The relationship between pleasure and music is one that is particularly pronounced, which probably explains the undeniable coolness of OhMiBod, a vibrator that translates musical beats into vibration sequences. The vibe has been around for a few years, and we were curious about its evolution, so we sat down with OhMiBod co-founder Suki Dunham to give us an overview.

“Our designs evolve over time, because, frankly, we listen to our customers,” Dunham told us about the changes in the vibe’s design. “We love receiving feedback. When it is negative we take that criticism constructively and use it to build better products.”

What started with a single vibe is now a full-fledged line: from the wireless Freestyle and the ambient-music vibrating Club Vibe, to the phone call-activated Boditalk Escort and their bath-play Better Than Chocolate Massager, OhMiBod has covered all the bases — at least as far as the clit and g-spot are concerned. No word on anal or p-spot vibes yet.

“We introduced Club Vibe, our ambient sound vibrator in March of 2009 at the WMC (World Music Conference) in Miami, so it is fairly new,” Dunham told us. “We seeded Club Vibes to over 250 club-goers at that event and received a tremendous positive response to the product, so we moved forward and launched it through all of our sales channels.”

An undeniably sexy idea. Naturally, our editrix has asked for a Club Vibe to check out. Where will she wear hers? The opera, of course. There is nothing quite like coming to the brink of release at a place that requires one to be perfectly poised at all times.

“I was at a club for one of our shows in Las Vegas, and I thought about how great the music would feel while I was dancing,” Dunham confessed, referring to how the Club Vibe came into being. She loves to dance but at the time, none of their vibes lent themselves the club experience.

“So we just put a mic into the controller instead of a direct connection to the iPod,” she said. “It’s the same concept, just a different input mechanism.”

But let’s back up for a second and start from the beginning — who came up with the idea of a sex toy that vibrated to music?

The story goes something like this: several years ago Dunham’s husband of 20 years, Brian, gave her what she calls the two best stocking-stuffers of all time: an iPod and a vibrator.

“While he was away I found that I was using the two together,” Dunham told us. “At the time, Brian was traveling a lot for work and we had two small kids at home. After I had made dinner, cleaned up and put the kids to bed, music was the vehicle that helped to transport me to a different place mentally so that I could open myself up to self-pleasure and feeling sexy.”

She shared the idea of bringing music and vibration together with her husband and voilá, the concept for OhMiBod was born.

But while this is, without a doubt, one of the greatest contributions to pleasure of our times, the going hasn’t been easy.

“I was preparing the packaging and manual for a new toy we are going to launch,” said Dunham. “We translate our manuals into seven languages, so I contacted the translation company who I had worked with in the past to translate the new manual, and I was told that they could no longer translate manuals of this nature.”

By “this nature,” they mean manuals that refer to products for self-pleasure. And that’s just a small hold-up. OhMiBod has also been denied loans for bringing pleasure to the masses.

“I was working with a bank to get a business loan and they told me they would fund the loan, but the Small Business Administration would not back the loan, because we were a prurient business,” Dunham told us.

pru·ri·ent: adj. marked by or arousing an immoderate or unwholesome interest or desire; especially : marked by, arousing, or appealing to sexual desire.

But the founders of OhMiBod don’t let the resistance stop them. They see their business as a way to change society’s views on sexuality and pleasure. Along with the difficulties, they have seen a lot of positive changes as well.

“This year we were accepted to be an exhibitor at CES (the Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas,” Dunham said. “We were super proud of our participation there and were well-received by the conference’s attendees. Last year, we were part of the Grammy gift bag which is the ‘official’ gift bag for all performers and presenters at the Grammy Awards — our inclusion in the gift bag was approved by the board from the American Recording Academy. We were the first ‘personal massager’ company to be part of this offering.”

It’s a start, and all the more reason to support OhMiBod.

GIVEAWAY!

What is the one song would you try on an OhMiBod and why? The best answer gets a Club Vibe. Don’t just mention the song — tell us why! What sort of feelings does it inspire in you? Does it make you feel sexy? Quote a few lines of the lyrics if you like, to illustrate.

You can leave your answer in the comments, put it up on your blog (just make sure you link our blog or leave a comment with the link so we know it’s there!), dish it out in 140 characters to @sat405 on Twitter, or e-mail it to us directly. Friday at midnight Pacific time is the cut-off, so get them in as soon as you can!

Colleen Nika, a music and style writer for Interview magazine, will be helping us choose the winner.

Worried about giving your address to a bunch of sex writers in L.A.? Don’t stress. OhMiBod will be mailing the vibe directly.

Note: We may publish your submission. We will gladly let you use a pseudonym and remove any identifiable details from your post. But we reserve the right to publish your vibe-winning awesomeness. So keep that in mind.

Continuing the overview of what our favorite skin girls want for Christmas, we’re taking a peek at Kristina Rose’s Amazon wishlist today. Here’s what the AVN Performer of the Year nominee wants in her stocking:

Rose mentioned she had a Star Wars collection of ornaments once, but she’s been forced to start fresh — we can only wonder how she lost it. What we do know is that she lost the works of Spike Jonze, Chris Cunningham, and Michel Gondry during a custody battle with an ex-boyfriend — who also made off with her dog! The nerve. We hope it’s the same guy she decked at the AVNs last year.

Our tour of the material cravings of porn stars continues today with the Amazon wishlist of web bombshell and two-year XBIZ Award nominee Aaliyah Love.

We’re not sure why we’re so surprised over the home-making wares in porn dolls’ wishlists. Is it that we don’t think they have a need for them because we have enshrined them above any humanity (or dehumanized them to the point where they cease to exist once they step off the set)?

We don’t think so. We’ve actually never seen a wishlist with dinner wear in it. A registry, yes. But a holiday wishlist? Never. There is something really charming in encountering items with a purpose on what should be a display of total self-indulgence.

Maybe we’ll get really evil and post a collage of our editor’s wishlist to show you what we mean.

Yesterday we took a peek a Zoe Voss’ Christmas wishlist to give you an idea of what a gorgeous woman in the adult business wants to fill her stocking. But since you can’t really generalize about an industry by one of its members, we’ve decided to bring you more.

Today’s wishlist belongs to model and performer April O’Neil, soon to play Deanna Troi on the TNG Star Trek porn parody. That’s not just a part for O’Neil, who’s actually quite a Trekkie. Don’t believe us? Get a load of her wishlist on Amazon. It seriously doesn’t get any geekier than this:

We don’t even know where to start there’s so much win here. We’re seriously planning on stealing that bloody bath mat for the zombie lovers in our respective universes. Now that’s just sheer genius.

We just have one question: what’s with porn stars and Dyson vacuum cleaners? Two doesn’t make a trend, but it is interesting that both the wishlists we’d pick to feature would include one — and not even the same model. Maybe there’s some interesting sex fetish thing we’re missing. Or maybe they’re the only vacuums that can handle the copious puddles of cum?

We promise to investigate.

Porn stars. We watch them on the screen banging away in hundreds of fantastic positions, a parasocial situation more intimate than most. Based on how well books like How To Make Love Like a Porn Star by Jenna Jameson and Sinner Takes All by Tera Patrick have done, it’s patently obvious that we’re curious about this breed of business people-cum-icons (see what we did there? You love it).

With the holiday season upon us, we thought you’d be interested in knowing what porn stars want for Christmas. Lucky for us, porn new-comer Zoe Voss is really forthcoming in this regard. She posted her Amazon wishlist this afternoon. You ready for this?

Wishlists are interesting in that they can tell us a lot about a person. Zoe Voss wears an extra small — that we knew from watching her flicks. What we didn’t know is she wears an eight in shoes, her ring size is 6, she has a Kindle and reads, she subscribes to a variety of rags ranging from the banal (Cosmo) to the thought-provoking (Vanity Fair), she likes movies in the theater, she is either a gamer or she is interested in becoming one, and she cooks — or plans to learn how to make pasta.

Intriguing.

It appears that Wednesday was National Underwear Day, as decreed by the underwear company Freshpair.

“Underwear should no longer be merely the first thing you put on and the last thing you take off, but the most important thing you wear all day.” says Freshpair president Michael Kleinmann. That’s what the holiday is all about.

We’re completely in accord with this — that is, for when we choose to wear underwear at all. But in the spirit of the holiday, we give you one of our own, dressed in nothing but hers:

Like the undies? They’re from Panty by Post, a company that sends you — or anyone of your choice — a pair of panties every month.

We had the chance to speak to co-owner Lori Sholzberg about this fascinating idea of receiving lingerie in the mail and here’s what she had to tell us:

How did you come up with this company concept of sending lingerie to a lover?

After numerous trips to France, my business partner Natalie [Grunberg], spent many hours sipping cafes watching the beautiful French people walk by. She especially noticed how regardless of shape, size or age, the French women seemed to carry themselves with style, grace and air of confidence that could not be compared with to North America.

She started thinking that this must stem from inner sexiness; more so, that their outerwear begins with their underwear! It’s no secret that beautiful lingerie is inherent to the French culture, and the idea behind Panty by Post was realized when she decided that we need to bring a little piece of pretty elegance back and then spread it to the rest of the world in a budget-friendly, nostalgic and exciting way. Natalie pitched her idea to me via e-mail from France and before she even boarded the plane back home, we were already making the postman blush with our idea!

Are your clients mostly men or women?

After 18 months of operation, our clientele is almost evenly divided between men and women. Moreover, our age range has expanded from early twenties all the way up to women in their 60s.

You can submit messages to be delivered with each piece — what’s the best message anyone has submitted?

This is a difficult question to answer! There have been so many that have made me smile and made me blush, but since this answer will be posted to the public I won’t choose the latter.

I have to say that one of my all time favorites was: “A reminder once a month that your radiance outshines the sun.”

Go forth and celebrate, readers. You’ve earned it — and according to Freshpair, the holiday is being expanded to include the entire month of August. That’s the cool thing about making up holidays — you can change them however you like.

Photos by Rath and Some.

Melissa Jun Rowley is a writer and cause activist living in Los Angeles. She writes for Mashable and WhatGives!?, a blog from Cause Media Group, which focuses on cause marketing for brands and celebrities. But this girl is no goody-goody two shoes. We sat down and interviewed her today about the irreverent approach she takes to social media.

Melissa Jun Rowley: For a long time my beat was entertainment because I was an entertainment journalist for CNN. I got a little jaded by the TMZ-aspect of entertainment journalism and some of the bullshit that people in Hollywood have to deal with on a regular basis. But there’s also really great things about Hollywood – people come to this city completely in pursuit of their dreams, so there’s something really magical about that, too.

I took a little leave of absence for a while, I went up to San Francisco, where I’d lived eight years prior, and I got really immersed in social action. There’s a really tight-knit social enterprise community up there that focuses on non-profits and for-profits that are doing good. There are a lot of companies that are evolving into triple bottom-line companies, that are focused not only on their financial bottom line, but also focused on being socially responsible. It’s people, planet, profit – those are the three bottom lines.

When I got back to Hollywood to take a job with E!, and then that didn’t work out, I started to merge entertainment and social action together. Right around that time I met Chris Noble, who’s the president of Cause Media Group, and he asked me to start blogging for WhatGives!? and from there the intersection of celebrities, brands and non-profits has become my beat.

Sex and the 405: There’s a lot of discussion in social media about how much of yourself you should be – there’s the school of people that believe that when you use social media you should focus on your topic and not deviate. Darren Rowse, Pro-Blogger, talks about about how if you have different subjects you should have different blogs, different Twitter accounts for your blogs because you want to be consistent and not alienate your audience. But you’re of the school of “let them see your human” and this is something something more like what Marsha Collier espouses – be personable, be reachable, be a human being. You’ve met a little friction because you are young, you are single, and you talk a little bit about some of the things you do and overhear, which is very L.A. So on social media, you’re not just talking about doing good for the planet and society, you’re also talking about dating and how this guy or that guy is a douchebag.

MJR: I’ve run into some people expressing that it’s not the best idea for me to tweet certain romantic or sexy thoughts and occurrences. I don’t kiss and tell – I’m not that forthright, but being a single woman in a big city, meeting people in the entertainment industry, the tech industry, I like sharing that because not all of my followers follow me because of the social action I do. I get the most tweets when I say, “I’ve got a red carpet tonight, hot pink stilettos or thigh-high red boots?” If I can get responses out of that and then tweet about the latest non-profit I’m covering, then I think they’re more inclined to pay attention.

SAT405: Because you’re not just broadcasting, you’re engaging the audience. And they don’t have to know about the industry to opine on what you should wear or do.

MJR: I don’t think people should constantly be marketed to. When I see people just marketing to me on social media, I unfollow them. I understand what they’re doing, marketing is important, but the reason why social media has been successful for certain people and certain brands is because they’ve learned how to humanize it. I don’t want to use the streams just for my work – there are other parts of myself I want to share. If people can get something from that, learn something from anything I have to offer, be it causes, relationships, love, self-evolution, then that’s a contribution, too.

SAT405: Human beings have a hard time as brands because we’re not two-dimensional. To be human is a great risk, because you expose yourself to human error, but that human aspect can make people feel a lot closer to you and this is what engagement hinges on, that perception of closeness.

MJR: I don’t want to always be distributing content about what people should do, donate to this, support this, run this marathon, raise this money. I want to get people involved, but I don’t want to be preachy. I try to tweet something every day about a cause that I am covering, but you need variety to keep things interesting and keep people involved.

SAT405: What inspired you to get involved with causes in the first place?

MJR: The first non-profit I was involved with is called Life Rolls On, founded by Jesse Billauer. I connected with them through a women’s network I had joined while I was working at CNN because I needed to do something to contribute to society other than just talk about movie premieres. I love artists, I love creators, I love to hear about the creative process and being a writer and producer myself, it’s inspiring to be around that kind of energy – so I am not criticizing the entertainment industry, that’s why I’m here. But I was in a place where I needed to do something more than my job.

So I connected with Life Rolls On. Jesse Billauer was one of the top 100 surfers in the world when he was 17, then he had a surfing accident that rendered him quadriplegic. It cost so much money that his family started holding private benefits to keep him healthy. One day he and his brother decided to think bigger than just the family and they founded the Life Rolls On Foundation, to do spine research, and also to help people that may feel blocked, like there are too many obstacles as a result of an accident to continue pursuing their dreams. Jesse is a motivational speaker, he speaks at different companies and at schools to inspire people to keep pursuing their dreams, no matter what obstacles they run into.

He still surfs, he has specially made surfboards for it! They have an event called They Will Surf Again, to get everyone in the community with spinal injuries, recovered and not, in the water on surfboards. It’s not just about raising money for research and building awareness, but it’s about life going on. Let’s keep on living. Seeing that made me more motivated to keep doing what I am doing.

SAT405: How have you pursued your dream?

MJR: The economy went to hell and I started to lose a lot of freelance work. CNN, Associated Press, E! – they were all on hiring freezes and I was losing money. At that time I connected with CauseCast and I was their first writer. While I was in San Francisco, I’d write remotely for them. Because of my connections, I was still getting invited to red carpet events and it so happened a lot of these had causes attached, they were benefits. So I thought to start covering them for CauseCast. Having a celebrity attached doesn’t hurt.

So I started running around with my Flip cam. It wasn’t glamorous. It was all by the seat of my pants. I would find out about, grab the Flip cam and go. I’d be interviewing people on the grass, in the woods, and then I came back to Los Angeles, and was with E! for a bit before the show was canceled and I got laid off. Then I met all these tech nerds.

SAT405: I love that you look at me when you say that.

MJR: We met on Twitter the way everyone should meet. The tech connection helped, there are a lot of start-ups that have some social good attached.

SAT405: You are a nerd now, too, you have a webshow now, Good and Ready.

MJR: Good and Ready focuses on the intersection of celebrities, brands and causes. We’ve done two episodes – we’ve been doing it every month. It’s hard because I have twelve other jobs. We’re looking for a sponsor. Right now we’re focused on getting the production value higher. Eventually we want to sell it to Oprah or to Bravo and be the kind of production where we can travel the world and build wells in Africa with Matt Damon – that kind of hands-on work and coverage.

I try to leverage the celebrity connection and red carpet access as much as possible because that brings eyeballs. If that’s what I have to do, if I have to tweet about my outfit to get people to start engaging, then I am going to do it.

SAT405: Hollywood is your Trojan horse for causes.

MJR: I want to bring more attention to what Hollywood does for non-profits. The one issue with benefits where celebrities come out to support is that because there is so much eye-candy and public figures, the cause gets lost. I want the show to show what they’re doing, not so much their projects, but the social good they’re doing. They do a lot. They get a lot of flack, but they do a lot.

While we were in Manhattan up to absolutely no good, we happened to meet Andrea Grant, creator and writer of the comic MINX. Immediately drawn to the complex plot line and sexy heroine (based on Grant herself), we knew we had to share her with you.

So we asked her to take a time out from her incredibly busy schedule as the editor of TheFashionSpot and fashionista-about-town to tell us a little bit more about the comic.

Sex and the 405: How did MINX come about?

Andrea Grant: Although it started out as a comic strip in the back of my literary arts magazine, Copious, I started seriously publishing MINX in 2006. I’ve always been obsessed with the lines between fantasy, reality, and dreams. The creation of MINX was cathartic; it happened right after I emerged from a very dark period in my life.

MINX began as an alter ego that I felt safe working with creatively as I sought to find my voice as an artist. Minx is an archetype of the empowered, modern woman that challenges tradition while embracing sexuality and femininity. MINX is a very personal project — both a conceptual self-portrait, and a response to the way that the celebrity-obsessed media often corrupts the truth and distorts the boundaries of fantasy and actuality. The world of Minx is real to me, albeit a hyper-reality.

Sex and the 405: You mix Native American folklore and fantasy in the comic seamlessly. How did it occur to you — are you Native American?

Andrea Grant: I am half-Native, through my Coast Salish father, who is also a Shaman. I would go with him to pow-wows, where I met some tribal elders, who told amazing traditional stories. And I thought that it would be interesting to combine some of these stories with other universal myths in the graphic novel format. What’s great about comics is that the audience accepts the epic and the supernatural.

Sex and the 405: What do you want readers to take away from the comic?

Andrea Grant: The goal is for others to seem themselves in these archetypes, and also to make an impact when it comes to retelling old myths and preserving traditional stories.

There’s an interesting new book by Mike Madrid called Supergirls: Fashion, feminism, fantasy, and the history of comic book heroines which examines how female characters have evolved through the years. They started out as film noir vixens, and then had to battle for equality in the 1950’s, until they finally became empowered again (i.e. She-Hulk and Catwoman, which I grew up reading).

But these characters always seemed 2-dimensional to me: superhero identity vs. true identity. I wanted to create a more emotionally complicated, 3-dimensional character in Minx, who is something of an anti-hero grimly accepting the fact that she has been called to this strange adventure in Dreamtime.

All of my characters are moody and as complicated as any of us, and it’s that streak of humanity that makes Minx unique. She plays with the boys, but she’s definitely a woman.

And here’s a little something-something for you, because we like you that much. A picture of Andrea Grant herself:

You’re welcome.

Special thanks to Colleen Nika for the intro. That girl knows everybody.

In 2007, a start-up rocked the web with its fearless vision to combine the social network with adult photography into a formula that enables models and photographers to profit via a user voting system. The start-up, Zivity, even managed to raise a $1 million round of seed capital from Silicon Valley investors, notorious for steering clear of adult sites.

“We think it’s our unapologetic approach that has nabbed our investors,” founder Cyan Banister commented then. “Women who want to be sexy is not pornography, and us stressing that has helped us a lot. It’s never been about creating a site that’s a dirty little secret, and investors really need to hear that.”

We had an opportunity to speak with Banister last week and asked her to tell us something she hadn’t told anyone before about Zivity’s story.

“The first time I posed nude was very nerve-wrecking,” Banister said. “I called all my photographer friends and I said ‘I’m thinking abut this company again’ — I tried to start this company ten years ago and I was very young and inexperienced and lacked a lot of maturity in person and business — and I told them, ‘I need to pose nude because if I can’t do this, I can’t start this company.’ ”

She set up the appointment and dove in.

“I knew nothing about looking at the camera, or how to pose,” she recalled. “I loved it. It was transformative. I didn’t think much about my body but afterward, I looked at it in the pictures and thought ‘wow, my body is nice.’ I regretted not doing it sooner and appreciating myself sooner. If I could go back, I would tell myself to pose sooner.”

That’s essentially the heart of Zivity right there — it’s about beauty in all its forms, it’s about the discovery of self and the sharing of this self through collaboration with photographers and through interaction with users.

Banister’s first shoot never made it into the site because the images didn’t meet the site’s quality guidelines.

“Has no one seen these?” we asked, our curiosity piqued. “Can we see them? Can we run them?”

Ask and you shall receive.

Presenting the photo shoot that started it all. Un-Photoshopped, and never before seen:

“A camera will show you something about yourself a mirror never can,” Banister told us. “When you see a picture of yourself, you see everything. Have some shots taken. Even if you don’t do it for the website, do it for yourself. Delete it if you have to, but do it.”

And just in case you want to check out this fabled website of epic win, you can get a 30-day trial by sending an e-mail to sexandthe405@zivity.com, no credit card required — until the end of those 30 days, that is. Then you’ll need to pay up. But don’t worry, you’ll find no damn good reason not to, and over 500 reasons worth doing so.

(Be patient, the 30-day trial messages are sorted manually, not by machines, so give it 24 hours before you leave us impatient comments. Not that we don’t love your eagerness, our sweet flytraps of oversharing and voyeuristic delight.)

Oh, yeah: you’re welcome.

Special thanks to Enrique Gutierrez for inadvertently catalyzing this.

AV: I want a man to give me presents for no reason, because he simply can’t resist being reminded of me whether he’s in the shower or strolling around town.

HER: good luck with that. Men are goal-oriented creatures. They need execution dates and a general template to follow or defy, hence the importance of holidays, anniversaries and birthdays — and nudges from us.

AV: that’s bleak, Mom.

Then, without fail, a few days before said holiday, AV will receive an e-mail from her father requesting approval of his latest gift. Everything from bizarre orchids (which her mother loves even though she invariably kills them) to a dinner in a tiny island only big enough for a table under a gazebo, with an ensemble of musicians in boats around them to serenade them.

AV got roses — once. From her ex-husband before he was her husband. Moral? UR DOIN IT RONG, AV.

So we here at Sex and the 405 have decided to do everyone a favor and put some options on the table for you, the first of which is a personal favorite of ours: art by Hugh MacLeod.

Somehow, our shameless editrix-in-command got the Wall Street Journal bestselling author to take a few seconds from his incredible creation schedule to give us some answers. We present these to you for your nomage:

AV Flox: Tell me about the Love Series — how did it come about?

Hugh MacLeod: The Love Series came about in 2007, when I was asked to design some Valentine’s Day promotion material for one of my clients. They went down a treat, and then when Valentine’s Day came around this year I decided to resurrect them.

AV: One of my favorite pieces by you “Commitment” isn’t on there — it should be. That’s love in a nutshell for me.

Your description you included with that piece goes like this:

Within 1 week of meeting this person you realize that not only have you found your soulmate, but you’ve found your soulmate who likes to have sex 4 times a day in the bed, on the dining table, on the kitchen floor, in the changing rooms at Bloomingdale’s etc.

Within 2 weeks you’re already talking about moving in together.

Within 3 weeks you’re talking about having babies together.

Within 4 weeks you realize this person is a complete psychopath.

Within 5 weeks this person also thinks you’re a complete psychopath.

Within 6 weeks you’re sitting at a restaurant with an old friend who is giving you the “How come you only call me when you’re single” speech.

Which is a really long way of asking: have you really had sex in a changing room at Bloomingdale’s? How was it?

HM: I never had sex in Bloomingdale’s. My parents gave me a double bed for my 17th birthday (“Hey, we’d rather have you doing it on that than in the back of a car…”), so from an early age I never had to scout out exotic locations, unlike some of my hapless single-bed school chums. That informed me as I got older.

AV: I have a queen-sized bed but I still love changing-room sex.

HM: The trouble with changing rooms, it’s impossible to spoon afterwards.

AV: But you can grab high tea at Neiman’s! [Laughs] Anyway, since we’re on the subject of the delectable: have you ever done a drawing on human flesh? If not, can I reserve the rights? Thanks.

HM: I once had a wonderful girlfriend who loved getting naked and getting me to draw on her. I was happy to oblige, but never really understood why it turned her on so much. I guess we all have our kinks, so whatever…

The lovely and charming Hermione Way asked me draw on her neck with a Sharpie last SXSW. But we were just having a laugh, nothing kinky happening there. She had already had a ton to drink that night (as did I), so when she woke up the next morning and looked in the mirror…

As for yourself, by all means! The next time you see me, bring a Sharpie!

AV: We all have our kinks, you say. What’s yours?

HM: It takes at least four cocktails to get the kinks outta me.

AV: Duly noted. So Valentine’s Day — because I have to ask — sweet or stupid holiday?

HM: I think Valentine’s day started off well, back in 17th Century Europe, where the idea was to send somebody a secret, anonymous letter that said, “I fancy you”. That’s pretty hot, to get one of those in the mail. But now we send Valentine’s cards to our grannies and vice versa. It kinda defeats the original purpose.

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There you have it, our sweet orchids of desire and destruction, the inimitable Hugh MacLeod. If you have an art junkie in your life, check out his gallery. If you’re a Twitter junkie, add him: @gapingvoid.

Closing words?

“Ladies, please always remember The Golden Rule: Men Are Stupid,” says Hugh MacLeod. “So if you want your man to get you one of these beauties for Valentine’s Day, do not assume he and his walnut-sized brain will be smart enough to figure it out on their own. Best to drop him a hint. Maybe kick him in the shins. Or something.”