On Foursquare, we check in to restaurants, the 405, concerts and airplanes with such competitive zest over mayorship, it puts Tonya Harding to shame — so why wouldn’t we want to check in to clinics when we’re getting an STD check-up? MTV, which is running a campaign to get people t[...]
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Monogamy Has To Be Dirty To Work
“In order for monogamy to work, it has to be ‘dirty.’” Those are the words of Rabbi Irwin Kula, author of Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life. “If the forbidden is what is exciting, we have to work hard to bring the taboo into our most intimate relationships,&[...]
August 29th, 2010 - 10:09 PM § in Culture, Papers/Rags
If We Had A Magazine, You’d Read It
We consume a lot of media here at Sex and the 405, including a handful of magazines, ranging from Psychology Today to Playboy. Among these, Cosmo probably gets more love than it does anywhere else, both because our editrix is taken with Helen Gurley Brown and because we accept each magazine for what[...]
Not Making Enough? It’s Because Your Vagina Stinks
Oh, Woman’s Day, you’ve really gone and done it this time. Their October 1, 2010 issue features an advertorial (usually put together by the rag and a company’s brand strategy team) for Summer’s Eve, a company that makes personal care products for women, which suggests that th[...]
August 24th, 2010 - 10:00 AM § in Culture, Television
Hollywood Takes on The Skin Biz
Hollywood takes on the skin biz. Why not? Times are tough everyone’s sinking and God knows the Valley has more implants per capita than Tinseltown proper. HBO is about to get a little more interesting with a new drama about the skin biz, says The Hollywood Reporter. Mark Wahlberg, who did OK w[...]
Why We’re Not Lynching Apple’s Phillip Shoemaker
The web is up in arms about Apple App Store director Phillip Shoemaker following escorts and porn stars on Twitter. We’re here at Sex and the 405 refuse to jump on the bandwagon screaming hypocrite. We believe in personal choice and freedom. Whatever value Shoemaker finds in these connections [...]
A Stripclub Movie To Rule Them All
Our friend George Griffith has been slaving on From The Head, what could possibly be the indie flick of the year, about a bathroom attendant in a New York City stripclub based on Griffith’s own experiences in the mid-90s. The film, an afternoon in the life of bathroom attendant Shoes, played b[...]
The Carnal Carnival
Step right up, ladies and gentlemen, feast your eyes if you dare! It’s real, it’s alive, it’s… your own body, its different parts, and the products from it! That’s right, from the minds of the web’s most forward-thinking scientific bloggers comes The Carnal Carniv[...]
Foursquare Foreplay
Over at NakedCity LA, our editrix wrote a piece about how to use Foursquare to be a good liar and avoid other people (leave it to her to find a way to make social media anti-social). She makes no secret of the fact that she thinks people who give away their location and get competitive [...][...]
The Real Doll Maker
Meet Matt McMullen, the creator of the Real Doll, those wondrous masterpieces of workmanship that are part sex toy, part work of art. In this video from California is a Place, McMullen describes how the first doll came to be. Honey Pie from California is a place. on Vimeo. Here’s a snippet fro[...]