Paleolithic Porn? I Don’t Think So

jss | May 13, 2009

The New York Times today is showing a picture of ” huge, projecting breasts and sexually explicit genitalia.”

I guess it’s OK when the photo is of ivory carvings that are more than 35,000 years old.

Ancient Figurine of Voluptuous Woman Is Found

Funny ol’ Times.

Pakistani Bondage Barons

jss | April 27, 2009

The New York Times today features AQTH, a company in Pakistan that has carved out a niche in the $3 billion Western market for fetishwear and bondage gear.

Commune ‘Dedicated to the Female Orgasm’

jss | March 14, 2009

Sunday Styles, indeed. Maybe The Times should stop trying to shoehorn sexuality stories into parts of the paper and, periodically, just run a sexuality section. It would no doubt be the best-read part of the newspaper.

Sex Club in the New York Times … Outed by Gothamist

jss | February 26, 2009

My source of frustration … stems from the taboo that extends, obviously, even to hedonistic New York City. That even Miss Wanda asks that her enterprise not be recognized … that she does not want her real name in the newspaper, associated with her sex club … will say, to many readers, that she is ashamed of what she does.

Which she undoubtedly is not.

What Provokes Lust in Women?

jss | January 23, 2009

Under the … less turgid … headline (than mine) of What Do Women Want?, The New York Times Sunday Magazine this week allows contributing writer and author Daniel Bergner to delve into the current state of scientific research into what turns women on, sexually. “What do women want?” seems like a larger and even more unanswerable question, bringing, as it does, shoes and chocolate into the range of choices, rather than keeping more strictly to perhaps baser instincts and desires.

Free Speech Victory: COPA is Dead

jss | January 21, 2009

The Bush administration had flogged this particular dead horse for years (my apologies for that graphic cliche, but the Bushies always seemed more at home with gratuitous violence than they did with sex.) My only regret is that now we’ll never know if an Obama Justice Department would have pulled away from supporting COPA …

You've Been Tempted.

Shadowy "Into Temptation" is a usually-but-not-always safe-for-work forum about evolving social-sexual networks and how they have changed and are changing lives. It will also loosely chronicle the research, writing and publication, I hope in 2010, of a book by the same name.

The author and editor? Jeff Schult | DWM | 52 | New England | ... We've dispensed with pseudoanonymity.