Men's Health has a breakdown of the top 100 "smuttiest" (i.e., porn-happy) cities in the United States. Orlando, Florida comes in a No. 1. However, San Francisco ranks a distant 23rd and Oakland 79th when it comes to porn. The criteria went something like this: compiling the number of DVDs purchased, rented, or streamed (AdultDVDEmpire.com); adult entertainment stores per city (StorErotica.net); rate of porn searches (Google Insights); and the percentage of Cinemax-subscribing households (SimplyMap). You will have to take the results with a massive salt lick, though. (What self-respecting gay uses AdultDVDEmpire.com or Cinemax for ejaculatory assistance?) The top 100 is as follows: more ›

Do you like tasting some of California's best wines while getting tied up and slapped across the face? Of course you do. Which is why Femina Potens will host a night of wine and bondage on April 14th featuring some of the state's choicest vino and some of the finest ropes with which to be hogtied. Dominants and submissives (that's you, slave) are welcome not only to sip lovely, woozy wines, but also to taste some of the finest binding from around the world, including rope made in Japan, the Netherlands, Hawaii, and Seattle. "Experience the intricate differences in the ropes' bite, toothy or sleek quality, the smell, the taste, its ability to make your submissive squeal or moan in deep pleasure," exclaims the press release. more ›

Another reason we love SFGate's Catherine Bigelow? Shot like this: Society dowager Dede Wilsey posing next to male performers Adam Musgrave and Ronnie Reg Waite at a tricked out SOMA loft on Thursday night. (Typical Dede!) The bash was in honor of Jean Paul Gaultier's Bay Area arrival and his new exhibition at the deYoung. Read/see all about it. more ›

Two men traveling aboard a gay cruise ship in Dominica were arrested by local authorities on Saturday for participating in sultry acts of homosexuality up to and including indecent exposure and "buggery," the term used for sodomy on the island. John Robert Hart, 41, and Dennis Jay Mayer, 43, were pinched by the local fuzz after someone on the dock spotted the duo going at it on the Celebrity Summit cruise ship. more ›

While down in Austin for South by Southwest last week, noted San Francisco fans Train checked in with VH1's tuner blog to shed some light on their upcoming album California 37. (And their upcoming 6-night "intimate" San Francisco tour.) While we could care less about a mom rock album named after some random highway in California, our interest is definitely piqued when the line of questioning turns to oral sex. more ›

Fitting for a neighborhood with a seedy past, North Beach will be the proud recipient of the Penthouse Club & Steakhouse, which we told you about in December. Well, now the location has been revealed. And the new Penthouse boob and burgers joint will feature more than just a buffet table and C-section scars. No, this place is going to be fancy-ish. Real nice like. As Grub Street points out, "There will be live performances, of course, but also 'intimate dining booths' and 'four-star dining' via executive chef Juan Martinez, as well as two full bars. The menu will be straight-up steakhouse fare, but made from the 'highest quality ingredients.' " more ›

Forget about SOPA! Homosexuals across the land should be more than a little concerned this morning as news of a major security breach at Grindr and Blendr reaches the wires. It turns out the iPhone-based hookup apps (Blendr is the straight one, for those who didn't know it existed) didn't have any real security at all, according to an Australian hacker, who built a website on which you could search for any Grindr user, regardless of whether they were online, view their favorites, nude pics, chats, etc., and even impersonate them! more ›

On today's edition of Homosexualizing the 49ers, we take a look at this week's cover of Sports Illustrated. Chortle. It looks like they're totally doing it. And before you come down on us for puerile humor, the editorial staff at SI knew exactly what they were doing. Of course they used this particular shot for a San Francisco-based team. Because San Francisco is full of gaybirds. Let's take a closer look, shall we? more ›

This may come as news to most single women in town (at least if you buy into this 2010 piece by Ashley Harrell in SF Weekly), but according to the Daily Beast, San Francisco is the number-eight city on this list of Best Cities to Find a Date in 2012. What data are they using to create this highly scientific list? It has something to do with the percentage of single people, and the average price of a movie ticket. more ›

Typically held on the last weekend in September, milquetoast sex and fetish fete Folsom Street Fair will move its date for the first time in 20 years. Next year's butt blowout will take place on Sunday, September 23. Why? Well, according to queer publication The Bay Area Reporter, it's because of Oracle OpenWorld. "Organizers opted to move the festival, which draws hundreds of thousands of people each year, to avoid a scheduling conflict with Oracle OpenWorld, which will run September 30 through October 4." more ›

In food and mammary news, the Hooters in Fishermen's Wharf will close its doors for good this month. They're slated to put away the boobage on December 21, the store manager explained to SFist. For a taste as to what Hooters has/had to offer, local writer Beth Spotswood visited the chain restaurant earlier this year. In part, she writes: "What I don’t understand is why you’d ever want to go to Hooters in the first place. Are boobs really that much of a novelty for the patrons of Hooters? Is proximity to hot chicks and gross food that much of a rarity? The sweet girls working there, lovely as they are, walk around in an incredibly unappealing uniform, like a sexed up version of the Hot Dog on a Stick ensemble. Of all the places on Fisherman’s Wharf to dine, why would anyone go to Hooters?" more ›

Penthouse, noted purveyor of labial entertainment, will bring "four-star dining" to San Francisco in early 2012 via the city's very own Penthouse Club & Steakhouse. While the exact space is not yet know, we're going to assume it's somewhere in North Beach (near the Hustler Club) or SOMA (what's up with Temple these days, anyway?). Huge Penthouse fans over at Grub Street have more: "They say the space is 15,000 square feet, and the new, clearly enormous club will feature gourmet dining, deluxe bottle service, state of the art light and sound systems, as well as — yep — topless dancers and appearances by Penthouse Pets. If you're the kind of gentlemen who thinks this sounds intriguing, you can sign up here for updates." more ›

This one's bound to catch the attention of the anti-Occupy sect: Porn company Dirty Boy Video, which (we're guessing) specializes in videos of boys who are dirty, used a tent in the middle of the Occupy Oakland encampment at Frank Ogawa Plaza as the set for a recent video shoot. As Le Fag reports, along with the promotional stills, "This video could be a nice historical document in years to come, should the movement prove more than a flash in the pan." more ›

Now, this is our kind of gastronome. Gabrielle Hamilton, James Beard Award-winning chef and owner of Prune (in New York City's East Village), will speak on Thursday at the Herbst Theatre as part of the City Arts Lectures series. In addition to knowing her way around a kitchen, Hamilton also penned the exquisite Blood, Bones, and Butter. Anthony Bourdain hailed the memoir, saying, "Simply the best memoir by a chef ever." more ›

SoMa's annual Folsom Street Fair was a wet one. Also, it rained. (Ha!) But seriously, folks, loads or sex fetish fans descended upon Folsom this weekend for their sex fetish fair. Even mayoral candidate Joanna Rees showed up to show off her legs. (Really, Joanna, you look amazing here.) So did Ross Mirkarimi, but sporting far too much clothing. Anyway, here are some photos from Sunday's slap-and-tickle festival. (It goes without saying, but some if not most of these photos are NSFW. You've been warned.) more ›

What with the (somewhat benign yet very popular) Folsom Street Fair approaching this Sunday, it's not shocking that Treasure Island Media, a local porn company that specializes in bareback (i.e., condom-free) adult entertainment, has been 86'd from Sunday's festivities. In fact, they've been banned for several years now. No, not for distributing films with such titles as Plantin’ Seed (Folsom Underground) or Dawson's 20-Load Weekend, but for having had actual sex acts inside their booths at past Folsom Street Fair. more ›

Welcome again to Twentysomething, SFist's nifty interview series. This week we have iconic sex writer/guru Susie Bright answering our twenty questions of insight and probe, with a few personal queries thrown in for good measure. Bright, we should add, recently published an excellent memoir (seriously, it is excellent) called Big Sex Little Death. What's more, she will make a special appearance at the Victoria Theater this week to kick off the Good Vibrations Independent Erotic Film Festival. But more on that later. For now, read all about Bright's favorite San Francisco neighborhood (the answer might surprise you), her Zodiac makeup (wow, that's a lot of fire), her favorite restaurant, her views on "bareback" porn (wherein she invokes the good name of Justin Bieber), and why asking to choose between Berkeley and Oakland ain't right. more ›

Grindr, the wildly popular location app site for gay men, plans to go straight this week. What is Grindr, you ask? Created in 2009, Grindr uses GPS technology to find other gay men in the area, some as close as a few feet. Perfect if you find yourself in a bar, restaurant, shopping mall, Muni station, parking lot, gym, Bed Bath and Beyond, the Bay Bridge, Puerto Rico, Chez Panisse, a Baptist church revival, an airplane, or a sparsely gay-populated town. It has become a popular all over the world "with more than 2.6 million users in 192 countries including Iran, Iraq and even Sri Lanka." more ›

Yesterday on Dore Alley, loads of gay men (and a smattering of women) converged for the annual Dore Alley (aka Up Your Alley) Fair, SOMA's other sex fetish fair. Similar to Folsom Street Fair but grimier and more intimate, folks showed up sporting leather gear, animal attire, bare butts, straitjackets, and more. Here are some SFW pics from the slap-and-tickle festivities. Enjoy. more ›

And in some The-More-You-Know news: next Thursday, July 28th is World Hepatitis Day. And with that, the San Francisco Task Force on Hepatitis will organize its first educational outreach campaign, sponsored by [pharmaceutical company name redacted]. Volunteers from Bay Area organizations including the Oasis Clinic and San Francisco needle exchange volunteers will hand out hepatitis C fact sheets at BART and Muni stations throughout the city (Castro, 16th/Mission, Montgomery and Embarcadero). more ›

The East Bay Asian Youth Center started a new program this week to stop sex workers from doing business in their neighborhood. According to KTVU, "Neighbors along International Boulevard in Oakland have long been fed up with the blight of prostitution on their streets." So, residents and community members are working with police to send out "Dear John" letters to customers who sought and purchased quickies in the area. more ›

Angry housewives have come unglued in the South Bay as San Jose continues to allow nearly-nude coffee shops to operate in full glory. Shameless! One particular coffee joint, Café Quyen, boasts "scantily clad women" serving lattes, dancing, and so much more. more ›

Well, would you look at this... a pair of lists drop this week which rank San Francisco as both one of the dirtiest cities in the nation (dirty as in filthy and full of trash and such), and the #1 sluttiest city in the nation. more ›

Noted hothead actor Russell Crowe came out against circumcision via Twitter on Thursday. It all started, according to the Daily Mail, with a question from a pregnant follower, who asked the actor if he thought she should have her future baby boy circumcised. When Picknic11 asked: 'Do you think I should get him circumstanced?', Crowe lost it. Behold: more ›

As Mission Mission already pointed out, The Chronicle's front page photo today seems -- how can we put this bluntly? -- sexually charged. To say the least. While the shot without the canine would've been erotic as-is, the addition of a voyeuristic pooch (not to mention the model's tight body, open mouth and hand placements) bring the entire thing to another level. Too bad, really. The accompanying article, about sunscreens lack of UVA ray protection, is a crucial one. more ›

Michael Petrelis brings word of a Tenderloin tearoom we never knew existed. (A tearoom, for those not in the know, is a bastion of public gay male sex. Hubba hubba.) Petrelis writes: "The all-male Tearoom Theater on [145] Eddy Street in the Tenderloin, which provides an array of fine adult erotic flicks, go-go boys at certain times and safe sexual releases for consenting men of all races, shapes and economic status, is conducting what I believe is their first-ever customer satisfaction survey." A novel idea to a dwindling industry, yes? What does said survey look like? Behold: more ›

For your wonky pleasure, we have some highs and lows today regarding two mayoral candidates. First, according to Chris Roberts at SF Appeal, City Attorney Dennis Herrera could be in tepid water for allegedly questionable funding. Roberts notes: "Lobbying clients of local political consultant Alex Tourk -- who is under investigation for potentially illegally lobbying City Attorney Dennis Herrera, whose campaign for mayor Tourk is running -- also donated to Herrera's mayoral campaign, records show." Current city law, you see, restricts campaign consultants from contacting current or former clients. This law was authored by a former supervisor who, at the time, had a beef with the Newsom Administration. more ›