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My two latest articles, at Vice and Men's Health, show my passion for pulling the things we're ashamed of out of the closet they live in, giving them a hug, and presenting them to the world in better light. Demystifying them, as it were. [...continue...]

I got to wondering: was the post–Fifty Shades kink bubble popping? Had pop culture's obsession with fetish and BDSM and Ben Wa balls reached its high-water mark? Was mainstream kink in America over? I started hyperventilating and dreaming up picket-sign designs along the lines of "We'll Never Go Back!" But then I righted myself and spoke to kinky folks from lifestyle consumers to the tippy top tops at FetLife and Kink.com about what the heck is going on. And I came away with a much more nuanced understanding of the situation. (Hint: The bubble may not have burst, exactly, but it has changed.) [...continue...]

In case you were wondering… this happened. Hello, everyone! I’m so sorry I’ve been out of commission on this website for a little while. I have been super crazy busy doing super crazy cool things, like a three-day photo shoot that I’m so psyched to show you the results of [...continue...]

It’s taken me a while to get up the gumption to do this, because most of the photos from the shoot I did with Natasha Gornik are racy to say the least, and very personal at that. But what the hell is having a blog where I write about personal shit for if not posting racy personal stuff? And [...continue...]

Natasha Gornik is one of those kinda-familiar names at WHACK! HQ. She’s photographed and worked with our most fabulous favorites, the Domi Dollz, and was featured on their site as the Domi Doll of the Month this March. We feel like we’ve run into her at some events here and there around NYC, [...continue...]

On her whirlwind trip to the City of Angels last week, WHACK!’s own weird and wonky wordsmith, Miss Lagsalot, followed some directions from Oriana Small aka Ashley Blue to a small motel on the beach in Santa Monica. Innocently thinking perhaps she would witness a porn shoot involving standard [...continue...]

Dearest readerly ones. I’ve encountered Vid Tuesday’s work here and there in my explorations of queer kinky porn, and I’ve been very impressed. Vid seems to me like a laid-back, very comfortable in his skin kind of person who enjoys the pleasures of the flesh. I love watching [...continue...]

A few quick notices, my dearies: 1) Have you read about the “Naked Therapist” yet? You should. Fascinating stuff. I hope to write a few of my own thoughts on this one in the next few days. In all of my “free time.” 2) Charlie Sheen is the most entertaining/worrying thing [...continue...]