Intimate moments in hugely public spaces are divine. Image via obama blackfolk. In my San Francisco Chronicle column this week, I basically write an open letter to Barack and Michelle Obama (and the nation) about the urgency of saving our kids from thr perils of current sex ed programs, and tell them exactly how to do it. As a side note, there are just too damn many insanely sexy pictures of Barack and Michelle to choose just one for this post &...

If you're like a lot of homosexualist porn fans—not that you are, but if you were—you probably haven't paid much attention to softcore stuff lately. It's perfectly fine for boob enthusiasts, of course—but apart from late-night, tear-soaked viewings of Dana Plato's oeuvre, there's little to interest your average cock-loving homo. Or so we thought until we stumbled upon Men of Softcore ... and whaddaya know? Apparently it's change...

A mere two years after releasing the teaser, Digital Playground has released the cover art for "Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge", leading to widespread speculation that the actual movie might arrive by the Vancouver Winter Olympics in 2010. Featuring a family-friendly, nowhere-near nude septet tableau including Stoya, Katsuni, and Jesse Jane front and center, the cover also features a diverse cast representative of porn's vaunted crossover appeal...

Image by NW Sunshine. “The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld a lower court ruling striking down the controversial Child Online Protection Act (COPA) that required Web operators to restrict access to large amounts of constitutionally protected speech. COPA placed severe restrictions on a wide range of legal, socially valuable speech, including content relating to sexual identity, health and art. CDT, which has filed friend-of-t...

Image via Map Girls. When I had a porn article in Oprah I was like, whoa, mainstream — but now it’s looking like even the more straitlaced media outlets are ponying up to *finally* viewing sex culture as a constantly relevant set of issues worth covering, in all its myriad forms. And this is a good, *good* thing. Well, we hope it will be anyway — normalizing cultural conversations around sex is one of the main reasons I’m...

In Wicked's new "Wedding Bell Blues", the always delightful Kirsten Price plays a bride-to-be with a serious case of cold feet whose friends try to convince her why giving up a life of carefree sexual encounters with total strangers for the regimented monotony of married life is a Good Thing. But it's all done with a light touch: director Jonathan Morgan's customary sense of humor helps to leaven the film's soul-crushing message that patriarchal ...