Posted June 16th, 2009 by Alan Davidson
By ANDREW JACOBS
SHANGHAI — It was shortly after the “hot body” contest and just before a painted procession of Chinese opera singers took the stage that the police threatened to shut down China’s first gay pride festival. The authorities had already forced the cancellation of a play, a film screening and a social mixer, so [...]
Posted June 12th, 2009 by Alan Davidson
By MANOHLA DARGIS
Published: June 12, 2009
Forget buckets of blood. Nothing says horror like one of those tubs of artificially buttered, nonorganic popcorn at the concession stand. That, at least, is one of the unappetizing lessons to draw from one of the scariest movies of the year, “Food, Inc.,” an informative, often infuriating activist documentary about [...]
Posted April 9th, 2009 by Alan Davidson
By LORI GOTTLIEB
I once dated a man who seemed perfectly normal until the day he asked me to dress up for sex. By “dress up” I don’t mean in lingerie. He asked me if I’d dress up as a cop. My experiences in costume [...]
Posted March 15th, 2009 by Alan Davidson
OMing to Sexual Ecstasy: Orgasmic Meditation and the Female Pleasure Principle
By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN and CAROL POGASH
SAN FRANCISCO
EVEN in a culture in which sex toys are a booming business and Oprah Winfrey discusses living your best life in the bedroom, a coed live-in commune dedicated to the female orgasm hovers at the extremes. [...]
Posted March 9th, 2009 by Alan Davidson
Reprinted from "At Home in Muddy Water: A Guide to Finding Peace within Everyday Chaos" with permission of Shambhala Publications.
A young Zen student realized he had some sexual difficulties. He thought about going to his teacher for help but felt a lot of hesitation: “Maybe it’s not appropriate to talk to my teacher about sex. [...]
