Against Me! singer Tom Gabel reveals plans to begin living as a woman in the new issue of Rolling Stone. Gabel, who has dealt privately with gender dysphoria for years, will soon begin the process of transition, by taking hormones and undergoing electrolysis treatments. Gabel will eventually take the name Laura Jane Grace, and will [...]
Last Wednesday, April 25th, at the apex art gallery down Tribeca way, our very own Miss Lagsalot (aka, Lynsey G) hosted a panel of adult industry pros for an intellectual discussion of porn and its responsibility to the viewer. I decided to take a break from my usual nightly ritual of sitting at home getting [...]
Dee Dennis, co-founder of the revolutionary Momentum Conference held each spring in Washington D.C., is now bringing her talents and determination to spark open communication about sexuality, activism and acceptance to the West Coast! CatalystCon will be making its debut at the Hilton Long Beach & Executive Meeting Center in Long Beach, California September [...]
In joyful recognition of the WHACK! staph’s favorite holiday, I decided to do some digging into the smoky haze of just what the hell is going on with weed and sex. Marijuana has a hugely varied and controversial effect on people: I, for instance, get incredibly hyper when I smoke (not that I ever do, [...]
The filmmakers behind Staying Power: The Business and Value of the Adult Entertainment Industry, were recently notified their documentary would not be featured on KickStarter.com. The popular funding platform is a vehicle for emerging artists to finance projects from music to fashion to films. An independent documentary promoting healthy sexual expression and humanizing the adult entertainment industry, Staying [...]
Got porn? Odds are 1 in 3 that you do. Researchers have found that 30 percent of all Internet traffic is porn-related. The Internet’s largest porn site, Xvideos, gets 4.4 billion page views a month — about three times as many as CNN or ESPN, according to the research from ExtremeTech. Other major porn sites [...]
A Swedish smut king has been overthrown — and now it’s time to shoot the movie. Berth Milton Jr. — who in the 1990s built a pornography empire in Europe called Private Media Group that became a publicly traded corporation on the Nasdaq — has been ousted from the helm of the company, The Post [...]
A Penthouse pet and porn star’s Twitter feed was laced with more than just racy messages when it was hacked by a racist nut. Gina Lynn — the star on Penthouse’s April cover — claims a crazed fan hacked her Twitter account and plastered her feed with swastikas and profane, racist messages. The creepy fiend [...]
Premiere Dominatrix, fetish performer, BDSM educator, and FemDom video producer, January Seraph, will be running a special session for Hollie Stevens, a close and personal friend of Seraph’s, who is battling a very aggressive form of cancer. January’s sessions will consist of general BDSM, and the offer is valid in Los Angeles, San Francisco, [...]
