I know it seems like I have a hundred million different projects - and I do. Naked City, however, takes top billing (though at the moment it’s part time so I have some room for other stuff). Because it’s a paid gig, it will give me the opportunity to cover sexuality in a much more in depth, consistent, and wide-ranging way than I do through my other outlets. It also means that my coverage in other places will be a little more sparse, but I’m excited to deliver cool stuff on Naked City that will complement the other sex media that is already online.

Naked City’s main beat is New York, as that’s the home of the Village Voice and I’m shamelessly New York-centric, but I’ll also be taking it with me when I travel to far away (and not so far away) lands. For instance, I’ll be reporting on Sex 2.0 in Atlanta this coming weekend.

So far I’ve got four posts up, and over the next week I’ll be adding a variety of columns and features to the blog. We figured that leaping in and sorting it out while the blog is live isn’t the worst thing in the world. Feedback is welcome.

One of the things I’m most excited about doing is Naked City TV, a weekly video show which will document and explore the personal and professional lives of people for whom sexuality is central. I’ve got some interesting stuff shot, some interesting stuff planned, and I’m also totally open to suggestions. I’m producing, shooting, and editing the show as well as doing the interviews, and I take issues around media representations of sexuality very seriously (as you probably know if you’ve read my blog for more than a day or two).

Here’s a taste of Naked City TV. This episode is about The Porno Jim Show, which is currently running every other Saturday at the Producer’s Club Theater. And head on over to Naked City to see today’s posts on rude rejection letters erotic artists get, a panty design contest, and my picks for sexy events happening in New York this week.

Respecting the confidentiality and protecting the identities of participants who wish to maintain a degree of anonymity will be a top priority at Sex 2.0.

I will be delivering the keynote talk for Sex 2.0 bright and early in the morning - at 9.15 (roughly) on the nose.

Other presenters include Regina Lynn, Melissa Gira, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Renegade Evolution, and many others!

When? April 12, 2008
Where? 1763~A Deviant Place of Decadence, 1763 Montreal Circle, Tucker, Ga., 30084 (directions)
How much? $50

REGISTRATION IS MANDATORY. We will not be taking any walk-up registrations at the door.

At Sex 2.0, everyone is a participant rather than a passive attendee. This is YOUR event!

I gave a talk at WAM called Sex Workers and Media Representation (click to see notes for the workshop), and questions during and after the talk made me realize that many people are curious about the sex industry and want to support sex workers in their struggle for rights, but they have no idea where to start. This site is an attempt to fill that gap in public education in an approachable, easy to understand, and engaging way - it’s also the first public education project from Sex Work Awareness, a new non-profit in NYC founded by four $pread staff members. Sex Work 101 is meant to add to public knowledge about sex work and to encourage discussion about the issues sex workers face.

Participate in Sex Work 101! I’m looking for questions non-sex working people want answered and their perceptions of/thoughts about the industry, as well as posts from sex workers who want to share stories about their work (a day in the life, how I got into the industry, reposts from personal blogs, etc)

The official email for the site is ask[at]sexwork101.com but people can also email me at dacia[at]wakingvixen.com. I’d also love to hear from people who want to help with the site - writing posts, answering questions, etc.

Designed by the lovely and amazing Joy Rumore, my totally awesome tattoo artist - have a look at her portfolio: The Milkmaid, her shop in Williamsburg: 1228 Tattoo, and her blog (with examples of recent work).

Girl shirts come in medium and large Bella girly tees, dude shirts come in large and XL Galdin tees - both are printed by my friends at High Voltage Customs here in the fine city of New York.

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MONDAY, MARCH 24TH @ 7PM
Freedom Story: Overcoming Sex Addiction
A forum highlighting socio-political themes of Aurin Squire’s new play.
The Audre Lorde Project
85 South Oxford Street
Fort Greene, Brooklyn

Inside a sex-phobic U.S. society and within a sex-positive queer community, the individual who defines his or her own personal sexuality is a brave freedom fighter. Freedom Train Productions is proud to host this discussion around the socio-political themes within Aurin Squire’s new work.

As is our custom, there will be an open and democratic dicussion where experts and academics, sex-perts and sex-positives, and plain old folks who have something to say all will have a chance to do exactly that.

This is a part of Freedom Train Productions’ Offstage Series. Aurin’s new play will be featured at Fire! New Play Festival 2008 in August.

If you’re interested in tuning in, I’ll be discussing whether or not prostitution should be legalized. Also on the show will be Emily Bazelon, who has a piece up on Slate this morning titled Why is Prostitution Illegal?

Click here for the show - it’s WNYC 93.9 FM in New York.

I’ll be there too!

More info is on the Babeland site.

I was not a porn consumer or seeker when I was a teenager. Though I was sexually precocious and promiscuous in many ways, porn wasn’t really on my radar. In fact, when a high school friend found me on MySpace recently and discovered that I’d become a porn director, he was pretty surprised. But since I’m a bit of an extremist, when I began to explore porn, I really did it up. And I wanted to find porn that was like me – bisexual.

At my first job in sex, I lucked into a treasure trove of porn with obsessively categorized videos, magazines, and mementos: the Ralph Wittington Collection at the Museum of Sex. I started as a researcher at the Museum and then became an assistant curator the year it opened – and in addition to jump-starting my career as a sex nerd, being exposed (ahem) to the wealth of smut in the Wittington collection plus meeting a delightful array of sex industry legends got me started on my own personal journey.

Among the carefully labeled boxes that contained videos in plastic archival boxes, polaroids of enthusiastic collector Ralph Wittington with a variety of stars, and a smattering of creepy flesh-colored sex toys was a box labeled “bisexual.” The contents were a bunch of Paul Norman films – the “Bi and Beyond” series that kicked off in 1988. The late 1980s through the mid-1990s were apparently the heyday for bisexual porn – if a heyday can be considered somewhat prolific production from one director.

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