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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Director: Mike Ramone Cast: Eric Swiss, Moxxie Maddron Portions of this review also appeared on Fleshbot At first, all we hear above the Blackness is the dragging of a chain, as if Marley’s Ghost has returned to the attic of the Cenobites. We are filled with unease. Master Eric wakes at 8 a.m. in his [...]

HOLLYWOOD — It’s 90 degrees out, the hills are on fire, and I’m wearing leather pants. I’m walking west on Sunset Blvd. feeling ornery. I’ve spent 40 minutes looking for parking because valeting my car just to see it being parked within my field of vision strikes me as everything that’s wrong with Hollywood. That [...]

02: The Surrender of O will be feted tonight with a party the likes of which has only been hinted at in the virtual pages of Isaiah666.com. Organizers suggest attendees get to Boardner’s in Hollywood as close to 9 p.m. as possible. “Or be flogged?” I suggested. “No,” they said, “Or you won’t get in.” [...]

Close personal friend Hollie Stevens just kept not showing up at Saturday’s Girls & Corpses Halloween party. She was supposed to arrive with Stanton LaVey, grandson of Anton Szandor LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan. All I wanted was LaVey’s famous family barbecue recipe, and I waited for hours. “We got there at 10,” [...]

Q. Grams, how do you tell a bad submissive?A. Beats me. Raina Verene, like anyone owning stock in General Motors, is what is known as a lifestyle submissive, or “permanent bottom.” She spends her time gleefully serving others, and sometimes just as gleefully being beaten by them. This Saturday Verene appears in a live snippet [...]