Tag: male
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Let’s All Freak Out About Arousal Studies
So much speculation goes into how the “two” kinds of brains work, and all the nature-versus-nurture, evolution-versus-society talk gets impossibly old… all while people with different gender identities than just “male” and “female” are out there living their lives, exemplifying the fact that “male” and “female” are not the only two categories that humans fall…
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A Long-Awaited Interview with James Darling!!!!
About three years ago, I got in touch with a porn crush of mine: the super handsome and very sexy James Darling, then a budding new star on the queer porn scene. I sent him some interview questions, but James got super-busy being super-awesome and getting more famous, and didn’t have time to respond. And…
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James Deen’s Female Fandom Phenomenon
A few interested commentors and Tweeters have mentioned to me that what they find remarkable about James Deen isn’t, as I had hinted last week, that he’s being treated differently by the media than female stars who want to “cross over” to “mainstream” entertainment, but that he’s gotten to where he is because of his…
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James Deen: The Next (or first?) Crossover Star
You all may have noticed that there’s been a lot–a LOT–of coverage of James Deen in the “mainstream” media lately. He’s apparently costarring with (but emphatically NOT SLEEPING WITH) Lindsay Lohan in an upcoming movie, The Canyons, and this (maybe it was this–he’s been a subject of fascination for a while now) seems to have…
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Book Review: The Myth of Sex Addiction
In a culture so litigious that we need to put caution labels on hot coffee to cover our asses, a force as powerful, as seductive, and as hidden in the darkness of our fears and preferences as sex is perhaps the most logical one to throw into the addiction mix.
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The Phallic Fallacy
At a panel on sex education and porn hosted by Smitten Kitten in Vegas last weekend, discussions about a crap-ton of topics dear to my heart were brought up by panelists Nina Hartley, Sophia St. James, Tina Horn, Tobi Hill-Meyer, Courtney Trouble, Dylan Ryan, and Danny Wylde. I can’t even begin to list them all,…
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The Miami Report: Kanye is Onto Something
I dunno how many of you out there listen to Kanye West, but given his popularity it’s probably quite a few of you. But just in case, his most recent album featured a song called “Hell of a Life” that starts with the line, “I think I fell in love with a porn star.” The…
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Thinking About Consent Again: What’s the Best Model for Porn?
A Newsweek article I read today about male-male rape in the military (seriously, only click on that link if you’re in a pleasant frame of mind; if you start out unhappy, you’ll end it wanting to go out and hurt someone) got me thinking about issues of sexual consent, and human ugliness, and how it…
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The Vibrator in the Bedroom: Friend or Foe of the Straight Man?
Not featured: human beings. In a noteworthy article on Salon today, Tracy Clark-Flory brings up a very cheering topic: straight men are starting to get less intimidated by sex toys. Granted, Tracy lives in San Francisco, where things tend to be a bit more sexually progressive than elsewhere, but it’s encouraging to hear coming from…