RAVENOUS ROMANCE™ LAUNCHES NEW YORK CITY READING SERIES
Publisher of erotic fiction to launch Ravenous Nights at Lower East Side venue

[Boston, MA – February 1, 2011] – Ravenous Romance™, a leading online publisher of erotic romance novels and short stories has announced a collaboration with New York City literary hot-spot Happy Endings Lounge to host a monthly erotic reading series on the first Friday of every month called Ravenous Nights. Happy Endings, a funky 2-story club that was once a massage parlor, is located at 302 Broome Street. The first Ravenous Night is scheduled for Friday, February 4 from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m., and it is free of charge.

The lineup for February 4 includes:
Cecilia Tan, best-selling erotic author of the Magic University series
Caridad Pinero, New York Times best-selling erotic romance author
Mo Beasley, founder of Urban Erotika, a spoken word performance series
KT Grant, author of The Princess’ Bride
Debra Hyde, acclaimed writer of BDSM erotic romance and author of the BDSM classic, BLIND SEDUCTION.

In celebration of Ravenous Nights, Barnes & Noble has announced that they will offer free copies of the Ravenous Romance anthology Once Upon a Threesome to the first 100 people to download it. In addition, Ravenous Romance will give each attendee a free Ravenous Romance drink coaster to each attendee and the Happy Endings Lounge will create a special “Ravenous” cocktail which will only appear on the menu during Ravenous Nights.

Ravenous Nights
Friday, February 4, 2011
8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Free of charge
Location: Happy Endings Lounge
302 Broome Street (at Forsyth St)
(212) 334-9676

In the name of all things erotic, let’s party!

My daughter's competition entry

To my chagrin, site registration is required, damn it, but please help her!

You see, her job search for an entry level position animation will begin this summer and it would be great if she could add a win to her resume.  Or, even better, get noticed by the Burton’s people.  Now *that* would be a weird mother’s dream come true!

Be sure to comment here if you do indeed join in the voting!  And I’ll return you to your (ab?)normal biblio/sex-in-the-news content shortly.

First conservative forces want to stage teabag protests around the country come April 15th but had no idea what they had stepped into when they started talking about “teabagging.” As Jon Stewart so aptly pointed out a couple of weeks ago. (You can stop watching after “perversion literate; it goes tangential at that point.)

Then Andy Cobb points the obvious. Because this is what we’ll all be thinking of when you teabag on tax day:

I mean, really: How can you present a serious protest when you aren’t even aware of that you’ve set yourself up for mockery? Teabagging isn’t just some esoteric sexual practice that John Waters threw into a movie. It was, but it hasn’t been for some time. Aren’t you people even aware that teabagging has its own wiki entry and has far more to do with online computer gaming than it does queer practices? Seriously, guys have been teabagging one another since Halo 1. Hell, there’s plenty of video examples on You Tube.

If that wasn’t bad enough, this week Rachel Maddow caught another mock-worthy conservative initative in the making:

Seriously. How can you people expect to be taken seriously about public policy? At the very least, hire someone who can tell you when you’re about to blow it. Take that pun as you will.

Because you can’t conduct a culture war when you’re culturally clueless. At least we’re finally seeing how ludicrously out-of-touch you are.

Pursed Lips, Speaking returns after a long hiatus with all sorts of goodies — so much that I had to divide the podcast into two parts.  Part One features a listen to the A-side of the 1956 recording, "What You Can Learn from the Kinsey Report."

Part Two of the newly returned Pursed Lips, Speaking retuns us to our Viva protagonist, who experiences her final initiation into the ways and wherefores of sex, and to my confessional corner where I reveal something I dearly miss.  Enjoy!

Technical fixes delayed this edition's release, but better late than never, right?  This time out:  Do extreme tastes become obsessions? More books and movies and a bit of a rant about the Bedford Diaries.  Our Viva protagonist discovers new joys  — and I discover a bit of historical info about the pamphlets I've been reading aloud.  And, of course, confessional corner where I reveal what kind of porn figures into my solitary habits — and how I stay attuned to my body.