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  • Was it bad for you?

    November 20, 2009

    • What exactly is bad sex writing? Is it having bad sex while writing? Or is it bad to write about sex…cluck, cluck? Of course, all of you know about the Literary Review’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award. Many really good writers have ‘won’ it. No one has ever thought about giving a good sex in fiction award, it must therefore follow that it’s all just bad. The worse and the worst do not count. ...
  • In Bed with the Devil (One Last Time) by Beth Mann

    November 14, 2009

    • “So how’s it feel having sex with a dead man?”“Good,” I gasp. “Very good.”We laugh at the gallows’s humor. We can make jokes while having sex. We’re at that point with one another.Soon the laughing makes way to sighs and moans. A tear runs down my face but it doesn’t stop me from enjoying being very naked with my ex-boyfriend this one last time.God, can I really call him an ...
  • I love the new review, though it's the second one that is critical of the way I write about sex.

    November 13, 2009

    • I'm thrilled that Lisa enjoyed the book. I'm very heartened by the obvious care and time she took over the review. I am very grateful for all the reviews the book has received, that people I don't know feel it's worth their time to read it and discuss it.It is becoming an increasing source of amusement to me that the one consistent quibble reviewers seem to have about WOTM is over the sex scene ...
  • Sex, Love, and Revolution

    November 12, 2009

    •  “You say you want a revolution . . . we don’t want to change the world.” But change the world we did . . . The sexual revolution that was taking place as I came of age in the 1960’s brought sweeping changes in the way men and women communicated with each other on the subject of sex. Prior to that transformative decade, from what I’ve gleaned from books and movies, the subject was ...
  • The Daily Sam: Sex and Halloween

    November 2, 2009

    • Halloween is a national holiday here in San Francisco. This isn’t simply because people get to dress in sexy costumes borrowed from their wives’ closets or purchased at one of our local leather emporiums. Yes, it is a time when people get to come out of their shell and walk around the streets of a major city expressing their inner slut, but there is more to it than that. It’s really about ...
  • Sex, Baseball and a Good Curry‏

    October 29, 2009

    • Sex, Baseball and a Good Curry‏  One item of news I spotted today was... "Fan denies sex-for-tickets gambit".With the baseball “World Series” starting... yesterday and NO--- I still have not worked out how it can be a "World Series" where only American teams and a token Canadian team take part. According to the news... A mother-of-two has been charged with offering ...
  • Was it good for him?

    October 27, 2009

    • If we thought we were human, then wait. Our ancestors could have got into the sack with Neanderthals in some of those weak moments that make us human, to begin with. It was probably 33,000 years ago, but it’s not such a long time considering the speed at which sperms travel and make home in ovaries. Therefore, residual genes might well be residing in us. That ought to make us less than human ...
  • Addictions

    October 9, 2009

    • Have you ever met an addict? Or perhaps you are one and don't even realize it. I suppose that when you read the title addictions the first words that jump into your mind is drugs or alcohol or gambling. Well, although these are truly addictions that we read about -- too often -- those are not the addictions I am referring to. I always read blogs and try to pay attention to the time of day the ...
  • A Book and a Chat with "Dianne Castell"

    October 8, 2009

    • A Book and a Chat with "Dianne Castell" If you like a down to earth romance novel, with humor, plenty of twists perhaps a ghost or two and a happy ever after ending then books by my special radio show guest tonight are for you. Dianne Castell is an USA Today award winning author whose books are ideal for anybody wanting to escape from this world for a moment and find themselves in ...
  • Skeletons in the Closet: How Many More? Update

    October 8, 2009

    • As if this morning's news were not nauseating enough, apparently Nico Sarkozy - yes, him of the model wife and high heeled shoes fame - found Mitterrand's tell all "autobiographical novel" with lurid details of paying Thai boys for sex and orgasmic descriptions of being turned on by the "slave market" (Mitterrand's terms) not only acceptable but also: "courageous and ...