Ok, I know that most drinks at Starbucks cost less than $5, even a Venti soy add shot whateveraccino. But that’s what you’ll get, if you don’t have your receipt from purchasing Grand Theft Auto two years ago. (You’ll get $35, if you did.) And, of course, if you’re still upset at a bit of [...]

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I suppose they can raise the prices on the smaller sizes and lower the prices on the larger sizes to even out and still make the same profit. It’s funny though because I’ve always had to pay (a lot) more for bras than normal sized people … hell, we’re all used to paying more for [...]

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I’ve known RKB since we were tiny grasshopper writers, when we both started out trying to offer a new perspective on sex and how we write and talk about sexuality. Her piece yesterday in the Huffington Post sums it up beautifully: writing about sex does not have to exploit sex as a way to get [...]

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Tomorrow, tomorrow, god damn it, tomorrow, is only a day away. And I need four days before I can do anything non-billable or my house of cards is going to blow right on down.
I’m trapped in the bay area by the day job and can’t make it to Love LA. Which means it’s even MORE [...]

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Ever notice how many songs sung by men are about expressing love through sex? Going home early to make love, staying in at night to make love, saying “I love you” without words, etc. And ever notice how many songs sung by women are about expressing love through words? Tell me, whisper to me, say [...]

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Thanks again to everyone who talked to me about sex parties, who agreed to be interviewed, who gave generously of their time and expertise … and then waited for a year when the original publisher went through a reorganization and wasn’t able to run it, so I placed it elsewhere.
And here it is:

Are Sex Parties [...]

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This Sunday is the Love LA “Celebration of Sensuality,” and you can get $5 off each ticket if you buy online and use the promo code LAWEEKLY. That means it’s only $20 if you plan ahead. (The door price is $35.) Prizes, seminars, sex toys, and fun people.
Info about the show here
I’ll be [...]

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I’m at the sex tech conference with a bunch of folks who work with youth in various sex-related capacities, like HIV prevention and outreach, health classes, counseling, media, etc. I’m too tired to blog coherently but I wanted to say Hi Nice To Meet You to everyone I’ve spoken with here today, and to announce [...]

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My commentary about the SaSi and What It All Means, in this week’s Sex Drive:
‘Sensual Intelligence’ Gives New SaSi Sex Toy an Erotic Edge

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i’ve been both restless and blocked, lately; i couldn’t settle and i couldn’t think. i drove down to ocean beach — i’m in san francisco this week — and i liked the promise of the brilliant horizon. my cell phone can’t capture the power of the experience but i thought it looked neat anyway:

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Last night I dreamed that I gave my mom some sort of vibrator as a Secret Santa gift for her to open at work. (She is an elementary school teacher in my hometown. This Would Not Be Good.) It was a large base, kind of like a blender, to which you attached a dildo and [...]

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I just managed to finagle a revised travel schedule which allows me to be in town for Love LA. Here’s the blurb, lifted shamelessly from the home page:

From the most creative and sensual minds in Southern California comes a show that will tingle your senses and refine your sexual knowledge.
Welcome to LOVE LA, the first [...]

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Sassy SaSi
You know how a good lover experiments to find out which techniques create which sensations in you, and remembers the results for future lovemaking, while still branching out often enough you don’t bored? The SaSi, which made its U.S. debut last night at a party hosted by its stateside distributor Babeland, does the same [...]

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The 2008 Adult Entertainment Expo is loud, flashy, crowded — and shrinking. The usual wall of sound and porn still descends upon you the moment you walk in. But eel your way through the crush to the back of the floor and you’ll find generic exhibitors where the small or entrepreneurial adult businesses used to [...]

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It’s not actually quiet. It’s not possible for this convention to do anything quietly. The press room sponsor Digital Playground has a really neat few-minute trailer of its upcoming Pirates II title playing on loop in the press room. Loudly. The show floor is a cacophony of porn soundtracks, music and moans and screams and [...]

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