Natalie Dylan and Other Celebrity Sex Gossip

Guess it wasn’t a scam.

Natalie Dylan’s virginity auction is still going strong, according to a report on the Web site Scandalist. In this post, we reported on the 22-year-old co-ed selling her virginity. Howard Stern gave her a plug on his radio show, and Dennis Hof, owner of the famed Bunny Ranch, promoted the event through the Bunny Ranch Web site. The act will take place on his ranch, too, where Dylan’s sister also works to pay off college debts.
The bids, so far, have reached $3.8 million. With that kind of money, the aspiring counselor–Dylan is going for a Masters in Family and Marriage Therapy–will be able to afford a whole lotta letters after her name!

My search for updates on Dylan’s entrepreneurial venture lead me to tons of celebrity sex gossip. So what else is going on in the world of sex and starlets? And where are some of the best places to find out? In the interests of pure, unadulterated guilty pleasure, we bring you a very short list of top celebrity sex sites and the most fascinating stories of the hour – in no one’s opinion but our own.

My first pick, www.tmz.com has the latest-breaking news and plenty of video to keep you stimulated. Top story? It has nothing to do with sex (yes, there’s a Britney Spears story having nothing to do with sex, drugs or debauchery), but the stage at Dodger Stadium, where Spears, Justin Timberlake and Madonna are slated to perform nearly collapsed prior to the show. Now that’s an epic fail!

Bloggers at www.thehollywoodgossip.com have a wry wit that’s fun to read, whatever the topic. I’m interested to see the results of their poll: “What’s your favorite celebrity sex tape?”

The newly revamped RadarOnline, now under the ownership of AMI, recently received a scathing review from the Huffington Post but I beg to differ. With up-to-date news, smart, concise writing and a clean, professional layout, Radar is poised to become one of the top sources for “pop, politics, scandal and style.”
And in case you were wondering, former child star Danny Bonaduce’s marriage is over. Okay… so maybe not all of the site’s reporting is cutting edge.

The World Wide Web is a big place, of course, and there are virtually thousands (or is that millions?) of gossip sites, professional and otherwise. ‘Fess up. What’s your favorite site for celebrity and sex news?

Sex Sells

Since its inception, eBay has developed some pretty stringent rules as to what items they will permit to be placed up for auction. They’ve taken some heat for banning the sale of firearms, and they don’t permit users to sell used underwear, either. But sometimes interesting sales slip through the cracks.

Recently, a scorned Australian woman sold an empty condom packet (size small, of course) and a photo of lacy underwear (size humongous) after finding them in her cheating husband’s bed. Ebay pulled the original auction, which included “the tart’s” actual black lace “knickers.”

By some accounts, bidding for the panties and condom wrapper had reached six figures. The photograph wound up selling for $303, proving that a picture may be worth a thousand words, but it’s definitely not as valuable as old underwear.

But that doesn’t beat Natalie Dylan, who is auctioning off her virginity to pay for her Master’s Degree. Her offer didn’t make it past eBay’s Terms of Service personnel, although I distinctly recall hearing of similar auctions on eBay in the past.

Dylan’s idea is not unprecedented. In 2004, lesbian Rosie Reid sold her virginity through her own Web site after eBay nixed her auction. Reid received more than $20,000, which she put toward her college education.

With the rising costs of tuition, let’s hope Dylan fares somewhat better than earning enough for just one-year at a private school. She should; she has the publicity behind her. Famed shock jock Howard Stern and Dennis Hof of the world-famous BunnyRanch brothel in Las Vegas have gotten behind the 22-year-old virgin (no, not like that!) to promote her endeavor.

Stern announced the auction on his radio show on Tuesday, September 9, and bidding is taking place through Hof’s site, BunnyRanch.com. Dylan (not her real name) says she won’t just sleep with the highest bidder, but will take bids until she finds someone she’s happy with. The deal will be sealed at the BunnyRanch, where Dylan’s sister already works.

Scam? Or capitalism at its best (and worst)? Stay tuned, as we’ll be following this story to its erotic end.

As for me? I’m off to check out college savings plans for any future daughters I may have!

Teledildonics

I was recently reading and article about the OhMiBod vibrator. Basically it’s a vibrator that you hook up to your iPod and it vibrates to the sounds of the music. It’s actually pretty cool (I have only felt it in my hand but I can only imagine.) The article went on to desribe a term I’d never heard before: Teledildonics. Any time you can incorporate dildo into word, you’ve got a winner. What is Teledildonics, you ask? Teledildonics is a term used to describe any physical sexual act that can be conducted at a distance, usually through some kind of intermediating technology, like sex toys that can be controlled by a computer/electronic device.

While I was googling the term I came across and interesting site, AltPenis. They discuss teledildonics and claim that Howard Stern in fact was the first to employ his own for of teledildonics, a sort of precursor to specially made sex toys:

In the movie Private Parts, a woman phones Howard Stern’s show, confessing to having carnal thoughts about him but not knowing what to do about it. Howard tells her not to worry. He’ll have sex with her on-air. While his co-host Robin Quivers looks on skeptically, Howard has the woman turn up the bass on her stereo and lay the speaker on the floor. He then tells her to strip down and squat over the bass woofer. When everything is in place Howard leans into the mike and proceeds make humming sounds. Howard’s deep voice causes the woman’s bass woofer to vibrate, stimulating the woman’s clitoris, and she eventually orgasms. It’s a very funny scene. And if it happened as depicted, Howard Stern may have been the first known practitioner of what is now referred to as Teledildonics.

I don’t know about you, but I think that’s pretty hot (minus that it’s Howard Stern – read=not sexy at all). It brings to mind the days of phone/IM sex when I was dating a guy who lived in Italy and I was in California. If we only had a device that he controlled which pleasured me, the relationship may have survived. Alright, I’m just kidding, that relationship was doomed anyway.

I think I have found my new side hobby. I need to do a ton more research but I promise to report back from the frontlines.

Have a great weekend boys and girls!

Interview with a Sex Queen

Recently I had the privilege to sit down with author and sexual deviant extraordinaire, Suzanne Portnoy.

Allow me to expound for a moment on my terminology. According to the Cambridge English Dictionary, deviant behavior is described as “a person or behaviour that is not usual and is generally considered to be unacceptable.” This of course begs the question: What is usual or acceptable? One could say that deviant behavior violates the social contract which, according to Rousseau, is only legitimate to the extent that it meets the general interest. But let’s say the general interest is both spoken and unspoken. My point is simple, public and private behavior should have equal consideration for general interest. Enough people engage in, ponder, seek out, or simply desire sexually adventurous behavior to say that it, in fact, deviates from nothing. So to call Ms. Portnoy a deviant is simply a term of endearment, a tongue-in-cheek wink-wink kind of way to show my acceptance. There is a ‘deviant’ in each and every one of us.

Suzanne was visiting from London to promote her book, The Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick Maker, a book that follows Suzanne’s sexual escapades prior to marriage and following her divorce. Admittedly, I read the book while riding the subway on my morning commutes to work. There were moments I had to put the book down due to excessive redness in my cheeks and sweating on the nape of my neck. For those of you wondering, that is a positive reaction.

We met up at Corner Bistro in the West Village and ordered ourselves each a glass of wine, her a Pinot Grigio and for myself a Chardonnay. It was a fast paced conversation that I wished I had a recorder for instead of my trusty pen and notepad. Her open and fearless manner might have struck some as shocking but I found it refreshing. It seems almost customary that in order to start a frank conversation about sex one party must feign shyness or embarrassment (“Oh my god, I can’t believe you just said that!” Which inevitably leads to something along the lines of, “I’ve tried that too!” Because the ‘shy’ party, though no more innocent than the initiator, needs to know they won’t be judged or rejected in order to open up.) But speaking with Suzanne was not like this. Nor is her book.

Suzanne’s professional job is Publicist. She has kept a blog, in one form or another, since 2002. Now her blog is used not just to market her book but she also finds it an excellent place to write freely and flesh out stories. In fact, Suzanne points to the web as the nexus in her own self-discovery as well as an ideal venue for women who may feel sexually sheltered to explore possibilities. Her path started on some traditional dating sites to see what the world had to offer. She encourages the curious among us to approach online dating with a sense of fun, just as she has. Now that she has a better handle on her desires and needs she finds the swingers’ dating sites suit her best. One cannot say the she is not resourceful nor inefficient about fulfilling her desires, even before arriving in NYC she had dates set up via Craigslist and after appearing on Howard Stern she had many more, even a Sky Cap at JFK emailed her with his exact location in case she might have some time to kill before her flight back to London.

To say Suzanne is clever about satisfying her sexual appetite is an understatement. She is downright devious (wink wink) about finding the ways and means. When I asked her about having children and her feelings on how women tend to remain sexually dormant because of their kids she said that these women needed to stop thinking about sex during normal hours and places. She explained that there are so many pockets of time in a normal day that simply go to waste when one could in fact be bent over in perhaps a bathroom stall or a coat closet. This certainly has changed the way I look at my Outlook Daily Planner and the large bathroom at the Starbucks on 6th Ave.

Suzanne is an amazing person, bending and quite possibly contorting the sexual confines of her own life. She has an intensity about her that is infectious and like a firefly, enchanting. Reading her book is strongly recommended and may even allow you to expand your own personal sexual confines, at least redefine them.