A German kids’ show gives tips on how to hide an erection (YouTube clip)
Dear John, “a magazine for men written by women“
Chester Brown‘s graphic novel, Paying for It: “The book begins with a record of Brown’s slow disillusionment with the concept of romantic love, then follows his carefully planned and budgeted forays into the world of being a john.“
“Prostitution 2.0: The Changing Face of Sex Work” (pdf)
On the history of “the tits tee”
A review of Sexual Injustice: Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe
Jean M. Auel, author of Clan of the Cave Bear, has a new book: “Sex turns out to be central to The Land of Painted Caves: ‘What does a Cro-Magnon woman do if she finds herself pregnant, but doesn’t know the cause? Was it because she bathed in a stream, ate certain foods or had relations with a man?’“
A review of Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade, who wrote gay erotica under the name Phil Andros
A. Chee on sex in the writing of Jame Salter
Diana Athill‘s old stories about happy-go-lucky quickies: “For Athill’s characters are innocent opportunists, finding sexual encounters where they can and for the most part enjoying them in the moment at face value.“
“[Angela] Carter gets away with shamelessly exploiting sci-fi B-movie conventions for serious aesthetic and ideological purposes. In some of her other works Carter uses structurally primitive kinds of narrative (the fairy tale, pornography) in much the same way: she taps into their basic structural and mythological power as a way of roiling the waters of the unconscious … then proceeds, by means of hyperbole, irony, structural reversals, and the layered development of character, to give those obvious stories thematic complexity and density.”
Keeping the British End Up — a re-issue of a book on those saucy 60′s & 70′s British sex comedies, which featured such memorable actresses as Sue Longhurst and Sally Faulkner. Faulkner later appeared in the lesbo vampire movie Vampyres.
Sally Faulkner in Confessions of a Driving Instructor
On 1970′s pornographer, Al Goldstein
Benjamin Franklin on why older women are preferable: “Because the Sin is less. The debauching a Virgin may be her Ruin, and make her for Life unhappy.“
Franklin also features in One Nation Under Sex, a new book by Larry Flynt and David Eisenbach, according to which “Ben Franklin helped save the American Revolution by seducing French women, Dolley Madison slept around, …. Abe Lincoln liked to share beds with men … and Eleanor Roosevelt’s lesbian affairs helped her become a crusader for equal rights.“
Franklin attended meetings of the Hellfire Club in England, where he met John Wilkes, an English radical who inspired the American revolutionaries, who “loved books, booze, sex and freedom,” and who co-wrote the porn poem, An Essay on Women
“Oral sex puts men at risk for oral cancer“
Academic sex scandals, from the dominatrix English professor at the University of New Mexico to a squirting demo at Northwestern to the strippers in the class at La Salle University to the emeritus professor of surgery who recommended giving semen to women on Valentine’s day instead of chocolate (and whose off-color humor triggered a major overreaction)
