Join Sex Positive St. Louis and NARAL: Pro-Choice America for Ad-Liberation! A Night of Improv Comedy featuring Mama’s Pot Roast, Washington University’s Premiere Short Form Improv and Sketch Comedy Group. March 20th at the Ann W. Olin Women’s Building on the Washington University Campus: (Download the map here.)
Author Archives: Johnny Murdoc
Clever book designs featuring vulva…
“I’m always strangely delighted by clever book designs that involve the vulva,” says the gay male book designer. There’s something, er, ripe about the vulva that makes clever interpretations so damned engaging. The same simply cannot be said for graphic interpretations of the penis. Aside from Andy Warhol’s Velvet Underground album cover (see the bottom […]
How I Learned to Stop Worrying (and Love the Porn)
In honor of today’s discussion about smut (join us today at The Ethical Society from 11:00 to 1:00!), I’m going to reprint an essay I wrote back in December of 2010. by Johnny Murdoc When I moved in with my partner, I did something unthinkable: I stopped masturbating. Though we’d been sexually active before we […]
The Ethical Side of Smut
Continuing the discussion started by Kate Lovelady’s “In Defense of Smut,” join The Ethical Society of St. Louis and Sex Positive St. Louis in a discourse about the role smut plays in our lives. How do you use smut? Do you feel guilt about your interaction with smut? Is it possible to integrate smut into […]
Join Local Comic Shop Star Clipper for A Very Gay, Very Mutant Wedding
Our friends down at Star Clipper Comics want to share news that they’ll be throwing a celebration for the most talked about gay comic wedding (seriously, y’all, it was on The View): Wednesday, June 20th sees the wedding of X-Men Northstar to his human boyfriend Kyle. Star Clipper is going all out, sharing Northstar’s joy […]
ASK SEX+STL: Too Hairy?
A reader asks: I’m a St. Louis resident and I have been told by several women that I need to shave. I’m not sure what they mean by this, whether I need to shave my pubic area or my whole body? I have attached a picture of myself. Please let me know if you find […]
Don’t Know Dick: SEX+STL Trivia Tonight!
Tonight’s the night! For twenty lousy bucks, you get eight rounds of sex positive trivia hosted by your good friends Anna Bent, Kendra Holliday, Johnny Murdoc and David Wraith. Plus, an open beer and wine bar. Come for the trivia, stay to get an early start on a night’s drinking! Tickets will be available at […]
Harmless, a film trailer
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MO Republican State Rep Comes Out of the Closet
Missouri State Representative Zach Wyatt lives in Novinger, MO and represents the 2nd District, encompassing Adair county, Putnam county, and a part of Sullivan county. At 27, he’s already served in the Air Force, and shortly he’ll be retiring from politics to move to Hawaii and study marine biology, taking advantage of his veteran education […]
Savage U
There are certain segments of the sex positive movement and its sister movements (feminists, gay rights activists, trans rights activists, etc…) that hate Dan Savage. Savage has been giving sex advice for decades now, and because of his quick mouth, acerbic wit, and admittedly stinging sense of humor, it’s easy to go back twenty years, […]
Show Me: Anthology Deadline Extended!
We’ve received some wonderful submissions for our upcoming St. Louis erotica anthology, Show Me, and we’re happy to announce that the deadline has been extended! You now have until July 1st, 2012 to submit your stories and photography! DO YOU HAVE SAINT LOUIS FANTASIES? SHOW ME. Send us your fiction or non-fiction submission of sex […]
Travis Mathews on Gay Stories, Media, and His Kickstarter Campaign
Travis Mathews is easily one of my favorite people. Whether it’s his documentary work like In Their Room or his narrative fiction work like I Want Your Love, Mathews is getting at the emotional core of a new generation, and reflecting it back for everyone else to see. Thanks to the magic of the internet, […]