- The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: Building a Foundation for Better Understanding – Institute of Medicine – To help assess the state of the science, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) asked the IOM to evaluate current knowledge of the health status of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender populations; to identify research gaps and opportunities; and to outline a research agenda to help NIH focus its research in this area. The IOM finds that to advance understanding of the health needs of all LGBT individuals, researchers need more data about the demographics of these populations, improved methods for collecting and analyzing data, and an increased participation of sexual and gender minorities in research. Building a more solid evidence base for LGBT health concerns will not only benefit LGBT individuals, but also add to the repository of health information we have that pertains to all people.
- Walk of Shame? Baby, I Strut | Sex and the 405 – In the past months I have spoken with people at Playboy and Fleshbot about properties like that of NakedCity, tossing around the incredible paradox posed by sex on the internet. The masses can’t resist sex. Any story about sex on any publication goes through the roof with views. Sex sells, goes the tired saying, and when you look at it this way, it does…But make a property devoted solely to sex and you find yourself in the precarious situation of being completely unable to show serious financial reward for your efforts. Sex, apparently, sells everything except advertising space and any hope of a decent search ranking.
- Bringing up the rear – Tracy Clark-Flory – Salon.com – For my generation, the back-door option is like what the blow job was to the generation that came before — just a fun new taboo waiting to be broken. The phenomenon of heterosexual guys participating in all sorts of arse play is something different, though. I’ve seen female-on-male strap-on sex go from the sort of thing tittered about in women’s magazines to hearing a male friend once drunkenly blurting out in a bar that he loved it.
- How a sex rebel was born – Sex News, Sex Talk – Salon.com – She may have traded in her punk rock leathers for one of the least erotic materials on the planet, but her fierce rhetoric about sexual freedom and pleasure has stayed the same.
- Anne Roiphe: Sex, Art and Booze Back When Writers Broke Taboos | The New York Observer –
- Why is this so hard? Google, Facebook and adult retailing | Econsultancy – My day-to-day marketing activities are somewhat different from yours. Instead of optimising campaigns and formulating strategy, with every day comes a new onslaught of ad disapproval, a rumour of a change in policy, a decline from an ad network or long email conversation with a boilerplate-spouting representative…In this article I’ll give you an insight into the surprisingly not-salacious world of Adult Retailing in relation to the internet’s biggest players: Google and Facebook.
- Glee – Sexy – Sex Education on TV – The TV show Glee is great fun, but I feel like it has consistently done a terrible job talking about sex. Not only has it played young people’s sexual ignorance for humor value – a main character thought he got his girlfriend pregnant by being in a hot tub with her for much of the first season- it has allowed these misconceptions to stand as truth for months at a time.
March 2011
Lenny Waller, Owner of the Hellfire Club, at Cinekink's screening of Michele Capozzi's "Pornology." |
Lolita Wolf and Lenny Waller, Barbara Nitke's Smooth Operator Opening |
Although I moved to Manhattan in the 1980’s, I never mustered up the courage to visit the Hellfire Club, where Lenny Waller was the manager. I later got to meet him when Cinekink screened Michele Capozzi’s Pornology. Lenny was a pillar of the leather community and organized the annual AIDS Candlelight Vigil.
- Vanishing New York’s obit
- Lolita Wolf’s post
- Lenny’s Google Profile
- “Lenny and Leather” (Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York)
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Wyatt Cenac describes the exquisite (read: masochistic) dance between reporters and the White House as he’s handcuffed in the Nixon boiler room. Via Selina Fire.
Susie Bright. Photo by Stacie Joy. Used with permission.
Please join Bluestockings in welcoming the spectacular Susie Bright for a reading and signing of Big Sex Little Death, her enthralling and intimate memoir in which she reveals her extraordinary life story for the first time. From fearful Irish Catholic Girl Scout to gun-toting teenage revolutionary – and through to her emergence as the avatar of American erotica, Bright’s life was shaped by America’s sexual awakening while our sexual landscape was being altered by her life as a sexual freedom fighter. Come out and get an inspired taste of Susie Bright’s tale – bold, unpredictable, larger-than-life yet utterly-true.
Location: Bluestockings Bookstore, 172 Allen St., NYC. Get directions using Hopstop.
Cost: Free
More info: http://bluestockings.com/events/
Big Sex Little Death – A Memoir by Susie Bright
http://bigsexlittledeath.com/
Doug Henwood Interviews Susie Bright (A live taped Audible interview)
One of the country’s foremost sex educators, activists and writers, Susie Bright is an outspoken advocate of sexual equality and freedom. She came of age during a time in our country’s history when sex and politics began to collide. In this widely-anticipated and intimate memoir, Big Sex Little Death, Bright recounts the adventure, sacrifice, danger and controversy of her unexpected and extraordinary life.
Doug Henwood, publisher of Left Business Observer and contributing editor of The Nation, will interview Susie Bright on the Strand Stage.
Where: Strand Bookstore, 828 Broadway (12th/13th St), New York, NY
cost: FREE
Book Tour Info: http://bigsexlittledeath.com/44588494
