Letter From the Editor

Following Mother’s Day is, of course, Father’s Day (which is only fitting since any gentleman will let a woman come first). It’s only natural to celebrate fathers since it is their sperm that has the power to determine the sex of a baby, although fetuses are female by default. And men having more muscle cells in proportion to fatty tissue serve its usefulness in carrying luggage, holding the door, etc.

All the literature greats, famous ones being Shakespeare and Homer, spoke of women’s beauty and their influential roles as driving forces that cued (usually) male protagonists to achieve their objective, whether it’s Lady Macbeth urging her husband to perform unconscionable tasks for the sake of acquiring the throne or the mere thought of Penelope miserably waiting home, alone, to leave the clutches of Circe and Calypso while battling monsters and the elements, respectively.

Most cultures and societies seem to defer to the hypermasculine ideal, which, on a regular basis, is a hard shoe to fill. Underneath their tough exterior, men are just hapless creatures looking for a soft place to rest before living up to the impossible again. This Father’s Day, let’s give men a break. Whether it’s letting him sleep in even though he agreed to wake up early to go to the gym with you or letting him watch his Monday night football in peace, he deserves it.

Editor

Who would have thunk it? Pizza is an aphrodisiac. People are passionate about their pizza…now we know why. When you choose your toppings wisely, chances are that eating this well-known comfort food could lead to sumptuous, hot, mouth-wateringly gooey sex. Just be careful not to burn the roof of your mouth. The Viagra of the pizza world may be available to consumers soon. Iceland, a UK-based supermarket chain, is currently developing a frozen pizza aptly called Pizzagra that the company says will “set pulses racing and libidos leaping.”

One can’t help but wonder where the life of the first true porn star, John Holmes, would have gone without the notoriety gained by his atypical physical endowment. Although the length of his penis is often contested, Ron Jeremy, an immensely popular male porn star, openly admits that Holmes “had me beat by about an inch—inch and a half.” But there was much more to the John Holmes than his illustrious career in pornography, his drug abuse, and his involvement with one of the most notorious mass murders in Hollywood history. Jennifer Sugar and Jill C. Nelson’s coauthored biography, John Holmes: A Life Measured in Inches (2008), is as girthy as it is informative—nearly 440 pages of detailed first-person accounts from those who knew Holmes personally

Throat almost became the porn film that wasn’t. When Vivid producer Stephen Hirsch got the rights to remake the seminal ’72 porno Deep Throat, everybody was enthusiastic about the new production – after all Hirsch had hit gold with remakes of Debbie Does Dallas and The Devil in Miss Jones. But things went wrong when the rights-holders to Deep Throat saw the script for Hirsch’s project. Turning the upbeat, cheerful tale of a deep-throating diva into a dark and dastardly murder mystery apparently put them off the whole project. They pulled their involvement and Vivid was left with a remake of Deep Throat that they couldn’t market as such.

Like other Americans, I first became aware of limoncello after the ramblings of Danny Devito on The View in November 2006. Showing up apparently still drunk from hanging out with George Clooney he said, “I knew it was the last seven Limoncellos that was going to get me.” My next encounter with the liqueur happened about seven months later. I was studying in Florence, Italy at the time. While there, I and several other students happened upon a restaurant named Bucca Mario.

Ron Jeremy is simultaneously ubiquitous and elusive. From his New York Times bestselling autobiography, Ron Jeremy: The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz, to Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy, a documentary pieced together from choice moments of his life, it’s safe to say the public is inundated with enough material on the AVN’s number one porn star of all time. With an estimated 4,000 women on his bedpost notch, he’s certainly popular with the ladies and he proudly admits in his book that he’s never had an STD in his life.

"Intersex” is a blanket term used to describe a constellation of congenital conditions that express themselves as physiological divergences from that which is accepted under the standard definition of “male” or “female.” Included are conditions that cause discordance between one’s genetic sex (chromosomes) and phenotypic sex (sex organ appearance), as well as conditions that cause ambiguity in genital or gonadal differentiation. Approximately one in 2,000 babies are born visibly intersexed, although sometimes intersexuality is not discovered until puberty, when sexual development does not follow its expected course. “Disorders of sexual development” is the technical term for intersex.

In a time long past in Americana, television relied on fiction. TV shows had actual writers that wrote actual scripts. The comedy and tragedy of the human drama was played out in a theatrical style, as actors, not real people, would plot and plunder, and yes, occasionally engage in romantic behavior, if not in hot raunchy sex. “But then we got all wired up and started exchanging our own real life stories, pictures and movies,” writes Hal Niedzviecki for Playboy Magazine. “That’s when we realized we like peep culture more than pop culture. So, now we spend our time watching ourselves and one another.”

When most people commit to a relationship, in marriage or otherwise, fidelity is one of the basic tenets of that commitment. A relationship in which people are free to date or even sleep with others is usually qualified as being "open" or as having "an understanding." As such, sleeping with or dating others is a clear affront to the fidelity of a relationship without the consent of the partners involved. However, does the same logic apply to the sexual activity in your mind? In the book, Who's Been Sleeping in Your Head? The Secret World of Sexual Fantasies by Brett Kahr, the author discovers through interviews and research that approximately 90 percent of all marriages have been subject to "intra-marital affairs," or the concept of fantasizing about someone other than the other person's partner.

Funny thing, this Internet. At first glance, I thought it said Pornstar Slick, as in a fetish for baby oil or other lubricant. Instead, it's Pornstars Lick, with an all-girl ensemble thoroughly enjoying each other, one tongue flick at a time. With video names like Clit Licks, Kissing Coochie, Priceless Pussy, and Labia Lickery, there's a definite emphasis on girls diving tongue first into each other's privates. They're not too proud to bring the occasional implement into the equation, though, ranging from vibrators to double-ended dildos. The sets are often elaborate as well, with excellent décor and furnishings, a fireplace here and there, even a cellist sitting in the room serenading the muff-diving divas.

Who doesn’t love a glass toy? I was eager to check out the latest addition to the Adam & Eve glass toy collection as this is the first glass finger sleeve that I’ve had. For starters, this is real glass, no plastic here. The finger sleeve comes in a small box and inside the box is a velvet-carrying pouch where you will find the finger sleeve. Once you take the finger sleeve out you will notice that it does weigh a bit, as glass tends to be heavy so it will be shatterproof. Made of clear glass, the finger sleeve is 3 inches in length and 1 inch in width. There are seven red raised glass nubs on one side, five, which are large, and two that are smaller. At the top of the finger sleeve is a rounded additional glass nub.