This is interesting: Details has an article about a man who repairs ‘Real Dolls,’ those eerily lifelike sex dolls that look as though they weigh a ton and cost between $6,500 and $50,000 a piece. For Ryan Gosling fans, the Real Doll played a key role in Lars and the Real Girl, a film that [...]

A few people have asked for my thoughts on the CNBC doc last night on high-end prostitutes, and I can only give a partial response. I caught it for about fifteen minutes, then stepped out, hailed a cab to Brooklyn, and watched the rest at my destination.  From what I saw, it seemed decent.  It [...]

A great group of sex writers and bloggers recently posed for a pin-up calendar to raise money for Sex Worker Awareness, a non-profit which works to improve understanding of sex work and advocates for sex worker rights. Needless to say, I support the fuck out of it, but it also makes me happy to see [...]

It looks like Spitzer won’t be charged, and you can find Susannah’s write-up for Boing Boing here. If only gubernatorial hypocrisy were against the law.
And San Francisco? Securing 42% of the vote is great news. You’ll get there.

I should be in London.  I wish I were in London.  I had a trip planned to hit London and then Paris this week, but it had to be postponed for several reasons.
I was supposed to attend the Erotic Awards tonight, and I’m so, so sorry that I can’t be there.  For those of you [...]

She fails to separate her religion from her leadership.  And, as we learned last night, she has the terrifying talent of speaking in a way that commands attention while distracting listeners from the content of her words.  She could read from a phonebook and command attention.
This country is supposed to be about the separation of [...]

I didn’t really have a response when I first heard that John Edwards cheated on his wife. Cheating is common enough, and I tend to presume all political leaders have extra-marital affairs. But what’s prompted me to write is the mania that’s followed, the outrage at his bad conduct, the fuss over his attempts to [...]

You know that post about Dave Elms? Over the past few days, I noticed a few spikes in my site’s traffic coming from sites I’d never heard of. At some point, I clicked a few of the trackbacks, just to see what these sites were about, and discovered that they were review sites [...]

Dave Elms runs a popular website called The Erotic Review. It’s where clients post reviews of escorts by assigning a numerical value (between one and ten) and a detailed description of the encounter. It’s also where many escorts find their business.
In a little-known success story, TheEroticReview.com has come to dominate the country’s prostitution [...]

Last week, I was asked to give my response to an episode of Showtime’s Secret Diary of a Call Girl, the British import based on Belle de Jour’s blog and book, which airs tonight.
(I have a hard time remembering the name because it resembles the title of every escort memoir I’ve ever seen. The [...]