which the pretty girls sprout. It’s Sunday; enjoy! I’ve been a fan of Hegre’s busty brunette Muriel for a while; I also thought this five-girl shoot was sweet. Digital Desire has Faye Valentine, a teaser video of Kasey C...

I lurk on Hacker News for a number of reasons, and one of them is that I occasionally come across really interesting articles that cross genres, ones that I think you’ll find as intriguing as I do. Today I found a juicy one that really resonates; it’s a blog post titled Downsides to being seen as a man. Powerful and controversial, for sure. For instance, it’s heartbreaking to see truths such as male rape not being taken seriousl...

I lurk on Hacker News for a number of reasons, and one of them is that I occasionally come across really interesting articles that cross genres, ones that I think you’ll find as intriguing as I do. Today I found a juicy one that really resonates; it’s a blog post titled Downsides to being seen as a man. Powerful and controversial, for sure. For instance, it’s heartbreaking to see truths such as male rape not being taken seriousl...

I just got an email from Facebook telling me that the Our Porn, Ourselves page was removed for a terms of use violation. They did not say what the alleged violation was. Take this as a win for the anti-porn trolls that had been harassing members, reporting photos that were not in violation, and were likely reporting the page for non-existent violations. (Some may remember a few weeks ago when I asked on Twitter how I could stop these people from ...

This has been on my mind for years. Coming across this gallery from French site Explicite Arte just kind of triggered the ongoing debate in my brain about Euro male porn performers versus domestic American ones. The men in the Euro sets seldom disappoint. As I’ve toiled in the porn mines (I’m actually the canary) for a decade and focused on creating female-focused community and resources both online and offline, it’s become evid...

This looks like an interesting event, similar to Sex 2.0 (or perhaps it actually is the evolution of the Sex 2.0 unconference?) Welcome to the first annual MOMENTUM Conference taking place on April 1 to April 3, 2011 in Washington, DC. The phenomenal growth of online communication has given rise to an amazing amount of sharing, learning and experimenting with different expressions of sexuality, relationships and feminism. MOMENTUM provides a saf...

* It’s never been a secret that some lesbians love gay male porn and some gay men love watching straight porn (to get off). In fact, I interviewed lesbian porn filmmaker Shine Louise Houston and we talked about the lez love for gay porn; I interviewed gay male porn star Michael Soldier and we talked about gay love for watching straights. The Daily Beast offers interesting insight on lesbian love for gay porn, with opinion from Tristan Taorm...

In, um, honor of San Francisco coming in at #7 for living a vegetarian lifestyle, I present you with a gallery of Explicite Arte’s French models uninhibited love for fruit and veg, helpfully demonstrating other things a lady might do to make the most of a vegetarian lifestyle.

If you live in the UK then you’ve likely seen this Twingo ad several times, but for those of us here in SF — on Gay Pride weekend — it’s novel, sweet, funny and all kinds of awesome.

Another installment in Pride weekend fun: the psychology of fag hags. I’m a girl with a lot of gay male friends, yet I’ve managed to not get painted with the “fag hag” brush. To my face, anyway. I don’t know why it feels this way, but I’ve been relieved on occasion to have more than one gay friend tell me he’s glad I’m not a fag hag (and yet I hang out with, flirt with and crew up with gay friends ...