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Criticism
Thinks I think about things
133 posts
Honest Courtesan
Read moreOver the next stretch of time, one thing I hope to do is to share with you some blogs that I find especially interesting, thought-provoking, or whatever. You’ve read me rave about Liza a gazillion times – if, by now,…
Open letter to Dan Savage
Read moreYou are one of my gurus. Probably, the one who has influenced me most. And I’m a guy with some real gurus. You are great, give great sex and relationship advice, and write great books (The Kid may well be…
On reading erotica
Read more“Have you read Love and Kink, by Guy New York?” “No, should I?” “Sooooo good…. Shocked at how good it was.” “But here’s the problem: I just don’t get turned on reading something by someone I can’t imagine fucking.” This…
Porn recommendation
Read moreI haven’t really reviewed porn before. I’ve written a bit about it, mostly from the perspective of what turns me on, what I like, what I don’t. There’s a lot of bad, little good, and very little that consistently turns…
Paying for It
Read moreI was walking down the street the other day, and, on the doorstep of a neighbor, I saw Paying for It: A Comic-Strip Memoir About Being a John, a graphic novel by Chester Brown. I picked up the book and…
Downtown
Read moreMy sister blogger, Liza, recently tweeted about this super-hot scene in which James Deen goes down on Nicole Ray. It’s pretty perfect, to my mind (and, judging from the Twitter-verse, to the minds of a number of ladies who were…
Paean to Sasha Grey
Read moreUntil recently, there simply was no feature-length porn I liked. No porn actresses I found myself attracted to. I’m a guy – I like porn. I like images and videos of people having sex. I like seeing people come. But…
Humiliation (and TMI)
Read moreLiza, the author of the awesome, always-hot, Always Each Other, generously gave me the TMI award. Liza writes the hottest of hot stuff about sex, no less so because it’s all about the sex she has with her husband. She’s…
Pubic hair, redux
Read moreI really should have included this excellent graphic in my previous post – it dates the evolution of pubic hairstyles.
Massage parlors
Read moreBack in the day, I was a habitual denizen of massage parlors. Not the kind where you go to get a massage, alas – the kind where you go to get a happy ending, a “rub-and-tug” joint. In this post,…
