Writing about Sex? You’re Fired.

| May 13, 2010

I first became acquainted with the woman known as The Beautiful Kind a couple of years ago when I ran across her sex blog and was greatly amused, in particular, by her “Ask the Slut” advice column. She struck me as a rare talent right away — not so much for her sexual exploits and experiences as for her literary voice. Raw, unfiltered, unfocused, unpolished … yes, all of those things. But also powerful, brave, funny and full of potential. “With the right editor, she could write a great book,” I remember thinking. “That is, if she’ll listen.”

Sex Club in the New York Times … Outed by Gothamist

| 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.

Online Dating … Sex Book … Sex Blog

| January 31, 2009

I was getting worked up. “MySpace is nothing, it’s vanilla ice cream. There are social networking sites out there that you’ve never heard about, where people post pictures and videos of themselves having sex, describe what they want you to do with their spouse, advertise their swinger parties. There’s a whole world of sexual networking out there that no one knows about because the prissy media lumps it all in with porn … yet there are millions of people into it. It’s like the sexual revolution of the ’60s and ’70s got … defibrulated … shocked back into life, by the Internet, in the 2000s.”

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.