No tampon or puppet-fucking jokes, please As you can tell from my lack of command of basic English grammar, I don’t read much. And when I read, I don’t read quickly. So the five books on this list I read for work, and they each happened to explore the dark side of sex for money. [...]

Holmes is iconic in American and porn culture for many of the same reasons rock stars are: unchecked fame and ego, low self esteem and an addictive personality, a personal magnetism and, beneath it all, a gift that destroyed him in the end.

I spoke with Natalie McLennan, formerly Manhattan’s priciest prostitute (aside from David Gest) and most recently the author of The Price: My Rise And Fall As Natalia, New York’s #1 Escort, from her home in Montreal. McLennan’s book is a picture of that era in New York following 9/11 that saw a resurgence in conspicuous [...]

While on the subject of fiction writers who have briefly alighted on sex culture, I found “The Corrections” author Jonathan Franzen’s 1997 article “Books In Bed” (included in his essay collection “How To Be Alone”) in which he says of every person who attempts to give book-based sexual instruction, “Their work creates the bumbling amateur.” [...]

I have a feeling that the promotional Memphis Monroe video might be the best thing about the new book “Wife Training: A Pig’s Guide to Love And Marriage.” The Pride of Northern Kentucky and Southern Indiana gives 90′s-era Jenny McCarthy a run for her money in her I Know You’re Looking at My Boobs But [...]

“George Bailey, do you ever get tired of just reading about things?” says local sassypants Violet Bick in “It’s A Wonderful Life.” That’s the way I usually feel when invited to erotica readings. I get nervous in a roomful of people who use the phrase “my sex” for their genitalia. But on the strength of [...]

“What do the kids who grow up in the spillover from the Strip aspire to? How does living in ground zero of social and moral dysfunction impact kids as they come of age?”

It is hard to tell where Casey Parker ends and Devon begins in this picture from Casey Parker’s California Dreamin’. According to the Axis II section of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (revision IV), one of the trademarks of a Narcissistic Personality is the inability to tell where one’s body ends and [...]

Laura Albert (right) published three books under the name JT LeRoy and employed others (such as the woman to the left) to adopt the invented persona of LeRoy, a male teen prodigy/prostitute/AIDS afflictee. When the story broke in 2006 that the 40-ish Albert had invented the whole thing, she was sued by her publisher and [...]

Angel Dare is a former porn star and current adult talent manager who is tricked into one final scene by an old friend. Her scene partner, he says, is a newish male performer who has always been an Angel Dare fan. Christa Faust’s “Money Shot” delivers more than pulp thrillers should and, as it was [...]

My pal Audacia Ray will be at Freddy & Eddy bookstore in Venice tonight, signing copies of her “Naked on the Internet: Hookups, Downloads and Cashing in on Internet Sexploration” and trying hard to fit in. “In an attempt to blend with the local culture,” she said, “I might actually not wear all black. But, [...]

Lintz describes her former co-workers – Pornhounds – at an unnamed magazine