Ad: Bride of Sin, Madison Young

Featured this month at Sugarbutch’s Video On Demand: Madison Young’s Bride of Sin 2009 Feminist Porn Award Nominee. Madison Young is looking for one last…

Define: Sovereignty

A few weeks ago, Miss Calico tweeted about the craziest thing in her feedreader. For obvious reasons, neither she nor I would call most of…

On Getting Girls Off

There’s something I want to clear up, especially for those folks who have only been reading Sugarbutch for the last eight or so months that…

Blowfish Giveaway: Two DVDs

Blowfish is simply “good products for great sex,” and they are the producers of some of the best queer porn and experimental sexuality DVDs currently…

How To Begin Playing with BDSM

Recently, this came into my inbox: I’m in a relationship now with a wonderful person and I’m really intrigued and turned on by BDSM, but…

Review: the Famous Fleshlight

This episode of fucking with gender is brought to you by Babeland, one of the most fabulous feminist, woman-friendly, gender-friendly, and queer-friendly sex toy stores,…

Label me, Genderstats

Hello My name is Mr. Sinclair Sexsmith My identity is academic, activist, BDSM, bookworm, buddhist, butch, compassionate, dominant, dyke, empowered, faggy, female-bodied, female-born, feminist, femme-fucking,…

QEC: Call for homo photographs

Queer Eye Candy: Call for Submissions! “Queer Eye Candy is the on-line family photo album for the queer community.” – Geek Porn Girl “As a…

Review: Crash Pad 4 (DVD)

“This is another unmissable installment of the finest feminist lesbian porn series around.” First, I have to confess, I have completely misplaced the Crash Pad…

Holding Back

I’m restraining myself. Holding back. In so many ways that feel so unnatural, like stopping an object already in motion, changing trajectories when the path…

Soon-to-be Tricenarian

Tomorrow, April 3rd, is my 30th birthday. And I gotta say, I am WAY ready for it. Buh-bye to my ridiculously hard finding-myself 20s. My…

Pleasurists #20

Pleasurists is your round-up of the adult product reviews that came out in the last seven days from bloggers all around the sex blogosphere. Did…

Cock Confidence and the KinkForAll Conference

I did my own presentation as well, and at the last minute called it COCK CONFIDENCE in a butch/femme context. I had some notes, but was also not feeling very well, and twenty minutes goes by so fast!, so I had a lot more to say about the subject that I didn’t get to. Here goes.

What happened in January

I’m so behind on the roundups. I’ve been less focused on Sugarbutch in January and February because I’ve had some personal things going on, not the least of which is the new relationship with Kristen. Here’s what I wrote about on Sugarbutch in January 2009.

Review: Jaguar Harness

Everyone rants and raves about the Jaguar harness by Aslan Leather – and I get it, I do: the leather is beautiful, it’s incredibly well-made, it feels like a buttery second skin. It’s snug, it adjusts well and easily, stays in place, it feels pretty good to wear – I could keep going with the general praise. You might just love this harness, many people do. Personally, though, I just prefer one-strap harnesses, so I’m not crazy about this one.

Important Calls for Support: Home Alive & Scarleteen

I know there are dozens – hundreds – more organizations that also need support, but these two in particular are very dear and important to my heart, they’re community organizations that have provided so much help and support and information to underserved, underrepresented groups. SAVE HOME ALIVE is a grassroots effort to save a grassroots organization, Home Alive, out of Seattle. And Scarleteen, which I’ve linked to here often and hopefully you already know about, is a sex education and resource center aimed at teens.

Best Sex Toy Reviewers of 2008

The Best Sex Toy Reviewers list was published today, and on it, at #7, with a bullet, is yours truly. Thanks y’all! I’m glad the reviews that I do are useful for you. So … now that I’m writing about sex toy reviews, I have a few things to say before getting on to the list.

Feminist Carnival of Sexual Freedom & Autonomy #15

Welcome to the 15th Feminist Carnival of Sexual Freedom & Autonomy! I’m your host, Monsieur du Sexsmith, as we wander around the sex, feminist, queer, and gender blogospheres to bring you some amazing reading, writing, introspection, self-reflection, and inspiration on the subjects of sexual freedom and sexual autonomy.

What happened in December

I’m way behind on the end-of-the-year stuff. I want to do a 2009 roundup, too – that is, hopefully, coming. Meanwhile, here’s the roundup of what happened in December.

Call for Contributions: Feminist Carnival of Sexual Freedom & Autonomy

The Feminist Carnival of Sexual Freedom and Autonomy, edition #14 is up at Silent Porn Star, and Sugarbutch is hosting the next Feminist Carnival of Sexual Freedom and Autonomy, edition #15, here. That means, I am on the lookout for links about sexual freedom and autonomy. Email them to me to submit your site to the upcoming Carnival, which will be posted – here! – on Monday, January 26th. That gives you almost TWO WEEKS! to write something. Get crackin’!

Define: “butch in the streets, femme in the sheets”

I ran across the phrase “butch in the streets, femme in the sheets” (again) the other day, and it bothered me (again, still). So I started thinking: It generally means – and correct me if I’m wrong – that this supposed “butch in the streets,” once taken to bed, liked to or wanted to get fucked. This is operating on an identity alignment assumption: that butches are tops.

Catherine Opie Exhibit at the Guggenheim

I spent Sunday afternoon wandering through the Guggenheim, revisiting the exhibit of the Catherine Opie retrospective. I’m not sure how much of it I can really put into words, which is why I haven’t mentioned it yet, here – I’ve wanted to write up just how powerful it is to see images of queers hanging in a museum gallery. How powerful, but also how strange and revealing, how vulnerable. I stood in the portrait galleries, tears streaming down my face, reaching for my handkercheif, attempting not to notice the way that other galleryviewers were watching me interact with the photographs. Here is a sampling of some of the photograph series included in this amazing retrospective.

Define: Courtly

Back in September, I asked for a word for someone who accepts chivalry. We had a lively discussion in the comments about what that person would be called. I really like the word “courtly” – here’s why.

Shared Items – December 5, 2008

Links around the blogosphere for the week; what I’ve been reading, what has impressed me, great ideas, people in my community. Read & comment & show some love.

Letter to myself: enough moping

Dear Mr. Sexsmith: Enough moping already. In case you haven’t noticed, it is day three and Barack fucking Obama is still the presidential elect. Hello,…