Zaftig and wicked dominatrix Julie Simone sent along this snapshot of domestic tranquility at her place, as captured in her forthcoming “Vicious Vixxxens 6: Asphyxiating Ariel.” Because I am interested in how things work, I asked Simone about her process. “What do you call what you’re doing to that poor girl?” I asked. “Tuesday,” she [...]

It’s so important to support the arts in a city that thinks more of a five-and-under on “Three And A Half Men” than it does my recent stage triumph “Gram Ponante Comes on Your Face.” But this Saturday a group of entities is getting together to sponsor Dark Carnival Night at Club Hell on Santa [...]

San Francisco’s Kink.com, founded in 1997 as a single, catch-all fetish website, has grown to an umbrella organization comprising almost 20 specific, constantly updated websites for which content is generated around the world and collected in one big building on Mission Street. The Armory, as I mentioned before, is a massive and imposing stone structure [...]

Lorelei Lee left today on a cross-country road trip to New York, where she will be attending graduate school. At San Francisco’s Kink.com Armory, Lee this week directed a scene for the site Wired Pussy that counts as her last paid work before school starts. She’ll be returning now and then on breaks. Luckily, graduate [...]

Nina Hartley donated some ass-pinkening for the greater good last weekend at the Woodhull Sexual Freedom Foundation’s first Los Angeles fundraiser, which featured a great deal of leather and people practiced at wielding it. The Woodhull Foundation embraces the idea that sexual freedom is a fundamental human right, as opposed to something that is only [...]

Nina Hartley, Carol Queen, and Lamalani, International Ms. Leather 2009, will grace a fundraiser Saturday night for the Woodhull Freedom Foundation, a non-profit organization that promotes sexual freedom as a fundamental human right. This is the first L.A. event for the Washington D.C.-based advocacy group, said spokesman Jim Rea, and he encourages members of the [...]

Others may feel differently, but this was the most shocking thing I ever saw in a movie aimed at my then demographic: Molly Ringwald’s stunt crotch from 1985′s “The Breakfast Club.” (The second most arresting cinematic moment came a year later when Isabella Rosselini said “Hit me, Jeffrey.”) Iconic 80′s director John Hughes died of [...]

I will be a guest on the inaugural episode of “Is This Normal?”, a sexology and sex ed show on TalkingSexRadio (“Where adults can be adults”) tonight from 8 to 10. Hosted by Emily Prior, founder of the Center for Positive Sexuality, with assistance by bondage fashions designer and Filthy Book Reader Simone Williams, “Is [...]

My needs are simple, yet look how exorbitantly Vixen Vogel accommodates them in “Brazen And Unshaven.” Not only that, but after writing about porn for several years, my expectations are also low. Hence the deep satisfaction I felt about “Slut Wife Training 4,” despite the fact that I am fairly certain these wives were filthy [...]

It was a pleasure seeing Noname Jane at Erotica L.A. this weekend. I didn’t notice at the time that she was wearing a pentagram, but that might have been the way Satan wanted it. I first met Noname Jane under a different name (I was then known as Ronnie James Dio) in 2006 at the [...]

Kink.com Larry Flynt makes his employees pay for parking. Digital Playground has never washed the Tera couch. If you work at Vivid, you have to make awkward, shoe-gazing conversation with Eon McKai by the lunch truck. GawkerMedia did away with its bonus program so I’m not getting a Gizmodo-branded hoodie for writing Fleshbot’s most-read story [...]

I have never, ever seen a Japanese woman I would describe as a bitch. The closest I’ve come is when a Korean woman backed into my car and was profusely sorry about it. But then it was the situation that was a bitch and not the Korean woman. And would Korean women, often used as [...]

Like you, I grew tired of my bloated aunts and uncles and high school friends after about three hours yesterday. So I looked around for a good family movie and, since Madagascar 2 and Quantum of Solace were sold out, I chose Slave 01 instead. “It must be this year’s The Color Purple,” I thought. [...]

You might think of Madison Young as a deadly serious redheaded San Francisco porn performer/director with an agenda. But she is actually from Loveland, Ohio. I pinned her down recently and asked her to submit to the patriarchal structure that is the western white male interview. But I learned something about myself as well.Gram Ponante: [...]

Regardless, as a sex film, as a lifestyle documentary, and as a flesh-packed, English-language telenovela, O2: The Surrender of O is, like its predecessor, another porn movie that transcends its genre. Remember: Come for the Nina, stay for the Bree.

Suite number of the party at which Satine Phoenix was naked: 211
Temperature of that room, in fahrenheit degrees: 102

Because I am the coolest person you know, I knew that my trip yesterday to the Orange County headquarters and warehouse of hardcore adult products purveyor Extreme Restraints would not yield medieval scenes of people zapping each other’s nipples while archiving QuickBooks files. Still, in the way certain people will make a show of wiping [...]

Last week I went to the launch party for Julie Simone’s Hollywood-gone-right casting couch movie Audition. The event was at Bar 107 downtown, and in attendance were the director and her star, Gia Paloma. Just a day before Van Damage had told me that Paloma, not of her own accord, had almost bit his dick [...]