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I am a moderately friendly person. Actually, I’m quite affable, however, I am not great in public. Shy in person. Once I am engaged I will talk your ear off or listen thoughtfully for hours. Some new friends and acquaintances learned my little eccentricity at CatalystCon East this past weekend. The public aspect of my personality is a difficult one to manage. I think there’s a term, something like ‘extroverted introvert’ flying around these days that seems to apply. I am more at home, when out and about, standing back and observing until I am engaged. I fear approaching people. …

I will confess, I have never used an escort website before. Nor have I actually purchased services from a sex worker—though I support the industry and those who earn their income in it. The criminalization and stigma around offering sexual services is a ridiculous view held by a few that somehow took root in a naive and foolish time. Now, we are finally starting to understand the hypocrisy of this view with, albeit, slowly-changing mores and laws surrounding sex work. Of course, as in any work environment, there are bound to be good aspects and bad ones. It is the …

I had a great time talking with both Kay Brandt and Alex Robshaw on this week’s Sex City. Both brought insight into how they incorporate sex, sensuality and sexuality into their works. In Kay’s case, it is much more direct and explicit, whereas Alex is more infused. Both are dynamic and I am definitely a fan of each. LISTEN

I feel like I’ve let people down—those of you who are still here. Over the past few months, I’ve gone from updating Sex in Words a number of times a day to barely at all. I used to fill it with sex news, calls for submissions, sexy events, erotica, sex interviews and sex writing. But now I’m not. There are reasons, but the achiever in me has a hard time reconciling. To begin, there are practical reasons. I used to be able to do a lot of updating while at my day job. Alas, they blocked my site (how rude!). I …

Daily Sex Discussion #791 Does ejaculating on your partner(s) turn you on? Reply with your response to #DailySexDiscussion