reality

This Sunday, November 11, we're going to enter "The Backward Slide" together! I'll go live on Facebook at 1:00 p.m. Mountain Time (3:00 Eastern/12:00 Pacific) to read Chapter 5 of my book, Watching Porn.  [...continue...]

1) An Invitation!! This Friday, come see a 7-minute video excerpt from “Reality,” one of the videos that originally was part of my art show “Consent” at apexart, from March – May, playing at YANS & RETO 2012. The video, which features interview snippets featuring [...continue...]

Guess what! Video from my art show, “Consent,” at apexart will be shown at this exhibition on September 14! You want to be there. I know you do. Anthology Film Archives presents YANS & RETO (Young And Not Stupid, Radical Even Though Old) A festival conceived by Jana Leo, [...continue...]

1) I was on the radio! Well, I will be on the radio. Velvet Radio, that is, a new radio show and podcast station from Velvet Magazine and Adult Video Magazine! I taped a podcast that will air two weeks from last Monday… which is… Um. August 20 I believe? Anyway, I got to play a [...continue...]

The wonderful people at apexart have made a dream of mine come true! I’ve been wanting to post the finished videos from the art show online so that people who couldn’t make it to the show itself in NYC could see what was going on, but given their size (they range from around 15 – [...continue...]

But ah, that’s the thing. Porn may, for all abstract purposes, lie in the middle of this emotional/sexual spectrum as a safe zone for emotional and physical and fantastical experimentation, but that does not mean we treat it that way. For several reasons. Firstly, porn is, we all know, pure [...continue...]

>Most of our cultural experience, through media in general and porn in particular, does little to dispel the difficulty of incorporating emotion into our sexual lives. Particularly since we all know that porn is supposed to be bad and that we’re not supposed to be watching it, that remove we [...continue...]