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AV Flox
Editrix-in-Command

She has been blogging since before there were blogs. Today, she’s the Love and Sex section editor at BlogHer and the curator of the Village Voice Media blog NakedCity LA. She has contributed to the LA Weekly and Los Angeles Times‘ BrandX.

Robert Fischer
In-House Theologian and Cultural Commentator

Behold the sacred and the profane — he’ll shy away from nothing. Well-versed in mathematics, computer science and religion, this man is a bona fide intellectual whose musings on sex and culture are delicate as they are incisive. How could we resist? Read his pieces…

Dawn Kaczmar
Eros and Desire Scholar

Across theory and practice, across possession and obstruction, Dawn seeks the fleeting and overarching truths of eros. She is currently a freelance writer with a background in philosophy and literature. Read her pieces…

Jason Goldman
Scientific Consultant

Jason never hesitates to answer our science questions, no matter how inane. He blogs for ScienceBlogs, with an emphasis on animal cognition; his work has been syndicated to the New York Times and he’s a frequent contributor to the UK’s Guardian.

Contributors

Nikki Thomas
Nikki was a straight A student who couldn’t follow the rules and spent as much time in the principal’s office as in the library. At university she opted not to join a sorority and instead filled her free time cruising Hollywood bars and parties, hooking up and getting down. Nikki is a bad girl with a heart of gold. Read her posts…

Fernando Mentiras
Fernando has wasted much of the last few years wading through the local escort/hobbyist message boards. From finding a hooker to making the date, not getting ripped off or worse; he knows everything there is to know about paying for sex. With cold hard cash, not at divorce court. Read his pieces…

Daisy Tralala
She’s a veteran of Los Angeles’s original punk rock scene who managed to emerge intact to navigate through a number of other subcultures through the years. She has chronicled her writings in the U.S., Italy and Japan. She’s currently enjoying a journey of sexuality through the BDSM underground. Read her posts…

Laura Roberts
Laura Roberts is the editor of the literary rebellion (and erotica haven) Black Heart Magazine. She currently lives in Austin, where she is writing a memoir of her time in Montreal. Read her posts…

Dick Feynman
Dick is a Los Angeles-based scientist, specializing in diluting scientific research findings into tasty, bite-sized bacon-flavored snacks for the unwashed masses. Read his posts…

Raymond Burns
An esoteric indie film professional living in Los Angeles. Raymond is a social animal who loves every inch of the female form. He comprehensively appreciates the quiet aftermath of a woman’s orgasm. He hangs a bit to the left. Read his posts…

Arrow Strong
He has chosen to keep his identity private because he’s kind of a big deal. You’d never guess — if you were to meet him at a function around town — that this good-looking geek was capable of so much debauchery. And that’s just how he likes it. Read his posts…

Adora Flame
We’ll tell you this much–she’s in Hollywood. She has a hand firmly on the pulse of Los Angeles happenings and juicy sex news, but move up a little and you’ll find her heart, prominently sitting on her sleeve. She’s our in-house romantic, and ready to share about all things about dating in Tinsel Town. Read her posts…

Ma Cherie
Ma is in the market for a boyfriend, girlfriend, kinky sex partner, willing slave, and sugar daddy, though not necessarily in that order. When not working as a dominatrix, she’s cruising online dating sites, hitting up fetish parties, and regularly pleasuring herself. Unironically, her favorite song is “Kiss With A Fist.” Read her posts…

Tyler Knox
We’ll put it this way: this guy has no qualms about pissing off every woman in the room. What good is a big vocabulary if you don’t have the balls to match, right? Read his incendiary piece about Tiger Woods here.

Drew Thomas
Drew knows a thing or two about the view from the top. A dom for a while, he’ll tell you how he got there and just how hard she came. Read his posts…

The Barrenness
What happens when one opts out of reproduction and throws herself into self-absorbed hedonism? The jet-set life is the perfect stage for a game of musical beds. Read her posts…

Britney du Jour
She blew in to Los Angeles from Wholesome USA in the name of a Hollywood-style ever-after. Now that she sees this isn’t going to pan out, she’s decided to take charge — and start charging. Read her posts…

Darla Labelle
She’s the unusual mistress. And by mistress, we’re not talking BDSM, we’re talking infidelity to the nth degree. Darla is here to tell us some of the hot stories and logistics involved with conducting a successful affair with a married man. Ladies, cower in fear. Read her posts…

Jessica Janson
She was born in the greater Los Angeles area, where she spent much of her life when she wasn’t satisfying her wanderlust in bizarre places around the globe. Foreseeing the state’s impending economic collapse, she packed up and took off to Vegas where she now makes a killing ignoring her Master’s and grinding on laps. Read her take on L.A. guys in the strip club and her appeal to porn industry big wigs.

Simone Vressac
This Los Angeles career girl isn’t afraid to tell you everything, from her visits to the gynecologist to her porn-viewing habits. She’s a barefoot sex nymph, as comfortable in thigh-highs and Louboutins as she is in sweat pants on the morning-after. Read her posts…

Esther Tseng
Celebrated foodie blogger and owner of Los Angeles’ esteemed e*Star LA, Esther is our go-to gal in all matters of where to take a date when you want to hit the town.

Dark Gracie
Gracie is an acclaimed photographer, sex author, and deviant extraordinaire, who first began writing erotica in 2005. Read her contribution here.

M. Lore
M. Lore doesn’t feel you’re entitled to know more about him than what he has contributed here already. But he has a great piece about what domination is really about that you should definitely read.

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We have heard many rumors about the AIDS Healthcare Foundation since we started reporting on their war on pornography, chief among them that they opposed research into an HIV/AIDs vaccine. Not content to become part of the gossip mill, we decided to dive into the allegations. What we found was disheartening.

Science Writer Carl Zimmer Publishes on Playboy, Internet Freaks Out

Carl Zimmer, a celebrated science writer, has published a piece about Neil deGrasse in the January issue of Playboy magazine. Almost immediately after the article started making the rounds on the internet, the question of whether “respectable authors” should publish in magazines like Playboy arose.

Best Stocking Stuffer Idea: Dysfunctional Communication Tools

While there is no substitute for being able to speak with empathy and warmth, there are ways to tackle the little things in a manner that invites laughter and fun. This gift guide is all about taking the menial, day-to-day stuff of a relationship and learning to poke fun at yourself and each other.

The Story of a Disappearing Critique on Google+

Whatever your views may be when it comes to flesh on social networks, you have to agree that a process that doesn’t notify users of actions being taken by a social network with regard to their content is one that breeds insecurity and doubt. How can we feel that Google+ is an extension of our homes when we can’t be sure that we’re allowed to voice our opinions? This situation is grave indeed.

The Sad Ballad of Halloween

Halloween is an artifact that has existed far longer than this country, under various names and in many guises over time. It’s a weird, twisted survivor that survives by absorbing the qualities of the culture in prominence where the day is celebrated. These days, people shake their heads when they think about Halloween — how could a kid’s dress-up holiday have become so grossly sexualized?

How Can We Build Communities in a Potentially Hostile Environment?

What happened to us? What happened to people me? Where I was running with packs of people who have bold ideas, inventing these amazing things, being at the forefront, and now I’m handing my communities and my value over to gatekeepers? And these things are being built not by leaders, but by followers. So why are we doing this?

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Editrix-in-Command:
AV Flox

In-House Theologian:
Robert Fischer

Eros and Desire Scholar:
Dawn Kaczmar

Scientific Consultant:
Jason Goldman

East Coast Liaison:
Jackie Summers

Arch-Nemesis:
Barbie Davenporte

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Sex and the 405 is what your newspaper would look like if it had a sex section.

Here you’ll find news about the latest research being conducted to figure out what drives desire, passion, and other sex habits; reviews of sex toys, porn and other sexy things; coverage of the latest sex-related news that have our mainstream media's panties up in a bunch; human interest pieces about sex and desire; interviews with people who love sex, or hate sex, or work in sex, or work to enable you to have better sex; opinion pieces that relate to sex and society; and the sex-related side of celebrity gossip. More...