Jeff | 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
“It all started with a friendly phone call from Bob who had tracked me down to Amsterdam in 1971 …”
Jeff | July 30, 2010
Seems like old times. Good times. Hefner vs. Guccione.
Except there is no Guccione and this is 2010, not 1980.
Penthouse Owner to Battle Hefner for Playboy Control
Jeff | March 2, 2009
As a reporter in Silicon Valley, you probably can’t have a LOT more fun than breaking a story involving Penthouse Pets serving ice cream and investment bankers getting lapdances in the middle of Security and Exchange Commission “quiet period” on a proposed $500M initial public offering. Not unless Steve Jobs has a hangnail or something, [...]
Jeff | January 14, 2009
Playboy has published its list of the 55 most important people in sex over the past 55 years, and Shere Hite isn’t on it? Puhhlease. She belongs in the top 20, maybe the top 10. No one did more for female orgasm and masturbation than did Shere Hite in the 1970s. Practically singlehandedly, she pushed the clitoris to co-equal status with the penis. So yes, we know the brain is the most important sex organ … but Hite’s work got the blood flowing there as well.
Jeff | January 1, 2009
Those who do NOT know it well think that AFF is a porn site, if they have heard of it at all. And it is, but it’s so much more.
"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.
