Sugar Daddy / Sugar Baby

In our ailing economy, even Hugh Hefner is plagued by financial troubles, on top of which he’s also juggling romantic problems, perhaps for the first time in his 80-something years. The combination of the two put Hef into the news spotlight recently—so it seemed a good time to post this slightly revised excerpt of [...]

Sins Invalid

Sins Invalid: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty in the Face of Invisibility
Nomy Lamm
“We are a new body of liberation,” proclaims Mistress of Ceremonies Cara Page, who opens Sins Invalid, a collection of skits by and about people with various disabilities. She introduces each performance and delivers poetic lines in between a parade of images and [...]

Go, Dave!

He didn’t try to redefine the English language. He didn’t clear his throat and look down at his shoes, ashamed. He didn’t force his wife to walk out onto the stage and hold his hand while he confessed his sins. And he didn’t pay a blackmailer two million dollars to shut up.
No, David Letterman, separating [...]

Porn Will Make You Gay

What were you told it would do to you?
You’ll go blind. / Your wee wee will fall off. / You’ll burn in hell.
Or, how ’bout this? Pornography will make you gay.
That’s the up-and-coming tactic the current generation of prudish parents plan to use to stop their kids from wanking. They say their target is porn, [...]

Seven Years of Herotica 7

7 X 7:  Seven-Years of Herotica 7:

Writing, Publishing, Diversity and Political Correctness

Herotica 7, a collection of erotic fiction I edited in 2003, has suddenly and without fanfare finally been published. (The first print run of 2000 sold out, but a second printing is on the way.) Amazon shows it as a re-issue, [...]

Halfway to the Stars

You can buy a copy of my novel, Halfway to the Stars, at Scribd, for a mere 5 bucks. I’m trying this out. If anyone else has used Scribd I’m interested in hearing your stories.

Farewell Ms. Chambers

Porn star Marilyn Chambers died two weeks ago, at the obscenely young age of 56. Cause of death still hasn’t been established, and I can’t help wondering if she took her own life.
Marilyn Chambers reigned supreme during what is widely considered to have been the heyday of porno movies–after the 1973 Supreme Court Miller decision [...]

Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madame of Crystal

Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madame (sic) of Crystal
HBO Documentary
Thanks to HBO, I was able to get the 411 on Heidi Fleiss, whose activities, as readers may know, I’ve been following for a couple of years. I started tracking the infamous Hollywood Madam when she announced plans to open a Stud Farm catering to [...]

Only In San Francisco

Actually, that isn’t true: National Masturbation Month is celebrated/ acknowledged/tolerated throughout these United States in May. It all began back in 1995 when our former Surgeon General, Jocelyn Elders, got the ax for stating that masturbation “is perhaps something that should be taught” about when discussing sexual options for young people. Groovy Bill Clinton did [...]

Writing The Hot Stuff

Writing is a little bit like prostitution. First you do it for love. Then you do it for a few friends. Then you do it for money.–Moliere

Last week I posted a blog about publishing erotica, and foolishly promised I’d soon post another about how to write the stuff. I say foolishly because I normally restrain [...]