Sex
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 4/19-4/25
This week, celebrate Earth Day, National Poetry Month, and San Francisco’s spectacular art scene. Also, feel smarter with Ransom Stephens, and pay homage to the Reubenesque figure at Hot.Fat.Femmes! Monday 4/19: Get smart! Head over to Atlas Cafe where Ransom…
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RECESSION SEX WORKERS #10: Last Exit to Hollywood, The Passing Fancy of Allenina Wong
When you have a gender, you enjoy certain privileges. You don’t get stared at, laughed at, egged or beat up on the street because of how you appear.
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Libraries + Sex = The Best Survey In The History Of The World
Bookninja pointed me in the direction of the recently released “1992 Librarians and Sex Survey Results.” Apparently, the Wilson Library Bulletin ran this survey way back when, and then promptly fired its author and destroyed all remaining copies. However, 5000…
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Politics Sunday (Talks Sex)
For absolutely no reason except that I feel like it, I’m posting a lot about sex today, so in order to be consistent, Politics Sunday will be Sexual Politics Sunday for today and today only. The Atlantic discusses the “sexual…
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If Science Says Facial Hair Is Sexy, It’s Sexy
“Results suggest that facial hair is worn to enhance a man’s marriage prospects by increasing physical attractiveness and perception of social status. Men shave their mustaches, possibly to convey an impression of trustworthiness, when the marriage market is weak and…
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“Vectors of Attraction”
“Well, the gay magazines don’t want it. It’s not good for their political agenda. And the straight mags just don’t get it. I haven’t found the hook, but the feedback from my writing group is, “I want to read this book.…
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Joy in Eccentricity
Who knew there were still roving bands of dancing hermaphrodites and eunuchs? Even more surprising is the fact that hijira, as the gypsy-like middlesex is called in South Asia, are marginally accepted as a social group, even in conservative Pakistan.…
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The Rumpus Interview with Melissa Febos
Melissa Febos is the author of Whip Smart, a new memoir about her four years working as a professional dominatrix in a Midtown Manhattan dungeon while enrolled full time at The New School University.
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Snip Snip
Want to know Michael Chabon’s feelings about circumcision? How about Neal Pollack’s? Andrew Sullivan’s? Christopher Hitchens’? What about California Rabbi Julie Adler’s? Well if so then the Mother Jones article “Much Ado About Cutting” is for you. Still not interested? What if…
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An Oral History of Love in Contemporary America: Selections from Us #3
Betty Anne May, Age 80 Truth or Consequences, New Mexico “That man could turn me on by touching my little fingernail.”
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #29
THE DIAPHRAGM OF ANNE FRANK ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing The Diaphragm of Anne Frank.
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FUNNY WOMEN #19: Anaïs Nin’s Hot Cross Buns
INGREDIENTS: A 200-year-old stone farmhouse in which every room is painted a different color, and the maid opens the shutters at dawn.