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What is your favorite porno of all time?
Wow! I think this is a little hard to answer as my mind changes every time. Right now it is Triangle Film’s River Rock Women’s Prison as it was a great project to be a part of and work with many of my buds in the [...]

I broke up with my long-term boyfriend of three years about 6 months ago. I’m just starting to be interested in other men, but being out on the dating scene and having multiple sexual partners is making me sort of nervous. I don’t want to remain celibate until I find my next serious boyfriend, but [...]

One of the challenges that sexologists, educators, and therapists face is the lack of credible, reliable, and well-designed research on sexuality. As much as that’s true for more common forms of sexual expression, it’s even more so for sexual practices that are less common. BDSM and open relationships are the target of a lot [...]

What led you to become a sex educator?
I’ve always been interested in creating community and dialoguing about art and sexuality.  I’ve found several ways of making this happen with in my life.
1. By creating Femina Potens, space for community to grow, dialogue and share skills in a sex positive environment.
2. By documenting our sexual culture [...]

via the Salt Lake Tribune
The Utah Senate committee unanimously passed SB155, a law which will allow third-degree felony charges to be brought against sexworkers who have tested positive for HIV. Usually, sexwork is prosecuted as a misdemeanor in Utah, but there is a mechanism to amp it up to a felony if the defendant is [...]

Over the last few months, I’ve been amazed at how much shame has been heaped upon Tiger Woods. And it just keeps on going.
Here’s a blog post from Dr. Howard Samuels, a psychotherapist who runs the Wonderland Treatment Center (an alcohol & addiction center that caters to the Hollywood set). Apparently, he thinks that he [...]

What led you to become a sex educator?
The AIDS Crisis. In the 1980’s I was working in the Broadway theatre and I was losing up to four friends a week to AIDS. I joined a support group for people with AIDS and their allies called the New York Healing Circle. The vast majority of people [...]

The cliché that sex sells is so common that many of us don’t even think about it anymore. Sexy images are used to attract attention and convince us that we can buy something and either be more sexy or be attractive to the scantily clad person (usually, but not always a woman) in the ad. [...]

One of the biggest challenges when it comes to regulating sexually-explicit material online is how to filter out the stuff you don’t want without also losing the stuff you want to keep. For example, if you filter porn websites that contain the word “breast”, you’re likely to also filter sites with information on breast cancer [...]

via the Sexademic
OK, I’m stretching the point, but a picture is worth 1000 words.

The 2010 US Census is coming soon and there’s an important opportunity for same-sex couples to be counted. In the 1990 & 2000 censuses, same-sex couples could identify as married or unmarried partner. While the results weren’t officially reported, the raw numbers show that 145,000 same-sex couples identified as married or “unmarried partners” in 1990 [...]

What led you to become a sex educator?
I got lucky. I got to read Havelock Ellis from my parents’ bookcase at age 10. Though I didn’t understand much of it, I loved the glossary at the back of the book with all those fancy sex words I’d never heard or seen. When I was growing [...]

What is your favorite porno of all time?
Naming just one movie is hard. I love too many.  I can name my favorite series of movies – Girlvert #2-16
What sex toy(s) do you like to use on film?
I like anything you can see through.
If you could have a Good Vibrations Shopping Spree, what would you [...]

One of the most common challenges people face when seeking psychotherapy or other mental health/emotional support is the concern that a therapist will judge them or shame them for their sexual fantasies, desires, and expression. Unfortunately, this often keeps people from finding a therapist or it keeps them from opening up and being honest about [...]

What led you to become a sex educator?
Sex is a topic I have always had an avid interest in and I was disappointed by the minimal amounts of education I was offered when I was in school. Once I found out that other information was available, I got to work and began doing a lot [...]

What is your favorite porno of all time?
Surprisingly, I don’t watch a whole lot of porn.  That said, the best porno I can think of isn’t porn at all, it’s a “regular” movie: The Dreamers.  Sex, blood, classic cinema, and Paris.  Perfect.
What sex toy(s) do you like to use on film?
I love rope!  I [...]

If you’re interested in talking about and exploring sex positivity, you might be interested in this group. I don’t know anything about them other than what you see here, so if you go, feel free to let us know how it was.
Sex Positive Discussion Group
hosted by Amy
tbamy@yahoo.com
This is a discussion group for all ages, genders, [...]

The New Hampshire House of Representatives voted today to reject a proposal to amend the state’s Constitution to limit legal marriage to male/female couples.And thank goodness for that. But part of the backstory is pretty significant.
Earlier in the week in a Judiciary Committee Hearing, N.H. State Rep. Nancy Elliott claimed that the legalization of [...]

And we have a winner in the POP Erotica Contest! Encounter Behind the Counter got the most comments, so the lucky author gets a $100 GV gift card.
Many thanks to all of the authors for being part of the contest and to you, our readers.
Cheers!

It’s that time of year again! We’re accepting submissions for the 2010 Independent Erotic Film Festival and we want to see what you can do! Here are the details:
WHO SUBMITS
Independent film makers of all kinds are encouraged to send in their short erotic films.  Whether you’re an art student, a budding filmmaker, or just having [...]

You may have already heard about the Facebook group “Kill Your Hooker So You Don’t Have To Pay Her”. Apparently, after the group got reported as hate speech and taken down, the same person set up another group called “GTA Taught Me That If You Kill Your Hooker, You Get Your Money Back”. I [...]

What is your favorite porno of all time?
There are only 2 works that make my girl parts squirm no matter how many times I watch them and tend not to fast forward (well as much!) through them.  Both of them come out of Vivid Alt, Girls Lie from Eon McKai and Live in My Secrets [...]

Our new movie production arm, Good Releasing, is coming out with three new movie lines and we’re really proud of them:

Reel Queer Productions documents authentic, edgy, queer sex and culture with relevant, intelligent films inclusive of the many sexualities that identify as queer.

HeartCore Films offers artistic alternatives to formulaic features with films by [...]

My wife, age 42, recently (12/09) had a full hysterectomy due to endometriosis.
We waited 8 weeks before trying intercourse again.  However it was not a pleasant experience.  She experienced quite a lot of pain, and her vagina seems to be a lot shorter in terms of depth.  We asked her Doctor who performed the surgery [...]

What led you to become a sex educator?

So many things really. One, I have a child (well, now she’s 18) but when she was little I recognized that I didn’t want her growing up with the same misinformation, and total lack of information, that I did. I wanted her to have enough knowledge to [...]