Betty Dodson is a genius sex educator, and funny to boot. In a 4 minute video called “The Internal Clitoris,” she draws the entire internal workings of the clitoris, and then draws the external body over it. It’s one hell of an educational clip.
Toxic Toys
That handful of dirt we’re all supposed to have swallowed over the course of a lifetime seems quite healthy in comparison to this nasty stuff.
Why I’m Pro Choice
Today is Blog for Choice Day.
There is one reason and one reason only: because if abortion is illegal, women with money & power & connections will be able to have them still, and poor women with no power & access to pay for blackmarket services will not. While there are significant disparities of access and care with abortion legal, it is nothing like what it would be if it weren’t legal.
Abortion will not go away. It has always been with us. That said, holding men/boys responsible for children they father would be a good start. Getting honest sex education to teenagers and adults would be great. Free and easily-accessible birth control would go a long way toward preventing abortions. Dealing with the fact that people have sex – priceless.
NYC: Reading Tonight!
Tonight I’ll be reading from She’s Not the Man I Married as part of Rachel Kramer Bussel’s In the Flesh Erotic Reading Series at the Happy Ending Lounge.
Check our calendar for more info, or check RKB’s website.
NYC: Erotic Memoirs on 1/17
I’ll be reading from She’s Not the Man I Married on Wednesday, January 17th as part of Rachel Kramer Bussel’s In the Flesh Erotic Reading Series at the Happy Ending Lounge.
Details are here (or below). Get there by 7:30 to assure a seat, and definitely get there by 8PM if you’re coming to here me – I’m up right after the introductory words!
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Wrap-Ups
Tristan Taormino has a column up about the best sex of 2006, including awards for “The Creepiest Sex Scene on Television” and “The Man Most Persecuted by PayPal.”
Jake Anderson-Minshall wrote a year-end wrap-up of trans rights and interests, as well as a column about what’s coming up in the trans arena in 2007.
Where The Clitoris Is
For those who haven’t seen it yet, Dan Savage on The Colbert Report.
HB: In the Flesh
I just received the final lineup for the Erotic Memoirs Reading I’ll be doing for Rachel Kramer Bussel’s In the Flesh series on January 17th.
Porno for Pirates
No kidding, a porn flick with everyone dressed as pirates, and then, real queer couples get it on in an SF apartment.
A Queer Sunday
Reading John Waters’ article about Tennesee Williams – and in The New York Times Book Review, no less! – was a treat. I love them both, for being queer, for their art, for their humor and sarcasm and truth.
These are my people, and always have been.
But it made me think about the books I had to “steal” as a kid, or read secretly. For me, it was Joe Orton’s biography, Prick Up Your Ears, first and foremost. I heard about him reading interviews with Adam Ant, who simultaneously introduced me to Marc Bolan, the erotic art of Allen Jones, Derek Jarman, and Tom of Finland. Around the same time I discovered Soft Cell and Marc Almond, who in turn turned my head toward the likes of Jacques Brel and Jean Genet. (And I wonder why I turned out the way I am, reading about rough trade and anonymous bathroom sex when I was 15.)
They were all great “bad” influences, their books and art I hid from my mother. They told me there was another world out there, just as Tennesee Williams told John Waters there was.
So who were yours?