As some of you may know, I worked in restaurants and bars for years. My very first research article was about doing conventional gender as a tool of resistance in corporate restaurant settings. In fact, one could say I paid for my PhD with pizza, beer, and miles (and miles
I recently came across this op-ed piece on MetalInjection.com – “The Problem With Heavy Metal Is Metalheads: Stop Calling Everyone A Faggot” (10/22/14, here). In the article, author Shayne Mathis makes a very simple point, one that I’m surprised still needs to be made at all: Stop using words like
I’m so lucky! I got to be a guest on my favorite podcast ever – DrunkCastLive – again! Here’s some synopsis text: The good doctor, Chauntelle Tibbals, returns to tell us why Fleshlight is the best company in the world, why porn isn’t free, and whether “The Interview” is a warning of things
I recently received an interesting query from AVN, one of the foremost adult industry trade and news organizations. The team at AVN was getting into the New Year’s spirit, pondering their resolutions for 2015. They correctly assumed that they were not alone in their reflecting, so they put out a
It’s 2015 – welcome to the new year, darlings! I am incredibly excited, both in general and for this new year specifically. A lot of exciting developments are soon-to-be-revealed, and I have many new adventures on the horizon! All my best to each of you. May we all have the
In sum: Iris Gibney, 42, allegedly met a seventeen-year-old student at a Pottsgrove High School in Pennsylvania while helping her daughter’s cheerleading squad. Iris and the teen started talking on Twitter, and Gibney then allegedly sent nude pictures of herself to the boy. A police officer later caught them having
Autism, both what it is and what causes it, is something a lot of people don’t understand, including me. I recently came across this article “MIT Researcher’s New Warning: At Today’s Rate, Half Of All U.S. Children Will Be Autistic By 2025” (10/28/14, here), and I was more than a
So this study came out recently – “Pornography Actresses: An Assessment of the Damaged Goods Hypothesis.” What to make of it? First and foremost – the study is published in the Journal of Sex Research, a peer-reviewed academic journal. The research team behind this work is made up of: James Griffith, Lea Adams,
Ok, so as we know I recently purchased two Puppy Surpises, both in the Zoey model, for two lucky little girls I know (here). The girls had communicated their desire for Puppy Surprise via a letter to Santa. But this update is not about the elaborate ruse I concocted to
Brad Armstrong is many things: Canadian, a former Magic Mike-style dancer, a porn star dude (you may recognize certain parts of him more quickly than others), and one of the most well respected directors working in adult entertainment today. He’s also a jerk who made me cry last week when I