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Two more dissolutes – october
Read moreIt’s been four months since we did this, but Hy and I are back, with two more dissolutes. We have one notable change this go-round. We no longer aspire to publishing our picks for you on the first Monday of…
Two more dissolutes – may
Read moreHy and I continue our monthly back and forth about blogs we’ve stumbled on that we find compelling. Last month, you may recall, my contribution was the author of “The Amsterdam Diaries” – a British patron of Amsterdam prostitutes. His…
Two more dissolutes – april
Read moreEach month, Hyacinth and I highlight two blogs we find interesting, compelling, funny, hot, whatever. We tell you our reactions – what we like, what we don’t like. We hope you enjoy. N’s pick: The Amsterdam Diaries N’s thoughts: I’m…
Blogging and anonymity
Read moreMy friend Hyacinth, a first rate (and high class) blogger if ever there was one, has been mugged. Someone calling her or himself “Jiminy Cricket” has taken it upon herself to a) discover Hy’s real-life identity, b) threaten implicitly to…
Lily
Read morePart One: Reunion We were together so long ago. A lifetime, it seems. Maybe two. We started dating when I was still in college (she had finished). We lived together. It seemed like marriage was on the horizon. Fortunately for…
Boobday
Read moreMy friend Hy, over at the other dissolute sex blog, has an awesome feature. Every Friday, she posts the breasts of some of her readers. In recent weeks, she’s been challenging her posters to submit slightly more artful, less crude…
In (critical) support of liza
Read moreRecently, there’s been a little bit of a kerfuffle over on my crush, Hyacinth’s, blog. Hyacinth wrote a post (thoughtful, not judgmental, highly personal, curious) about the pleasure she takes from “showing her bits to the world,” in response to…
Dear hyacinth,
Read moreI hear you worrying. Can I write something that will turn him on? (“Can I write erotica that will turn him on?” I think I heard you ask.) I worry the same thing. Largely because I don’t write erotica. The…
When bloggers crush
Read moreHyacinth (to my knowledge, the only other blogger with “Dissolute” in the name of her blog) confessed to crushing on me recently. I returned the compliment, first in a comment to a post, and then in an aside in a…