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Ask Ducky
Ducky answers a common question she hears at her workshops…
– August 20, 2007
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Ducky Doolittle‘s getting into video blogging. This clip is from her talk at MoSex from last January.

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  • Beth Ditto: What Would Beth Ditto Do?
  • Ducky Doolitle: Ask Ducky
  • Erin Bradley: Miss Information
  • Chelsea Summers: 8 Reasons Why Internet Dating is Not For You
  • Judy McGuire: Help! I’m Sleeping With an Almost-Monk
  • Cory Silverberg (About.com): Sugar, Spice, and Vomeronasal Organs
  • Dan Savage: The Sex is Awesome
  • Matisse: For the Record
  • Violet Blue: Sleepless in San Francisco
  • Tristan Taormino: Third-generation pornographer hopes to change industry

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  • Help me commit Ethical Adultery
  • How does one come to peace with unfulfillable sexual fantasies?
  • Please help me not be the next 40 year old virgin!
  • My girlfriend gets an UTI after almost every time I go down on her. Help us save our sex lives!
  • Can I learn to enjoy the taste of vagina? I really want to.
  • I’m involved in a long term relationship with a bad boy. Can I keep doing it?
  • Help me identify my roommate’s spots.
  • Just found out that my long time love is a daily phone sex participant and while away on a business/pleasure trip (staying with friends whom I spoke with on the phone) is posting and responding to online “casual sex” posts for both men and women. I don’t know if meetings occurred.
  • What’s my kink?

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matt Yay! Nerves "Sex Advice from Librarians"(Pic of fellow librarian Badfaggot. His T shirt refers to the controversy around the Newberry Award winning book, The Higher Power of Lucky.)

I was interviewed, but didn’t make the cut. Thanks, Jessica! Maybe because I gave them a picture that totally obscures my face? And of course, the women are wearing glasses.

  • What are your favorite works of erotic literature?
  • What is the best way to pick up a librarian?
  • There’s this girl I really like, but once we got in the sack, the sex turned out to be awful. Is she a lost cause?
  • My boyfriend can’t come from blowjobs. Can anything be done?
  • My boyfriend has a foot fetish, but I’m not into it. How can we reconcile this?

(answers here).

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I’m a straight girl, but drag kings turn me on. Does that make me bi?
It doesn’t make you bi. It makes you awesome.

How can I convince my girlfriend to try drag for me? She says she’d feel silly.
She shouldn’t feel silly — drag is a fantasy. I know kings that have been asked to go to bed with a couple because one of them wouldn’t try drag. Let her know if she won’t do it, someone else will.

It’s great that my boyfriend can go for hours, but sometimes I get bored. How long is a reasonable amount of time to have sex before telling him time’s up?
My girlfriend and I usually make love for two hours, but that’s a lot to some people. You should talk about your boredom outside the bedroom. Tell him what would make it more interesting to you. Call it constructive criticism.

My boyfriend loves going down on me, but I can’t seem to orgasm from it. Is that normal? Can I change that?
Not everybody can come from oral, but your boyfriend has a duty to try. Tell him to add penetration, add vibration and hang in there. When you’re going down on someone, you have to be a soldier.

I have this one particular fetish that a lot of people consider weird. How many times should I sleep with a girl before telling her about it?
Wait at least two months before busting it out. By then, you’ll have a bond that will make her more likely to indulge your fetish. If you try it two weeks in, she’ll probably be like, “Peace.”

Are crotchless panties hot or unsanitary?
Unsanitary, yet hot. Put them on right before you take them off.

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  • Erin Bradley: Miss Information (Nerve)
  • Em & Lo: Ralphina Macchio: “My boyfriend’s being a crybaby because I can beat him up.”
  • Judy McGuire: Date Girl: Mizz Manners (Seattle Weekly)
  • Dan Savage: Savage Love
  • Cory Silverberg: Lesbian Books are Not a Sleep Aid
  • Mistress Matisse: Mistress of Masturbation (The Stranger)
  • Tristan Taormino: The Cum of Alt Fears (Village Voice)
  • violet blue: Margaret Cho’s New Role (San Francisco Chronicle)
  • Andrea Nemerson: oh dad poor dad (alt.sex.column)

What other columnists should I be linking to? Please leave suggestions in the comments. I can’t promise I’ll include them all. I notice the Village Voice has a nice spiffy new site, but when are they going to ask RKB to rejoin them?

And someone (maybe you) needs to update the Wikipedia entry. It’s outdated.

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By Mike Penner
Times Staff Writer

During my 23 years with The Times’ sports department, I have held a wide variety of roles and titles. Tennis writer. Angels beat reporter. Olympics writer. Essayist. Sports media critic. NFL columnist. Recent keeper of the Morning Briefing flame.

Today I leave for a few weeks’ vacation, and when I return, I will come back in yet another incarnation.

As Christine.

I am a transsexual sportswriter. It has taken more than 40 years, a million tears and hundreds of hours of soul-wrenching therapy for me to work up the courage to type those words. I realize many readers and colleagues and friends will be shocked to read them.

That’s OK. I understand that I am not the only one in transition as I move from Mike to Christine. Everyone who knows me and my work will be transitioning as well. That will take time. And that’s all right. To borrow a piece of well-worn sports parlance, we will take it one day at a time. (more.. . )

[via BoingBoing]

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Tristan Taormino, award-winning author, columnist, editor and sex educator, is the featured speaker at Barnard’s sex-positive event “Sexhibition.”

The Path to Sexual Empowerment
Sulzberger Parlor – Barnard campus
Tonight, Wed, April 25 – 8pm
FREE
What is sexual empowerment? What does it mean to be sexually empowered? Tristan reveals the pleasures and pitfalls of her journey from law school reject to sex expert—with stops along the way as editor, author, anal sex guru, Village Voice columnist, sex-positive event roducer, and feminist pornographer. She’ll explore the concept of erotic power, discuss why it is important, and share her unique recipe for how everyone can become sexually empowered.

DIRECTIONS:
Sulzberger Parlor is in Barnard Hall on Barnard’s Campus. Take the 1 to 116th Street/Columbia University (the 2 and 3 will not take to you the campus even though there is a 116th stop). Once you get out of the subway, Barnard is on the north west corner, but the entrance gates are on 117th and Broadway. Barnard Hall is the building directly in front of you once you enter the gates (“Barnard” is engraved on it). Enter Barnard Hall and take the elevators/stairs on the left to the third floor. Sulzberger Parlor is through the doors on the left (there will be a sign).


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kinkyjews KinkyJews: An Evening of Jewish Lit EroticaJay Michaelson, Wayne Hoffman, Felice Shays, Lisa Beth Kovitz,
Phil S. Stein, Ronnie Koenig
Date: Mar 22 2007
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: KGB Bar, 85 East 4th St., NYC

Jay Michaelson is an award-winning writer, educator, and student ofcontemplative practice. He is a columnist for The Forward,the chief editor of Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture,and the author of God in Your Body: Kabbalah, Mindfulness, and Embodied Spiritual Practice (2006). Jay is both a Ph.D candidate in Jewish mysticism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,and a devoted student of Kabbalah, meditation, and contemplative practice.

Wayne Hoffman is author of a novel, Hard.He has published stories in several anthologies: about phone sex and Hebrew school (in “Generation Q”), Princess Diana and leather bars (in “BarStories”), coming out and Passover Seders (in “Mama’s Boy”), and others. By day, he is The Forward’s managing editor.

Felice Shays fists watermelons. Her shows: Felice Brutality, Jew, Hungry?, and PsychoSemitic have been produced at Dixon Place, WOW Café Theater, The National Queer Arts Festival (San Francisco), etc. A NYC-based sex and BDSM advisor/educator and sex party producer, Felice travels the country encouraging people to do all sorts of breathtaking sexual feats.

Lisa Beth Kovetz is an award winning writer and producer. Her novel TheTuesday Erotica Club has been translated into 14 languages. With her company Flying South Productions, Kovetz created the Jazz Baby CDs, featuring Poncho Sanchez, Taj Mahal, Billy Preston, Cybill Shepherd, Jim Belushi, and more. Kovetz’ plays are produced around the world. She will be reading “Naked on the Rabbi’s Toilet Bowl”.

Phil S. Stein has worked the halls of power – including the board rooms of several of the world’s top media and Wall Street firms, the film and TV business, US presidential campaigns, and most recently educational institutions and political parties in Israel – applying his anthropologicaland literary gimlet eyes for global institutions as a marketing expert. From his days as a campus gay leader in the early 90s, Phil has written onissues of gay rights, AIDS, and the fetish world. He’s also one of thefounders and creators of the international men’s foot fetish organization and site FootFriends.com, and published kinky erotica. Phil recently returned from two years in Israel, where he explored his Jewish heritage, the ultra-orthodox world, yeshivas, Israeli politics, and various communities (gay, straight, and otherwise), about which he’s begun to write.

Ronnie Koenig earned her BA in theater at Barnard College and her MFA inplaywriting at Ohio University. She is a freelance writer for magazines such as Cosmopolitan and Penthouse and was the editor-in-chief of Playgirl magazine. Her play, Dirty Girl, which is based on her experiences at Playgirl, was at The Kraine Theater.

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  • Erin Bradley: Miss Information (Nerve)
  • Em & Lo: Ralphina Macchio: “My boyfriend’s being a crybaby because I can beat him up.”
  • Judy McGuire: Date Girl: Desperado (Seattle Weekly)
  • Dan Savage: Savage Love
  • Cory Silverberg: Ruining Sex for the Next Generation
  • Mistress Matisse: Word to the Wise (The Stranger)
  • Tristan Taormino: Hard to Swallow (Village Voice)
  • violet blue: Gay for Pay / Are there really any straight men in gay porn? (San Francisco Chronicle)
  • Sex Advice from…Rock Climbers (Nerve)

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Jessica Guynn, Chronicle Staff Writer

While it may be tough for the middle-aged of Silicon Valley to find a perfect partner, it’s never been easier for the young and the restless in the high-tech industry to make a love connection.

Members of this uninhibited generation can hit the launch-party circuit or hook up with the opposite sex using the very technology they are helping develop, a growing trove of Web sites where you can search for someone who shares your feelings and fetishes.

“They are using the actual tools of Web 2.0 to find more effective ways to get laid,” said San Francisco writer and humor columnist Min Jung Kim. (more…)

[via Sexerati]

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1. How To Avoid Feeling Jealous Over Really Dumb Things

2. How To Remember That Wherever You Go, There You Are

3. How To Embrace The No-Fault Breakup

4. How To Have Sex If You’re A Sex Columnist

5. How To Find A Lasting Relationship For Yourself If You’re A Dating Coach

6. How To Get Married While Remaining Single

7. How To Become A Parent While Remaining Childless

8. How To Make Love Like A Porn Star

9. How To Comment Appropriately On Your Girlfriend’s Appearance

10. How To Finally Get Over The Lingering Fantasy Of That Long-Lost Love

Happy Valentine’s Day. (more…)

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Originally uploaded by rkb1.

Thank heavens for Sexytime- the comedy show that’s ready to bone the everloving crap outta you RIGHT NOW!

Expect risque antics from cohosts Brandy Crawford and Heather Fink along with a great lineup. Comedians Dave Hill, Giulia Rozzi, and Jordan Carlos, bring their kick ass jokes to the stage along with an appearance by sexpert/former Village Voice columnist/author/fun gal Rachel Kramer Bussel, AND the musical stylings of Esther Ku. Giveaways and fun always ensues, plus the hosts wear cute outfits which they spend a lot of time selecting before the show and make messes of their rooms in the process-all for comedy! And outfits!
And SEXYTIME!

Date: Friday Feb 16. midnight
Location: Mo Pitkins, 34 Avenue A, NYC
Cost: Tickets $5.

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Feisty, take-no-prisoners columnist (she nicknamed President Bush ‘Shrub’) and author Molly Ivins, passed away yesterday, after a long battle with breast cancer:

The 62-year-old writer was a rare commodity in Texas – a liberal – who wrote a twice-weekly column that appeared in at least 300 newspapers. Based in Austin, her commentary appeared in national magazines from Harper’s to Playboy, and her Texas drawl was heard parsing events on shows ranging from 60 Minutes to The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer.

She did not confine her humorous skewering to Republicans. She aimed it at wherever she perceived pomposity or wrongdoing.

Of the Gore-Bush presidential race in 2000 she said, “It’s like having Ted Baxter of the old ‘Mary Tyler Moore’ show running for president: Gore has Ted’s manner and Bush has his brain.”

more from the obituary here.

[via Feministing]

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367655836 adb4fe13b9 Violet Blue named one of Forbes Web Celeb 25!Forbes’ first annual listing of the biggest stars on the internet. It includes my favorites Xeni, Cory, Merlin, Markos and Violet.

“Sex educator Violet Blue is the best-selling, award-winning author of over a dozen books on sex and sexuality, as well as the sex columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle. She’s also nearly omnipresent on the Web, whether she’s writing for Metroblogging San Francisco, reporting for Geek Entertainment Television, contributing to Fleshbot.com or hosting Open Source Sex, one of the most Internet’s most popular podcast”

Yeeeeee haaaa! OMG! Congratulations m’dear! (Slowly extricates nose from violet’s posterior).

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