I've got a brother-in-law, Charlie, with whom I don't get along very well. It's not just because I'm doing The Nasty with his baby sister, either. See, Charlie's what I call a "Holy Terror," one of those ultra-right-wing Fundamentalist Christians who think this...
A couple of months ago, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich made a startling confession. Gingrich was appearing on the daily syndicated radio show of Dr. James Dobson, head of the group Focus On The Family, when he admitted to cheating on...
From The Age: "A new sexuality survey has confirmed what women know and some men fear'single females have far more luck achieving orgasm than those partnered off." This news story has been showing its disquieting self in all kinds of places, followed by depression,...
"Do you know," my seventeen year-old son reflected, "when I was growing up, we didn't have the word blog." I wonder if he's going to assault me with this type of observation once he's had me transported to an old people's home? That's something to look forward to....
After writing at length about the Frankenstein Bride (ERWA Archives 2006), I got to thinking. Things like this don't happen in isolation. The idea that the mandate to conform to porn fantasies that are distortions of real life couldn't be limited to women. There had...
There was a disturbing story that came out in my area last month. In a suburb south of Denver, administrators at one of the local middle schools discovered that students had been using cell-phone cameras to take and distribute suggestively nude photos of several...
The great thing about being a writer is the questions you get asked. Well, it wouldn't be the money, would it? Admittedly, the writing part is fun. Especially if you like writing. If you don't like writing then (I imagine) it would get to be a bit of a chore. But the...
Two roads converged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken." Here in the United States, we're fascinated by the concept of rebels. The notion of one person or one small group of...
Sex reminds me very much of physics. You start out with what you know, what you have seen and felt and touched, but after a remarkably short time, you realized that this is just the tip of the iceberg. There are a lot of possible sexual acts that, by virtue of lacking...
Last month, the New York Times ran a story about how the advancement of technology is placing an unexpected burden on pornstars. High Definition DVDs, it turns out, are accentuating such things as scars from breast implants, stretch marks, skin blemishes, crow's feet...