Year: 2009

Originally published in SF Chronicle. By the time you read this, the hope is that I'll be snug back home in my little fortress of sex toys in the sky, perched in the hills above our beautiful rainbow-flagged Castro. Home. Preparing to board a plane in Arctic London today and reading about the "underwear bomber"… Read more…

Originally published in SF Chronicle. Pecking through various news outlets for stories about sex (science, culture, entertainment, fear factor) typically provokes a malaise akin to cruising dating Web sites whose wares are well past their sell-by date. Let's survey the blistered landscape of 2009's sex writing for a second with some snarky generalizations, shall we?… Read more…

Originally published in SF Chronicle. Warning: The links in this column may lead to images of representative sex toys. If your workplace isn't a suitable place to view this imagery, you may want to click these links when you get home. Having an orgasm used to be so arduous and difficult, it's no wonder many… Read more…

Originally published in SF Chronicle. I hate to be the one to remind you, but books are not just those things you set the lube bottle on so you don't leave rings on your nice coffee table, or your date's lower back. Nor are books just for holding up the laptop in bed while you… Read more…

Originally published in SF Chronicle. Whenever I have a bout of pesky, recurring Female Arousal Persistent Syndrome (FAPS), I immediately call my doctor. Within ten minutes, Dr. Doug Ross is making a house call from the year 1999, directly to present-day Castro, wearing my favorite scrubs. Of course he never makes it past The Lookout.… Read more…

Originally published in SF Chronicle. The way it reads on vaginal plastic surgery Web sites — and there are far more of them than we ladies have legs to cross in phantom agony — is that around the world, women are walking around with full-size elephant ears dangling between their legs. No woman in America… Read more…

Originally published in SF Chronicle. Author of “Becoming Jennie.” Jennie Ketcham I first met Penny Flame in a high-priced hotel room at the InterContinental, when she was staying in San Francisco, appearing as a star in promotion of her (then) new film, Chemistry #4. I recorded a long interview with Penny then met her, Tristan… Read more…

Originally published in SF Chronicle. One thing the Internets have shown about us oversexed monkeys, is that we are a bunch of oversexed monkeys, but now with typewriters. And cameras. And poor, though entertaining, impulse control. It's actually not all that bad, and is often a lot of fun. Love and sex seem to require… Read more…

Originally published in SF Chronicle. “Hos, Hookers, Call Girls and Rent Boys,” edited by David Henry Sterry and R.J. Martin, Jr. Cover “Hos, Hookers, Call Girls and Rent Boys,” edited by David Henry Sterry and R.J. Martin, Jr. Editors The Discovery TV series "Dirty Jobs" with Mike Rowe covers all manner of occupations full of… Read more…