Xaviera Hollander’s remembrance of Bob Guccione

| October 21, 2010

And somehow, by the end of the day, I’m exchanging emails with Xaviera Hollander and posting:

The Happy Hooker Remembers Bob Guccione

β€œIt all started with a friendly phone call from Bob who had tracked me down to Amsterdam in 1971 …”

Time Travel and Sex, in SexIs magazine

| October 15, 2010

Perhaps TMI, perhaps NSFW … but what sexual advice would you have for your younger self?

‘Sexis’ and sex writing

| April 15, 2010

And the first piece I did is fun, and funny. I ran it past some people who *know* funny, and I was on the mark. Even I think it’s damned good, and I am usually so sick of my essays once I’m done with them that I almost can’t tell if they are good or not.

Almost, that is. You can’t do this without having some kind of confidence.

So please go read:

Just How Tough IS It, Being a Straight Guy?

Ashley Madison article on yourtango.com

| October 28, 2009

I have a lengthy article about the Ashley Madison Agency published today at YourTango.com:

Adultery Benefits Women? A Case For Ashley Madison

The article is excerpted from a preliminary chapter of Into Temptation. So it is a bit of a sneak preview, long in advance …

Sex Journalism 101

| October 13, 2009

There aren’t enough sex columnist jobs out there for all these kid sex columnists coming out of school. And there *should* be. Newspapers are dying, in part, because they have almost no relevance to anyone under 35. You’d think at some point they’d try dumping “Dear Margo” for Mustafa “Will Write for Sex” Shaikh …

Or me.

Hooking Up is Different … How?

| June 13, 2009

Ever since I first heard that “hooking up” meant having casual sexual activity with someone — which had to be about in the late ’90s — I have been predictably annoyed by the media freak-outs on the subject. Here we are in 2009, and hooking up is still a horrifying trend, even according to National Public Radio.

You've Been Tempted.

Shadowy "Into Temptation" has been a forum about evolving social-sexual networks and how they have changed and are changing lives. In other words, we talk about dating and sex.

The original intention was that this blog would also chronicle a book project on the same subject; but that is in flux, on hiatus, perhaps meant for another time.