you down with OBC? (yeah you know me)

The PR peep from onlinebootycall.com reached out to me recently to interview the president of the site. Apparently Chicago is ranked 5th for online hook ups. Kileen, Texas is #6. Really? Though I suppose the song "All my exes live in Texas" was perhaps written for just such a reason. Especially since Houston is #2. I haven't actually looked at the site yet b/c I'm too often on my work computer and don't cock shots seem inevitable on such a website?

Anyhoodle, I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for questions to ask in this interview. So far, all I have is, "So this is an NSA interview, right?" which has continued to crack ME up for four days running! But, really, what would YOU want to know about such a site?

Why it exists? Why it's better/worse than Craigslist?
Are there really MORE casual hook ups, or is it just more readily available now that we have the internet?
Would you join? why/why not?

Any suggestions are appreciated.

you down with OBC? (yeah you know me)

A R.I.M. Job: Restore Integrity to Marriage

via: Shoot the Messenger

"The apocalyptic consequences of same-sex marriage are too terrifying to imagine. But you can help. Join the Brownbow Coalition. United by our shared intolerance, we will Restore Integrity to Marriage."

A R.I.M. Job: Restore Integrity to Marriage

WriterBabe Interview

The amazing Raven Moore, who runs a website called The WriterBabe Series: a blog for the professionally curious, interviewed me recently about sex, freelance writing and Mario Lopez. We met years ago, humorously enough, at a Singles Night sponsored by the Chicago Reader, even though we weren't members and nearly everyone there was easily 40 years old.

Anyhoo, check out the interview here.

WriterBabe Interview

Sex and the Second City

The Chicago History Museum invited me to be a panelist in their sex series on April 22nd from 7-8:30pm (only $10, come one, come all!)

The topics of the panelists they said are pretty loose (ed note: heh) meaning I could talk about whatever I wanted to pretty much, as long as there's a somewhat Chicago-focused element. Here are some thoughts:

History of sex toys - from the Bible to today, with shout outs to local faves like Early 2 Bed.

How dating has changed in recent years - the surge of online dating and social networking sites like facebook, twitter, etc. Interspersed would be stories about terrible dates I've been on, except maybe not the Christian masturbation one...

The Journey to Online journalism - for sex writing (admittedly I know a lot less about "journalism" but the topic seems interesting, especially in these recession times.)

Eh? Eh?

*Addendum: the real draw of doing this is to potentially see Max Hollywood, former Chicago King, whom I think might work there and whom I can no longer find pictures of on the internet. Sob. Why is Marky Mark showing up in my internet searches?

Sex and the Second City