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: [...]

Even as San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsome’s “It’s gonna happen; whether you like it or not!” pro-same-sex marriage soundbite was played over and over to incite fear among a homophobic populace to ban gay marriage in California, lesbians in a Bay Area apartment were secretly taping each other in direct violation of their civil rights. [...]

Destin Gerek, a San Francisco-based Certified Somatic Sexologist and self-proclaimed “Erotic Rockstar”* is raising awareness and erectile tissue for his presidential contender of choice by spearheading O’s for Obama, a series of live and web-streamed events. “If you care about the future of this country and this planet you won’t want to miss this,” said [...]

“You don’t have to ask her if you can fingerbang her,” says Princess Donna to a roomful of invited guests in a live show filmed for Kink.com’s Wired Pussy, “because she’s a worthless whore. But you do have to ask me.” The worthless whore in question is Delilah Strong and, as she is handled, blindfolded, [...]

Photographer Ed Fox (whose picture of the newly-minted Noname Jane debuted on this site a week ago) is displaying his work for Garage Magazine at a group show at San Francisco’s Minna Gallery. “Full Custom Living: The Art of Garage Magazine” is a group show featuring 26 contributors to the magazine devoted to custom cars, [...]

Adrianna Nicole wishes, in retrospect, that she’d chosen a different porn name, but at least she can try on a new one when she’s wrestling. “If I’d only thought of ‘Adrianaconda’ sooner,” she said. Visitors to San Francisco (with the exception of school groups and religious zealots) should make a point of stopping by Kink.com’s [...]

I visited San Francisco for its Fetish Ball this weekend and spent one early morning following Satine Phoenix around the city on various adventures. Generally I am a clean-living, wholesome person, but I hadn’t slept in a couple of days and things began looking Lovecraftian after a while (which is also the name of my [...]

I usually encounter Madison Young when she is being smacked, humiliated, or otherwise being dragged around by a chain. I should not have been surprised to see her at a poetry slam. “Well, I made the movie to promote literacy,” she said. The short Writers And Rockstars, available on her website, is as close to [...]

The last time I went to San Francisco I asked Tchukon Hunter, manager/co-owner of Mr. S Leather, “What’s with the gays?” In particular, I was referring to the complex series of colored handkerchiefs they wore in their back pockets to signal their preferences to others of their kind, in much the same way I will [...]

It is one of life’s great ironies that something that should be so much fun – sex for money – is taken so goddamn seriously. Recently I interviewed the organizer of San Francisco’s Back Alley Cat Bike Ride, an event scheduled for next Saturday that in her words will “build connections between communities.” In this [...]

Considering what else goes on up there, San Francisco officials say, this weekend’s Courtesan Carnival, a benefit to send sex workers to classes where they will study labor organizing, will be like a “wholesome church spaghetti dinner.” “I walk three steps out of my office and there’s some poly-gendered juice straining PVC-clad Kucinich supporter fisting [...]

Once upon a time, when I lived in New York, I bought a pair of leather pants on Christopher Street. They cost more than I could afford, but they more or less fit my massive yet svelte frame. Because I took the occasional large amount of drugs, I could sometimes be found staying up all [...]