Posts Tagged as ‘Sex’

October 7, 2009

Roman Polanski

ROMAN POLANSKI: Wanted and Desired
A documentary film by Marina Zenovich 2008

I wonder if the people who’ve been calling for Roman Polanski’s head—and his body, back here in the USA—know all the confusing details of the case? I suspect not; if they did, they couldn’t possibly see the issue in stark black-and-white terms. But if they [...]

October 6, 2009

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 [...]

October 2, 2009

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 [...]

September 22, 2009

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, [...]

June 3, 2009

Literary Misfit

As some readers may know, I recently uploaded my novel, Halfway to the Stars, on Scribd, a relatively new service that offers unpublished/unpublishable books for sale. I’d only sent it out to a few agents/editors since completing it two years ago, and then stopped trying to publish it: after four previous novels I no longer [...]

May 30, 2009

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.

April 27, 2009

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 [...]

February 5, 2009

The Position: Book Review

The Position
by Meg Wolitzer
Scribner 2005
I don’t know when I’ve been more disappointed in a novel. The topic allegedly under consideration is what first attracted me: a family in which the four children stumble upon a sex self-help book written by their parents, which includes sketches of the couple fucking in every [...]

January 31, 2009

Sex Research Is Alive and Well

Did I go to sleep for a bunch of years and miss some phenomenal developments in the field of sex research? Or did something happen to jump-start sex research after a long dormant period brought on by Nine-Eleven, super patriotism, chastity clubs, and Bush time? I thought research on sex had come to a standstill [...]

July 25, 2008

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 [...]