Sexuality

Spank! The Fifty Shades Parody Opens Just in Time for Valentine's Day

If you've read Fifty Shades of Grey and think it's about as thought-provoking as the parody cookbook Fifty Shades of Chicken, then you're sure to laugh -- intentionally -- at Spank! The Fifty Shades Parody, which opens at the Grove of Anaheim, followed by Club Nokia, just before Valentine's Day, on ... More >>

Fake it Baby, Fake It

L.A. Gay Pride 2012: Author Toby Johnson Answers 'What Does It Mean To Be Gay?'

'What does it mean to be gay?' A seemingly simple question, but one that's not often asked. With Los Angeles Gay Pride starting this Friday, various gay folks give us their answers in a weeklong series. Toby Johnson is author of the Lammy-winning Gay Spirituality: The Role of Gay Identity in the Tr ... More >>

L.A. Gay Pride: Author Robert V. Taylor Answers 'What Does It Mean To Be Gay?'

Los Angeles Gay Pride starts up on June 8, and we thought it's a good time to ask, 'What does it mean to be gay?' In a weeklong series, different gay folks will answer that question. To kick it off, we have Robert V. Taylor, the author of A New Way to Be Human. He is an openly gay Episcopal priest ... More >>

Ashley Huizenga on Sex, Starvation, and Art

Our music feature this week focuses on Ashley Huizenga, an L.A. musician and performance artist known for her academic-minded -- and also quite flithy -- shows under the guise of her alter ego Actually Huizenga. Trained as a classical pianist, she creates epic '80s inspired dance scores that featur ... More >>

Sasha Grey Uses Porn Imagery to Decry Unequal Pay Between Men, Women: VIDEO

Sasha Grey was a hardcore porn star and she's proud of it. And now, women of the world, she wants you to know that too. In a recent NSFW YouTube video she boasts about how many "dirty things" she's done in her former career (she has since gone mainstream). All this in the name of equal pay between ... More >>

5 Crazy Sex Myths You Learned in High School

Once upon a time, I taught sex ed to high schoolers. Not to brag or anything, but I could roll a condom onto a banana in front of a classroom of 15-year-olds and maintain my composure. No big deal. What I had a harder time maintaining composure about, though, were the egregiously misguided myths a ... More >>

Investigating the Choice to Be Gay, Straight or Sexually Ambidextrous

During the 19th century, the Victorians began scientifically labeling their natural surroundings. They came up with 26 elements for the Periodic Table, 7 taxonomic ranks for biological organisms, but only 2 categories for human sexuality: hetero and homo. Years passed. Alfred Kinsey made a scale; ... More >>

Condoms Suck

We're spending billions to develop an HIV vaccine. Why not also focus on building a better condom?

Air Sex World Championships at Bootleg Theater, Where Contestants Gyrate, Lick and Pump Their Way to Glory

Shannon CottrellDerek "D-Bone" Reckley​ "It's the only trophy in sports that you can fuck," says Chris Trew, host and creator of Air Sex World Championships, referring to the Fleshlight sex toy (a fake vagina) Air Sex finalists receive for their sex-rated efforts. Beginning in Austin in 200 ... More >>

L.A. Sex Toy Company to Launch Vibrator Into Space, Film Its Survival Story

Yes, this is a ridiculous marketing stunt for SexToy.com. Even more ridiculous, somehow, than the underground party bunker that porn studio Pink Visual is constructing for the coming apocalypse. But who can resist the timeless tale of launching a formerly Earthbound species into space for the very ... More >>

What's Wrong With Angry?

The Cliterati

Rick Castro: Fetish Entertain You

Appeals Court: Just Because a Woman Made a Baby with a Teenager Doesn't Mean She's a Bad Mom.

​Debra, 38, a mother of three, lived two doors down the street from 15-year-old Miguel. She had known the teen since birth, and was practically lifelong friends with his mother. Then one day Debra and Miguel had sex, followed 30 weeks later by a baby. But does the fact Debra had a kid with a k ... More >>

UCLA Researchers Surprised to Learn That Homeless Kids Use Online Social Networking to Find Sex

​How do homeless kids find someone to have sex with? According to researchers at the UCLA AIDS Institute, they do it the same way as kids with homes: on the web. That's right, they use computers, which access the web, which get them on social networking sites. And if this strikes you as a touc ... More >>

Video Exclusive: Hollywood Club Goers Reveal Their Sex Desires at the Dragonfly's Miss Kitty's Parlour

Club goers talk about their sex lives​Ladies, as you head out Friday night hoping to meet someone, know this: Nine out of 10 guys you see will have had one-night stands with someone they met at a bar or club -- and more than a quarter of them have bagged someone new in just the last month. On ... More >>

L.A.'s Charles David Berlinghoff Charged With Taking 15-Year-Old Niece, Having Sex With Her

Charles David Berlinghoff.​In a horrible tale straight from the dark side of the trailer park, authorities allege that a Los Angeles man essentially kidnapped his 15-year-old niece, had sex with her several times, and provided her with "lewd material." One of the creepier things about the all ... More >>

Suit Alleges Rialto Police Officers Had Group Sex With Strippers

​A woman who set off a firestorm by alleging on-duty Rialto police had sex with strippers in a union hall has filed a $500,000 claim against the city that also claims that the cops had group sex with the woman. The details emerged in a report in the San Bernardino Sun Friday. The claimant, Na ... More >>

Was Molestation Case Against MTV Celebrity 'Extortion, Hollywood Style?'

​As Los Angeles police this week searched for more possible victims of molestation in its case against MTV celebrity Shane Sparks, his lawyer has spoken out, telling TMZ the allegations represent "extortion, Hollywood style." Police "believe there may be more victims out there and are asking ... More >>

Gays in the West

TOLERANCE IN MOTION

SPYING FOR FUN AND PROFIT

The People's Porn Star: Erotica LA Preview with Belladonna

Belladonna: The People's Porn StarDespite seminars like "Expanding Your Orgasm: Backdoor Basics and Beyond With Amy Sung," and shopping for naughty gifts like RealTouch's laptop compatible interactive media massager, according to Erotica LA there is only one reason to attend the convention this year ... More >>

Naughty Films for Naughty People

One Hand Clapping Dept.: May is Masturbation Month

Even by the outrageous standards of sexologist Dr. Susan Block's broad-band e-blasts, her announcement that May is for wankers will take many aback. After all, a country jaded by sit-ins, smoke-outs and Casual Fridays may still not be ready for the idea of officially sanctioned acts of onanism. Whil ... More >>

Short Films By Ladies of Varying Heights

Ladies and Gentlemen, Canada's Perv Griffin!

The Lieutenant Nun

¡Ask a Mexican!: Special Catholic Edition

Plus, Monica Palacios on how to come out to los padres

Spring’s Awakening

The Princess Submits

The Training of O turns the tables on a well-known domme

The New Wave of Trans Cinema

Sex and the Freethinker

Yes, she said “pussy,” but don’t call Mohja Kahf progressive

¡ask a Mexican! Oral Quiz

Film Reviews

Pass the Pillows

Isosceles Triangle

A lopsided Eros

High Times

A Cold Equation

HIV and porn’s deadly bottom line

The Ecstasy, the Agony

All of Me

Trembling Before G-d’s warm ideal of Jewish practice

Poww!

Kenneth Tynan, demolition man

The Man That Got Away

Hedwig’s John Cameron Mitchell

Whacked

Masturbation as disease, and other historical madnesses

The Smooth and the Hairy

The British male onscreen

She's Baaaack!

Germaine Greer on Hillary, male aggression, foreplay in the '50s and more

Fetish Fulfillment

Miss Scarlet never misses a beat(ing)

Hearts and Minds

Notes on the man-woman/man-man/woman-woman thing