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Thursday's Pick: Independent Erotic Film Festival

​Independent Erotic Film FestivalCastro Theatre7 p.m., $10-$20We can always count on Good Vibrations for two things: to help us learn more about sex and sexuality - and to keep us from taking it all too seriously. So it is with the Independent Erotic Film Festival. Every year the San Francisco ret ... More >>

Aden and Jordan Jeric, Gay Porn Stars, Brawl at Drag Contest

Multnomah County SheriffEric James Mulvaney, aka Aden Jeric, allegedly punched himself in the face during a drag show brawl​A gay porn star who was a celebrity judge at a Portland drag show co-produced by San Francisco Trannyshack icon, Heklina, was arrested for smashing his gay porn star ex-partn ... More >>

ZOMG! Chron Discovers Porn on the Internet.

At my desk where I never use my work computer to look at porn. Except when I do.​The front page of the Datebook in Monday's Chronicle offered a photograph of a pair of hands bound by the cord of a computer mouse and the headline "Putting Lives on the Line for Porn." The story opens with what the w ... More >>

Erotic City: How S.F. went from prudish to porn capital

At my desk where I never use my work computer to look at porn. Except when I do.​The front page of the Datebook in Monday's Chronicle offered a photograph of a pair of hands bound by the cord of a computer mouse and the headline "Putting Lives on the Line for Porn." The story opens with what the w ... More >>

Porn Queen, NYU Grad Student Lorelei Lee Proves S.F. State Is No Loser School

Rick HallLorelei Lee, left, seen here with fellow porn star Bobbi Starr, has put her San Francisco State undergrad degree to good use already​ In 1995, San Francisco State professor Geoffrey Marcy, and his student, Paul Butler, created an ingenious optical device allowing them to detect evidence o ... More >>

Outside the bedroom, BDSM practitioners can't take punishment

Rick HallLorelei Lee, left, seen here with fellow porn star Bobbi Starr, has put her San Francisco State undergrad degree to good use already​ In 1995, San Francisco State professor Geoffrey Marcy, and his student, Paul Butler, created an ingenious optical device allowing them to detect evidence o ... More >>

Whipped and Gagged

Is government spending obscene? Well, it paid to train S&M filmmakers.

Smut Peddler, Guv Hopeful Meg Whitman Waffles on Porn Subsidies

Gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, who as eBay CEO proved her mettle as a hardcore fetish pornography entrepreneur, did not respond to an inquiry Wednesday about whether as governor she would seek to continue a California program that, until recently, subsidized the production of smut.Next we ... More >>

Om Face

Gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, who as eBay CEO proved her mettle as a hardcore fetish pornography entrepreneur, did not respond to an inquiry Wednesday about whether as governor she would seek to continue a California program that, until recently, subsidized the production of smut.Next we ... More >>

Ultimate Surrender: Erotic Wrestling at Kink's Armory

(Photos courtesy Kink.com) It's one thing to watch four porn stars in bikinis wrestle from the comfort of your own computer chair. It's another to sit in a crowd of 40-odd people and listen to the visceral smack of curvaceous flesh hitting a giant gym mat for two hours. Once a month, Kink.com, the ... More >>

Gay porn star Michael Brandon vows comeback

(Photos courtesy Kink.com) It's one thing to watch four porn stars in bikinis wrestle from the comfort of your own computer chair. It's another to sit in a crowd of 40-odd people and listen to the visceral smack of curvaceous flesh hitting a giant gym mat for two hours. Once a month, Kink.com, the ... More >>

Calling All Wenches

(Photos courtesy Kink.com) It's one thing to watch four porn stars in bikinis wrestle from the comfort of your own computer chair. It's another to sit in a crowd of 40-odd people and listen to the visceral smack of curvaceous flesh hitting a giant gym mat for two hours. Once a month, Kink.com, the ... More >>

Blue San Francisco

(Photos courtesy Kink.com) It's one thing to watch four porn stars in bikinis wrestle from the comfort of your own computer chair. It's another to sit in a crowd of 40-odd people and listen to the visceral smack of curvaceous flesh hitting a giant gym mat for two hours. Once a month, Kink.com, the ... More >>

The Rise and Fall of the Monster

Gay porn star Michael Brandon goes from meth addict to antidrug poster boy and, tragically, back to meth addict.

Sex columnist Violet Blue tries to restrain online foes

Gay porn star Michael Brandon goes from meth addict to antidrug poster boy and, tragically, back to meth addict.

Porno Art: FANEE's "Holla at the Bay" at Gallery Three

Gay porn star Michael Brandon goes from meth addict to antidrug poster boy and, tragically, back to meth addict.

Chron Site Hijacked?

Gay porn star Michael Brandon goes from meth addict to antidrug poster boy and, tragically, back to meth addict.

Porn Hacker Single-Handedly Revolutionizes Marin Transit Site

Gay porn star Michael Brandon goes from meth addict to antidrug poster boy and, tragically, back to meth addict.

Dominatrix Blew Whistle on Bernie Ward

Gay porn star Michael Brandon goes from meth addict to antidrug poster boy and, tragically, back to meth addict.

Democracy to Get Pornier, Says Researcher

Gay porn star Michael Brandon goes from meth addict to antidrug poster boy and, tragically, back to meth addict.

Who Among Us Doesn’t Love Israeli Porn?

Gay porn star Michael Brandon goes from meth addict to antidrug poster boy and, tragically, back to meth addict.

Homosex: Sixty Years of Gay Erotica

Gay porn star Michael Brandon goes from meth addict to antidrug poster boy and, tragically, back to meth addict.

Just Desserts

Cake offers straight women a comfortable woman-friendly place to be sexy. So why does it feel so retro?

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Dieter Gone Wild

Infiltrator tries to break into porn using the "German Method" and a pitch for pornographic bowling

The Other Hollywood

The finer points of porn in "Ravished: Retro and Recent Kink"

Welcome to the Valley

Harmon Leon goes where porn is made!

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Harmon Leon goes where porn is made!

Courtney Love

America's Sweetheart

Dead Heads

A promising mix of genres that strains to tie things up at the end

Attempts on Her Life

A series of impressionistic scenes paints a portrait of a mysterious woman, in an unusual play that's more style than substance

Modern Love

The etiquette of online dating

A Hard Heart

In this unflinching porn-biz peek, a man will fluff for love

The Hedgehog Strikes Back

Ron Jeremy, the "world's most unlikely sex star," in a penetrating documentary film

True Professions

What do you call whores who don't have sex and porn stars who don't get paid?

Hot 'n' Throbbing

An eerily serious treatment of domestic violence by Paula Vogel

Porn to Sell

Product placement comes to adult videos...hey, watch where you put that thing!

House Of Tudor

The Make-Up, Ute Lemper, Erotica USA

Savage Love

The Make-Up, Ute Lemper, Erotica USA

Web Rouser

Former Lusty Lady dancer Caity McPherson struggles to make a living on the oversexed Internet

Night Crawler

Former Lusty Lady dancer Caity McPherson struggles to make a living on the oversexed Internet

Blame It on the Boogie

Former Lusty Lady dancer Caity McPherson struggles to make a living on the oversexed Internet

Savage Love

Former Lusty Lady dancer Caity McPherson struggles to make a living on the oversexed Internet

Second Time Around

Former Lusty Lady dancer Caity McPherson struggles to make a living on the oversexed Internet

Samples

Former Lusty Lady dancer Caity McPherson struggles to make a living on the oversexed Internet

Savage Love

Former Lusty Lady dancer Caity McPherson struggles to make a living on the oversexed Internet

Slap Shots

Former Lusty Lady dancer Caity McPherson struggles to make a living on the oversexed Internet

Cyperpornocopia

Milpitas residents Carleen and Robert Thomas found a lucrative way to sell the hardest of hardcorepornography to smut fans all over the country: by computer bulletin board. Then their little Silicon Valley startup attracted the interest of a U.S. Postal S