Porn Star Philosophy
What do porn stars communicate through their tattoos? As an information superhighway, arguably the web’s greatest gift is giving a voice to anyone who has access to it. A close second, though, would be...
View ArticleLove, Robots and Cybersex Addiction
A laptop, Skype, and teledildonics. The new sexual revolution is already transmitting its way through sensors into your home. But will it devolve the way we connect to each other?It was always going...
View ArticleWhat Is Objectification?
When a psychologist promoting her new book is interviewed by a Playmate for Playboy radio, she’s challenged to answer the question at the root of porn’s very existence.I was recently interviewed at...
View ArticleGrowing Up on Planet Porn
Were our kids sexually healthier when sexual images were harder to come by?When I was eight or nine, I had one Playboy, and one glossy Penthouse magazine in my possession. I kept my cherished rags...
View ArticleMen Spend Less on Porn Than Women Do
Although the straight female audience is eight times larger, the gay male porn market is enormous in comparison. What porn are women using?It is impossible to calculate just how many people are...
View ArticleThe Way I Heard It [Fiction]
Oh no, not the sex talk, Dad. Please. But he does, and it’s worse than I imagine.Some conversations you never want to have. Ever. I squeeze my eyes shut and imagine that I’m at the beach, or in jail,...
View ArticleImpossible Exchange [Poetry]
‘Porn is a hell of not having … of infinite desire laid over the world on a screen.’ Pornis a hell of not havingbut seeingthe transpositionof infinite desirelaid over the worldon a screenthere is no...
View ArticleThe Science of Love
Why has it taken us so long to learn so little about how and why we have sex?The languages, especially the dead,The sciences, and most of all the abstruse,The arts, at least all such as could be...
View ArticleThe Myth of One-Size-Fits-All Sex
Sexual instruction manuals perpetuate the notion that, despite the apparent diversity of ways to have sex, there’s just one right way for men to be lovers.I enjoy sex shops. I’m always amazed by the...
View ArticleMy Husband Live-Chats with Porn Girls
Watching porn is one thing. Live -chatting with sex workers is another.Dear Sexes: My husband watches porn which is fine—that really doesn’t bother me—but what bothers me is when he live chats with...
View ArticleWhy We Crave Porn
Although we treat porn as a commodity, it is actually a deeply desired human interaction.Porn exists and it will continue to be used heavily in Western society.Why? Like other cultural products that...
View ArticleThe Utility of Violent Porn
Under what circumstances is it acceptable to simulate non-consensual or violent sex?Defining pornEveryone has their own images of what porn is, their own definitions, and, it seems, objections to what...
View ArticleWould the Buddha Look at Porn?
On the question of porn, Buddhist American Keith Andresen is torn between culture and faith.—As an American man, I have been hardwired to watch porn. As a Buddhist, I do not watch porn.A few years...
View ArticleConfessions of a Recovered Porn Addict
To prepare myself for writing today I watched some Internet porn.I felt it would help the spirit of this article if I had re-engaged with my lustier side. To get to the movie I went to a website and...
View ArticlePornography Ended My Marriage
Is porn a good thing?It was for me because it helped me to end a long-term, committed relationship. He was a lover of soft porn and it bothered me. I wanted him to bring that energy to me and our...
View ArticleOur Porn, Ourselves
Charlie Glickman maps the sexist anti-porn arguments of radical feminist Robert Jensen.I recently attended a lecture by Robert Jensen, noted radical feminist, anti-pornography activist, and one of...
View ArticleHow to (Not) Become a Male Pornstar
Ever watched porn and thought, ‘I could do this, easy’?I played a clip with this guy, who I now know is Peter North, double-penetrating a woman I had searched for on the “vintage” site: Sarah Young—a...
View ArticleWomen and Sex Work
Suburban wife, mother, and sex worker Elle Lynn Stanger talks about the women and men who make and use porn.——We’ve needed to rethink our perception of pornography for decades.I think I’m fairly...
View ArticleFear the Towel
What goes down when the towel goes up at male strip clubs?I have always thought there are two types of men: those who look at porn and those who lie about looking at porn.In fairness, I suppose there...
View ArticleA Brief History of Porn
Erotic art has existed throughout human history. (Even before the internet.)Our society has notoriously never been able to define the precise edges of what we mean by pornography, inevitably falling...
View Article