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Everybody’s Sin Is Nobody’s Sin: Alfred Kinsey and the Breaking of Sexual Silence (Comes Naturally #153)

 

In the late 1930s, Alfred Kinsey had what he thought was a rather simple idea: Given that no one had the slightest idea what people really did and did not do sexually, and given — as he discovered from a questionnaire he distributed to his students — that a lack of simple information about […]

Vote for Sex (Comes Naturally #152)

“I don’t know how you can think about sex in these times. The world feels like it’s coming to an end. I can’t even THINK about sex, much less feel like having it, I’m so depressed and fearful.” — Email from a friend

“Any sexual activity that might decrease the amount of coal mined, the […]

Lap Dancing in San Francisco and the Evolving Face of Sex Work in America (Comes Naturally #151)

or Why So Many People Leave their Hearts, Minds, Inhibitions, Fears, Virginity, and Heterosexuality in the City by the Bay

[A slightly different version of this column appeared in SF Weekly, September 8, 2004.]

 

At 5 p.m. on Wednesday, May 5, three undercover vice squad officers walked into San Francisco’s nearly empty New Century […]

A Romantic View of Sadomasochism (Comes Naturally #150)

 

Kiss of Fire: A Romantic View of Sadomasochism, photographs by Barbara Nitke, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2003, 104 oversized pages, casebound, $40, ISBN 3-933257-94-8.

 

It’s no easy thing to capture the subtlety and complexity of s/m play in a photograph.

There are, to be sure, thousands of fetish photos and dozens of fetish photography […]

Sexual Photography Beyond the Sexual Ghetto (Comes Naturally #149)

 

Love & Lust, photographs by Donna Ferrato, Aperture Foundation, 2004, hardbound, 144 pages, $25.

 

Perhaps the walls of the sex ghetto are starting to break down, at least a little. Aperture, the highly respected fine art photography publisher, has just published Love & Lust, a groundbreaking book of images by Life/Time/New York Times […]