Certainly, you’ve seen this?: This guy wins the award for worst fashion/lifestyle choices at @coachella. I’m not easy to offend, but this is shitty pic.twitter.com/fyjod24nAx — Jemayel Khawaja (@JemayelK) April 12, 2015 Reported on by basically the entire Internet, including the LAist, this fool… #smh I honestly didn’t
More money for professors, except not for the professors we see most frequently… Today, InsideHigherEd came at me with an exciting headline: “Modest Gains in Faculty Pay” (4/13/15 here). Specifically: Full-time faculty member salaries grew somewhat meaningfully year over year — 1.4 percent, adjusted for inflation, according to the American
In a recent piece for The Daily Beast’s “XXX Hysteria” (ha!) section, Aurora Snow asked “How far will one country go to regulate porn consumption?” It’s looking like pretty far. In fact, accordingly, “The UK Is Losing Its Mind Over Porn” (4/4/15). Last year, the UK banned a long list
I was recently asked to weigh in re the 11 (no idea why 11) most romantic adult films by the folks at Your Tango! Here’s what we got (3/30/15): 1. New Sensations’ Torn “Imagine: A married man meets much younger ‘manic pixie dream’ woman. She completes him, she gets
I was very pleased to wake up this morning to a lovely book announcement from Ekstra Bladet, Danish for Additional Sheet (3/15/15). My Danish is rough (read: non-existent), so I went to Google translate for an approximation. Here you have it, slightly copyedited: In a series of personal essays, sociologist Chauntelle Tibbals
Grantland reporter and Adult Entertainment Expo (AEE) newbie Molly Lambert recently wrote one of the best looks at porn’s crown jewel fan/trade event – “Porntopia: A trip to the Adult Video News Awards” (3/10/15 on Grantland here). If you don’t know what AEE is or if you want to get a
Have you ever opened a box or some sort of mega intense blister packaging, the contents of which was something “plastic”? And have you ever smelled that smell – that plastic, synthetic, new-but-kinda-meh smell? That smell was phthalates, wafting into the air. Phthalates make hard plastics (primarily PVC) more flexible. They
I had a great time moderating the UCLA Porn Panel on March 4, 2015. There was a packed house in Moore 100, panelists Tasha Reign, James Deen, and Colby Keller fielded questions from a *very* enthusiastic audience, and even though the event was way too short and a bit chaotic,
This most recent Mindbrowse.com broadcast, “50 Shades of Reality – Insights from BDSM Professionals” – aired Tuesday February 24, 2015 at noon PDT/3 EST. I spoke with a woman pro-domme (Rebecca Knox) and a woman pro-sub (Ava Mir-Ausziehen) about BDSM, associated myths and realities of professional and private BDSM, the positive and
I recently was a guest on the Pushing Boundaries podcast with hosts T&A, and it was fantastic! I spoke with the ladies about porn myths and misconceptions and we were really about to… push some boundaries! (for real) And, I *love* what they titled the episode – “Do you watch