NEW YORK, May 4, 2012 — The art world, long the object of censorship, is now censoring artists. In a clear case of anti-woman, anti-naked, and anti-artist prejudice, West Chelsea Artists Open Studios (WCAOS), perhaps one of the world’s most …
Naked Truth Award: Tasha Diamant’s Human Body Project

The naked body– although stripped down, simple and bare –is perhaps the most powerful, and perplexing, image. The same basic concept–skin, muscles, fat, bones–with some key variations–breasts, genitals, hair–can be used in many different manners, and interpreted in many different …
Naked Star: ‘Geometric Art’ App Dismissed as iPorn
Artist Luciano Foglia has Apple all bent out of shape.
Last month, Foglio’s iPhone app ‘Geometric Porn’ was rejected by Apple Inc., after the company deemed its content potentially offensive:
“16.1: Apps that present excessively objectionable or crude
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Naked Truth Award: Daniel Packard and the Live Group Sex Therapy Show
You may or may not have heard about this newfangled contraption known as Google Alerts. It’s this wizard technology that allows me to get personalized alerts anytime ‘online therapy’ ‘sex therapy’ or any other topics of my choosing make it …
Naked Truth Award: Improv Everywhere
Hopefully, this week’s Naked Truth recipient makes you smile. After all, Improv Everywhere includes a collection of comedians and mischief makers, many of whom have peeled off from the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. As defined by their website, Improv Everywhere …
Pornography or Psychology?: The Emerging Trend of Psychosexual Films
Corey Silverberg of aboutsexuality recently brought to my attention two new movies being produced in Hollywood. One, The Surrogate, follows poet Mark O’Brien’s experience with a sexual surrogate and the next, Hysteria, is a romantic comedy about the …
Every Book Should Have a Happy Ending: The Rise of Erotic Novels
Last week, I met up with a group of girlfriends in Midtown to indulge in the most lurid of sins— gossip over high-priced, but weakly-mixed cocktails. How trite. Self-respecting, modern women (one of which I often impersonate) have renamed such …

