Growing up with Prostitutes, sex work and danger
Interesting piece here about growing up with sex workers in the same building: What it feels like to grow up with prostitutes I have a similar experience… My first apartment was in a dodgy part of town. The was a large escort agency around the corner and the city’s first strip club were...

Sailor and Be-bop-a-Lula
Sweet Gene Vincent, the epitome of Lynchian 50s weirdness. Or maybe the Richard III of rockabilly. ...

Size matters!
A new research conducted by Victoria University into penis size and body image has discovered that size does matter to men, but chiefly in relation to how they shape up compared with other men. According to the researchers, “Men are more concerned about how their overall body size compares to...

South to South-East
Forth Worth novelist Cynthis Shearer reviews J the R.  http://thimblewicket.blogspot.com/2009/1…...

Chantelle most promiscuous name?
In Britain, 4,000 people were asked what name would be the mostly likely to engage on first date or casual sex. For some reason, the Brits think women named Chantelle are the mostly likely to do this. Woman were also asked what would be the name of a man that would...

Notes from Dirty Old Men
…Parts I & II. And God created Viagra. And there was much rejoicing. ...

Sex Advice from Pastors
I know… WTF? But amazingly the Church is not always anti-sex, anti-gay and anti just about everything else. Nerve magazine has a section called Sex Advice from Pastors and it’s amazingly open-minded....

MBV
And they don’t look a day over 1990. If Ornette Coleman cured Mailer’s fever in Chicago, maybe this’ll keep swine flu at bay… ...

Oral Sex Tired Tongue Tip
Most woman appreciate oral sex, but sometimes guys find it hard work to make a woman climax this way. The worst thing a bloke can do is to stop as a woman is approaching orgasm. All this will do is prolong the process. Here’s a nifty trick if...

Harpya
By Raoul Servais, Palme d’Or for Best Short Film at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. Bet he had a hard time getting a date after this one. ...

Ever been too embarrassed to buy condoms?
According to an online survey, one in ten people have unsafe sex because they are too embarrassed to buy condoms. That’s awful but I sort of understand. Once, during my first sexual relationship, the boyfriend and I went into a chemist to pick up the necessary, but the old battleaxe...

Cometh the hour
The National Campaign for the Arts calls on the Irish government to maintain arts funding in the upcoming budget.  http://www.petitiononline.com/ncfa/petit… Please sign and forward this request onto any arts supporters you know....

Sexist T-shirts
I wrote a piece in HP a few weeks ago which mentioned sexist T-shirts. Well, these are beauts. No boys! Don’t do it…...

Gimme gimme shock treatment
A surefire cure for the blues. Al Swearengen’s Positive Mental Attitude Module. Tony Robbins eat your heart out. ...

Pope Condom anyone?
Oh dear… If you’re a good practicing Catholic you won’t approve of this (or anything else on this blog for that matter), but some crafty joker has put the pope on a condom packet . You have to admit it’s kinda funny… Although this is not the face I’d...

Go tell it to the mountain
rap·ture (rpchr)n. 1. The state of being transported by a lofty emotion; ecstasy. 2. An expression of ecstatic feeling. Often used in the plural. 3. The transporting of a person from one place to another, especially to heaven. ...