Songs about Sex (no. 9) Sexually Attracted to Myself
Ah I love Dublin-band Reader’s Wives and suggest you get yourself along to their next gig pronto. This is an odd little song about finding yourself a little more erotically appealing is normal… Unfortunately the media player doesn’t recognise Muzu.tv so you’ll have to click on the link. Reader’s Wives Sexually Attracted to...

To begin at the beginning:
It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters’-and-rabbits’ wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea. The houses are blind as moles (though moles see fine to-night in the snouting, velvet dingles) or blind as Captain Cat there in the muffled...

More weird lingerie… Bizarre Bras
OK, I’ll admit I have something of a thing for weird lingerie. And nice lingerie too. When I write my column I do so in a corset, garter, stockings, heels and a jaunty feather boa* if I’m feeling a bit risque! But as lovely as that is, your regular lace...

Transmissions from the Videodrome
Pre-internet and cable, the common-or-garden pop promo was confined to mainstream terrestrial TV and thus subject to the same restrictions as any other daytime scheduling. From the Stones’ ‘Undercover of the Night’ to The Prodigy’s ‘Smack My Bitch Up’, videos that strayed outside the standard pre-watershed boundaries got restricted airplay,...

Odd Undies
Trawling the interweb I came across this collection of strange lingerie. I’ve seen the male ones before. Not good. If you are gonna wear frills lads, don’t go for such loud colours and nasty material. Flammable pants are always a mistake in my humble opinion. Quite like the Sudoko ones though…...

We are not worthy
Foxy: My Life in Three Acts, Pam Grier’s memoir, reviewed in the New York Times.  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/books/… And while we’re on the subject, the opening credits of QT’s Jackie Brown, soundtracked by Bobby Womack. ...

Women cause earthquakes!
An Iranian cleric reckons women in short skirts incite extramarital sex (fair enough, I’ll give him that) and that all this ‘illegal’ sex causes earthquakes. Ayatollah Kazem Sedighi told worshippers that: “Many women who dress inappropriately … cause youths to go astray, taint their chastity and incite extramarital sex in society,...

Frank Black: bloodsugar, sex-magick
Frank Black - Nonstoperotik (Cooking Vinyl) A concept album about the beast with two backs mightn’t seem like a radical notion – after all, rock ‘n’ roll itself is named after the conjugal act. But as both Doctor Ruth and the Stooges might attest, there are a million variations on the...

Can Science Predict Love?
A couple of weeks ago I took part in the Leviathan Science Cabaret discussing the science behind sex and attraction. I am not a scientist of course, so I was there to give a “real world” point of view. It’s a pretty interesting discussion and here it is…