Category Archives: Asides

We know how badly the iPhone functions when covered in tears, let alone cum.

The iHand Massage app unlocks control of the vibrator inside your iPhone. (via sexuality.about.com, via Gizmodo)

You know someone will say Data is transgender.

From sex, art, and politics, the most queer theory-packed of the smart sex Tumblr scene, here’s a bit of intertextual courtroom teevee reading on the meaning of intercourse. Where cocks are concerned, sci-fi comes out not only with obvious shades of Foucault and Harraway (interrogation scenes! cyborgs!), but more compassionate, than “reality” cable.

The future of Jessica Cutler.

The eagle-eyed Joanne McNeil of The Tomorrow Museum spotted this aside in an item on Washingtonienne author and blogger Jessica Cutler’s wedding: she’s writing a new book, which involves spaceships. “Jessica actually texted to ask me if I wanted to collaborate on the next book (how 21st Century! It’s like we’re living in Gossip [...]

Obama’s sex-positive checklist

A sex-positive checklist for Obama, by Dr. Marty Klein (via Regina Lynn).

Sexperts, squared.

Sexperts, squared. Susannah “Fuck the sexperts” Breslin, in her interview with sex blogger Lux Alptraum asks, “What’s an average day in the life of a sexpert like?” Alptraum: “It all depends on how I’m channeling my sexpertise.” Proof that sexpert is more useful as a marketing term than anything else. Unless there’s a better reason [...]

Wes Anderson, Shoe & Boot Fetishist

Natalie Portman, getting unzipped at Hotel Chevalier (to be exact, the

Sexerati Exclusive: ‘In Search of the Wild Kingdom’ Teaser Video Clip

Warning, the following may just be too much hotness, too much certainly to contain in just this one little bit of Firefox opened up on the sunniest, sweetest street in the Lower Haight today (of course I blog sex in public), too much hotness for San Francisco, too much hotness for us not to [...]

‘Hot French Student’ Mere Marketing Niche?

A students’ union in France has released a study showing a rise in the number of French students entering the sex industry:
According to the SUD-Etudiant union, 40,000 students in France - or nearly 2 per cent - fund their studies through the sex trade.
The union says jobs taken by female students include hostess work and [...]

Sister of Sluts of Halloween

Cover story in Saturday’s San Francisco Chronicle: “A scary trend: sexy costumes for young girls.” Cliff’s Notes version: sexy is the new scary, and what is the world coming to, and goodness gracious, how can we protect our collective innocence from the destructive influence of slutty outfits? (Which, of course, the paper will [...]

Sex Books on a Plane

Open up my little 1960’s stewardess-chic traincase, TSA, and find these this morning lurking beneath my tiny toiletries:
Speaking Sex to Power: The Politics of Queer Sex, Patrick Califia. Galpal and queer writer Gina de Vries lent me this for my flight today, and I’m so avoiding going up to the gate to remian curled [...]