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We believe in personal choice and freedom. Whatever value Phillip Shoemaker finds in these connections is for him to judge. He has a job with Apple to maintain the products they offer free of pornography, but that doesn’t mean the man shouldn’t be able to enjoy whatever he likes in his personal life.

Our friend George Griffith has been slaving on From The Head, what could possibly be the indie flick of the year, about a bathroom attendant in a New York City stripclub based on Griffith’s own experiences in the mid-90s.

Step right up, ladies and gentlemen, feast your eyes if you dare! It’s real, it’s alive, it’s… your own body, its different parts, and the products from it! That’s right, from the minds of the web’s most forward-thinking scientific bloggers comes The Carnal Carnival, a celebration of research centered around a different theme every month.

They fought over mayorship on Foursquare. They met and they trashtalked. Then they dated. Now they’re getting married. Foursquare… a toy for the narcissistic and naive or a tool in the dating kit? You decide!

Meet Matt McMullen, the creator of the Real Doll, those wondrous masterpieces of workmanship that are part sex toy, part work of art. How did he come up with the idea? Watch this video.

Meet Kira Ayn Varszegi, a bodacious blonde who’s uses her DDs to paint abstracts.

It wouldn’t be L.A. if our politics didn’t come with a traffic report, right? Indeed. President Obama made his way through the City of Angels tonight, unleashing havoc and rage across our arteries, both vehicular and human.

As mentioned, in some ways, obstruction is necessary for any erotic element to exist. Eros, by definition, logically requires a lack: the erotic is a desire for possession; if possession has already been established, there is nothing left to desire.

The makers of HerWay don’t like doing things the way everyone else does. The Los Angeles-based HerWay is, after all, a dating site that hands women complete control by denying men the ability to so much as search for profiles. So it’s not surprising that when they surveyed their users they didn’t ask what people are into, but what turns them off the most. Results from the summer HerWay survey of singles’ turn-offs.

Devon Savage isn’t just in porn, he also enjoys being on the other side of the camera lens. He’s been in the business for six years, and now runs several of his own sites with his partner Ariella, herself an adult star. We asked him to give us some background and share some eye candy with us.